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

[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?

[rolymiller]

Wiki? Did you write it yourself?

[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

[great_fire]

Edward 8th actually tried to

Did you not read what I posted?

They were working for the Nazi war effort for 2 years.

[Exiletyke]

Did you not read what I posted?

They were working for the Nazi war effort for 2 years.

And I would not seek to agree with them

Did you not read what I posted ?
so did Edward 8th

[rolymiller]

Makes a difference to bollax.

[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...

[ragingpup]

I was talking about Porridge though...

Lol. Comedy gold!

[great_fire]

Lol. Comedy gold!

It was indeed, great show.

And the writers weren't ridiculing Fletch or people like Fletch so you were talking balls.