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The saying, "The wogs begin at Calais", which implies that everyone who is not British is a wog, appears to date from the First World War but was popularised by George Wigg, Labour MP for Dudley, in 1949 when in a parliamentary debate concerning the Burmese, Wigg shouted at the Conservative benches, "The Honourable Gentleman and his friends ...
"The word wog is a vile, vulgar, racist slur popularized and first used in England. The best known sentence employing this put-down brims with political irony: “The wogs begin at Calais.” George Wigg, a Labour party MP, said it in 1945 to characterize and satirize the attitude of British Tories to foreigners.
La Coupole (English: The Dome), also known as the Coupole d'Helfaut-Wizernes and originally codenamed Bauvorhaben 21 ('Building Project 21') or Schotterwerk Nordwest (Northwest Gravel Works), [3] is a Second World War bunker complex in the Pas-de-Calais department of northern France, about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from Saint-Omer, and some 14.4 kilometers (8.9 miles) south-southeast from the less ...
The Calais Jungle (known officially as Camp de la Lande) was a refugee and immigrant encampment in the vicinity of Calais, France, that existed from January 2015 to October 2016. There had been other camps known as "jungles" in previous years, but this particular shanty town drew global media attention during the peak of the European migrant ...
Rock Against Racism (RAR) was a political and cultural movement which emerged in 1976 in reaction to a rise in racist attacks on the streets of the United Kingdom and increasing support for the far-right National Front at the ballot box.
Kapiniaris appeared in the stage show Wogs Out of Work with Nick Giannopoulos, in the 1980s. [1] In 2007, he joined forces with fellow comedians Joe Avati, Nish Selvadurai and Simon Palomares for a national tour Il Dago. [2] In late 2012, he played in the Australian stage version of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. [3]
Sudanese migrants in Calais Jungle, June 2015. Migrants have gathered in and around Calais, on the northern French coast, since at least the late 1990s [1] seeking to enter the United Kingdom from the French port by crossing the Channel Tunnel [2] or stowing away in the cargo area of lorries heading for ferries that cross the English Channel. [3]
Wogs Out of Work is an Australian play which was written by Nick Giannopoulos, Simon Palomares, and Mary Portesi. It debuted in 1987 at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and was enormously successful, touring for a number of years. [1] The original cast included Nick Giannopoulos, Simon Palomares, George Kapiniaris, and Mary Coustas ...