Not so, they are far more vulnerable at any age comparison level, black people four times more. Link
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Brexit, for once some facts.
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But the fact that it's prompted you to post as you've done and got others discussing it proves it was the right action.
Nothing before had worked against our establishment, this did.
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Lucky Barry doesn't have to worry about falling into these categories he absolutely loves everyone in particular the French!!!!
It’s actually making me feel hostility, whereas prior to the weekend, there was none. I’m sure that I’m not the only one feeling this way.
BJ has once again achieved something world beating. The UK is likely to suffer the worst damage from the Covid-19 crisis of any country in the developed world, according to a report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
www.theguardian.com
UK economy likely to suffer worst Covid-19 damage, says OECD
Forecast slump in GDP of 11.5% will exceed falls by France, Italy, Spain and Germany
www.theguardian.com
Good idea, we could put up a statue of them Banksy style
past similar protests did not produce much change but over a generation, attitude has changed a lot.
When I was little, it was normal for kids to be a little racist. Not now. More white people in this country are concerned with the injustice of it than black people.
Oh do stop, you've always been a treasure when it comes to a little hostility!
Here is a rather splendid Avatar for you with my compliments!
But that's good, it's awoken you and millions to something they've been ignoring.
In London we've been trying for at least sixty years to get something done about the large number of truly offensive celebratory statues that we have littering our streets.
But the authorities have ignored all attempts, at most just saying it's history. So you see we have been trying the civilised way many times with never any success.
That is what justifies direct action, when we have leaders who do not even try to represent us.
That direct action which so annoys you has prompted some official removals now like this one, plus a review of all London's statues, so it's done some very real good and no harm whatsoever. In my eyes and those of many others, those Bristol protesters deserve praise for their considerable achievement.
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Slight problem with your argument is this,
your personal circumstances reduce the risk you face
Those of the poor do not
Sorry to urinate on your bonfire
(just kidding, as i enjoyed doing so)
No.. flecc not an Irish view. Very much a world view. How otherwise can you explain millions of young Edwardian men climbing out of trenches into machine gun fire?. Or the Dreyfus affair in France, or the lobotomies in the USA. A recent history identified the last century as" The People's Century " in that it was only then that universal suffrage started to become normalised.
That's entitled bullshit. I'm Male, thin on top and over 50. But I'm not doing fifty deliveries a day. Nor stacking shelves in Tesco and talking to hundreds of contaminated customers. It's easy for me to isolate, I have the resources (as for most on this thread I suspect)
I bet you were a right sod when you were a kid Barry, I bet you pulled the legs off of spiders and cut worms in half so they wouldn't be lonely.
I would wager that if there was a nationwide poll concerning the removal of statues, it would return a majority in favour of leaving them in place, perhaps with additional information boards for ones such as the Bristol statue.
Let's remember also Woosh some of those seniors cleared from Hospitals were placed in care homes where the authorities running them were told to take people in or whistle bye bye to your grant. Look what happened as a result.
Of course those happened, but I wasn't speaking of universal suffrage or the rest of the world, only England
As I posted there was considerable rebellion against the establishment and their views through the 18th and 19th centuries. Indeed it is is even spoken of as the start of the steep decline in religious belief and since the C of E and politics were synonymous then, that of civil obedience too.
Of course David Strauss, Karl Marx and Albert Einstein didn't exactly help the establishment against that movement.
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..........and I we don't jump around in the streets crammed together in packs committing acts of criminal damage. That will be the next sob story, when they've given each other coronavirus as a result of their recklessness at the weekend. Those taking part clearly weren't concerned by their vulnerability to the disease.
Irrelevant though. I spoke of London statues, Bristol have spoken of theirs. I doubt the nation as a whole cares an iota about statues elsewhere or having the actions of the incumbents displayed.
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I've never been cruel, we always had lots of animals at home. My grand parents who lived in the same village had a farm, it wasn't a working farm, they just lived there after it had closed down. They had five donkeys, some of which used to wander around the house, loved it there.
Always worked hard at school, academic success didn't come easy to me, I had to work for it, some kids just had it without trying. I have my dad to thank for making me work hard, if it wasn't for him I'd have been at the farm all the time.
I think the people of Bristol would not have wanted what happened at the weekend.