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Not since the villainous Spaniard launched his
Armada against these shores has a Briton
suffered so cruelly at the hands of our Postman-
Pat-chinned neighbours.
Yesterday, during pre-season testing at
Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya, 23-year-old
Lewis Hamilton was subjected to hours of
hateful racist taunting by groups of backwards
back-woods cousin-molesting Catalans, their
faces smeared with boot polish.
Hamilton, the Formula One legend and all-
round Lizard hero, remarked upon his fondness
for Spain and its people, but expressed sorrow
at the day’s events.
The Spanish, to a man so totally closed-minded
and awful, should be ashamed of themselves
for their intellectually-insupportable bigotry.
Your typical sherry-swilling Spaniard is forever
resorting to base generalisations in his
sweeping statements about people of other
races and persuasions.
So pervasive is the influence of this pernicious
racism that, during their otherwise top-class
coverage of the story, the BBC itself suffered
an embarrassing lapse into out-moded 1950s
racial stereotypes, referring at one point to
Hamilton being ‘Baracked by the Spanish F1
fans.’
Armada against these shores has a Briton
suffered so cruelly at the hands of our Postman-
Pat-chinned neighbours.
Yesterday, during pre-season testing at
Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya, 23-year-old
Lewis Hamilton was subjected to hours of
hateful racist taunting by groups of backwards
back-woods cousin-molesting Catalans, their
faces smeared with boot polish.
Hamilton, the Formula One legend and all-
round Lizard hero, remarked upon his fondness
for Spain and its people, but expressed sorrow
at the day’s events.
The Spanish, to a man so totally closed-minded
and awful, should be ashamed of themselves
for their intellectually-insupportable bigotry.
Your typical sherry-swilling Spaniard is forever
resorting to base generalisations in his
sweeping statements about people of other
races and persuasions.
So pervasive is the influence of this pernicious
racism that, during their otherwise top-class
coverage of the story, the BBC itself suffered
an embarrassing lapse into out-moded 1950s
racial stereotypes, referring at one point to
Hamilton being ‘Baracked by the Spanish F1
fans.’
We must not tolerate these gross levels of
cultural ignorance from our tapas-troughing
cousins, nor stoop to their level by lapsing into
pathetic and idiotic generalities in a feeble
attempt at provocative humour.
Back in the day we’d have taken these chorizo-
chomping reprobates to The Tower and
watched while the ravens plucked out their
Rioja-pickled livers. But now, such is our
restraint and diplomatic finesse, that when
inept Iberian fishermen run aground off our
sceptred isle, we spent thousands despatching
British helicopters to rescue them, without so
much as a mention of the fact that they were
busy looting our cod-stocks.
This aggression will not stand, amigos. What
must stand is Britain, united in its condemnation
of the unacceptable racialist intolerance
demonstrated by those filthy dagos.
cultural ignorance from our tapas-troughing
cousins, nor stoop to their level by lapsing into
pathetic and idiotic generalities in a feeble
attempt at provocative humour.
Back in the day we’d have taken these chorizo-
chomping reprobates to The Tower and
watched while the ravens plucked out their
Rioja-pickled livers. But now, such is our
restraint and diplomatic finesse, that when
inept Iberian fishermen run aground off our
sceptred isle, we spent thousands despatching
British helicopters to rescue them, without so
much as a mention of the fact that they were
busy looting our cod-stocks.
This aggression will not stand, amigos. What
must stand is Britain, united in its condemnation
of the unacceptable racialist intolerance
demonstrated by those filthy dagos.
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Dominic Hilton & A S H Smyth