ANDREW Tate has been criticised by comedian and quiz show star Paul Sinha over a social media post about the “nostalgia” of Oasis – a time when Tate was still a child.
The controversial social media personality shared a post on Sunday with his view on how positive and peaceful Britain was at the height of the band’s fame in the 1990s.
However, Sinha, who appears as ‘The Sinnerman’ in ITV’s The Chase, hit back at Tate with his own memories, at a time when he was working in an A&E department.
The 54-year-old remembers treating patients with injuries as a result of a “violent, binge drinking nation” instead of the “amazing” country Britain was in the 90s.
Tate, 37, was strangely not inflammatory as he reminisced on the decade, but many Brits were quick to point out he would have still been at primary school at the time and lived in the USA for most of it.
Tate’s post read: “The Oasis tour isn’t just about their music. It’s about the height of Britain. It’s about the nostalgia of remembering how amazing Britain was.
“If you didn’t live it, you’ll never understand it and it can’t be explained.
“A time when you could go down the pub, interact with people you knew and didn’t know and have the best night of your life on 15 quid.
“A time when there was always something happening, in every city, seven nights a week. No fear of being stabbed. No fear of being robbed.
“A time when everyone watched the same TV shows and discussed them the next day. You weren’t desperate to go on holiday like the British are now, there was no need.
“You didn’t see Dubai or Maldives on Instagram all day, you literally didn’t even know those places existed.
“You would hang around on a council estate, completely content and want nothing else than to laugh with your friends.
“Random skinheads would say ‘you alright mate?’ and you’d either be best friends or in a scrap two minutes later.
“Nobody got stabbed. Nobody died. It’s just how it was.
“The pub on Christmas Day. The bus was 30p. You loved everyone you met, [it] didn’t matter the race. The country was united.
“There was a feeling in the air. Constant electricity. And it’s all gone now. It’s died.
“All we have are the songs from those times.”
Sinha shared Tate’s post six hours later with the caption: “I worked [in] A&E in a quiet district general in 1997.
“Weekends were a relentless exercise in repairing the wounds of a violent, binge drinking nation. I stitched up countless people who were in the wrong place at the wrong moment.”
He has since received over 1,000 likes and a slew of comments from Brits keen to share their thoughts.
One said: “Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be, for a man who was seven when Definitely Maybe was released.”
A second agreed: “By my reckoning Tate was about nine years old when Oasis were at their peak. Therefore, too young to ‘live it’ let alone ‘understand’.
“Next he’ll be sharing his memories of the Blitz.”
Another added: “Apparently Tate didn’t move to the UK until 1997, when he was 11. Guy’s an absolute muppet.”
A fourth commented: “A time when Britain was great. When you could walk into a pub and get told to f**k off by the locals.
“Where you’d get kicked in for having the wrong skin colour, clothes, or football allegiance. Glassings were so regular that pubs had to introduce glasses that shattered on impact”
Another wrote: “Agreed. Yes, some people wear rose tinted spectacles when they look at the past. Or they just write garbage… one of the two”
A sixth quipped: “Has Tate copied and pasted this from a housewife in their fifties on Facebook?”
