IanB
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Re: Stop Nick Griffin
Jun 06, 2009, 18:51
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Popel Vooje wrote:
They got one seat out of six. The Lib Dems got the other five. If that swing from Labour to the Libs and Greens is replicated in tomorrow's results then that will be interesting.
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Popel Vooje
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Re: Stop Nick Griffin
Jun 06, 2009, 23:03
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No - that's true. Not only that, as has been pointed out elsewhere in the thread, their record of getting re-elected in council elections nationwide hasn't been a successful one.
It's ironic - if not at all unexpected - that they've taken a seat in the poshest part of Burnley despite all their quasi-populist "voice of common sense" rhetoric. They've fielded a few candidates in the Home Counties too, but I think the general Tory stronghold there is still to well-established for the BNP make much headway.
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Merrick
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Re: Stand up Cambridgeshire!
Jun 07, 2009, 16:37
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how fucked is a party of government when it gets beaten by the Monster Raving Loonies?
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Merrick
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Re: Stop Nick Griffin
Jun 07, 2009, 16:41
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stray wrote: only have single seats in the local councils and really can't accomplish anything. The record they have in the local council seats that they've won in the past have been extremely poor, in fact their record for actually turning up to council meetings at all is pretty laughable
You're boradly right, but this time they did pick up a county council seat for the first time, in Lancashire
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jun/05/bnp-wins-first-seat-county-council
But, as you say, once in power they show themselves as incompetant and dimwitted. Their seat on the Greater London Authority is hilarious
http://5cc.blogspot.com/2009/06/why-you-shouldnt-vote-for-bnp-on.html
I kind of hope they do win a Euroseat, but not Griffin. The prospect for it causing a real division in his fiefdom and ruining the party - as happened with the National Front - could do our work for us.
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necropolist
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Edited Jun 07, 2009, 23:45
Re: Stop Nick Griffin
Jun 07, 2009, 23:43
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cunts cunts fucking cunts.
can only hope merricks hope is right, and an alternate leader to griffin splits the fuckers
Andrew Brons (new nazi Yorks&Humber MEP)realy is an old school nazi cunt as well
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Brons
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PMM
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Re: Stop Nick Griffin
Jun 07, 2009, 23:53
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Depressing isn't it? 30 years of monetarist rule then the whole fucking shebang shifts rightwards.
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necropolist
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Re: Stop Nick Griffin
Jun 07, 2009, 23:57
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right outdoing the 'left' (on the most generous definition of 'left') by about 2-1 :(
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geoffrey_prime
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Re: Stop Nick Griffin
Jun 08, 2009, 02:29
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I think you make a strong point. Broadly speaking, across Europe the centre-Right seems to have prevailed and the Left, including Greens, have not done well.
From a domestic viewpoint, I think the key to defeating the BNP is not to resort to mild terrorism, nor try and rubbish their candidates...just simply tune in with the electorate, ..and ensure their needs are being addressed.
The BNP is a fringe organisation...and even with 1, poss. 2 MEP seats, it is hardly a national threat. The media/online attention they receive, I believe, is entirely disproportionate...they could easily be defeated by main stream politicking in the UK.
The main reason people are voting BNP is beause they feel the main parties are not representing them...and that can..and must be addressed.
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geoffrey_prime
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Re: Stop Nick Griffin
Jun 08, 2009, 02:34
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You need to woory about the major parties...not the BNP. Unpleasant as they are, the BNP can easily be kept in their box in UK..
Also, do you have use expletives every other fucking word..
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Yorkshirepedestrian
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Edited Jun 08, 2009, 03:46
Re: Stop Nick Griffin
Jun 08, 2009, 03:45
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a few snaps of everyone's favourite bog-eyed fascist. i was wondering... wouldn't he be the first to go if they ever got in, to stop him spreading his defective bog-eyed genes??
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eZy7ckbzk28/R4Ii6rYNeyI/AAAAAAAAACo/EKlEm-uay50/s400/GriffinWhitePowerT0001.jpg
http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/images/people/nick_griffin_lol375.jpg
http://bnp.org.uk/files/2009/03/nickgriffin.jpg
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