'Virtue signalling' students remove portrait of Queen

[@lorenzoruda3371]

Privileged upper class kids getting offended on behalf of of the un offended

[@paulpower6732]

Most students and Dons are foreign ie not British citizens, wtf is it to do with them

[@paulpower6732]

At Oxford I was referring to

[@harrymc9263]

Excellent description of Jacob Ress-Moggs reaction

[@decorDD]

You’ve summed it up perfectly!

[@km4089]

Why is the woke minority given voice over the majority. Even tv has a woke voice we're fed up of.

[@ScandinavianHeretic]

Because there is no "we", there is only you, personally, to do something about it. So long as you and everyone who upvotes you, treat this like a spectator sport that thinks comments make any difference, then nothing changes.

[@Paul-dy9bn]

They had a vote about it. So it was will of the majority.

[@andrewoliver8930]

The majority voted on it. Just as they did when it was first put up 8 years ago.

[@matthenley3886]

They had a vote on it...

[@brasstacks4801]

A small minority of like "minded" woke ignoramus students from the same common room had the vote on it

[@frenchprovincial9602]

Calvin you make perfect sense. Why are people living in the UK if they don't like it's traditions go somewhere else to live.

[@harrymc9263]

"Traditions" how many student bars, works canteens, restraints etc have portraits of the Queen, this is not a tradition. Interesting to see that this appeared on the front page of the Times, Mail and Express on a day when a senior cabinet minister (Gove) was found to have acted illegally in the high court for issuing a £500,000 contract to a company owned by a friend of a friend. In recent times this seems be more of a tradition than having a picture of the queen in a canteen.

[@judyivie4181]

I wish they would.

[@LadyLeomon]

Because the leaders of other countries wouldn’t tolerate it, can you imagine if these brats pulled this crap with a picture of Putin in Russia? 😵😵😵

[@harrymc9263]

I ask again what tradition exactly are you talking about.

[@harrymc9263]

@@LadyLeomon So basically you believe Britain should be more of a Totalitarian state. Be careful what you wish for?

[@andrewrowe8768]

Send in the SAS to do a midnight raid and put up hundreds of pictures of the Queen 🤣🤣

[@therightarmofthefreeworld4703]

And make it a free fire zone while they're at it.

[@mrshadenoughofallthis911]

Genius!

[@EugVR6]

Colonialism ended at WW1, so I would like to know what Colonialism the Queen oversaw? Especially when she ascended to the throne in 1953!

[@iamjamie9562]

Well, technically speaking, the Empire existed at it's territorial height until the end of the second world war. It began to fall after the British Raj was partitioned into the independent states of India and Pakistan in 1947. Following this point pressure from the USA and USSR, dwindling political influence/economic capability and the Dominions drifting further away from the UK let the rest of the Empire fall away over the next few decades or so. The Empire can be said to have definitively ended with the handover of Hong Kong in 1997. So to play devil's advocate, whilst the Queen did not oversee any further colonial expansion, she was the head of state whilst Britain still held some of her colonies, predominantly in Africa. I say all this as a firm supporter of the Empire.

[@rewdwarf123]

@@iamjamie9562 I don't know why people get so worked up about it. In Mongolia, Genghis Khan is a hero, and he was definitely into colonising.

[@projectprobe4460]

Patriotic British students should have forcefully stopped this nonsense

[@joetrigger5962]

no such thing really

[@fav9925]

Calm down Barry Stanton

[@andrewoliver8930]

They only put the picture up 8 years ago after a vote. Hardly a long tradition. Another vote said to take it down. Democracy.

[@kieranororke620]

@@andrewoliver8930 It is certainly democratic. I assume that they appreciate that it is because they live in a democracy that they are able to take such actions. To attempt such a thing with a portrait of a head of state in the region I live in would be met with a far different response from much less tolerant authorities.

[@380Scania]

If the Tutors are on strike till the statue comes down then I kindly suggest they look for another form of employment.

[@dickturban8706]

sack the lot of them. dont pander to them. hand them a p45 show them the door

[@utrapzab]

Too right, a campaign should be started to try and achieve just that, poisoning impressionable minds is criminal

[@fmruksf6614]

Students woke and wimps💓🇬🇧👑

[@MyMagical1]

The student who initiated the removal of HM photo is an American. Irony that his family are multi millionaires.

[@jillosler9353]

So none of his bloody business! Why is he not at Yale demanding they remove Old Glory?

[@howardjones7370]

@@jillosler9353 : Jill, the Faculty Board at Yale are even more woke and left wingnut than here!! You should check out the furore over the zoom lecture given by a Dr Aruna Khilanani saying she dreams about shooting white people

[@decorDD]

I haven’t understood why they felt the portrait should be removed …..what was the actual reason ?

[@howardjones7370]

@@decorDD : His argument was that it was a reminder of colonialism, quite what the Queen’s participation in the colonising of the USA is, is anyone’s guess

[@decorDD]

@@howardjones7370 is he deluded or just badly educated 🤦🏽‍♀️

[@terencethomas9715]

Calvin always impresses.

[@AbsoluteTiger]

He must be the right kind that you like

[@philroo1]

Yea I really enjoyed him forgetting his briefing at the start and accidentally saying poster instead of portrait. It's just a print, students voted to put it up in 2013 and now they've voted to take it down. I hear residents of North Korea have a similar issue to Oxford students when they want to dispose of a newspaper as they nearly always contain an image of the head of state.

[@howardjones7370]

@@AbsoluteTiger : Is the T for tit or tw@t?

[@jamesmurphy8859]

Calvin impresses me every time I hear him speak.

[@actonman7291]

Army of Woke fighting hard in all fronts.

[@AlexJacksonTempleSounds]

lets face it, wokeford and wokebridge are no longer relevant institutions.

[@thomasrobert4654]

eton/oxbridge specialists at turning out traitors and sexual perverts.

[@mihaicraciun8678]

they just got no 2 and 3 worldwide, you have no idea what you re talking about

[@davidbarlow350]

@@mihaicraciun8678 I would say that's a sad reflection on who's doing the grading.

[@thomasrobert4654]

@@mihaicraciun8678 tell that to the hundreds of western agents executed by the marxist ussr after being betrayed by the mainly homosexual eton/oxbridge traitors

[@kayehill1245]

I understand it was an American student that took down the Queen’s portrait. Imagine an English student taking down the stars & stripes in an American university!

[@vanmantalks]

students take down picture, is this really the best news talk radio can come up with

[@consciouscarnivore9508]

Calvin is my hero

[@madcyclist58]

Full of intelligence, empty of wisdom.

[@dsmyify]

What's the difference between intelligence and wisdom?

[@howardjones7370]

@@dsmyify : You don’t do irony either then?

[@dsmyify]

@@howardjones7370 ~ I do have problems getting irony. 🤷

[@peterrose4847]

Thank you for pointing out to me that it is only a small minority of students that are seriously Woke. .... I have never been to a Uni. and was under the impression they ALL felt this way. .. I am relieved !

[@paulfestoon8019]

The ghastly people are on full display here.

[@DCDPM]

I agree , JHB is ghastly

[@MCCOLDT]

Think thats bad? Try looking up "cultural marxism" and see how the goalposts have been moved.

[@AbsoluteTiger]

😂

[@flotiggy]

If you rented a room in my house and then removed a picture of my grandmother from the dining room, you'd be out and prosecuted!

[@Silver-st2zq]

Julia sums woke students up very well 👍

[@maltesephil]

I don't hear of the woke protesting about modern slavery

[@39139u---]

Does this university receive funding from the government if so defund them

[@davidbarlow350]

charles Midgley Hadn't you noticed we have Marxist dictator as PM,there no longer is a Tory government,and those clowns in Westminster have been pushing this crap for months.

[@thomasrobert4654]

the chinese communist party is paying the universities c.e.o.'s vast amounts of money to control the curriculum and lots are taking it.

[@firsttheycame0211]

Our Queen has been and still is a wonderful ambassador for our country. Yes she has had a privileged life in a lot of respects, but I for one would not have wanted to be her. She has always put the country before herself and at a time when she deserves compassion and support from us we get a minority of woke morons like this totally disrespecting her and being allowed to get away with it. The college has to respect the wishes of the students vote - no you don't it's your building not theirs, I wouldn't allow a visitor to my house to start messing around with photos or the decor. Show some decency and backbone and say no to these spoilt virtue signalling pointless prats, it will probably be the first time someone has.

[@PJ-wn4ge]

Well said👍

[@emeraldeyes9565]

The majority of university students are not like these idiots. But these publicity stunts are in danger of giving students in general a bad name. It's about time the media just ignored them.

[@thomasrobert4654]

no,eton/oxbridge is where this anti-british cancer is coming from.

[@angelaeastwood3938]

Well done calvin always speaks the truth . 🤝🏻🙌 .

[@capabilitybrown2323]

These students should be forced to take part in a student exchange program, with students from the centre of the Sahara desert.

[@bushwhacked7112]

Well the Queen did say diversity is our strength.

[@noelgibson5956]

Dieversity is our stench.

[@maccagrabme]

Diversity means replacement.

[@EdgardoPlasencia]

She forgot Unity.

[@horizon8529]

Yes it is but with unity

[@sergeanthowiefromthemainland]

The royals have been pandering to communism and foreign culture for decades now whilst neglecting the parts of society that support the monarchy. I said years ago it would bite them on the arse.

[@zenocrate4040]

I am a Magdalen alumnus. This is shameful.

[@MrTangolizard]

One picture of the queen down but I bet at least 10000 have gone up in retaliation to this same with the Union flag

[@freebornaiden7666]

How many pictures of the Queen do you have in your house? I have the one where she is Knighting Jimmy Saville hanging in my toilet.

[@MrTangolizard]

@@freebornaiden7666 I have one on my chimney breast

[@MrTangolizard]

@@freebornaiden7666 personally I wouldn’t want a picture of Jimmy saville in my house but u crack on

[@freebornaiden7666]

@@MrTangolizard I wouldn't want him in my house but by all accounts he was a regular visitor at the Palace.

[@MrTangolizard]

@@freebornaiden7666 fail to see your point the queen gives honours to who the government decides and remember Jimmy was never convicted of anything it’s quite likely that he was guilty but the queen didn’t know this

[@achannel3999]

The British empire was the largest most benevolent moral force ever to exist in the world. Pick a place and plan your holidays. Would you prefer to go to a place the british were? Or not.

[@davidbarlow350]

AChannel Also the only Empire to have formed a Commonwealth consisting of those "downtrodden"masses. Why join a Commonwealth if you felt suppressed? I didn't see France,Germany,Holland,Spain or Portugal doing anything other than rob their colonies blind,yet nobody says a word about that.

[@thomasrobert4654]

@@davidbarlow350 in fact some of the portuguese colonies applied for and were accepted into the british commonwealth

[@deputyVH]

Would anyone hire anyone coming out of these woke institutions?

[@robc1014]

Not blindly, no but thats what employment interviews exist for.

[@cherryseptember8697]

Well said, Calvin Robinson. I like your pillowcase and picture!

[@conah9440]

What we need is a new law to stop anyone taking down pictures of the Queen. Shes a figure head of the establishment, eff free speech. (Sarc)

[@talktv]

Was the college wrong to remove the portrait?

[@durhamfox5271]

The backlash from the silent majority is imminent

[@kathleenc7337]

Yes.

[@philroo1]

It's was in the student common room, students voted to put it up in 2013 (probably ironically) and have now voted to bring it down. It's a print not a painting, anyone offended by its removal is just as bad as the perpetually offended 'woke' brigade and have been suckered in by the conservative press.

[@billaitken2989]

No. It's a storm in a teacup which I've just heard James O'Brien subject to the ridicule it deserves, calling it 'an enormous pile of nothingness'.

[@jeffshaw526]

The students voted to put the picture up a few years ago and now they voted to pull it down. One of the few times agree with students.

[@kbeetles]

Whatever! Do not fuel their zeal with more attention!

[@outtour7518]

It’s punk rock to like the queen 😂😂 what a turnaround 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@Signals927]

Some of these students are brain washed.

[@freebornaiden7666]

Talk Radio listeners are not in an ideal position to be calling other people brainwashed.

[@thomasrobert4654]

most of the students union leaders are either foreign/of foreign origin or lesbian feminist cultural marxists.

[@freebornaiden7666]

@@thomasrobert4654 I think you missed transgender & vegan from your list of gammon baiting traits....

[@davidbarlow350]

@@freebornaiden7666 You accuse someone of forwarding "gammon" baiting,but aren't you doing exactly the same thing in your attempt at trying to sound clever?

[@freebornaiden7666]

@@davidbarlow350 Yes I am shameless gammon baiter. I could even work for Talk Radio.

[@greenandpleasant5523]

Calvin you are a breath of fresh air in a world going mad

[@yetiwheeler7972]

Agreed with you 100%

[@richtea615]

Britain was literally the first civilisation in human history to _abolish_ slavery.

[@patrickparsons2378]

Some factual corrections. Firstly, Britain is not a civilisation, it is part of European Christian civilisation. Second, it was the Normans who began the abolition of slavery, when they invaded and conquered in the Britain and Ireland. The Anglo-Saxons, Welsh, Scots and Irish all raided and traded for slaves before 1066, but by 1200 slavery in the British Isles and Ireland had disappeared. There is far more to the phenomenon of slavery in British history than the Atlantic slave trade of the late C17th to early C19th.

[@thomasrobert4654]

@@patrickparsons2378 nevertheless richtea's point was correct,splitting hairs aside.

[@angelaeastwood3938]

And battled 2 world wars and won . Britain should be proud of that. These students don't know they are . Born They wouldn't be spouting off . This woke stuff if we lost under Germany. The queen and the queen mother. And other royals saw all the devastation during the wars . The queen deserves a portrait on the wall . For all her service to the British people.

[@DavidGetling]

Come on Julia, admit it. These pathetic woke students are rather amusing. Some of them put far more effort into trying to prove how non racist, classist, and sexist they are, then they do into their studies. They really are very, very funny. They are so easy to wind up, and then their histrionics are really entertaining to observe.

[@HRPFayetteville]

Wheres the grownups?? And why aren't they doing anything I swear I went to college and we hand rules we were there to.learn to get a degree not worry about pictures we didn't own tje school

[@thomasrobert4654]

the chinese communist party controls most of our colleges and universities they are even starting to buy up our schools.

[@stevenmacdonald9619]

I didn't know that Julia was an Oxford University student before today. It just goes to show that people from all classes and life circumstances are people first. We can unite on what is most important, and tagging people into (brackets) is harmful and divisive. Julia is a hero of mine. One of the few willing to risk all, in order to deliver the truth to all that listen.

[@stevewiles7132]

Time to remove Oxford uni. If the students are getting offended by the Queen, they can leave the country.

[@freebornaiden7666]

If you're getting offended by Oxford University maybe you should leave?

[@stevewiles7132]

@@freebornaiden7666 I did.

[@freebornaiden7666]

@@stevewiles7132 Did you leave because you was offended by the Queen or by the poor weather?

[@stevewiles7132]

@@freebornaiden7666 Well, it certainly was not because of the Queen.

[@roblloyd1879]

I agree entirely with you Julia. With a long life in Industry I have found that the majority of university graduates are pretty unemployable. I worked in a high tech industry in later years and the general view among my colleagues is that it took five years to make them useful. One has to ask the obvious question, are most of our universities fit for purpose. After retiring from from industry I worked in retail for ten years. Surprisingly many of the people I worked with had a, so called, degree but were working at the bottom of the pile. For some it was personal choice (no stress) for others I wouldn't trust them to wipe their own backsides without instructions.

[@chris-bk9yg]

Spoilt children

[@anthonytudor6515]

These students are the future of this country. I don't hold much hope

[@metafile001]

They know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. Get rid of them to whence they came.

[@garysmith1931]

When I was at college in Oxford when we realized our Student Union were morons we would not enter the hall unless the meeting was already quorate I.E. minimum number attending, if it was in-quorate we would ask to see the agenda get all the nonsense struck out and only attend for real business and that was close to 40 years ago .

[@georgel74]

What a well trained Conservative, the future is not for changing..

[@susanrichards7784]

How dare they

[@MadDogSurvival]

Treason should still carry the death penalty

[@stephenclarke3990]

Those "tiresome students" I am afraid are the future of the country. That and they are targeted perfectly to bring about the massive change we are on the brink of whats about to happen. You''ll moan then ❗️😳

[@raylv6962]

Evil and bizarre things happen when the vast majority of normal sane people let these tiresome, spoilt, entitled, immature woke brats get away with it.

[@andrewdutton9505]

If there so bothered why dont they leave or take building down if it was built with slave labour

[@Pwwh0711]

I hereby apologise on behalf of my alma mater - but don't worry, I've confiscated their berets.

[@fari7423]

Gavin is very intelligent and educated man. He speaks lots of sense. I love listening to him 👏❤

[@oddjobtriumph1635]

kick them all out

[@nigelsheppard625]

It's always worth remembering that amongst all other civilisations, the British ENDED the slave trade and for over 100 years worked against its own economic interests to ensure everyone else ended slavery.

[@howardbills1450]

Complete muppets....

[@FormulaProg]

Conservatives need to learn to let things go, if the majority of students wanted to remove the picture then so be it.

[@niweshlekhak9646]

the vote was among 19 Oxford students out of hundreds.

[@lloydy68]

When is this nonsense going to stop??

[@trevordutton634]

Post graduates are supposed to be adults, throw them out.

[@juliepeel499]

We could really do with Calvin as britain PM! He could put the country back on its feet in no time!

[@mickowen568]

most students r from abroad ie immigrants / and a lot don't go back home

[@captainbuggernut9565]

What was that line, I wannabe be like the common people....

[@briansimons9472]

Surely university is also about broadening your horizons and learning to think for yourself.

[@patrickbonney8082]

This is Britain.

[@tolkienist7905]

I'm not so sure that it is virtue signalling as much as it is racism. So many of the students at university today are not even from the UK and this applies to Oxford especially.

[@thomasrobert4654]

you would think you were in chinatown.

[@daveyspider]

well if they are so agents the queen i will have all the cash in there pockets with the queens head on thank you.

[@carol-annboshoff1416]

Tell it like it is

[@anthonydavis9842]

Same students have absolutely no problems with taking money out of an oppressive society though

[@MrNancyValladares]

Kids grow up to be jerks. It’s like universities are making young adults stupid, not actually advancing their intellectual intelligence.

[@TheRedgoldenchild]

I'll be discussing this tomorrow morning on my show 'The RED Report' at 11am. Happy for you to jump on the panel as long as you don't swear or use words KZbin defines as offensive. Thanks

[@allan1951]

It's pathetic.

[@carolinepovey2416]

It was American student that started this at Oxford

[@stephennutkin2477]

The problem is that the heads of organisations are pandering to the tiny minority whilst not asking what the vast majority want or care for and because of this the minority are creating hatred towards themselves.

[@Simon-ui6db]

"noting better to do, or more nothing better to drink" Classic. Then seeing them cycle drunk as a skunk down clarendon street. Was fun seeing that growing up in Oxford.

[@jimmy2minutes]

Should put it on their CV. Then enter the real world. See how that works out.

[@chrisdrinkwater1939]

Amazing how those who moan about snowflakes, are very snowflakey

[@mrkimble2618]

These middle class boys and girls will eventually grow up and vote conservative.

[@jont39]

Julia the British empire was the only one to abolish slavery and sent out the Royal British navy to stop it eventually all over the Americas. This is what should be taught in schools.

[@earthstick]

You know a large proportion of students at university are foreign students, as are the lecturers. British universities are where one bunch of migrants teach another bunch of migrants how to take apart Britian.

[@jongrey8774]

Remember, the world was utopia until the British, sorry the English arrived........

[@Mute040404]

Heard it was a wealthy US white man's idea. He was speaking on behalf of others he thinks are incapable, fragile beings who cry at historic statues

[@QANews]

The Queen just lost her partner & they take down her portrait, what's wrong with students & their self-righteous behaviour, I think China has been giving Oxford University too much money.

[@thomasrobert4654]

not just oxford and they are even buying up schools now.

[@niweshlekhak9646]

China is pro-monarchy though, why will they do this.

[@QANews]

@@niweshlekhak9646 China doesn't like foreigners, especially the type to turn up with an armada & destroy Beijing, "Eight-Nation Alliance."

[@niweshlekhak9646]

@@QANews UK only conquered Hong Kong which the mainland Chinese actually liked, most Chinese have forgotten about Eight-Nation-Alliance.

[@QANews]

@@niweshlekhak9646 The British Empire left Beijing in ashes, perhaps the Chinese should remember the alliance, _"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."_

[@TheChugg11]

Hopefully other students will vote to have the portrait put back up...

[@andrewoliver8930]

It was a fine 8 year tradition of putting up a portrait of the Queen. Maybe the folks who put it up 8 years ago should have just got on with their studies.

[@terryweight9949]

woke to me means sad people that sit in there little bedroom with no friends no out look in life and there parents parm them off to boarding school because they cant be bothered with them.

[@stu8729]

Picture of the Queen next to his bed 😁 Possibly a little bit strange.

[@chelseapoet3664]

White chocolate muffins? How racist!

[@sticksman1979]

He seriously has a Union Jack pillow?

[@garethjones2746]

I think all this woke and political correctness stuff in universities must be a side show. I really don’t understand how it helps prepare people for careers which what university is for in my opinion. Why are they not focussing on their study, is it too hard for them?

[@freebornaiden7666]

LOL. Day 2 of Talk Radio talking about 10 students (correct 10) who voted to take down a picture form a wall.

[@deanwalker972]

Too be honest im just fed up with it all...i just think why you in this country why you talking advantage of the best education people travel from around the world for..if this country is so bad why prosper here

[@andrewdutton9505]

Anyone forget 1977 the sexpistols album was all anti royal the boat incidemt on jubilee day . Its just youngsters rebeling havimg a laugh .

[@naomiwolf8058]

why not just remove the Queen (and royal family) entirely?