Message from @PureEvilPie
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The funniest part about "picannini smiles" is that he wasn't saying that's what they have but was hinting that that is how the Queen views them...
...he wasn't being racist but suggesting the Queen is racist - but they all use it as a weapon against Boris.
Well the quote I put
Is about Blair
I think he was getting carried away with his own linguistic waffle and thought it sounded like poetry
Yea
True
Just pretty dumb for him to say imo
Oh well
A lot of these things are behind a pay wall which is annoying. A lot of the things the left quote as being said years ago as unacceptable are in the Spectator -- which I subscribe to... and often have a chuckle about the stuff which appears in there.
tbh he's making a good point really on the narcissism that British leaders have in regards to the commonwealth
The point is there
But as a politician you should think a bit
Before saying some questionable Shit
Was he a politician then or just a jurno?
Both I think?
Not sure tbh
oh really
it was before my time
Yeah, Theresa May made a trip to India, and they basically said to her "why should we give a damn about your Brexit after all these years?"
...clearly not what she was expecting them to say to her face.
but yeah, it reads as mocking him as if he was narrating what was in someone elses head
does anyone have an archive link? I'd love to read the full article
I mean, India has overtaken us
Good for them
We aren’t as important as we used to be
I'm genuinely happy for them
They do have over a billion people
Yea
They should have passed us a long time ago tbh
but as we all know, the wealth of a country means nothing if it's enhabitance are poor as fuck
however, I'm aware they're making strides
I don't think we'll ever become "not important"
by virtue that things stem out from us
we'll likely remain as admistrators and consultants
tbh I'm not too fussed about how big we are on the world stage
big is relative right
```In a column published in the Daily Telegraph six years ago, Johnson mocked Tony Blair's globetrotting: "What a relief it must be for Blair to get out of England. It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving piccaninnies," he wrote. It also mentioned "watermelon smiles".```
Guardian article from 2008, so Boris wrote article 20 years ago
the question on this one is when did piccaninnies become offensive
I never heard the word until it was brought up in the debates