Hello, its been a while since a last post but there's been so much going on politically I pretty much couldn't be bothered to comment on it. However, now that revision time is umong us again, this seems much more fun.
This entry is a further development on my opinion of the EDL (English Defence League) and the UAF (Unite against Fascism). This week i've been doing a bit of research into both of the "political movements" which respectfully oppose different things. For those who don't know, the EDL are a political movement who protest against militant islam, islamication of England and Shariah Law. The UAF are a group set up to combat far right groups such as the National Front (NF), British National Party (BNP) and the supposed "far right" EDL.
Anyway, my blog entry is going to be sympathetic to the EDL. From what I can see, from documentaries and publications, they are just a nationalistic movement that oppose the Islamic political movement (yes it's not a religion, its a political movement) and hate the idea that we are losing British values. Fair enough. However any nationalistic or race related politics is automatically shunned as extreme right. Undoubtebly there are some loonies in the group, most of this is coincidently posted on left wing propaganda machines such as the Guardian. But set aside from the racist hooligans that belittle the EDL, it is generally made up of all religions, cultures, political backgrounds and social backgrounds. The thing that gets me most with people who claim that the EDL are "extreme right wing racists" is the fact that everyone in the UK, Europe, USA hates terrorism. Terrorism has its heart at the teachings of Allah and Shariah Law. So whats "racist" about opposing extreme islamic behaviour? Thats all the EDL are. They just oppose militant islam, not all muslims, just extreme characters. The protection of England has been in our blood for thousands of years, what's unnatural about protecting it?
This leads me onto one of my pet-hates, the UAF. In plain and simple language, there a bunch of left wing hippy's who show more traditional fascistic tactics than the EDL. By this I mean that over the (mostly) peaceful protests by the EDL the UAF actually end up causing more trouble and have had more arrests for violent conduct. The thing that I will never ever (ever) understand is how they can get away with blatant racism in their chants of "Nazi Scum, off our streets". To link a street political movement that has in no way shape or form come anywhere near the Nazi tactics is racist. I mean, where's the respect to all the British, American, Russian and even German people who had to fight/live under the Nazi rule. It's a very extreme word and when used in the wrong context is most certainly racist. It also seems as if the UAF oppose freedom of speech, I mean, they turn out opposing marches and demonstrations. Surely they don't want us to speak our mind and show our concerns to the growth of Islam?
That to me is fascist.
Saturday, 5 June 2010
Sunday, 18 April 2010
Naive, or in denial?
Hello again, i'm assuming blogging has gone a bit out of fashion during the half term so I havn't really bothered to update again. I think its more of the fact I have too much to say that I just couldnt put it all into blogs. Plus, I have better things to do with my time. This is a blog instead of doing easter work...
As always I wont bore you with my Easter and I will refer to it as I will do in the next week as 'abusing my 18thness' as it saves going through day by day of what I did. Anyway ive decided to pretty much keep this blog now to a political/ranting blog as its always hard to describe a social life or whatever. On this note, its the political high season isnt it?! People who normally couldn't care less about politics are now making there decision on which of the, quote Lord Pearson, "failed old parties" to send their vote too. But this election is one that is surprisingly close, after the apparent success of Clegg the Liberal Democrats in the television debate they are now above Labour in the polls? Hmm, I smell a hung parliament. But lets face it, polls are normally rubbish anyway. So they ask 1,000 people who they would vote for. Its only a small and very rough guess at who will win the election. I mean, will the Lib Dems beat Labour? Plain and simply, no. What is quite interesting is how people are so easily swayed by an hour and a half or debating, to actually cast themselves as a Lib Dem just because they basically say they will go in the middle of Labour/Conservatives.
But as Nigel Farage said in Question Time after the debate, will anyone really remember anything? I know I can't. Could you honestly say that you can tell the differences between the parties? Of course not, thats because there all the same. The only thing they have different views on is where the cuts should be made and the issue of the unelected House of Lords. The Lib/Lab/Con also seem very indecisive on big issues within Britain today such as immigration and education. With regards to immigration all the parties talked about 'non-EU' immigration being controlled. Fair enough. But thats not the problem at all, the real problem is EU immigration where we have no control, and will never get this control until we leave. As for education, no party is really giving any solutions to the failing education system. The Tories are heading the right way, with ideas that teachers should have more power and not be undermined by a committee who can overturn decisions such as expulsion. But what Cameron does not address is the lack of grammar schools, it is well known that children get a much better education and at the moment all three parties will not build more of these schools and are therefore denying us the right to a good education.
One thing I have noticed from people I have been talking too about politics, is that people do seem to generally have a better understanding of politics and parties, which is good. The electoral seem to be taking a much better interest in politics, however many of these people are still blinded when looking at smaller parties (Greens, UKIP, BNP). Are people just oblivious to these parties or just naive? People in society today need to open their political scanner and understand that these parties are growing at a stupedous rate and they should all be in peoples minds about voting rather that the "big three". I know many people will not vote a smaller party as they know they have "no chance" of winning, but every vote really does count, expecially in a hung parliament. My view is that you should vote for what you believe in, regardless of what people say or how large the party is. Take for example UKIP, they started in 1992 and were obviously then unknown. But look at them in 18 years, they are fielding 500 candidates in the General Election and have a real chance of winning a seat (fingers crossed Buckinghamshire).
My last point for today is the naivity and preassumptions that people make of right wing politics. As a women said on Question Time "If I vote Green... Or God forbid UKIP". Whats up with the "God forbid", I dont understand why UKIP should have any bad stigma to their name? I hate this assumption that UKIP as they are right wing they are automatically racists. Take for example Conservatives under Thatcher, would you say they were racist? Of course not. However they were in the same area as UKIP are today. UKIP are the real conservatives, and if control of immigration and nationalism becomes 'radical' then I pity this country.
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As always I wont bore you with my Easter and I will refer to it as I will do in the next week as 'abusing my 18thness' as it saves going through day by day of what I did. Anyway ive decided to pretty much keep this blog now to a political/ranting blog as its always hard to describe a social life or whatever. On this note, its the political high season isnt it?! People who normally couldn't care less about politics are now making there decision on which of the, quote Lord Pearson, "failed old parties" to send their vote too. But this election is one that is surprisingly close, after the apparent success of Clegg the Liberal Democrats in the television debate they are now above Labour in the polls? Hmm, I smell a hung parliament. But lets face it, polls are normally rubbish anyway. So they ask 1,000 people who they would vote for. Its only a small and very rough guess at who will win the election. I mean, will the Lib Dems beat Labour? Plain and simply, no. What is quite interesting is how people are so easily swayed by an hour and a half or debating, to actually cast themselves as a Lib Dem just because they basically say they will go in the middle of Labour/Conservatives.
But as Nigel Farage said in Question Time after the debate, will anyone really remember anything? I know I can't. Could you honestly say that you can tell the differences between the parties? Of course not, thats because there all the same. The only thing they have different views on is where the cuts should be made and the issue of the unelected House of Lords. The Lib/Lab/Con also seem very indecisive on big issues within Britain today such as immigration and education. With regards to immigration all the parties talked about 'non-EU' immigration being controlled. Fair enough. But thats not the problem at all, the real problem is EU immigration where we have no control, and will never get this control until we leave. As for education, no party is really giving any solutions to the failing education system. The Tories are heading the right way, with ideas that teachers should have more power and not be undermined by a committee who can overturn decisions such as expulsion. But what Cameron does not address is the lack of grammar schools, it is well known that children get a much better education and at the moment all three parties will not build more of these schools and are therefore denying us the right to a good education.
One thing I have noticed from people I have been talking too about politics, is that people do seem to generally have a better understanding of politics and parties, which is good. The electoral seem to be taking a much better interest in politics, however many of these people are still blinded when looking at smaller parties (Greens, UKIP, BNP). Are people just oblivious to these parties or just naive? People in society today need to open their political scanner and understand that these parties are growing at a stupedous rate and they should all be in peoples minds about voting rather that the "big three". I know many people will not vote a smaller party as they know they have "no chance" of winning, but every vote really does count, expecially in a hung parliament. My view is that you should vote for what you believe in, regardless of what people say or how large the party is. Take for example UKIP, they started in 1992 and were obviously then unknown. But look at them in 18 years, they are fielding 500 candidates in the General Election and have a real chance of winning a seat (fingers crossed Buckinghamshire).
My last point for today is the naivity and preassumptions that people make of right wing politics. As a women said on Question Time "If I vote Green... Or God forbid UKIP". Whats up with the "God forbid", I dont understand why UKIP should have any bad stigma to their name? I hate this assumption that UKIP as they are right wing they are automatically racists. Take for example Conservatives under Thatcher, would you say they were racist? Of course not. However they were in the same area as UKIP are today. UKIP are the real conservatives, and if control of immigration and nationalism becomes 'radical' then I pity this country.
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Thursday, 1 April 2010
Are you Green?
This is a very short update, it could my shortest yet. I found this whilst browsing the internet, it could help you personally as to who to vote in the up and coming election. Its actually pretty decent, it gives you an idea as to which views you have link with what party. Heres the link
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7541285/Vote-Match-General-Election-2010.html
This should be publicised in more colleges/universitys where people are more naive to politics.
Just for the record, I am 70% linked with UKIP, 64% linked with BNP and 54% linked with Torys.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7541285/Vote-Match-General-Election-2010.html
This should be publicised in more colleges/universitys where people are more naive to politics.
Just for the record, I am 70% linked with UKIP, 64% linked with BNP and 54% linked with Torys.
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Thursday, 25 March 2010
A Darling Budget?
As you may have been expecting, I obviously have felt the need to update with regards to budget set out by Alistair Darling. To be completely honest, I havnt actually read too much into it, for the economic side of politics (despite being important) is just not as interesting as many other topics. Anyway, I know enough to write with regards to a few problems the new budget gives to the people of Britain.
One of these proposals (which might concern us, the youth) is the potential "Cider Duty Hike" which Darling is proposing. His idea is that the duty should raise a further 2% to an overall 5%. This means to us that we will have to pay roughly an extra 20p for a pint of cider, making it around £3 a pint. What I dont understand is how this will benefit the people of Britain, I mean, what is his overall plan of the scheme? To cut binge drinkers? To shut down the beloved British pubs? No, its to 'help the economy' although in reality this will only deter drinkers from pubs. Like I had learnt in geography many times, this will have a snowball effect on the economy. By this I mean...
Higher price of cider ---> Less people going to pubs ---> Pubs being forced to close down (as if there isnt enough closing already) ---> Increase in taxpayers money funding bankrupt pub owners ---> Overall fail. It seems as if Darling is not only trying to destroy the economy, but destroy Britain and its culture all together. In fact this budget can only be seen as a death sentence for British culture.
Ha, just as I was about to end this I have seen that a UKIP poster I printed off is still here in the English Workroom and it has 'racially' written under it. Hmm I wonder what that means? Actually, I have something else to mention now. Last week I asked about putting up political posters around the college to bring awareness about the need for change, ie UKIP. Apparently however you are not allowed to post anything 'political or religious' as it may cause offence, and when asked what party I would be campaigning for I got greeted with a 'well you definitly cant, that would offend a lot of people'. Who exactly would it offend? I suppose this was just a naive view of right wing politics that labels anything anti immigration as 'racist'. But surely everyone in the college is a legal citizen and allowed to be in this country, so they wouldnt be effected? Getting to the point, I therefore decided to email the 'Equality and Diversity Co-ordinator' with regards to the subject and to my surprise, the response was good and helpful. She understood the fact that stopping people voicing an opinion would be taking away the freedom of speech. For some reason this subject has never come up before which seems confusing, I mean, I would like to think that 5 years ago people campaigned in the college for political parties. As well as a positive reply, the email has been forwarded to the head of Politics and the assistant principle. Fingers crossed they reply and change the college rules with regards to posters.
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One of these proposals (which might concern us, the youth) is the potential "Cider Duty Hike" which Darling is proposing. His idea is that the duty should raise a further 2% to an overall 5%. This means to us that we will have to pay roughly an extra 20p for a pint of cider, making it around £3 a pint. What I dont understand is how this will benefit the people of Britain, I mean, what is his overall plan of the scheme? To cut binge drinkers? To shut down the beloved British pubs? No, its to 'help the economy' although in reality this will only deter drinkers from pubs. Like I had learnt in geography many times, this will have a snowball effect on the economy. By this I mean...
Higher price of cider ---> Less people going to pubs ---> Pubs being forced to close down (as if there isnt enough closing already) ---> Increase in taxpayers money funding bankrupt pub owners ---> Overall fail. It seems as if Darling is not only trying to destroy the economy, but destroy Britain and its culture all together. In fact this budget can only be seen as a death sentence for British culture.
Ha, just as I was about to end this I have seen that a UKIP poster I printed off is still here in the English Workroom and it has 'racially' written under it. Hmm I wonder what that means? Actually, I have something else to mention now. Last week I asked about putting up political posters around the college to bring awareness about the need for change, ie UKIP. Apparently however you are not allowed to post anything 'political or religious' as it may cause offence, and when asked what party I would be campaigning for I got greeted with a 'well you definitly cant, that would offend a lot of people'. Who exactly would it offend? I suppose this was just a naive view of right wing politics that labels anything anti immigration as 'racist'. But surely everyone in the college is a legal citizen and allowed to be in this country, so they wouldnt be effected? Getting to the point, I therefore decided to email the 'Equality and Diversity Co-ordinator' with regards to the subject and to my surprise, the response was good and helpful. She understood the fact that stopping people voicing an opinion would be taking away the freedom of speech. For some reason this subject has never come up before which seems confusing, I mean, I would like to think that 5 years ago people campaigned in the college for political parties. As well as a positive reply, the email has been forwarded to the head of Politics and the assistant principle. Fingers crossed they reply and change the college rules with regards to posters.
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Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Skint Eastwood
Hello again anyone who still reads this blog, I dont know if anyone reads it anymore so I might be back to square one. Oh well.
As you may/may not know I went and saw Gorillaz live in Portsmouth on Sunday, and it was brilliant! Seeing one of my favorite bands for the first time (in such a small intimate venue) was something I had waited for lets say... 5 years? Not only was it Damon Albarn who showed up, but also half of The Clash were there... and I must say they are fantastic musicians. Expecially Paul Simonon (bass) who played just a metre away from me, what an awesome gent he is. To be fair, Gorillaz played a very long set and included all the hits (Feel Good Inc, Clint Eastwood, Stylo, Dirty Harry) so can't complain. It is a shame though that they did not have any additional artists with them like Bobby Womack or Mos Def, but I guess playing such a small venue people arn't going to go there to play one song? Nonetheless it was an ace gig and since then they have announced more tour dates, with a full UK tour in September, so hopefully I will get to catch them again.
Onto politics, as usual, there was just one piece of sloppy journalism I thought I would point out for you to go and read.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/ukip/7482715/Roll-up-roll-up-for-the-UKIP-carnival.html
Theres one thing in insulting a political party, but to insult the people who vote for them is just petty. As you will read there is not argument here, and it is just personal attacks on members within the party. Why would you even feel the need to write this?
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As you may/may not know I went and saw Gorillaz live in Portsmouth on Sunday, and it was brilliant! Seeing one of my favorite bands for the first time (in such a small intimate venue) was something I had waited for lets say... 5 years? Not only was it Damon Albarn who showed up, but also half of The Clash were there... and I must say they are fantastic musicians. Expecially Paul Simonon (bass) who played just a metre away from me, what an awesome gent he is. To be fair, Gorillaz played a very long set and included all the hits (Feel Good Inc, Clint Eastwood, Stylo, Dirty Harry) so can't complain. It is a shame though that they did not have any additional artists with them like Bobby Womack or Mos Def, but I guess playing such a small venue people arn't going to go there to play one song? Nonetheless it was an ace gig and since then they have announced more tour dates, with a full UK tour in September, so hopefully I will get to catch them again.
Onto politics, as usual, there was just one piece of sloppy journalism I thought I would point out for you to go and read.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/ukip/7482715/Roll-up-roll-up-for-the-UKIP-carnival.html
Theres one thing in insulting a political party, but to insult the people who vote for them is just petty. As you will read there is not argument here, and it is just personal attacks on members within the party. Why would you even feel the need to write this?
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Saturday, 20 March 2010
Bolton Barrage
Good day, this is a very late post on my behalf, but after watching the news I felt a duty to write my thoughts before I forgot.
In the news tonight on BBC they reported about a protest in Bolton that was originally meant for the EDL (English Defence League) but naturally this encouraged the UAF (Unite Against Fascism) to essentially 'piss on their parade'. However the irony from the report was actually quite good. The BBC reported that 'out of the numerous arrests, most of these came from UAF with many being arrested for "pre-planned violence". Surely the UAF are supposed to be the ones against fascistic tactics such as violence yet they seem to be the ones causing the most trouble? If I was to protest against the EDL I would at least be peaceful and not use underhand tactics like the UAF, especially as it leaves them looking foolish.
Prior to the report, I had actually heard of both groups and ironically I was interested in joining the UAF after watching the Question Time with Nick Griffin. Yet since then, my idea in politics has clearly shifted and I oppose the UAF in many aspects. Obviously they have some right to protest, in reality the BNP are very controversial in their ideas, but to be fair the amount of grief and abuse from the BBC they get is pretty ridiculous in the end. Yes yes I know they are 'racist' and their leader was an 'ex' holocaust denier (which is just the lowest of the low) but they only dig up bad things on the BNP such as some of their members. You could do this for every party, every party has its bad people within it, I mean im sure some of the Labour or Conservatives have ex cons, paedofiles, thugs ect. Anyway im going off topic, but you get the point. Anyway I had also briefly heard of the EDL in the sence that they were linked to BNP and I had seen some posts of it on the UKIP forum. Like any party that actually stands up for British people they were of course linked to the far right of politics, despite not being a political party. I cant say I agree with their protests against 'militant islam'. Actually I cant really have any opinion as I dont know exactly what there about but from the name you can guess that their a nationalistic, anti islamic protest group.
To see the contrast of opinion on the Bolton protest (its quite amusing how the propaganda of both sides is shown)
In other political news, on the 19th March Lord Pearson launched the UKIP campaign which starts the busy few months coming up before the election. Unfortunately I was unable to attend, but as far as im aware it went down well, even within the media considering the BBC normally freezes out UKIP. If your interested the BBC does have a link to a short clip from the speech by UKIP's leader, but at 23:49 I can not be bothered to find it. Infact I cant be bothered to carry on writing any more.
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Wednesday, 17 March 2010
Short little update
Hello, just a quick update of something funny someone showed me on youtube.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QAvkFS_cgk
I think that will work, but as im at college I cant actually go on the actual video so its a hopeful link? Anyway made me laugh, even if it is old news.
and for anyone who wants to read some points that UKIP put across, there is a lengthy article in the express. Hopefully, this will let you have an understanding of UKIP policies.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/163106/Let-us-debate-the-real-issues-in-the-election-campaign
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QAvkFS_cgk
I think that will work, but as im at college I cant actually go on the actual video so its a hopeful link? Anyway made me laugh, even if it is old news.
and for anyone who wants to read some points that UKIP put across, there is a lengthy article in the express. Hopefully, this will let you have an understanding of UKIP policies.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/163106/Let-us-debate-the-real-issues-in-the-election-campaign
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