Nilhal, The Woke Jim & Franker
Cockney ryhmin', innit Nihal! Though, it may be my own personal rhyming slang. I may have read it in a book; Brighton Rock or something about the London underworld.
I searched and found the Cockney Rhyming slang for ’anker that begins with a ‘w’ is, of course, ‘merchant banker’, but I’ve long though it was ‘Jim and Frank’, with an added the ’er.
https://englishlive.ef.com/blog/english-in-the-real-world/the-ultimate-guide-to-cockney-rhyming-slang/
It’s one of those stories that makes me go, ugh, not again. Another ‘celebrity’ ‘of colour’ complaining about ‘white’ people.
BBC radio star struggles with ‘too many white colleagues’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/29/bbc-nihal-arthanayake-struggles-too-many-white-colleagues/
It’s trending, as we say now a days.
#NihalArthanayake #Radio5
Since when have I been white? If you bought me a pot of ‘white’ paint in the tone of my skin, I’d tell you to take it back. It wouldn’t be white. How do the likes of BBC presenter Nihal Arthanayake get away with being so prejudice and divisive? I guess, like Matthew Midazolam Hancock, Bollox Johnson, Sir Unwell Looking Whitty, Sir Patrick the UnValliant, Sir Van-Tam Moderna and Slimy Gove et al, they are protected some how, some way. Some are more equal than others. Mean while Nihal, at least 20,000 Palestinians have been slaughtered by Israel, yet you keep banging on about gender and identity politics. Did Nihal ever comment on Obama, Libya, Gadhafi and the emergence of slave markets in Libya? Probably not. I tend to refer to it as cultural Marxism and it’s been digging ever more deeply into England.
Imagine me working at a radio station in e.g. Nigeria and bemoaning how ‘black’ everyone is in the news room. Imagine a Pakistani family moving to Scotland, the son becomes First Minister and he complains about too many ‘white’ Scottish people in positions of authority. Oh, wait. That has happened. ‘Scooter’ Humza literally said this…
This never fails to stagger me:
Nihal actually supports and advocates ‘woke’. It states at the top of his ‘X’ account…
‘The meaning of WOKE is aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)'
https://twitter.com/TherealNihal
He’s stupid and it’s bollox. But, I’m probably a far-right, racist, white supremacist, phobistic Gooner who hates everyone and anything, especially women’s football and David Baddiel.
I occasionally hear him on BBC R5 Live when driving. He’s so awful, so right-on, so politically correct, I find it fascinating listening. How have we come to this when such a mediocre individual is apparently paid £150K to be on the BBC? That’s the BBC for you. Apart from the football coverage, it’s generally crap.
By the way, I took the figures for dead Palestinians so far from here:
https://twitter.com/davincentjames/status/1730460952313913530
Yurtta Barış Dünyada Barış : Peace At Home, Peace İn The World… if only.
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