OT Azeem Rafiq inquiry

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

I thought the word paki was banned?

[crashbang]

unbelievable Jeff. won't get that pic on BBC news.

[CAMiller]

All this living together makes me laugh, this happened about 5yrs ago..............

I was waiting for my well known Taxi back to Greasboro outside what is now "The Sports Bar". I could sense someone behind me and when i turned round it was a women of eastern European looks. She was after a quick £5. When the Taxi turned up and on telling him(Pakistani) what she'd said he replied, " Dirty ******* Roma, we'll burn them out"....I laughed all the way to the Prince....

All living together at it's finest.............lol.

The big question though is was your wallet £5 lighter

[great_fire]

That's not Azeem Rafiq.

That's a Pakistani indoor cricket team based in Melbourne, Australia.

I guess it's not racist there.

[mygiddypant]

Whatever the rights and wrongs of all this - like others I am concerned that the BBC and most other media outlets wet themselves if given an oppourtunity to bang the PC drum -all the better if it involves giving some northerners a good kicking.

You would be naive to think 'racism' and racist comments have been eliminated and if you look far enough and backward enough you will find it. What rankles with me in this case is this everything on one side is accepted as true with the purest of motives.Anybody suggesting anything different will be 'cancelled'. This is not a sign of a healthy democratic society. By all means challenge racism but lets have some balance to the issue.

Your post has no balance jockey; "the BBC and most other media outlets wet themselves if given an oppourtunity to bang the PC drum -all the better if it involves giving some northerners a good kicking." Really? This is a familiar meme beloved by the extreme right whose idea of a 'balanced' view is QAnon

[Townerslovechild]

It's a joke.. just like you are. Let's see your statsand evidence for defaming an entire county you prat. I'm sick of your sort - all playground name calling and nothing to back it up.
By the way I'm just looking at a picture of Rafiq... in a Paki Power shirt!!!
Get real and f off with your PC pals

Your 'jokes' are obviously far too clever for for me,the thread was about racism in Yorkshire, I'm a Yorkshire man living in Yorkshire, that's what I was commenting on,I suspect its pretty much the same in every county in England.......you prat.

[great_fire]

The BBC does love to stick it to Northerners.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

That's not Azeem Rafiq.

That's a Pakistani indoor cricket team based in Melbourne, Australia.

I guess it's not racist there.

The issues in Oz are more related to Chinese and Vietnamese rather than Pakistan.

Australia has long had a system where you need to have a provable skill base and a job to go to. Rather than letting in a Pakistani roadsweeper and his family following.

[Lolmorgan]

One of England's best young cricketers has been banned from all matches for a month, after calling the national under-19 coach a "****er" on Twitter.
Azeem Rafiq was banned and fined £500 for his tirade about the England Under-19 coach, John Abrahams. The Yorkshire al-lrounder's obscene outburst came last week, after he was dropped from the under-19 team to face Sri Lanka, when it is thought his habit of staying out after agreed curfews during matches became an issue.
Rafiq, under-19 captain before he was first disciplined, pleaded guilty to two charges considered by an ECB cricket discipline commission panel.

The England and Wales Cricket Board ruled at a hearing that the ****ager was guilty of a serious breach of regulations – "breach of directives by personal attack in a public statement about England U19 team manager John Abrahams and also bringing the game into disrepute by that public statement".
Rafiq will be unable to play for his county, country or club until one month after the date of his offence, 26 July. His angry attack on Abrahams also landed him a suspension from Yorkshire pending the ECB inquiry.
On his Twitter feed Rafiq wrote: "What a ****ing farsee [sic]. ECB prove it again what incompetent people are working for them." Next day, he tweeted again: "John Abrahams is a useless ****er." Rafiq took the comments down once he realised they were publicly available.
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Not that squeaky clean his he.

[gru]

Can't say anything now but is this England! what last Sunday was about? England isn't about suicide bombers grooming etc...

Remembrance Sunday I meant.