A Contradiction In Terms

[Bobbisox1]

BLN demanding offensive ( to them) all that depicts the past ?
Like Nazi Germany’s Hitler ( Fawlty Towers )
And Churchill .....
Surely if it hadn’t been for Churchill ,things would have been unthinkable for Jews,Gay people etc
Or is it the BBC being it’s usual biased self ?

[woofgang]

I saw them in London....not often and not near where we lived. Irish people weren't an issue. It certainly wasn't apocryphal.

[Bobbisox1]

Arh right JD , we still aren’t I don’t think, maybe a little more now

[Mamyalynne]

You sure of that?


I believe those I have spoken to in my family and others I know who saw them, as a young teen I wouldn't have been in the areas looking for lodgings at that age.

[Mamyalynne]

My reply was to ynnafymmi, sorry.

I really struggle to read it.

[Jackdaw33]

Irish was a euphemism for gypsies,or tinkers as they used to be called.

[Bobbisox1]

I seem to think we had a lot more Scandinavians here and Irish, there’s a large influx of Indian populous in South Shields due to the Ceylon ( as it was ) tea clippers docking there

[bednobs]

is there any more a relatively small group of people can say about this subject? Out of 20 posts on the page of this category, half of them are broadly on a similar theme

[woofgang]

My aunt lived in Clapham at the time...it was one of those "naice" areas with loads of big victorian houses but some of the home owners were struggling to hang on to their houses and took in lodgers. I was a voracious reader at the time...you know what I mean, spell out the ads aloud in shop windows and on busses and when we visited my aunt I saw the signs in windows and would read them too. I remember my Mum telling me not to and explaining that the signs weren't nice.

[andy-hughes]

My mother-in-law came over from Ireland in the 1950's and she clearly remembers the signs when she was looking for lodgings in northern mill towns.

[Spicerack]

Fat fool in charge of the BLM riots on the radio earlier. Ran the police down for 10 minutes to explain why he was going to remove them.
Next '2 of our peaceful protesters were practically lynched by extreme far right fascists yesterday, you didn't report that, did you'
Radio guy 'Haven't heard about it, when you say practically lynched, what happened'
'Well, they would have been lynched if the police hadn't intervened'
Yes, he was a proper Lammy.

[Bobbisox1]

So what BD, it’s a discussion, that’s all

[andy-hughes]

TTT - // you see, what you are doing here is trying to apply sense to these morons, you cannot. //

You're right, it's just a hard habit to break.

[Jackdaw33]

South Shields used to be known as Saudi Shields on account of the large Arab population.

[sanmac]

In Canada, up until the early '50s, there were signs in some boarding houses in the major cities, especially, obviously, in Quebec, stating "No English". Also, some job-postings in newspapers stated "Englishmen may not apply."

[Bobbisox1]

Or “” Sand Dancers “” JD ?

[woofgang]

jackdaw, not always....Irish folk came over here to dig the canals and stayed on doing other civil engineering labour. After the war my Dad went to work for companies who had waterboard contracts laying mains pipe in and around London and sometime elsewhere in the Uk. He used to run gangs that did the big stuff, 60 inch diameter mains and most of the blokes who worked for him were Irish.

[bednobs]

nah, it's 10 discussions on the same thing by the same people. It just dilutes the message really.
Bit like brexit or covid

[Bobbisox1]

Wow Sanmac, that really is racist

[Bobbisox1]

BD, you’re not compelled to take part

[tonyav]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wNJtF1XNe8Y/SngiXoxhOJI/AAAAAAAABZM/xpGfWG5vLOw/s400/no+irish+no+blacks+no+dogs.jpg