I get making fun of America for its flag worship and stuff but Brexit should be all the reminder you need that you don’t need flags in every classroom and a pledge of allegiance every morning for the people of a country to turn out absurdly xenophobic.
This is very true, and (but?) from personal experience I gather that a great deal of the Brexiteers were people who remembered when there was a flag in every classroom and were desperate for them to return.
Britain loves to make jokes about adverse weather conditions and how they’re an inconvenience rather than a danger, but Storm Doris has actually killed someone in the Midlands. :(
UKIP MEP Nigel Farage goes off on another racist speech at the European Parliament, this time praising Trump’s Muslim ban and yelling at the European MEPs for not respecting Trump. Labour MEP Seb Dance decides to troll him silently.
Also, important to note – this didn’t happen in the UK. It happened in the European Parliament and the man holding up the sign is UK Member of the European Parliament Seb Dance, pointing it toward Nigel Farage, former leader of the UKIP, the far-right, xenophobic party in the UK that banked hard on Brexit and on demonizing Eastern Europeans like myself.
amazon: actually an excellent and important ad! watch it here. also, prob not a uk-specific ad (good) but the Iman featured in it runs a school 20 minutes down the road from me so that’s damn cool 100/10
waitrose ad 1: adorable little robin is saved from drowning by sailors, eats a mine pie, a good time is had by all. ornithologically inaccurate af, apparently, but I don’t care 10/10
very: cute little pixar/dreamworks animated ad, so sweet it will make your teeth fall out, I like it 9/10
the average:
john lewis: heartless animals ruin a little girl’s christmas by stealing her trampoline. this ad made racists angry for no other reason than it featured a black family, so it gets several more points for that 8/10
marks and spencer: thanks tom hooper, that was very moving. now release the les miserables 2012 deleted scenes already 7/10
aldi ad 1: an anthropomorphic carrot called kevin aims for something higher, gets grated, ends up dangled on a stick in front of ruldolph. a perfect metaphor for 2016 6/10
the bad:
aldi ad 2: kevin the carrot falls down the chimney on christmas day to see his fellow carrots being eaten. a even better metaphor for 2016 5/10
argos: neon coloured yetis ice-skate to the nightmare before christmas soundtrack, fail to change the awful quality of argos furniture 4/10
tescos ad 1: you’re so much better than this, ruth jones and ben miller 3/10
tescos ad 3: you’re still probably better than this, ruth jones and ben miller 2/10
tescos ad 5+: you two are dead to me 1/10
the ugly:
waitrose ad 2: features a “banana and bacon cake”. 0/10
