"From time to time I fly to Stockholm from Manchester. On arriving at Arlanda, I'm greeted by giant posters of Stockholmers saying (in English), "Welcome to my town!" On return to Ringway, I'm greeted by posters warning me not to assault airport staff.
A few months ago I flew to Munich for the first time. On arrival I was greeted by a Bluetooth message from BMW, promoting their cars. Returning to Manchester, I was greeted at luggage reclaim by a giant poster offering me a test for chlamydia."
Friday, August 19, 2011
Welcome To England
Comment on this Ed West piece (on moral panic - thanks for the hat-tip, Ed) at the Telegraph :
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Coming into Portsmouth as a foot passenger one is met by No Smoking, No photography, Do Not Abuse Staff
Prestwick Airport adds "Illegal Immigrants Report Here" - As if........
Says it all really.
Just had a quick glance at the New Statesman. Diane Abbott, Hackney MP
on the riots
'Young people shovelled through the courts without due process'
Richard
Just seen BBC transmitted footage of a squad of 'rioters' in Birmingham. They threw petrol bombs and shot at police. Eleven shots were fired. They also attacked and robbbed a pub and tried to commit asrson there. They were all masked and hooded. Who is to say there is not a command structure of sorts. We were not told the ethnicity. The Thai or Vietnamese looking landlord just said on camera very clearly and simply and powerfully that he was 'very scared' as he lived upstairs. This is absolutely disgusting. Imagine if a squad of these people descended on Henley and attacked a pub full of the southern middle classes and firebombed the place. Are you telling me the response would be so low key? Disorder, is that what it is? This is war! I am absolutely outraged to the depths of my soul of what the establishment have done to our second city. Are you getting the message security services if you are monitoring blogs? THE ENGLISH ARE VERY, VERY ANGRY.
"We were not told the ethnicity. The Thai or Vietnamese looking landlord just said on camera very clearly and simply and powerfully that he was 'very scared' as he lived upstairs."
The ethnicity of the attackers will in all probability be Afro-Caribbean, anon - given that it is gangsta territory; Lozells, Newtown.
You may recall the Johnson Crew and the Burger Boys and their enthusiasm for sub-machine guns
The landlord is Thai; that's because the Bartons Arms offers Thai food; the brewery is Oakham - which brews splendid beer. The pub really is - and I hope still is - very fine indeed. The City council were also apparently very helpful in the restoration some years ago.
I cannot over emphasise just what a gem this pub is and this leads on to the question of why they should want to destroy it, as opposed to merely loot the pub
Lib-left say it is about class and deprivation; but this is a symbol of Birmingham's working class heritage and culture; very much so in fact.
My reckoning is that they wanted to fire something precious to whitey; that a superior cultural symbol so far above them triggered rage. Certainly it appears to have been an organised assault
Even if they haven't destroyed it I very much doubt that it is sustainable in the middle of a hell-hole
Way things are going it's hard to see the wonderful Black Horse in Northfield, to the sw of the city, lasting 5 years - recently restored this former Davenport's house is a simply splendid example of Cotswold Brewer's Tudor, craftsmen from the Cotswolds were brought up to help build it in the late twenties. It is beautiful.
http://www.qype.co.uk/place/47941-The-Black-Horse-Birmingham
Unfortunately it appears to be much more combustible than the Bartons
There must be a quid pro quo somewhere, but I'm damned if I can see where it is
A Swedish friend of mine flew into Birmingham for business not long ago, initially he doubted whether he really had landed in the UK.
Useful stooge being wheeled out, in the Londongrad "Indepedent"
"Oh well, that's often been the complaint, that immigrants ..." Here he interrupted himself. "They're not even immigrants, are they? They're born English!" Another snort. "I don't really have anything to say to that because it doesn't strike me as particularly relevant."
What does strike him as relevant is what some of the famous Londoners whose lives he has chronicled would have thought of the riots.
"William Blake would have joined them"
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/peter-ackroyd-rioting-has-been-a-london-tradition-for-centuries-2341673.html
Blake would have burned down homes and fired and looted small business?
What a load of cock
The Black Horse ! Long time no see, a mighty leisure facility of the once well-paid, aspirational working class, pulling down good money at 'The Austin'.
There used to be a fair few pubs in that style on the A38 - the Marlbrook in Bromsgrove is a smaller example.
"The Black Horse ! Long time no see, a mighty leisure facility of the once well-paid, aspirational working class, pulling down good money at 'The Austin'."
Good money in Northfield is long gone I fear; our people are all but destroyed - that's the truth of it
It's awful; you would be hard put to describe it as first world.
The Black Horse had declined with the area, it became desperate - petty criminals, drug dealers; economics dictate - I'm not a great one for moralising, still less for religion; reminds me too much of the vile Wilberforce - Cobbett is my hero
Be that as it may Weatherspoon's have spent several million on the Black Horse; an excellent restoration.
It's a corporate operation of course, but beggars can't be choosers. I'm grateful really.
The building itself is so good you could envisage Elizabeth, Drake, Raleigh, Leicester etc emerging from it.
A colony of righteous ale drinkers should be planted in the vicinity; the Elizabethans were no sentimentalists; there are no prizes for that
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