Sunday, 13 December 2020

The Brixton uprising


The sound of yet more small axes being ground at the BBC...

It looks as if the 'woke' BBC has rebranded the 1981 Brixton riot as "the Brixton uprising":

[Click to enlarge and read, especially if you're eyesight's as bad as mine]


In fairness, that decade, and the decade before it, were marked by other uprisings in the UK - especially by those branded by their fascist oppressors as "football hooligans". 

Millwall supporters, to quote just one famous example, were responsible for a large-scale popular uprising in Luton in 1985 during the quarter-final of the FA Cup. They stormed the Winter Palace end apparently. 

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