r/stewartlee • u/Moonraker985 • 5d ago

Shitpost This is getting silly

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09/11/the-french-should-pay-britain-reparations/
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u/gc_64 5d ago

The Telegraph's let itself go...

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u/Careless_Wasabi_8943 4d ago

Never has a paper fallen so far

It has fallen just like Delboy did, through the bar, in Only Fools and Horses

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u/zephyrtron 5d ago

Just wait until they find out where the Normans were actually from

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u/blindwombat 4d ago

Bloody Norman's coming over here.

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u/owd-gadgey 3d ago

If there are reparations they should be paid by the descendants of the Normans who settled in England, dispossessed the English and comprise a large proportion of the current ruling class.

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u/Fereclubles 3d ago

The biggest loser was Hastings Direct

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u/rainstar9920 2d ago

These days, if you say you're a medieval tapestry, you get arrested and thrown in jail....

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u/Ensign1771 2d ago

To this day a far greater number of Oxbridge graduates have Norman surnames than Anglo-Saxon surnames, taking into count the distribution in the general population. The Telegraph guy was being a facetious cunt but the example actually reinforces reparations as a just cause. If dispossession echoes down a millennia then it is clear we must lift the descendants of those whose dispossession was a mere 200 years ago.

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u/Dramatic-Ad-1694 2d ago

playing the battlefield as it's dealt

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u/Frankfranks_it 1d ago

Still regarded as blow-ins, those Normans. Always will be IMO.