In Heywood and Middleton, a classic Labour northern English seat, UKIP and the Tories combined got 51% of the vote. In Clacton – a deprived coastal area – the Conservatives and UKIP got 83% of the vote.
It is not that Labour and the Lib Dems offer an alternative that is in any significant way less devoted to corporate interests and serving the economic needs of the super-rich. The large majority of voters, and especially those who do not bother to vote, have by now worked out that the difference in their lives is negligible if they have a different member of the political class with his or her nose in the trough at their expense.
But everybody who has seen an actual UKIP campaign knows that their grassroots appeal is simply racist – they promote the idea that it is not the billionaires and ultra-wealthy who are sucking the resources from society, but rather the poor of a different colour. The Conservatives are striving, particularly through rampant Islamophobia, to compete for the atavistic vote.
UKIP is an antibody produced by the political establishment and their paymasters, to counter public disillusion with a dreadful and worsening unequal society. UKIP’s task is to divert public anger away from their exploiters towards specific groups of the poor. It does so very effectively. UKIP’s success yesterday will lead to a race among the mainstream parties to scapegoat vulnerable social groups – immigrants, benefit claimants, unemployed – and to compete in external xenophobia. The next government of the United Kingdom will be right wing to a degree which would have seemed unthinkable for the majority of my life.
“George Galloway intends to abstain in Monday’s vote on recognising Palestinian statehood.”
I think there is probably a difference of opinion among Palestinians, particularly between the older and younger generations and he doesn’t want to alienate either.
Victoria Nuland’s take on TTIP
from a speech given 2 days ago by the Assistant Secretary, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs in Berlin, Germany
With Gospozha Nuland pushing so hard for the success of TTIP, one wonders what could possibly be wrong with it?
Totally un-connectedly, did anyone else catch the news that Poroshenko is sacking a million citizens with ties to the old, pre-Nuland, regime.
According to Agence France Presse
Fred
“What a bunch of retard cretin cunts.
Fuck off retard, fuck off and die.
The case for the Prosecution rests, Your Honour.
Fred
Why is it I feel that some Public Convenience is missing a hygiene operative.
Fred
Why is that I feels some Public Lavvy is missing an assistance hygiene attendant?
Fred
I demoted you.
Nuland: “If we do this right, T-TIP can be for our economic security and prosperity what NATO has been for our military security.”
She’s right, of course. Not in the way she thinks though.
As to her ‘explaining’ the benefits of this agreement, that’s pathetic. Hard-right ideologues just love to ‘explain’ stuff to their ‘inferiors’, don’t they? She can explain all she wants, it’s still bullshit, backed by ideologically-riven mathematics. Neocons think they are smarter than everyone else, but they aren’t. They are just nuts.
“George Galloway intends to abstain in Monday’s vote on recognising Palestinian statehood.”
If you want a blog with civilised debate I can do civilised debate.
If you want personal insults and attacks I can do that too.
It’s up to you, I don’t get personal with people who don’t get personal with me first. Stick to talking about the issues and I stick to talking about the issues. Your choice, I’m easy either way.
“I demoted you.”
Fuck off and die turd retard cunting bastard.
an average of 10.6% of the comments on this thread contain the word “retard”
DoNNyDarKo
10 Oct, 2014 – 8:37 pm
“Fred. Go back to sheep rearing!”
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Sheep rearing?
Is that sneaking-up on sheep from the rear?
Some would call that zoophilia.
Fred
10 Oct, 2014 – 9:29 pm
“You still don’t know I own sheep retard. You know fuck all.”
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We know now Fred. You should have written the above as: “You still don’t know IF I own sheep…”
Tom
10 Oct, 2014 – 9:51 pm
“…they’ve got no chance of forming a majority government. Their only hope now is that Labour do sufficiently badly that there has to be a LibLabCon National Government with UKIP in opposition.”
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More likely Tom, if it’s a hung parliament, is a Conservative/UKIP alliance with a Labour/LibDem opposition.
“We know now Fred. You should have written the above as: “You still don’t know IF I own sheep…””
You know fuck all retard. Fuck all.
Now fuck off and die retard.
“I demoted you.”
Fuck off and die turd retard cunting bastard.
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Jesus Fred, still retarding every comment,I didn’t realise that you are an arsehole 24/7.
Them’s the breaks for no voters akin to you, Rule Britannia God save the Queen and all that shit,you love so much.
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Official documents infer that British secret services and/or their proxies will commit terrorism and blame it on enemies in order to justify rapid military deployments. With the latest bombing of Iraq under way, the UK needs a ‘strategy of tension’ to convince the public that war is necessary.
HISTORICAL EXAMPLES
The term ‘strategy of tension’ comes from Gladio, a Europe-wide operation run by MI6 and the CIA, which began at the close of WWII and continued into the early-1990s.
The purpose of Gladio was to train stay-behind networks to battle Soviet expansion across Europe. Another aim was to terrorise the populations of the continent, as well as Turkey, into accepting the rule of neo-fascist governments.
CIA-MI6-trained Gladio networks were responsible for many atrocities, including the 1980 Bologna train station bombing.
During the Troubles in North Ireland, Britain sought to justify its brutal occupation by demonising the Irish.
One of the methods was to guide Irish Republican Army terrorism. Whistleblowers reveal that high-level Provisionals included double-agents John Joe Magee and Freddie Scappaticci. So-called Real IRA double-agents included Kevin Fulton.
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After the events of 7/7 I wouldn’t put anything past Whitehall,meanwhile the MSM are pushing Ebola 24/7 in order to instill fear and panic.
http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_67774.shtml
Last week, my colleague Jeff Opdyke reminded us that like all power-hungry states, the U.S. requires enemies like ISIS to keep the population distracted and mobilized against the wrong threats. As he rightly put it: “War … gives government the cover it needs to curtail liberties and freedoms here at home. It gives government reason to rally the citizenry as the long-term health of the nation deteriorates.”
Of course, war does more than just that. War generates massive flows of taxpayer money to the defense industrial sector, which passes some of it on to money-hungry politicians, who vote for more war and thus more money for defense. And so on.
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Truthful and to the point.
http://www.activistpost.com/2014/10/the-isis-threat-convenient-cover-up.html
“Jesus Fred, still retarding every comment,I didn’t realise that you are an arsehole 24/7.”
Fuck off and die cunt retard scum arsehole.
I can keep it up as long as you like retard.
Speaking in a video message to residents of West African countries currently experiencing outbreaks of Ebola, President Barack Obama dispensed advice on how residents can avoid the disease, including:”You cannot get it through casual contact like sitting next to someone on a bus.”
At the same time, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is advising Americans who travel to the Ebola-stricken nations to “avoid public transportation.
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So Obama says one thing and the CDC say another, if you’re going to cause an African and eventually global pandemic, at least get your story right.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/obama-you-cant-get-ebola-sitting-next-to-someone-on-a-bus-cdc-avoid-public-transportation.html
Ed Miliband is facing an internal revolt from members of his own Shadow Cabinet over a decision to force Labour MPs to vote in favour of unilaterally recognising Palestine.
Earlier this week, party managers instructed Labour shadow ministers that they had to vote in favour of a historic parliamentary motion on Monday that would call on the British Government to unilaterally recognise the state of Palestine.
But the move has resulted in a furious backlash from pro-Israeli members of the party who believe that Labour should recognise Palestine only as part of a wide Middle East peace settlement.
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Labour at Westminster is riddled with pro-Israeli supporters, who don’t want to see the state of Palestine recognised, so lets get this straight Westminster Labour support the genocidal murderers of Palestinians. and 45% of Scots are tied to Westminster because the rest of the idiots (Including FRED) voted no.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/anger-grows-within-labour-over-forced-palestinian-vote-9788395.html
Between the slaughter in Iraq, and the coming slaughter in Syria, and Westminster Labour backing a veto Palestine, the NO VOTER must surely have blood on their hands.
Fuck off and die cunt retard scum arsehole.
I can keep it up as long as you like retard.
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Fred
Surely not? I mean how many brain cells can a BNP/NF/EDL/O/O supporter have? surely you must have to stand up and sing God save the Queen now and then or even, Rule Britannia.
“Surely not? I mean how many brain cells can a BNP/NF/EDL/O/O supporter have? surely you must have to stand up and sing God save the Queen now and then or even, Rule Britannia.”
Fuck off and die shit for brains cunt retard.
Private firms snoop far more on the public than the spy agencies, the head of GCHQ has said.
Sir Iain Lobban, Director of the intelligence agency, said it was the “commercial companies” who know everything about people and share the data with each other.
There is an ongoing row over the level of snooping powers the police and intelligence agencies should have.
But Sir Iain’s comments came as it emerged three of the UK’s main mobile phone companies automatically provided data on customers to the police if asked.
One employee suggested requests for information is handed over “like a cash machine”.
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It would appear we’re under surveillance 24/7, but its all for our own good, right?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/11155337/Big-companies-snoop-on-public-more-than-GCHQ-says-spy-chief.html
In Clacton, the Lib Dems slumped to fifth place, amassing just 483 votes and a 1.4 per cent share – down from 12.9 per cent at the 2010 election.
On Thursday they came behind Ukip, the Tories, Labour and the Greens – although they did manage to beat the Monster Raving Loony Party.
In Heywood and Middleton, the Lib Dems narrowly managed to save their deposit – with their vote share at 5.1 per cent. At the last election, they got 22.7 per cent of the vote. They totalled 1,457 votes on Thursday.
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The Lib/Dems a party falling faster than Fred’s IQ
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2788750/lib-dems-lose-deposit-seventh-time-2010-party-gets-lowest-share-election-vote-major-political-power-1948.html
The despicable BBC covered the Lib/Dem conference in Glasgow, and at the end of it,the BBC said that this was the end of the conference season.
Those lying two faced b*stards at the BBC, didn’t mention they’d be covering the Scottish Greens Conference which began today, nor the third largest political party in the UK the SNP’s conference in November.
British military intelligence agents in Northern Ireland used fears about demonic possessions, black masses and witchcraft as part of a psychological war against emerging armed groups in the Troubles in the 1970s, a study says.
Prof Richard Jenkins, from Sheffield University, spoke to military intelligence officers, including the head of the army’s “black operations” in Northern Ireland, Captain Colin Wallace.
Wallace told Jenkins that they deliberately stoked up a satanic panic from 1972 to 1974, even placing black candles and upside-down crucifixes in derelict buildings in some of Belfast’s war zones.
Then, army press officers leaked stories to newspapers about black masses and satanic rituals taking place from republican Ardoyne in north Belfast to the loyalist-dominated east of the city.
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Whitehall, at its best when its in the midst of a dirty tricks campaign, I put emphasis on the “Leaked stories to the press” something that it still does today with gusto, and the press are complicit with it.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/oct/09/satanic-panic-british-agents-stoked-fears-troubles
Fred; “I can keep it up as long as you like retard”
Give it up Fred, flaming is so old hat & pretty pathetic; if everybody who wanted to annoy you were to fix a nasty comment about you as an automatic byline to their every Post, you wouldn’t even have time to eat !
Adams
10 Oct, 2014 – 11:23 pm
“…the English becoming a minority in their own land.”
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What makes you think that the English are becoming a minority in their own land, Adams?
Population figures for England 2011 (Latest available).
White British 45,281,142 or 85.4% of population.
British Asian 4,143,403 or 7.8% of population.
British Black 1,846,614 or 3.5% of population.
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“The voters are beginning to get behind UKIP.”
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Some voters yes, mostly far right Tory voters and racists I suggest.
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“I want my small Country ruled from Westminster and an end to mass unlimited immigration.”
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I take it you supported Scotland’s bid for independence then?
In Pennsylvania Pittsburgh a restaurant, PA’s Conflict Kitchen, has come under fire by some members of the city’s Jewish community on the grounds that they’re upset that the restaurant is serving Palestinian food.
There’s not only something interesting, for those of not familiar with Conflict Kitchen, about restaurant’s , but also the reason why the food they has chosen in the menu.
The restaurant has some schedules about what kind of food to be served. The restaurant’s menu changes regularly on a three-to-five month rotation, “always features food from a country with which the US is currently in some sort of conflict.
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What a great idea, and I bet the food taste good, pity some can’t see the point.
http://www.worldbulletin.net/middle-east/145944/jews-in-us-slam-restaurant-featuring-palestinian-food
The EU ban on dairy products produced in the occupied settlements in the West Bank will take place from January 2015, according to local reports.
The Israeli agricultural ministry informed dairy factories built beyond the pre-1967 Green Line, including the Golan Heights and east Jerusalem, that “it will no longer be possible to export dairy products produced over the Green Line, either directly or indirectly”, according to the Jerusalem Post.
The ministry spokesman Amnon Lieberman said the dairy market is a local one and only a small part of the produce is exported to Europe, such as powdered milk.
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Not before time.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/eu-bans-israeli-dairy-products-made-occupied-west-bank-settlements-january-1469454