[News] John Cleese criticised.......

[dejavuatbtn]

It’s an opinion, what’s to be outraged about?

Is this going to be a five minute argument or the full half hour?

 

[Greg Bobkin]

for saying London is 'no longer an English city'

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has criticised John Cleese after the Fawlty Towers legend said the capital was "not really an English city any more".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48451384

Is this really offensive?

Factually, it's wrong. London is a city, which is in England. Therefore, it's an English city

Maybe not offensive, but he could've just written what he meant – i.e. 'there are too many foreigners in England'. From his home in a faraway land...

 

[Fungus]

Or they were taken round the back of the nearest Tesco Express and dispatched with a coup de gras to the nape of the neck.

That's 'orrible foreign food, isn't it?

 

[Munkfish]

I'm not buying it on Principle.

 

[Icy Gull]

Is this going to be a five minute argument or the full half hour?

I’ve told you once

 

[lawros left foot]

If it stops him from making anymore of that awful sit com ‘Hold the sunset’ it will be worth it.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Like if you went to australia, and when you got there it was all McDonalds, Starbucks and Apple shops i'd think you'd be a tad disappointed and think similar thoughts because you went there to experience the native people's culture.

Exactly.

We aren't the original native culture and this Khan fellow isn't of the native cultures of the British Isles.

 

[symyjym]

Ah them were the days when London was English.



I'll get my bowler hat

 

[Mo Gosfield]

I’ve told you once

No you haven't!

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

This is an outrage.

I don't mind foreigners here, I have many foreigners in my family both here and abroad, but London doesn't feel very English to me. Alfriston, York, etc, they feel pretty English. London doesn't.

 

[Mo Gosfield]

Exactly.

We aren't the original native culture and this Khan fellow isn't of the native cultures of the British Isles.

True.
Before the Romans arrived ( what did they ever do for us? ) and introduced a modicum of culture, we were a bunch of thick, xenophobic, racist savages.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Why do we need a thread on this?

Yes.
1 - I think I must have missed the other John Cleese thread.
2- Worth looking at this thread for jokes like the post below
Very good Titanic

Has he announced his new sitcom... Fawlty Tower Hamlets?

 

[nickjhs]

He is simply pining for a bygone era, or was it the Fjords.

 

[symyjym]

Factually, it's wrong. London is a city, which is in England. Therefore, it's an English city

Maybe not offensive, but he could've just written what he meant – i.e. 'there are too many foreigners in England'. From his home in a faraway land...

When I think of traditional English I see men in bowler hats tbh

 

[dingodan]

I don't mind foreigners here, I have many foreigners in my family both here and abroad, but London doesn't feel very English to me. Alfriston, York, etc, they feel pretty English. London doesn't.

Outrageous.

 

[Hu_Camus]

Like if you went to australia, and when you got there it was all McDonalds, Starbucks and Apple shops i'd think you'd be a tad disappointed and think similar thoughts because you went there to experience the native people's culture.

Australia....Culture?......they make yoghurt?

 

[BN9 BHA]

I'm more outraged about the fact that it's another frickin' half term (ANOTHER one!) and that it's not safe to go outside now until Monday when they're all back at school...unless there's another half term next week as well.

No school run traffic is always a bonus

 

[Hu_Camus]

When I think of traditional English I see men in bowler hats tbh

Just bowler hats?

 

[Hillian1]

Vermin Fawlty.

 

[Titanic]

Vermin Fawlty.

Probably best not to talk about the Major and his trip to see India