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Right, Mr Farage...
Aug. 12th, 2019 09:36 amwww.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/12/nigel-farage-prince-harry-meghan-markle-overweight-queen-mother-cpac-brexit
Dog-whistle stuff about the Sussexes, Nige.
Personally I think Prince Harry and the Duchess are pretty damn cool. Yes, he's seen action, which is more than you have Nige. So I think he has a right to his opinion. The Prince of Wokeness may be a title to aspire to; though our Nige would never understand that, given that he is forever scurrying around the U-bend of politics to pick up the most racist and right-wing votes. Our Nige in Australia. Poor Oz.
As for calling the Prince of Wales Charlie-boy, well... there is a point where brio, dash, and derring-do descend through chutzpah and into hubris.1
But I'm sure I don't need reminding of that.
As for me, I'm rather fond of the Sussexes. Not that I know them or anything like that; but I do think Harry has been made aware of racism in the way of anyone who marries a person of a different racial background. To further complicate matters Harry has Anglo-Indian blood from his mother's side IIRC; on top of being descended from both the prophet Muhammed and Attila the Hun on his dad's side. I can't remember if his ancestors include Genghis Khan or Abram Gannibal. Much of the Aristocracy can boast of those notables in their ancestry too.
Lord Liverpool was the only mixed-race PM we have had - it appears he was one-eighth Indian; but that particular debate still rages as the data is questionable. William Donaldson mentions that an aunt of his confided in him that every three or four generations, one child would be born black - I assume they were left on a hillside somewhere - which hints at some miscegenation in the family tree. My godfather was the heir to a large silversmith company. His family were originally Jewish folk from the Lowlands who came over to England after Cromwell allowed the Jews to return. They had become Church of England by the time Uncle John went to Winchester; but it took him until his 70's to confide in me that his great great grandmother had been an "octoroon". And even then this was because I'm a mixed hodgepodge of Irish, English, Indian, Portuguese, and Welsh; and haven't regarded that as a problem. Even the Welsh part. :) Also it has been pretty much de rigueur to re-examine the glossed-over parts of our family trees that folk had previously been ashamed of in the certain knowledge that some of the reprobates must have become fashionable by now.
It's a bit like discovering you're a great beauty in your 60's, having been plain-ish for most of your life.
Oh well.
BTW if anyone wants to know what a mixed hodgepodge of Irish, English, Indian, Portuguese, and Welsh looks like...
well here you go:
( Beneath the cut )
I don't often post pictures of myself, but I know what a few of you chaps look like, and I know most of you can't put a face to the opinions. Here in informal mode. Not booted or suited.
1 I'm pleased with the etymological move from French, Anglo-Saxon, Middle English, and Yiddish to land on Classical Greek, but that's just me. If anyone notices the alliteration it is deliberate. I'm often far too pleased with myself in exceedingly small matters, and hugely displeased in large ones; I suppose at heart I'm a miniaturist.
Dog-whistle stuff about the Sussexes, Nige.
Personally I think Prince Harry and the Duchess are pretty damn cool. Yes, he's seen action, which is more than you have Nige. So I think he has a right to his opinion. The Prince of Wokeness may be a title to aspire to; though our Nige would never understand that, given that he is forever scurrying around the U-bend of politics to pick up the most racist and right-wing votes. Our Nige in Australia. Poor Oz.
As for calling the Prince of Wales Charlie-boy, well... there is a point where brio, dash, and derring-do descend through chutzpah and into hubris.1
But I'm sure I don't need reminding of that.
As for me, I'm rather fond of the Sussexes. Not that I know them or anything like that; but I do think Harry has been made aware of racism in the way of anyone who marries a person of a different racial background. To further complicate matters Harry has Anglo-Indian blood from his mother's side IIRC; on top of being descended from both the prophet Muhammed and Attila the Hun on his dad's side. I can't remember if his ancestors include Genghis Khan or Abram Gannibal. Much of the Aristocracy can boast of those notables in their ancestry too.
Lord Liverpool was the only mixed-race PM we have had - it appears he was one-eighth Indian; but that particular debate still rages as the data is questionable. William Donaldson mentions that an aunt of his confided in him that every three or four generations, one child would be born black - I assume they were left on a hillside somewhere - which hints at some miscegenation in the family tree. My godfather was the heir to a large silversmith company. His family were originally Jewish folk from the Lowlands who came over to England after Cromwell allowed the Jews to return. They had become Church of England by the time Uncle John went to Winchester; but it took him until his 70's to confide in me that his great great grandmother had been an "octoroon". And even then this was because I'm a mixed hodgepodge of Irish, English, Indian, Portuguese, and Welsh; and haven't regarded that as a problem. Even the Welsh part. :) Also it has been pretty much de rigueur to re-examine the glossed-over parts of our family trees that folk had previously been ashamed of in the certain knowledge that some of the reprobates must have become fashionable by now.
It's a bit like discovering you're a great beauty in your 60's, having been plain-ish for most of your life.
Oh well.
BTW if anyone wants to know what a mixed hodgepodge of Irish, English, Indian, Portuguese, and Welsh looks like...
well here you go:
( Beneath the cut )
I don't often post pictures of myself, but I know what a few of you chaps look like, and I know most of you can't put a face to the opinions. Here in informal mode. Not booted or suited.
1 I'm pleased with the etymological move from French, Anglo-Saxon, Middle English, and Yiddish to land on Classical Greek, but that's just me. If anyone notices the alliteration it is deliberate. I'm often far too pleased with myself in exceedingly small matters, and hugely displeased in large ones; I suppose at heart I'm a miniaturist.
