The Political Thread

[-Dunk!-]

It makes me laugh when Scottish nationalists attack UKIP for espousing nationalist policies. I guess it looks like there's a difference to you guys, because hating the English is fine but hating Europeans is racist.

This'll be news to all the English (and Polish, Irish, Swedish, Australian and American) people I know living here in Scotland who voted Yes last month.

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[Richmond Clements]

It makes me laugh when Scottish nationalists attack UKIP for espousing nationalist policies. I guess it looks like there's a difference to you guys, because hating the English is fine but hating Europeans is racist.

However, I am looking forward to engaging in the inevitable EU referendum in defence of the UK's membership.

I hate English racists. But I also hate Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Indian, Russian, Chinese, American (and so on) racists...

[Jim_Campbell]

I hate English racists. But I also hate Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Indian, Russian, Chinese, American (and so on) racists...

So, you admit you're a racistist, then?

Cheers

Jim

[Richmond Clements]

I hate English racists. But I also hate Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Indian, Russian, Chinese, American (and so on) racists...

So, you admit you're a racistist, then?

Cheers

Jim

I hate those guys most of all.

[Prodigal2]

Speaking as a Norn Iron resident may I say how depressing it is to be depressed by all the politics of this disunited kingdom.

[TordelBack]

The only Race I hate is Roy.  I can never forgive him for defecting to Walford Rovers for the whole of the 1983 season.  Melchester 4 Life.

[Goaty]

The only Race I hate is Roy.  I can never forgive him for defecting to Walford Rovers for the whole of the 1983 season.  Melchester 4 Life.

[Prodigal2]

The only Race I hate is Roy.  I can never forgive him for defecting to Walford Rovers for the whole of the 1983 season.  Melchester 4 Life.

[8-Ball]

The only Race I hate is Roy.  I can never forgive him for defecting to Walford Rovers for the whole of the 1983 season.  Melchester 4 Life.

A bandwagon that I am more than happy to jump on.

[The Legendary Shark]

I don't hate anyone. I hate certain attitudes and certain ideas but hating people is just stupid and blinkered. (I have to take this attitude in order to rise above all those bastards who hate me...)
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[Grugz]

I have an issue with the term racist, we are the human race...all the other bits are a different breed of the same species ,so its speciesist. like my dog and jack russells

[Daveycandlish]

Jack russells are little bastards!

[Frank]

I have an issue with the term racist

It's not particularly helpful or truthful to label everyone voting for Farage a racist. I'm sure a good number of the disaffected Labour voters who made Heywood a close race were like the couple I heard interviewed who muttered "you aren't allowed to say these days, are you?" when asked why they'd switched from Labour to The 'KIP, but The Farage Party is winning in the kind of style the poor old openly racist BNP never did. Farage isn't a racist - he's a calculating opportunist.

What Farage has calculated - correctly, as it turns out - is that if you put together all the closet racists, mild xenophobes, folk who wish it could all be like the old days, those concerned that the Schengen Agreement was worked out on the back of a fag packet, and the underclass who feel aggrieved that a surplus of cheap labour has driven down wages/condemned them to a life on benefits, then you get a voter base large enough to buy yourself some influence on policy .

Challenging the assumptions upon which the last two of those groups base their voting intentions seems like a better way of convincing them that isolation and protectionism aren't realistic strategies in the modern world than tarring them with the same brush as the nutters with whom they share a platform

[Spikes]

A great post, that Sauchie. More of this on here please!

UKIP making head way is a depressing affair though, and i do agree that Farage is, at present - at any rate, a calculating opportunist.

This is all going to run, and run i think. Like i said; A depressing affair.

[CrazyFoxMachine]

I hope this latest ironic profile pic/name phase is a brief one Sauchie 

The Greens have had a single MP for years and you never hear this AMOUNT of noise about them. Quite depressing, quite disturbing. Car crash publicity.