This blog post is thanks to Exix, who followed a hyperlink from a Facebook group to this Daily Mail article. Isn’t the internet marvellous? Anyway, this collection of fartstains see “sick echoes of the country’s fascist past” and decide they want some too.
What were the people on the beach supposed to do, pack up and go home ?
Unlike the victims, they had probably worked long and hard to be able to afford their brief holiday.david Kendall, st Helens
It’s the white people I feel sorry for. They always have it harder than dead gyppos left to rot in the heat of an Italian summer.
Don’t worry they can all come hear, free council housing & benefits , then they can con Rob & steal from us..good on the Italians they have got the guts to tackle these awful people.
John, Coulsdon England
Poor Rob.
I’m, in no way, condoning what Italy is doing, but these people are parasites. They need to get educated and employment and assimilate into civilized society. It’s year 2008 for God’s sake.
Olga, Los Angeles, USA
These people. THESE AWFUL PEOPLE! What we really ought to do is put them and all their squalid little children on a big boat, set fire to it and sink it. Then if they can still swim on fire, shoot them, and make THEM pay the bill. Not that I’m condoning that sort of thing.
A country wanting to clear out illegal immigrants? How dreadful, the UK should be doing this.
Nige B Pudsey
I bet you don’t holiday in the UK. What about BRITISH beaches, covered in decomposing immigrants, thanks to this mad Marxist government?
When can we expect their arrival at Dover?
Mick B, Essex
Why does it always have to be all about you?
This is excellent news! Finally lucky heather is proved to be nothing of the sort. Now we can all report the gyppos to Trading Standards and get them deported!
If they like fascism so much …
“Ask anyone on the tube what they think of the way these Roma gypsies celebrate their cultural identity…
- Mark, Chorley, UK”
But not if you’re sitting next to Katie True…
Amazing. I know it’s the Daily Mail, but I still can’t believe that virtually every comment is along these lines…
There is something very surreal about this.
I never thought I’d see the day where I actually wanted to stand up for the Daily Mail.
Someone here missed a golden opportunity to say “when in Rome”
Will Kat be saying this when the Northern Irish have to wear big green shamrock armbands so we know who they are?
I think I’m right in thinking that this was from the anti-daily mail coalition on facebook and I think I first flagged the article on the discussion board. I just cannot describe how disgusted I was reading the responses. At the end of the day, the two dead “vermin” were children. Human fucking beings.
“Good for Italy, they are one of the very few countries that have the guts to do anything about these vermin. Until you have experienced what these thieves are like, you cannot comment on any hardship or sympathy that they may deem to want.
- Mike Jones, Farnborough, Hampshire”
Yay Mike!
Coz Hampshire’s just such a fucking hotbed of pikey crime innit? Not like those inner city sink estates - those lucky sods don’t know how cushy they’ve got it! I mean, what’s a little bit of knifecriming ™ compared to having some old homeless pensioner threatening you with “bad luck” if you don’t buy her heather?
And speaking of vermin - I bet those badgers are behind all this. There’s loads of badgers in Hampshire.
Pikey badger bastards.
You’re not suggesting Dover is in Essex are you?
Actually I have been on the tube where this happened. Some drunk bint on the central line started mouthing off about how the immigrants were ruining this country and how dare they come over here. So I very calmly and innocently asked her which paper she read. She shut up, but as I got off her boyfriend came over and threateningly said “I don’t appreciate people talking to my girlfriend like that.” I wish, dear reader, I could say that I came up with some witty off the cuff comment like “And I don’t appreciate her vomiting up barely-understood Daily Mail bullshit in public” and flounced away, but I wasn’t exactly sober myself, so actually what happened is that I shouted at him “Well that is YOUR OPINION!” and stormed off while he stood there bewildered.
Wow.
I think Kelvin was actually a witness to Jack & Katie’s date!
Kelvin, I am too scared of getting punched in the face to challenge gobby drunken bints and their boyfriends, even a little bit. Hurrah!
When can we expect their arrival at Dover?
Mick B, Essex
If we are lucky Mick, then about 6 weeks. After the tide has washed them off the shore, through the straights of Gibraltar, caught up in Spanish fishing nets and then whatever is left that hasn’t been eaten by marine life unceremoniously dumped in the channel and nudged into port by a series of Brittany ferries.
If you like you can even go along and help extract rotten bloated bits of people out of the water. No?
I think though its more likely they will drift across the med and possibly wash up on the shores of northern Africa. Mick would probably see that as deeply ironic.
I’m flabbergasted. How can people rejoice at the death of two innocent girls?
Just because they were killed by the sea and not paedos. Is Hampshire going to start worshipping Poseidon now?
Alex, I keep reading
as “fartisans.” I think it would be a wonderful world. People whose lifetime of experience has made them highly skilled and incredibly imaginative in the crafting of bullshit.
Word. A wonderful word. I think I have CJD of the fingers recently.
This comment is priceless:
Yeah Marion - they sat there out of respect - keeping a silent vigil over the dead.
And why not work on their tans and maybe read a cheap novel while they’re at it?
‘What were the people on the beach supposed to do, pack up and go home ?
Unlike the victims, they had probably worked long and hard to be able to afford their brief holiday.’
david Kendall, st Helens
I bet that’s what Hitler said when the Wermacht invaded North Africa…
‘What were the people on the beach supposed to do, pack up and go home ?
Unlike the victims, they had probably worked long and hard to be able to afford their brief holiday.’
david Kendall, st Helens
He’s got a point. After months of knifecriming and fiddling the social to be able to afford a proper beach holdiay in Italy I wouldn’t let a couple of decomposing gippo kids spoil MY fun either…
Why can’t they just die under the bridges like the rest of the homeless…?
Are we sure the sunbather thing isn’t an urban myth? Everybody’s talking about the “pictures” (plural) but I’ve only found one picture, and that shows people looking unconcernedly towards two pairs of feet poking out from under towels. The rest of the “bodies” are cropped out of the frame. Couldn’t they just be the feet of normal sunbathers who’ve dozed off?
Fair point well made Monkeyhands.
Its the same with the so called “Holocaust” too though, isn’t it?
I mean, sure, we’ve all seen those photographs of Belsen and Auschwitz but for my money it could just as easily have been the local Kate Moss Fan Club and Bulimic Society on a jolly to Butlins.
Those big gas ovens were just there to bake them lots of pies and feed the poor dears up, you know.
So having less than 100% trust in the Daily Mail makes me a Holocaust denier?
Anyway, we shouldn’t argue. We should focus on rescuing that poor dog STARVING TO DEATH in a Costa Rican art gallery.
Hmm Dr Shade. Very much hmm.
I’d be interested in an explanation of the logical process whereby you equate questioning the interpretation of a news story with denying the Holocaust. At the moment it seems a little obscure.
Am I being a po-faced git? Should someone just slap me with a pie?
Consider yourself pie-slapped Howfar (and there’s a Ginsters waiting for you too Monkeyhands!)
But if you want a (slightly) more serious response then how’s this:
In the picture I saw at the top of the Daily Mail article the girl under the green towel was completely covered, with the exception of her feet. The towel was obviously positioned to cover her head and face - said head/face being clearly in the picture and not “cropped out” in any way.
Now perhaps, being a Roma and not having much cash, this was her version of Factor 3000 sun protection? Or perhaps a pale Goth-like complexion and mahogany-tanned feet are curiously erotic to the Roma? Perhaps it’s all just a publicity stunt and that’s really Mary-Kate & Ashley under there promoting their new range of towels?
What other reason could there by for covering a recumbant form’s head & face?
Oh, I know - they’re a couple of real mingers and the rest of the beachgoers insisted they cover up as the sight of their Elephant Man like features was putting everybody off their hot dogs!
It only remains to establish what kind of pie you would prefer…
assimilate them!! assimilate them now!! ve do not vant any differences in zis country!!
What were the people on the beach supposed to do, pack up and go home ?
Unlike the victims, they had probably worked long and hard to be able to afford their brief holiday.
david Kendall, st Helens
you’ve got to hand to him, 11 and 12 year olds are unlikely to have paid for their own holiday.
You’ve got to hand it to Mick B, by gathering his information through these unconventional channels he’ll get to the new arrivals long before the other sex traffickers.
Linking to a Daily Mail equivalent of HYS is like shooting fish in a barrel really, but bugger me, most of those comments are embarrassingly awful.
I don’t know why, but I find the idea of someone going to the Daily Mail website for their current affairs needs worse than someone buying the paper. Maybe because there are so many better options just a click or two away, but they still choose to go there.
I know David Kendall, former work colleague - or at least someone with the same name from the same town as me (well he lives in Prescot to be exact, which is basically Liverpool, which is practically Ireland). I wouldn’t mind, his nan is Irish.
Right now I’m inclined to go and stab him in the face for being a canute.
Obviously I would check it was the right bloke first.
And probably would bottle it, shout “WELL THATS YOUR OPINION!” in his face, then scarper.
And there’s a number of pics of the girls dead on the beach with a fair number of unconcerned sunbathers. There’s also rumours going around that they were chased into the sea - fully dressed as they were - and that the Italians sat there and watched, or didn’t intervene.
I’d like to think, Gippo, Pikey, whatever, 99% of people would do something. I know I’m going to be sorely disappointed though.
I’ll express a view here, probably unwise.
I don’t know what I’d have done on that beach. When you’re suddenly confronted with a dead body, you tend to feel a bit stupid and pointless. There’s not really much you can do. Maybe everyone should have left. I don’t know. I just don’t think that a few photos tell us much about Italian attitudes toward Roma people. It seems to me that this is another Chinese cockle picker story. It is good copy because it gives so many opportunities for racism, indignation, self-righteousness, titillation. It’s almost the Daily Mail’s dream story.
That said, there is a real story here, which is the appalling treatment of the Roma people. I suspect that most of us are aware of the nasty facts. The Roma, 60 odd years after the Holocaust, are still the poorest racial group in Europe, the least literate, the most likely to experience racial discrimination, the most likely to experience legal discrimination (see Italian fingerprinting of children and the continuing British planning war against travelling people).
It doesn’t change anything for me to say it here, but the real horror is not foolish people doing something crass on a beach.
First they came for the gypsies, but I was not a gypsy, (thank God!); so I cracked open the Amber Solaire and went back to my Jilly Cooper.
OK, I’ve now found the original Daily Mail article (which was only findable through Google and not through the Daily Mail site’s own search function, of course) and I’m now officially admitting I was wrong.
Happy, Dr Shade? Pass the Ginsters.
What were the people on the beach supposed to do, pack up and go home ?
Unlike the victims, they had probably worked long and hard to be able to afford their brief holiday.
david Kendall, st Helens
I dont want to jump to conclusions but seeing as this is the mail I think we can safely assume that these are the same folks who spent their entire holiday in front of the TV last year watching news stories about Madeline McCann…