Real England

It’s Wells Carnival tonight!

Kicking off proceedings is Mr Blobby in an armoured vehicle, of course. pic.twitter.com/C1UBzHVsS9

— Charlie Taylor (@CharlieTaylor4) November 18, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEL8HFQTMf8

The comments on that vid are fucking incredible

yes those are some Real England comments man.

My wife sings barbershop and the other day she had a charity concert at Milton Keynes. It was at a venue inaugurated by John Dankworth and Cleo Laine, and in the other room there was a Barron Knights concerts going on.

Rightly or wrongly, I thought of this thread.

for a split second I read the video title as 'Wimpy Goth Weekend' to truly unite #RealEngland

"They are all vaccinated and Liberals" is my fave so far

Looks more like a steampunk weekend to me.

amazing comments

burn the lot. scum

and

Most of them are posers I'm not a goth used to be a punk rocker grown up now.

current favorites.

ex-punk rocker otm tbh

Just scared the kids by showing them the window of the only shop in Hull I’m too scared to go into. Extremist’s paradise Grannie’s Parlour. pic.twitter.com/e8GEGCqEnT

— Dave Lee (@davelee1968) November 26, 2022

That used to be a really beautiful shop to have a look in, don't remember the Nazi stuff back in the day

i did buy my dad an old Roy Rogers comic from there for his birthday once

the infamous "Roy Rogers endorses the Third Reich" issue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_bIaF7P9WA

Ye gods, I can't watch the whole thing

Kind of hard to overestimate how popular Michael Barrymore was at the time, like Ant & Dec put together times ten.

Lol i saw barrymore's name and knew what the video was gonna be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEykU-Gs478

you can't beat a bit of amusing Fast Show character style verisimilitude! I felt like making a wisecrack the other day when a driver skidded on the ice and smashed into this total dickhead's car around the corner from my house, but I'd probably be in hospital rn if I had.

nepo babies map:
https://www.docdroid.net/3H4LflE/a-fairly-comprehensive-map-v2-pdf

bcz i am a twat i have already spotted stuff i think is missing from this

this has had the blue tick journos frothing at the mouth in predictable but funny ways

I have also spotted missing nepos, particularly one person who is friends with a few UK ilxors.

the stand-out in-laws-growling-across-the-marmalade moment in all that is ferdie mount and pankaj mishra i think lol

it omits alex cockburn's marriage into the royal-adjacent aristocracy (to emma tennant) tho i guess as both are dead and his daughter daisy is not really "in media" this is forgiveable

basically i know way too much abt the cockburns

eg alex's sister sarah wrote whodunnits and smoked a pipe

I could imagine loads of of them initially starting off in life with the intention to determinedly go their own way and then after not getting anywhere, saying fuck it and leaning back on family connections and failing upwards. I can't imagine any young person enthusiastically going straight from HE into whatever job mummy/daddy/uncle can fastrack them into, instantly making them the most hated brats wherever they are working, with lack of dues paying experience etc..

This is the piece that followed on from NYer piece and started that discourse here.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/3adgnk/american-nepo-babies-have-nothing-on-the-british

alexander theodore (alex) callinicos is a member of the central committee of the SWP (uk wing) and also its international secretary (i.e. he runs it lol)

His mum, the honorable ædgyth lyon-dalberg-acton, was daughter of the 2nd lord acton, son of the 19th-century english historian john emerich edward dalberg-acton, 1st baron acton, 13th marquess of groppoli, aka lord acton of "absolute power corrupts absolutely" fame -- legend has it that alex thus has an entry in the almanach de saxe-gotha tho i do not own a copy or access and have never been able to confirm this

also the actons are a landed shropshire family which is like the almanach de saxe-gotha but very rustic

A chocolate thief is facing jail after admitting he stole almost 200,000 Cadbury Creme Eggs in a heist worth more than £31,000.

Joby Pool, 32, dubbed “the Easter bunny” by police, used a stolen lorry cab to make off with chocolate after breaking into a Telford industrial unit with a metal grinder on Saturday.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/14/man-facing-jail-over-theft-of-almost-200000-cadbury-creme-eggs

two years in jail for stealing some creme eggs. bit grim.

author of the story deserves three years imo

no you see it's funny because the man stole cheap chocolates and now he's going to jail for a long time and the journalist will never need to meet him or even think about him again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbD4WBqPg4

Not sure where else to put this!

👍 Best #MatchOfTheDay episode in years.

⚽️ Had all the goals in
🤫No ‘expert’ analysis
🍺 And finished quicker than usual so I could make the pub for last orders.

What’s not to like 🤷‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/Ky35Dexmd0

— Scott Benton MP 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🍊 (@ScottBentonMP) March 11, 2023

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1578092708329029644/unK7LoRx_400x400.jpg

this looks like an AI generated picture that was created from a dataset of photos of all the 2019 tory new intake (plus a few Apprentice contestants)

tbf he's used to watching football live for nothing

n July 2021, it was reported by The Guardian that Benton was one of nine MPs from different political parties who had accepted tickets to high-profile sporting events as hospitality from betting and gambling companies. He received tickets to Royal Ascot, two Euro 2020 football games and Wimbledon.[

Some choice replies to that tweet.

"like all normal lads i wait for Match of the Day to finish before i decide to go to the pub on a Saturday night"

Got to the pub for his usual turnip stout

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1prYNQpO7w

Hadersfild

a Serbian film called Huddersfield, that's a strange one.

We’ve had to stop people fighting and urinating in their seats’: the ugly new side of theatre audiences

You wouldn't have seen that kind of behaviour at Shakespeare's Globe in Elizabethan times.

Where else could this happen but Grays

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/11/essex-pub-landlady-benice-ryley-replaces-golliwog-doll-collection-that-was-seized-by-police

Ryley denied that she or her husband were racist. “I’m not a racist in any form.” She confirmed that her husband had been photographed in a T-shirt from the far-right group Britain First. She said: “I don’t think Chris is a supporter of Britain First, he was just wearing that shirt because it was convenient at the time.”

I read the whole article and literally lolled when I got to those lines.

Tony Daly, who manages a nearby charity shop, said the dolls made his “blood boil” and said he was shocked they had been on display in such a diverse area.

I think that chazza is the one I had a nose around in on a recent and ill-advised sojourn to the fine hamlet of Grays! The guy working there was chatting with some customers about Michael Jackson, the gist of the conversation being that MJ must be innocent of everything he was ever accused of. Not sure how they came to that conclusion tbh. Can't be certain it was him either so I might be maligning the fellow. The books, by the way, were arranged on the shelves by spine colour, it was very odd.

The books, by the way, were arranged on the shelves by spine colour

Charity shop down the road from me does the same - completely useless unless you're looking for Penguin lol

Read about the allotment lady and allotment wars.

Re the food bank allotment lady whose garden got salted - Mum told me there was a survey in The Times of which 5% of people admitted (ADMITTED) to sabotaging other plots. British gardening is a cutthroat and horrible culture

— the sloop johnbie (@fireh9lly) April 12, 2023