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By Zorz
#628849
bill33 έγραψε:https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/priti-patel-immigration-laws-points-uk-deportation-low-skilled-a9347566.html?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=Feed

< G (5S) >


Δεν είναι τυχαίο, ούτε πρόσφατο αυτό. Η Patel είναι μια από τους συγγραφείς του βιβλίου Britannia Unchained (οι περισσότεροι από αυτούς είναι καίρια μέλη της κυβέρνησης) που είναι σχεδιάγραμμα του πώς θέλει αυτή η μερίδα της δεξιάς να αλλάξει τη χώρα. Στο βιβλίο κράζουν τους ίδιους τους πολίτες τους ως τεμπέληδες:

The British are among the worst idlers in the world. We work among the lowest hours, we retire early and our productivity is poor. Whereas Indian children aspire to be doctors or businessmen, the British are more interested in football and pop music.


Και φυσικά η φανταστική ιδέα τους να αντικαταστήσουν τους μετανάστες που δουλεύουν στα χωράφια με συνταξιούχους, ανάπηρους, φοιτητές και νοικοκυρές δεν είναι καινούρια:

“When a colleague suggested the move would be unpopular with farmers, who would no longer find it easy to employ cheap labour for the back-breaking work, defiant Mr Paterson replied: ‘Oh, but I’ve thought of that, I think I have the answer. We’ll try to get more British pensioners picking some of the fruit and vegetables in the fields instead. Of course, getting pensioners to do this work could lead to an increase in farmers’ costs. After all, they may be a bit slower doing the work. I’ve thought of that too. We might arrange to exempt British pensioners from the minimum-wage laws, to allow them to do this work.’”

Laws added: “Cabinet colleagues, even the more rightwing Tories, listened in stunned silence.”


Πραγματικά η παραπάνω περιγραφή μου θύμισε αυτό:


:s_rofl
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By belgarion
#628873 Μετριοπαθή τον βρίσκω αφού δεν προτείνει να εργάζονται και τα παιδιά, λες και δεν έχουν σχετική εμπειρία από την βιομηχανική επανάσταση

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By markvag
#628902 Εγώ πάλι δεν ξέρω γιατί, αλλά ώρες ώρες μου φαίνεται πως ο κόσμος μοιάζει ολοένα και περισσότερο ένα σόου των Monty Python γραμμένο από μία διασταύρωση μπουλντόγκ με λάχανο.
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By sknipper
#628908
markvag έγραψε:Εγώ πάλι δεν ξέρω γιατί, αλλά ώρες ώρες μου φαίνεται πως ο κόσμος μοιάζει ολοένα και περισσότερο ένα σόου των Monty Python γραμμένο από μία διασταύρωση μπουλντόγκ με λάχανο.
:metalo:
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By Zorz
#629234 Πάρτε ένα υπογλώσσιο πρώτα πριν το διαβάσετε, γιατί τόσο συμπυκνωμένη |λογοκρισία| δεν έχω ξανασυναντήσει:

Brexit Britain is the true heir to Ancient Greece – just ask the Elgin Marbles

In the great debate over whether Britain should return the Elgin Marbles to Athens – as Greece is demanding as its price for signing off an EU free trade deal – no-one seems to have asked the Marbles themselves. So I went along to The British Museum yesterday to interview them, and this is what I got from the horse’s mouth – literally so, as it was one of the four horses who draws the moon goddess Selene’s chariot who chatted to me, although he made it clear he was also speaking for the oxen, centaurs, heroes, magistrates, pipe-players, water jar-bearers, and even Zeus himself.

“Look,” he said, “we’re the product of a creative culture that is credited with the invention of such aspects of modern western civilisation as democracy, history, philosophy, medicine, and drama. Now, let’s take a look at which of those are best represented in modern-day Britain, and which in modern-day Greece. We loved being born in Athens in the 5th century BC, don’t get me wrong, but that doesn’t mean that we have to spend the whole of the next two and a half millennia there if other countries now embody the values and ideals that we represent.

“When it comes to democracy, you can’t compare Britain – which has just asserted its democratic right to self-determination through Brexit – to that sad satrapy of the European Union, modern-day Greece, which was a military dictatorship within living memory and is regularly rocked by political movements such as the neo-fascist Golden Dawn party.

“I need hardly tell you, Andrew, that in Britain today, history-writing is going through a golden age (probably because it is taught so badly in schools). You are currently mourning a great philosopher in Sir Roger Scruton. In medicine, you have won 30 Nobel prizes since 1901, against none for Greece. Your West End dwarves the land of Euripides and Aeschylus in terms of drama. You British are the modern heirs of Pericles and Thucydides, not the modern-day Greeks.

“Admittedly I’m a horse, but the human figures in the frieze also transcend the present to envision an ideal society, representing timeless humanity. Of the past 25 centuries of existence, our best two have been spent here, in a country that represents our values. The very fact that Greece is trying to use us as a blackmail tool over a post-Brexit free trade agreement demonstrates what kind of a country it is.

“Please don’t send us back to a country with 35 per cent youth unemployment, a national debt of 181.2 per cent of GDP, an economy about 30 per cent smaller than it was 10 years ago, and a falling population. We represent the glory that was Ancient Greece, but now we have much more to say to a dynamic, independent nation led by an Oxford classicist than to modern-day Greece.

“Also, don’t forget that the Marbles are the product not just of 5th century BC Athens, but of earlier cultures, too. Historians have noted the similarities between the Panathenaic process of the frieze and the procession of offerings brought before the seated dignitaries on the Standard of Ur from 2,600 BC, just around the corner from us, here in the museum. When the Athenians lost the Peloponnesian War to Sparta in 404 BC, the masons and sculptors who had worked under Phidias creating us were forced across the Aegean Sea to seek work in what is now Turkey, and you can see their legacy everywhere.

“So when woke students bleat about ‘cultural appropriation’ whenever stag-nighters wear Mexican sombreros, they forget – or never knew – that all culture is by definition cultural appropriation, and we Marbles are no exception. We belong to the world, not just to Greece, and where better to be seen than in one of the world’s greatest museums? Why should you want to send us back to smoggy Athens where we wouldn’t be visited by anything like the over six million visitors who came to The British Museum in 2018/19?

“We also think it would be disrespectful to the memory of that splendid nobleman Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, who salvaged us from the wreck of the Parthenon between 1801 and 1812. (It’s why we like to call ourselves the Elgin Marbles, by the way, rather than 'Parthenon Marbles', which the Greek Government’s PR department came up with, and which locks us into one geographical place.)

“The Parthenon in our time there was rocked by earthquakes, ravaged by fire, vandalised by Christian iconoclasts, turned into a church, and subsequently a mosque, bombarded, blown up in 1687, quarried for building materials, and subjected to all sorts of restorations, some good, some bad. If that had happened to your home, would you want to go back? Instead, since 1816 we’ve been part of the British Museum’s encyclopedia of knowledge, and after two centuries we feel much more British than Greek (except possibly Dionysus, who’s almost permanently drunk, part of his job description).

“Because we used to be so high up on the Acropolis, we are much better known today than even by the ancients themselves. And when it comes to the glory that was Greece, look at the Olympics, which were created there – like us. Compare the mismanagement of the 2004 Athens Olympics which helped fuel the Greek debt crisis and where the facilities were left to rot, with the 2012 London Olympics, which showed how much better London could do with an originally Greek idea.

“We have long stood, in the words of one historian, as ‘transcending national boundaries and epitomising universal and enduring values of excellence.’ So please don’t send us back to the country which has the highest amount of anti-Semitism outside the Middle East, with no fewer than 69 per cent of the population harbouring such attitudes. According to Transparency International, Greece is also one of the most corrupt countries in Europe.

“We remember being visited here by John Keats in March 1817, which is not so long ago when you were made two and a half millennia ago. ‘When old age shall this generation waste,’ he wrote in Ode on a Grecian Urn, ‘Thou shalt remain.’ Please don’t trade us in as part of some ignoble deal to secure a trade deal from the EU. We’re British now.”

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By markvag
#629250
Zorz έγραψε:Πάρτε ένα υπογλώσσιο πρώτα πριν το διαβάσετε, γιατί τόσο συμπυκνωμένη |λογοκρισία| δεν έχω ξανασυναντήσει:

Brexit Britain is the true heir to Ancient Greece – just ask the Elgin Marbles

In the great debate over whether Britain should return the Elgin Marbles to Athens – as Greece is demanding as its price for signing off an EU free trade deal – no-one seems to have asked the Marbles themselves. So I went along to The British Museum yesterday to interview them, and this is what I got from the horse’s mouth – literally so, as it was one of the four horses who draws the moon goddess Selene’s chariot who chatted to me, although he made it clear he was also speaking for the oxen, centaurs, heroes, magistrates, pipe-players, water jar-bearers, and even Zeus himself.

“Look,” he said, “we’re the product of a creative culture that is credited with the invention of such aspects of modern western civilisation as democracy, history, philosophy, medicine, and drama. Now, let’s take a look at which of those are best represented in modern-day Britain, and which in modern-day Greece. We loved being born in Athens in the 5th century BC, don’t get me wrong, but that doesn’t mean that we have to spend the whole of the next two and a half millennia there if other countries now embody the values and ideals that we represent.

“When it comes to democracy, you can’t compare Britain – which has just asserted its democratic right to self-determination through Brexit – to that sad satrapy of the European Union, modern-day Greece, which was a military dictatorship within living memory and is regularly rocked by political movements such as the neo-fascist Golden Dawn party.

“I need hardly tell you, Andrew, that in Britain today, history-writing is going through a golden age (probably because it is taught so badly in schools). You are currently mourning a great philosopher in Sir Roger Scruton. In medicine, you have won 30 Nobel prizes since 1901, against none for Greece. Your West End dwarves the land of Euripides and Aeschylus in terms of drama. You British are the modern heirs of Pericles and Thucydides, not the modern-day Greeks.

“Admittedly I’m a horse, but the human figures in the frieze also transcend the present to envision an ideal society, representing timeless humanity. Of the past 25 centuries of existence, our best two have been spent here, in a country that represents our values. The very fact that Greece is trying to use us as a blackmail tool over a post-Brexit free trade agreement demonstrates what kind of a country it is.

“Please don’t send us back to a country with 35 per cent youth unemployment, a national debt of 181.2 per cent of GDP, an economy about 30 per cent smaller than it was 10 years ago, and a falling population. We represent the glory that was Ancient Greece, but now we have much more to say to a dynamic, independent nation led by an Oxford classicist than to modern-day Greece.

“Also, don’t forget that the Marbles are the product not just of 5th century BC Athens, but of earlier cultures, too. Historians have noted the similarities between the Panathenaic process of the frieze and the procession of offerings brought before the seated dignitaries on the Standard of Ur from 2,600 BC, just around the corner from us, here in the museum. When the Athenians lost the Peloponnesian War to Sparta in 404 BC, the masons and sculptors who had worked under Phidias creating us were forced across the Aegean Sea to seek work in what is now Turkey, and you can see their legacy everywhere.

“So when woke students bleat about ‘cultural appropriation’ whenever stag-nighters wear Mexican sombreros, they forget – or never knew – that all culture is by definition cultural appropriation, and we Marbles are no exception. We belong to the world, not just to Greece, and where better to be seen than in one of the world’s greatest museums? Why should you want to send us back to smoggy Athens where we wouldn’t be visited by anything like the over six million visitors who came to The British Museum in 2018/19?

“We also think it would be disrespectful to the memory of that splendid nobleman Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, who salvaged us from the wreck of the Parthenon between 1801 and 1812. (It’s why we like to call ourselves the Elgin Marbles, by the way, rather than 'Parthenon Marbles', which the Greek Government’s PR department came up with, and which locks us into one geographical place.)

“The Parthenon in our time there was rocked by earthquakes, ravaged by fire, vandalised by Christian iconoclasts, turned into a church, and subsequently a mosque, bombarded, blown up in 1687, quarried for building materials, and subjected to all sorts of restorations, some good, some bad. If that had happened to your home, would you want to go back? Instead, since 1816 we’ve been part of the British Museum’s encyclopedia of knowledge, and after two centuries we feel much more British than Greek (except possibly Dionysus, who’s almost permanently drunk, part of his job description).

“Because we used to be so high up on the Acropolis, we are much better known today than even by the ancients themselves. And when it comes to the glory that was Greece, look at the Olympics, which were created there – like us. Compare the mismanagement of the 2004 Athens Olympics which helped fuel the Greek debt crisis and where the facilities were left to rot, with the 2012 London Olympics, which showed how much better London could do with an originally Greek idea.

“We have long stood, in the words of one historian, as ‘transcending national boundaries and epitomising universal and enduring values of excellence.’ So please don’t send us back to the country which has the highest amount of anti-Semitism outside the Middle East, with no fewer than 69 per cent of the population harbouring such attitudes. According to Transparency International, Greece is also one of the most corrupt countries in Europe.

“We remember being visited here by John Keats in March 1817, which is not so long ago when you were made two and a half millennia ago. ‘When old age shall this generation waste,’ he wrote in Ode on a Grecian Urn, ‘Thou shalt remain.’ Please don’t trade us in as part of some ignoble deal to secure a trade deal from the EU. We’re British now.”




Κάπου στη δεύτερη με τρίτη παράγραφο το μυαλό δέθηκε τόσο κόμπο που αδυνατώ να διαβάσω παρακάτω... :help:
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By bill33
#629283
MIXOStsi έγραψε:ακριβώς το ίδιο έπαθα... :lol:

Ευτυχώς το διάβασα απο το site οπότε με προφύλαξε το subscribe!!!

Kαλά τα σχόλια ειναι :dizzy: :dizzy:
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By mousatos
#629323 Δε με εκπλήσσει ούτε το άρθρο ούτε κάποια από τα σχόλια , τους έχω ψυχολογήσει το πόσο σωβινιστές είναι.
Οι ΝεοΖηλανδοί είναι χειρότεροι από όλους τους αγγλοσάξωνες πάντως. αυτούς και τους Αυστραλούς βλέπανε στο UK και τους τρέχανε τα σάλια, δεν άντεξαν άλλο να νταλαβερίζονται με την πλέμπα και το πάτησαν το κουμπί.
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By dimviii
#682641 Εκλεισε η ιστορική συμφωνία ΕΕ-Βρετανίας για το εμπόριο

«Λευκός καπνός» βγήκε από τις Βρυξέλλες μετα από μαραθώνιες διαπραγματεύσεις εννιά μηνών και λίγο πριν τη λήξη της μεταβατικής περιόδου για το Brexit. Επιτύχαμε τους στόχους του δημοψηφίσματος, είπε Βρετανός εκπρόσωπος.

https://www.euro2day.gr/news/world/arti ... o-emp.html