Right wing thugs 'protecting the flag' on St George's Day

Just the ones who schlep up to those sorts of events. They're of the same ilk who were foul to me as a kid, who would scream abuse from vehicles when we were walking home from school as teenagers, use racist terminology as default, make nasty comments about smells and hygiene about the poorer or other ethnicity kids, share racist jokes, idiotic Britain First posts on Facebook as adults, etc, etc.

Don't confuse despising them and all that they stand for as being indicative of having a middleclass upbringing. Being stuck with them in sink schools from 5-16 and then assorted council estates for a further twenty years was quite enough for me, thanks.

BLM was a movement with a point - a valid one - running with a flag and a pint shouting at people doesn't seem valid - so yes, thanks for being patient - do I get my horse now?

Yes please

I'm white, working class background, DH is a chimney sweep. We've got cleaners, retail workers, factory workers, a school caretaker and clerical workers in the wider family. That bunch don't represent us.

As soon as you criticise the much more criminal and violent BLM riots? I'll wait...

I don't hate 'my own race' I hate right wing thugs - thankfully the two are not mutually exclusive - when do I get my horse?

Yeah them bloody feigners coming over here, working and paying taxes so I can spend my hard earned UC on cheap larger and shout at the wall - I'm shaking in my boots

The election of Donald Trump was another example of a similar backlash. 20 years ago he most likely wouldn't have got a look in.

I know - glad you are here to edumacate me Ralphy - maybe when I get on my horse with my pearls on I'll understand it betterer

What is a Vast swathe exactly?
4? 11? Someones racist uncle and that bloke who sits in the corner of the pub muttering about how foreigners take our jobs?

No way are you slating this small protest while supporting the BLM movement..no fucking way 🤣 The hypocrisy is amazing.

as opposed to saying all white working class people are like this - angry, pissed up, fat fuckers hitting police horses - no I'll stay with my view that most us would rather not be lumped with a gang of flag waving, red faced twats with half a brain.

No pearls though - do we get them along with the horse?

Wrapped in a flag presumably?

No, their ugly behaviour is in part an extreme reaction to genuine issues, a bit like with Extinction Rebellion. One of those issues is the odd self flagellation of the British, which doesn't seem to happen in other countries. Extreme patriotism is a reaction/counter to this.

The Spanish aren't filled with self loathing over the Spanish Empire. Neither are the the Italians over the Roman Empire. Same with the Persian empire, Byzantian empire, etc etc.

It's odd that we're so happy to flog ourselves and bend over backwards to pay reparations for the events of hundreds of years ago to other countries that are currently the worst offenders in modern slavery.

The mind boggles....

Of course you can, I quite like Skewbald or Piebald horses.
Good mix of colour there

They always say "vast swathes of the country" but I really don't think it is. Why is it only ever a handful of the same pissed up gammon faces at these events every time?

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Meet in the King's Head at 11am - drink 20 pints of Carling, start a fight, go home?

Utter scum.

Whatever they did, and whatever your views, it got them some attention, and it got you lot clutching your pearls and referring to white working class people as "gammon". MN at its finest.

Oh I'll just be an ordinary knight then - because I prefer black people have their own voice - like the BLM movement - can I have a nice horse still?

What awakening would that be exactly then?

White knights are the worst of society. They think black people need the superior white voice to speak for them. Black people hate white knights as much as white people hate them. But you know, whatever floats your boat.