Is that because the English are not (generally) black?
The Northern Ireland conflict was labelled as sectarianism because it split down Catholic and Protestant lines - two Christian sects.
Here’sjust one article about Scottish racists.
Dianne Abbott (a senior Labour parliamentarian and Corbyn advisor - and his squeeze) wants to pay police officers £30 per year. :smack: :smack:
Shadow Home Secretary, no less, and clearly mistress of her brief 
I’ve mentioned keeping Diane Abbott locked in the attic.
She just cannot open her mouth without being a disaster, even on local fucking radio for gods sake. Makes Boris Johnson look competent; utterly useless.
Here’s the original interview.
What’s really terrible about it is that right at the end she obviously finds the right page on her briefing papers and reads out a more-or-less sensible or at least not obviously insane set of figures. Too, too late, of course. But it just shows that she had been given the figures, and presumably had every opportunity to know what they actually were.* She fucked it up because she clearly doesn’t actually care about the detail in the slightest. People vote on competence at least as much as they vote on policy and an own goal like this comes under the heading of doing the Tories’ job for them. All they have to do is keep May touring the country’s village halls and refusing questions while they point at Abbot paying police £80/year and they’re home free.
*(I’ve had to do the occasional radio interview for work, talking about new findings we’ve made. Each time I’ve had briefing note prepared by our press team and I have read it obsessively for the hour before the interview till I knew the figures backwards. And I still had it in front of me during the interview, highlighted and underlined. And this is me, an idiot, talking about something not that important. How the screaming fuck could a Labour Shadow Home Secretary go into an interview about a new initiative without knowing the answer to the obvious, inevitable question on how they’re going to pay for it? Labour couldn’t suggest getting a takeaway for dinner without being challenged on where the money is coming from, how did she not see it coming? Why doesn’t she care enough to do her goddam job?)
I’d just like to highlight this for the American readers, because the issue of mastering a brief cropped up in one of the Trump Cabinet threads. We in the UK don’t expect our ministers to be experts in the areas to which they are appointed; we do expect them to master their briefs, and this is a classic example of a complete and utter failure.
She’s the worst prepared front bencher I’ve seen. She has always been lazy, always been a blagger.
I’m honestly at a loss who to vote for.
Yeesh. That was pretty bad.
To lighten the mood a little, from the Scottish Conservative Party leaflet, Ruth gives us:
And I’m also here in Scotland and I’ve no idea what you’re seeing.
That’s the bit I don’t get. What was anti-English? Where was there any mention of the English or England in the graffiti? Did I miss some?
Shades of Yes Minister:
It was sprayed on the doors of the two main Unionist (i.e. ‘English traitor’) parties. See also the link I posted this morning about a SNP member convicted of racism.
Well if there’s any illusions that Brexit talks will fail because of the EU being truculent, they should be dispelled now:
May says she’ll be ‘bloody difficult’
This is all on Brexiters wanting all the perks and none of the responsibilities.
I disagree; it’s all posturing - on both sides.
Coupled with the summary of the interview with Juncker the other day, which shows the UK Government detached from reality, the EU firm, and May unprepared, I think the posturing’s all one-sided.
She is relentless in trying to make the election about bloody Brexit, and it makes no sense.
We all know there will be tough negotiations. Okay. Brilliant.
Now lets talk about the election: austerily and alternatives, the NHS, education and class sizes, social care for elderly, etc, etc. Oh no, lets talk about stable and solid and … Brexit.