Is it just me?
I mean, we all know @BorisJohnson’s “joke” about “Green Shirts” kicking your door down & seizing your boiler “at carrot-point” isn’t just mockery of eco-folk, but a tremendously witty reference to Nazi Brown Shirts coercing people at gunpoint. Right?
And … /1.
I mean, we all know @BorisJohnson’s “joke” about “Green Shirts” kicking your door down & seizing your boiler “at carrot-point” isn’t just mockery of eco-folk, but a tremendously witty reference to Nazi Brown Shirts coercing people at gunpoint. Right?
And … /1.
… everyone also knows that isn’t funny at all. Correct?
OK. Maybe it’s just me.
But of course he knows, even if not all @TheSun readers do, that the actual Green Shirts were murderous, anti-Semitic fascists.
The Hungarian Nazi Party, say 👇/2.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian…
OK. Maybe it’s just me.
But of course he knows, even if not all @TheSun readers do, that the actual Green Shirts were murderous, anti-Semitic fascists.
The Hungarian Nazi Party, say 👇/2.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian…
It turns out, the Green Shirts are making a comeback. So this isn’t just ancient history. To be used for a dismally bad taste gag.
Although I’d have thought the story of our parents’ & grandparents’ generation wasn’t that ancient. Nor so trivial.
It must just be me. /5. End
Although I’d have thought the story of our parents’ & grandparents’ generation wasn’t that ancient. Nor so trivial.
It must just be me. /5. End
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Tweet 1, tweet 5: Wikimedia
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