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BOB GELDOF HAS described the current political activity in Westminster a “betrayal of Churchill”, at a forum yesterday.
Geldof, who is also a vocal Remain supporter, said “what is going on in that house (Westminster) is a betrayal of Churchill… that great figure of the 20th century who stood against tyranny”, at One Young World conference.
The activist spoke out against Brexit in the lead up to the referendum, and joined the anti-Brexit protests on Saturday.
Speaking at One Young World, an annual forum for young leaders, Geldof criticised the British Government, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.
He said: “The people that purport to be our leaders are all old people. It is a world essentially without leaders.
“When leaders fail to lead, then the people will teach them to follow, and that’s what we’re seeing.
“The economy that we have built is consuming the world, and that economy is consumed by technology. And it moves so fast we cannot possibly control it.
“Younger people retreat to the certainties of the strong man, the admiration for thugs like Putin, fools like Trump. It is possible to just give the world a nudge in the right direction
“But these people are not leaders. They are not strong. They are weak. Power can only come from the will of the people.”
Speaking about One Young World, the former Boomtown Rats vocalist said: “This has ended up being one of the great ideas laboratories that I have been to.
“I get attuned to where this century might be going, as my generation fails spectacularly, as we flounder for the certainty of the new.
“There never is certainty.
“As the 20th century crumbles, and this one stutters to start, it is still is mouldable, it still is plastic.”
He told the audience: “Change occurs through ideas – the great ideas factory.
“Ideas are the raw material of change, and language is the expression of those ideas.
“You’ve got Malala (Yousafzai) and you’ve got Greta (Thunberg). And they spoke truth unto power. And it’s effective. We need to steer this century or we will end up in a very bad place. It is possible to just give the world a nudge in the right direction. The future may not be ours, but our values must shape it.”
Geldof’s speech preceded a talk by former prime minister Sir John Major, who also condemned Brexit as a “colossal mistake”.
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not to forget it was churchill that sent the black&tans to ireland bob but sure your ok with that
@☘: not to mention his role in the Bengal famine and wanting to poison the German water supply.
@☘: couldnt make that flute up….
@☘: not to forget UK govts and the Unionist administrations at Stormont have practically refused to implement the Good Friday Agreement since it was signed – but sure Bob’s probably OK with that too!
@☘: On a positive note, Darkest Hour was entertaining!
Ballbag
@Seosamh Snr Nolan: Well played sir, Lmfao
Bob Geldof in 2016 to Nigel Farage on Brexit: “You’re a fraud, Nigel!”.
Geldof in 2019 on celebrity climate change: “I’m a fraud…”
@Seosamh Snr Nolan: that sums him up nicely
Ah jasus Bob will you leave it alone. As for Churchill , he done well in ww2 but his behaviour in regard to the British colonies leaves a lot to be desired.
@Seán O Foghlú: genocide and famine. “A lot to be desired”
@Seán O Foghlú: The way I look at it is that we can’t judge the past by modern standards, because if we did, then everyone was a monster. For instance, what we now consider child abuse, such as denial of education and food, forced labour and physical abuse, was considered perfectly normal throughout history until about two generations ago.
Churchill was an imperfect human. He does not measure up to the standard of a good person today. But we should keep it in context. All praise should be tempered by his negative traits. Likewise, all criticism should be tempered by the standards of the time he came from. Unfortunately, bad traits were common then.
@Seán O Foghlú: don’t forget the dardanelles and the battle of jutland as first lord of the admiralty
@Sylvia O’Regan: Yea. Cutting a nations food supply starving millions to death.!! Standards of the day. But we should keep it in context.
@Dermot Foley: Sorry Dermot I had just gotten in from working nights when I wrote that comment. It was the best I could muster. Believe me I’m no fan of Churchill and his racist and genocidal ways.
@Sylvia O’Regan: I agree with you in that history must be judged within the context of the times but I don’t believe Churchhill can get an exemption because of that.He was a war monger and a lifelong racist. To give an example ,Ships laden with wheat were coming in from Australia docking in Calcutta and were instructed by Churchill not to disembark their cargo but sail on to Europe. And when conscience-stricken British officials wrote to the Prime Minister in London pointing out that his policies were causing needless loss of life all he could do was write peevishly in the margin of the report, ‘Why hasn’t Gandhi died yet.
@Sylvia O’Regan: The moral compass already existed in the past. It simply wasn’t adhered to by those in power. No child being abused has ever felt it was normal.
Sir Bob the traitor himself, dunno why he just doesn’t go for full brit citizenship with the way he drools on about the place
@Michael Patrick Newell: interesting, and why is he a traitor? Expand please..
@ℝ: He was honored with a grant of the Freedom of the City of Dublin which he threw back in our face’s for some sort cheap publicity stunt.
@Mary’s Abbey: So he’s a traitor for handing back the honour (which he repeatedly stated he was delighted and honoured to receive as a Dubliner) in reluctant protest because Dublin City Council wouldn’t remove Aung San Suu Kyi from the roll of honour? Wow, just wow. Have you looked at your own morals lately….
@Michael Patrick Newell:
Bob Geldof, the Irishman and self-declared punk who readily and gladly accepts a knighthood into the bosom of the British establishment. His credibility is in tatters
@The Quare Fella: it’s an honorary knighthood, no different to civilian honours in other countries for non citizens.In recognition of LiveAid, the honour was a good way to highlight continuing humanitarian work hes involved in. It’s Equivalent of Legion d’Honnuer in France. But it doesn’t confer “Sir” title on him, that’s just a popular media moniker. Incidentally France awarded him the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, should he have refused that too….?
@The Quare Fella: Not forgetting the “Lordship” he bought.
This man charges tens of thousands to give a speech on poverty. He makes his living from poverty.
And not forgetting his tax affairs.
Why he’s given oxygen by the media, I’ll never know.
Luckily nobody cares what he thinks
What a knob
@Chris OB: Knob Geldof
I suppose Sir Knob Geldof doesn’t believe the 4 Million starved in India , the massacre of Anti Nazi supporters in Greece and the introduction of the Black n Tans into Ireland amounted to a betrayal also ?
Didn’t Churchill create the Black and Tans?
Churchill his hero, now I know why I think I dislike him so much, Churchill now there is a thought
Seriously
West Brit Geldof is irrelevant thesedays and should be treated with the contempt he deserves.
Get a job Bob , or better even a shower.
Geldof is deluded. Churchill was a warmonger and tyrant and caused the deaths of millions. He should never be referred to in heroic parlance at least not in territories where he approved the carrying out of atrocities. I’m sickened by BG’s comments.
The man who sailed up the Thames river shouting that the fishermen have never had it so good,what a joke
Churchill defended Britain brilliantly while at the same time being a tyrant in other countries. Not the kind of hero people should look up to Bob. I normally wouldn’t bash people who speak their minds but when Bob described the leaders of 1916 as being the same as ISIS I considered and continued to consider him a traytor.
Oh shut it bob
Some gank there. So vote again Bob? First cant count.
Really !!!
Your man’s elitist opinions on how and why the English people voted to leave the European Union is no more relevant than anybody else’s.
Why does this Irish millionaire try to look like a homeless person is it to stop beggars asking him for money? Who’s feeding his sheep on Saint Stephens Green for him?
I’d love to see him have a Brexit debate with Morrissey.
Gobsho!te
Can we revoke Geldof’s Irish citizenship?
Winston churchill stood up to the nazis
We owe him big time.
I know the Americans helped him out
Behind the Tans and the Auxiliaries being introduced to Ireland too ..do we owe him big time for that ,?
@Noel O Sullivan: nó the Ordinary Brit did
@Noel O Sullivan: we owe him nothing don’t forget it was him sent the tans to ireland
@Noel O Sullivan: Actually the Russians. 90% of the Wehrmacht died at the hands of the Red Army.
@Noel O Sullivan:
Churchill is blamed for the bengal famine, Bob at least tried to feed the hungry.
@Noel O Sullivan: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/29/winston-churchill-policies-contributed-to-1943-bengal-famine-study Took the food out of India while they were starving exactly what they did to Ireland during the potato blight. Actually wanted airplanes to fire indiscriminately into crowds in Dublin campaigning for home rule.
Not to mention the Russians. Britain and Churchill would have been defeated with them but not fashionable to remember this
Churchill was as evil as Hitler, look at his record from Ireland to the Middle East, South Africa, Bengal to mention just a few.
@Noel O Sullivan: what do you mean stood up to the Nazis?
The Germans were bombing England nightly, he only “stood up to them” when he was backed into a corner! He would of stayed away from the war if he could.
The red army did most of the fighting
@Lita Campbell: *without the Russians.
@Noel O Sullivan: To say the Americans helped Churchill out certainly is an understatement. Russia saved Churchills bacon. As for Sir Bob …a baby Bono.
@Noel O Sullivan: But to give Churchill his due Any other British Prime Minister of the day would have taken Hitlers offer of a truce. The people themselves in Bombed out London Birmingham Coventry if given a referendum would have jumped at the chance. It was Churchill’s stubborn refusal to even contemplate a surrender “until I am lying on the ground coughing up my life’s blood” was a quotation which left both Allies like America and Enemies like Hitler and Mussolini in no doubt as to the chances of a sudden collapse by Britain.
@Kieran Considine: It happened 100 years ago, get over it for f’s sake. Jesus effin christ, I’m sick of this victimhood mantra that gets trotted out every time England or Brit is mentioned.
@Noel O Sullivan: the Red army done most of the heavy lifting to defeat the nazis….although you wouldnt think it these days
@Noel O Sullivan: Helped out, the saved the day for the second time in a war with Germany. THe British relied on all the commonwealth troops as well.Britain finest hour was won by a whole load more than they ever mention. Plus the Russians did a liittle bit too if you read real history books
Eh…. Bengal famine, Kenyan death/concentration camps, Black and Tans….
@Anto H: And he flattened Dresden killing hundreds of people when the war was virtually over
@Gerard O’Donovan: You mean thousands.
Irishman telling British what to do yeh they’ll like that
@ed w: Who cares what they like there a better bunch of gobshìtes just like Bob
Churchill,like all the English upper classes was a firm believer in class and privilege,but unlike chinless wonders like Rees-Mogg et All.he was intelligent and pragmatic to an extent.albeit he thought little of sacrificing ‘minions’ in what he seen as the greater good (of his class)Geldof is a product of Blackrock college,a caricature of Eton etc a Wannabe Brit,who needs to be ignored and not have his inflated ego massaged by publicity
The comments section on here never fails to deliver.
Could you ever shut the kcuf update
What a knob
@Barry Zuckerkorn: Thats Sir Knob.
He should hand back his knighthood. He fired back the freedom of Dublin sharp enough.
Our Bob just loves the brits
A betrayal of Churchill? What about all the people that are alive? Nothing against Churchill, but this really doesn’t affect him. It does however affect many living people in a much greater way. C’mon Bob
Ah indeed, Mr Know all , He sticks his nose in every dogs Asre , what a tool?
Bob is a gimp
Oh f@#k off bob
This clown can’t help himself
Nothing worse than betraying a white supremacist war criminal, is their Bob?
The biggest west Brit in history.
Gob Geldolf. He would make your ears bleed listening to him bleating on.
And ?????
Poor old Bob obviously wasn’t listening in history class as a pupil. But, to be fair he’s spot on on Brexit and the leaders of today’s Britain.
Trust Bob to come out with this shite during mushroom season!
Ah jasus ya cant be betraying poor auld Winston the drunk war monger
Good grief. That man is utterly insufferable.
I would wholeheartedly support anti Brexit protests but if he showed up I would head to a pub on the other side of town.
The self made idiot who cannot sing.
Good man Bob. Mind your own business ya tax avoiding pr*ck
The same Geldof that siad the hero’s of 1916 where only terrorists,
Wow of all the people Churchill, I think Bob must have been taught history from a Empire perspective not a humanitarian one which I thought he stood for.
The activist???? You have to be joking
I think Churchill was a bigger racist than Trump.
sad times indeed when we have someone defending Churchill on the basis that he was a victim of his time. What a crock of shi,e there was always good people who stood up and opposed child abuse and labour and slave labour – just as they were always people who opposed Imperialism, and lets not forget that Britain were the most successful imperialist power ever on this earth. No wonder Hitler admired and wanted Britain and Germany to be allies. Churchill’s problem was not that he was around too early, but was born too late during the winter of the British empire and missed out on most of its glory days and even in his own time resisted to the last to let go of Ireland, India and many other colonies etc. He was there as a superb leader for Britain during the 2ndWW but he was sure not there for a free world. He was a racist and imperialist supreme and at one point before the war was an admirer of Mussolini. It therefore makes perfect sense that king of the tossers Geldof, would be an admirer of Churchill.
IMO, he should stick with his knitting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoweGN8cm5g
This is one of his best, IMO.
Sir Knob, who was speaking at the One Young World conference, said the leaders of Russia, the U.S. and the U.K. “are all old people”. Well, Sir Knob, you are older than two of those three leaders. I pity the poor youngsters who had to listen to this shitе.
What has brexit got to do with Sir SOB Geldof. Is he paying his taxes? With all the money he has, why doesn’t he just buy his own little country and make up his own laws. Then he won’t have to worry about others.
@Kieran Considine It happened 100 years ago, get over it for f’s sake. Jesus effin christ, I’m sick of this victimhood mantra that gets trotted out every time England or Britain is mentioned.
@Joan Murray: Ah hear, you’ll have to do better if you want to shut down debate.
He’s angry about the impass… So does that mean he’s angry at the opposition for failing to agree to a general election to get a fresh government in place? I highly doubt it, I’m sure he’s only mad at the Tories who are trying to get Brexit done and who are being held hostage in minority government.
Mr Geldof just stay out another countries politics. Your Irish concern yourself with your own countries problems.
F**k off bob. If you hate it that much dont live there.
Also your job as an emigrant is not to belittle your country. He used his fame to pi$$ on Ireland and Irish people, even up until recently. Resentment towards him is well earned.
Good man Bob nobody could ever accuse you of been inconsistent in your Bullshit.
Once a rat always a rat.
Churchill on Ireland the animal read your history
Bob is strange ! Look at the family set up !
I liked him once until I read his autobiography then thought he was a tw@
Warra’ bleeding dope.
Why not do an article on what John Major, a human being of some stature and historical relevance said at the march? Not as exciting as pro West Brit drivel designed for click bait I guess. Geldof views and always has viewed his own country as inferior to Britain. Geldof thinks everyone in Ireland is like Haughley. He’s a busybody nobody whose hypocrisy and trolling should count for nothing. Ireland is an unfair, expensive and unequal place but it is not a toxic poisoned society like Britain. Britain is a backward and insular country, used to trodfing on others, and that was the way Winston Churchill liked it.
That rich coming from Sir Bob always nothing useful to say about everything.time to retire a spent force.
Buffoon
Have a look in the mirror Bob,
Your a nobody that needs a haircut,
Shut the F up you Flute
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