'NASTY' Joe Biden SLAMMED as UNPLEASANT to Brits as Nile Gardiner CONCERNED over UK-US relationship

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22 күн бұрын

'He's been the most anti-British president of the modern era. Biden has been an unpleasant and nasty figure to the British people.'
Director, Margaret Thatcher Centre for Freedom, Nile Gardiner, offers a scathing verdict of Joe Biden expressing concern over a future Trump presidency coinciding with a Labour government.
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@Bluejohn
@Bluejohn 20 күн бұрын
Biden doesn't even know who he's talking to.
@faithflemming4251
@faithflemming4251 20 күн бұрын
Really is that why he met over thirty NATO leaders, who have praised Joe Biden. Most leaders support Biden except the dictators who support the evil one.
@christopherflux6254
@christopherflux6254 20 күн бұрын
Biden can’t be anti-British as he doesn’t even know what Britain is!
@christopherflux6254
@christopherflux6254 20 күн бұрын
Yeah. He can’t hate Britain when he doesn’t know what it is.
@user-bc7nx3mm8z
@user-bc7nx3mm8z 19 күн бұрын
He can't even get off a stage without help...the 'leader of the free world' my arse 🙄
@Coyb1866
@Coyb1866 20 күн бұрын
Trump would crucify Lammy, he's not got the wit to head to head with Trump.
@stephenford2758
@stephenford2758 20 күн бұрын
Felon Trump hates black people
@christopherflux6254
@christopherflux6254 20 күн бұрын
Lammy would be a good diplomat with many countries, but I agree he would struggle with people like Trump. I hope the UK appoints a really tough ambassador to the United States, who could then take the lead when it comes to dealing with Trump.
@ShanghaiRooster
@ShanghaiRooster 19 күн бұрын
@@christopherflux6254 Lammy, like so many prominent black Labour politicians, seems to see everything through the prism of race. He's one of the most hopeless fools in a depressingly shallow pool of talent on both sides of the House. If one is a prospective foreign secretary, you don't go around throwing personal insults at foreign political leaders with whom you might be having to deal one day. His own personal feelings don't matter as he is representing the country not himself. Lammy is too thick to comprehend that. As for the ambassador, Starmer has cancelled the appointment made by Rishi Sunak of a career diplomat to take over in Washington in order, so it would seem, to install another Labour apparatchik. Is this another case of jobs for his personal chums, as in the way the new attorney-general is a lawyer (who has been swiftly raised to the Lords) rather than the admittedly ghastly Emily Thornberry. Nepotism is alive and well, it appears. What happened to putting country before party?
@samanthapage2892
@samanthapage2892 20 күн бұрын
I hope Trump gets in!
@CliffordSullivan-fj7jv
@CliffordSullivan-fj7jv 20 күн бұрын
Agreed IN PRISON the Putin Lover!!!
@Michael-og8dt
@Michael-og8dt 19 күн бұрын
​@@CliffordSullivan-fj7jvMuppet🥴
@paulmuaddib3470
@paulmuaddib3470 20 күн бұрын
Starmer and Biden...Dumb and Dumber 😎👍
@stevev238
@stevev238 20 күн бұрын
And Lammy- Dumbest
@wundurra24
@wundurra24 20 күн бұрын
Hilarious! I'm loving these gammon tears. I want more of them! More I say. Keep it coming lads.
@francescostello1377
@francescostello1377 20 күн бұрын
Indeed, yet the UK, the collective west follow every word this senile old man says, how's that for delusional. They don't mention that Zionist Neo Liberal Globalist Starmer has just declared war on Russia fgs, billions to Ukraine, and says that Ukraine can use UK missiles to target Russian soil!! at the NATO mafia club, the money laundering warmongers meeting. NATO which is being destroyed as we speak.
@redbeard3923
@redbeard3923 20 күн бұрын
Biden and Captain flip flop
@CliffordSullivan-fj7jv
@CliffordSullivan-fj7jv 20 күн бұрын
Another Russian Troll FO!!
@wiltonfarm4816
@wiltonfarm4816 20 күн бұрын
The UK needs Trump in power now more than ever.
@francescostello1377
@francescostello1377 20 күн бұрын
Oh no they don't, Trump is a Zionist Neo con, in favour of war, in Ukraine against Russia, and Israel. Watch alternative media, with real independent journalism for the real info on this and all world affairs. The Duran with Alex Christoforou and Alexander Macouris, Scott Ritter, Garland Nixon, Colonel Douglas MacGregor, George Galloway Moats and knowledgeable, distinguished guests, Danny Haiphong, and many more.
@allansmith3837
@allansmith3837 20 күн бұрын
No the UK needs to look after the UK and let the USA do the same for their country and stop following and kissing arse in Washington.
@antiracismo2
@antiracismo2 20 күн бұрын
@@allansmith3837the uk is not fit to look after its own country. All it does is illegally kidnap children. Rape and murder to only bury them under the ground
@antiracismo2
@antiracismo2 20 күн бұрын
Yeah Britain should have trump
@rokketron
@rokketron 20 күн бұрын
@@allansmith3837 You obviously don't understand world politics 🙄
@rokketron
@rokketron 20 күн бұрын
This is why people baffle me when they say they want Biden over Trump. They prefer a president who hates the UK, loves the EU, and won't ever give us the UK, a trade deal. Over, Trump, who loves the UK, hates the EU, and will gladly give us a trade deal. I mean, what the hell is wrong with people?
@stratman9449
@stratman9449 20 күн бұрын
it'S just the leftwing socialists which get worked up about republican presidents...always have...it'S a tradition...although it's nothing to do with them or any of the other lefties in the rest of europe.
@traceyevans8905
@traceyevans8905 20 күн бұрын
Orange man bad That's all they know Trump 2024 🇺🇸
@jetb
@jetb 20 күн бұрын
Yes hard to understand the British peoples mindset. Tell them enough times and they will believe it….anti Trump…Russophobia….Sinophobia etc etc.
@anonymousone6075
@anonymousone6075 20 күн бұрын
trump could have already gave us a trade deal, he didn't... they wanted to push their food standards on us... chlorinated chicken etc
@Wtf0069
@Wtf0069 20 күн бұрын
it's easy!...............You just can't educate pork!
@MenBehavingBadly.
@MenBehavingBadly. 20 күн бұрын
The child sniffer & whisperer
@Tom.J.O
@Tom.J.O 20 күн бұрын
Yeh and Trump is just an innocent man right? 🤣
@ianHolmes-up2oc
@ianHolmes-up2oc 20 күн бұрын
What a stupid comment
@Timothy1976
@Timothy1976 20 күн бұрын
Neither of them are perfect men but we need the one that can run a country
@MenBehavingBadly.
@MenBehavingBadly. 20 күн бұрын
@@Tom.J.OI’ve only seen joe Biden doing this….until we have actual evidence on trump he’s innocent till proven guilty, the wicked witch of Louisiana Stephanie stormy Daniels Clifford won’t ever be able to change that the old leather boot.
@Tom.J.O
@Tom.J.O 20 күн бұрын
@@Timothy1976 But surely out of all the people in the usa there are better choices than those two silly old fools. And I thought our options were bad...
@davidhenryandthemysterons3220
@davidhenryandthemysterons3220 20 күн бұрын
KEEP HIM AWAY FROM THE KIDS
@josefstockwell9636
@josefstockwell9636 18 күн бұрын
Epstein's mate Trump do you mean? Read the Epstein papers.
@jasonjordan1936
@jasonjordan1936 20 күн бұрын
trump 2024 trump for uk
@helenfay8179
@helenfay8179 20 күн бұрын
I can't wait until Trump is president 🇱🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇱🇬🇧
@jimoconnor2594
@jimoconnor2594 20 күн бұрын
Old Joe is a Irish Pakistani
@iantobanter9546
@iantobanter9546 19 күн бұрын
Greece's favourite son, too. LGB!
@bubble6853
@bubble6853 20 күн бұрын
We need trump because we're already fxxxxed with labour in
@stephenford2758
@stephenford2758 20 күн бұрын
We are f****d as a result of 14 years of Tory Rule
@gatech5190
@gatech5190 19 күн бұрын
brits should mind their own business and don't nose in into American internal affairs.
@user-mg8zt2ix3l
@user-mg8zt2ix3l 19 күн бұрын
​@gatech5190 yes , you are right . But , honestly, your president is a total buffoon.
@gatech5190
@gatech5190 19 күн бұрын
@@user-mg8zt2ix3l Still he is my president. Good bad or ugly.
@bubble6853
@bubble6853 18 күн бұрын
@@gatech5190 I would mind my own business but when it's in my face all the time I'm allowed an opinion .it's not Brits nosing in it's bloody Americans shoving it in our faces..we don't vote in your politics so what's your problem... Thats my opinion simple
@Wayne-y8o
@Wayne-y8o 20 күн бұрын
Who cares what he thinks the guy cant even talk properly
@garyb455
@garyb455 20 күн бұрын
Biden will be brown bread soon
@thomasoconnor3803
@thomasoconnor3803 20 күн бұрын
Obama is bidens minder and he doesn't like great Britain but if trump gets in he take into account the stupid remarks lammy has made on a number of issues
@knockschool
@knockschool 20 күн бұрын
Obama is Bidens boss. ?
@MrDominicg90
@MrDominicg90 20 күн бұрын
He’s to busy sniffing kids and forgetting who his is.
@susancorvalan6765
@susancorvalan6765 20 күн бұрын
FJB does not represent me or most Americans. He actually lost the 2020 election through numerous devious tactics. We love our Brit cousins, feel your economic and political pains, and send apology for allowing our devolution into the muck. We are angry and fighting! We are redirecting our ship of state, but turning a 180 in a thrashing sea is tricky. Much affection from California! 🇬🇧🇺🇸🥰
@Wtf0069
@Wtf0069 20 күн бұрын
Best wishes and good luck!
@johndunn6968
@johndunn6968 20 күн бұрын
thank you young lady from an old brit
@susanrichards5849
@susanrichards5849 20 күн бұрын
Thank you x
@bevbailey9911
@bevbailey9911 20 күн бұрын
Thank you.. I love learning all I can on American culture there is so much interesting history too.. from a fan across the pond 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸
@josephlennon8475
@josephlennon8475 13 күн бұрын
Thanking you, mam.
@easymode8958
@easymode8958 20 күн бұрын
The Americans don't want him so why should we give a sht.
@antiracismo2
@antiracismo2 20 күн бұрын
I want him. I love my country. I don’t like Nazi racist Britain
@rokketron
@rokketron 20 күн бұрын
@easymode8958 Because if America sneezes, the UK catches a cold.
@easymode8958
@easymode8958 20 күн бұрын
@rokketron yep seems like the whole of the European Union 🇪🇺 want this cold also . They are so far left they forgot what doing right means. Then again they are proudly screwing any thing and anyone on the right so they do know what doing right means after all .
@MrKarlyboy
@MrKarlyboy 20 күн бұрын
Nile please join Reform. Your more at home there. Thatcher would sign up
@samanthapage2892
@samanthapage2892 20 күн бұрын
They have been so rude especially Khan and Lammy
@jimbo-yv5jh
@jimbo-yv5jh 20 күн бұрын
Lammy the Tottenham Turnip, how to successfully play the race card throughout your life.
@guvnormcfc66
@guvnormcfc66 20 күн бұрын
the Tottenham Turnip....QUALITY!!
@staceyalbright3323
@staceyalbright3323 20 күн бұрын
More like a bag of coal and chimney sweep
@sammyriley7185
@sammyriley7185 20 күн бұрын
Does biden know what day it is
@rightlyso8507
@rightlyso8507 20 күн бұрын
In giving testimony before council Robert Hur in 2017, Biden was unable to give the years when he served as Vice-President, IF he had even been Vice-President, if he still was Vice-President etc. The written transcript of the interview has been acquired by the Congress. However, the video has not as, is said, the times between questions asked and answers given are said to be so great as to be greatly ... embarrassing. After all, the written transcript doesn't annotate that time - that 'dead air'.
@unlikeable8619
@unlikeable8619 20 күн бұрын
He threw a statue of Winston Churchill out of his window when he came into office...? Wow. Didn't know this. Extremely disrespectful if true
@juliebarker7025
@juliebarker7025 20 күн бұрын
Yes it is true. Trump had the statue of Winston in he’s office.
@dianeunderhill8506
@dianeunderhill8506 20 күн бұрын
No it was Obama that had the bust of Winston taken out. Donald Trump had it brought back.
@unlikeable8619
@unlikeable8619 20 күн бұрын
Extremely disrespectful
@christopherflux6254
@christopherflux6254 20 күн бұрын
Doubt it would have been thrown out. Probably just removed. I don’t agree with that decision, but saying it’s evidence that Biden hates the British people is extremely flimsy. If Boris Johnson had removed a bust of Eisenhower from Downing Street, would we be saying that Johnson hates the American people?
@dannyblackwell2426
@dannyblackwell2426 20 күн бұрын
well this just shows how liberal and lost this country has become. now we got the worst goverment we could have got a labour one
@ianHolmes-up2oc
@ianHolmes-up2oc 14 күн бұрын
Rubbish it is great to have a labour government and lammy was right about trump he is a vile man
@rickogden204
@rickogden204 18 күн бұрын
Democrat run USA and Labour run UK both led by people the majority did not vote for....what could possibly go wrong.
@davidroyston1671
@davidroyston1671 20 күн бұрын
America goes along with the special relationship when it suits them. When it doesn't suit them they couldn't care less about the UK
@johnking8724
@johnking8724 20 күн бұрын
Pres,Trump, just want ALL EU countries including the UK to pay their fair share to nato & not depend on the USA to front their security !
@truckerfromreno
@truckerfromreno 20 күн бұрын
Trump will show Starmer who the daddy is.
@stephenford2758
@stephenford2758 20 күн бұрын
Trump is a Putin appeaser
@geraldvelez597
@geraldvelez597 20 күн бұрын
@@stephenford2758 Is that what your national propaganda services have told you? After all, it's well known that you sheep, besides not being able to defend themselves, can't think for yourselves, either. Sad
@ianHolmes-up2oc
@ianHolmes-up2oc 14 күн бұрын
No he won't
@paulclive3626
@paulclive3626 20 күн бұрын
He's anti American ffs nevermind us lot
@richardgallagher4880
@richardgallagher4880 20 күн бұрын
Lets go brand0n! Hes just told starmer to rejoin like ukrain.
@johnredman2065
@johnredman2065 20 күн бұрын
Let's go starmer 😳
@JulieMalone-oy1ll
@JulieMalone-oy1ll 20 күн бұрын
Biden gives me the creeps
@barneymagee3285
@barneymagee3285 20 күн бұрын
He thinks he’s Irish…..
@HoppityHooper2
@HoppityHooper2 20 күн бұрын
"Irish-American" ... just "Irish" for short. Most Americans describe themselves as such ... the country from which their ancestors came from. I guess it's an American 'thing'.
@dan79600
@dan79600 20 күн бұрын
We really need to drop all this “special relationship” nonsense. It’s pathetic and delusional. The US is one of the most jingoistic nations on Earth and a large number of US voters couldn’t point to the UK on a map. We’re friends and allies but that’s as far as it goes.
@HoppityHooper2
@HoppityHooper2 20 күн бұрын
Being able to point it out on a map meant chit. Evidently, most of those Americans' forebears certainly knew where Britain was when the going got tough for you all, though.
@rightlyso8507
@rightlyso8507 20 күн бұрын
@@HoppityHooper2 Hilarious, as they willingly forget that 'small point'.
@davidroyston1671
@davidroyston1671 20 күн бұрын
The only people who believe in the special relationship are a few British politicians. No one else does.
@user-yg2zv5tx7k
@user-yg2zv5tx7k 20 күн бұрын
Biden the pdf file in the white house
@sharonwashington8150
@sharonwashington8150 18 күн бұрын
Stamer had better watch out!! and his motley crew to go with him. BEST thing ever BREXIT! NOT that we have actually had a proper Brexit! hey TORIES.
@bubble6853
@bubble6853 20 күн бұрын
Bring back trump biden cant even put a scentance together....bye bye biden. If trump is not back then its a fix
@rokketron
@rokketron 20 күн бұрын
It was fixed in 2020
@knockschool
@knockschool 20 күн бұрын
81 million votes FFS no way
@rokketron
@rokketron 20 күн бұрын
@knockschool Did you personally count the votes? Or do you believe everything you are told?
@andrewcampbell7476
@andrewcampbell7476 20 күн бұрын
@@knockschool81 million votes my arse
@bubble6853
@bubble6853 15 күн бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@davidlowen7802
@davidlowen7802 20 күн бұрын
He lied about his wifes death, blamed the poor tractor driver, made his life hell before forced to apologise,
@rightlyso8507
@rightlyso8507 20 күн бұрын
Poor wifey "offed-herself", loading the boys and girl in the car and driving the wrong way onto a highway. The reason: the first Mrs. Biden found out about Jill.
@dianeunderhill8506
@dianeunderhill8506 20 күн бұрын
He is anti-British because he has Irish ancestry!
@guvnormcfc66
@guvnormcfc66 20 күн бұрын
I have Irish ancestry going back to the mid 18th century,I don't hate the brits,he's nothing but a plastic paddy.
@staceyalbright3323
@staceyalbright3323 20 күн бұрын
Correct and his mother hates Britain yet gave her a home and a life she dropped that dud biden on the world
@sc3304
@sc3304 20 күн бұрын
So what ? There are millions of them living in the UK.
@facehugger3
@facehugger3 20 күн бұрын
And jewish and hes also a black woman according to himself.
@christopherflux6254
@christopherflux6254 20 күн бұрын
I have Irish ancestry and I’m proudly British. So it’s a moot point.
@lumpyfishgravy
@lumpyfishgravy 20 күн бұрын
Yeah well it's mutual Brandon.
@paulclive3626
@paulclive3626 20 күн бұрын
Peter mandelson? Is that the Jeffery Epstein guy?
@bazwillrun
@bazwillrun 20 күн бұрын
and hes "advising" sir liar smarmier to get better "ties" with europe...in other words let the eureich have our country
@mpaul4584
@mpaul4584 20 күн бұрын
What special relationship?
@clemfandango619
@clemfandango619 20 күн бұрын
The relationship between mother and child is always special. Strangers like Biden will never change that.
@phileasterbrook6894
@phileasterbrook6894 17 күн бұрын
There is no ‘special’ other than to rip us off, he is a person with English heritage, his ancestral roots are in Surrey, he is trying to be Irish because he thinks it will give him advantage in politics, he likes Irish, Welsh and Scottish and hates only English!
@robertcreighton4635
@robertcreighton4635 20 күн бұрын
Why does uk still think it's a major world player 😂
@antonyberry1632
@antonyberry1632 20 күн бұрын
Cos it is bollock chops
@lilianandersonmayne4968
@lilianandersonmayne4968 20 күн бұрын
Joe Biden he's talks as if he's in a dream
@taz5890
@taz5890 17 күн бұрын
Biden is s very unwell Man,god help the USA.
@JulieMalone-oy1ll
@JulieMalone-oy1ll 20 күн бұрын
Lammy thinks a man can grow a cervix what does that tell ya
@Meld61
@Meld61 20 күн бұрын
FJB
@JulieMalone-oy1ll
@JulieMalone-oy1ll 20 күн бұрын
Its a world of yes means no and no means yes
@user-gd1yg6le1h
@user-gd1yg6le1h 20 күн бұрын
Did trump give uk a deal not, Brexit hell ,
@techtinkerin
@techtinkerin 19 күн бұрын
Geezer dont know what day it is
@scottlewisparsons9551
@scottlewisparsons9551 20 күн бұрын
We live in interesting times!
@me-cu7ds
@me-cu7ds 19 күн бұрын
Think i heard Biden mention he has Irish Ancestry, may have been mentioned the odd time.....just Irish
@iantobanter9546
@iantobanter9546 19 күн бұрын
O'bummer's third term.
@jt8083
@jt8083 20 күн бұрын
Yeah but he's gone in November....or 2021...depends which way you look at it....
@kbeau9538
@kbeau9538 19 күн бұрын
Provo Joe!
@CliffordSullivan-fj7jv
@CliffordSullivan-fj7jv 20 күн бұрын
Nile lets meet up and have a discussion..anywhere anytime..hows your Russian monies??
@rockersstone619
@rockersstone619 20 күн бұрын
Biden ancestry probably from Baydon{wiltshire) & Biden name means “From the shadow valley”. While Starmer means starmore in leichestershire or Storm from an old English name. Thus the 2 names coincidently means “Storm from the shadow valley”.
@davidreeves-turner6572
@davidreeves-turner6572 20 күн бұрын
He has ancestral roots in Pagham, near Bognor. Having been born and bred in Chichester, I think that I would deny any links with Bognor! 😅😂🤣
@staceyalbright3323
@staceyalbright3323 20 күн бұрын
Biden is also German ancestry name
@philipbrackpool-bk1bm
@philipbrackpool-bk1bm 20 күн бұрын
Lammy looks like idi amin in that clip.
@bumberClart1000
@bumberClart1000 20 күн бұрын
Good Friday Agreement
@Jorge-yy3dd
@Jorge-yy3dd 20 күн бұрын
special as in "special price"
@jancaulfield3549
@jancaulfield3549 20 күн бұрын
If for.no other reason Trump should get in (and I don’t even like him)
@jack_timber
@jack_timber 20 күн бұрын
411 says we can....
@janesansome8393
@janesansome8393 20 күн бұрын
9 million out of 46.5 million says you can't.20% of the country.
@CeruleanSword
@CeruleanSword 20 күн бұрын
Keep pretending your 411 seats are any sort of democratic majority.
@richardgallagher4880
@richardgallagher4880 20 күн бұрын
​@@janesansome8393 Stop trying to wriggle out. YOU condoned this.
@Jorge-yy3dd
@Jorge-yy3dd 20 күн бұрын
did the US support Thatcher during the Falklands wars? hmmm...
@jasonwould6259
@jasonwould6259 20 күн бұрын
Yes they did put pressure on countries supporting Argentina and let us use they bases for the build up
@myrahouse2368
@myrahouse2368 20 күн бұрын
Trump ain’t woke.
@bevbailey9911
@bevbailey9911 20 күн бұрын
Trump for President 2024 best man for the job.. Joe Biden is done .. I hope Trump kicks Lammy’s arse 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸
@wundurra24
@wundurra24 20 күн бұрын
I haven't seen a single GBeebies viewer mention Trump and the Epstein file. They love mentioning Jummy. Not so when it comes to Epstein.
@rightlyso8507
@rightlyso8507 20 күн бұрын
That's a good one! Trump never went to the island. This was according to the air flight logs. Trump traveled from Palm Beach to Newark Liberty airport. An attorney for one of the degenerate Epstein's victims said that Trump was one of the only high profile people who helped his client. Don't forget that the island was raided when Trump was President. Trump also threw him out from Mar-A-Lago, when he showed up there, and banned him from ever showing up again after the sex criminal "hit" on a member's daughter. Oh, if only Andrew didn't "appreciate" those excessively" young girls. Then again, they weren't his cousins, either - were they!
@benedictcowell6547
@benedictcowell6547 20 күн бұрын
The English Membrane Being English in Britain is not easy; one is not born to it, it seeps across a cultural membrane. You go to sleep, and the next morning you hear the news and one is appalled to discover how much English has infiltrated across that membrane. I was in Sweden when I heard of the death of Princess Diana. I returned to an England that was quite strange, and un-English. The hysteria, the totally un-English lack of gravitas and perspective that choked the air waves, the conspiracy theories; ' It was the Duke of Edinburgh's fault', It was because of Dodi' 'It was an Iranian Plot,'' an American Plot, 'The IRA' , it was a conspiracy. Everyone had a pet theory. No one suggested it was the florists, or the makers of greeting cards, and in truth they were the only ones that benefited obviously. No one suggested that it was an agent of Interflora, or a dark conspiracy by Harrods to drum up business. They blamed every one who was innocent. I should have recognised that this cause celeb re was an anticipation of Brexit, or Reform, the dereliction of being English in the new national temper of hysteria and paranoia. Ignorance played it part, that, and stupidity, and that it was a symptom of a society disintegrating before the media. The history books, the more sagacious at least, those not written by Andrew Neil or David Starkey, but serious historians, would recognise that this was one of a sequence of episodes in the transformation of the English Public from high seriousness and sobriety into a rabble created by the media, this amorphous aggregate of attitude and drivel which subverts democracy. As an acquired Englishman I was shocked! Astonished at the entire affair, the accumulation of utter sentimentality that gathered round this young woman; oddly enough I was shocked at the fact that in the hysteria no one stopped to ask whether the principal culprit was the media itself. What came into my mind were two quite different episodes, one a film, the other a campaign as a Liberal Democrat for a place as a councillor, years before, in my area. And this in turn summoned up yet another bizarre connection; Adrian Mole. I recalled that his father had confused the Falklands, way down in the South Atlantic with the Shetlands, the northern most point of the North Sea where it meets the North Atlantic . Looking back I do not think that many English People made that mistake, but there are ironic associations; the Falklands did not appear on the blue globe that was the frontis piece of the BBC current affairs program; it had to be inserted, because no one expected this could be the last gasp of Empire; ironic too that just before this episode of Imperial Hubris, the government that gathered warships to save it from Galtieri, the same Government had been trying to rid themselves of the very same islands. Had it not been for the media, I expect that we could have solved the problem quite intelligently, quite rationally but although the Empire had gone, the sentiments of hubris, and superiority lingered sufficiently to be artificially resuscitated, not because we cared about the Falklands, but because the Tories were doing badly in the 'opinion polls' Margaret Thatcher dusted off her secondary school history book, found Boudica and decided to play the role, to rally the forces of Empire to rescue the Penguins of South George for a fate worse than life under dagoes. These people did not understand the feelings of Penguins languishing under a foreign yoke. The English were incensed by the idea of Spanish Penguins, but the same people forty years later have not managed to acquire the same principles in respect to the melting ice cap. What, apart from Boudica Roberts and Adrian Mole, was the other more seminal connection? 'La Vie Privet' a film with Marcel Maastrichtian and Brigitte Bardot, in which Brigitte Bardot played Jill, a soubrette, an ingenue, whose life was made a misery by a lubricious, vacant media that hounded her to her attempted suicide and later culmiinated in her death. The media. This lubricious, vicarious, appetite the rabble have for gossip and scandal and trivial details of the lives of celebrities. I remember the interview that years later Bardot gave, I think at the Berlin Film Festival, in which she explained part of her reason for retiring from Film at 39 after just 21 years as the prey for every idle photographer in Europe. 'Her life was impossible', 'she could not go to a book shop', ''she could not go to a bistro, 'she could not go to the theatre, or the cinema because she was hounded by this lascivious press' that wanted pictures of her tits and her bum. Well I met this woman, Brigitte for twenty minutes, dressed in an elegant black dress, before she had been deluged by other people's lubricity and this appetite for her tits, and the woman I met discussed Racine, Faure and Stendhal in twenty minutes. Some of the best pictures of Bardot show nothing of her tits, or her bum, she is fully dressed, her lovely form covered but apparent, none the less, her stream of now blonde hair, her splendid face, and those lovely eyes, and I was glad for her sake that eventually the meretricious media had been cheated of their prey. But that impression, that connection lingered, of this avid inanity of the media for sensations, scandal, and lubricity and I wondered what it had done to Diana, at eighteen years of age, when her opinions were hardly formed, to marry into celebrity? It had trivialised her, it had contributed to the ruination of their marriage, because a marriage cannot flourish when the press were peeping through the bedroom key hole for a sensation, a coup, a scoop. Return to the issue of Englishness, this cultural osmosis that occurs to any one irrespective of their origins, except if the origins are 'English' One leans to value everything that they, the rabble do not value, one learns to cherish everything that a badly led population allow to fall into default. Gravitas, sobriety. In the days of steam radio, when I was six I heard for the first time John Arlott commentating on the first post war tour of Australia. I remember him describing Eric Hollies bowling to the maestro Bradman, who only need four runs to have a test average of exactly one hundred. The laconic Arlott, 'Bradman takes Guard, Hollies tosses the ball from left to right hand, and begins his over. A stocky, ample figure, Hollies, one would hardly imagine him as a cricketer' Two balls later; 'comes in, four or five strides, over the wicket, twirls his arm, the ball beats Bradman, a leg spinner I suspect, and Bradman is out.' This was hardly momentous it might have been the tail ender, not 'The Bradman' 'And Bradman is out; bowled.' Now that is Englishness, any sensation there should have been doused at source, like a flickering candle. It was that species of Englishness that had seeped into me, this de sensational, laconic attitude even to earth quakes. Years later I read Peter Hennessey's introduction to an anthology of Attlee Prose, essays and memoirs, criticism. Hennessey writes of an interview with Attlee encountering a reporter on his return from America, just before the 1950 election. Attlee. ' Nothing to say really, met the President, we had a chat about various matters of common concern. Now if you will excuse me, I am very busy.' End of interview, Reported flummoxed, and denied a head line.. That is Englishness, nothing florid, no portentous prose, no head lines, no suspicion of rifts, of the collapse of NATO, or anything of the sort. Attlee in 'As it happened' talking of Stalin at Potsdam. ' He was a bit surprised to see me. I think he rather expected Winston. Stalin was not used to Democracy, couldn't fathom it.' That economy of style is wholly alien to the media . A political debacle had swept the victor Churchill out of power, and all Attlee said ' Stalin was a bit surprised to see me.' That is Englishness, that is the Englishness of an England embedded in the UK, an Englishness which one could recognise even in such un-English figures as Hector MacNeil, Aneurin Bevan. This down playing of sensation, this sober detachment, and this lack of portentousness at even great events. The media, created by the like of Murdoch, has demolished the English spirit, it has demolished the English language, he and the Supreme Court of the USA, as a serious medium of thought, it has subverted reason, it has demolished principle, and the result is the ingress into politics of a party of ignorant, rabble rousing scheisters called Reform. It is not only that they have desolated the language they have destroyed irony, they have rendered humour incendiary. We had a joker of a tutor at my University who posed us a question,. Suggest a headline for the following scenario, Two man escaped from a mental hospital, rape a girl who works in a laundry, and then they escape Headline Nut screws, washers and bolts The headline of the media, today would be Farage proposes tax on chandlers and what it indicates is a total lack of proportion, a total lack of humour and the dereliction, in perspective and reason.
@ladychatelaine697
@ladychatelaine697 20 күн бұрын
I started to read your post, but then got bored! Far too long for KZbin! If you have so much to say, write a book! 🙄😖🇬🇧
@AP-nj1mr
@AP-nj1mr 19 күн бұрын
As far as USA is concerned, this"special" relationship with UK just means that 100% of the time UK gives and USA takes.
@middleman9183
@middleman9183 20 күн бұрын
Sir Keir Starmer has described the US president as being "on really good form" 😂😂😂
@rockerjim8045
@rockerjim8045 20 күн бұрын
pay back for the Famine
@user-yg2zv5tx7k
@user-yg2zv5tx7k 20 күн бұрын
🇦🇺 I read a book about the famine in Ireland, my god what a vile, terrible thing it was. All those beautiful souls suffered
@jerrytopater5760
@jerrytopater5760 20 күн бұрын
HIS DA WAS IRISH!
@kitcat4512
@kitcat4512 20 күн бұрын
A toolmaker too?
@stratman9449
@stratman9449 20 күн бұрын
we get the gist.....
@danDlion82
@danDlion82 20 күн бұрын
Get ovet it
@ianHolmes-up2oc
@ianHolmes-up2oc 20 күн бұрын
Niles Gardner is talking a load of crap as usual he is unhinged
@SlackHoffman
@SlackHoffman 20 күн бұрын
Yes he’s a right t¥¥@T but so is Biden Brandon
@kingjames6928
@kingjames6928 20 күн бұрын
British pm just tell fjb he's pm of Ireland
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