Re: Movie: The Wind that Shakes the Barley
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Originally Posted by Errigal
No Ken Loach comes from that big pool of chippy Lefties from the north of England who worship Oliver Cromwell.
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We can do without those kinds of Republicans 
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The thing he likes about the Irish is that they sometimes shoot at his fellow Englishmen
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Who can blame him? 
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and the thing he likes about Pakistanis and Jamaicans immigrants is that they transform the face of England. He and his crowd are always cheering on the other team. People like Loach come from a sick subculture that have had traitor's hearts ever since their beloved Cromwell's bones were dragged through the street and the monarchy was rightly restored. Apart from that they're lovely people.
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Well, that is probably quite true.
His mirror-image types exist in Ireland, as I'm sure you know.
The number of British apologists and Neo-Unionist journalists and academics seem to grow daily. I personally blame MI5's bloated budget in light of the recent "War on Terror" and the defeat of PIRA in the north.
Someone on I-N did make a similar comment to you - that it's a warped world when we have to rely on another country's Reds to vindicate us, whilst our own are busy trashing us. Works both ways, I guess.
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