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probably gone a bit hyberpole here but fuck it

Anti-fascism coming from the working classes who would be on the end of the jackboot has proud tradition. From Cable street to the unreported and unremembered battle for the streets of the last few decades it has been by 'fist, stones, batons and the gun' that these people were shown the door.
Then kicked through it.

So it is with a heavy heart that that I see so-called antifa types engaging in the grossest class prejudice when referring to the EDL. Beer guts, drunkenness (I fucking drink on a march, fosters to keep a clear head but how else are you going to deal with speeches by union leaders and labourite liars? sober? no) , rowdiness and bad tattoos and teeth. Yeah well we didn't all get daddies BUPA care mate.
It's fashionable class hatred, absolved cos they are the Other. For some of us they aren't the Other. We look like them, we shop in the same places, we face the same social deprivation and the same assaults on our wages, our living conditions and yes we look like them. If you think liberal sneering about bad teeth and beer guts is going to stop FN controlling the politically conscious angry youths of the banlueis then get the fuck out of the way. You aren't my anti-fascist. You are just another fabian except you haven't the modicum of conscience and well-meaning they misguidedly had. You are just as much the enemy.
Go home to the flat your dad bought you and stop the struggle tourism. Except you won't, because it allows you an outlet to vent about the underclass. Just do me a favour, jog on, you mug etc etc have I established my w/c credentials through use of those phrases yet? Just fuck off.'
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Well surely the irony of using physical appearances and phrases which could have been lifted straight from the Nazi era to describe people "low functioning humans" anyone and commenting on the size of peoples breasts etc - would not be lost on them? Or are they really that thick?
 
For reasons best known to themselves Edinburgh City Council have decided to grant the SDL permission to march down the Royal Mile in the middle of the Festival. They've previously refused them so they've had to be satisfied with static demos. Fuck knows why they've granted permission for this. Some people I know who live in a council flat on the lower section of the Royal Mile are raging about it.

http://www.scotsman.com/news/politi...h-through-edinburgh-during-festival-1-3013069
 
barney_pig said:
Was accused of being fash by an aslef swp contact, many years back when iwas still in yorkshire and in the swp, apparently when this fellow was contacted by swp industrial office he said he wouldn't have anything to do with me as he had been told I was mixing with fash by an aslef regional organiser. I think i was caught up into a dirty tricks campaign by opponents of mick rix, who I was close to through Leeds aslef.
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At least you stepped up to the plate..
 
Another point that *really* bothers me about EDL News, SlatEDL and SlatUKIP is their constant cheerleading for the European Union. They use the typical cunt's trick of Europhile neoliberals of conflating criticism of Brussels' authoritarian neoliberalism with xenophobia and racism as if objections to Brussels' undemocratic impositions of austerity are actually a manifestation of some sort of deep seated hatred of forrins.
 
J Ed said:
Another point that *really* bothers me about EDL News, SlatEDL and SlatUKIP is their constant cheerleading for the European Union. They use the typical cunt's trick of Europhile neoliberals of conflating criticism of Brussels' authoritarian neoliberalism with xenophobia and racism as if objections to Brussels' undemocratic impositions of austerity are actually a manifestation of some sort of deep seated hatred of forrins.
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shit yeah, forgot to mention that on the blog. can you think of any examples? i might do an edit tomorrow or do like a follow up at some point
 
J Ed said:
Another point that *really* bothers me about EDL News, SlatEDL and SlatUKIP is their constant cheerleading for the European Union. They use the typical cunt's trick of Europhile neoliberals of conflating criticism of Brussels' authoritarian neoliberalism with xenophobia and racism as if objections to Brussels' undemocratic impositions of austerity are actually a manifestation of some sort of deep seated hatred of forrins.
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'I'm deeply concerned about the way voting in euro elections works, in that by giving minority fringe r/w parties seats it simultaneously opens up huge revenue streams for what in real terms are relatively picayune groups'

'hahhahaa you think Brussels demands straighter bananas and you hate bulgaria'


:facepalm:
 
frogwoman said:
shit yeah, forgot to mention that on the blog. can you think of any examples? i might do an edit tomorrow or do like a follow up at some point
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A lot of posts on here are like that, though their old page got taken down, most recent one is a news story about the Australian government telling the UK not to leave the EU.
 
This comment was under a post about Kev Carrol appealing to Farrage for talks:

Even Farage isn't that stupid, surely?
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I know it's just an off the cuff remark but I find it to be telling. It's an attitude you often find with these kinds of liberal anti-racists - Griffin, Farrage, etc are all stupid. Huge mistake IMO. He's a very talented politician, who like Boris uses an affected clown like image because they know it has appeal.

And if an idiot can lead a party like UKIP to the kinds of results they've been getting recently then I think I'm gonna start suggesting they get an idiot to lead TUSC.

Am I reading too much into it, or does this flow directly from their particular brand of opposition to the far right? You know, they're all low-functioning humans, 'at least we're not like them.' And so it fits their prejudices to think he's the same? Don't know if I'm explaining this very well tbh
 
J Ed said:
Another point that *really* bothers me about EDL News, SlatEDL and SlatUKIP is their constant cheerleading for the European Union. They use the typical cunt's trick of Europhile neoliberals of conflating criticism of Brussels' authoritarian neoliberalism with xenophobia and racism as if objections to Brussels' undemocratic impositions of austerity are actually a manifestation of some sort of deep seated hatred of forrins.
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Posted this before both is useful
http://www.borderland.co.uk/index.php/21-the-secret-state/126-ukip-smears-who-s-behind-them.html
 
SpineyNorman said:
This comment was under a post about Kev Carrol appealing to Farrage for talks:



I know it's just an off the cuff remark but I find it to be telling. It's an attitude you often find with these kinds of liberal anti-racists - Griffin, Farrage, etc are all stupid. Huge mistake IMO. He's a very talented politician, who like Boris uses an affected clown like image because they know it has appeal.

And if an idiot can lead a party like UKIP to the kinds of results they've been getting recently then I think I'm gonna start suggesting they get an idiot to lead TUSC.

Am I reading too much into it, or does this flow directly from their particular brand of opposition to the far right? You know, they're all low-functioning humans, 'at least we're not like them.' And so it fits their prejudices to think he's the same? Don't know if I'm explaining this very well tbh
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fuck knows but I would pay cash money to see a debate between kokain kev and the unfortunate survivor of an air crash


He's also nicked the homburg. Now we can never again wear a homburg except ironically
 
Both larry and paul occasionally post here. Except for Larrys unfortunate insistence in people paying for his magazine rather than reading it online for free, everything I have read in nftb has been pretty sound,
 
So this might seem like a stupid question but how would someone go about getting an article like frogwoman's or Stop Laughing at the EDL in the Graunid or the Indie or some other paper? Is that sort of thing even possible?
 
J Ed said:
So this might seem like a stupid question but how would someone go about getting an article like frogwoman's or Stop Laughing at the EDL in the Graunid or the Indie or some other paper? Is that sort of thing even possible?
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why would they even bother publishing something like that inamongst adverts for 60 quid kitchen widgets? It's not their field is it. You'd have greater luck taking out a full page advert of a crudely drawn spunking cock.
 
J Ed said:
So this might seem like a stupid question but how would someone go about getting an article like frogwoman's or Stop Laughing at the EDL in the Graunid or the Indie or some other paper? Is that sort of thing even possible?
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Without connections probably not, I guess it could be sent in as a letter if an appropriate article turns up to relate it to.
 
Classist? Err.. and what social class do you bracket Muslims into? EDL are wrong but should be allowed to protest/march etc.
really?

REALLY?
 
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