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T_i_B

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2. It wasn't long ago at all...

Reply to Soph0571 (Original post)

Wed Jul 7, 2021, 04:53 PM

Jul 2021

That Tory politicians like Priti Patel were queueing up to encourage fans to boo England players for taking the knee. Now they are desperately trying to jump on the England team bandwagon.

Bunch of phoney plastic "patriots" the lot of them.

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The England squad is built on immigration - yet our xenophobic government dares to cheer it on [View all] Soph0571 Jul 2021 OP

Thanks for this excellent op. I'm always amazed that many people who celebrate The Anglo-Saxon abqtommy Jul 2021 #1

It wasn't long ago at all... T_i_B Jul 2021 #2