tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post462439142171379596..comments2024-03-19T12:49:45.494+00:00Comments on UK Commentators: Who's "we", Paleface ?Labanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12031578024191117985noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-39617218204703264432011-08-16T17:23:03.320+00:002011-08-16T17:23:03.320+00:00There were virtually no riots in Scotland in 1981 ...There were virtually no riots in Scotland in 1981 either, apart from one on the Ferguslie Park estate in Paisley.<br /><br />On the other hand, Scotland has a higher murder rate than England and Wales at 21.4/million versus 13.5/million.<br /><br />Bevvying and a hard-man culture cause murders but don't necessarily cause riots. There is virtually no tradition in Scotland of rioters fighting the police. Plenty of doomed individual attempts on Saturday night of course, but no anti-police riots to kick things off.<br /><br />Everyone knows what the principal reason for the difference is, despite humorous smokescreen stuff about lousy weather.Quaggy Ducknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-54659892912805635002011-08-14T19:36:10.149+00:002011-08-14T19:36:10.149+00:00"Who's "we", Paleface ?"
..."Who's "we", Paleface ?"<br /><br />Exactly the sentiment I feel whenever a member of the chattering classes makes with the royal 'we'. Fairly boils my piss, so it does.<br /><br />I'm just an ordinary Joe. I have a full-time job and a rented house and a student loan. Neither my family nor my wife's family has ever had any money. We just work, and earn, and save, and live honest lives within our modest means.<br /><br />Am I an MP, an MEP, a local councillor or a European Commissioner? No.<br />Am I an influential member of the teaching profession? No. The police? No.<br />Am I on a progressive/liberal/Fabian think-tank? No.<br />Am I the controller of a TV channel, or the editor of a TV news programme? No.<br />Am I paid to write opinion pieces for a national newspaper? No.<br /><br />I am the silent majority. None of the super-smart professional bullshit artists/cultural vandals who have destroyed this country with insane policy after insane policy ever ask me what I think about anything.<br /><br />Yet now I'm supposed to feel as if the wholly predictable outcome of those policies is somehow my fault?<br /><br />Fuck that.<br /><br />P.S. Anyone seen one column from a progressive yet that hints at being a mea culpa? Any hint of a recognition that maybe, just maybe, they might have been wrong about, well, everything?Bandit 1noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-89280772933651378562011-08-14T19:13:57.925+00:002011-08-14T19:13:57.925+00:00The comments of the teacher are spot on. I have f...The comments of the teacher are spot on. I have further experience having also taught in prisons which is just a bit further down the pipeline. You get whites with simailar savage attitudes but there is a certain preponderance amongst some blacks. You cant really reach out - the distance is too great. Tragic. Memories ...<br /><br />1. After the bnp successes in Euro elections I asked a group of blacks if they thought bnp hated all non-whites. One lad said no. I was asked who I voted for and I declined to say, quite properly and professionally(UKip!). I expect some teachers would have no qualms about the thorougly wrong practice of actually saying - influencing young people politically. I was approached quite a few times and asked again - maybe to see if I would 'throw one' and suicidally shout out 'Yea, up the BNP!'<br /><br />2. Black lad asking me theoretically whether I would come to his aid if he was being attacked by a load of whites. The thing that annoyed me was the glint in his eye. A sort of glee that he thought he was making me squirm. The very posing of the question was an insult to me and me forbears as if we were subhuman scum with no human sympathy. A feeling of moral superiority. And a superiourity of 'feeling' and 'soul'. Ignorant, arrogant, racist little shit. But what do you expect whenm all they have heard from 'whites' is apologies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-85796219873952010412011-08-14T14:51:10.601+00:002011-08-14T14:51:10.601+00:00@ Ross,
Celtic homogeneity, perhaps? Notwithstan...@ Ross,<br /><br />Celtic homogeneity, perhaps? Notwithstanding the religious factional feuds that have beset Glasgow historically, Scotland isn't as dynamic and colourful as England - or at least not yet.Foxy Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13492883615536847926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-62209430937915383232011-08-14T13:07:59.260+00:002011-08-14T13:07:59.260+00:00Having just spent a few days in some Scottish citi...Having just spent a few days in some Scottish cities, I was under the impressions the riots had already happened there, and then moved South....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-77968641053773257282011-08-14T12:33:05.652+00:002011-08-14T12:33:05.652+00:00The lack of any riots in Scotland, even in Glasgow...The lack of any riots in Scotland, even in Glasgow is interesting. <br /><br />If riots are caused by poverty and joblessness you'd expect Glasgow to be ablaze. <br /><br />The sectarian divide should also make riots more likely according to traditional theories.Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02263275229285861236noreply@blogger.com