Snowflake students who protested in Winston Churchill café have helped it to become one of the top-rated eateries in London
Lefty protesters who targeted the Blighty cafe have actually helped it become a hit
THE lefty protesters who targeted a Winston Churchill-themed cafe in North London have actually helped it become one of the capital’s top-rated eateries.
Fans of the Blighty cafe in Finsbury Park have taken to the travel site TripAdvisor in their droves to show their support after protestors targeted it, objecting to the décor and claiming it celebrated colonialism.
Diners have showered the eaterie with a string of five star reviews on the site which has propelled it to number 77 out of 1,181 cafes in the capital.
Earlier in the week it was down in the 300s.
One wrote: “The Sun Never Sets on the Blighty Cafe. Best damn breakfast I ever ate. The Churchill full English is the stuff the empires are built on. Do your part and come down to the Blighty and support this fine establishment. Hurrah!!”
Another added: “Thanks to the snow flakes storming this cafe and giving it free advertising. I thought I had to go there and see what all the fuss was about.
“I’m so pleased I did. The Winston breakfast is fantastic. Served with an English breakfast Tea. Sorry if I offended anyone using the word English!
“I will 100% be back to this great Commonwealth themed Blighty Café”
Dom wrote: “Lovely place, great food and coffee - standing for someone worth celebrating as part of our historical fabric.
“Churchill was an incredibly complex, contradictory and larger-than-life human being and he wrestled with contradictions during his lifetime, but respect for his achievements in being a pinnacle figure in saving the world from fascism should be enough to prevent the sort of disrespectful, arrogant protest that occurred at this cafe recently.
“We should not be judging historical figures through the lens of today's politics, without context and with such disregard for a balanced debate.”
And Robbie added: “This was their finest breakfast.”
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The lefty protesters – mainly middle-class students from School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) part of London University – disrupted diners last Saturday morning.
The mob stormed the café and told customers they should be boycotting the place for “celebrating colonialism”.
They read out sections of Heathcote William’s poem Great Britain’s, Greatest Beast followed by chanting “Churchill was a racist”.
Along with a bust of Churchill, the cafe’s décor includes model Spitfires and a wartime air raid shelter.
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