goldfinger
- 09 Jun 2005 12:25
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.
hilary
- 07 Nov 2014 10:08
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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!
cynic
- 07 Nov 2014 10:09
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but those at rugby matches are deaf to same?
MaxK
- 07 Nov 2014 10:11
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Rubbish Hilary...what are you drinking/smoking?
hilary
- 07 Nov 2014 10:13
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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.
aldwickk
- 07 Nov 2014 10:14
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Black's are racist to , they don't like Indian/paki's, Nigerians look down on West Indians , etc
aldwickk
- 07 Nov 2014 10:15
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Rubbish Hilary, regards UKIP
Haystack
- 07 Nov 2014 10:20
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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.
aldwickk
- 07 Nov 2014 10:26
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And many Labour MP's are closet Torys by the life styles they lead in private
hilary
- 07 Nov 2014 10:27
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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?
MaxK
- 07 Nov 2014 10:29
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What a skewed view of the world you have Hilly.
hilary
- 07 Nov 2014 10:31
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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."
Haystack
- 07 Nov 2014 10:32
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UKIP has partly been successful as it has given racists a chance to be semirespectable and mainstream.
Haystack
- 07 Nov 2014 10:33
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MaxK
- 07 Nov 2014 10:37
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What has racism got to do with the desire to get out of the €U?
hilary
- 07 Nov 2014 10:44
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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.
MaxK
- 07 Nov 2014 10:50
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ok hilly, have it your way.
goldfinger
- 07 Nov 2014 10:51
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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.
MaxK
- 07 Nov 2014 10:53
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Haystack
- 07 Nov 2014 10:54
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In the early days, UKIP was very racist. They have reinvented themselves and toned down the rhetoric but there is still the same racist undercurrent.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Independence_Party
UKIP candidates stood in the 1997 general election, but were overshadowed by James Goldsmith's Referendum Party. (The Referendum Party contested 547 seats. In the 165 seats contested by both, the Referendum Party beat UKIP in all but two - Romsey and Glasgow Anniesland, the latter by just two votes.)[21]
After the election, Sked resigned from the leadership and left the party because, he said, it contained members who "are racist and have been infected by the far-right"[22] and was "doomed to remain on the political fringes".[23] However, Goldsmith died soon after the election and the Referendum Party was dissolved, with a resulting influx of new UKIP supporters.
goldfinger
- 07 Nov 2014 10:54
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Sold BVIC took the top off CLIN.
Cant use the Chart thread anymore it just gets trashed by the chuckle brothers and aldwick, so any general items Ill stick them here instead.