Talking of Americans and also of cockney scents, I cannot stop cringing every time that my good lady wife decides to put the dvd of "Mary Poppins" on and there comes a time when Dick van Dyke as a chimney sweep bursts into song in what was said to be a "cockney accent"...
Yes.
(You asked for it - but of course only kidding.)
I've watched the first video, and saw no evidence of anyone who appears to be a "foreigner" appearing in the video. None of the people in the video spoke in a "cockney" accent.
I think there is likely some confusion as to what a cockney accent is.
Absolutely
and much more commonly used in the north-east than the south-east.
I agree with you, but I'm wondering if we should be so optimistic, given that the Conservatives now appear to be trying to discredit Sadiq by playing up the 'Muslim extremists' theme. Zac Goldsmith has been doing this for a while now. But today, David Cameron stepped in, using Parliamentary Privilege to accuse an Imam at Sadiq's mosque, Suliman Gani, of supporting IS - so far as I can tell, without any reasonable evidence of this. Suliman has strongly denied supporting IS and challenged David Cameron to repeat his allegations outside of Parliamentary privilege. Gani has also tweeted evidence of his opposition to IS and extremism, and further tweeted evidence that he had links with the local Conservatives at the last election, when he was a Conservative supporter.
I have to say, that, every time I think that the Conservatives have now stooped so low that they cannot possibly do anything to disgust me any more - they manage to prove me wrong. I actually now feel ashamed that there were times in the long distant past when I was tempted to vote Conservative. A party that apparently sees nothing wrong with making up apparently untrue allegations about extremism to try to discredit by association a candidate who happens to be Muslim.
I agree with you, but I'm wondering if we should be so optimistic, given that the Conservatives now appear to be trying to discredit Sadiq by playing up the 'Muslim extremists' theme. Zac Goldsmith has been doing this for a while now. But today, David Cameron stepped in, using Parliamentary Privilege to accuse an Imam at Sadiq's mosque, Suliman Gani, of supporting IS - so far as I can tell, without any reasonable evidence of this. Suliman has strongly denied supporting IS and challenged David Cameron to repeat his allegations outside of Parliamentary privilege. Gani has also tweeted evidence of his opposition to IS and extremism, and further tweeted evidence that he had links with the local Conservatives at the last election, when he was a Conservative supporter.
I have to say, that, every time I think that the Conservatives have now stooped so low that they cannot possibly do anything to disgust me any more - they manage to prove me wrong. I actually now feel ashamed that there were times in the long distant past when I was tempted to vote Conservative. A party that apparently sees nothing wrong with making up apparently untrue allegations about extremism to try to discredit by association a candidate who happens to be Muslim.
