It’s weirdly one of the few Euro songs that work in a club/bar situation. Won’t help it tonight but very well liked in Europe and YouTube. Compare to the dramatic French effort now or the big operatic club tunes. It’s an outside net.
After years of sucking, the UK shows up with what can best be described as an absolute mid 1980s bop and I'm 100% in for this. We have a ton of synth, random German counting for no reason, and some proper bad hair.
It seems like Eurovision has totally gone down the super operatic route. Obvs the success of Rosalia will drive it but it’s all been much of a muchness apart from Greece/Uk.
Andy Burnham’s position on rejoining the EU now risks dominating his by-election fight
Only 7 months ago he explicitly told Labour conference “I want to rejoin the EU”
Tonight he tells ITV he wants to rejoin the EU in the future but that he doesn’t want to “advocate” it at this by-election
That risks appearing inauthentic
He seems to be trying to avoid the subject because the working class and Reform-leaning Makerfield constituency he’s running in voted heavily Leave in the Brexit referendum
Burnham knows he can't push rejoin the EU too hard or he loses Makerfield to Reform.
Streeting however represents a seat that voted Remain and has shown some leg to Labour members today by saying he is committed to rejoining the EU. Thus if Burnham wins the by election and he and Streeting end up challenging Starmer for the Labour leadership and premiership Streeting has already out 'anti Brexited' Burnham on the EU while also trashing Starmer on his WFA cut to try and win swing voters amongst the general public.
If Burnham loses the by election Streeting can then say he supported Burnham to be Labour's candidate, blame Starmer for the by election loss and say to Labour members 'vote for me to rejoin the EU unlike dithering Keir'
The universal constant being the belief that fellating the EU is the answer to all our problems.
It's weak, sordid and pathetic.
Shoe's is on the other foot now. And with public sentiment as it is, you'll have to get used to it.
It’s weirdly one of the few Euro songs that work in a club/bar situation. Won’t help it tonight but very well liked in Europe and YouTube. Compare to the dramatic French effort now or the big operatic club tunes. It’s an outside net.
It’s weirdly one of the few Euro songs that work in a club/bar situation. Won’t help it tonight but very well liked in Europe and YouTube. Compare to the dramatic French effort now or the big operatic club tunes. It’s an outside net.
Andy Burnham’s position on rejoining the EU now risks dominating his by-election fight
Only 7 months ago he explicitly told Labour conference “I want to rejoin the EU”
Tonight he tells ITV he wants to rejoin the EU in the future but that he doesn’t want to “advocate” it at this by-election
That risks appearing inauthentic
He seems to be trying to avoid the subject because the working class and Reform-leaning Makerfield constituency he’s running in voted heavily Leave in the Brexit referendum
Burnham knows he can't push rejoin the EU too hard or he loses Makerfield to Reform.
Streeting however represents a seat that voted Remain and has shown some leg to Labour members today by saying he is committed to rejoining the EU. Thus if Burnham wins the by election and he and Streeting end up challenging Starmer for the Labour leadership and premiership Streeting has already out 'anti Brexited' Burnham on the EU while also trashing Starmer on his WFA cut to try and win swing voters amongst the general public.
If Burnham loses the by election Streeting can then say he supported Burnham to be Labour's candidate, blame Starmer for the by election loss and say to Labour members 'vote for me to rejoin the EU unlike dithering Keir'
The universal constant being the belief that fellating the EU is the answer to all our problems.
It's weak, sordid and pathetic.
Shoe's is on the other foot now. And with public sentiment as it is, you'll have to get used to it.
It's not really though is it? Labour seem to be intent on destroying remoan in their calamitous attempts to choreograph us back into the EU, and now the great white hope of the party is aiming to get himself elected in a Brexit-supporting seat.
Meanwhile when we get an actual Government, it is likely to be a coalition of Reform and Badenoch's Tories.
It would appear the Good Lord dislikes remoanerism as much as any right-thinking person.
Off topic: I just ordered a used CD from Amazon. With shipping, it will cost me more than 9 dollars.
Here’s why I ordered it:
In the final days of the [2008 Summer Beijing] Olympics, the home page for the iTunes app in the United States had prominently displayed an album called Songs for Tibet, a compilation of music and a fifteen minute talk from the Dalai Lama. Apple didn’t have a Chinese iTunes store, but the US version was frequently accessed by users in China. A day after the album went live and some American athletes in Beijing had downloaded it, the entire store of 8 million songs was blocked.
The disruptions went beyond ordinary consumers. The internet went down in Apple’s corporate office and other services were shut down.
Source: Apple in China, pp. 211-212
Amazon claims they had only one, but did say I could listen to it for free, as a Prime member.
What conclusion did Apple draw from this attack? That they should be more careful to avoid offending Beijing.
>Haven't watched eurovision in decades. It is possibly worse then ever
The forced irony, the contrived camp, the overdone archness
Enough about Andy Burnham, are you enjoying Eurovision?
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Eurovision is for normies who would love to be rebels, but they are not, they are really really not
It is a kind of ersatz subversion. It is art for accountants, it is libertinism for lawyers, it is shit
No, it’s bonkers shit that makes you realise the Anglo Saxon music industry reigns largely because the mad bollocks elsewhere. It’s a different experience where we Europeans get to laugh at each other or love preconceived appreciations.
It’s not art for accountants because it’s not art. It’s not libertinism for lawyers because they are too dull to appreciate it if it was.
It’s just fun. Terrible music, many hot women, lots of gays having fun, it’s once a year, like Carols from Kings.
It’s so mainstream it could never make normies feel rebellious.
(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges · 10m Keir Starmer has told friends he intends to stand down as Prime Minister and set out an orderly timetable for his departure
>Haven't watched eurovision in decades. It is possibly worse then ever
The forced irony, the contrived camp, the overdone archness
Enough about Andy Burnham, are you enjoying Eurovision?
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Eurovision is for normies who would love to be rebels, but they are not, they are really really not
It is a kind of ersatz subversion. It is art for accountants, it is libertinism for lawyers, it is shit
No, it’s bonkers shit that makes you realise the Anglo Saxon music industry reigns largely because the mad bollocks elsewhere. It’s a different experience where we Europeans get to laugh at each other or love preconceived appreciations.
It’s not art for accountants because it’s not art. It’s not libertinism for lawyers because they are too dull to appreciate it if it was.
It’s just fun. Terrible music, many hot women, lots of gays having fun, it’s once a year, like Carols from Kings.
It’s so mainstream it could never make normies feel rebellious.
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Nah. It is camp bread and circuses for bourgeois sheep
My favourite types of racists were at the Tommy march, the ones who think the Jews are wanting to replace white Brits.
I think what unites white nationalists, Sinn Fein supporters, militant anti-Zionists, cybernats, MAGA's, is the endless, whiney, self-pity, the belief that always Someone Else Is To Blame. Spending less time on social media, and improving their personal hygiene, and inter-personal skills, would go a long way towards improving their lives.
>Haven't watched eurovision in decades. It is possibly worse then ever
The forced irony, the contrived camp, the overdone archness
Enough about Andy Burnham, are you enjoying Eurovision?
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Eurovision is for normies who would love to be rebels, but they are not, they are really really not
It is a kind of ersatz subversion. It is art for accountants, it is libertinism for lawyers, it is shit
No, it’s bonkers shit that makes you realise the Anglo Saxon music industry reigns largely because the mad bollocks elsewhere. It’s a different experience where we Europeans get to laugh at each other or love preconceived appreciations.
It’s not art for accountants because it’s not art. It’s not libertinism for lawyers because they are too dull to appreciate it if it was.
It’s just fun. Terrible music, many hot women, lots of gays having fun, it’s once a year, like Carols from Kings.
It’s so mainstream it could never make normies feel rebellious.
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Nah. It is camp bread and circuses for bourgeois sheep
It’s really not, every year until this year I’ve been at Eurovision parties where the crew pe have been everyone from traedesmen to peers of the realm . I’m only not at one tonight because I have rebbust my knee.
This is interesting. The politics of Mormons is shifting quite rapidly leftwards with younger members of the Church, from a previously very conservative base.
Little known fact. Eurovision used to produce genuinely incredible songs
eg Volare. Which came third in the third ever Eurovision, in 1958, and yet is one of the great popular songs of the 20th century, derived from the Neapolitan ballad tradition, but infused with Anglo-American verve
>Haven't watched eurovision in decades. It is possibly worse then ever
The forced irony, the contrived camp, the overdone archness
Enough about Andy Burnham, are you enjoying Eurovision?
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Eurovision is for normies who would love to be rebels, but they are not, they are really really not
It is a kind of ersatz subversion. It is art for accountants, it is libertinism for lawyers, it is shit
No, it’s bonkers shit that makes you realise the Anglo Saxon music industry reigns largely because the mad bollocks elsewhere. It’s a different experience where we Europeans get to laugh at each other or love preconceived appreciations.
It’s not art for accountants because it’s not art. It’s not libertinism for lawyers because they are too dull to appreciate it if it was.
It’s just fun. Terrible music, many hot women, lots of gays having fun, it’s once a year, like Carols from Kings.
It’s so mainstream it could never make normies feel rebellious.
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Nah. It is camp bread and circuses for bourgeois sheep
It’s really not, every year until this year I’ve been at Eurovision parties where the crew pe have been everyone from traedesmen to peers of the realm . I’m only not at one tonight because I have rebbust my knee.
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You're affluent and educated and you live in... Jersey. Its faux irony and fake subversion is aimed directly at people like you, and you duly lap it up
>Haven't watched eurovision in decades. It is possibly worse then ever
The forced irony, the contrived camp, the overdone archness
Enough about Andy Burnham, are you enjoying Eurovision?
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Eurovision is for normies who would love to be rebels, but they are not, they are really really not
It is a kind of ersatz subversion. It is art for accountants, it is libertinism for lawyers, it is shit
No, it’s bonkers shit that makes you realise the Anglo Saxon music industry reigns largely because the mad bollocks elsewhere. It’s a different experience where we Europeans get to laugh at each other or love preconceived appreciations.
It’s not art for accountants because it’s not art. It’s not libertinism for lawyers because they are too dull to appreciate it if it was.
It’s just fun. Terrible music, many hot women, lots of gays having fun, it’s once a year, like Carols from Kings.
It’s so mainstream it could never make normies feel rebellious.
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Nah. It is camp bread and circuses for bourgeois sheep
It’s really not, every year until this year I’ve been at Eurovision parties where the crew pe have been everyone from traedesmen to peers of the realm . I’m only not at one tonight because I have rebbust my knee.
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You're affluent and educated and you live in... Jersey. Its faux irony and fake subversion is aimed directly at people like you, and you duly lap it up
The beauty is, living here, we don’t judge on post codes, backgrounds because we are hugga-mugga we accept that you have to find your people and they might not be what you expect. We don’t live all year talking about Eurovision, as I said, it’s like carols at kings, a nice thing once a year. But it’s fun and silly. We get the faux element of it, it’s just like Halloween or similar silly things.
I recommend bookbub.com. It is a mailing list that emails you a daily list of 99p or £1.99p Kindle book deals that you can customise for the subject of book you're interested in (history, biography, romance, etc.)
I recommend bookbub.com. It is a mailing list that emails you a daily list of 99p or £1.99p Kindle book deals that you can customise for the subject of book you're interested in (history, biography, romance, etc.)
>Haven't watched eurovision in decades. It is possibly worse then ever
The forced irony, the contrived camp, the overdone archness
Enough about Andy Burnham, are you enjoying Eurovision?
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Eurovision is for normies who would love to be rebels, but they are not, they are really really not
It is a kind of ersatz subversion. It is art for accountants, it is libertinism for lawyers, it is shit
No, it’s bonkers shit that makes you realise the Anglo Saxon music industry reigns largely because the mad bollocks elsewhere. It’s a different experience where we Europeans get to laugh at each other or love preconceived appreciations.
It’s not art for accountants because it’s not art. It’s not libertinism for lawyers because they are too dull to appreciate it if it was.
It’s just fun. Terrible music, many hot women, lots of gays having fun, it’s once a year, like Carols from Kings.
It’s so mainstream it could never make normies feel rebellious.
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Nah. It is camp bread and circuses for bourgeois sheep
It’s really not, every year until this year I’ve been at Eurovision parties where the crew pe have been everyone from traedesmen to peers of the realm . I’m only not at one tonight because I have rebbust my knee.
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You're affluent and educated and you live in... Jersey. Its faux irony and fake subversion is aimed directly at people like you, and you duly lap it up
The beauty is, living here, we don’t judge on post codes, backgrounds because we are hugga-mugga we accept that you have to find your people and they might not be what you expect. We don’t live all year talking about Eurovision, as I said, it’s like carols at kings, a nice thing once a year. But it’s fun and silly. We get the faux element of it, it’s just like Halloween or similar silly things.
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You don't even understand my critique. But it's fine. No drama
>Haven't watched eurovision in decades. It is possibly worse then ever
The forced irony, the contrived camp, the overdone archness
Enough about Andy Burnham, are you enjoying Eurovision?
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Eurovision is for normies who would love to be rebels, but they are not, they are really really not
It is a kind of ersatz subversion. It is art for accountants, it is libertinism for lawyers, it is shit
No, it’s bonkers shit that makes you realise the Anglo Saxon music industry reigns largely because the mad bollocks elsewhere. It’s a different experience where we Europeans get to laugh at each other or love preconceived appreciations.
It’s not art for accountants because it’s not art. It’s not libertinism for lawyers because they are too dull to appreciate it if it was.
It’s just fun. Terrible music, many hot women, lots of gays having fun, it’s once a year, like Carols from Kings.
It’s so mainstream it could never make normies feel rebellious.
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Nah. It is camp bread and circuses for bourgeois sheep
It’s really not, every year until this year I’ve been at Eurovision parties where the crew pe have been everyone from traedesmen to peers of the realm . I’m only not at one tonight because I have rebbust my knee.
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You're affluent and educated and you live in... Jersey. Its faux irony and fake subversion is aimed directly at people like you, and you duly lap it up
The beauty is, living here, we don’t judge on post codes, backgrounds because we are hugga-mugga we accept that you have to find your people and they might not be what you expect. We don’t live all year talking about Eurovision, as I said, it’s like carols at kings, a nice thing once a year. But it’s fun and silly. We get the faux element of it, it’s just like Halloween or similar silly things.
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You don't even understand my critique. But it's fine. No drama
Well I wouldn’t because I’m absolutely arseholed. Lots of drama.
Conversation I had at Tommy's Rally. After I took a photo, slightly too obviously, of a fairly well-dressed 50-ish guy - clearly drunk - lurching about, as a French girl denounced rapists onstage
Him: "Are you a journalist then?"
Me: "Yes. How did you guess?"
Him: "Coz you're takin photos of me. I'm very drunk."
Me: "I won't use them, I promise."
Him: "S'OK. Dya know why I am here? Coz my best friend is Asian and and and my other friend is black and and and I came down from Manchester alone but but but, eh, I must look degenerate I know that"
Me: "I promise I won't use photos."
Him: "OK alright I - I - I - if my daughter found out i wuz here she wouldn't ever talk to me again but, but, but I can't just sit back and let it happen, they're taking the piss, all these people, on boats, d'you know how much tax I pay?"
Me: "No."
Him: "Four grand a month I've - I have - I earn a lot and - and - and - and if my company ever found out I was here that would be the end of me but you can't just do nothing can you? I've never been to anything like this in my life. Never. But, but, but look around there's no hate here, is there? No hate, we just- just - have to get a grip. They're taking the piss. We don't have any choice."
We shook hands and separated. That rally was largely a cri de coeur from people like him. They are NOT racist, they are NOT filled with hate. They have had enough. Politicians that dismiss this as "mere racism" are insane
I don’t want VAR banned. I want it used to allow Lampards goal in 2010 and rule out Maradonas in 1986. That’s it. Nothing more. Clear. Obvious . Errors.
You know, we could offer the Malvinas to Argentina, in return for them handing back the 1986 World Cup on the basis it was awarded to them wrongly, and FIFA awarding it to us.
Zarah Sultana MP is claiming that “250,000” people were at the Naqba march she addressed today
She’s literally claiming a quarter of a million people. In reality I would estimate about 10,000. Fantastical nonsense
For clarity, some of the pro pally marches have indeed been huge. I know because I personally witnessed one of the early, massive rallies. It could actually have been 250,000. Today’s was tiny in comparison
I wonder if this means Gaza is finally receding in salience. Let’s hope so
Hope so? I hope that people continue to be outraged by what is widely assessed to be a genocide.
My biggest concern is that a a fall in the numbers and/or frequency of protests is a direct result of the state’s use of Terrorism legislation to quash it. Thousands of people held without charge; misleading juries; sentencing for crimes that have not been prosecuted.
I’m sure enthusiasm would have receded naturally over time, but it can’t have helped.
nah, to be honest I wouldn't want to be anywhere near a Tommy Robinson march.
A friend suggested having lunch today in London then we both realised what was happening today (plus the cup final) and decided to reschedule it.
Plenty of pre-Ayatollah Iranian flags on the Tommy Robinson march, judging from the footage.
Fascists going to fash.
You mean like this? Which I saw today?
This woman with the pre Ayatollah Iranian flag was getting lots of love from the Tommy crowd
Is she a fascist, too? Are they?
I would define the current Ayatollahs as fash...
They are bad, but the Shah was famously brutal with his secret police. One of my cousins was arrested by them. Not a pleasant experience but his UK passport meant that he just got deported rather than tortured.
There's a reason there was a revolution in Persia/Iran, and it wasn't because the Shah was universally loved.
Still: in preference I'd chose it over the mullahs. But only in the way that I'd chose syphilis over AIDS.
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UK entry is OK, but don't think we'll get many points tonight!
Ein, Zwei, Drei with a slice of pepperoni, came second as Andy Burnham 's slogan.
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Not another PM blaming cabinet “treachery” for their downfall, which was their own fault
https://x.com/JohnRentoul/status/2055740587391799787
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The Cabinet made me appoint Mandelson.
After years of sucking, the UK shows up with what can best be described as an absolute mid 1980s bop and I'm 100% in for this. We have a ton of synth, random German counting for no reason, and some proper bad hair.
Fuck yes UK.
#Eurovision #EurovisionSongContest
If we'd listened to Daniel Hannan we could have been guaranteed at least 4th place in the CANZUK Song Contest.
Meanwhile when we get an actual Government, it is likely to be a coalition of Reform and Badenoch's Tories.
It would appear the Good Lord dislikes remoanerism as much as any right-thinking person.
The forced irony, the contrived camp, the overdone archness
The forced irony, the contrived camp, the overdone archness
Enough about Andy Burnham, are you enjoying Eurovision?
Here’s why I ordered it: Source: Apple in China, pp. 211-212
Amazon claims they had only one, but did say I could listen to it for free, as a Prime member.
What conclusion did Apple draw from this attack? That they should be more careful to avoid offending Beijing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_for_Tibet:_The_Art_of_Peace
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Eurovision is for normies who would love to be rebels, but they are not, they are really really not
It is a kind of ersatz subversion. It is art for accountants, it is libertinism for lawyers, it is shit
Eurovision is for normies who would love to be rebels, but they are not, they are really really not
It is a kind of ersatz subversion. It is art for accountants, it is libertinism for lawyers, it is shit
No, it’s bonkers shit that makes you realise the Anglo Saxon music industry reigns largely because the mad bollocks elsewhere. It’s a different experience where we Europeans get to laugh at each other or love preconceived appreciations.
It’s not art for accountants because it’s not art. It’s not libertinism for lawyers because they are too dull to appreciate it if it was.
It’s just fun. Terrible music, many hot women, lots of gays having fun, it’s once a year, like Carols from Kings.
It’s so mainstream it could never make normies feel rebellious.
It’s not art for accountants because it’s not art. It’s not libertinism for lawyers because they are too dull to appreciate it if it was.
It’s just fun. Terrible music, many hot women, lots of gays having fun, it’s once a year, like Carols from Kings.
It’s so mainstream it could never make normies feel rebellious.
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Nah. It is camp bread and circuses for bourgeois sheep
Nah. It is camp bread and circuses for bourgeois sheep
It’s really not, every year until this year I’ve been at Eurovision parties where the crew pe have been everyone from traedesmen to peers of the realm . I’m only not at one tonight because I have rebbust my knee.
Tonight’s helping has Fears Labour Turmoil Will Wreck Brexit .
The Express acts as if people would be ringing helplines and spiral into depression if the whole wretched thing was put out of its misery .
https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2026/05/17/why-are-more-young-latter-day/?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot
eg Volare. Which came third in the third ever Eurovision, in 1958, and yet is one of the great popular songs of the 20th century, derived from the Neapolitan ballad tradition, but infused with Anglo-American verve
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nel_blu,_dipinto_di_blu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DPAb9-Stmo
And if Reform uses that, I want commission.
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You're affluent and educated and you live in... Jersey. Its faux irony and fake subversion is aimed directly at people like you, and you duly lap it up
https://vote.eurovision.com/
You're affluent and educated and you live in... Jersey. Its faux irony and fake subversion is aimed directly at people like you, and you duly lap it up
The beauty is, living here, we don’t judge on post codes, backgrounds because we are hugga-mugga we accept that you have to find your people and they might not be what you expect. We don’t live all year talking about Eurovision, as I said, it’s like carols at kings, a nice thing once a year. But it’s fun and silly. We get the faux element of it, it’s just like Halloween or similar silly things.
a) a bibliophile
b) a Kindle owner
c) cheap
I recommend bookbub.com. It is a mailing list that emails you a daily list of 99p or £1.99p Kindle book deals that you can customise for the subject of book you're interested in (history, biography, romance, etc.)
I have saved a few pounds using it anyway.
Not sensible.
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You don't even understand my critique. But it's fine. No drama
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You don't even understand my critique. But it's fine. No drama
Well I wouldn’t because I’m absolutely arseholed. Lots of drama.
Oh don’t ask, oh don’t ask why
The next whiskey bar
I tell you we must die
Burnham 1.96
Rayner 7
Streeting 11.5
Miliband 15
Carns 19.5
Farage 38
Badenoch 70
https://www.betfair.com/exchange/plus/en/politics-betting-2378961
Him: "Are you a journalist then?"
Me: "Yes. How did you guess?"
Him: "Coz you're takin photos of me. I'm very drunk."
Me: "I won't use them, I promise."
Him: "S'OK. Dya know why I am here? Coz my best friend is Asian and and and my other friend is black and and and I came down from Manchester alone but but but, eh, I must look degenerate I know that"
Me: "I promise I won't use photos."
Him: "OK alright I - I - I - if my daughter found out i wuz here she wouldn't ever talk to me again but, but, but I can't just sit back and let it happen, they're taking the piss, all these people, on boats, d'you know how much tax I pay?"
Me: "No."
Him: "Four grand a month I've - I have - I earn a lot and - and - and - and if my company ever found out I was here that would be the end of me but you can't just do nothing can you? I've never been to anything like this in my life. Never. But, but, but look around there's no hate here, is there? No hate, we just- just - have to get a grip. They're taking the piss. We don't have any choice."
We shook hands and separated. That rally was largely a cri de coeur from people like him. They are NOT racist, they are NOT filled with hate. They have had enough. Politicians that dismiss this as "mere racism" are insane
That would be a fair trade, I think.
Still: in preference I'd chose it over the mullahs. But only in the way that I'd chose syphilis over AIDS.