Why did British bystanders watch a soldier get hacked to death?

[Dr Strangelove]

Some of the witnesses interviewed by the BBC thought at first that the attackers were trying to help the man because they were huddled over him and seen to be doing something to him with their hands.

There was an artillery barracks 40 meters from the incident. I'm wondering why his mates didn't come out and help.

[Elok]

Tupac already did a troll on this subject--and did a better job of it, to boot.

[Alexander's Horse]

There was an artillery barracks 40 meters from the incident. I'm wondering why his mates didn't come out and help.

They were probably in lockdown, also there are strict rules against troops intervening in civil/police matters.

[dannubis]

Known fact Brits can't fight or defend themselves.

Funny that, they haven't had enemy boots on the ground in over 1000 years.

Tejas OTOH got ****ed in the arse during the American civil ~150 years ago.

But hey, what do you expect from a bunch of rednecks who think loosing the alomo to the mexicans (!) was a feat of military genius.

[Dinner]

A French soldier recently got stabbed in the neck in Paris by a north African immigrant. I wonder if it is a copy cat case.

[Alexander's Horse]

Doc, if you want to annoy Moby, call him a leek eater and tell him the Welch can't pay rugby to save their lives, the English Lions are sooo much better, that's a good start

[Docfeelgood]

Funny that, they haven't had enemy boots on the ground in over 1000 years.

Tejas OTOH got ****ed in the arse during the American civil ~150 years ago.

But hey, what do you expect from a bunch of rednecks who think loosing the alomo to the mexicans (!) was a feat of military genius.

sorry,I can't understand what you are trying to tell me.

[Alexander's Horse]

google rtansletor strikes again

[Sava]

wales is so insignificant and stupid
i don't even know how to insult them

[dannubis]

sorry,I can't understand what you are trying to tell me.

If at first you don't succeed, try and try again.

A hint: The Brits are a hell of a lot better at defending their home land than tejans ever were /will be.

[dannubis]

google rtansletor strikes again

"sorry,i can't understand what you are trying to tell me"

PS: don't use my response to doc, please

[molly bloom]

Bull****!

If you say so.

Given that you spew so much, I'd imagine you to be quite expert on bullsh!t- its different textures and temperatures, and which orifice of yours it's spewing out of at any given time.

Of its inhabitants at the 1981 census, more than one in six were born outside the UK - the breakdown was over a third of a million born in Europe, about 300,000 in Asia, around 170,000 in Africa and the Caribbean respectively, and lesser numbers from the other corners of the globe. All these different peoples have intermarried, with each other and with traditional Londoners.

The truth is it isn't new at all. London always was a city of foreigners. For much of its history the percentage of Londoners born outside the capital was actually far higher than today. In a remarkable book, A City Full of People (Methuen), the historian Peter Earle establishes that around 1700, when Samuel Pepys was an old man, Daniel Defoe in his prime and William Hogarth but a boy, a clear majority of Londoners had not been born in the capital. Many had come from overseas: Huguenots from France, Jews from Spain and Eastern Europe, Scandinavians and Germans, Moors and other Mediterranean types. And there are flocks of Welsh, Scots, Irish, and people from the ends of England. Cumbrians and Cornishmen might not seem 'foreigners' to us, but that's how they were perceived at the time, with their different ways and dialects: one sailor around 1700 told a court he spoke 'English and Devon'.

The majority of these came from a few ethnic groups. Nearly 50,000 arrived from Ireland in the 1840s alone, fleeing the famine. By 1850, London's Jewish population had increased to about 20,000, and in the following fifty years, as refugees deluged in from central Europe, Poland and Russia, it had leapt to 120,000.

The city always had pockets of more exotic sorts. By 1800 there were several thousand Black Africans, mostly servants and sailors but also a few musicians, prize-fighters, gigolos and writers. Lascar sailors settled from South East Asia, and from 1800 Limehouse was acquiring its Chinese community; the notorious opium dens came later.

This ceaseless flow of migration shouldn't surprise us for a second. After all, Londinium was founded by the Romans, conquered by Saxons and Normans and developed as a commercial centre by Italian, Flemish and Baltic traders. It was always a honeypot for potential Dick Whittingtons (he came from Gloucestershire).

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/the-worlds-melting-pot-london-has-always-been-a-multicultural-metropolis-1436687.html

First governor of the Bank Of England ? John Houblon- as the name indicates, a descendant of refugee French Protestants. The Bank Of England, incidentally, being the idea of a Scotsman, from a time when England and Scotland were still separate states.

Oliver Cromwell, first leader of a British Republican Commonwealth ? Married to a descendant of French Protestant refugees.

The plaque on St Mary's Hospital in Praed Street in memory of the discovery of penicillin refers to the works of Fleming, Chain and Florey. A Scotsman, an Australian and a German refugee from Nazism.

First fish and chip shop in London ? Set up by a Jewish immigrant, Joseph Malin, who combined two ingredients popularized by two other sets of immigrants- Sephardic Jews (fish cooked in batter) and fried potatoes (the Irish, naturally...) .

It's really getting hard to believe anything you say.

If only that were true of what you come out with.

Known fact Brits can't fight or defend themselves.

Nah. Doesn't even warrant a proper reply.

sorry,I can't understand what you are trying to tell me.

Well, his written English IS frequently better than yours, so that's not surprising.

[Docfeelgood]

There's a helluva lot more info on the web.
No matter how much perfume you spray on a pig it will still smell like sh!t!

These are your fvcking people! Many of them tell me the place sucks. Only you says its paradise. Tell me, who am I suppose to believe? Who's lying them or you?

Modest multicultural policies were adopted by local administrations from the 1970s and 1980s onwards, initially during the Labour government of Harold Wilson. In 1997 the New Labour government committed to a multiculturalist approach at a national level, but after 2001 there was something of a backlash, led by centre-left commentators such as David Goodhart and Trevor Phillips. The government then embraced a policy of community cohesion instead. In 2011 Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader David Cameron said in a speech that "state multiculturalism has failed". London is one of the most multicultural cities in the world with white British being in the minority.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiculturalism

[Docfeelgood]

If at first you don't succeed, try and try again.

A hint: The Brits are a hell of a lot better at defending their home land than tejans ever were /will be.

You have nothing to worry about.......
Who would want that multicultural failure of a sh!thole anyway?

[Alexander's Horse]