[Andy McDandy]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/arti ... ondon.html

After an opening couple of paragraphs stuffed with music references, he puts in an "editorial interjection", saying stop with the obscure music references, nobody's getting them. Ho ho, self awareness for the win etc.

Funnily, I felt the presence - or at least influence - of Dacre running strong in this one. Right down to the Arnos Grove reference. And the final sneaky and blatantly venomous barb about babies' names.

Cunts.

[Youngian]

In what ways has the Florida resident had his life ruined by the looney left London mayor?

[satnav]

Apparently on a fictious visit to London, Liitledick was totally letdown by the public transport system but luckily his night was saved by a privately owned pub and an Uber driver. Littledick doesn't seem to realise that his Uber journey was relatively cheap because the drivers are competing with a relatively cheap public transport system.

[satnav]

More fantasy nonsense from Littledick.

Daily flights to Rwanda. A trade deal with Trump. Unions shackled. This is how Britain might have looked if the Tories hadn't torn each other to shreds

Yet again Littlejohn tries to present a narrative in which Johnson was brought down due to prosecco and wallpaper. When in reality the tipping point came when Johnson tried to cover up the fact that Chris Pincher was a sex pest.

At no point did the Tories ever promise daily plights to Rwanda. The deal with Rwanda was to send 2000 people there which would have probably required 7 flights at the most. As for the trade deal with America does Littledick really think that Trump would bend over backwards to help Britain. Importing lots of food from a country with extremely poor food standards would seriously damage the chances of British food producers of selling food to other countries other than America.

Liitledick concludes that only Farage can now deliver his fantasy policies.

[Bones McCoy]

And when Nigel shackles those unions, the last well-paid salary jobs will join the hustle.

[Andy McDandy]

Corporatism. Are you rich? If not, fuck off.

[Andy McDandy]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/arti ... names.html

Pub names. Some guy is suing a pub called the Sarcen's Head, and according to Dickie, he plans to sue every pub in the country, or at least get some cash out of them. Guy's a wanker looking for some easy cash. That should be the end of it.

Sorry, I meant the guy complaining about the pubs. Anyway. Dickie uses this as a jumping off point into all the "you can't say that any more" story of the last 5 years or so. Does the usual "of course, nobody would call a new pub the [racist trope] these days, but..." cop-out. Basically, if it's old, it's respectable.

Which brings us neatly back to the Saracens Head, which adorns pubs across England. Critics say it glorifies Crusaders decapitating their Muslim foes and bringing their heads home as trophies.

I'm not so sure. Otherwise you could argue that the Nags Head in Peckham is a celebration of the severed horse's head dumped in that film producer's bed in The Godfather.

Yes, it's linked to the Crusades, along with the names of other pubs, such as The Turks Head, where soldiers on their way to fight for Christianity in the Holy Land stopped off for a drink. But so what?

On that logic, I could argue that the Mail is a porn mag, because it's full of cunts and read by wankers.

[Youngian]

Yes, it's linked to the Crusades, along with the names of other pubs, such as The Turks Head, where soldiers on their way to fight for Christianity in the Holy Land stopped off for a drink.

This may well be a myth as these pub names are Tudor when the Saracen was a good guy figure. As a result of diplomatic and economic alliances being formed with the Moors and Turks to contain Spanish power. It's touched upon in Wolf Hall with Henry's penchant for dressing up like a sultan.
I wouldn't expect Littlejohn or the idiot bringing the case to have conducted any research into the matter.

[MisterMuncher]

There's a weird disconnect between the folk memory of the crusaders and the reality. A lot less taking Saracen's heads for Good and St Geirge and a lot more getting connected to God's WiFi after starving, shitting, plodding across desert and marsh or getting smashed to bits against the walls of any number of cities. Whilst taking orders from the French. Or the Pope. Or God help you, a French pope

That old difference between history and "are histree"

[RedSparrows]

Always been a bit bemused by the Crusader imagery beloved of the far right.

Pyrrhic victory followed by numerous failures doesn't really seem like the fash thing... Oh wait.

[Andy McDandy]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/arti ... on_desktop

He's done a song. 12 Days of Christmas, but all about Starmer!

In satirical terms, it's somewhere between "Gordon Brown, taxes the poor" (to the tune of Golden Brown by the Stranglers) and writing "John Majors" and "Peas" on a sheet of paper, pointing at it, and going "Aaaaaah!".

He ends with a note thanking his readers for lapping up his twice-weekly santorum discharge, oops sorry, their "kind letters, emails and contributions".

Cunt.

[Bones McCoy]

Always been a bit bemused by the Crusader imagery beloved of the far right.

Pyrrhic victory followed by numerous failures doesn't really seem like the fash thing... Oh wait.

The best Crusaders fought the Nazis.