Comments on: New Bank Holiday Proposal

By: ejh

ejh — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:19:20 +0000

Off -topic, but you need to see this

By: Patchen

Patchen — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:21:00 +0000

I’m not certain you’ve got a national monopoly on the practice. Although in our case the beer’s crap, too.

By: Chris Brooke

Chris Brooke — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:06:16 +0000

Can we not just sit at home, watch crap tv and kick back with a couple of beers?

I’m not sure I can think of a more suitable way of expressing Britishness…

By: tim f

tim f — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:21:46 +0000

If we have a new bank holiday, do we have to use it for celebrating Britishness? Can we not just sit at home, watch crap tv and kick back with a couple of beers?

Will there be on-the-spot-fines for those without a flag stuck to their car bonnet?

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:01:26 +0000

they go for the soft touch, the white Christians from Poland

Nice of him to point out the flaw in his argument.

“Well, it’s these immigrants innit. All these immigrants coming over here, they keep themselves to themselves, go to their own shops, I mean they’re just not like us when you get right down to it. That’s got to undermine your basic fabric of social cohesion on which the wellbeing of society ultimately depends, innit.”

“Yeah, these immigrants. Who’s the worst, you reckon?”

“It’s those Poles I can’t stand. They come over here with their… talking Polish… and their weird food, all this cabbage and pork and… all these tins and jars with Polish writing on them and the English writing’s really small… What I mean is, they come ove here, talking Polish…”

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:38:16 +0000

As soon as anyone uses the phrase ‘liberal elite’ in an apparently serious sense it’s clear that they’re talking nonsense, so I turned the radio off before getting to hear Humphrey’s response.

By: john b

john b — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:15:11 +0000

All credit to JH for a superb dismissal with: “well, I look forward to hearing your evidence for any of that.“