O/T DDay for Brexit..well sort of...

[rolymiller]

Makes a difference to bollax.

[Exiletyke]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commun...n#1939_to_1956

Also read "I Believed" by Douglas Hyde which explains how they disrupted British war production.

Whilst we should all be grateful for the efforts of Churchill in prosecuting the war effort we should not overlook his desire to maimtain the Empire as a major driving force

[Stovicmiller]

And didn't our wonderful royals attend the funeral of Hirohito under whose name appalling attrocities were committed
How do you square that one?

45 years after ww2 and maybe the royals were acting has the governments representatives. Do you dream bout soviet Russia is it a turn on

[Exiletyke]

Yes they absolutely were. The bigots who Alf Garnett were based on were being ridiculed throughout. As the writers went to great lengths to say over the years!

In short, I'm afraid, over the last 50 years, when we have been laughing at Alf Garnett we are laughing at bigots. Like you. Priceless that you can't see it.

So when the writers had Garnett standing to attention when ever the Queen was mentioned they weren't taking the p!ss then?

[ragingpup]

So when the writers had Garnett standing to attention when ever the Queen was mentioned they weren't taking the p!ss then?

I fear so...

[rolymiller]

45 years after ww2 and maybe the royals were acting has the governments representatives. Do you dream bout soviet Russia is it a turn on

Do you dream about the royals? Is it a turn on?

[ragingpup]

I was talking about Porridge though...

Lol. Comedy gold!

[Exiletyke]

45 years after ww2 and maybe the royals were acting has the governments representatives. Do you dream bout soviet Russia is it a turn on

Why must you persist in this obsession with Soviet Russia I certainly didn't bring it up & I am no communist
We as a nation should not even have considered attending Hirohito's funeral
do you not understand that non of our Royals attended the funerals of any Nazis or Nazi sympathisers
Oh I forgot Edward 8th

[great_fire]

Wiki? Did you write it yourself?

Douglas Hyde - "I Believed"

Chapter IX - "Working for Defeat"

There were by now large numbers of Party members who had succeeded in getting into the services; new members were being made and in each of the three Services they were working on existing discontents as a means of spreading disaffection. Those agitations could be spread if we aided them from outside, and that was to be the purpose of the planned publication.

When some of the more popular types of papers began to interest themselves in production scandals in the factories we came into our own. Anything which suggested that the war was a racket and which lowered the confidence of the people in the war leaders and in Britain's war effort was grist to our mill. I found plenty of such stories and fed then regularly to selected national dailies and Sundays-especially to the widely-read tabloids.

In Napiers aircraft works we had by the Spring of 1941 got twenty-five per cent of the workers organised in the Party. The shop stewards, the majority of whom were communists, strengthened their position in the factory to the point where each was a dictator in his own department.

"I could get a strike over a cup of tea," a shop stewards' convener told me. I accused him of boasting, challenging him to prove it. He won.

He called a mass factory meeting in working hours to protest at the quality of the tea, moved a resolution that no more work be done until they had received an undertaking from the management that there would be an improvement. The great works, engaged in building bombers, came to a standstill, and the power of the Party was effectively demonstrated. All over the country our people had success in getting such positions.

They could have actually helped Nazi Germany win the war.

[Exiletyke]

Douglas Hyde - "I Believed"

Chapter IX - "Working for Defeat"







They could have actually helped Nazi Germany win the war.

Edward 8th actually tried to