To complicate things a bit, Jonas was also a bellend. He was a big advocate for solitary confinement and was against letting tea and Jewish people into the UK. Ergo, perhaps the abuse was justified – it just would have been nice if it had been about the racism rather than for using an object we went on to adore. We ended up using the umbrella so much, in fact, that it has become part of our national stereotype. If we had to shout abuse, and it would appear we did, we should have led with, ‘Oi that umbrella looks both practical and suave, I quite fancy getting me one of those, you trendsetting
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