Laurence Fox. The twat.

[steeplejack]

Lawrence is about as relevant as a Cornish language dictionary in preparing for an exam in astrophysics. In Korean.

 

[8ball]

That’s your best one to date, I reckon.

 

[krtek a houby]

Laurence is on Twitter, lying and being racist (again)

19.9k likes.

That's more depressing than the poisonous tweet.

 

[King Biscuit Time]

That's just the one miserable racist cunt you used to find in every pub in the country and who everyone used to tell to fuck off.

Only difference is Twitter has put them all in the same place.

 

[klang]

Have never understood why Guyanese people (Lammy's parents, he's British of course) are Carribean and not South American. I mean, I understand that it was a British colony so it's culturally connected to Carribean islands more than Brazil or Venezuela but surely being pedantic about geograhy is more important?

I think it's access to the Carribbean sea.
A thick jungle makes it difficult to get to neighbouring countries over land. Trinidad etc is a lot easier to get to, hence there is more cultural exchange.

 

[Lotte]

Laurence is on Twitter, lying and being racist (again)

So is he going to be endorsing Badenoch or does he think she's Nigerian?

 

[isvicthere?]

So is he going to be endorsing Badenoch or does he think she's Nigerian?

Call him old-fashioned, but he thinks the British Leader of the Opposition should be British, not African.

Or something.

 

[kalidarkone]

Call him old-fashioned, but he thinks the British Leader of the Opposition should be British, not African.

Or something.

He thinks they should be white not black.

 

[maomao]

Lammy has dual nationality. Which is Fox's 'I'm not really a racist' angle on this one (I'm not arguing that he's not a racist, just that that's his angle). Parliament don't keep a list of MP's or cabinet members' other nationalities. I'm sure there's quite a few.

 

[two sheds]

I doubt he'd have concerns over someone with dual Caribbean nationality if they were white, though.

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

Boris Johnson is an American.

Incidentally Johnson is American slang for penis.

 

[tim]

Boris Johnson is an American.

Incidentally Johnson is American slang for penis.

He claims to have relinquished his citizenship at some point

 

[Orang Utan]

I doubt he'd have concerns over someone with dual Caribbean nationality if they were white, though.

I don’t think he disapproves of Churchill or Johnson

 

[isvicthere?]

He thinks they should be white not black.

Well, I imagine in his world white = "British" and "Caribbean"/"African" = not "British".

 

[ouirdeaux]

To be fair to Johnson, and it pains me, he did renounce his citizenship when he found out he was American. The story of how he discovered this is amusing. He was flying with his family somewhere that involved a stopover in the US, and an official noticed that he had been born in New York. That made him an American citizen, something he had never realised. And US laws say that you have to use your American passport to enter and leave the country, no matter what other nationalities you have. So he couldn't continue his trip. (Either they've cracked down on this post 9/11, or I was lucky, as in 1994 I travelled to the US on my British passport, which gives my American birthplace, and nobody said anything.)

 

[Orang Utan]

What a shame, we could have had Johnson as US President!

 

[Lotte]

As if the Yanks haven't suffered enough.

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

Many places in the US are just copied names anyway due to lack of imagination.
I mean why go to another Birmingham?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

To be fair to Johnson, and it pains me, he did renounce his citizenship when he found out he was American. The story of how he discovered this is amusing. He was flying with his family somewhere that involved a stopover in the US, and an official noticed that he had been born in New York. That made him an American citizen, something he had never realised. And US laws say that you have to use your American passport to enter and leave the country, no matter what other nationalities you have. So he couldn't continue his trip. (Either they've cracked down on this post 9/11, or I was lucky, as in 1994 I travelled to the US on my British passport, which gives my American birthplace, and nobody said anything.)

Had similar, a customer's dad is British, his mum holds Austrian and US citizenship. The kid had travelled in and out of the US all his life on his UK passport. He got a place in Uni in the US and needed a student visa, applied only to be told that he is a US citizen due to his mum, they granted him a US passport the very next day.

 

[tim]

A Sudanese colleague was told that because he'd been deported from the Netherlands, he would be unlikely to be granted a British visa. However, as he'd been born in Edinburgh before 1983, they could issue him a British passport.

 

[petee]

Many places in the US are just copied names anyway due to lack of imagination.

or, they were named after old home towns, which is understandable. or the deliciously sonorant native names were kept. but y'know, septics.

 

[Orang Utan]

or, they were named after old home towns, which is understandable. or the deliciously sonorant native names were kept. but y'know, septics.

Then there’s places like Hell, Boring and Truth Or Consequences. I’ll never get bored looking at maps of the states (or anywhere else on land tbf)

(Don’t you mean sonorous rather than sonorant, btw? Unless there’s somewhere in South Dakota called Mmmmmmmmm)

 

[Yossarian]

or, they were named after old home towns, which is understandable. or the deliciously sonorant native names were kept. but y'know, septics.

In Birmingham's case, it was because the president of a land company building a new city where a railroad under construction would come close to iron ore and coal deposits was very impressed by the other Birmingham

....the most conclusive evidence points to Powell. This is supported by the fact that he had recently toured Birmingham, England, that country’s second-largest city and the leading center of the Industrial Revolution, and was inspired by the massive iron works there. In 1930, Powell’s daughter, Mary Powell Crane, recalled in her biography of her father that he was “greatly impressed by the industries” of the English city and “never tired of telling about his visit” there.

Also probably because the rest of the shortlist wasn't too inspiring: There was also Powellton and Morriston, as well as Muddtown, the last after Judge William S. Mudd, also a shareholder in the Elyton Land Company

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Never understood the animosity towards the US using names from the Old World.

Give you a map and ask you to come up with 20,000 names for places on that map, off you pop…

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Ffs there’s two Waltons in Surrey…

 

[brogdale]

Ffs there’s two Waltons in Surrey…

Goodnight John Boy

 

[klang]

A friend of mine moved from Rainham / Essex to Rainham / Kent. True story.

 

[tim]

A friend of mine moved from Rainham / Essex to Rainham / Kent. True story.

Any rekation to this chap?

 

[LeytonCatLady]

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Hope he hasn’t lied on his ESTA about his drug use…