The Brexit Party

[jarndyce]

This is all such fun, and I don't want to get too ott about it, but let's not forget the little boy who died because cheese was thrown at him.

I think newbie makes a good point.

You all laugh about a subject until it gets SERIOUS and real. When that happens you treat it like it’s someone else’s (unknown poster, or government) responsibility, or someone should’ve seen it coming or some other blah blah chickenshit answer.

But it doesn’t change the fact that many of you mock and deride the same problems faced by the same people you act so earnestly to think you represent.

 

[brogdale]

Arrant tosh.

Opponents of the far right throw milkshakes; a member of the far right killed an MP they regarded as an enemy.

 

[not-bono-ever]

I am late to the game but has this been posted ?
This is everything I discovered about >all< of The Brexit Party MEP candidates.

 

[treelover]

Would have been better if that had been written more matter of fact, rather than the author trying to be a comedian.

 

[ska invita]

Btw, how many Spiked linked candidates are there?, seems to be a few.

this has a good list

I am late to the game but has this been posted ?
This is everything I discovered about >all< of The Brexit Party MEP candidates.

from that

Write for Spiked:
James Heartfield
Alka Sehgal Cuthbert
Stuart Waiton
Lucy Harris
Claire Fox

Retweets Spiked:
Louis Stedman-Bryce
Peter Wiltshire
Matthew Patten
Henrik Overgaard-Nielsen

 

[treelover]

Heck of a lot in high finance and property, wonder what the people in Barnsley think of that,

maybe they think its good.

 

[Lucy Fur]

 

[Pickman's model]

Would have been better if that had been written more matter of fact, rather than the author trying to be a comedian.

perhaps you should pass on your criticism to the author

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

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Do you consider Farage to be a fascist?

 

[Lucy Fur]

Do you consider Farage to be a fascist?

The general spirit of the piece is what appealed, rather than defining Farage as a fascist.

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

The general spirit of the piece is what appealed, rather than defining Farage as a fascist.

The tweet only makes sense if the people being milkshaked are actually fascists though, as opposed to just bellends with milkshakable faces.

 

[Pickman's model]

The tweet only makes sense if the people being milkshaked are actually fascists though, as opposed to just bellends with milkshakable faces.

milkshook?

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Do you consider Farage to be a fascist?

There's a certain family resemblance, don't you think. The piece said 'fasicsts and racists' tbf, and he's very certainly the latter. You could also argue that the anti-Muslim fearmongering of the likes of Farage is today's equivalent to the anti-Semitism of the 1930s to which the piece refers.

 

[Badgers]

 

[Lucy Fur]

The tweet only makes sense if the people being milkshaked are actually fascists though, as opposed to just bellends with milkshakable faces.

not really, it begins with current right wing figures having milkshake thrown over them.

recounts some examples of more extreme protest from the past.

returns to the present and suggests that unlike the former examples, milkshakes are not violent.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Do you consider Farage to be a fascist?

His teachers certainly had this concern from a very young age.

Nigel Farage 'was a racist schoolboy'
Nigel Farage schooldays letter reveals concerns over fascism
Nigel Farage - 1981 school letter

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

There's a certain family resemblance, don't you think. The piece said 'fasicsts and racists' tbf, and he's very certainly the latter. You could also argue that the anti-Muslim fearmongering of the likes of Farage is today's equivalent to the anti-Semitism of the 1930s to which the piece refers.

I'm not sure you can make that comparison at all. It's not like Garage* is calling for the extermination of anyone. I mean he even left UKIP because they were running on the anti-islam ticket.

*Predictive text keeps changing Farage to Garage, and not being one to argue with our AI overlords, I think I'll just go along.

 

[Pickman's model]

I'm not sure you can make that comparison at all. It's not like Garage* is calling for the extermination of anyone. I mean he even left UKIP because they were running on the anti-islam ticket.

*Predictive text keeps changing Farage to Garage, and not being one to argue with our AI overlords, I think I'll just go along.

it's a barage of farage garbage

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I'm not sure you can make that comparison at all. It's not like Garage* is calling for the extermination of anyone. I mean he even left UKIP because they were running on the anti-islam ticket.

*Predictive text keeps changing Farage to Garage, and not being one to argue with our AI overlords, I think I'll just go along.

Sorry but you've not been paying attention if you haven't noticed Farage's anti-Islam shit in the last couple of years. As for the comparison with 1930s anti-Semitism, you're factually wrong if you think Moseley's mob were calling for extermination in 1936, but they were stating things very very similar to much of what is spouted re Islam today: these are the enemy within, they don't belong here.

 

[Pickman's model]

Sorry but you've not been paying attention if you haven't noticed Farage's anti-Islam shit in the last couple of years. As for the comparison with 1930s anti-Semitism, you're factually wrong if you think Moseley's mob were calling for extermination in 1936, but they were stating things very very similar to much of what is spouted re Islam today: these are the enemy within, they don't belong here.

there were a lot of people not all that far away who were very much calling for the removal of jews from german life.

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

His teachers certainly had this concern from a very young age.

Nigel Farage 'was a racist schoolboy'
Nigel Farage schooldays letter reveals concerns over fascism
Nigel Farage - 1981 school letter

I'd never heard of this before, and it's something to take into consideration, but it also seems like a lot of speculation and smearing.

The second article states that the teacher who supposedly wrote the letter calling him a fascist doesn't recall the letter at all.

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

Sorry but you've not been paying attention if you haven't noticed Farage's anti-Islam shit in the last couple of years. As for the comparison with 1930s anti-Semitism, you're factually wrong if you think Moseley's mob were calling for extermination in 1936, but they were stating things very very similar to much of what is spouted re Islam today: these are the enemy within, they don't belong here.

Mosely was explicitly modeling himself after Hitler. There was no ambiguity in what they were up to.

 

[Lucy Fur]

ItWillNeverWork , how would you describe Farage?

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

ItWillNeverWork , how would you describe Farage?

A Thatcherite bellend

Edited to add: with a milkshakable face

 

[eoin_k]

A 'Thatcherite' whose allies include the leader the Front Nationale in France, the editor of a far-right website who cites Julius Evola as a major influence and another one who is among the most prodigious disseminators of conspiracy theory alive today. If we should be careful about describing Farage as a fascist, we should also probably be careful about assuming that he isn't the modern day equivalent.

 

[Pickman's model]

ItWillNeverWork , how would you describe Farage?

the sort of thing you scrape from your shoe before entering a house

 

[Ranbay]

Would have been better if that had been written more matter of fact, rather than the author trying to be a comedian.

Re write it then? duh

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

A 'Thatcherite' whose allies include the leader the Front Nationale in France, the editor of a far-right website who cites Julius Evola as a major influence and another one who is among the most prodigious disseminators of conspiracy theory alive today. If we should be careful about describing Farage as a fascist, we should also probably be careful about assuming that he isn't the modern day equivalent.

If such associations exclude one from being a Thatcherite, then I guess even Thatcher wasn't a Thatcherite, given her association with the likes of Pinochet. I suppose the obvious question would be, is Thatcherism fascism?

 

[Pickman's model]

Re write it then? duh

he'd make a pig's ear of it from beginning to end, and not in a good way

 

[Ranbay]

he'd make a pig's ear of it from beginning to end, and not in a good way

But he would then like it, think about that, something he liked.