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		<title>By: Charlotte Gore</title>
		<link>http://charlottegore.com/2009/06/08/platform-the-bastards.html/comment-page-2#comment-7764</link>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte Gore</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>For example, your beloved leader, Nick Griffo, complained about usury on Question Time. Usury? Where&#039;d that come from?

Let&#039;s see.. hmm... 

&lt;blockquote&gt;In Mein Kampf, Hitler talked about the &quot;Manifesto for the Abolition of Interest Slavery&quot;, The 25 points of the National Socialist Party advocates &quot;The abolition of incomes unearned by work, The breaking of the slavery of interest&quot; and states &quot;We demand the ruthless prosecution of those whose activities are injurious to the common interest. Common criminals, usurers, profiteers, etc., must be punished with death, whatever their creed or race&quot;.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

You know, large segregated communities of muslims with their own schools, own businesses, own communities completely isolated from other communities are a bad thing. They&#039;re bad because they mean that otherwise sane and rational people get scared and angry and start turning to people who promise the very worst, the least British political ideology ever.

British liberalism, you see, free trade, Capitalism... these things were the &#039;our way of life&#039; that we were fighting for against the Nazis. We weren&#039;t fighting to save the Jews. The Germans, above all else, hated liberalism. They thought socialism was the way. They saw the Jews (happy capitalists that they were) as a threat to the communitarian, collectivist German way of life.. and thanks to a depression and a war wiping out Germany&#039;s middle class, Hitler was able to come to power on a populist anti-capitalist, anti-jew platform.

Looking at Griffo&#039;s ecomomic policies I see exactly the same mentality - raise up the walls, nationalise everything, subsume everything in the interests of the state, or whatever objectives Griffo decides. It&#039;s the death of individualism, and if you can&#039;t see that by helping the BNP, or Labour, or any collectivist party (whether they&#039;re socialist, fascist, communist, whatever..) you&#039;re working against Britishness. You&#039;re bringing German style fascism to the UK, which makes your sanctimonious claims to want to preserve an ideal of Britain as ridiculous as it is hypocritical. 

Yet, funnily enough, it&#039;s the BNP&#039;s racism that really damns it. I don&#039;t know why. Perhap&#039;s it&#039;s just something about the character of the majority of people that just sees something distasteful and mean-spirited and frankly un-British at picking on people who can&#039;t defend themselves.

For me the racism is a complete side issue. I personally don&#039;t like it but I don&#039;t condemn the BNP for being racist. I don&#039;t even condemn them for exploiting racism to win council seats in run down white estates. I condemn them for being authoritarian, for being facist, for being nationalist, for being all those things that lead to totalitarianism, to tyranny, to economic ruin whether or not they then decide to go on to murder immigrants, homosexuals, intellectuals, capitalists, bloggers, whatever. They&#039;re wrong anyway. Completely.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For example, your beloved leader, Nick Griffo, complained about usury on Question Time. Usury? Where&#8217;d that come from?</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s see.. hmm&#8230; </p>
<blockquote><p>In Mein Kampf, Hitler talked about the &#8220;Manifesto for the Abolition of Interest Slavery&#8221;, The 25 points of the National Socialist Party advocates &#8220;The abolition of incomes unearned by work, The breaking of the slavery of interest&#8221; and states &#8220;We demand the ruthless prosecution of those whose activities are injurious to the common interest. Common criminals, usurers, profiteers, etc., must be punished with death, whatever their creed or race&#8221;.</p></blockquote>
<p>You know, large segregated communities of muslims with their own schools, own businesses, own communities completely isolated from other communities are a bad thing. They&#8217;re bad because they mean that otherwise sane and rational people get scared and angry and start turning to people who promise the very worst, the least British political ideology ever.</p>
<p>British liberalism, you see, free trade, Capitalism&#8230; these things were the &#8216;our way of life&#8217; that we were fighting for against the Nazis. We weren&#8217;t fighting to save the Jews. The Germans, above all else, hated liberalism. They thought socialism was the way. They saw the Jews (happy capitalists that they were) as a threat to the communitarian, collectivist German way of life.. and thanks to a depression and a war wiping out Germany&#8217;s middle class, Hitler was able to come to power on a populist anti-capitalist, anti-jew platform.</p>
<p>Looking at Griffo&#8217;s ecomomic policies I see exactly the same mentality &#8211; raise up the walls, nationalise everything, subsume everything in the interests of the state, or whatever objectives Griffo decides. It&#8217;s the death of individualism, and if you can&#8217;t see that by helping the BNP, or Labour, or any collectivist party (whether they&#8217;re socialist, fascist, communist, whatever..) you&#8217;re working against Britishness. You&#8217;re bringing German style fascism to the UK, which makes your sanctimonious claims to want to preserve an ideal of Britain as ridiculous as it is hypocritical. </p>
<p>Yet, funnily enough, it&#8217;s the BNP&#8217;s racism that really damns it. I don&#8217;t know why. Perhap&#8217;s it&#8217;s just something about the character of the majority of people that just sees something distasteful and mean-spirited and frankly un-British at picking on people who can&#8217;t defend themselves.</p>
<p>For me the racism is a complete side issue. I personally don&#8217;t like it but I don&#8217;t condemn the BNP for being racist. I don&#8217;t even condemn them for exploiting racism to win council seats in run down white estates. I condemn them for being authoritarian, for being facist, for being nationalist, for being all those things that lead to totalitarianism, to tyranny, to economic ruin whether or not they then decide to go on to murder immigrants, homosexuals, intellectuals, capitalists, bloggers, whatever. They&#8217;re wrong anyway. Completely.</p>
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		<title>By: Charlotte Gore</title>
		<link>http://charlottegore.com/2009/06/08/platform-the-bastards.html/comment-page-2#comment-7763</link>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte Gore</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s moronic because you&#039;re making the huge assumption that the rate of increase of the population of muslims is going to keep growing at the same rate indefinitely. 

You claim the maths are simple yet you seem to be in ignorance of the fact that the variables in your calculations are unknown.

And, you know what? Seriously? I couldn&#039;t care less either way. Other people&#039;s faith doesn&#039;t make the slightest bit of difference so long as the state preserves civil liberties properly, retains our right to free speech, doesn&#039;t fund faith schools and guarantees that each person is equal under the law. 

We might not have these things, but these are the things I&#039;d rather concentrate on rather than opening the door to fascists. My objection to fascism, I assure you, is far more to do with their economic policies (nationalisation, protectionism) than anything else. They&#039;re still collectivist, thinking that the &#039;ends&#039; of putting the state first means doing anything they like to particular individuals, and that&#039;s why they&#039;re wrong.

So yes, you&#039;re barking up completely the wrong tree here.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s moronic because you&#8217;re making the huge assumption that the rate of increase of the population of muslims is going to keep growing at the same rate indefinitely. </p>
<p>You claim the maths are simple yet you seem to be in ignorance of the fact that the variables in your calculations are unknown.</p>
<p>And, you know what? Seriously? I couldn&#8217;t care less either way. Other people&#8217;s faith doesn&#8217;t make the slightest bit of difference so long as the state preserves civil liberties properly, retains our right to free speech, doesn&#8217;t fund faith schools and guarantees that each person is equal under the law. </p>
<p>We might not have these things, but these are the things I&#8217;d rather concentrate on rather than opening the door to fascists. My objection to fascism, I assure you, is far more to do with their economic policies (nationalisation, protectionism) than anything else. They&#8217;re still collectivist, thinking that the &#8216;ends&#8217; of putting the state first means doing anything they like to particular individuals, and that&#8217;s why they&#8217;re wrong.</p>
<p>So yes, you&#8217;re barking up completely the wrong tree here.</p>
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		<title>By: Ralph Musgrave</title>
		<link>http://charlottegore.com/2009/06/08/platform-the-bastards.html/comment-page-2#comment-7759</link>
		<dc:creator>Ralph Musgrave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>“Fucking moronic”?  So you’re a bit short of vocabulary, like the average BNP critic who as you rightly point out can’t manage anything more than “racist”, “fascist”, and about three other words.

Re the Islamisation of the UK, the maths is quite simple. I got A level maths - how about you? Muslims expanding at ten times the rate of the rest of us. That means &quot;Muslim country&quot; in a few decades. 

Yasser Arafat made exactly this prediction, as did Gadaffi. Yes, I know Gadaffi is a twit, but he&#039;s not as big a twit as the average white UK politically correct liberal.

Anyway, are you enjoying your curtailed right to criticise religion?  

Are you happy with Muslims getting the job description of the UN rapporteur on Human Rights changed from “exposing those who prevent free speech” to “exposing those who defame religions and prophets”?  See Johan Hari’s article on this:

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-why-should-i-respect-these-oppressive-religions-1517789.html

Finally, I’d like to apologise from the bottom of my heart for the pathetic racist policies of the BNP. I mean Labour plus Tories backed the Iraq invasion on the basis of doctored intelligence reports and a pack of lies, which resulted in a million Muslim and Kurd deaths. In contrast the BNP always opposed this war, plus they’ve never killed a single Muslim or Kurd. Compared to Labour, the BNP’s racism is, as I say, pathetic.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“Fucking moronic”?  So you’re a bit short of vocabulary, like the average BNP critic who as you rightly point out can’t manage anything more than “racist”, “fascist”, and about three other words.</p>
<p>Re the Islamisation of the UK, the maths is quite simple. I got A level maths &#8211; how about you? Muslims expanding at ten times the rate of the rest of us. That means &#8220;Muslim country&#8221; in a few decades. </p>
<p>Yasser Arafat made exactly this prediction, as did Gadaffi. Yes, I know Gadaffi is a twit, but he&#8217;s not as big a twit as the average white UK politically correct liberal.</p>
<p>Anyway, are you enjoying your curtailed right to criticise religion?  </p>
<p>Are you happy with Muslims getting the job description of the UN rapporteur on Human Rights changed from “exposing those who prevent free speech” to “exposing those who defame religions and prophets”?  See Johan Hari’s article on this:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-why-should-i-respect-these-oppressive-religions-1517789.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-why-should-i-respect-these-oppressive-religions-1517789.html</a></p>
<p>Finally, I’d like to apologise from the bottom of my heart for the pathetic racist policies of the BNP. I mean Labour plus Tories backed the Iraq invasion on the basis of doctored intelligence reports and a pack of lies, which resulted in a million Muslim and Kurd deaths. In contrast the BNP always opposed this war, plus they’ve never killed a single Muslim or Kurd. Compared to Labour, the BNP’s racism is, as I say, pathetic.</p>
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		<title>By: Charlotte Gore</title>
		<link>http://charlottegore.com/2009/06/08/platform-the-bastards.html/comment-page-2#comment-7729</link>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte Gore</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah, I really really believe that this is going to be a muslim country in a few decades. That&#039;s very, very plausible... no.. wait.. it&#039;s fucking moronic.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, I really really believe that this is going to be a muslim country in a few decades. That&#8217;s very, very plausible&#8230; no.. wait.. it&#8217;s fucking moronic.</p>
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		<title>By: Ralph Musgrave</title>
		<link>http://charlottegore.com/2009/06/08/platform-the-bastards.html/comment-page-2#comment-7725</link>
		<dc:creator>Ralph Musgrave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Muslim population is expanding at ten times the rate of the rest of the population. So Charlotte - don&#039;t deny it - you want your grandchildren and those of your friends to live in a Muslim country.

Do me a favour will you? Take yourself and your friends to some Muslim country (along with all Muslims in the UK). That way you and your Muslim friends get what you hypocritically claim to want. And I (beastly racist that I am)get what I want, namely a British Britian for my grandchildren. It&#039;s called freedom of choice, which I believe in. Free choice makes everyone better off because they can get what they claim to want. But you don&#039;t want freedom, do you - at least not for anyone else.

As for what Muslims do, migrating from a culture which has yet to have its renaissance to one that has, and then claim that one&#039;s own culture is superior, well that&#039;s just stupidity combined with bloody mindedness combined with hypocrisy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Muslim population is expanding at ten times the rate of the rest of the population. So Charlotte &#8211; don&#8217;t deny it &#8211; you want your grandchildren and those of your friends to live in a Muslim country.</p>
<p>Do me a favour will you? Take yourself and your friends to some Muslim country (along with all Muslims in the UK). That way you and your Muslim friends get what you hypocritically claim to want. And I (beastly racist that I am)get what I want, namely a British Britian for my grandchildren. It&#8217;s called freedom of choice, which I believe in. Free choice makes everyone better off because they can get what they claim to want. But you don&#8217;t want freedom, do you &#8211; at least not for anyone else.</p>
<p>As for what Muslims do, migrating from a culture which has yet to have its renaissance to one that has, and then claim that one&#8217;s own culture is superior, well that&#8217;s just stupidity combined with bloody mindedness combined with hypocrisy.</p>
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		<title>By: abi bilesanmi</title>
		<link>http://charlottegore.com/2009/06/08/platform-the-bastards.html/comment-page-2#comment-4529</link>
		<dc:creator>abi bilesanmi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Me again and spot on (again) on what you say i.e. going around yelling they are racist will have an effect on their support. However the argument that &#039;the best way to fight the BNP is to let people understand just how pathetically typical of bad politicians they really are&#039; is more complex. &#039;Platforming the bastards&#039; is easier for the likes of ourselves and much tougher than you predict. Polls show that there is great sympathy for the main tenets of the BNP particularly in white working class areas, particularly amongst men, and particularly between the ages of 18 - 55. This incidentally is where there message is targeted and where it is most successful. The BNP have also &#039;redirected&#039; their bile based on race to inculcate Islamophobia - again very successfully. The question we should address is if they are that abhorrent why are mainstream parties (especially Labour) falling over themselves to show how tough they are on &#039;terrorism&#039; (muslims) and immigration (foreigners). Call their agenda what you want, it is successfull Labour votes exceeded the BNP&#039;s in the East of England European elections (not Northern and not poor) by less than 6000. The &#039;extermination of these vermin&#039; won&#039;t be easy. Complacency will be perilous

Just saying too.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Me again and spot on (again) on what you say i.e. going around yelling they are racist will have an effect on their support. However the argument that &#8216;the best way to fight the BNP is to let people understand just how pathetically typical of bad politicians they really are&#8217; is more complex. &#8216;Platforming the bastards&#8217; is easier for the likes of ourselves and much tougher than you predict. Polls show that there is great sympathy for the main tenets of the BNP particularly in white working class areas, particularly amongst men, and particularly between the ages of 18 &#8211; 55. This incidentally is where there message is targeted and where it is most successful. The BNP have also &#8216;redirected&#8217; their bile based on race to inculcate Islamophobia &#8211; again very successfully. The question we should address is if they are that abhorrent why are mainstream parties (especially Labour) falling over themselves to show how tough they are on &#8216;terrorism&#8217; (muslims) and immigration (foreigners). Call their agenda what you want, it is successfull Labour votes exceeded the BNP&#8217;s in the East of England European elections (not Northern and not poor) by less than 6000. The &#8216;extermination of these vermin&#8217; won&#8217;t be easy. Complacency will be perilous</p>
<p>Just saying too.</p>
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		<title>By: blind steve</title>
		<link>http://charlottegore.com/2009/06/08/platform-the-bastards.html/comment-page-2#comment-4484</link>
		<dc:creator>blind steve</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;ll the best anyway. 

And to you.

&quot;But i still dont agree with you on this one&quot;

And what a boring old world it would be if we all agreed.  I&#039;d have no one to argue with for a start, and that would never do.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;ll the best anyway. </p>
<p>And to you.</p>
<p>&#8220;But i still dont agree with you on this one&#8221;</p>
<p>And what a boring old world it would be if we all agreed.  I&#8217;d have no one to argue with for a start, and that would never do.</p>
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		<title>By: Aye We Can</title>
		<link>http://charlottegore.com/2009/06/08/platform-the-bastards.html/comment-page-2#comment-4483</link>
		<dc:creator>Aye We Can</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>hey steve - and here is me thinking ive come across a real liberal..... not one of thise kid on dem ones!

all the best anyway. But i still dont agree with you on this one</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hey steve &#8211; and here is me thinking ive come across a real liberal&#8230;.. not one of thise kid on dem ones!</p>
<p>all the best anyway. But i still dont agree with you on this one</p>
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		<title>By: blind steve</title>
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		<dc:creator>blind steve</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;I’m just not infavour of enahancing the BNP’s platform by turning up and debating with them.&quot;

As I say, that&#039;s just &#039;no platform&#039; pretending to be a grown up. 


&quot;I leave that to you liberals - perenial losers in every contest you ever enter.&quot;

Oh, I&#039;m not a lib dem, I just wandered  in here by mistake.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;I’m just not infavour of enahancing the BNP’s platform by turning up and debating with them.&#8221;</p>
<p>As I say, that&#8217;s just &#8216;no platform&#8217; pretending to be a grown up. </p>
<p>&#8220;I leave that to you liberals &#8211; perenial losers in every contest you ever enter.&#8221;</p>
<p>Oh, I&#8217;m not a lib dem, I just wandered  in here by mistake.</p>
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		<title>By: Aye We Can</title>
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		<dc:creator>Aye We Can</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Blind Steve , you aint listening

I aint advocating that we deny the BNP any rights, just that that maistream parties continue to exercise their right not to appear on platforms with BNP spokespeople.

I am not in favour of &quot;no platform&quot;, I&#039;m just not infavour of enahancing the BNP&#039;s platform by turning up and debating with them.

And I aint in favour of the trot/student antics of the Westemister Green protestors ths afternoon. Nor am I in favour of the etiquet of a student union debating club.....

I leave that to you liberals -  perenial losers in every contest you ever enter.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Blind Steve , you aint listening</p>
<p>I aint advocating that we deny the BNP any rights, just that that maistream parties continue to exercise their right not to appear on platforms with BNP spokespeople.</p>
<p>I am not in favour of &#8220;no platform&#8221;, I&#8217;m just not infavour of enahancing the BNP&#8217;s platform by turning up and debating with them.</p>
<p>And I aint in favour of the trot/student antics of the Westemister Green protestors ths afternoon. Nor am I in favour of the etiquet of a student union debating club&#8230;..</p>
<p>I leave that to you liberals &#8211;  perenial losers in every contest you ever enter.</p>
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