Colonialism, Lily Allen And Transport For London

[sp1814]

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/row-erupts-as-lily-allen-slams-tfl-staff-for-celebrating-colonialism-a3747631.html

Should TfL staff be using the noticeboard for such messages (as opposed to, say - information about tube trains)?

Was Ms Allen correct to call this out?

Also, if you read out the title of this question with John Humphrys' voice in your head - it totally sounds like three specialised subjects on Mastermind.

[tonyav]

douglas9401 Ms Allen seems unbalanced.


Wot, just c'us she's trying to erase history.

[naomi24]

jno, //it's odd that they didn't mention the battle of Isandlwana on the same day. I wonder why? //

You don't wonder why.

[ummmm]

She's not unbalanced. She knows exactly what she's doing.

[NoMercy]

If Lily Allen had just one more brain cell, she'd be a global threat.

[sp1814]

TTT

Lily is the LibDem MP for Plymouth Argyll. She's the daughter of Lady Wentworth Allen, the first woman to fly from London to Skegness in a hot air balloon.

[naomi24]

Oh, she's a LibDem - and her mother's a bit odd too. That explains it.

[jno]

150 bloodthirsty taffs attacking 4,000 peace loving Zulus

or to put it another way, 4000 locals with assegais take on 150 invaders with rifles. Just the thing to record on tube noticeboards.

Noticeboards often carry thoughts for the day

https://tinyurl.com/yc64zalw

but not usually commemorating the slaughter of spearmen.

[jno]

excellent CV, sp1814, I wish I had one of those.

[naomi24]

jno, you make it pretty clear that you're not a fan of the country that, by free choice, you've come to live in. Very strange.

[douglas9401]

I suppose you really had to be there.

[tonyav]

Mmmm, these 'spearmen' made repeated attacks for twelve hours !.


On 22 January 1879, at Rorke's Drift on the Natal border with Zululand, in South Africa, a tiny British garrison of 140 men - many of them sick and wounded - fought for 12 hours to repel repeated attacks by up to 3,000 Zulu warriors.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/zulu_01.shtml

[jno]

there were a lot of them, tonyav. But they kept attacking and kept getting killed. Who were the brave ones?

[Spicerack]

They weren't 'locals', jno. They had previously slaughtered all the locals.

[ummmm]

Even the Irish have a song about the English beating the men with bows and arrows with their long range guns...

[tonyav]

Well I can see who the idiot's were, jno.

[naomi24]

Ummmm, the English/British always have been the ***. That's why we have half the world wanting to come and live with us.

[jno]

not necessarily idiots, tonyav, any more than the British soldiers fighting losing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. People fight for what they think is right, and what they think is their duty.

[douglas9401]

Brave maybe, just not too bright and of course, disposable, just like any other army.
The leaders doubtless returned to the kraal with tales to wow their widows and children.

[anotheoldgit]

/// She's the daughter of Lady Wentworth Allen, the first woman to fly from London to Skegness in a hot air balloon. ///

Now we know where she gets her 'hot' air from.

[anotheoldgit]

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/deadliestfiction/images/f/fc/Rorke%27s_Drift.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140903230347

Lets us celebrate this glorious victory.

“On this day in history: On the 22-23 of January 1879 in natal South Africa, a small British garrison named Rorke’s Drift was attack [sic] by 4,000 Zulu warriors.

“The garrison was successfully defended by just over 150 British and colonial troops. Following the battle, eleven men were awarded the Victoria Cross.”