Spike Milligan was born in India and later, when he moved to Britain was declared stateless by the government. He then became an Irish citizen. I'm surprised no one has recognised him.
@TonyBurke100 He was born in India, and his father was a British subject, therefore he HAD to be a British subject. He MUST had done something later in life in order for him to lose his British citizenship and his British passport. He must had just simply given them up by signing them away, by signing some sort of a certificate stating that he longer wished to be a subject of the Queen.
@TonyBurke100 Well, in order for the British Government to strip a person's British citizenship, he normally had to commit or to be convicted of High Treason, treachery, subversion, desertion or espionage (Anna Chapman, George Blake, Kim Philby, Donald Mcclean, Guy Burgess), or similar, and not also be sentenced to Death, or be sentenced to life imprisonment, usually for murder/homicide. Milligan surely did neither of those. Britain was not the Soviet Russia or the Soviet Union, you know.
Alf garnett rocks !
MsFanmail 5 days ago 2
im 24 years old, iv never seen this before, but its quite a racist representation of a non-white person, im glad they dont do this on TV anymore...
kthapar01 2 months ago
@kthapar01 Yeah it was very different times in the 60's and 70's.
FilmFan1982 2 months ago
@kthapar01
The one it was meant to be mocking is Alf himself, same with his American counterpart Archie Bunker.
trilobright 4 weeks ago
"The people are rising at last, vote for my son in law Tony Blair and put an end to technocrats ,kleptocrats and plutocracies" .....such irony.
blahblah2556 3 months ago
Dandy Nichols is brilliantly antagonistic. The best political comedy to date
blahblah2556 3 months ago
Blimey!
moosey62 3 months ago
Spike Milligan was born in India and later, when he moved to Britain was declared stateless by the government. He then became an Irish citizen. I'm surprised no one has recognised him.
His mother lived in Woy Woy you know !
TonyBurke100 4 months ago
@TonyBurke100 He was born in India, and his father was a British subject, therefore he HAD to be a British subject. He MUST had done something later in life in order for him to lose his British citizenship and his British passport. He must had just simply given them up by signing them away, by signing some sort of a certificate stating that he longer wished to be a subject of the Queen.
SE962582C 2 months ago
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SE962582C 2 months ago
@TonyBurke100 Well, in order for the British Government to strip a person's British citizenship, he normally had to commit or to be convicted of High Treason, treachery, subversion, desertion or espionage (Anna Chapman, George Blake, Kim Philby, Donald Mcclean, Guy Burgess), or similar, and not also be sentenced to Death, or be sentenced to life imprisonment, usually for murder/homicide. Milligan surely did neither of those. Britain was not the Soviet Russia or the Soviet Union, you know.
SE962582C 2 months ago
There's a reason Antony Booth never done nothing after this, prick
markbig123 5 months ago
so funny
MsFanmail 6 months ago
Not just the character though - Speight appears to have recycled some of the dialogue from Curry and Chips as well.
honkiplex 6 months ago
@honkiplex He did that - he recycled dialogue from Till Death and C&C in In Sickness and in Health as well!
AidanLunn 4 months ago
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honkiplex 6 months ago
Kevin O'Grady? It's a Curry and Chips crossover!!
needles1987 6 months ago
I love when they make jokes about Alf being Jewish.
needles1987 6 months ago
brilliant
alanbrokenspoke 7 months ago
The Pakistani is too dark to be half Irish.
needles1987 9 months ago
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HarvestStation 9 months ago
@needles1987
True, probably a full Paki then :/
HarvestStation 9 months ago
@needles1987 It's Spike Milligan yah wally brain !
TonyBurke100 4 months ago