Originally Posted by gruffbrown

I like this tableau. HMS Windrush, the first immigrant ship from Jamaica. It celebrates people arriving, not leaving.

Originally Posted by rugbymatt

People are funny aren't they?

Originally Posted by gruffbrown

I like this tableau. HMS Windrush, the first immigrant ship from Jamaica. It celebrates people arriving, not leaving.

Originally Posted by rugbymatt

Ok, not one for mushiness but I felt, all the way through it, that I was part of it, it made me feel that what was going on spoke to me, as a Brit. I loved the bangra music as much as I loved the Jam coming on, it made me laugh that one of my friends on Facebook had a whinge that there was too much multiculturalism yet they loved the fact that the Specials were played!

People are funny aren't they?

Originally Posted by jackytoo

Not many will come on here and say they didn't like it are they with all the abuse. It was still tripe junior school stuff anyway and you can say what you like...water off a ducks back

Originally Posted by rugbymatt

Ok, not one for mushiness but I felt, all the way through it, that I was part of it, it made me feel that what was going on spoke to me, as a Brit. I loved the bangra music as much as I loved the Jam coming on, it made me laugh that one of my friends on Facebook had a whinge that there was too much multiculturalism yet they loved the fact that the Specials were played!

People are funny aren't they?

Originally Posted by Lorna at Vicenza

That might be true darling if I drank red wine, but I don't. I prefer white.

Originally Posted by Lion in Winter

It's ok, they probably think of curry as British food, too. That's how multiculturalism actually works - before you know it, it's all part of us and no one even remembers that it wasn't before.

Originally Posted by jackytoo

Not many will come on here and say they didn't like it are they with all the abuse. It was still tripe junior school stuff anyway and you can say what you like...water off a ducks back

Originally Posted by kimilseung

I was confused by the nazi-tory guy complaining about the multiculturalism, as a lot of it went over my head and I did not notice it (like your mates). A sign that multiculturalism is now fundamentally part of what it is to be a Brit.

I liked the smoke stacks, it was inclusive of class, entrepreneur and worker; it was meant to be inclusive and yes I felt that I was included.

Originally Posted by Lorna at Vicenza

What junior school did you go to? Our end of year productions might have been "tripe junior school stuff", but we were bloody proud of them, worked hard at them and did a lot of rehearsals. We were right to be proud and we always pulled it off on the opening night..... and the other two or three afterwards.

Originally Posted by kimilseung

Well there goes that theory.

Originally Posted by gruffbrown

You'll be saying Polo isn't British next.

Originally Posted by Lion in Winter

We did Julius Caesar at ours.

Total rubbish.