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Post by Red Rackham on Apr 8, 2024 13:22:25 GMT
Foreign Office should be ‘less elitist with fewer colonial-era pictures’
The Foreign Office should be replaced by a “less elitist” Department for International Affairs that has “fewer colonial-era pictures on the walls”, a group of former top civil servants and diplomats have urged. A new paper claims the full title of the department – the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) – is “anchored in the past” and that it should seek to “modernise” its working environment. The report, titled The World in 2040: Renewing the UK’s Approach to International Affairs, also asks the Government not to “brush aside” growing demands from former British colonies as well as countries asking for climate change reparations. Its authors are Lord Sedwill, who ran the Civil Service under Theresa May and Boris Johnson, Tom Fletcher, a former No 10 foreign policy adviser, and Moazzam Malik, a former Foreign Office director-general - who are politically correct minority appeasing peasants. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/08/foreign-office-elitist-replaced-colonial-pictures-report/Great British heroes should not be airbrushed from history in an attempt to appease stroppy minorities.
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Post by Dogburger on Apr 8, 2024 13:45:05 GMT
Traitors should be in the Tower not being paid out of the public purse to write papers about what pictures should hang on the walls of Westminster . At the very least if they have nothing better to do they should be removed from post and made to scrub the floors whilst singing La Marseillaise because thats what they would be doing had it not been for the great men they wish to remove from sight .
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Post by Red Rackham on Apr 8, 2024 14:38:20 GMT
Traitors should be in the Tower not being paid out of the public purse to write papers about what pictures should hang on the walls of Westminster . At the very least if they have nothing better to do they should be removed from post and made to scrub the floors whilst singing La Marseillaise because thats what they would be doing had it not been for the great men they wish to remove from sight . Talking of La Marseillaise, did you see this? French troops not only in London but marching through the gates of Buckingham Palace this morning. I suspect Admiral Lord Nelson and the Iron Duke would not approve.
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Post by sandypine on Apr 8, 2024 14:57:32 GMT
Foreign Office should be ‘less elitist with fewer colonial-era pictures’
The Foreign Office should be replaced by a “less elitist” Department for International Affairs that has “fewer colonial-era pictures on the walls”, a group of former top civil servants and diplomats have urged. A new paper claims the full title of the department – the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) – is “anchored in the past” and that it should seek to “modernise” its working environment. The report, titled The World in 2040: Renewing the UK’s Approach to International Affairs, also asks the Government not to “brush aside” growing demands from former British colonies as well as countries asking for climate change reparations. Its authors are Lord Sedwill, who ran the Civil Service under Theresa May and Boris Johnson, Tom Fletcher, a former No 10 foreign policy adviser, and Moazzam Malik, a former Foreign Office director-general - who are politically correct minority appeasing peasants. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/08/foreign-office-elitist-replaced-colonial-pictures-report/Great British heroes should not be airbrushed from history in an attempt to appease stroppy minorities. Climate change reparations? It seems to be the game that is being played in that the rich countries must compensate the developing countries for a rather fictitious emergency that is affecting those countries very little and has nothing at all to do with the UK.
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Post by Dogburger on Apr 8, 2024 16:00:37 GMT
Traitors should be in the Tower not being paid out of the public purse to write papers about what pictures should hang on the walls of Westminster . At the very least if they have nothing better to do they should be removed from post and made to scrub the floors whilst singing La Marseillaise because thats what they would be doing had it not been for the great men they wish to remove from sight . Talking of La Marseillaise, did you see this? French troops not only in London but marching through the gates of Buckingham Palace this morning. I suspect Admiral Lord Nelson and the Iron Duke would not approve. We had our troops guarding the French president today as well . Bit of an exchange thing going on to celebrate 120 years of Anglo -French co-operation .
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Post by wapentake on Apr 8, 2024 16:28:38 GMT
What a bunch of absolute tossers and apologists,we have the CofE cadging off what’s left of it’s parishioners (the church is worth a few billion) to pay for the era of slavery now we have this lot wanting us to grovel and abase ourselves for the past.
What they miss is the bleeding obvious,yes bad things happened and good things too,the RN broke the slave trade and people gloss over that many black people sold their fellow Africans in to slavery,I’m not ashamed of our past because it was in a time of what was done different standards applied only a idiot would judge the past by todays morals.
Anyway it all reminds me of that old joke A bloke was walking along Whitehall and was stopped by an overseas visitor who was looking to his left and right and asked “which side is the foreign office on?” To which the Brit replied “Yours mate…..yours”
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Post by seniorcitizen007 on Apr 8, 2024 17:54:41 GMT
There are many influential figures in British history whose influence is not appreciated as much as it should be. Prince Alnert, and his friend, the scientist Lyon Playfair, are two examples. They, and others, "Took on" the Church of England's opposition to the provision of education for the working classes that went beyond just teaching them to be obedient to the their "betters". The problem was that the C of E was very much controlled by aristocratic families. Albert associated with working class "intellectuals" ... he engaged in "secret" meetings with them that the "ruling classes" knew little about. He was, in effect, "plotting" to overthrow the power of the "ruling classes".
Queen Victoria is recorded to have said that she: "Didn't like bishops."
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Post by sandypine on Apr 8, 2024 18:59:30 GMT
What a bunch of absolute tossers and apologists,we have the CofE cadging off what’s left of it’s parishioners (the church is worth a few billion) to pay for the era of slavery now we have this lot wanting us to grovel and abase ourselves for the past. What they miss is the bleeding obvious,yes bad things happened and good things too,the RN broke the slave trade and people gloss over that many black people sold their fellow Africans in to slavery,I’m not ashamed of our past because it was in a time of what was done different standards applied only a idiot would judge the past by todays morals. Anyway it all reminds me of that old joke A bloke was walking along Whitehall and was stopped by an overseas visitor who was looking to his left and right and asked “which side is the foreign office on?” To which the Brit replied “Yours mate…..yours” Unfortunately there are many idiots about and they do indeed judge what happened in the past through the moral prism of today, but only when it suits them.
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Post by Red Rackham on Apr 8, 2024 23:13:25 GMT
Climate change reparations? It seems to be the game that is being played in that the rich countries must compensate the developing countries for a rather fictitious emergency that is affecting those countries very little and has nothing at all to do with the UK. Couldn't agree more, virtue signalling seems to be a 21st century cross that inexperienced lefties demand the west should wear with pride.
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Post by Red Rackham on Apr 8, 2024 23:19:24 GMT
]We had our troops guarding the French president today as well . Bit of an exchange thing going on to celebrate 120 years of Anglo -French co-operation . Indeed we did. Anglo-French co-operation lol, honestly you have to laugh. The next time the French co-operate with Angleterre, will be the first.
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Post by jonksy on Apr 9, 2024 0:06:54 GMT
]We had our troops guarding the French president today as well . Bit of an exchange thing going on to celebrate 120 years of Anglo -French co-operation . Indeed we did. Anglo-French co-operation lol, honestly you have to laugh. The next time the French co-operate with Angleterre, will be the first. Pssst want to buy an exocet or a Super Étendard?
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Post by Red Rackham on Apr 9, 2024 0:17:09 GMT
Indeed we did. Anglo-French co-operation lol, honestly you have to laugh. The next time the French co-operate with Angleterre, will be the first. Pssst want to buy an exocet or a Super Étendard? That's exactly what the French said in 1982, although... not to the UK.
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Post by jonksy on Apr 9, 2024 0:38:31 GMT
Pssst want to buy an exocet or a Super Étendard? That's exactly what the French said in 1982, although... not to the UK. With friends like the French who needs enemies Red?
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Post by Red Rackham on Apr 9, 2024 0:55:14 GMT
That's exactly what the French said in 1982, although... not to the UK. With friends like the French who needs enemies Red? Well yes indeed, England and later Great Britain were at war with France for hundreds of years, had it not been for British heroes like Nelson and Wellington we would be speaking French. The fact is, in our entire history we have never got on with the French and believe me nothing changes. We saved their arses during WW2, today they flood England with illegals. Entente Cordiale my arse.
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Post by patman post on Apr 9, 2024 14:17:41 GMT
With friends like the French who needs enemies Red? Well yes indeed, England and later Great Britain were at war with France for hundreds of years, had it not been for British heroes like Nelson and Wellington we would be speaking French. The fact is, in our entire history we have never got on with the French and believe me nothing changes. We saved their arses during WW2, today they flood England with illegals. Entente Cordiale my arse. The US saved all our arses — even Churchill recognised that, but he was half American. However, I understand your concern about replacing a Foreign Office that's so firmly anchored in the past with a Department of International Affairs.
The pictures of Britain's colonial era currently on the walls of the FO show this nation's history — and through the corrosive effects of its small-minded isolationist elite, Britain's history is rapidly becoming all it can offer both to the world and as a sop to itself...
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