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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!

OP posts:
Pikelit · 29/04/2010 14:21

After reading his unsolicited leaflet and discovering I was free to display it in my window, it occurred to me that what Mr Griffin surely meant was "display a truthful version in your window".

So being a helpful type...

... I produced one

ChickensNeedOpposableThumb · 29/04/2010 14:25

binjibhagi Terribly sorry if my choice of word offended you, as it was not my intention. However, I wasn't rude to the OP, unlike your post. So here's a big fat

ChazsBarmyArmy · 29/04/2010 14:37

Damn - I knew there had to be a flaw in my plan...

There is a second flaw - if I tried to vote for the BNP I think my subconscious would lead me to stab myself to death with the blunt pencil you have to vote with...

Bumbleconfusus · 29/04/2010 14:37

carrots, just listened to it and you have completely mis-quoted the poor man, he said Afghan asylum seekers, not Algerian...

I am pleased to say I now completely disagree with him. Score.

ElusiveMoose · 29/04/2010 14:42

Oh no!! If this policy goes ahead, then both Nick Griffin and I are going to be moving to central Africa, because that's where we both originally came from. Oh, but then so did the rest of the human race. Blimey, it's going to be a bit of a squeeze .

SanctiMoanyArse · 29/04/2010 14:45

'trace back 100 generations

surely most people likely to be able to do that will be like my lot, yokel stock knocking out spreogs so fast that traceability doesn't even extend back more than one generation?

Methinks Britian will occupied by 46 people, tbh. Becuase it may be optional but let's face it optional becomes a lot more mandatory when the alternative is living in a BNP led country. eeek.

ImSoNotTelling · 29/04/2010 14:56

I saw an interview with a bnp person who said that british meant "people like him" and that he could trace his ancestry back as purely british thruogh 100 generations.

the interviewer was but didn't ask him to get his family tree out

i wonder how the royal family will take to beign evicted?

anyhoo

was just looking at their webiste to try and find their defintion and it says they have recently changed it (oh really) but I thought this was a bit scary:

The media in particular focussed on the reference to the ethnic definition of British people, which Mr Griffin defended as the right of an indigenous people to its own identity.

?We don?t subscribe to the politically correct fiction that just because they happen to be born in Britain, a Pakistani is a Briton. They?re not; they remain of Pakistani stock,? Mr Griffin told the media.

?You can?t say that especially large numbers of people can come from the rest of the world and assume an English identity without denying the English their own identity, and I would say that?s wrong. In a very subtle way, it?s a sort of bloodless genocide.?

And this is not from an antiBNP website - it is their own schpiel.

bloodless genocide

SanctiMoanyArse · 29/04/2010 14:59

What rot

Part of the British identity IMVHO is that we are a palce of asylum and tolerance (I know we don't always live up to it of course)

We are English, ds4 is Welsh: he was born ehre, will be schoold here. he ahs my genes but as much as I call myself Englsih my Grandad is in fact Welsh.

It's all bollocks, really it is.

ChickensNeedOpposableThumb · 29/04/2010 15:03
binjibaghi · 29/04/2010 15:05

Sorry ChickensNeedOpposableThum its just incredibly offensive to have unionists likened to the IRA !!!

Acanthus · 29/04/2010 15:08

Pikelit that's very lovely

Acanthus · 29/04/2010 15:10

It starts at 2hrs 45mins in, for those looking on iplayer.

toomuchtooyoung · 29/04/2010 15:16

so that's 50k for me, 50k for DH, can i claim another 50k for the one i'm currently carrying about?

schroeder · 29/04/2010 15:21

Forget about the BNP's racist policies take a look at what they want to do with criminals, apparently we can hang the murderers and rapists and all the rest can be sent to some island somewhere. It really is laughable.

ImSoNotTelling · 29/04/2010 15:25

gosh

their website is a mine of info

"Re-introduce corporal punishment for petty criminals and vandals;"

"Restore capital punishment for paedophiles, terrorists and murderers as an option for judges in cases where their guilt is proven beyond dispute (such as with DNA or other compelling evidence)."

NOTE NOT RAPE they are quite keen on rape - a high up BNP chap is on record as saying that women enjoy it.

DottyDot · 29/04/2010 15:31

That's so not fair. I'm horribly 100% completely pale freckly (sunburnt) British so won't get any money .

However I think, having done some investigations into my surname which is quite unusual, that I may have come from a Jewish line - does that count - please!!

Ivykaty44 · 29/04/2010 15:31

schroeder - He thinks that crime will fall as people will not want to be hanged or sent to an island, he probably doesnt knwo about australia or that 10,000 people were executed between 1735-1965 and it didn't stop the rot

ChickensNeedOpposableThumb · 29/04/2010 15:41

I wasn't linking them to the IRA, binjibhagi, I was rather clumsily alluding to the other side's terrorist factions.

RunawayWife · 29/04/2010 15:55

Woohoo £50,000 where can I go.
Ireland...nah too close
Italy... would be nice
I am told Romanys started of in Egypt so that would be fun.

I only see a few problems with this though...
1} where is the £50,000 coming from?
2} is it per person or per family, if per person can DH come with me or will I have to find out if I have Jewish ansestors and go with him
3} who gets the kids
4} how will the tax payers stuck in good old blighty feel when they pay 90% tax as there will be so few "pure bloods" to fund the running of the country>
5} what happens when out health service grinds to a halt (I wont be here so I wont care but you know we should think of those left behind)
Oh well I will get my coat, last one on the boat please turn out the light.

ShowOfHands · 29/04/2010 15:58

Can we stop referring to him as a 'chap' or 'man' and use his proper given title. He's a Sith Overlord.

RunawayWife · 29/04/2010 15:59

He is a muggle hater

ChickensNeedOpposableThumb · 29/04/2010 15:59

PMSL @ SOH

binjibaghi · 29/04/2010 16:07

s'ok us norn iron types can be a bit overly sensitive !!

schroeder · 29/04/2010 16:12

I stand corrected i'msonottelling I was getting muddled up with child molesters.

giveitago · 29/04/2010 16:21

Yeah - I'm not pure british - British born and bread but not pure and I'm happy with that if he's going to give me £50k to piss off - barcelona here I come.

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