Re: Stopping the boats

On Sat, 8 Jun 2024 17:05:33 +0100
Ahem A Rivet's Shot <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, 8 Jun 2024 16:04:31 +0100
> John Williamson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > They are also claiming benefits while simultaneously stealing all the
> > jobs.
> 
> 	My father used to moan about the "pakis" doing that.
> 


Pratchett did this  with Sergeant Colon's views being shrewdly countered
by Nobby Nobbs in 'Jingo'; 


<pause to get to relevant page of book>

Maybe not Jingo then, that's about how the Klatchians "viciously
attack you while cowardly running away after tasting cold steel" (p42)

Aha! p189

"White's... white's a state of, you know .../mind/' he said. It's like ...
doing an honest day's work for an honest day's pay, that sort of thing.
And washing regular."
'Not lazing around sort of thing.'
"Right."
'Or...like working all the hours liked Goriff does'
"Nobby---"
'And you never see those kids of his with any dirty clo--'




-- 
Bah, and indeed Humbug.