"I Am English, Leave Me Alone."

[sandyRoe]

Said a mature man armed with a cosh as he was being arrested by the police.

Would you laugh at him or pity him?

[davebro3]

one swallow does not a summer make

[sp1814]

davebro3

Did you see the looters in Peterborough.

More swallows than a wine-tasting event.

[Togo]

He is a fool. If he had said "I am muslim, leave me alone" he would have been allowed to carry on. 

[naomi24]

What man?  Have you got a link?

[Electrochem]

Neither. 

[naomi24]

Is this one of your wooden spoon jobs again, sandyRoe?

[perseverer]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy8497l7dx8t
 

Scroll to 11.16 post

 

[davebro3]

If there's no room in the prisons I hope they are being held in 4* hotels!

[Spungle]

Did he have a Blefast accent?

[douglas9401]

Is that in Wales?

[Spungle]

Lol

[Peter Pedant]

Is this one of your wooden spoon jobs again, sandyRoe?

WHAT is a spoon job ? Anyway it is the man who was in court today. The evidence offered was that whilst he was insisting he was an Eng-lish-man ( thank you gilber and sullivant) -it needed three policeman to subdue him.

retired widowed welder - 30 m in chokey, will do 15 I suppose

[naomi24]

Blimey!  Something you don't know, Peter Pedant!  Not like you to confess it!  

[sandyRoe]

For he might have been a Roosian,

A French, or Turk, or Proosian,

Or perhaps Itali-an!

 

[All]

Or perhaps Itali-an!

 

[Boatswain]

But in spite of all temptations

To belong to other nations,

He remains an Englishman!

[Peter Pedant]

ay thenk yew

you have had quite a long  clear run today Sandy

[sandyRoe]

I've already been traduced once today by being accused of wielding a notional wooden spoon.

Tis particularly annoying when I hope to educate and at the same time amuse my readers.

[douglas9401]

Our hero may have use for a spurtle as he does his porridge.

[Peter Pedant]

'Tis particularly annoying when I hope to educate and at the same time amuse my readers.

I find you informative and amusing - there are others who never, face it, find you amusing - but  hey that is life !

[Ellipsis]

> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy8497l7dx8t

> Scroll to 11.16 post

This is the direct link:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy8497l7dx8t?post=asset%3Aae7104dc-441e-45c3-9961-1f463f3c8aef#post

[Gromit]

He was trying to burn down a library.  What The Funicular?