In my Spectator column this week I’ve taken aim at the likes of Gareth Southgate and Gary Neville who are off to Qatar for the World Cup – where the stadiums have been built by poorly treated migrant workers and homosexuality is still illegal – in spite of spending the last five years virtue-signalling about various woke causes.
My objection to England’s involvement in the World Cup isn’t based on Qatar’s human rights record. It would be bizarre if we suddenly developed a conscience about taking part in sporting contests hosted by unsavoury regimes. Why should football be held to a higher standard than other sports? Rather, it’s the hypocrisy of people like England manager Gareth Southgate, who loses no opportunity to advertise his woke political credentials.
Last year, he and the FA defended the players’ decision to take the knee in the Euros “as a show of solidarity with the black community”. If they’re so concerned about discrimination against people of colour, why are they turning a blind eye to the exploitation of migrant workers in Qatar? The FA also supported Pride month in June and has a statement on its website opposing “all forms of homophobic, bi-phobic and transphobic language and behaviour”. Hard to take that seriously when its most senior officials will be flying out to Qatar to enjoy the hospitality of a regime that still imprisons homosexuals.
Wouldn’t it be more sensible if the England manager, the FA and ex-players like Gary Neville got down off their soapboxes and stopped talking about their ‘values’? If they don’t adhere to them, why should we?
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Further proof that this is all about controlling us so that the rich can go wherever they want without bumping into plebs all over the place.
He is Elite don’t you realise that? he is so much more impotant than us plebs, Know your place just pay your taxes so they can live off you like the parasites they are.
“Impotent”.
Small but significant typo I presume.
If only that were the case, but these bu**ers want to pass their riches on to their offspring.
Nuff said!!
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
I’m left wondering what work was so vital that he had to fly in to do it in person, but only took one day.
Aside, does anyone know the cargo capacity of a Gulfstream G650, expressed in sacks of gold?
yes, or telling someone something (or hearing from someone) that there couldn’t be an electronic or paper trail for
ie backhanders/corruption/you scratch my back etc
anything else can be done on zoom
About £130 Million at todays price. Only about 33 gallons of gold though.
Well that’s my ready made excuse for not ever quarantining. Don’t you know I run a massive bank? Get out of the way peasant.
Well, I can tell you, I really DO have a large bank (at the far end of my garden)!
And yet even Santa had to prove his Covid status to get into the Tesco ad.
The only miracle there is that he wasn’t black like everyone else on TV ads is now.
i am running a competition with my friends to see who spots the first one, but maybe that is one step too far for even wokey-blokeys.
I think Kwanzaa involves the veneration of Saint George.
Zwarte Piet on ads?
banking is simple
you borrow money at one timescale and lend at another
make money off the interest rate difference
what these people do is investment banking. convince you they are clever then invest your money. take a cut whether you win or lose. shysters
Don’t forget also packaging debts up into incomprehensible financial instruments to hide the risk!
“Money talks, virus walks”
Rules for thee but not for me.
Hong Kong was the birthplace of HSBC, a competitor to JP Morgan. It would have been fun to watch Hong Kong quarantine the head of a competitor “for health and safety reasons” for, say, several weeks. 😉 A missed opportunity!
Rich person avoids rules, as old as history
There is an ivermectin panic on the big tech and MSM right now. Massive articles from MSM on Ivermectin trying to push a danger narrative and also negative press on Americans Frontline Dr’s, again, to keep the Covid narrative alive. Just go to the Goog and type ivermectin then look at all the panic news articles. We are over the target. Big-Pharma is panicking. This medicine has been widely used by humans without any problems for 40 years. It’s inventor won a Nobel Prize after 20 years of successful use and after 100 million people were cured of a broad spectrum of problems without any side effects. Get your Ivermectin while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
Our PM would be OK then, he’s always been a great big banker
Nice. One rule for me, one rule for thee.
In other words the NWO working with China is breaking down HK. the thousands of entrepreneurs who live and work there will gradually go bankrupt and only the big China affiliated banks will be allowed to survive. Taiwan will also be totally controlled by CCP within the next couple of years and Tibet will be completely broken. This is Communism taking over and many of our own Globalists want this system in the West.
Amazing, isn’t it, that this virus has the intelligence to avoid infecting Very Important Persons (or very rich ones)?