Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

I don't think the British would welcome a coloured prime minister for another couple of decades. It's not like the US where a much higher percentage of the population is non-white, and look at the struggle Barry The Kenyan faced to get into the Oval Office. And let's face it, a high percentage of Brits are pretty racist as demonstrated by the support UKIP is getting.

So, it's not just too early for Umuna imo, it's too early for Britain as a whole.

What have the objectives of ukip got to do with racism?

hils - hard to argue against, and yes, we all know how intrinsically racist the brits are ..... for example, racist chanting is apparently endemic at football matches

Errrr..... summat to do with the fact that every normal person has been saying they're a bunch of racists for the last month of Sundays!

but those at rugby matches are deaf to same?

Rubbish Hilary...what are you drinking/smoking?

Cyners,

There's a degree of antisemitism directed towards Spurs, but it's not particularly racist in the UK. It is in mainland Europe, however- Mario Balotelli took a lot of stick from his own fans in Italy.

Black's are racist to , they don't like Indian/paki's, Nigerians look down on West Indians , etc

Rubbish Hilary, regards UKIP

Chuka Umunna is unlikely to be made leader at the moment as he is regarded as a Blairite and too far to the right for the activists in the party.

I do agree about many UKIP supoorters being closet racists and plenty of them well out of the closet.

And many Labour MP's are closet Torys by the life styles they lead in private

Of course UKIP members and supporters are a racist bunch. You've only got to look at their demographics to understand that - white British, predominantly male, mostly over 60, Daily Mail readers. And where does the moronic TANKER fit into that list exactly?

What a skewed view of the world you have Hilly.

It's fact, Max. Smell the coffee!!!

"Ashcroft also asked how some of the things that might stop people voting UKIP. The statements that UKIP considers agreed with least were the statements that UKIP seem “quite old fashioned”, or “seem a bit racist” – hardly surprising given the elderly age profile of UKIP supporters, their support for things being as they used to be and opposition to immigration – such voters are highly unlikely to see being anti-immigration as racist or being a bit old fashioned as a bad thing. The most agreed with statements were tactical ones about voting UKIP letting a party they didn’t like win their local seat or form the government."

UKIP has partly been successful as it has given racists a chance to be semirespectable and mainstream.

http://metro.co.uk/2014/11/06/ebola-panic-on-nudist-beach-after-illegal-immigrants-turn-up-showing-signs-of-fever-4937645/

No… I said I have a boner! Nudist beach cleared in Ebola scare

What has racism got to do with the desire to get out of the €U?

Well if you did a bit of research, you'd realise that the average geriatric UKIP supporter is actually anti non-EU immigration and simply wants to wind the clock back a decade or two, but that they're too stupid to realise that there's a difference between that and free movement of EU citizens. Surveys have shown that an EU referendum is not the sort of elixir amongst UKIP supporters that many consider it to be.

ok hilly, have it your way.

Lot of arguing going off today spats all over the place, calm down, calm down. Calm down the lot of you.

Wouldnt get me arguing, far to refined for that.

Cynic I blame you.

Bank a little of your profits, Ive just shut 40 grand away. Make you feel a lot better.