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Yes, several of these results should concern the other parties greatly. I agree that denying the BNP a platform and treating the pariahs is not a good idea. Though they are loathsome neo-Nazis subjecting them to unfair treatment only helps their cause instead of hurting it.
The BNP and its ilk should be countered with ideas not by the force of law.
Concerning whether the BNP should be able to destigmatize itself
I wish to disagree with the title of James' nice Platform piece this morning, though not, as it happens, what he says inside the article (that we should undermine the BNP mainly by addressing the legitimate concerns of the people that vote for them), with which I agree very much and which I argu...
Nice report except for the stupid habit of calling them far-right. Has this person actually read their manifesto? Its pure 100% socialism. Last time I checked socialism is not right its left. The BNP are far-left extremists and always have been. Calling them far-right is ignorant in extremis and is knee-jerk left of centre "all rightists are racists" rubbish.
New Quilliam Report: In Defence of British Muslims
As Sayeeda Warsi prepares to take on Nick Griffin on BBC's Question Time next week, she and others in the mainstream of British politics would do well to read the Quilliam Foundation's excellent new report, In Defence of British Muslims: A response to BNP racist propaganda. The report provides a...
Well by definition libertarians are conservative because of their fiscal conservatism. However, I am not sure that a libertarian could support most Conservative politicians on offer. However, were one could support certain Conservatives like Dan Hannan MEP, Cllr John Harrison, Douglas Carswell MP and a few others.
Libertarianism is basically anarchism without balls.
How about having a read before spouting off again?
Can a Libertarian also be a Conservative?
That is the question which is being asked by the Libertarian Alliance for its 2009 Chris R Tame Memorial Prize, with one writer of an essay answering that question in 3,000 words being eligible for a £1,000 prize (sponsored by former Conservative MP Teresa Gorman, no less). During my teenage yea...
"BBC bashing is safe because the BBC is bound by strict rules of impartiality."
That may have been the case 30 years ago... but impartial the BBC? Not by half mate, they are the most biased news outfit on TV in the UK.
Sun journalist says John Prescott right about the BBC
David Wooding has just Tweeted this: I wonder if a certain James Murdoch approves of The Sun's Whitehall Editor's view. He's not quite on message with the MacTaggart lecture given by the NewsCorp's CEO for Europe and Asia: "A few years back, the BBC observed that it was losing share of lis...
Its not a good deal because 1. you have to pay it 2. most of it is rubbish. It amazes me that people are still get away with acting like paying the TV tax is a choice and not a matter of law.
Sun journalist says John Prescott right about the BBC
David Wooding has just Tweeted this: I wonder if a certain James Murdoch approves of The Sun's Whitehall Editor's view. He's not quite on message with the MacTaggart lecture given by the NewsCorp's CEO for Europe and Asia: "A few years back, the BBC observed that it was losing share of lis...
Brown has taken the UK down the toilet, but Dan Hannan is the "real" threat to these nitwits.
I agree that reporting it to Ofcom is not the answer, sorry Donal. Campaigning even harder to do away with the TV/free speech tax is a much better solution. Allow proper competition in the TV/entertainment market and see what the public really want.
Knowing Dan, he is probably not the slightest bit perturbed by the cretin's rant and might even be flattered he noticed.
“Dan Hannan is a boggle-eyed, slap-headed, unpleasant, revolting, heartless, ****-brained, attention-grabbing, foetid excuse for a prick.”
...And Channel 4 want licence fee payers' money to make MORE programmes like that. There is nothing funny about that. Just the Left at its hateful worst. Hat tip to James Delingpole of Telegraph blogs.
How is that rant funny? I mean its meant to be comedy right?
“Dan Hannan is a boggle-eyed, slap-headed, unpleasant, revolting, heartless, ****-brained, attention-grabbing, foetid excuse for a prick.”
...And Channel 4 want licence fee payers' money to make MORE programmes like that. There is nothing funny about that. Just the Left at its hateful worst. Hat tip to James Delingpole of Telegraph blogs.
Hannan gets pilloried for saying the NHS model is not the right one for the US. How is that wrong? Why should be expected to lie to the viewing public for the sake of some sacred cow that no longer functions properly.
Paul Goodman MP: Why heretical challengers of orthodoxies like Daniel Hannan are indispensable to progress
By Paul Goodman MP The Hannan America NHS rumpus (H.A.N – or, better still, D.A.N) was, in at least one sense, absurd. As has been noted, Dan is a backbencher sitting in an Assembly abroad who has no influence on the Party’s health policy in Britain. In another sense, however, D.A.N – a confl...
Haha, I had to laugh...does anyone take yer another of the leftie establishment trashing Hannan seriously? What is Notlob itching for a job at the Beeb?
Adam Rant
Sky's Political Editor Adam Boulton has blogged that Dan Hannan is "an arrogant right-winger in love with the sound of his own voice." That's not fair comment (and it's not helped by the unflattering photo of Dan Hannan used to accompany the blog). Dan is certainly a brilliant orator but that ...
Completely agreed, that will be a great help to all those rural communities seriously hurt by the nasty piece of urban socialist idiocy.
We should re-legalise hunting with dogs
I don't hunt - indeed, I've never been. It doesn't happen to be my preferred sport. But, nonetheless, I believe we should repeal the Hunting Act 2004. Here's why. Humans kill other animals for a number of reasons. We eat them. We gather their skins and fur for clothing. We use their bones...
The only plausible case for Cameron as PM is that he is not Labour or Lib-Dem.
A right winger's case for David Cameron
Last week I posted Mikey's "depressing list" of reasons why the right might be unhappy with David Cameron. One reader sent me an email response via Tim Montgomerie. As with Mikey's list I have decided to republish it. "Dear Mr Grove, Your list of reasons why right wing conservatives were unhappy...
You either believe that sovereignty begins with self or you don't. You wish to condemn those sufferings with terminal and debilitating illness to a slow and painful death because it offends your morality.
As one wag put it.."I hope you get to experience what you so misunderstand or don't want to understand" when engaged in an argument with some pontificating with "moral" superiority about the "right to die" discussion.
Opponents work in hypotheticals about "potential abuse" and thus wish to collectively punish everyone because someone might abuse the law.
I welcome the House of Lords decision.
The legalising of assisted suicide
Yesterday, their Lordships made two key decisions: - That there was a need to provide clarity concerning the conditions under which assisting a suicide might result in prosecution - That the Human Rights Act provides us with a right to choose the manner and moment of our own deaths My previous p...
What was obnoxious and foolish is slagging off people who use Twitter. I thought the "new" Conservative Party was adept at new media. Obviously they haven't advised Cameron very well.
The fact he said twat is neither here nor there, the context is what matters.
Pi**ed off with David Cameron
I know the usual Cameroonians will moan at me for this post but it is not acceptable for a leader of the Conservative party to use street language in broadcast interviews. I'm talking about this. Does Cameron talk like that in front of his children? David Hughes of the Daily Telegraph agrees wit...
It should not surprise anyone that a craven cretinous turncoat like Bercow has been rewarded by Labour with such a position. The fact he has become speaker is utterly preposterous and typical of Labour's control of Parliament.
Speaker Bercow's detractors must judge him on how he performs in his new role
As someone who backed John Bercow's bid to become Speaker, I am naturally delighted that he won the ballot and stand by all my reasons for supporting him, which I outlined here. I think he will be a superb Speaker and am especially pleased that he won by a larger margin than some had been pre...
Tony just what I was thinking. Next Cameron does his impressive of a Pakistani shop keeper... or maybe not.
David Cameron uses a German accent as he describes the compulsory carrying of ID cards as "un-British"
Good piece, glad you had the courage to post it. I wrote about the BNP over here and getting all kinds of BNP apologists claiming I have no proof they are neo-Nazi. Took me 30 seconds to find plenty of proof they and their leader are exactly that.
Creating the BNP: a step-by-step guide
Want to know how it happened? I thought about the 'how', during an increasingly unpleasant webroom chat with a Labour MP called Kerry Something, from Bristol, while the euro-results were coming in. She wrote that it was ‘revealing’ that Tories were staying quiet about the rise of the BNP. The in...
I think they are getting rid of Brown so they can change leaders before the next election in May 2010. They know they can't win with Brown so they want to ditch him for "new" blood, Young leader vs young leader vs young leader...
The Chipmunk, the living dead and Octoberfest
You really have to hand it to Hazel Blears, don't you? They say no-one who crosses the Chipmunk ever lives to tell the tale and I can't help thinking they are right. It looks like she's really done it for Gordon Brown. We all thought he was sort of the living dead - increasingly grey, finished, ...
The main problem, as it always has been, is that the British vision (baring a few Federasts) is for something completely different to the vision of Europe on the continent. The "Anglo" plan is not going to happen no matter how hard the British try to get it to come to pass. The British have to either accept and inevitable drive towards and United States of Europe or leave.
Re: UKIP's flaw
JP, I'm not particularly interested in a debate over the UKIP, but your case against pulling out of the European Union seems flawed. This section is critical, as it is your empirical case that the EU will act against its economic interests and stop free trade between the EU and an independent ...
JS: Explain yourself? How exactly is Dan Hannan a vote loser?
Thursday 28th May 2009
11.30pm Tim Montgomerie on CentreRight: Italians don't implement government regulation shocker 7.30pm Latest on CentreRight: Sally McNamara: President Obama should not be be criticising America's past actions Alex Deane: Another reason why we need to renegotiate our relationship with the EU 7...
That is really desperate guys. "If UKIP do well then Brown will go and that means that Labour may win the next election." Not too many assumptions there right?
Doesn't matter that Cameron & Co are waffling on the EU and there are MEP candidates who are not so Eurosceptic as say Hannan it seems.
Thursday 28th May 2009
11.30pm Tim Montgomerie on CentreRight: Italians don't implement government regulation shocker 7.30pm Latest on CentreRight: Sally McNamara: President Obama should not be be criticising America's past actions Alex Deane: Another reason why we need to renegotiate our relationship with the EU 7...
The point is moot... Andrew is going at the next election Fraser Nelson reports.
Backing for Andrew MacKay from local councillors
Further to the item on Friday about the role of councillors in deselecting MPs engaged in expenses abuse I have emailed all the Conservative councillors in his Bracknell constituency. There are 43 of them so far as I can tell - most of them on Bracknell Forest District Council but also six on ...
"Palestinian Jew"? You have to be kidding. There was no such thing as Palestine in Jesus' day. Talking like that smacks of anti-Israel rhetoric and probably is not the best way to phrase it. Palestine is a name made up by the Romans to impose their will on the the area over the Jews.
Its amusing you criticise the sentence about funding of "currupt third world countries" in their manifesto. Surely even a Christian would want his or her tax money to go to people in genuine need and not to prop up some potentate or fund terrorism & repression. The foreign aid budget is full of waste and funds not going where they were meant to go. This is an area any conservative government should really look closely at.
There are a great deal of noxious things about the neo-Nazi BNP, but it would help if you stuck to the right targets.
BNP: The real threat to 'Christian' Britain
There is a growing use of a campaigning technique by the BNP in these elections which seeks to present the British National Party as the defender of ‘Christian’ Britain. This should not go unchallenged. They use careful imagery in their leaflets designed to scare voters into belief that their ...
So Roger you think people should vote Conservative not matter what? Not all Conservative MEPs are as sound as Mr Hannan. There are a few dregs who have gone native left, they should be rid of first.
Why Norman Tebbit is wrong (for once)
By Roger Helmer MEP. I yield to no one in my respect for Lord Tebbit. In the Tory pantheon, I place him just a little behind Margaret Thatcher. I was hugely grateful some years back when he wrote a foreword for my first book, "Straight Talking on Europe". So I was particularly disappointed w...
Its funny if you are threatening to kill someone on the right, but not if its someone on the left? Double-standards methinks...nothing like getting yourself mentioned in the same breath as Perez Hilton.
An open letter to Alan Duncan
As Conservative Home reported on Monday, Alan’s Duncan on BBC called Miss California a ‘bitch’ and joked that if she was found murdered he would be responsible because she disagreed with gay marriage… Dear Mr Duncan, Many people in our party and also outside it hold you in high esteem. You...
I love the fact they have the BNP in the centre of the anti-EU extreme. Surely they should have the BNP on the far left of that chart? Its obviously a pro-EU survey designed to "guilt" people into to voting for a pro-EU party.
How should you vote in the European Elections?
One of those quizzes helps you decide. Take it here. My result is below. The most interesting thing is, perhaps, the quiz authors' view that the Tories are pretty neutral on EU integration. I also have a big quarrel with the BNP has neutral on the right/left scale. I'd put them clearly on t...
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