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‘London isn’t an English city anymore’: John Cleese hot take sparks Twitter firestorm
By RT, 29 May, 2019:
British comedy icon John Cleese’s claim that London is no longer an “English city” has unleashed a flood of reaction on Twitter as Brits latch onto another topic to fight about.The Fawlty Towers and Monty Python star dredged up previous comments he made about the UK capital losing its sense of Englishness, tweeting that the observation has since been confirmed by virtually all his friends from abroad.
“I note also that London was the UK city that voted most strongly to remain in the EU,” the comedian added.
Some years ago I opined that London was not really an English city any more
Since then, virtually all my friends from abroad have confirmed my observation
So there must be some truth in it…
I note also that London was the UK city that voted most strongly to remain in the EU
— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) May 29, 2019
Needless to say the controversial remarks have loosed a maelstrom of responses on the social network with many rushing to tell the 79-year-old why he is wrong.
David Aaronovitch, a columnist with the Times, sought to give Cleese a brief history and geography lesson: “London has long been a British city, John. Which you might expect, what with it being the capital.”
However numerous people supported Cleese’s views: “The texture and fabric of life in London is not quintessentially English. And many ethnic English outside of London all say the same thing,” author Thomas Clements responded.
Some noted that Cleese’s observations were a clear-cut case of confirmation bias while others noted the comedian’s comments were supported by the facts on the ground.
Some years ago I said something a bit ignorant and dog-whistly.
I hang out with people who are also a bit ignorant and dog-whistly.
So it must be correct…
Whilst I'm at it, here's another example of confirmation bias for you.
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) May 29, 2019
Over 41% of London’s population is foreign born. London also has the second highest foreign-born population of any city in the world.
London is clearly the least "English" city in England.
Cleese is merely stating a reality that anyone who lives in London understands.
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) May 29, 2019
Several commenters chimed in to say that London’s multiculturalism is a natural product of Britain’s colonial past. While many more were happy just to crack jokes.
— DänielNöthing (@DanielNothing) May 29, 2019
Cleese has been vociferous in his support for Brexit. Explaining why he voted Leave, he said: “I don’t want to be ruled by Brussels bureaucrats who want to create a super state.”
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Contributions please to mayor Kahn’s pet charity; The Great London Stabathon!
Contributions please to mayor Kahn’s pet charity; The Great London Stabathon!
LOL KKK CUCKS IS MAD CUZ THEY KNOW THEY WOMEN PREFER THA DARK MEAT
YES, MR. CLEESE, YOU ARE CORRECT. London now belongs to Muslims, tyrants, and the evil, with a few wonderful people who just can’t get out fast enough, which is much like NYC in America.
Your correct in thinking London to be inundated with immigrants but your wrong in believing that it belongs to the muzrats. Many of us are still on the street contesting these invaders as we will be on Sunday when my friends and I will be doing our best to halt the annual Al quds March through central London.
There is massive resistance to islam in London but we fight with our hands tied by the pro islam globalist scum establishment which includes the police.
As a result it will and unfortunately must eventually come to a civil war not only in London but over the whole of Western Europe. I just hope that the criminals guilty for this disaster will then have to answer for their crimes in courts.
I look forward to that civil war immensely as do all my friends.
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Alas toxic Blair is still roaming free
You are saying what I have been saying for a long, long time. When we first heard of the mass migration I said to my wife and on Google+ Facebook and so on, I said our streets will run red with blood.
London- stan.. Muslim Mayor of London tells Citizens to get use to Terrorism… Knife crime is out of control in Sadiq Khan’s London.
Thank God,she is gone but what will REPLACE her?
May Condemns Trump’s Attack on Khan as She Backs London Mayor
Svenja O’Donnell and Robert Hutton
June 5, 2017, 9:35 AM EDT
Prime Minister Theresa May said she thought Donald Trump was “wrong” to attack London Mayor Sadiq Khan in the wake of Saturday’s terror attack in London.
After avoiding several attempts by reporters to get her to condemn the U.S. president for openly criticizing Khan in a series of tweets hours after the attack at London Bridge that killed seven people and left dozens injured, May was asked what it would take for her to criticize Trump. She reiterated her disappointment over his decision to pull out of the Paris Agreement on climate change, before being eventually forced to defend the capital’s mayor.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-05/may-condemns-trump-s-attack-on-khan-as-she-backs-london-mayor
Whoever replaces the scrawny traitorous slag will have to be a Brexiteer otherwise we are in for more of the same (3 years of) wrangling. The Conservative party know full well that their party has dropped to an all time low because of their deceit and are in danger of going out of existence so it should be important to them to at last do the right thing by the people who voted to leave the EU.
BREXIT MEANS EXIT!????????
Historically, England has been welcoming to British subjects who wanted to immigrate to their island, but it was Tony Blair who opened the floodgates to foreigners in order to remake the electorate to keep his party in power. How Blair has survived this long after implementing such demographic destruction on England amazes me.
And this policy of near open migration has been echoed by successive Tory governments who have been no better than Labour and have all betrayed the Real indigenous Britons.
We have now become a racial minority in our own capital city.
REVOLUTION!????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
John Cleese is moving to the Caribbean. Muslims are slowly taking that over too!
He maybe a world renowned comedian but he is a fool. He will have a horrific ending there.
Islam spreads like a metastasized cancer.
Drugs, Gangs & Radical Islam in a Caribbean Paradise
By Evan Ellis/GlobalAmericans | September 12, 2017
https://thecrimereport.org/2017/09/12/drugs-gangs-radical-islam-in-a-caribbean-paradise/
In 1990 muslums of the Jamaat al Muslimeen attempted a coup in Trinidad, fortunately it failed.
They should have hanged the lot of em!
They can then attempt a coup in hell.
Felix1999 is right about Trinidad at least, their muslum problems have only gotten worse since the 1990’s.
It’s a rats nest that needs cleaning!
To be fair felix John Cleese hasn’t lived full time in England for years and has spent most of his time on the Caribbean paradise island of Nevis.
Which is nice to have the choice.
He could always move to the Falklands — I don’t think there are any mosques there yet and it’s still considered English soil right?
The truth hurts so much that the leftists will do anything to avoid facing it. Fact is they’ve crapped the nest we must all live in and, like children, expect others to clean up the mess…
I guess John Cleese doesn’t believe Mayor Kahn job that London is one of the safest cities on the planet.
There may come a day where NO country is safe from Muslims and that is the goal. No where to go to get away from. It could become a worldwide hell on earth between communism and Islam or some hybrid version of the two.
Divine judgement reminds His own to flee to Him. I’m convinced that the judgement of God coupled with His sovereign control over the affairs of men and nations explains why Islam seems to be hypnotizing so many…
The west has turned its back on God so He maybe letting the enemies of Jews and Christians punish them. From the Christian view point, it could be signs of His second coming. I say that because of the GLOBAL threat of Islam and the ongoing genocide of Christians worldwide. Whether one is a Christian or a Jew, both hope for the Messiah. Islam is preparing the earth for their 12 Imam, Mahdi, an Arabic word that generally references a messiah, or a guide. Many believe Mahdi’s return is near.
https://www1.cbn.com/onlinediscipleship/12th-imam-key-facet-of-islamic-prophecy-fuels-middle-east-turmoil
Note also that Mayor Kahn Job is a Pakistani Muslim. Inbreeding and rape are notoriously high with them. He is a low IQ Muslim determined to make London a caliphate. He rode the “diversity wave to get elected as Mayor as are other Muslims there and here.
Interesting that both Jews and Muslims are awaiting a Messiah. Both don’t deny that Jesus Christ existed but denigrate Him. Perhaps the reason there will be peace (for a time) is the Mahdi will convince both that he is the one. Our beast…
The west has turned its back on God so He maybe letting the enemies of Jews and Christians punish them. From the Christian view point, it could be signs of His second coming. I say that because of the GLOBAL threat of Islam and the ongoing genocide of Christians worldwide. Whether one is a Christian or a Jew, both want their Messiah, both hope for the Messiah.
Note also that Mayor Kahn Job is a Pakistani Muslim. Inbreeding and rape are notoriously high with them. He is a low IQ Muslim determined to make London a caliphate. He rode the “diversity wave to get elected as Mayor as are other Muslims there and here.
Defiant Mayor Khan: “No Need to be Alarmed. London is Safest City on Planet!”
Kahn has issued a statement to his adoring fans in the Leftist media that London is still the safest city in the world.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has reportedly claimed that London is one of the “safest global cities in the world”, despite two major terror attacks in the city since the beginning of 2017.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has claimed that London is one of, if not the safest, global city in the world according to Sky News reporter Sophy Ridge. Ridge tweeted earlier this morning a full quote from Khan which reads: “I’m reassured that we are one of the safest global cities in the world if not the safest global cities in the world.”
Khan did not clarify where he received the information that proves London is the “safest global city in the world”, but many studies dispute this claim. A report from The Economist on the safest cities in the world does not even include London in the top 10.
In 2015, The Economist‘s Intelligence Unit released a ranking of the world’s safest cities, ranked in order of digital security, health security, infrastructure, and personal safety. In the list, Tokyo was ranked number one with Singapore and Osaka ranked second and third respectively. Number 10 on the list was New York City whilst London sat just below Los Angeles at number 18.
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http://www.truthandaction.org/defiant-mayor-khan-no-need-alarmed-london-safest-city-planet/2/
They’re #1 in knifings!
I weep from a distance for their country and ours. Good people are being murdered, raped, stabbed, shot and acid washed. Muslims doing it are protected by the globalists and media. They were disarmed and now defenseless unless they get creative… Mean while youth, there and here are being brainwashed to accept it and view Islam as a respectable “religion”.
Many of us still contest this situation and do so with a strong fist.
Which is quite an achievement if you take into consideration the difficulty in which they have made obtaining knives.
Kahn’s favourite charity The London Stabathon is doing exceedingly well.
One must be smart to be a good comedian, just compare this gentleman to seth myers or jimmie kimmel, lol!
The lesson here is to not let that happen to the U.S.A. Sure this country was created by immigrants, but those immigrants opted to accept the special qualities that were uniquely American, creating our wonderful society. Those immigrants put in their PAST their foreignness and affirmatively accepted and adopted our language and our special culture. Today, we are seeing an influx of immigrants who refuse to accept and adapt to what to be American is all about. They do not understand that we are a tolerant society and we expect our citizens to be neighborly, rejecting bias and prejudice since we recognize that leads to violence especially where their foreign belief systems have negative consequences here, and that we have adopted equal justice with due process, and that America’s women are not treated as property, nor have they figured out how or why assimilation is in their best interest. That is what is happening in places in Europe, and their special relationship to their nations is dying a slow death, as foreign concepts take hold and being a true citizen of that nation dissipates. We must not let that happen in the states. What we have here is precious, and those immigrants who cannot appreciate that as being a fact of life to live here, ought to be escorted back to their own country, where they would be most comfortable. Those are the facts of life.
I think most of us here would like to see that.
Trump gets no cooperation from the swamp.
The USAs big mistake is allowing the first moslem in. Everything in the koran is anti freedom and anti American.
You are absolutely correct, Dennis. Exactly the same does apply to Australia.
What’s amazing is how many people in the UK are still in denial…
There are also many of us who have been shouting about this reality for years unheeded and willfully ignored.
Keep up the fight. Many Americans with common sense are with you.
Save your country and many Americans heritage.
We will do our best. ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Thanks for your kind words chad.
We who want our freedom are being pushed into guerrilla-warfare.
100% agree with you, My wife and I can feel it in the air.
We might be shouting out the truth but as usual many are stone deaf. When it is to late then perhaps they will start listening>?
Everybody who cares needs to turn up for every patriot event and demonstration.
Now they realise that they are loosing votes they will miraculously hear everything.
Too late for the Tory’s and Labour though as the public have seen right through them.
I used to love London and the last time I was there was in the mid 80th when London was still British. I will not go back there again. I rather remember the city the way it once was. I just don’t like Islamic cities.
I wouldn’t bother going anywhere in Northwestern Eurapia now, if I want to see an islamic ghetto I’ll just go to Dearbornistan, Michigan.
My wife (who lived in London) and I was planning to visit London a couple of years ago, she now doesn’t want anything to do with it now. I used to love London but now I don’t ever want to see it again. The only time I would go back is when we resurrect the British Bull Dog spirit and fight on the streets.
It’s called “normalcy bias”. It can’t happen here (or to me) syndrome.
Interesting story but what does that photo illustrate?????
He is correct!!!!! The British citizens have opened the doors to the parasitic feral animal muslim criminals who want to instill islam on them all. Funny how muslims leave the shitholes they create and then get accepted into other lands that they turn into shitholes due to their doctrine of hate!
NOT the British citizens that have opened the doors but successive Labour and “Conservative” governments.
Time for a new political party that will listen to the people instead of ignoring their complaints of being swamped.
What do you expect? Remember during the 2016 campaign when candidate Trump stated, “Paris isn’t Paris anymore.”?
London isn’t London anymore and Berlin certainly isn’t Berlin anymore, what with the EU’s insane immigration policies.
Worst PM ever? Not by a long shot. Not only has she been shouldering two major tasks, Brexit and running the country, as well as controlling her fractious party. She has not hobnobbed warmly with a fascist dictator, refused to support the campaign against S African apartheid. She also has not destroyed our mining industry and the large number of workers who depended on it from manufacturers of equipment and machinery down to the local shopkeepers who depended on the custom of the miners etc. How much did crushing the miners cost? (we now have to import coal and do open cast mining which destroys the country side).
If my memory serves me well and it does, that was Thatcher; who not only was made a Baroness but also given a royal funeral!
BTW the fascist dictator was Pinochet of Chile who murdered many thousands of his opponents.
Those who are savaging May should dust off their memories.
BTW2 Cleese is 100% correct, I lived in London in the sixties and loved it but I would not go back there now.
Cleese like Condell is an intellect….Here’s a novel thought ,He’s not a coward either…Elites have dough so they’re not subjected to crime ,violence and fear, the hallmark of do gooder immigration policies… my kids have to scrap and defend themselves in working class neighborhoods…Elites live in armed compounds and spout fairness in the sandbox doctrines while we survive with violence
The leftie scum headed up by that feral cow Adern are now trying to destroy NZ by signing that disgusting UN (muslim) migration pact. No where is safe from muslims and their traitorous rotten leftie enablers. Theyre trying to ruin the world by inflicting these muslim scum on to people
He is correct.