Real England

Lyrics written by John Dawson, Mike Baker, Matt Wilson, Dave Hardy, Bernie Belsham, Jamie Terrell, Simon Juniper.

Romford gone to the dogs.

"River Rom" eh? (googles)... "Romford is first recorded in 1177 as Romfort, which is formed from Old English 'rūm' and 'ford' and means "the wide or spacious ford".[12] The naming of the River Rom is a local 'back-formation' from the name of the town; and the river is elsewhere known as the Beam."

My stepmother is from Romford/Upminster, however despite this I still quite like the song.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/feb/20/speedo-mick-charity-walker-nears-end-uk-trek-just-trunks

because he is raising money for charity would it be churlish of me to think this lad is an attention-hungry tit?

EXCL - Tommy Robinson has joined Toby Young's Free Speech Union, and his membership will not be revokedhttps://t.co/Yk4ZLhxLfk

— Scram News (@ScramNews) February 25, 2020

Free speech is Real America iirc.

does this mean Toby Young has or hasn't been offered another quango? I can't tell these days.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/feb/20/speedo-mick-charity-walker-nears-end-uk-trek-just-trunks

because he is raising money for charity would it be churlish of me to think this lad is an attention-hungry tit?

― babby bitter (Noodle Vague), Friday, 21 February 2020 18:02 (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

The cynic in me thinks the majority of people raising money for charity are attention-hungry but this fella takes the cake yes

he seems fucking horrible, but I'm very Catholic when it comes to irl partial nudity that isn't in a swimming pool context and perhaps I'm being unfair!

This is John Manley from Netherton who used a digger to smash up a brand new Travelodge on Edge Lane because he'd not been paid his wages... he's been jailed today for five years and four months #CapitalReports pic.twitter.com/q9akHkIaZE

— CapitalLivNews (@CapitalLivNews) February 26, 2020

5 years? gtfo he only trashed a hotel ffs.

That London Resort thing really is amazing. Swanscombe is weapons-grade Real England, a perfect place for it. Played cricket there a few years ago and found the locals to be racked with ressentiment and listless aggression to an almost tragic degree. Tales told of how they almost started a fight against our 3rd XI while blatantly attempting to cheat their way to victory and racially abusing our Asian players. When I was there they had us 3 or 4 down for nothing, I walked out to steady the ship and got a full toss which I chipped meatily off my legs for what I assumed was a boundary. They'd hidden a 13 year-old fat kid, one of the other player's sons, at short fine leg, where he was clearly expected to not do any fielding. Of course he fucking held the catch. They are a mutant breed out there

(xp) Ridiculous sentence.

he was sleeping on friends floors, skint and christmas was approaching and his wages were unpaid .. of course the property of some poxy global hotel chain is more important than a human life.

What is the crime of trashing a Travelodge against the crime of opening one?

the only real crime is violence against private property iirc

(warming to Swanscombe now)

Look who's thrown their balaclava into the ring for London mayor - it's DrillMinister, a radical moderate, doing radical things with a moderate message, reaching out to everyone.

People are just trying to find their way through this maze we call London life and I think we need a mayor that kind of resembles what people recognise as a Londoner as opposed to somebody dictating to them what a Londoner is.

"Any person that doesn't have love for the Queen - what money are you using?"

(xp)

Mullins is the son of a factory worker father and a bartender and cleaner mother.[2] When he was born, they "lived in a couple of rooms in Camden", before moving to the Rockingham Estate in London's Elephant and Castle, where he grew up, and left school at 15 with no qualifications.[2][3]

It gets better, his real first name is Sidney!

at least when the DrillMaster get's a bit too pompous or starts talking about himself in the third person in an ominous tone you can say oh do shut up, Sydney.

... Mullins' real first name is Sidney not DrillMaster!

Drill Minister. I mean!

oh yes my mistake, can't be getting masters mixed up with ministers!

Footage from the #UK: A cop chasing someone ends up getting stuck on a fence. 😂#ACAB pic.twitter.com/7JIaOKiPN8

— th1an1 (@th1an1) February 28, 2020

Got to be fake surely?

Don’t interrupt me for a while, I really need to concentrate on this. pic.twitter.com/5ojwzZkJ2F

— Charlotte (@RoylePin) February 29, 2020

the daily sport is not known for its quality factual reporting

https://i2-prod.bristolpost.co.uk/incoming/article3899577.ece/ALTERNATES/s810/0_Untitled-design-2.jpg

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/abuse-threats-made-greta-thunberg-3897936

this FB profile lineup of the wall of gammon genre is a visually arresting piece of work from the Bristol Post. The "Be KiND" man was advocating throwing a milkshake at an autistic teenager.

nice to see a local paper on the side of good for once

this caused me to check out the shropshire star but it has its hands full currently (also wellies):

Footfall down after floods https://t.co/pJ3Ox7JxRT pic.twitter.com/UDtlPvO3Dt

— SHROPSHIRE (@DailySHROPSHIRE) February 28, 2020

it's coming home:

Knife Angel on way to #Telford https://t.co/eZXOcrS7D0 pic.twitter.com/LDzPfpujhF

— SHROPSHIRE (@DailySHROPSHIRE) February 28, 2020

nice to see a local paper on the side of good for once

― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Monday, March 2, 2020 8:56 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

bristol (and stroud!) are oases of libcuck valour in the benighted west iirc

Just hipster mythologizing I'm sure, and miraculous if that infected the actual gutter of the gutter press

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ESIxra7XsAAtynL?format=jpg

so much for keep calm and carry on and England can take it!

England regrets to inform you that for the foreseeable future it will not be taking it

you'd think they could turn up with respirators and some medieval plague doctor cosplay gear on. I thought they were into that kind of shit!

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/18277936.one-worlds-biggest-greggs-opening-cornmarket/

“Customers have been trying to get in here all day but we have had to tell them to come back."

some serious competition for the Inspector Morse Lewis Endeavour tours arrives in oxford.

“My girlfriend prefers Pret but that’s a bit too healthy for me.”

Are there Greggs' in other countries? I am intrigued.

A Telegraph interview with the CEO suggests not, as foreigners simply don't appreciate a good sausage roll.

I'm more interested in the regional equivalents. The game in NW London appears to be run by Wenzel's, and in E London, Percy Ingle have their little empire. All threatened if not currently overwhelmed by Greggs. Presumably they in turn have caught many of the little independent fish years ago

Greggs have been in Scotland for years but only seems to have become a thing in England, outwith the North, relatively recently.

And then there's Posh Greggs aka Gail's, but my attempts to be pescetarian mean I'm giving them and their sole reason for attendance (the sausage roll) a swerve atm

I think Greggs might work in Belgium. I have vague memories of Meades saying there are vile Anglophile tendencies for English junk food there whilst mockingly eating a cone of chips or something.

In Real Kernow news: Greggs tried, and failed, in Cornwall https://www.theguardian.com/business/shortcuts/2020/jan/15/give-us-real-pasties-why-greggs-is-leaving-cornwall

Greggs has been forced to close its only branch in Cornwall after a backlash from Cornish residents over the selling of pasties.

The bakery chain opened its first store in the county in September 2018 with an outlet at a service station in Saltash but said it will now shut following a "thorough review".

It means Greggs will return to no longer having a presence in Cornwall despite having around 1,500 branches across the country.

The announcement was celebrated by residents who claimed the decision marked a vindication for the traditional Cornish pasty.

Some opponents had branded Greggs as "junk" and warned the chain was never likely to survive long-term in the county.

will massively Leave voting Cornwall's Cornish pasties losing their EU PGI status mean Greggs can start labelling their Beef + Veg rolls as such again? Fucking liberty eh?

Benji's was all over central London ten years ago, don't know what happened there. I can imagine a Greggs in Gibraltar.