Forget bigotgate

[Lew]

GOODLORD

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/england/8663681.stm

[AndyR]

Sounding more and more like NSDAP strategies in Germany in the early-mid 30s.

This one's quite, er, "amusing":

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/Sky-Sources-UKIPs-Nigel-Farage-In-Plane-Crash/Article/201005115626341?lpos=Politics_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15626341_Sky_Sources%3A_UKIPs_Nigel_Farage_In_Plane_Crash

"It is thought the small plane got into difficulty after getting tangled in a Vote UKIP banner it had been towing."

One of the guys I work with lives in that constituency and was most amused by it this morning (the plane in question has been rather noisy and annoying to residents in the area)...

His comment earlier was "He better be bluddy ok though - he's the b@stard I want to vote for..."

[Will]

Buckingham is my area too, its a bit of a weird one at the moment.
Good to hear he is okay though

[Philly Q]

His comment earlier was "He better be bluddy ok though - he's the b@stard I want to vote for..."

He wanted to vote for Farage?  Has he ever seen the silly tw@t on Question Time?

[dave_mc]

^ you might need to narrow that down a bit... quite a few silly tw@ts on qt

i think they want to bring back corporal punishment in schools. because it worked so well for them o_O

and am i the only one who sees the irony in someone with a fairly blatant french surname (i assume it's french) being sceptical of the eu?

[Antag]

and am i the only one who sees the irony in someone with a fairly blatant french surname (i assume it's french) being sceptical of the eu?

Don't see how that's remotely ironic, unless you subscribe to the rather juvenile/facile idea that not wanting Britain to be part of the EU means you hate foreigners... :)

[dave_mc]

i didn't mean it like that, i meant more that france is a fairly enthusiastic member of the EU.

EDIT: i would agree that there are some serious problems with the eu, but i don't think that eejits like farage are the answer either. hmmm, would i rather be dictated to by the eu or by some toff?  :lol:

[tomjackson]

GOODLORD indeed. That was better than Prescott and Egg Man.

Foolish as well, he may have well lost some potential voters there :?

[Philly Q]

GOODLORD indeed. That was better than Prescott and Egg Man.

Foolish as well, he may have well lost some potential voters there :?

A foolish BNP candidate, now there's a shocker. 

[Lew]

not sure I would have reacted any differently if I was spat at in the face

[Ratrod]

Asians? How PC.

I think they're called differently on the streets and in pubs.

[fbloke]

So, discuss:

1. Will this increase or decrease support for the BNP tonight across the whole demographic?

2. Why do so few people connect properly with the punches they throw in street fights?  Must try harder!

[AndyR]

His comment earlier was "He better be bluddy ok though - he's the b@stard I want to vote for..."

He wanted to vote for Farage?  Has he ever seen the silly tw@t on Question Time?

I'm not sure whether he's serious. But he does have some issues over his constituency - he has "no-one to vote for" apparently. It's the Speaker's constituency, so apparently if the Speaker gets in, it's not counted in the "first-past-the-post" calculation on who forms a government... and traditionally, apparently, the other majors don't field a candidate against the speaker... I'm not sure if this is the case today... (my colleague speak with fork tongue, I feel)

Anyway, his house wasn't in this constituency last time, apparently the Labour swine have moved the boundaries to suite their needs (my god!!! would a political party ever do that??!!), so he's somewhat disgruntled over not having a voice...

He sounds like a big PR fan to me... (eg he's sent this http://www.voterpower.org.uk/ round at work...) but on the other hand he is strongly opposed to most of the LibDems other policies... poor chap... so informed... yet so confused... :lol:

[Elliot]

To be honest I agree with Lew if someone spat at me like that I would probably clock him one - and its not like people who vote BNP are going to be in any way appalled by a BNP candidate duffing up an Asian teenager is it?

One thing I did notice is that in days of old a BNP candidate would have about 50 skinheads in the background itching for a fight - so maybe their apparent move to the 'left' has lost some them some of their core supporters.

[Dmoney]

I don't think skinheads are as plentiful as the old says of the BNP.
I met Gavin Watson once who took a lot of photos of skinheads around that era, that lead to the Shane Meadows movies with skinhead content (or in part led to that via providing some inspiration). I think there used to be a British Nazi Party which was less of a political group but more a post-National Front splinter organization that did things such as openly glorify hitler and claim the BNP only did such things behind closed doors, making them soft. Combat 18 (If my understanding is correct) formed the group of people regularly called on to act as bodyguards for BNP members.
I also think the BNP is aware that having gangs of 'skinheads' or whatever following them around does them no good on the campaign trail. They need to be image aware and package their ideas and policies a bit more carefully than going round saying 'ain't no black in the union jack'.
I don't think the fight looses the BNP its support or goes any way to unite people for it. skinhead weren't all nazi's and nowadays its more of a fashion statement than a 'youth movement'. Maybe you'd be more likely to see 50 guys dressed in 3 panel caps, Aquascutum jackets, Hacket Shirts, Levi's and Adidas Gazelle's.