Green councillor gets grandkids to send Valentine cards to immigrants at Crowburgh

We can only hope that under new management, the Telegraph will be more 'discerning " about the stories it publishes.

Oreo

I think it was a very silly stunt, the Valentine cards.Bake them some biscuits if you must, but better, considering you don’t know the first thing about them is leave them alone.

Well said Oreo 👏👏👏. Leave well alone.

Apparently there has been a continuous misinformation campaign against a variety of targets, 'playing into a right wing trope' .
Why would the Telegraph do that? Will that improve with the new ownership?

I think it was a very silly stunt, the Valentine cards.Bake them some biscuits if you must, but better, considering you don’t know the first thing about them is leave them alone.

butterandjam

Syracute

The cards are just a harmless gesture as they are anonymous.
I am sure they bring a smile to these people.
I think irs not easy being in an immigrant. People make snap judgements and it’s just appalling.

Many of these immigrants know little about the customs and social signals on a foreign country,/complete.ly diferent culture, particularly in relation to romance and the opposite sex.

Don't unsolicited valentine cards from unknown strangers, risk a completely wrong impression of women in UK ?

"We fancy you, you're so sexy, we're up for it, just waiting for you to make a move".

Exactly and there’s enough moves being made such as girls being raped in parks.

Allira

^It's a vast woven tapestry^

🙂 That reminded me of the Bayeux tapestry which may not come to Britain after all because experts are concerned that the state of our potholed roads could damage the fragile tapestry.

We're nearly all tapestries too - well, mongrels if you want to be down to earth about it.

Speak for yourself ducky! 😁

Syracute

The cards are just a harmless gesture as they are anonymous.
I am sure they bring a smile to these people.
I think irs not easy being in an immigrant. People make snap judgements and it’s just appalling.

Many of these immigrants know little about the customs and social signals on a foreign country,/complete.ly diferent culture, particularly in relation to romance and the opposite sex.

Don't unsolicited valentine cards from unknown strangers, risk a completely wrong impression of women in UK ?

"We fancy you, you're so sexy, we're up for it, just waiting for you to make a move".

Green Party councillors can get misrepresented, too.

The Guardian is barely left of centre...

This post was about a Green Party councillor NOT any charities.
Anyway, the Guardian is the most left wing newspaper so no surprises there!

Here’s the article

www.theguardian.com/society/2026/apr/07/refugee-charity-schools-valentines-cards-asylum-seekers

Is this Thread the result of similar 'muck spreading'?
The charity named has been found not guilty.

So, this morning, an article in The Guardian describes how charities and others are being falsely accused of sending inappropriate messages to asylum seekers.

Allira

^It's a vast woven tapestry^

🙂 That reminded me of the Bayeux tapestry which may not come to Britain after all because experts are concerned that the state of our potholed roads could damage the fragile tapestry.

We're nearly all tapestries too - well, mongrels if you want to be down to earth about it.

We are Allira. We all have a rich heritage; threads of ancestry mixing over generations to make a unique being. And the older I get the more I realise that every one of those beings has a story. Even if the outer shell appears mundane, crack it open and a whole other world reveals itself.

An English village, dubbed the most romantic in the world, has launched a project to rediscover the history of Valentine's Day.

Chaucer was largely credited with creating the association between Valentine's Day and romantic love through his 1380s poem The Parliament of Fowls, which imagined birds pairing off on 14 February.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0kjjklyxdo

I think the pigeons in our garden have got the message

MartavTaurus

Allira

It's a vast woven tapestry

🙂 That reminded me of the Bayeux tapestry which may not come to Britain after all because experts are concerned that the state of our potholed roads could damage the fragile tapestry.

We're nearly all tapestries too - well, mongrels if you want to be down to earth about it.

Now you're talking ......
The Bayeux Tapestry and Valentines all interwoven!

* Useless information alert! *

Did you know that a romantic village near Salisbury, called Lover, has been so inspired by the arrival of the Bayeux Tapestry on these shores, that it is creating a new, historic tapestry tracing the roots of Valentine’s Day? It will depict the history of love from Roman times.
Vive L'Amour!

No, I didn't know that!

What a lot of romantics must live in that village 💖

Lovely posts. Yes, we each have so many different threads in our own tapestries.

Allira

^It's a vast woven tapestry^

🙂 That reminded me of the Bayeux tapestry which may not come to Britain after all because experts are concerned that the state of our potholed roads could damage the fragile tapestry.

We're nearly all tapestries too - well, mongrels if you want to be down to earth about it.

Now you're talking ......
The Bayeux Tapestry and Valentines all interwoven!

* Useless information alert! *

Did you know that a romantic village near Salisbury, called Lover, has been so inspired by the arrival of the Bayeux Tapestry on these shores, that it is creating a new, historic tapestry tracing the roots of Valentine’s Day? It will depict the history of love from Roman times.
Vive L'Amour!

I wouldn't blame a whole party for what one of it's councillors does.
She is a silly naive woman who really shouldn't be a councillor.
Apart from that I'm unlikely to vote Green anyway.

bikergran

First I have heard of this and I think it is a sick yes sick. I really cannot believe it.!
At least it has helped me cross another one off not vote for!

Am sure you’re too sensible to have voted for the Greens anyway.😃

Allira

^It's a vast woven tapestry^

🙂 That reminded me of the Bayeux tapestry which may not come to Britain after all because experts are concerned that the state of our potholed roads could damage the fragile tapestry.

We're nearly all tapestries too - well, mongrels if you want to be down to earth about it.

Where else will the French store it if Muggins UK won’t take it for them?
Let them eat crepes!

First I have heard of this and I think it is a sick yes sick. I really cannot believe it.!
At least it has helped me cross another one off not vote for!

It's a vast woven tapestry

🙂 That reminded me of the Bayeux tapestry which may not come to Britain after all because experts are concerned that the state of our potholed roads could damage the fragile tapestry.

We're nearly all tapestries too - well, mongrels if you want to be down to earth about it.

😂 Terribull

Glad you're enjoying the flat white! I remember years ago asking for one in the UK and seeing the bemused look on the face of the person behind the counter in the coffee shop.

You forgot to mention the ubiquitous sycamore, grows like a weed everywhere now, came over from Europe in the 15th or 16th century (probably not introduced by the Romans, apparently). Now an iconic symbol of Britain, as epitomised by the national outrage when the one in the Gap was felled.

And don't you just love Lidl with their Italian, Greek, French, Asian, Eastern European weeks!

Thank you TerriBull, brilliant 🤣🤣🤣

"Everytime I remind myself of these things I find our country's history amazing yet again. It's a vast woven tapestry"

Same here! there's not a day that goes by when peeling the humble carrot that I'm just thankful to the Romans for diversifying our the nations allotments, Ok so they enslaved a few in chains, I blame Boudica for pissing them off but....... where would we be without the carrots, the onions they introduced to the British Isles. Not to mention all the other culinary delights they enriched the nation with.

What we do know is the average Celtic diet was Jack S**t, a sort of Atkins without the cheese and cream. Dismal load of meat and grains, changed forever after 55BC, when the delights of Lasagna, Cannelloni, Spaghetti Vongole hit our shores. Ok so the chicken tikka pizza, was yet to arrive, but they still did awaken the Celtc taste buds with a damn good Margherita. Celtic children meanwhile were so delighted with just one Cornetto, they were recorded hot footing it en masse down at the Temple of Mithras before you could utter so much as Veni Vidi Vici offering up a few sheep or whatever else they could lay their grubby mitts on. No access to the Roman baths or any of the Dolce and Gabbana bath products found at such places they sadly remained filthy.

Anyway, I'm just about to have a flat white thank you, you lovely Antipodeans for giving us this wonderful beverage, we were so glad when you colonised Earls Court, a positive cultural wasteland before. I'm accompanying my coffee with a "cronut", delicious! a sort of hybrid croissant/doughnut. Not sure the French would approve they get so hoity toity about appropriation of their culture, anyway who cares! I like these to be served on a lace Huguenot doily. For lunch I'm having a Jerk infused latke foccacia