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Holy shit, serendipity. I just came on to post this from twitter:

I suspect I should apologise for my affection for the Englishness of my upbringing,
but in some ways I found it calmer, more polite, more humorous, less tabloid, and less money-oriented than the one that is replacing it https://t.co/ZntbORfQdW

— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) May 29, 2019

It is good that some brave people are telling the truth.

Mass immigration is a bad thing.

The twitter above is interesting, all the "BPFE's" or whatever the fuck that means - Europhiles - are cursing Englishness, while whinging about remaining in the EU.

It's funny, those who insist Britain belongs in the EU are the same people who damn English culture. It's almost as if they have an ulterior motive...

England 2019. Things have changed. pic.twitter.com/4bUYz8vqT3— David Vance (@DVATW) May 29, 2019

Love the FUEU people saying "nothing has really changed". Imagine the above scene in 1950s, 1970s, or even early 1990s Britain.

Stand at the corner of Paseo Padre and Mowry and Fremont with a counter, and spend thirty minutes counting the number of non-foreign born white people. Your finger won't get tired.

Patrick says

Mass immigration is a bad thing.

Pat, I was born in Cambridge MA, home of 90 subnationalities. Yes, a very miniaturized London but w/o a financial district and legal red light activities.

The problem is with Islam and Islam only!

We have Jamaicans (yes, Patrick Ewing of the Knicks), Haitians, Nepalese, Vietnamese, etc, and all these ppl assimilated into the mainstream over a generation or two.

What's happening is that you're all lumping crazy Muslims with everyone else, who doesn't plant bombs and force their religion upon others.

www.youtube.com/embed/_qhLPWcm-0w

Isn't that what they said when the Normans moved in?

Ceffer says

Isn't that what they said when the Normans moved in?

Yes, and before that "Londonium is just not a Roman city anymore!"

Booger says

I love John Cleese.

Sargon's take: Everyone agrees with John Cleese's comments that London is no longer an English city...so why is everyone so offended?
www.youtube.com/embed/ZAeJJYvSok0

Cleese may have been literally correct about London, if you look at Amsterdam:

The racial and ethnic makeup of Amsterdam as of 2012 was 49.5% Dutch and 50.5% foreign ancestry.

http://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/amsterdam-population/

https://www.rebelnews.com/john_cleese_defends_right_to_offend_after_slavery_joke_goes_viral?source=patrick.net

John Cleese defends right to offend after slavery joke goes viral
Cleese offended journalists at the SXSW festival when he responded to fellow comedian Dulce Sloan, who is black, when she made a joke about colonization.

By Ian Miles Cheong | March 16, 2022 | News Analysis
John Cleese defends right to offend after slavery joke goes viralAP Photo/Amel Emric
British comedian John Cleese, best known for his work in Fawlty Towers and Monty Python is doubling down on his right to tell jokes.

Amid efforts to cancel him over a joke about slavery at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas over the weekend, Cleese defended his jokes and told mainstream news publications to grow “a sense of humour.”

“Next time the editor of the Hollywood Reporter sends someone to review a Comedy Festival he would do well to send a reporter with a sense of humour,” said the veteran comedian in a tweet.

“Otherwise it’s like sending someone deaf to review a concert,” said Cleese, doubling down on his right to make light of sensitive subjects. Some might even call him “ableist” for daring to suggest that deaf people aren’t able to hear.

Next time the Editor of the Hollywood Reporter sends someone to review a Comedy Festival he would do well to send a reporter with a sense of humour

Otherwise it's like sending someone deaf to review a concert

— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) March 15, 2022
During his appearance at “John Cleese in Conversation” at SXSW, the comedian made several jokes now considered cancellable offences by the woke brigade, including one about how the British are due reparations by Italy, in reference to the Roman conquest of Britain.

Cleese offended attending journalists when he responded to fellow comedian Dulce Sloan, who is black, when she made a joke about colonization. He suggested that she was given “free passage.”

The comedian suggested that people tend to “forget the British Empire was the basic political unit of organization for 6,000 years — the British didn’t start [colonizing].”

“We know, but ya’ll did it so well!” Sloan replied. “It’s the reason I’m here! I’m not supposed to be here!”

“We gave you free passage, too,” Cleese quipped.

While the crowd was briefly taken aback by the joke, no one really minded apart from the entertainment reporter, who complained that Cleese was now “apparently getting quite sincere” when he elaborated on his political views.

“History is a history of crime,” Cleese reportedly said. “It’s a history of people who were stronger beating up people who were weaker, and it’s always been that. It’s deeply, deeply distasteful. But to pretend that one lot were worse than another — you do know the British have been slaves twice, right?”

“The Dutch are the problem,” replied Sloan.

“[People] get competitive about this business of being oppressed,” Cleese continued. “We were oppressed, the English, by the Romans for 400 [years], from about 0 to 400.”

Cleese’s remarks met uncomfortable replies from the other attending comedians, who attempted to change the subject. Their discomfort seemed to feed into Cleese’s desire to keep going.

“I want reparations from Italy,” Cleese said, adding “and then the Normans came over in 1066… they were horrible people from France, and they came and colonized us for 30 years — we need reparations there too, I’m afraid.”

Cleese’s remarks prompted Sloan to jokingly confiscate Cleese’s microphone while the audience laughed.

While the audience and the rest of the panel clearly enjoyed Cleese’s jokes, publications like the Hollywood Reporter went off on the comedian to condemn him for his spicy remarks, which entertainment reporter James Hibberd described as “cringey awkwardness.”

On Twitter, Cleese defended his jokes to the woke mob, explaining the joke to one person who appeared to miss the point.

Quite right, Sajid. But that was the joke

The ridiculousness of the comparison was the joke

But if you lack a sense of irony, you might not realise
that. But that's not a good reason to deprive people
who do understand irony of a good laugh https://t.co/zRXi4hpaHZ?source=patrick.net

— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) March 15, 2022
“The ridiculousness of the comparison was the joke,” Cleese said. “But if you lack a sense of irony, you might not realise that. But that's not a good reason to deprive people who do understand irony of a good laugh.”

London is a prime example of a slow genocide.

Dublin too. Large parts of it are entirely black and Arab now. They may be fine people, but they are not Irish so it just feels wrong.

https://www.gbnews.uk/news/john-cleese-to-host-new-show-on-gb-news/374819

Monday 10 October 2022 - 11:38
GB News confirmed today that actor, comedian, writer, and producer John Cleese will host a new series on the channel next year.

The programme will feature John in conversation with his choice of guests on a wide range of areas that interest him. Mr Cleese revealed the news this morning in an interview with journalist Amol Rajan on BBC Radio 4’s Today Show.

The new show marks John’s return to UK television after a three-year hiatus. He last appeared on British screens in the sitcom Hold the Sunset in 2019.

The Executive Producer of his programme will be comedian and writer Andrew Doyle, who hosts Free Speech Nation on GB News.

Andrew is also Executive Producer of the channel’s nightly newspaper review show, Headliners, hosted entirely by comedians.

Andrew said: "John will have complete creative freedom to have the conversations he wants to have with the people who interest him most.

"Like John himself, it will be far from predictable.”