Real England

I think Sleaford Mods are very very bad, but sort of laughable - which might have been their redeeming feature for me - if I didn't find the music completely unlistenable and their channelling of Real England quite literal and wooden - but that also might be part of their appeal, and perhaps i just don't get it!

Yes, I'd rather listen to Mumford & Sons tbh.

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/let-it-be-hull-theatre-2051820

Police were called to Hull New Theatre tonight after a “fight” broke out in the audience during The Beatles tribute Let It Be show.

It is understood a woman and a man were ejected from the audience by security after an argument just as ‘John Lennon’ began to sing Imagine.

Hull Live understands at least six police officers and a police car from Humberside Police were called to the theatre in Kingston Square, Hull city centre , following the altercation and a woman and a man were taken away in a police car.

some folk just love living for today ...arrrggh!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fse0wAtcZRs

i know this one... "why the long face?"

hmmm

Today is septidi 7 Vendémiaire in the year of the Republic CCXXVII, celebrating the carrot. pic.twitter.com/QTJuj3dPjI

— Republican Calendar (@sansculotides) September 29, 2018

xp
"And with prices like these you won't get many more!"

Der Rabenmeister vom Londoner Tower https://t.co/1yeR3WVVnL #Großbritannien #Empire #Rabenmeister

— tagesschau (@tagesschau) October 20, 2018

too late to stop Ravexit you ridiculously garbed fule!

some weird contrasting real-Englandness today in my neck of the woods is while there is lots of casual EDL hate-speak in the air (re-Hudds Asian grooming gang) about 10 miles away from Hudds there is a Muslim festival attracting visitors from all corners of Northern/Southern hemispheres. You get some unreal sights, like imagine five thousand people crammed into a park that is barely the size of a cricket pitch!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dp81vuEW4AEjgrQ.jpg

der rabenmeister giving me unheimlich vibes

(x-post to FASTER YOU FUCKERS - The ILX Work & Productivity Thread)

#OnThisDay 1973: Staff at a Gateshead factory had their own DJ - "The incredible Del Perry; nice mover, sharp dresser" pic.twitter.com/15GO2Fcuha

— BBC Archive (@BBCArchive) October 29, 2018

everything about this feels straight out of a Denim/Go-Kart Mozart album, especially the combination of Bowie pin-up/Gateshead clothing factory

del looks kinda crepey to me but that is beautiful nonetheless

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/gemma-collins-comes-face-face-13508080

Gemma describes her new friend as “engaging and charming”, and credits Corbyn with being a man of his word because he prefers a trusty red bike to a car.

“At his age now - I’m not saying he’s old, old - the fact that he’s out there riding a bicycle and he doesn’t have a car... a lot of people say they’ve got beliefs. But he actually backs what he says.”

Most importantly, Gemma approves of his NHS support.

“Do you know why I love Jeremy? He wants to end hospital car parking charges.

“I’m not being funny, but someone’s died - a member of your family - and you’ve gotta put three quid in the meter?

"It’s just not the time. Your mum has a heart attack, yet you’ve got to rustle around in your bag for £5? It’s not the one.”

RIP Ton-Up Ron

Devon man, 102, dies after being stuck on roof for three days http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-46083703

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dq8fUMJX4AAhtYb.jpg

somewhere in the burbs, I can't work out where from the tweet.

South Woodham Ferrers in Essex AIUI.

I thought I was unshockable but I've just watched (part of) some video footage of a group of people burning an effigy of Grenfell Tower at a bonfire gathering and, it turns out, that I am still shockable.

^ that

what's fucking right with these people

Where was this done? Lewes?

Nobody knows.

It would be a bit much even for Lewes.

Nobody knows.

The accents were a bit of giveaway?
Anyway, the halfwits have handed themselves in (or at least some of them have).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46106224

In a nice bit of Real England gallantry seldom seen in these PC days, I note the men have handed themselves in, presumably to save the blushes of the delicate English Rose who seemed to take such delight in the whole affair.

“The police investigation of the Grenfell bonfire video is more chilling and disgusting than the video itself. That people are being arrested for things they said in their back garden suggests Britain is morphing into a police state”, says Brendan O’Neillhttps://t.co/IRJFDMhtPj

— spiked (@spikedonline) November 6, 2018

Is it now a crime to be a twat

oh ffs, Tatchell was doing his thing earlier as well. Just fucking zip it arseholes.

there are still survivors from that block walking about in a permanent PTSD daze ffs.

Is it now a crime to be a twat

Brendan O'Neill doing a citizen's arrest on himself!

people are being arrested for things they said in their back garden and then posted on the internet which seems an important distinction

yep and effectively becoming a publisher of racist hate material. Any fucker can be racist in their garden and won't get swooped on by the PC Gestapo.

I'd imagine a largely unseen aspect of Real England is vast swathes of gardens with people making racist comments in them.

Yeah the garden is what makes this story england to me

Brendan obviously undermines himself by framing this in the most twattish way possible, but isn't there a legitimate left/liberal case for being concerned about what the limits of what the police can to prosecute under the Public Order Act? e.g.more of this kind of stuff: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/nov/12/teenager-arrested-burning-poppy-facebook

Tatchell saying because the section 4a public order offence was weaponised against him in the 80's he will be implacably against it used in any other context is a bad argument imo. But that is my opinion and I'm sometimes a kneejerk on these type of matters when they involve "twats"!

I guess the point is that it isn't you, me or Tatchell who'll get to decide in what cases these laws are and aren't applied, so it becomes a question of how much you think you're likely to trust the judgement of the people who will decide?

I'd forgotten about that guy on the skateboard mentioned at the end of the Guardian article. can't seem to find any record of whether or not he was convicted in the end

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/11/11/article-2231431-15F895E9000005DC-522_634x523.jpg

Pleaded guilty, fined £65. https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/remembrance-day-gatecrasher-sorry-29001361.html

I don’t think they will be charged and, if charged, they probably won’t be convicted.

oh dear, bad news for Spiked. I suppose one thing in Tatchell's favour is not making these idiots into cause celebres.

This is probably as good a case as any for Twitter-shaming them out of their jobs or w/e rather than trying to find a law that fits.

but isn't there a legitimate left/liberal case for being concerned about what the limits of what the police can to prosecute under the Public Order Act?

Indeed there is. This is the Act used (some years ago) cack-handedly by some constabularies to arrest men kissing each other in the street because A.N.Other person might be offended and thus cause a public order offence by wanting to beat them up. Keeping the Queen's peace being a cornerstone of British policing. This, though, is hardly the same, as it's clear an offence has been committed.

Brendan O'Neill's arguments are always wrong, doesn't matter if you accidentally agree with him on individual points sometimes, his weasily arguments are always put together in the cause of evil. I'd say best ignore him, but that doesn't seem to have worked so far. If I have time one day I'd like to make a list of all the terrible positions he's taken over the years, maybe that could be a useful thing to fish out whenever anyone is tempted to listen to anything he says.

wealth & power insulate you from online shaming, it works best on the vulnerable

This, though, is hardly the same, as it's clear an offence has been committed.

It seems possible an offence has been committed but I don’t think it’s clear. It’s also not entirely clear whether the people in the video have committed an offence, or potentially just the person uploading.

I don't want to watch the video, is it obviously racially motivated?

Yes