I think this part of the "Coffeeshop" in today's Sunday Mail made a lot of sense:
WHEN IT comes to being pompous and arrogant there is a class of Brits who are in league of their own. And there is quite a few of these thoroughly obnoxious Brits living in the north, many of them in Greek Cypriot properties, behaving like they own the place. Ironically many of them do not even legally own the houses they live in.
These mean-spirited losers, who came to the north because they could get a stolen home in the sun on the cheap, are today unveiling a monument at the British cemetery in Kyrenia dedicated to British soldiers who died defending colonialism during the EOKA struggle. This is quite clearly a calculated attempt to offend Greek Cypriots by a group of petty-minded and vindictive colonialists who enlisted the help of the Daily Telegraph for fund-raising.
It suffices to say that one of the men behind the plans for the monument is the insufferably pompous, Donald Crawford, who has made it the mission of his life to cause offence to Greek Cypriots. The creepy, cretin Crawford was director of the defunct organisation Eupro – a group defending the right of Brits to steal Greek Cypriot properties in the north – but has now found a new way to provoke.
THE SUPERCILIOUS creep, speaking to this paper last Sunday, came up with the following suggestion: “It would be much more chivalrous if EOKA came and laid a wreath at the monument.”
A man who has exploited the misfortune of others, and moved into a house in the sun on the cheap and against the wishes of the owner, has as much right to give lessons in chivalry as a car thief and a rapist. Of course pompous, arrogant Brits suffering from delusions of moral and intellectual superiority do not see it that way.
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