Edward Longshanks

It would be easy for someone to revel in his political rivals misfortunes. This has obviously been a bad week for UKIP, but now at least you know what it feels like for those of us in the BNP. I've no doubt that you would immediately react to the last part of the previous sentence by saying well you deserve and we don't. In my view neither of us do. There are actually some sympathetic statements on both the BNP and English Democrat websites regarding the supposed abuse of permissable donations. The cant and hypocrisy in the way UKIP have been dealt with over the issue of donations in contrast to that of the Lab/LibDem/Con consensus is staggering and obnoxious.

They would come down on us like a ton of bricks and there is an underlying more insidious agenda at play here. Leaving apart other conspiracy theories, I am of the opinion that the growth in support for minor parties has resulted in various Labour apparatchiks meeting in smoke filled rooms to work out all manner of smear campaigns and disinformation exercises. Whether they stop your publications, deny you the right of lawful assembly and hack into your website is another matter, but on this matter at least you will find sympathy from what you may perceive as surprising quarters.

rjt

I have no time for the BNP at all and have total contempt for their policys.

However your second paragraph is correct in my view.

Populist Lee

We should all consider this:

If they can get away with closing down a party the size of UKIP in this manner, then terminating any other smaller Party they dislike will be a piece of cake.

Hereward77

Edward Longshanks

For those who don't know, Edward I "Longshanks" was the Plantagenet king who expelled England's entire Jewish population.

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"The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao's leadership is one of the most important and successful in history."
David Rockefeller, New York Times, August 10, 1973

Richard Allen

One think that we should all agree on is that attempts to prevent legal parties from taking part in the democratic process is utterly abhorant.

Britannist

I wonder who else was in the 'smoked-filled rooms' with representatives of Blair/Brown's Liebour Party? :shock:

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British Dissident

And didn’t Hereward the Wake oppose the invaders of England?

British Dissident

I quite agree. While UKIP hasn’t (and won’t) face anything like the BNP has had to put up with this does seem overly harsh and rather hypocritical, especially considering the dodgy donations that have come the way of the Old Gang parties.

For the conspiratorially-minded it may be worth considering that from Labour’s perspective it’s better to have a permanently weak, ineffective Tory party on the scene than a Tory party that will eventually collapse and might be replaced by a radical alternative.

Hereward77

Indeed, Longshanks was about as English as Jean-Marie Le Pen.

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"The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao's leadership is one of the most important and successful in history."
David Rockefeller, New York Times, August 10, 1973

SponPlague

I seem to recall he established cordial relationships with the Scots, too :twisted: