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To think that Nick Griffin is misunderstood and actually a nice chap?

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carrotsarenottheonlyvegetable · 29/04/2010 11:25

I heard him being interviewed this morning on the Today programme.

Firstly, it turns out he's not racist or against immigration! Apparently, he says it's ok for French people to come here (there's not that many that want to so its ok). AND he says that Irish people can come here too because they're really all British! So that's nice. I was a bit confused because I thought they'd spent all those years bombing us because they didn't want to be British but I guess I've got that all wrong.

He's not going to let Algerian asylum seekers come though, but I don't think it matters because they'll just get killed where they are in their own country so that won't be a problem for them much longer.

And the best thing is... he's going to give £50,000 to anyone who's not "pure British" to leave the country and go back to where they came from! How cool is that! So I'm now deciding whether to go back to my Great-Grandmother's origins in Russia, or my Great Grandfather's in Finland. Now, apparently this money is going to come from what he called stupid anti-Climate Change projects so although much of Russia and pretty much all of Finland is a bit chilly, as the climate changes because they money is being spent on me, they'll get warmer and I'll be all toasty!

Brilliant!

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LeninGrad · 02/05/2010 18:40

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daftpunk · 02/05/2010 18:40

I haven't had loads of posts deleted actually....I probably avarage about 2 a week.....that isn't that bad.

Tanee58 · 02/05/2010 18:41

Noddy - best laugh I've had since I began reading this thread about two hours ago!

daftpunk · 02/05/2010 18:42

I don't have to answer it...I don't have to give away personal details on here...it's not something MNHQ encourage...

BitOfFun · 02/05/2010 18:43

Daftpunk is their Internet Wing. How's that working out for you, daftpunk? Recruited any Nazis here?

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SanctiMoanyArse · 02/05/2010 18:45

DP

in ten years of MN, often on threads like thids, I have had zero posts deletd throug nastiness

2 is awful!

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ImSoNotTelling · 02/05/2010 18:46

daftpunks mates

daftpunk · 02/05/2010 18:46

I'm not breaking any rules...I am talking about a political party I support, just like other posters talk about parties they support....why should I be singled out..?

I am not doing anything wrong...I am not on here recruiting

ihatebigots · 02/05/2010 18:47

Here is some black eyed peas - and oh DP don't worry I know that you are incapable of answering questions that go near examining your conscience, so please do NOT attempt to answer the questions that the song asks:

But if you only have love for your own race
Then you only leave space to discriminate
And to discriminate only generates hate
And when you hate then you're bound to get irate, yeah
Madness is what you demonstrate

People killin', people dyin'
Children hurt and hear them cryin'
Can you practice what you preach
Would you turn the other cheek

LeninGrad · 02/05/2010 18:47

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Lulumaam · 02/05/2010 18:48

you don't have to answer of course, but it is not doing you or your cause any good

i was not asking your name, where you live, but what you do? leafleting? door to door ? demos and marches"

or does it only extend as far as being offensive on a faceless forum?

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RunawayWife · 02/05/2010 18:56

LOL noddy thats brilliant

daftpunk · 02/05/2010 18:59

LG...why have you changed so much...you have gone from having quite alot of time for me to totally hating me in a matter of weeks...

What happened..?

Tanee58 · 02/05/2010 19:01

DP I've seen at least three of your posts deleted on this thread alone.

And DP, regarding the poem, it's not just about killing - You are missing the point - and, I suspect, quite deliberately, to divert the argument, as you are doing over and over again. It's about total disenfranchisement of sections of humanity who have EVERY right to live our lives as we choose. It's about your children not being able to choose whom to love, without fear of disapproval, harassment or imprisonment. It's about choosing how to worship - or not to worship at all. It's about YOU, as a woman and as a HUMAN BEING, being free to live your life, make your choices, govern your own morality, live where and with whom you wish.

Under the BNP I would be shipped 'home' to a country I barely know, where I do not speak the languages, despite being born in England, having a half English DD and a Welsh partner and having loved and worked for Britain and British culture, all my 52 years. £50,000 would never compensate me for the loss of a country I love. My DD, (who is voting for the first time and jokes that she might vote BNP because she might get deported somewhere warm, or at least be a boatperson as she's only half white British), would be a 'mongrel breed'. An insult to a fine, talented young girl. My ex-husband or current partner, both white (I won't say 'pure', because, what's 'pure'?) would - in an extreme fascist regime (and who's to guarantee the BNP would not become extreme?)- face disciplinary action or worse, for having touched me. Yes, DP, these things would not happen immediately - but give them an inch. The Nazi extremes came on gradually. That's the WHOLE POINT of the poem.

And they WOULD come for you, eventually.

But hey, why am I trying to make you see sense? If you're an activist, then we are all wasting our breath.

I'll just go back to singing Noddy's song - I like it!

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daftpunk · 02/05/2010 19:17

T58;

You are not wasting your breath..I'm reading your posts.... taking it all in...

notbloodybranston · 02/05/2010 19:23

DP - do you live in Manchester?

Aitch · 02/05/2010 19:28

you are ALL wasting your breath.

good to see the poor me lines starting, as per.

Tanee58 · 02/05/2010 19:30

Thank you DP. You see, it's not that anyone hates you. If we did, we wouldn't bother to engage with you. It's the beliefs you put forward, the defence of the indefencible, that we deplore. You yourself, may be a person we would chat quite happily with in the street, have a laugh with, away from politics.

Remember, in any extremist regime, there are nice, inherently good people, who get sucked in. There were decent people in the Nazi regime, people who loved their families and friends, who had Jewish friends, but who eventually condoned unbelievable horror, or denied that it was happening because their consciences couldn't take it. Ditto in every other extreme regime in history (you're Irish, you must know this with your own history). I've seen this in my own country of origin, Sri Lanka. My mother's race and my father's race have both committed acts of terror on each other (you see, I come of a 'mixed race' family myself, though the colour is the same!

There was an excellent play about 25 years ago, called 'Good', about a good man who gets drawn imperceptibly deeper into nazism in the '30s, and ends up doing unspeakable things that he would never have contemplated in the beginning. It's worth reading, DP, brilliant writing about a decent human being getting out of his depth. It showed that it could happen to any of us, ANY OF US, and I personally am engaging with you, because I wouldn't want it to happen to you.

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Lulumaam · 02/05/2010 19:36

and os it beigns.. '

'why do you hate me?'

;I am learning, honest..'

until the next time...

either own your facsicst politial leanings, or don't bother talking about them

don't try the pity card when it does not go your way

eatsushi · 02/05/2010 19:37

this is the posting style of dp as outlined on another thread -

  1. dp makes a hideously nasty comment re homosexuality / immigration etc
  1. outpouring of nasty posts by dp
  1. sudden change of attack, becomes concilliatory and apologises saying 'i just need educating', 'help me understand' 'its not my fault i'm a total and utter bigot'
  1. reverts back to incredibly offensive posting
  1. repeat and repeat and repeat"

are we at point 3?