Julia Hartley Brewer owns diversity strategist on British colonialism

[@talktv]

Which public figure would you like to see on the plinth and why?

[@mombser2]

Queen Elizabeth11- From an original Cockney born under the sound of Bow Bells when King GeorgeV1 was on the throne..

[@SchantaKlaus]

Queenie's spot - I'm not a Royalist but it's her place and she reigned well for 7 decades. It's our heritage, our culture, our recent history. She should be honoured.

[@scousiered3124]

Edward Colston- he built Bristol and is an icon now against minority mob rule.

[@kelvinjutemills]

Queen Elizabeth the Second.!! I was born in India. I'm not white, and if the blacks, browns yellows or any other colour, along with their creeds, do not like the British way of life...just get the hell out of this country. Go bleat somewhere else.!! Sick to death of the Sadiq Khan's, immigrants who don't speak English and do not integrate with/into British Society. I wish this Govt, shows some guts and gets rid of these whingers and BURNS the Human Rights and Refugee Acts of the EU and UN. Set up our own, and to hell with the Wokes.!! Get rid of the dross and Lefties. Gan is a good start, Rockall, FairIsle, Bikini Atoll...Spoilt for choice.!!! Of course, they could all 'immigrate' into the BBC building....that's the organisation which constantly downgrades Britain...and they should welcome the lot with open arms.

[@Forestfalcon1]

William Wilberforce..

[@AntAdam1]

Putting up statues of people who hated Britain, in Britain. Now, how does that work?

[@ogcpw4746]

Churchill has been there for a while. Anyone who helps communists is an enemy of Britain.

[@karenburns3368]

Absolute disgrace.

[@davehallett810]

Only in Britain could that happen 🤔

[@bobrail733]

KHAN ruler of LONDONSTANI who else ,next one will be BIN LADEN 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@cha9165]

And tearing down statues of people that made a difference. I'm baffled

[@scroggins100]

Seriously I was on Bristol Rail Station a couple of months ago listening to a black lady going on about the Empire. Eventually, I got dragged in. I said "My Granddad got his head blown off in 1917 in France. My Dad was one of four kids left Fatherless. He left school at 11 to help keep them alive. His sister died in his arms from poverty. His friend lost a leg stealing coal from a train. He then fought across europe in his tank in WW2. I was born in a slum with one cold tap and Rationing didnt end until 1953. I joined the RAF and was happy to get 3 square meals a day. I now own my own house and could live till I am 80 something. In the past we all had it hard lady. But that was then and this is now.. So, whats your point. ?

[@dontwastetimetoday493]

You speak for so many ,God bless

[@6chhelipilot]

You were in Bristol, so sorry you had to be there. Well done.

[@dilltdog1158]

Well said!

[@Zooumberg]

I was born in 1969. My Grandad was at Dunkirk. He was so severely shellshocked that he was invalided out of the army and had to pull the bodies out of the rubble that was London. Needless to say, he never recovered. I remember him shaking when I was a kid. My other Grandfather died in a dockers accident, he was killed under the wheels of a truck. That put my Grandmother in the poor house with two young kids. She died of blood poisoning when she knelt on a piece of hot coal cleaning out the fireplace. My dad and his brother were orphaned. My Aunt's husband went down with his ship delivering supplies to Russia. His wife never remarried. I grew up in a flat without an inside toilet, we shared an outside toilet with the people upstairs. What were their sacrifices for? I'm sure they didn't do it for the country to be given away to anyone who wants to take it.

[@hugohugo2832]

Well said. They blame us all. I’m the opposite. I was brought up in a big house and went to private school because my dad made a lot of money. But my ancestors were dirt poor and fled the potato famine in Ireland

[@danceteachermom]

I'm American and I REALLY appreciate Julia. She's awesome and speaks total sense; not just on this subject but on many. She's very good at not letting any guests she's interviewing get away with nonsense without pushing back on the woke indoctrination they spew.

[@MrMarmalizer]

Wasn’t it just awful when black African tribes hunted and kidnapped rival tribes and sold them into slavery? How terrible. Let’s all have a conversation about that, shall we? Or perhaps the Islamic Barbary Slave trade who the British fought against? Anyone? No? Didn’t think so.

[@apollomemories7399]

You'll never get away with complicating the "narrative" with facts.

[@josm1481]

We could just ask, why are we honouring a man who was advocating genocide and who watched as a man was beheaded in front of his wife and kids. Chilembwe and his movement weren't great. Plus, leading on from your comment I think like nearly all African groups his ancestors were stopped slaving by the British.

[@MrMarmalizer]

@@josm1481 Yes, I'm fed up with these disgraceful smears on the people of the UK by race-baiters who are completely ignorant of historical facts.

[@moshedayan6698]

yes sir , we need more facts on the black African contribution to both historical slavery and the modern version via Pakistan

[@MrMarmalizer]

@@moshedayan6698 wouldn’t it be great if all these people who are so upset about slavery that took place over 200 years ago, put their energies into stopping modern day slavery that still persists in non-white countries?

[@localbod]

She has nothing to say. She's merely justifying her work. These people have to maintain racism in order to keep doing their job. Wokeness at its worst.

[@ron88303]

Wokeness is a mental illness.

[@exgren]

She just wants her 5 minutes of fame, she's been on numerous programmes spouting the same old crap.. trying to make every white person feel guilty for something that happened over a hundred years ago and has nothing to do with the country and the people in it today.....

[@GeekyC]

Go woke go broke .. pendulum swing comes back eventually

[@nickjung7394]

She is also very well paid!

[@nevillegrimshaw7758]

Yep! The job creation brigade.

[@letstalk3265]

My 65 year old brother has travelled most of the world. However, as a mad keen surfer, the UK was never on his radar until recently. He's now eager to get back again, not for the waves, but because he loves everything about the UK. The people, the history, the humour, the .... everything that's great and good. We're Aussies. Thankyou for helping us shape the greatest country in which to live bar none. Like our brothers and sisters across the ditch, the ANZAC spirit is our version of you. Made mistakes. You betcha. Trying to make things better. You betcha. Love beating the English at every sport they invented. You betcha. When we travel to the UK and Europe, are we glad to get back to the UK. You betcha. Always feels like home. Happy to be with you guys. Why do so many Aussies and Kiwis live and work in the UK? It's a right of passage for us. That's the only place on earth held in such esteem by the Colonies. Can never be a perfect world when people are involved. When it comes down to it, love you guys. Loved Elisabeth II. Keep on keeping on. God Save the King.

[@fuzzyspackage]

Big love!!💪🫶🫡🤣😎🇬🇧🇦🇺🦘🐨

[@tpw7250]

'I'm using my disadvantage to my privilege...' That was almost honest. What she really meant to say is I manufacture a sense of disadvantage to gain privilege and power.

[@therealpollyanna5846]

Equality is not what p.o.c. want, it's black/brown privilege with financial reparation.

[@Alphasiera1701]

Well said.

[@call_in_sick]

💯

[@earwigbox1]

Grifter

[@Welshwolf62]

All she was doing was using the race card, yawn yawn yawn.

[@andymoss2490]

If this young woman had any less idea of what she was talking about one might suspect she is a fool .

[@josm1481]

Playing the victim is easier than actually doing anything. Chilembwe was descended from slave traders and beheaded a man in front of his wife and kids. And put his head on a pole, I think. Why don't they add the context? Because the West have been the most progressive nations in the world for 300yrs. Compared to them, all others were worse and if they acknowledge that they've nothing.

[@nektekket852]

Of she got a chance to speak without Hartley-Brewer interrupting maybe we'd have an idea of what she's saying...

[@bruce8359]

what in gods names going on in my country .black statues here there and every where its shameful

[@madebymonkeys5641]

Never attribute foolishness to malice, when malice is free, and true foolishness needs to be worked on...

[@mjones4083]

She has been "affirmed " that privilege .

[@StreetsOfRage2]

I'm black British and as you can probably tell, I'm fiercely proud of my British identity. This girl is a grotesque, dangerous embarrassment. Up the empire!

[@wyattfamily8997]

Well said and so true, but some just LOVE their "victim" status, it's all they have and often entitles them to much more than everybody else.

[@Lloyd.Browne]

Hey Egg, just because you are either lucky or ignorant- the world sees what has happened and would address the racial issues.

[@Lloyd.Browne]

@Martin Realkleen and that is why you are part of the minority, who fail to understand the importance of race relations-there has not been any atonement for the damage that was done. These issues will not go away until they are resolved.

[@goldfish2379]

Exactly. What kind of pathetic individual wants to base their identity upon victimhood? We must be WE - or we cease to exist.

[@Lloyd.Browne]

@@goldfish2379 funny that! The shoe is on the other foot. We invade and conquer and control- bug had a hard time accepting the consequences? Good luck with that.

[@mitzy123]

As a 3rd generation Indian in the UK I'm so fed up of being looked upon as a victim who needs to have constant reminders of how my ancestors and I am oppressed. I don't need diversity quotas for job positions or people to feel sorry for me. We need to empower and celebrate how much progress we've made and have a uniting British culture which we can celebrate together rather than focusing on our differences or past traumas. Let's all unite and finally start to celebrate being British. Being a British isn't an ugly word it's something to be proud of! I am not a victim, my ethnicity is irrelevant judge me based on my character.

[@RichardGilder]

Shout it from the rooftops please. I applaud people like you who embrace this country and the opportunities everyone has if they adopt the right attitudes

[@desres2281]

Well said! 👏👏👏 That's what everyone was doing until the crazy BLM ideas took hold and the black people decided they were victims! 🙄🙄🙄

[@jasmitsirah]

@@RichardGilder I'm Sikh ......I live in Uganda .....not victim hood here it's Western created situation it's always western based ethnicities who moan .., also let's be honest Indians assimilatie .. Pakistanis don't so don't Somalis etc we are not just brown people ..were different...

[@j2174]

@@jasmitsirah It mostly comes from the US and from the left.

[@mogznwaz]

Good for you. Unfortunately many Indians (usually the ones who never lived under the Raj!) are full of bitterness and hate and live in a past that is not even accurate but a convenient rewrite of history which has its own political agenda (Hindu nationalism / diversion from self criticism)!

[@craigo2656]

This isn't about acknowledging the past, we all acknowledge the past. This is about shaming people based on their race, ethnicity, and nationality. The aim of the shaming it to weaken, reduce, and disempower. It is a form of vengeance, it is not about moving forward.

[@davidreece1642]

@@petersmith2522 Or after the Romans invaded circa 2000 years ago.

[@davidreece1642]

@@petersmith2522 ...and what did the Romans ever do for us... and as for those Norsemen/Northmen/Normans

[@EthanKnight97]

Or ironically a form of colonialism

[@amojak]

it is about money.. they want free money.

[@davidreece1642]

@@EthanKnight97 Indeed, the Roman Empire.

[@jillskehan3593]

The fourth plinth is for our greatest monarch that served us for 70 years Rip ma'am you did good better than anyone before you ❤

[@simonmuhamed1071]

Why don't we have a statue to represent the new colonisation of Britain? We could have a sculpture of a dingy with 50 illegal immigrants floating on a sea of tax payers money, to be even more diverse and inclusive, surround it by some of the victims of the grooming gangs and a few minors pushed in to county lines drug dealing to reflect the modern day slave trade.

[@chaz2wells]

😃😃😃...superb.

[@svenschmidt6792]

Or a young native European with a big fuck off knife in his hand

[@janete5331]

Excellent!!!!

[@carried9130]

Yes!!

[@lisab4207]

There's a stained glass window of that somewhere.

[@Venus29]

They live here, have children here, yet they hate it here? Oppressed? In the voice of Kim fox “Do me a favour! 🙅🏾‍♀

[@colintipton1740]

wait till we have a labour goverment and then watch the carnage as they will have licence to kill us

[@kriptoow]

God sake, thank you Julia for making sense

[@philipprice171]

My response to the young lady would be that of Clint Eastwood " You've never picked cotton and I've never owned a slave". Then just walk away from their childish hysteria.

[@michellephillips3655]

PAY UP ALL YOUR ANCESTORS ILL GOTTEN GAINS,.. THEN WE MOVE FORWARD FAIRLY.....

[@naamdtaannaksu]

Should just forget about it...it never happened

[@gilly9666]

@@michellephillips3655 are you on about african ancestors ill gotten gains ?

[@ron88303]

​@@michellephillips3655 OR BE THANKFUL YOU'RE NOT STILL CARRYING WATER ON YOUR HEAD, OR WEARING A LOINCLOTH WHILE HUNTING FOR FOOD WITH A SPEAR . . . I'M QUITE HAPPY TO MOVE ON WITHOUT YOU.

[@naamdtaannaksu]

Phillip my reply would be you've never been black

[@thebigtake6838]

She is here now and she has her comfortable life because of British colonialism.

[@webbo9798]

Yes but she "feels" disadvantaged so get on you knees... and beg her for your forgiveness of all histories ....well nasty bits ...the good bits we won't discuss ...for now... as I am on a salary you see £££££ its good money baby! Diversity ££££ get on it. A day in the life in a diversity and inclusion officer- 2 fingers in the throat -now

[@englishguy215]

She should talk to some of the people in Zimbabwe who say they wish the British were back because then at least the country was stable, most people had jobs and were earning money. For some reason we never hear this said when they are having their "conversations".

[@mikeryan3701]

Yes, we've all noticed the number of former UK colonies who have refused to join the Commonwealth because we treated them so badly. Like making illegal the practice of burning wdows alongside their deceased husbands. What a terrible thing to do. The banning I mean.

[@Azurantine81]

This really demonstrates perfectly the lack of true British value in London, that they would put up an anti-British statue over the recently departed great monarch says everything we need to know about Khan and his disciples.

[@byronleigh80]

Do you know what disciple is? Your listening skills. The Queen died two weeks ago. This statue would have gone up regardless.

[@Azurantine81]

@@byronleigh80 Lol sarcasm (disciples ) flies right over your head hhuh?

[@philg7889]

'I'm using my disadvantage to my privilege'. Conversation over.

[@blizzard2oo]

JHB world-class truth teller!!

[@WayneNG-p2p]

No matter what colour somebody is or where they originate; if they don't like this country, they are more than free to move to the country which suits their beliefs. The irony is, that those countries won't give them their freedoms to talk down those countries.

[@maderleinethomas4213]

Totally agree

[@desres2281]

She should be on the next boat out if she's not happy! 😏

[@UKGeezer]

I hear Russia's nice this time of year. They would love her over there.

[@webbo9798]

Its amazing she felt (or had to say) she felt so disadvantaged compared to whites -well she isn't doing so bad earning quite a packet no doubt on the back end of some" fantasy victim trip". AS you say if its so bad. GO woman, leave.....

[@mss6620]

@@webbo9798 the job title was baffling I can’t listen to any of this garbage the word racism has no meaning any longer as it’s used to describe anything where someone has a difference of opinion

[@PC-oi4kj]

If these people hate Britain and it's former Empire why are they living here!!

[@StimParavane]

Because it's easy to make money as a race grifter.

[@mrnumbskull2048]

She has so many words, but nothing to say.

[@goldfish2379]

Nothing to do, either. That's why she dribbles on about nothing relevant. I swear, most people who obsess of this stuff basically need a shag.

[@fitnessisgood4u]

Sorry to say, London isn't British any more, and this is the future unfortunately.

[@clockworkdave9850]

Ikr..who would've thought, isn't just London, I live in Oxford..amd all I hear is foreign voices

[@themanfromdelmonte9150]

Same here. I mostly hear Eastern European dialects. Where are the local sounding whites? 🤔

[@I_Don_t_want_a_handle]

@@clockworkdave9850 Go to Blackbird Leys then, plenty of British voices outside the tourist/University areas.

[@michaelglass1911]

@@I_Don_t_want_a_handle Unfortunately, politicians decided to destroy there own country despite never having a mandate for mass immigration. Nobody voted for it and nobody wanted it.

[@I_Don_t_want_a_handle]

@Mark Jones They'd get prior warning.

[@lanochevolar2401]

Why do I have to keep being lectured and 'reminded' that black people are forever victims of my skin colour? My father escaped from the nazis, and relatives were shovelled into gas ovens. But that was yesterday. I was not there and my German friends didn't do it. I distinctly remember being at school in the 1960s and being horrified at the accounts of slavery. Life in general was pretty unpleasant for the great unwashed. I remember TV programmes telling of the history of slavery, almost always restricted to the western 'slave trade' which I now know has a much wider context, even now. But that young woman in 21st century England is no more affected by slavery than I am by the nazis. I find it somewhat objectionable to be repeatedly berated to acknowledge and take responsibility for other people wanting to always be treated as hapless victims.

[@McChickenXCheese]

Bravo!

[@lanochevolar2401]

@@McChickenXCheese I'm going to have to go and practice some death metal sweep picking exercises to calm down!!

[@McChickenXCheese]

@@lanochevolar2401 Haaaa! I might have to go practice jumping off a cliff.

[@mogznwaz]

Exactly. Living in the past like she is is very unhealthy

[@tonyves]

Au point.

[@stephen-oconnell]

If it wasn't for the British Empire most of these types of people wouldn't be living in a civilised country...

[@grezzmono9192]

We all need to remember these hateful people are desperate for racism to exist today, so they can keep their pointless jobs. What does she actually do? For my part, I have had enough of people claiming discrimination while living a very privileged life compared to most the country! Blissful wishes.

[@pershorefoodbanktrusselltr3632]

You’re right, racism is currency and victimhood is an even more valuable currency and the left know it, however it’s getting tired becoming more and more devalued.

[@GeekyC]

Can’t even afford to have my own family or get married because the bills come first meanwhile everyone else seems to be sorted and set. It’s horrible and I’m so fed up of it.

[@booth2710]

It's sad when racism is no longer available on the shelves and you have to start opting for the home meade variety

[@peterfoster8004]

Racism does exist in britain today. Good to hear an articulate guest stand up to Julia. At least Julia admitted the colonial period was brutish, the point the guest was making is that we shouldn't gloss over it. We need to remember also that the drive for colonial power had some part to play in WW1

[@unicornlova2159]

They are hunting for ghosts. Invisible spirits like Nazis and White Supremacists.

[@juliehorton1246]

Here we go again...I'd just like to say I'm very proud to be British thankyou very much 😊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧❤

[@angelaeastwood3938]

Me too. 🇬🇧🙋🏼‍♀️

[@winstonsmith4156]

I'm English. Not British.

[@edmundblackaddercoc8522]

@@winstonsmith4156 same.

[@jakecutter5125]

Agree 100%

[@kneedeacon2309]

Rose u are such an articulate person- young n capable- will be great if u can share your positive thoughts with the public- encourage people to move on- this is 21 century. God bless ye

[@BB-ny3eu]

There is no one more privileged in Britain at the moment ! If you are black 🤯

[@Noname-tt5sj]

Please explain how?

[@gary8306]

@@Noname-tt5sj oh dudette, it's so obvious. Smhydb.

[@jameskirk578]

@@Noname-tt5sj For a start they are at the top of the list for council houses. How else has London and other major cities been taken over?

[@SonsofThunder1234]

Agreed. I live in Poole, Dorset. It is still majority white. A few years ago, one of our schools received the lowest GCSE results in the whole of the UK. The children who attended/attend this school are majority white so don't get the huge funding and other assistance as inner city schools get. What is the ethnicity of children who attend inner city schools? I rest my case.

[@andym9571]

@@Noname-tt5sj if you are and actress of an actor.

[@jaynebuchanan4612]

England has a Right to celebrate it’s history. The diverse people can go to another country and celebrate their history.

[@JDE_2713]

The "diverse people" haven't got history to celebrate like the English!!

[@winstonsmith4156]

They havent got any history to celebrate.

[@elkpaz560]

@@winstonsmith4156 I'm coming to that conclusion but there is Wakanda.

[@mogznwaz]

They think they can celebrate their nationalistic flag shagging cultures here then accuse us of doing that IN OUR OWN COUNTRY as if there’s something wrong with that.

[@grahambarker3845]

@@elkpaz560 forever....lol

[@leahashley9330]

If these people are so traumatised living in this country why don't they just leave no one stopping them

[@PadreAlan67]

A very well-balanced young lady.... she has a chip on each shoulder.

[@jsemplefelton5348]

More like a bag of potatos.

[@slewvian]

And it is a mile wide she defines the word racist beautifully.😆

[@theautumnalcyclist7629]

Can we have a statue commerating the thousands of British sailor's who died stopping the slave trade! Also this conversation can't stop because this young lady would be out of a job!

[@barriejackson3294]

Perhaps your last point would be no bad thing? She's got to be on a minimum of £40k per year. She'll obviously be aiming to follow in Diane Abbott's footsteps as an MP who can't even add up. There's obviously a problem when it comes to critical analysis and evidence. But. in the young lady's defence, the bar for admission to Sadiq Khan's "Destroy London's British Heritage Organisation" is set extremely low.

[@jasminec3654]

Can we have a Statue to represent all the Africans Asians soldiers. Who helped Britain fight against Hitler. Otherwise......this would have been German Land

[@whitehorses460]

it sounds like a made up job

[@jakecutter5125]

@@barriejackson3294 If she`s on £40k per year she is more privileged than I am

[@renatastec5212]

Agree with all you said, Julia, well done!

[@baxtronicxavier]

How are these people being paid? I’m being oppressed in my £70,000 a year job denigrating the country I live in.

[@Truthnowhere2020]

She is "using her disadvantage to her privilege". Oh Jesus.

[@mogznwaz]

Not even hiding it anymore

[@etch-a-sketch]

WTF does that mean!?!

[@tee331]

I'm quite happy with my own culture thank you

[@leec7630]

So they hate Britain Pro Africa Then why are you in a country you hate

[@Buster_Piles]

Liberia is crying out for people. Since it's so terrible here we really should be helping these people to go there and make Africa great.

[@crisdeeming2758]

Free loaderz.

[@mogznwaz]

This is BRITAIN not Africa. Why should we celebrate other peoples’ nationalism here if we can’t celebrate our own? Fecking outrageous

[@markharlock6474]

@@Buster_Piles - Agreed, 'Make Africa Great Again' (MAGA)...

[@ducky9426]

Because they know Africa is fucked up

[@Forestfalcon1]

It funny how people can make a living from not working.. They make money from whinging and Whining..

[@bobblue_west]

where do I sign up?

[@colintipton1740]

its called socialism

[@RichardGilder]

The new Moaning Classes

[@apollomemories7399]

@@bobblue_west Step One: Join the Labour Party

[@joycegibbs5267]

that's why they depend on stirring up racism, to keep themselves in well paid jobs. It's an industry now.

[@barrycardiss4043]

Infatuated with division,giving a certain group of people a reason to hate and an excuse to fail..

[@Wemdave]

if we are so bad why stay here ?

[@angelaeastwood3938]

She likes what Britain gives her. She obviously likes the life here. And takes it. And prospers from it. But she won't admit it though. 😁 🙄🤔🤷🏼‍♀️

[@pathopewell1814]

I wish we could really have an honest talk back with these horrors. However, we are bound by the race card, which is wearing very thin in my opinion.

[@mogznwaz]

Because there is a goal - the demographic takeover of the West and the destruction of capitalism.

[@chronicles8324]

She gets paid to slag white People off

[@nikkijayne4451]

Exactly.. Too busy being victims. They forget their free to leave at anytime.

[@annealbrecht396]

If people hate us why live here 🤷‍♀️

[@angelaeastwood3938]

Exactly. 🤷🏼‍♀️ But are quite happy to take what Britain has to offer though and wouldnt feel bad for taking it. 🤦🏼‍♀️ 🤔.

[@davidgranvillehunter6231]

A parasite will only leave it's host when the last drop of blood dries up.

[@leanneclare3750]

I love you Julia..go for it.

[@knight4395]

She says she wants a conversation, but has nothing to say!

[@andrew3347]

Could they not just put a statue of him in his own country?

[@thiscocks]

Because no woke bellends would make money from it

[@bjm4148]

They do actually have one as well as many roads and buildings named after him .

[@davidbarlow350]

@@bjm4148 That'll be roads and bridges built by the British.

[@kevinkenny6975]

Along with him

[@bjm4148]

Nope....mostly Portuguese for some reason. I'm guessing from neighbouring Mozambique.

[@dkvikingkd233]

Why on earth would Britain have a statue of somebody who fought against Britain?? Aren't the whole point of statues to celebrate British history!? What is going on in Britain..?

[@darwinsfish]

Wow! Just wow! There are actually people like this woman out there that pedal this stuff.

[@joycegibbs5267]

mostly to school kids. This is our future I'm afraid.

[@slapdashdumper]

she's just a girl, i bet she's never done any washing-up if you look at her nails

[@secondchance6603]

Britain is so f*cking racist it's been flooded with blacks.

[@wyattfamily8997]

Ypu don't mean "stuff", you mean "crap".

[@trevaudio]

Hartley hate spewer ? I know, ignorant little englander, who has real problem confronting her history !!!

[@theadventuresofred19]

It's like a conspiracy? Why slag off Britain ALL the time?

[@gilberthill9816]

We are also the only great Empire who gave it away and didn’t have it taken from us!

[@kismit100]

Let’s fight the woke brigade

[@kieranokeeffe1363]

Statues like that have No place in the UK at all, remove that shambles and have a statue of Her Majesty the Former Queen

[@marianpower6711]

We are not allowed to say we are proud to be British.

[@raychambers3646]

She so disadvantaged, that she had make up a Job Title to get a job !lol.

[@karyne826]

Why don’t these people put the same time and effort in changing Africa for the better. Not bringing down this country, continually.

[@webbo9798]

YES. What are they doing here? If they were that arsed they would be protesting in Africa or the Middle East or China were there is slavery going on today! Why do so many people buy into this crap?

[@megalodon6108]

it's easier doing the latter..... they have many halfwit virtue signalling allies.

[@arnesaknussemm2427]

Because it’s much easier to harp on about the past than to actually tackle the problems of today.

[@martynwalker8499]

Thanks Talk Radio. We have to push back in these culture wars. British people have a right to celebrate British culture.

[@karyne826]

And be proud of their individual countries within Great Britain too..

[@Fidelisjoff]

Statues are a sign of what is culturally significant and memorable. We would all like to forget murderers especially foreign ones and not remember them.

[@carausiuscaesar5672]

🇨🇦Canada salutes with gratitude the British Empire🇬🇧!

[@Jetchisel]

AUSTRALIA TOO !!!

[@mogznwaz]

🇬🇧🇳🇿🇨🇦

[@kevinkenny6975]

What about all the aid we have given to these freeloaders.

[@joycegibbs5267]

I keep saying, foreign aid is their reparation.

[@secondchance6603]

"The critics don't interest me because they're concerned with what's past and done, while I'm concerned with what comes next." - Aldous Huxley

[@mobbs6426]

"Julia in order to celebrate, we must recognise, we must acknowledge" Then RECOGNISE how good you have it and ACKNOWLEDGE that it's today and not yesterday

[@colinu406]

If she thinks that she is disadvantaged in this country she is welcome to move and not drag the rest of us down to her level .

[@frankd2392]

This woman is the face of racism and division .

[@The_Nowhereman]

Let's not forget all those other evils of colonialism such as roads, trains hospitals, schools, buildings made of stone , industrial innovation, common law, government and worldwide trade.

[@zillie8167]

Yes, alright alright, roads, trains, hospitals, schools, buildings, industry, law, government and worldwide trade. But apart from that - what has the British empire ever done for us? 😄

[@mogznwaz]

And don’t forget the beautiful English language

[@davidmitchell7181]

You do realise that the British government didn’t do all that for free but actually charged the countries for building them all, which is one of the reasons many African countries ended up poverty stricken.

[@summerdove8367]

No, I am afraid I do not compute this to be accurate. The roads, hospitals, etc that you speak of were built by slaves, whipped within an inch of their lives. The Native Zimbabwean ‘s were one of the most advanced structural builders, their buildings were mistaken for the work of Inca’s best builders. That aside. What has colonialism done to the world, what is it doing.? It’s trying to work its way to a new world order where you will have nothing, own nothing and be happy. Let me see you smiling when your homes, cars, children are taken away from you and you keep smiling because at least you have a roof over your head that was not built by you . Why invade countries that do not belong to you and call it yours and then bitch about the native people of those countries immigrating to yours. Let me be clear, the people of those countries were never lost, the British just did not know they existed, they had to own and enslave. It never was theirs to take. Oh' and the people who built those roads, hospitals and railways were native to the country. The roads in the UK, were based on roads and signage of South African roads.

[@golden.lights.twinkle2329]

Railways

[@James-sj7pl]

We need a bigger plinth for our Queen !

[@paulharvey964]

JHB...... glorious!!!!

[@alansbinnie1446]

I think people have to remember if it wasnt British Colonialism it would have been another country and while not saying we were wonderful most of the others were considerably worse. We always left most of the countries with infrastructure, legal and political systens which they still largely use.

[@vordman]

The countries Britain colonised/administered have all done well, except the ones in Africa. Hmm, I wonder why 🤔

[@johnallen7807]

Not to mention the kleptomaniac dictators that most of their independence leaders became!

[@robertjones3613]

@@johnallen7807 The tribal "My turn to eat" philosophy. Me first, then my family, followed by my tribal buddies. The rest can sod off.

[@johnallen7807]

@@robertjones3613 Rather like Diane Abbott saying we have to have comprehensive education for our children while she sends her own son to private school because the taxpayer gives her so much money!

[@edwardoleyba3075]

@@johnallen7807 . Yes, and look how that turned out! She even used her position to get him a good job which he ruined by ‘reverting to type’. Add in her blinkered support for BLM, and defunding the police - when he threatened her with a pair of scissors, who did she call?!!! To call these people dysfunctional is being polite.

[@michaeljust1193]

I'm not a royalist , but even if she allowed herself to get involved in politics towards the end ( "selfish and unpatriotic jab refuses " ) she still served this country for 70 years . How dare anybody deny her being honoured by the country she honoured for her entire life ?

[@paulhodgetts1803]

What??? COVID jab deniers??? I get it you wanted to be a guinea pig, but what does that have to do with this. Bit like you asking me the time, and me replying "ham sandwich" makes no sense at all

[@michaeljust1193]

@@paulhodgetts1803 well she let her subjects down with that statement , but only about 28million as you say "covid jab deniers " others might say "people who were making an informed decision . Either way it wasn't her place .

[@CokeeDaPenguin]

@@michaeljust1193 And this just about sums up people, you can do a million things right and no-one remembers, don't you dare do one thing wrong.. Queen Elizabeth was our once in a lifetime Monarch, loved the world over for all the right reasons but all you can harp on about was one opinion which She chose to share. She let nobody down, and if it upset you so much then you really need to open your eyes to the real world and what is going on in it.

[@petersavage9456]

Stange that it was a none white Mare who maneuvererd the denial of the queens statue position. I suspect more underhanded moves like this will happen as more none white people gain power. Can it really be coincidence what he did? this happened. I'm stating a fact so don;t try screaming Racist.

[@bannaubrycheiniog1329]

Greedy, disgusting family the windsors, waste of money and an outdated institution, the sooner we get rid the better

[@ianarnett]

Disgusting I’m appalled, it must be HM Queen Elizabeth. What is someone from Africa doing in Trafalgar Square?

[@juanajimenez7631]

Oh my goodness me, these kind of conversations are so negative, we should be having positive conversations, as you say our Country is wonderful, not perfect but I'm glad to be British. Thank you Julia for exposing this dreadful opinion that to me is absolutely harmful in today's Britain. Let's celebrate and come together and move forward not backward.

[@josm1481]

Sadly, as mentioned at the end, there's various motivations behind this divisive narrative and one is the socialists, who have always wanted to destroy the evil capitalist West by any means necessary. There's also race grifters like the lady interviewed who sees it as an opportunity to get something purely based in the colour of her skin etc.

[@maderleinethomas4213]

Yeah and they are getting on my nerves day in day out. Don't like this country then you have options.

[@vordman]

Juana Jimenez ...but then this woman would be out of a job. And the Lenny Henry Centre For Paranoid Resentment would have to close.

[@kevinrouse6572]

Why oh why do these people keep on reheating the past when slavery is alive & well in Africa and elsewhere , but they don't seem interested in that only what went on hundreds of yrs ago .

[@josm1481]

@@kevinrouse6572 because it's easier to try blame dead people than address the real causes of slavery. Slavery is part of Islamic law and always will be. People are using Islam to justify slavery TODAY. Do you think Sadiq Khan will address that?

[@boranbkk4270]

Why is it the most ignorant in society keep telling us to “educate” ourselves?

[@LargeChap]

Exactly. Absolute morons having the audacity to tell us to educate ourselves (ie submit to the brainwashing).

[@forevertoons9022]

Giving them language and clothing was most definitely a mistake.

[@aidanwilliamhalliday1355]

How much has all this shit cost us?

[@TenFalconsMusic]

Enough will never, ever be enough.

[@DF-zg7ml]

This woman is right, we NEED to change the narrative! We need to teach our kids that the reason Europeans traded in so many Africans is because the African kingdoms were rounding up their own people and selling them to Europeans. That makes Africans just as guilty for the atrocities of the Atlantic slave trade. We need to teach our kids that the British were the first to abolish slavery 200 years ago and a lot of money and manpower was spent to do so. We need to teach our kids that slavery has been a part of human nature since the beginning of time, and the vile habit is still continuing in parts of Africa and Asia.

[@joycegibbs5267]

and the Arab, Turks & I think, even the Portuguese & Spanish were doing it years before we got involved.

[@Boudicca165]

@@joycegibbs5267 Absolutely right. I'm sick to death of the whining and self-hatred exhibited by lefty/Lib W⚓️s and their efforts to smear the UK.

[@Tigooooooooooo]

Im Nigerian and I approve this message

[@lmiller5307]

You said everything I wanted to scream Julia. Well said

[@paulrichards6894]

she is good

[@dom1664]

What about the injustices by their own people? That's a pass is it

[@craigrob1927]

"I'm using my oppression to my privilege" What a complete belter🤣😂🤣

[@missABR1]

I know - A black women in her mid 20's "educating" those double her age and with far more experience is oppressed in this country? Pull the other one.

[@Dean-rd3se]

Julia a breath of fresh air ♥️

[@angelaeastwood3938]

Yes I agree Julia. Is a breath of fresh air. Pity this the moany lady. Isn't . 🙄🤔🤦🏼‍♀️

[@colsand]

Basically, the whole thing is about "give us your money".

[@MAZ732]

It is not a difficult conversation to have, what is difficult is if anyone does decide to debate it, immediately you are branded racist. Julia is correct in saying it was the Brits that stopped the trade of black slaves but let’s not forget, whilst the Brits were fighting in the waters to stop trade, African leaders were rounding up their OWN men to be shipped off. Blacks don’t seem to want to remember this, instead they want to be victims of injustices of the past that have no relevance today!

[@moshedayan6698]

keep on stressing that fact , black Africans were at the epicentre of the historic slave trade and are involved today supplying men to the Arabian countries

[@themanfromdelmonte9150]

"Blacks" 😆😆😆😆😆

[@ricklee7732]

"Blacks don’t seem to want to remember this". You're wrong. We do acknowledge it happened. It's the woke agenda that wants to delete that part of history. Your point would have been better made without such a generalized statement

[@Al-ny8dk]

There still is slavery across Africa and during the old slave days there was a massive white slave trade out of modern-day Libya and Algeria - people taken from France, Italy, Spain and Western England and Wales.

[@MAZ732]

@@themanfromdelmonte9150 they are the demographic that keeps banging on about it, nobody else.

[@johnharding6394]

That is what happens in a Pakistani city Londonistan with over 65% immigrants. But it is just one of the many cities that use to be British cities. The British will soon be like the Aberiganys in Australia third class citizens

[@kitheskethharvey3576]

My Dad , a priest's son, was the senior District Commissioner who handed Nyasaland over to independence from British rule in 1964. His express purpose and instruction from Whitehall was that independence should be achieved without the bloodshed that had accompanied other ex-colonial transitions. He achieved it: Malawi was born peacefully and, to his pride and purpose, largely without bloodshed. The late Queen magnificently oversaw the transformation of the reproachable Empire which she inherited as Sovereign into the irreproachable Commonwealth which stood as her reign's great achievement. My father died this year, his own contribution blackened by the accusations of those such as Ms Rose who had seized the narrative and rewritten it. (At one point of crisis, after the Mau Mau uprisings in neighbouring Kenya, he was surrounded by the protection of the Nyasaland chieftains who respected him and acknowledged that Britain had brought them peace between the tribes, a fair judicial system, education, infrastructure and railways. )He handed a mature administration to African self-rule under Dr. Hastings Banda. He came back to England and witnessed the whole thing unravel. Banda degenerated into corruption, and Malawi is now the second poorest country on earth.

[@tonybennett7904]

Can we have someone who doesn't blame us for everything ? No I thought not ! Miss all I see is Chips shoulders on !

[@kal5163]

As Andre Walker correctly said, slavery in all its forms still exists today in Africa. There are markets in Liberia and neighbouring countries where young children are chained and sold; in countries such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia, workers have to hand over their passports before given a job. The hypocrisy of people that say Britain needs to look at its past, but wilfully choose to ignore the present, just tells me that they are bad-faith actors. I will listen to them, when they talk about the humanitarian crimes happening right now, not 100 years ago.

[@SeeThroughist]

If you look up the history of Malawi you'll find that the Bantu invaded and colonised it eradicating the indiginous San, Twa and Fulani people who are no longer even found there. Maybe we should be reminding people like her about their ancestral colonising and geniocidal history so they can get off their pathetic guilt tripping racist high horses. I agree, it would be great if Africans could get round to sorting out their current ongoing modern day slavery problems instead of whinging about slavery that was abolished in the west over 150 years ago.

[@2490debrick]

Why don't these interviewers ask the big question; 'If you feel this way, why are you still here?'...

[@douglascrockatt3101]

I wonder how much Diversity pays her 🤣

[@skylar7740]

I want compensation for all the money that the British spent on building cities, towns, railways, infrastructure, canals, ports, bringing laws, courts, schools etc that the Africans and Caribbean countries still use to this day.

[@tenniskinsella7768]

Skylar bloody good point

[@francesmoore5789]

Why wouldn’t they put up a statue that celebrates a person who contributed to British culture. Anyone of the great inventors or contributors to medical breakthrough. Something along those lines. This is Britain, not a colony. Celebrate us !

[@pensans1]

Boot it in the Thames.

[@Captally]

Why do other Countries that had empires not have to suffer this continuing brow beating and self flagellation? Considering the comparatively short period of time (in the whole scheme of things) of the Empire, why did those Countries not revert to pre-colonial culture. For instance, India did not recommence widow burning, one of their treasured rituals?

[@gavinbissell8847]

Other countries didnt let them in and takeover

[@herbaliser4207]

Because they wouldn't put up with this victimhood nonsense and tell them if they don't like it they can go back to their "motherland".

[@Alan_Wigz]

Because they havent figured out a way to make money outta it.....(yet)

[@shelleyphilcox4743]

@Captally There were also leaders in India campaigning against it, Ram Mohan Roy and Sahajanand Swami, and several rulers at different times that legislated against it. Although the blanket stopping was under the British influence, there was already, for some time, an effort to suppress it in places where it was practiced.

[@sunilthakore5715]

It was not a ritual. It was a way of honour because if they did not self imolate after their husbands death they would have been taken as s_x Slaves by the Islamic rulers. It was a proctection of honor. This is something you proberbly never knew, and there were very few occurances that this actually happened. Thesew are the narratives that are set up by the colonists without knowing the reasons.

[@gailthompson3919]

If statues are there to spark dialogue why did the police stand by in Bristol and allow a statue to be thrown into the sea!

[@Lonsome1223]

A statue of William Wilberforce the man that ended slavery that's what that statue should be .

[@chronicles8324]

Good call

[@newblackdog7827]

Still proud of the Empire; don’t care what anyone says!

[@BANKO007]

Can we please tear down these statues that represent people who hate us?

[@valansley]

Absolute nonesense = I DON'T WANT THIS STATUE in Trafalgar Square = Do the people of the UK no longer have any say in their own cities ????

[@keyfizz]

err..... no

[@chronicles8324]

It’s no longer a British city

[@megalodon6108]

they haven't had for some time now. the past 2 years should have magnified that for you.

[@joycegibbs5267]

no, we don't.

[@Jetchisel]

Trafalgar Square is all about the Royal Navy, so it would be only fitting to have a statue mounted there to celebrate Britain's naval blockade of the Atlantic slave trade and commemorate the thousands of sailors who lost their lives pursuing this noble cause !!

[@johnmclean1046]

I support a statue to our dear late queen.

[@A_random_nerd_with_braces]

This woman is serving bowls of word salad strung together by dollops of “right” and “yeah”. The ignorance is painful.