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The Transgender Line can change to be a different line at anytime, even mid-journey.
Horribly close to what they would actually do.
Damn them, damn them to Hell.
Paul Marks,
Horribly close to what they actually did do.
Well, I suppose I can’t object to the Liberty Line, even if the BBC’s explanation of it sounds utterly bizarre:
but it is actually a little better than that, being a reference to the Royal Liberty of Havering.
The reference to local history in the Weaver Line is fine.
The “Lioness Line” being a reference to the England women’s football team winning a competition recently is a bit like putting up a statue to someone who is still alive. I expect they’ll have to change it in five years, either because of some scandal, or because they’ve cancelled the term “lioness”.
Not radical enough. How about:
Gulag Line;
Great Leap Forward Line;
The Killing Fields Line;
Beria Line;
KGB Express; and
Baader Meinhoff Line.
These are bit edgier.
I had to look up the word “détournement”. A useful new term to add to my political vocabulary, even if I was not at all sure whether this post is meant to complain about someone else’s détournement of symbols of London’s past identity, or to be itself a détournement of symbols of London’s present identity – or at least London’s identity as interpreted by advertising agency DNCO (“We are DNCO, the creative studio for place and culture”) at the behest of Sadiq Khan.
Taking into account the lionesses lack of diversity (as pointed out at considerable length by the bbc) it’s unfortunate that the eponymous line doesn’t pass through White City.
No ‘Javier Milei Line‘ then (yet)?
As the prodigious author Mr Simon Webb points out, one of the lines is named after the Suffragettes, who launched a prolonged bombing campaign across the UK in the early 20th Century.
Remember that the bombing campaign broke the Stone of Scone and damaged the Coronation chair.
Isn’t glorifying terrorism an offence in the UK?
“Suffragette Fascists: Emmeline Pankhurst and Her Right-Wing Followers“
Author: Simon Webb
“The group was financed by wealthy and aristocratic backers, and terrorism, in the form of bombing and arson, was widely used against working-class men and women. This, together with the rampant anti-Semitism and ambivalent attitude to democracy, all indicate that there was more to the suffragettes than we now realise. Few people today, for example, know that Emmeline Pankhurst was an advocate of ethnic cleansing and the use of concentration camps, nor that her daughter was imprisoned during the Second World War for pro-Nazi activities.”
https://shop.nationalarchives.gov.uk/products/suffragette-fascists-emmeline-pankhurst-and-her-right-wing-followers#:~:text=It%20was%20suggested%20that%20Mrs,of%20the%20First%20World%20War.
Mr Ed
“Isn’t glorifying terrorism an offence in the UK?”
Not if the ongoing pro-Hamas demonstrations are anything to go by.
David
Or if Judge Tan Ikram CBE (awarded for services to judicial diversity) is passing sentence.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/02/15/britains-two-tier-justice-system/
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/02/14/the-arbitrary-tyranny-of-woke-censorship/
Wait, this is serious? Transport for London really did this?
I thought this graphic had to be a joke, someone making fun of Transport for London.
As they say, truth is stranger than fiction!
So, yes, ridicule this and them. All day long!
Natalie – I did not know that they had done that, well there we are. Thank you for the information.
Jonathan Pearce – the names you suggest will come in time.
John – yes it is the two tier “justice” system that is the point.
“Justice” Ikram did not let off the people celebrating the rape and murder of Jews because he is a principled defender of Free Speech – rather he dislikes Jews and other infidels.
If anyone doubts that – imagine what would have happened to people who celebrated the rape and murder of Muslims and found themselves before this judge.
As “Spiked” points out – he even punished people for private jokes, let alone a public celebration.
Ditto white and black relations – colour blind justice is considered “reactionary”, so the murder of a black person by a white person is considered (in both the United Kingdom and the United States) much more noteworthy than the murder of white person by a black person.
A White Flight Line leading from the old East End out towards the wilds of Essex would be historically accurate.
@Mr Ed
LOL