The thing is, even if I accept the racist analogy, I have been a PAYING guest for 35 years. And recently the service around this place has sucked. So, how about you straighten up your little maid's uniform and bring me my breakfast? Full English, please. And snap to it. I'm not here for the banter.
It's a while since I read A Shropshire Lad, a cycle of poems marked by pessimism & preoccupation with early death, traits possibly attributable to the poet's unrequited homosexual feelings for his friend Moses Jackson. Can't remember much about them. I do know Housman was into French pornography.
I grew up in Shropshire and that bloody book alongside Cider with Rosie was the staple of much of my English lessons as a teenager
Been following you on social media for *years*. I am sure you’re quite capable of handling these awful comments. But I still feel the need to apologise that you have to put up with this.
Until MSM start leading their stories with FACTS, your battle will continue. Case in point; "The numbers (small boats) arriving so far this month have been the lowest in August since 2021" - The Times mentions in the 24th paragraph of its front-page splash…
Bravo sir, bravo 👏
How dare he? All our antecedents, even his, were 'guests' at one point. The only difference between the asylum seekers this week & the same person generations past, is time. We need to get over this 'first off the boat' so we're better' mentality. I have.
should ask him to submit a DNA test, over there when on there someone was saying this so offered to pay for his DNA test, he blocked me !!!
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Bravo !
You should insist on the full Greek breakfast, instead of that foreign muck. Like that mad English tourist in Greece who complained she didn't get fish and chips.
SPINACH FILO PIE, FIGS AND YOGHURT WITH PINE HONEY, PLEASE.
God that sounds so good. Perfect way to start a day
Honestly that sounds better than the cardiac arrest on a plate that is the full English.
Having holidayed in Greece these last few years Alex I’ve been delighted to experience fava, basically pease pudding (which you can’t get anywhere outside a diminishing pool in the North East). As en exile of the NE I had it with every meal, couldn’t get enough, was tempted to dip my baclava in it
I’ll have what he’s having.
Is Zia Yusuf also a guest? He seems to have being doing a lot of lecturing recently.
👌💅 I've just made the mistake of looking at his TL. SO much fear and stone cold ignorance. Must be a bloody miserable way to live
Oh that's awful Alex. These people are just hideous, I hate that they now feel so confident to be so open about their racism.
Poor ‘lad’. Painting roundabouts becoming tedious probably
Shropshire Lad …leans back takes a swig of his Stella and belches his reply Pig
Argh, the ignorance of these people makes me want to weep! I’m ashamed and so saddened that some of the kindest, most intelligent and respectful people I know must be feeling uncomfortable in my country, basically because they’re brown. What can I practically do to help, Alex?
Your inputs are always valuable and most welcome. And you are of course right - the next generation’s pension pots and health care will be wholly unaffordable unless we supplement our indigenous workforce through immigration. Just not enough babies being born.
Keep going, keep talking, Alex! ❤️
Shropshire Kid sounds like an arsehole.
That’s the first time you’ve said something I really disagree with: A full Scottish is far superior. Swap out those limp tasteless English pork sausages for Scottish Lorne sausage and some haggis. Spoiler I’m right but: Scottish Porridge with milled flax seed, almonds & banana beats any fry up.
You're right. I should have destroyed my delicious joke to talk about sausages.
Your joke was good, I’m just joking about your joke. 😁 and I love porridge. Anyway, in other news, birth rates are falling again. Scottish birth rates now lowest since records began in 1885, we’re going to run out of people without immigration. These idiots are blind to reality.
“Scotland's total fertility rate also decreased from 1.27 to 1.25. The NRS said that for a population to replace itself, if there is no migration, the total fertility rate needed to be around 2.1. The NRS said the overall numbers reflected "long-term changes in our population"
Source West Lothian Council, August 2025. Expecting the rest of the U.K. is similar. Immigration is not the enemy of the people.
Another thing ,Farage and Tice have been ardent critics of the BBC and yet seem perfectly happy for them to give them the current platform Either they are moronic hypocrites or the BBC are fawning lickspittles?
If I were you I’d put a few towels in your suitcase and empty the minibar.
You just can't get the staff these days.
A.E. Houseman would have detested a racist like that hiding behind his words.
No taxation without representation!
I take it you are a British citizen and hence not a guest and have every right to your opinions. Even if you are not and even lived abroad you would still have every right to your opinions on the matter. Go at em mate😁😁😁
Alan Rickman would be repulsed that his picture is being used by a racist.
Good one
I’m sorry you have to put up with this shit. Power to you.
Water off a migrating duck's back.
That may well be, but it’s still hideous and I’m so sorry that you get this sort of racist bile directed at you @sturdyalex.bsky.social
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