to laugh at the sight of this UKIP battle bus today?

[yolofish]

petrol stations are fairly limited in my rural area - at least 15 miles from one to the next.

so... driving along today I had to snigger at the sight of the local UKIP battle bus making a fuel and no doubt coffee/coke/choc/crisps etc stop at one of these few and far petrol stations - which is an independent, and owned and run by an Asian family.

that must be a tricky thing really to balance if you are a Kipper: "shit we need fuel/food! omg, there's a brown chap/chapess behind the counter!"

How patronizing and ever so slightly racist to even suggest that the owners of the petrol station couldn't possibly be UKIP voters, because they are Asian shock

People that have lived in this country for a long, long time, second and third generation are also concerned at the way things are going and I know one or two Asians as you call them , who will be voting UKIP.
There are probably more than you think

^ This is what I thought and shows how utterly stupid some people are.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/15/sheffield-page-hall-roma-slovakia-immigration

The Page Hall residents' patrol – which on Thursday comprised Rees, a half-Jamaican/half-Scottish woman called Fatima, a white woman called Beverley, a Pakistani landlord who asked to be known just as Mr Khan, and a young white couple named Jonathan and Amy – were pleasantly surprised.

"How can I be racist?" he said, gesturing to his wife, Nicola, as she served up fish and chip suppers for £2. Nicola is from Sri Lanka and has brown skin. She is just as fed up with the incomers as her husband

On an island, the definition of an immigrant is anybody who isn't actually you.

Dawn, I agree if media, politicians even mumsnet thread focussed on those policies then I doubt your average, dimwit-racist-blame-the-immigrant voter would be rushing to vote for UKIP. They probably wouldn't know what fracking even was. But then it doesn't sell many papers either.

I've no idea how the petrol station people might vote likealixer, we chat about general stuff really. Nor do I have any idea whether they are 1st, 2nd or 3rd generation immigrants. Nor do I care either. They are nice people running a local business which provides a service that other local people use and seem to like.

But I am still laughing my head off at the terrible dichotomy posed to the kippers on that bus - run out of fuel, starve, not be able to find a toilet, OR deal with brown people in a rural area, and if they have any manners at all be polite and thank them for the service offered.

I think if you really are still laughing your head off at a backstory that you've wholly constructed in your mind you need to get out more.

have you had an irony bypass peachypants?

Irony? Are you about to reveal that you are a UKIP supporter and this thread is a parody of the kind of hysteria that surrounds the party? I'm not a UKIP supporter, I will never be a UKIP supporter but the kind of hyperbole on this thread is just silly and anyone the comparisons with the NAZIS are offensive and trivialise that awful period in history. I've already cast my vote for Labour, I hope we get a Labour Government come mid May but I think threads like this won't turn people off voting UKIP it might may people vote for them as a fuck you to the people trying to dictate who it's acceptable to vote for.

If the only legal way I can be racist is in the polling booth, then so be it.

Peachypants.
This thread does have an air of parody about it.

yolofish you're beginning to rant a little bit love......calm down dear! Whatever you may think in your teeny, weeny, angry tantrum UKIP are a democratic and legal political party; chopsing off on the internet that all of their members are misogynistic, racist and homophobic wankers is neither legal nor particularly democratic.

Take a deep breath darlink......

"Interesting" post OP

I'll bite. Why is it funny? That petrol station is probably run by legal immigrants, people that UKIP are happy to continue living in the UK.

There's nothing trivial about a fascist claiming to be a man of the people. It's said that Hitler really did care for the German people, made their living conditions better (well, they couldn't have been much worse than after Versailles) built infrastructure, promoted the VW beetle. The nazis weren't all about war and concentration camps, by any stretch of the imagination. Their selling point was patriotism. German living space for the German people. First start with a fascist who has a huge smile, stands in elections and kisses babies...

Ah only 3 pages for Godwins Law to come about I see. So in your eyes patriotism = hitler. Very amusing indeed.

Monstering those who have political beliefs different to their own is also a fairly ubiquitous aspects of dictators too but I'm not calling you a Nazi DoraGora. Political views are on a spectrum, wanting tighter immigration controls doesn't mean Farage is planning the 4th Reich. I don't support UKIP, I don't support their policies but hysterical exaggerations, and personal abuse of Farage or UKIP supporters are unhelpful.

Racists and xenophobes are what they are. The history lesson is just that, a history lesson. Draw from it what you will.

Nobody has managed to address the above points, yet there are kippers here.

YANBU, but the sight of one in my area would make me more angry than amused. Thankfully we don't have a UKIP candidate.

By angry I mean I'd feel it, wouldn't start shouting at them or anything like that of course.

actually I think I meant dilemma, not dichotomy a few posts earlier, thank goodness the grammar police didnt appear to notice.

I can't put aside their blatant xenophobia, frequent racism and misogyny. But, they don't bloody turn up (ukip mep). So why would anyone vote for them? I feel I'm paying enough taxes for uninvolved MP's as it is, without such poor attendance.

If they're not racists, why are Britain First selling UKIP stuff on their Lionheart GB facebook page?

If the OP found this amusing she must be a laugh a minute!!??!