Comments on: But where will they send me?

By: linda

linda — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:55:12 +0000

Speaking as a Gorgon monstrosity – I look forward to meeting Nick Griffin, I can get him to look into my eyes – and hey presto he will be turned into stone. mwaahhahahahaha.

thats what Gorgons do, isnt it?

By: Steph

Steph — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:44:14 +0000

OMG! That Griffin clip!

“But, general, ordinary women… I think are beautiful…”

Just not those that have an opinion then?!

By: Cath Elliott

Cath Elliott — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:18:20 +0000

OMFG!

Lol!

Thanks for that one Polly. I think I may have to give that gem a blog post all of its own.

By: polly

polly — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:12:02 +0000

Oh dear Cath I think you’ve upset Nick Griffin….

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/politics_show/8313014.stm

By: Gregory

Gregory — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:47:10 +0000

“I got 87.5% on my citizenship test. Without even swotting. I must say the questions are v strange though.”

The good thing about being a British subject is that a Brit will come along and tell you the way things are going to be.

“I got 87.5% on my citizenship test. ”

Jerusalem is not in your head, it is in your heart.

Gregory

By: polly

polly — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:12:15 +0000

I got 87.5% on my citizenship test. Without even swotting. I must say the questions are v strange though.

By: Gregory

Gregory — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:12:12 +0000

“just 6 per cent of BNP voters read the upmarket papers (Times, Telegraph, Guardian etc), which is less than half the national average.”

A lot of Irish people also avoid all three of them.

Chickens don’t read ‘Poultry Today’.

Gregory

By: grimoopnorth

grimoopnorth — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:30:42 +0000

First, who voted BNP? They were mainly men: their voted divided 61 per cent male, 39 per cent female. (Men comprise just 48 per cent in the electorate as a whole.)

They were also more working-class. In the country at large, professional workers outnumber manual workers by 20 per cent to 18 per cent. Among BNP voters the pattern is very different: 36 per cent manual workers, 11 per cent professionals.

One third of them read the Sun or Daily Star as against one in five adults generally; just 6 per cent of BNP voters read the upmarket papers (Times, Telegraph, Guardian etc), which is less than half the national average.

Yet the household income of the typical BNP voter (£27,000 a year) is only slightly below the national median (£29,000) – and not that far below that of a typical Conservative voter (£33,000).

It is not money that marks BNP voters apart as much as their insecurity. Just 19 per cent of BNP voters are “confident that my family will have the opportunities to prosper in the years ahead”.

http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/domestic_politics/who+voted+bnp+and+why/3200557

By: Gregory

Gregory — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:28:03 +0000

“I don’t think we should overestimate Griffin and co’s popularity though Stephen. For instance Nicky boy got elected 8% of a 32% turnout in the northwest. Which is hardly a mandate.”

It is as it happens, whether it should be is another matter.

The British (national) system is also crafted not to require a plebiscite reflecting the actionable will of the masses, ( or direct democracy) which by tradition is gainsayed.

In Britain the govt only rarely trusts the people and vice versa.

By: stephenpaterson

stephenpaterson — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:25:27 +0000

I agree, Polly, that overestimating BNP popularity also has its dangers. Within the north west, however, its popilarity seems concentrated in a few old mill towns. The sort of forces that unite it, I think, are the same as those that united trades unions in the olden days, a solidarity born out of real or perceived oppression. I just wish the messages were as healthy.

In many ways, I think the BNP is cashing in on much of the ground once occupied by Labour, in the days before it became a subsidiary of the Conservatives.