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Originally Posted by david H
" ... political parties must have 5000 registered members or they will be declared illegal.
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Nobody gave a flying one when a similarly intentioned stunt did for the Vlaams Blok in Belgium. "Oh it doesn't matter does it 'coz it's only the Nazis"
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Additionally, the names and addresses of the members must be given to the Portuguese authorities.
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Ouch! but not a surprise.
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This will mean that ten of Portugal’s fourteen political parties will disappear and the PND is one of them.
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Of course they will, that's the intention, should have paid a bit more attention to the plight of the VB then shouldn't they. BNP and at some point UKIP will have to face this down in the UK or dissolve under threat of imprisonment.
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This intolerance to opposition means that new parties would never be created, existing ones become more powerful and they alone would control party funding.
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Exactly! and then impose central funding of parties and everafter ramp that funding at will for those in favour and remove it from those out of favour.
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"WOW! bloody great this EU stuff innit! can I have a go Tony? go on, ay? ay? awwww go on, I'll be careful!" P Mandelson
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This situation is caused by Article 191 of the Nice Treaty, regarding party funding. If it can happen in Portugal, it can happen here.
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And damned soon must it come if the last remnants of the right are to be quashed before they reach their fast approaching critical mass.
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A good reason to increase our membership as fast as possible.
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I'll give it 3 Parliaments left before it's too late to do anything effectively through the ballot box. I prefer the use of 'parliamentary terms' in preference to 'years' as it better imparts the immediacy of our plight.
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Although I hesitate to compare it, it does bring to mind the identification of Jews in Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
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Why do you hesitate? this involves the destruction of my and presumably your country, people, culture and thread of genetic transmission, this is no time for hesitation and personally is of FAR more importance to me than the past travails of some desert diaspora with whom I share nothing and sympathise little.
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UKIP is currently safe from extinction on these grounds as we have more than three times that many members. "
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Does it perhaps occur to you that they might possibly CHANGE the qualifying number? It's a racing certainty that the qualifying number will be constantly under revision to maintain the height of the exclusion bar. Furthermore, if they don't get you on membership size they'll come for you on grounds of being...
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"incompatible with the principles of ever closer union"
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As I've said elsewhere, there's nowhere to run now.