Emma Thompson, the actress, has described Exeter as a place where BNP leader Nick Griffin "would feel very comfortable" because it has so few black faces.I'm amazed that Exeter didn't run this rich, dim line-speaker out of town on a rail...
The Oscar-winner said her adopted son, Rwandan-born Tindyebwa Agaba, known to the family as 'Tindy', had a "rough" time as a student at Exeter University and was subjected to racist taunts.Fantastic! Isn't it nice that this woman can take time away from her hectic schedule of speaking words into a camera while avoiding bumping into the scenery and collecting ethnic accoutrements like children from around the world to come and lecture the denizens of Kernow on their proper place in the world?
His experiences prompted Thompson to instigate a cultural awareness campaign on campus, aimed at promoting racial equality.
I wonder if they have the Wicker Man tradition down there? If so, I'll give them a hand with the weaving.
Oh, and the 'incidents' she refers to?
Tindy, 22, graduated this summer with a 2:1 in politics and is now studying for a master's degree at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. He brought the issue of racism in the Devon city to the foreground last year, when he wrote in an essay: "I find it incredible that I am the only African student in the entire politics department." He described two incidents of racist abuse, one by a group of "nerds" and another by "three or four tattooed and macho-looking bouncers" outside a nightclub.Two incidents? Two?
And for this, Devon and Cornwall have to put up with being lectured by this ghastly woman? Well, there's another few thousand votes for the BNP. Well done, Emma. Well done indeed...
Along with that Alibaba-Brown woman, Thompson is guaranteed to set my teeth on edge as soon as she opens her mouth. Invariably what comes out is the usual handwringing liberal clodswollop. In her case it has got worse since she 'adopted' young Tindy. A nice act indeed, rescuing him from the ghastly horrors of life in Rwanda but for God's sake you'd think his life was intolerable over here compared to there. He has sanctuary in a wealthy family and has been given opportunities beyond his wildest dreams and he has taken full advantage to his credit - he could after all have had a career chopping off limbs before being killed at a young age, or he could really develop a large 56lb bag of McCain's oven ready chips across his back with the help of La La Thompson. Give it a rest you silly tart!
ReplyDelete"BNP leader Nick Griffin "would feel very comfortable" because it has so few black faces. "
ReplyDeleteYet oddly enough the BNP haven't even put up candidates in Devon of late, they seem to flourish in the kind of "diverse" environments that she favours.
Julia, you might want to take a look at this:
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If that doesn't work you'll find it on page 6 of the e-edition of the East London Advertiser
http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/e-edition/eastlondonadvertiser/
"A nice act indeed, rescuing him from the ghastly horrors of life in Rwanda but for God's sake you'd think his life was intolerable over here compared to there."
ReplyDeleteIndeed. I note that at least Madonna and Angelina Jolie have had the sense to keep their traps shut...
"...they seem to flourish in the kind of "diverse" environments that she favours."
Odd, that, isn't it?
"Julia, you might want to take a look at this..."
The Ronnie Kray crucifixion, I take it?
Sorry I didn't make that clear, it's the racism among children story, which tragically shows that Tower Hamlets has very high levels of it, largely perpetrated by Bangladeshi children.
ReplyDeleteYes, I concur. Luton for example is predominantly asian but nobody says "What can we do change the browness of Luton?"
ReplyDeleteAt least if I do decide to come back, I know where to move to now :)
I wonder if it's acceptable to ask whether it's the homogenous whiteness of Devon and Cornwall which results in their seeing no redeeming features whatever in the BNP?
ReplyDelete"Sorry I didn't make that clear, it's the racism among children story..."
ReplyDeleteAhh, right. It's on page 5 - I think it's not unusual for these e-editions to shuffle stories around amongst their differing area editions.
"The term 'Kala Bandar' - meaning 'black monkey' - is said to be the racist term most regularly used among the kids."
My god, imagine the CiF column if this was a predominantly white school! Instead, it seems to have flown right under the radar.
How very odd...
"Luton for example is predominantly asian but nobody says "What can we do change the browness of Luton?""
I'm pretty sure there are some tribes in the Amazon with no white members, no disabled members, etc. What are we to do? ;)
Emma Thompson. The towering intellect who needs to be taken step-by-step through the concept that drugging and raping a 13 year-old girl is what is known as a "crime."
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Perhaps Emma thinks the BNP should get involved because of the lack of racism?
ReplyDeleteSlurs like this do not help and it goes to show that fame does not equal intelligence.
Staybrite, hard to believe that Emma Thompson has a daughter and apparently had the intellect to get into Cambridge.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking as an alumnus of Exeter University, and knowing what their politics students are like, I am amazed there were only two incidents this individual disapproved of.
ReplyDeleteThese showbiz women who decide to become earth mothers by serially adopting strings of black african babies, as if they were novelties to hang on a charm bracelet, something they can flaunt as an accessory, like a handbag you could never afford, should not impress any of us.
ReplyDeleteAnd racism is when you assign some character flaw to an entire racial group, just because you have seen that flaw in a small number of individuals in that race. They must be all the same, these Exeter folk, because they are all the same colour as those two blokes. On this basis, she airily maligns all the good folk of Exeter.
Monty
So, is there any correlation between Exeter's whiteness and lack of gang rape, gun crime and knifings? (relative lack in some cases).
ReplyDeleteNot a racist, personally, but sick of 'our leaders' refusing to address the issues related to mass immigration from the shiteholes of the world. And indeed their desperation to hide the ethnicity of miscreants.
You can only address issues intelligently if you have the objective facts. Politicians and civil servants of most ilks are determined to infantilise us and call anyone questioning their 'wisdom' racists.
One of Leg-Iron's fines works was, and is, "We're all racists now"
HI, Emma actually is a thinking person, but I think in this case she was a mother defending her son. When approached about her signature of the Polanski petition and the real facts of the case, she withdrew her signature. This just happened this weekend..
ReplyDeletesee http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2009/11/emma-update.html
for details.
If Devon and Cornwall were "re-engineered" to have an "acceptable" proportion of ethnic minorities, those white metropolitan liberals who moved there from London would have to up sticks and move somewhere else again.
ReplyDeleteShe should've wandered down Newquay main street, prior to Carol Thatchers recent troubles, and seen the number of golliwogs available in shop windows! You can still get them in places near Redruth...
ReplyDeleteAfter a couple of decades of living in area of high tensions with various asian groups, I can say being in Cornwall and Devon is heavenly for the lack of it, and they're certainly on my 'places to retire to' list.
As for why they're so white, it's due to their being little corporate investment in those two counties, meaning few employment opportunities, meaning people of working age don't move there in general.
Perhaps Thomson should follow her adopted son's atitude and develop an education...
Cornwall Council’s 'Children’s Schools and Families Equality and Diversity Service' are absolutley desperate to find enough minorities in the County to justify their existence.
ReplyDeleteAnd of course - their generous salaries.
Cornwall celebrates diversity.
Their latest scheme is spending our money on - Celebrating Pikeys.
Oops - sorry - Celebrating Gypsy Roma and New Age Travellers.
Check this out:
http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=19089
Meanwhile my daughter's school don't have enough money to pay for essential textbooks.
Em's not a thinking person, though. She's a spoilt thesp who went straight from Cambridge to Hollywood and has got the idea that because words come out of her mouth she must be very clever. She isn't. Somebody else writes the words.
ReplyDeleteIn the case of Polanski, Em showing some guts and original thought would have been manifested one of two ways:
a) refuse to sign the petition in the first place, even if it meant being snubbed by one's luvvy mates
or
b) stick by her signature on the grounds that if the original penalty deal had been kept, he would have served the time for the admitted offence (which was short of the real offence, but you all know how the law game works) and would not have cut n' run.
Instead, what she did was defend a kiddy fiddler without thinking about her actions, then, when it became obvious that she would be hit in the pocket, decided to run away quickly pretending not to have known what she was doing. How well-informed and clever is that?
I'd have rather more respect for her if she'd jammed her heels in and refused to condemn a rapist she's supposed to be such great mates with, and hang the consequences.
For anyone who is still puzzled by all this: Polanski himself set off the trend for libel-shopping when he sued Vanity Fair in London over a 30-year old piece of gossip which probably wasn't true, but didn't really matter. Mr Justice Eady (yes, him again) agreed Polanski could give testimony from Paris as it was understood that he never left France. Only that turns out to have been a lie.
Schillings - another name which comes as no surprise - acted for him and, incredibly, won the case for him. However the legal costs vastly exceeded the damages. What the case did was to remind everybody in the world - but apparently not Emma - that Polanski had a conviction for a serious chid-sex offence. After 30 years most people had forgotten. More evidence of Emma's fantastic current awareness, if she didn't even notice the story.
Anyway, for ref: the quickest way to get your child in to the school of your choice is to become a traveller. Then you have absolute priority over everyone, even the special needs, even those living next door and with siblings at the school, and in primary schools they may be obliged to take in a traveller's child even if they are over legal maximums for class size.
I'm probably going to put myself down as a traveller at the next census. It's as good as anything else. People in Devon and Cornwall should start ticking the Roma box right now and create thousands of ethnic classifications to keep the jobsworths happy. Emma will enjoy it too - D&C will go diverse over night, proving what an effective campaingner she is.
Just to spell it out: when Polanski sued Vanity Fair over a stupid bit of ancient gossip, setting the precedent for libel shopping and putting the magazine to a great deal of trouble and expense which was only partly recouped in increased sales due to the controversy, he guaranteed that the US celebrity press would want to skin him alive the first chance it got.
ReplyDeleteThen he gave them the chance to do it.
"Emma Thompson. The towering intellect who needs to be taken step-by-step through the concept that drugging and raping a 13 year-old girl is what is known as a "crime.""
ReplyDeleteQuite. Will be interesting to see if she does honour that promise, won't it?
"On this basis, she airily maligns all the good folk of Exeter."
Some racism is good racism, apparently...
"HI, Emma actually is a thinking person..."
But as staybryte and WoaR pointed out, that doesn't really take a lot of brainpower to figure out, does it..?
"Perhaps Thomson should follow her adopted son's atitude and develop an education..."
I suspect she's one of those luvvies who sincerely believes it's everyone else who needs educating...
"Meanwhile my daughter's school don't have enough money to pay for essential textbooks."
ReplyDeleteOne of the reasons this 'diversity' nonsense should be the first thing Cameron's new government stifles.
But it won't be...
"...he guaranteed that the US celebrity press would want to skin him alive the first chance it got."
They turn on their favoured people with such frequency you'd think even the dumbest sleb would be wise to that now, wouldn't you?
Devon and Cornwall have very low levels of most types of crime, the main ones are drug related but these are not funded by house burglary, mugging or car theft which are all extremly low; the main source of criminal funding is shoplifting, a "victimless crime" and virtually all major crimes are committed by visitors using the M5 as a quick getaway.
ReplyDeleteFar from changing the Whiteness of Devon and Cornwall it is being reinforced as a result of White Flight from London and the southeast, rude to say I know but it is so.
Steve over at PubPhilosopher has nailed this quite nicely.
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