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call me a taxi
27 Sep 14 00:37
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It may be racist.

A couple were thrown off a bus and branded racists after singing the Peppa Pig theme tune to their autistic daughter, it has been claimed.

Nick Barnfield and Sarah Cleaves were travelling with their daughter Heidi on a bus from Sheffield to Doncaster when the 15-month-old started crying.

The couple, who live in Rotherham, started singing the song in an effort to cheer their daughter up, but say they were branded racists by another passenger and told to get off the bus by its driver.

The couple claimed the woman, who they saw was wearing a hijab, took offence to the snorting sounds in the song and believed they were a reference to how pork is forbidden in Islam though this has not been confirmed.

She complained to the bus's driver, who, it is claimed, then told the couple it would be 'easier' for them to get off two miles from their home.
'We were really embarrassed, ashamed and upset and we hadn't done anything wrong, just trying to make our little girl happy, but people were looking at us as if we had done something wrong.

'It was humiliating,' said Mr Branfield. 

The 24-year-old said they were trying to settle their daughter on the X78 bus on September 8 when they were approached 'aggressively' by the woman.

'A lady came up to us and quite aggressively started telling us we were irresponsible parents and that we were being racist singing the song.'

'She went up to the bus driver and told him we were being racist towards her and she wasn’t happy. The driver came up to me and said we had to get off the bus or the police would have to come.

'He said: 'just get off the bus - it’s not worth the hassle’. I was really shocked because we had done nothing wrong but he didn't listen to us.

'He just said: "Go now, otherwise you’ll hold up all the passengers and no-one will be happy."'

'I was more upset at the bus driver not taking in both sides - he just heard the word racism and kicked us off.
'I’m annoyed he didn't listen to our side of the story or ask any questions.'

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2770621/Couple-singing-Peppa-Pig-theme-tune-toddler-daug...

What a hell hole for the white English that place is ,a glance of what Labour will bring to your town/city should a white Englishman be silly enough to vote for Labour.
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Report naydam • September 27, 2014 2:31 AM BST
I can't see why they are moaning about it now. They should have stayed on the bus. That way, the passengers would have had the opportunity to direct their anger at the REAL culprit.
But they didn't. They missed an ideal opportunity to show the woman up for the bigot that she is. I would have loved it, explaining in a loud voice to your tearful child that you can't sing the children's ditty because this unidentified person dressed in blackout curtains thinks we are singing about a real pig!
Report Gnarley • September 27, 2014 2:56 AM BST
I agree with your stance Naydam but I get the feeling (purely from the account above) that the Mum & Dad were more concerned about their 15 month old baby than scoring a point on principle alone. Fair play to them for that.
However, once the baby was safe and happy in their home, I bet they wished they did things differently, hence the "moaning about it now".

As for the complainant, you put it rather well with bigot, and I best leave it there. Plain
Report mange • September 27, 2014 7:09 AM BST
Id be back next day wiv ROVER.................A PIG ON A LEAD
Report Crisp77 • September 27, 2014 9:05 AM BST
Should have sang old McDonald
Report Foinavon • September 27, 2014 9:12 AM BST
Naydam, you seem to be assuming that most people on the bus were white and the complainant was alone. I very much doubt that was the case.
Report A.H HUNTER esq. • September 27, 2014 10:09 AM BST
And Miliband forgets? (more like does not want too because of his parties betrayal of the white Englishman) to even mention immigration during a keynote speech?


  You do the maths.

  Meanwhile the Labour shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan talks about how unfair Norman Tebbitt's cricket test was? a test designed to ensure that you signed up to the English way of life and Peppa Pig?
Report Facts • September 27, 2014 10:15 AM BST
The racist OP reads the Daily Mail - shock horror !!
Report A.H HUNTER esq. • September 27, 2014 10:23 AM BST
Is that the Daily Mail which has warned of Pakistani grooming gangs for 15 years?

  Maybe more should read it? Ban Peppa pig but encourage Pakistani paedophiles, South Yorkshire,they all used to worship Geoff Boycott?
Report call me a taxi • September 27, 2014 10:26 AM BST
As stated on numerous occasions, that Facts always seems to miss, the OP doesn't read any papers, and hasn't purchased a newspaper this century. 

This was copied from the politics forum.

Not that it matters what paper it's in, the question is, is it true?

I bet it's not in the Guardian. Laugh

BTW - You won't find news in the papers that 'Kidsworld', a toy shop in East Ham High Street, Newham, east London, sells no Peppa Pig products whatsoever, but it's true.
Report call me a taxi • September 27, 2014 10:29 AM BST
Fact must have been SEETHING when Farage mentioned Rotherham at the UKIP conference.
Report not allowed to bet • September 27, 2014 11:23 AM BST
They will keep chipping away - doesn't matter how small or large an issue until they get their way.
Report Ibrahima Sonko • September 27, 2014 11:24 AM BST
Im not into legal action but they should take the bus company to court.
Report Schalke 04 • September 27, 2014 11:44 AM BST
Thats it, I'm dressing up as a pig for Halloween and I am getting the bus to the party
Report portmanpark • September 27, 2014 12:03 PM BST
when we got burgled on a friday night(£1200 stolen) plus they were still there when we got home....the police told us it was friday they were too busy ...dont touch anything we will come in the morning......a few months later i was on my way to the betting shop on a friday night  and the square where all the shops was swarming with police 5 or 6 cars ....about 10 coppers...a police van.....a guy had gone in the parkistani owned shop and called the guy behind the counter osama bin laden...........think he was fined £30 for being drunk and disorderly...i would have been happy with one to my house......surprise surprise the burglar was never caught
Report flushgordon1 • September 27, 2014 12:12 PM BST
Must be why richard bacon left 5 live.
Report HH Sultan Vinegar • September 27, 2014 12:30 PM BST
Good job the Muppet Show has had its day; what with one of the protagonists being not only a pig but also a woman.
Report call me a taxi • September 27, 2014 9:12 PM BST
Has Facts the Labour Luvvie not returned yet with another pearl of wisdom?
Report portmanpark • September 27, 2014 9:16 PM BST
call me a taxi...........he doesnt like you but dont take it to heart he doesnt like anyone
Report call me a taxi • September 27, 2014 9:27 PM BST
I don't care what he likes.
Report portmanpark • September 27, 2014 9:32 PM BST
hes one miserable git........
Report Capt__F • September 27, 2014 9:51 PM BST
always though facts a lady
Report call me a taxi • September 28, 2014 12:27 AM BST
geezer-bird
Report the bairn • September 28, 2014 1:24 AM BST
imo. facts is a racist, he seems to be anti-English. Great Britain was Great before the pakistanis came here. cheers.
Report call me a taxi • September 28, 2014 1:29 AM BST
^^^correct
Report Facts • September 28, 2014 9:53 AM BST
WALOFS
Report Facts • September 28, 2014 9:56 AM BST
portmanpark     27 Sep 14 21:16 
call me a taxi...........he doesnt like you but dont take it to heart he doesnt like anyone.




Absolutely not true. I like most people. Just not idiots who post utter crap on forums Happy
Report Ibrahima Sonko • September 28, 2014 10:03 AM BST
Self hating is not a good thing.
Report call me a taxi • September 28, 2014 12:16 PM BST
Facts    28 Sep 14 09:56 
Absolutely not true. I like most people. Just not idiots who post utter crap on forums


And there you have the luvvies in a nutshell. 

Anything derogatroy about asians or blacks is bad.

Facts says reporting news is racist.

But only if it's about asians and blacks, of course.

Did The Guardian (the paper that Facts says always prints the truth) tell us of child abuse and prostitution in the north years ago?

I bet it didn't, and I bet they thought it was racist to do so.

The Mail did, so did other papers, and they were proved to be telling the truth. 

Facts doesn't like it, but the truthful paper, The Guardian, steered clear of it, and the Labour Party, along with the police, covered it all up.

Which was what Facts wanted.

And he now probably hates the 'racist' Farage for bringing it up at the UKIP conference.

Milliband said it was a 'cultural problem'.   

But as we all know from the truthful paper, The Guardian, multiculturalism is wonderful.

So it couldn't POSSIBLY be a cultural problem, could it?

Who covered it up?

Counsellors and child services.

Who helped cover it all up?

The Police.

Whose instructions were Child Services and the Police under not to 'make waves' in the asian community?

Answer - The Labour Party.

Which makes it political, so Farage was right to bring it up.

Which Facts didn't want.
Report curious-cat • September 28, 2014 1:11 PM BST
The Hebrew bible which is part of the Islamic faith - Abraham is regarded as the first Patriarch of the Jewish people - Islam which means surrender dates back to Abraham and his surrender to God [ Allah ]. Until Abraham many gods were worshipped.

So the reason pork is not eaten relates to both faiths Hebrew and Islam.

However there are differences -  the first Patriarch of the Arabic people is Abraham's son.

Jesus who is regarded as the son of God in Christianity is downgraded to prophet by Islam and a false Messiah by the Hebrew faith.
Report flushgordon1 • September 28, 2014 1:16 PM BST
Vegans or any other fecker who wont eat a bacon sarnie is a untrustworthy bollux.
Report curious-cat • September 28, 2014 1:19 PM BST
you're exceptionally tolerant to people who differ from you flush.

A sign of a very good person.
Report flushgordon1 • September 28, 2014 1:34 PM BST
Yes i suppose i am a bit too liberal cc.
Report casemoney • September 28, 2014 1:48 PM BST
Many Years ago my daughter who was 3 then was sitting on a bus with my Mrs in the front seat upstairs .
There were a lot of black people sitting at the rear of the bus ..Suddenly my daughter jumped up on the seat
looking to wards the people at the rear ,and started roaring the words  BA BA BLACK SHEEP  stopping and repeating,
needless to say the Mrs got off at the next stop Laugh
Report casemoney • September 28, 2014 1:53 PM BST
Hijab wearing should be Illegal ,those who insist on wearing them should be deported to a country where Hijabs are seen as Acceptable ....
Report rob_dylan • September 28, 2014 2:06 PM BST
Daily Mail link in. The OP suggests that if not a total falsification a good chance the whole truth has not been told.  Who really throws someone off a bus just for singing a song to their kid?
Report A.H HUNTER esq. • September 28, 2014 4:51 PM BST
Yep the Daily Mail links about Pakistani paedophile gangs operating in this very area were also fabrication for 17 years,until we found out the reports are true.
Report Foinavon • September 28, 2014 5:01 PM BST
A muslim friend with young children told my wife that Peppa Pig is haraam.

Odd really as it's not a real pig just a cartoon character in children's entertainment, however it appears to be true.
Report curious-cat • September 28, 2014 10:27 PM BST
casemoney Laugh
Report rob_dylan • September 28, 2014 10:30 PM BST
Hunter,

If the links were proved to be true then how the hell can they be a fabrication for 17 years.  Think about it.
Report curious-cat • September 28, 2014 10:35 PM BST
I also agree about demanding to wear clothes/masks in a country where it has not been normal to do this.

When I still lived in Wales ... a schoolgirl, backed by her parents, refused to follow the school dress code for gym lessons ......... I think the school is right and we shouldn't change to accommodate people who come here from other countries.
Report A.H HUNTER esq. • September 28, 2014 10:53 PM BST
I think you need to think about it?  We were told that these Pakistani paedophile gangs were a right wing daily mail fabrication.
Report rob_dylan • September 28, 2014 10:55 PM BST
Who told you that?  You said they were a fabrication, did anyone else?
Report A.H HUNTER esq. • September 28, 2014 11:01 PM BST
filthy left wing apologists like the scum at Rotherham council .  The same people who do not believe the Peppa pig story .
Report call me a taxi • September 28, 2014 11:36 PM BST
rob_dylan    28 Sep 14 14:06 
Daily Mail link in. The OP suggests that if not a total falsification a good chance the whole truth has not been told.  Who really throws someone off a bus just for singing a song to their kid?



'She went up to the bus driver and told him we were being racist towards her and she wasn’t happy.

The driver came up to me and said we had to get off the bus or the police would have to come.

'He said: 'just get off the bus - it’s not worth the hassle’. I was really shocked because we had done nothing wrong but he didn't listen to us.

'He just said: "Go now, otherwise you’ll hold up all the passengers and no-one will be happy."'

I would guess that most of the passengers were asian.

'I’m annoyed he didn't listen to our side of the story or ask any questions.'

If there were lots of asians on the bus, the driver may have been called 'racist' for not asking them to leave. And the loony left could have him sacked for it.
Report mememe • September 29, 2014 9:02 AM BST
If Peppa Pig wore a hijab or chador or whatever they're called would this be ok?
Are pigs bad and should be exterminated?
I like pigs, actually - what have they ever done wrong?
And dogs are not allowed, apparently.
Report HH Sultan Vinegar • September 29, 2014 11:17 AM BST
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Report call me a taxi • September 29, 2014 2:07 PM BST
My mate had a tooth our last week and it affected his speech slightly. Devil

He asked a Korean neighbour to walk his dog.

He never saw the dog again.
Report jed.davison • September 29, 2014 2:59 PM BST
Every single incident of this kind just brings the day when Britain is ruled by Sharia a bit closer.

It is part of a long-term plan - the taking over of schools and the hounding of those who object, the gang-rape of children supported by the conniving silence of those who should be protecting them, the frantic breeding program, all of it.

You have to realise that they want to take over our countries - the fear of speaking out lest one be branded racist is a vital means to that end.

They are having our trousers down, and people are just accepting it. It should be stopped now by any means necessary because otherwise when the resistance to the Islamification of Great Britain finally wakes up, it will be too late.
Report jed.davison • September 29, 2014 3:04 PM BST
It would be a good education for anyone to read the Koran, and know exactly what it commands the dutiful Muslim do to those who do not share the faith.

While we perceive the behaviour of ISIS or whatever they're calling them today to be barbaric and monstrous, they are doing their duty - the forced conversion under pain of death is explicitly demanded of them in the Koran. And sadly, such people can not be reasoned with - the Koran is the word of Allah, and thus inviolable.

Unfortunately, most people do not realise the scale and ambition of the enemy we face in Iraq and Syria, and indeed in our own cities. Islam will not stop until it has converted or killed us all.
Report curious-cat • September 29, 2014 3:47 PM BST
... and when did you read the Koran ?
Report curious-cat • September 29, 2014 3:50 PM BST
-- Deuteronomy, Chapter 17:2-3,5
If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant, And hath gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded; ... Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
Report call me a taxi • September 29, 2014 4:00 PM BST
I'd shoot whoever wrote that crap work of fiction for missing a 'p' from 'worshipped'
Report lfc1971 • September 29, 2014 4:22 PM BST
The liberal nazis will pretend they do not believe this story, they will even convince themselves
they do not believe it such is their dishonesty and moral cowardice.
Report jed.davison • September 29, 2014 4:25 PM BST
I have been reading the Koran since I was about 20. It is a marvellous work, mystical and magical. Sadly, there are a number of passages like the quote of yours from Deuteronomy, which preach death to unbelievers.

I'm sure that you not unaware that your quoted passage is irrelevant to any debate about this subject, since it is only in Islam and perhaps certain branches of Haredi Judaism that the text of holy works is now taken literally in this regard. Christian society long ago stopped using passages from ancient texts as justification for murder, pillage, the emasculation of women and various other forms of subjugation which are still regarded as acceptable in Islam.

This moving away from literal translation and accordance with scripture is a big part of what we like to call Englightenment. There can be no enlightenment under Islam, as its practitioners have proven since the first Hadiths were committed to text.

You may choose to ignore this fact - that is your perfect right after all - but it does not make it any less of a fact. Anywhere there is established Islam, civil society is degraded, liberties are scaled back, minorities are oppressed, progressive science is abjured and human beings are held in thrall.
Report jed.davison • September 29, 2014 4:37 PM BST
Winston Churchill sums it up best, for me. This from a man who defeated the evil of Nazism, on Islam:

"There exists no greater retrograde force in the world"
Report curious-cat • September 29, 2014 4:58 PM BST
I'm not arguing against your last posts jed.davison
Report Crisp77 • September 29, 2014 5:01 PM BST
I hope they don't force M&S to stop making Percy PigsSad
Report call me a taxi • September 29, 2014 5:04 PM BST
'I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes."

Winston Churchill, war office departmental minutes, 1919
Report jed.davison • September 29, 2014 5:07 PM BST
Funny, because I don't believe we should 'ban the burqa' like you espoused above, as one, I believe in freedom of religion and religious expression, and two, I regard it as hideously un-British to tell people what they should or should not wear, regardless of the specious reasons people use to justify the covering or veiling of women.

FWIW, I regard all religions with equal contempt.
Report jed.davison • September 29, 2014 5:09 PM BST
Different times, different mores cmat.

I don't suppose even you would take that literally another century on.
Report curious-cat • September 29, 2014 5:20 PM BST
the vast majority of followers in the UK are peace-loving ...... it's the fanatics we need to stop.
Report call me a taxi • September 29, 2014 5:23 PM BST
jed.davison    29 Sep 14 17:09 
Different times, different mores cmat.

I don't suppose even you would take that literally another century on.


Devil
Report lfc1971 • September 29, 2014 5:28 PM BST
Freedom of religion should not be sancrosanct, otherwise it becomes a false idol.
Religious ideas are not equal, some are better than others and there sbould not
be the assumption that each and any religion should be allowed.
Report curious-cat • September 29, 2014 5:30 PM BST
cmat has too much time on his hands

perhaps the 'cmat detective agency ' Grin
Report curious-cat • September 29, 2014 5:32 PM BST
Freedom of religion should not be sacrosanct, otherwise it becomes a false idol.
Religious ideas are not equal, some are better than others and there should not
be the assumption that each and any religion should be allowed.


very well put lfc1971

........ apart from 2 typos which are forgiven Grin
Report HH Sultan Vinegar • September 29, 2014 5:34 PM BST
absolutely agree with that lfc.
Report lfc1971 • September 29, 2014 5:34 PM BST
:-) thanks  cc
Report digdeep • September 29, 2014 6:04 PM BST
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