Ash Kotecha

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why

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Just got 30 minutes of cardio trying to pick up an ice cube from the kitchen floor #StayAtHome #COVIDー19

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@lucyjaynewhite1 By your logic no whites can be considered American or Australian as they were foreigners to the land

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@JuliaHB1 @Number10cat Imagine being schooled in being a better human by a cat

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Me flicking through the menu at an Indian restaurant pretending to be open minded when I know full well I’m going to order the chicken tikka masala

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@HadiyaAwan94 Husband or your cousin? Same thing

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@TalhaDigital007 Idiot

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@JamesLucasIT McDonalds not invented yet

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@AzeemRafiq30 Did you make a comment when the Pakistan players were making plane gestures at the recent Asia Cup?

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@AatifNawaz I thought that working for the BBC you are supposed to be impartial but you seem to have a real agenda against India

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@bensmithrugby Better to Remain Silent and Be Thought a Fool than to Speak and Remove All Doubt

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Can’t believe the stupid comments from the idiots in Pakistan complaining about India’s win today. They are the best team. End of story. They left out Gill, Pant, Jaiswal, Kohli any of them would make the 11 of any other team #INDvNZ

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@cricket_badger Did you complain when Australia was winning everything? Brainless comment

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@MARCUS907935 How come NZ couldn’t score on the same pitch - stupid pointless comment

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@MichaelVaughan They didn’t too badly in the test series in England- it’s a young test team just give them time

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@Xtra_coverdrive If you consider cheating a skill then yes he was the best

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So going by this logic, white Australians can’t be Australian as they are not of Aboriginal descent. Same applies to Americans etc

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If I moved to Japan, and lived in Japan for decades, speaking the language, integrating into society, contributing to the economy. Would I be ethnically Japanese? No. No I would not. I would never pretend to be. Nor would that apply to India, Thailand, Mexico, Denmark or anywhere else.

So why is England different? Of course there is an English ethnicity. I am entirely bemused by how so many argue against that. It’s just a fact. Politicians who say otherwise are cowards. This is painfully obvious.

Restore Britain’s position is clear.

English ethnicity exists - it’s the only sodding data point that the Government collects on anything.

Of course someone who is not of that ethnicity can be British, obviously. But it equally does not mean that the English ethnicity is imaginary. Those two things can be true at the same time.

I got in trouble years ago for suggesting that the footballer Paul Pogba was French, but not ethnically French. It’s insanity. That is just a factual position. Common sense, clearly.

Separately, Restore Britain has said from the very start - owning a British passport does not make you British.

We have seen how lazily those documents have been frittered away. Holding that piece of paper does not automatically make you British, we are very clear on that.

Is the Egyptian lunatic Alaa Abd El-Fattah British? He has a passport. Restore Britain says NO. No, he is not and he should be stripped of that paper and deported.

Being British encompasses so much more than that, it means so much more than that. It is not simply a piece of paper. It is culture, shared beliefs, patriotism, language, a common understanding of what is right and wrong. That has nothing to do with ethnicity, obviously.

But for even daring to suggest that English ethnicity exists I’ll be roundly attacked.

It is just a fact.

Every other country in the world manages to acknowledge ethnicities exist without descending into hysteria.

England should be able to do the same.

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@malcolmconn @ECB_cricket To imply that Pakistan players were not picked for IPL for diplomatic reasons is incorrect- it was after the terrorist attack in Mumbai that was state sponsored

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@MichaelVaughan Pakistan have locked up a cricketing legend, whose health has deteriorated to the extend where he could lose his sight. Let’s ignore that but talk about how a few players from Pakistan will not be picked to play a cricket tournament.

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@iihtishamm @Keir_Starmer @ECB_cricket Obviously the Pakistan companies not rich enough to buy any franchises abroad - stay in your lane

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@ncakos316 Not one player is good enough to be picked

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Things that get battered - pokora, fish, mars bar and Pakistan #INDvsPAK #ICCMensT20WorldCup