Comments on: From ‘No Platform’ to Media Circus

By: Lee John Barnes

Lee John Barnes — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:00:57 +0000

We at the BNP do hate Jews, but we hate the Muslims more so it’s all good.

By: MindTheCrap

MindTheCrap — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:11:45 +0000

John P.
“I came across an excellent article on a French Canadian website yesterday that talked of an exodus from the UK of old stock Britons. Most were going to Australia/New Zealand. When asked why they were emmigrating, many cited the outrageous levels of immigration and the resulting (negative) changes those levels have caused.”

The same French-Canadians who have generated an exodus of old-stock Anglophones from Quebec?

I didn’t know that the Poles were so terrifying that they could cause so many English to flee to Australia.

By: KB Player

KB Player — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:53:13 +0000

Re protesting – was there a BNP contingent at the Stop the War march yesterday? After all, the BNP is against the war. Didn’t they turn out?

By: Josh Scholar

Josh Scholar — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:33:19 +0000

Exile thinks Griffin has done “rather well.”

I didn’t the I could be shocked by that loony anymore. I suppose I should have remembered what a raging antisemite he occasionally reveals himself to be.

By: socialrepublican

socialrepublican — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:40:11 +0000

Could everyone whos flinging the term fascist about give their own definition? If it merely ‘people with nasty ideas’, increase your fucking vocab.

By: Makhno

Makhno — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:44:09 +0000

Well on that basis you could say the same about blogging.

With the small difference that blogging does not have the intention of intimidating a neighbourhood.

By: Andrew Adams

Andrew Adams — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:26:13 +0000

Mark, as far as I can see there were some yobbish people there and there were a good many others who seriously wanted to protest againt fascists. I’m quite happy to support the latter while condemning the former.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:24:29 +0000

I’m not sure they know what they’re protesting about, as usual. For some, it seems to be about capitalism. For others, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars (although the BNP is against both wars). For some, it is about the BNP being given a ‘platform’ (whatever that means), but the first two are never very well disguised. Do these people know how to do anything other than provoke the police into action and then fall all over the floor wailing when they are man-handled? It’s a sort of mass collective expression of grief and self-pity. Very, very weird.

By: Andrew Adams

Andrew Adams — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:21:16 +0000

That is as close an admission that you are going to get that such demos are pointless and really a form of leisure activity rather than a serious political statement.

Well on that basis you could say the same about blogging. After all, nothing any of us has said here will make an actual difference to anything.

By: Mark T

Mark T — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:27:14 +0000

Andrew, there are demonstrations, and then there are demonstrations.

Yesterday was an example of a particularly witless and yobbish one that hindered the very cause it thought it was advancing.

I see no reason to support that on principle.