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“Jim” makes Reform noises and gets jumped on. Break out the world’s smallest violin. Apparently his “colonisation” of Monaco is saving him some £4b in taxes. Just think what the NHS could do with that. Meanwhile he is trying to get more of our money to shore up his businesses. No sympathy from me. He brought the grief on himself. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/sep/25/sir-jim-ratcliffe-uks-richest-person-moves-to-tax-free-monaco-brexit-ineos-domicile

Yes. I enjoyed it. Did you? Would I spoil it for you if I told you that Jenneke Cromwell, his illegitimate daughter, was a fictional character?

Here you go… https://www.tes.com/magazine/archive/shakespeare-thriving-jamaica-and-beyond

I’m not sure what your point is? Are you saying that they are saying that Anne Boleyn was black? Regarding historical accuracy in the Norman invasion, why didn’t they hack the actor playing Harold to death? I don’t see why Olivier couldn’t play Othello these days (apart from him being dead). He just couldn’t use black face. If you want to use that argument he lived in the times when racial segregation was rife in the US. It was perfectly ok for him to use black face because no one thought of using a black actor for a major production on stage or screen. Now, in the second quarter of the 21st century, we should be grown up enough to know that artistic representations are just that. There are plenty of Shakespearean plays set in modern times and you don’t see people kicking off because they are not dressed in Tudor garb. We have been over this before. In the 16thc women were not allowed to be “players” so men played female parts. Plays and films are all about the audience suspending disbelief. I think we all know Olivier wasn’t really Othello, just as we know he wasn’t really black. Would it be much more of a stretch for a white actor to play the character? PS. Spoiler alert. Despite all of the various artistic impressions of Jesus, he would have had brown skin, not white. (Do black actors in Jamaica put on productions of Shakespeare?)

I am Mohammed, and so is my wife.

No sensible conversation can be had with someone who shares the same views as Trump and Farage. You share the same myopic desire for malignant capitalism that they do. It’s all about the money and power. Screw the little people, be they children or “colonists.” You conveniently ignore the fact that without the little people, the super rich wouldn’t have their luxurious way of life. I bet you and your little laughing friend are gutted that your names don’t appear in the Epstein files. Or perhaps they do? Shame you won’t see this though. 😉

I believe he currently resides in Monaco, a tax haven? He has also received something like £120m in subsidies from the British Government. This is tax payers money, many of whom are what he would describe as “colonists.”

You supported what Ratcliffe said which was partly lies and partly disingenuous. You seem to get your ing formation from Trump, his administration, Musk, Farage and his cronies. Where in the UK are there areas that are not run by democratically elected officials. Starmer, Burnham and anyone who opposes racist rhetoric stuck their noses in as you put it because Ratcliffe was taking the same bollocks that Farage talks. The use of words like invasion and colonisation are what gives the motive away. You are no different, along with the laughing emoji nic. Funny isn’t it. When Brits go abroad and settle and take their full English breakfasts and fish n chip shops with them they are called ex Pats not immigrants and you don’t hear complaints about them not learning the language or integrating. Maybe because we have a previous history of Imperialism/colonisation? If you want to talk about integration then do so. Don’t use the same language used by proven racists and pretend you mean something different.

Show the evidence that these areas have been colonised please.

Perhaps we should get our own ICE agents on the streets to shoot a few people? That would toughen us up eh?

What did you mean then? Why does it matter to you what colour skin someone has when they are trying to sell you washing up liquid?

“Inserted.” Or maybe just actors playing acting rolls and pretending to be someone they are not? Or do you object to actors with black or brown skin plying their trade in the UK?

What parts of London and towns and cities in the Midlands have been “colonised?”

Just finished Plato’s Republic as part of a philosophy class. It nails democracy’s fall into tyranny perfectly as is happening in the US right now. It also nails Trump’s character defects and why people follow him. The scary thing is that it is starting to happen here too with the rise of populism under Reform. Written over 2500 years ago but shows that some things never change.

Are we being colonised? Shouldn’t people be called out for talking bollocks and deliberately misrepresenting facts? Not in your world as you obviously believe that rubbish.