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Outrage at BBC Horrible Histories Brexit show for 'trashing Britain' with song that says 'your British things are from abroad and most are stolen' on day UK left EU
UK Daily Mail ^ | February 1, 2020 | James Heale and Chris Hastings

Posted on 02/02/2020 4:37:18 AM PST by C19fan

The BBC has provoked outrage by screening an 'anti-British' children's programme on Brexit Day. Hosted by Left-wing comedian Nish Kumar, Horrible Histories Brexit suggested Britain had historically failed to produce anything of note, relying instead on imports. Amid a chorus of protest, even one of the BBC's broadcasters launched a stinging attack on the show. Leading political commentator Andrew Neil last night called it 'anti-British drivel of a high order' and asked: 'Was any of the licence fee used to produce something purely designed to demean us?' Kumar begins by introducing a series of CBBC 'comedy' clips. In one sequence, Queen Victoria is labelled 'foreign' and portrayed as a dullard who is shocked to discover that sugar, tea and cotton do not come from England.

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TOPICS: History; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: brexit; left; uk
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Sore Losers. Just ignore things like the Common Law, parliamentary democracy, the steam engine, ending the slave trade, and railroads.
1 posted on 02/02/2020 4:37:18 AM PST by C19fan
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BBC is spelled “MSNBC/CNN” in the USA.

Let’s welcome the Limeys to Trump’s world.


2 posted on 02/02/2020 4:43:09 AM PST by moovova
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To: C19fan

Why the Beeb is really po’d: Boris just exempted OAPs, pensioners, in this case the really old ones, from the boob tube tax, costing the Beeb some serious money.


3 posted on 02/02/2020 4:44:05 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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The BBC is the British CNN- albeit with folks who can actually speak the language.


4 posted on 02/02/2020 4:44:39 AM PST by Da Coyote
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Funny how so many people from all these superior places that dont have to import some things or others are flocking to get into England. Denigrating England for importing many things is a forest for the trees thing: England, a tiny Island stood astride the world and imported what they damned well pleased.


5 posted on 02/02/2020 5:04:05 AM PST by TalBlack (Damn right I'll "do something" you fat, balding son of a bitc)
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suggested Britain had historically failed to produce anything of note


6 posted on 02/02/2020 5:06:32 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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Bill Kristol out of the closet on being REMAIN? The EU swamp fits him perfectly.


7 posted on 02/02/2020 5:08:07 AM PST by LeonardFMason (Lou Dobbs)
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Well they imported this colonial mush


8 posted on 02/02/2020 5:23:26 AM PST by Phil DiBasquette
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BBC presenter Nish Kumar

Let me guess... native of Wales?

9 posted on 02/02/2020 5:37:13 AM PST by IncPen ("Inside of every progressive is a Totalitarian screaming to get out" ~ David Horowitz)
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To: DoodleBob

And you didn’t include Eric Clapton? The Rolling Stones?


10 posted on 02/02/2020 5:45:03 AM PST by hoagy62 (America Supreme!)
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To: LeonardFMason

I believe the BBC is funded by the British people, just like PBS and NPR are funded with our tax dollars. Not that they are needed (there are now 1000 cable channels out there that are privately financed and self-supporting) but apparently, the powers that be have decided that we need to pay for such outlets that in turn trash us, put down our views, and pay their staff exorbitant salaries using our tax dollars.


11 posted on 02/02/2020 5:46:53 AM PST by laconic
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Thanks for the reminder. I'm not a Clapton or Stones fan but they were parts of bigger things.


12 posted on 02/02/2020 6:01:06 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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Who knew that Pete Townsend could have made it in the NBA?


13 posted on 02/02/2020 6:05:39 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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Yea, that’s gotta be edited. But yes, he shoulda hung it up after Quadrophenia and joined the Trailblazers. He and Bill Walton would have had the Best Beards in the NBA.


14 posted on 02/02/2020 6:13:39 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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Britain had historically failed to produce anything of note,

It just invented democracy and the common law. It also gave us most of the practical science and engineering that has given us the industrial revolution.

Other than that... no, not much.

15 posted on 02/02/2020 6:22:06 AM PST by AndyJackson
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Sorry, mised yours, but at least our lists are the same.


16 posted on 02/02/2020 6:23:30 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: DoodleBob
What, no "Rod the Mod"?


17 posted on 02/02/2020 6:39:25 AM PST by moovova
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Sir Isaac Newton? Shakespeare? Adam Smith? Delicious food?

Okay, maybe not that last one.

18 posted on 02/02/2020 6:43:59 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: DoodleBob

The Beatles, Rolling Stones, etc. performed rock and roll, which is American.


19 posted on 02/02/2020 6:50:17 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: moovova
Truth. Good call..and yes, this guy too.


20 posted on 02/02/2020 6:51:21 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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