BOJO. The end.

[sinkov]

" Why do all these racist, Little England groups fervently believe in Brexit? And, believe me, I have spoken to loads of people on the doorstep who would vote for one of the above but find their choice limited to the Brexit Party - who they currently support.
Yes, they are (hopefully) in a small minority but they do exist."

I've told you I can't answer that 59, I've asked you why you think this is so, if indeed it is. As yet you haven't come up with any suggestions. So I've a question for you, why did 32% of LibDems (one third of LibDems) vote for Brexit, alongside these racist Little Englanders as you call them ? Surely you can answer that ?

And I would suggest, instead of fixating on the danger an obscure, minority 'far-right' group might pose, but doesn't, you focus on the dangers posed to the good people of Manchester and elsewhere by another much larger and clearly far more active and lethal minority, instead of supporting legislation that would make criticism of them illegal.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

There is little point in trying to rationalise with people who believe 17.4 million people who voted to LEAVE the EU are racists or are pursuing a racist agenda. Quite frankly, that argument insults my integrity as a human being.
I watch these little Hitlers strut around Brussels and Strasbourg dictating to us. No!

[1959_60]

There is little point in trying to rationalise with people who believe 17.4 million people who voted to LEAVE the EU are racists or are pursuing a racist agenda. Quite frankly, that argument insults my integrity as a human being.
I watch these little Hitlers strut around Brussels and Strasbourg dictating to us. No!

BT, please read my posts 173, 175 and 183 carefully before you start spouting tripe like that.

I think you DID read them but you are deliberately pretending I said something different.

Where on earth have I accused 17.4 million people of being racists or pursuing a racist agenda?
CLUE....I didn't.

If your comprehension skills are not up to the mark then that is your problem - but don't accuse me of writing something that I clearly didn't.

I repeat what I said...

Like I say, "Now, I am not calling Brexiteers racists and Little Englanders.

But...

Why are there so many racists and Little Englanders in the Brexit camp, and very few in remain camp?

[army88]

BT, please read my posts 173, 175 and 183 carefully before you start spouting tripe like that.

I think you DID read them but you are deliberately pretending I said something different.

Where on earth have I accused 17.4 million people of being racists or pursuing a racist agenda?
CLUE....I didn't.

If your comprehension skills are not up to the mark then that is your problem - but don't accuse me of writing something that I clearly didn't.

I repeat what I said...

Like I say, "Now, I am not calling Brexiteers racists and Little Englanders.

But...

Why are there so many racists and Little Englanders in the Brexit camp, and very few in remain camp?

But 59 you need to read what you’ve put again yourself because I interpreted it that way - so did Sinkov and BT.

If you read it you are suggesting that large percentage of leavers are racist.

I also put this to you before that even if people did vote to leave on immigration matters it simply Does not make them racists.

[sinkov]

BT, please read my posts 173, 175 and 183 carefully before you start spouting tripe like that.

I think you DID read them but you are deliberately pretending I said something different.

Where on earth have I accused 17.4 million people of being racists or pursuing a racist agenda?
CLUE....I didn't.

If your comprehension skills are not up to the mark then that is your problem - but don't accuse me of writing something that I clearly didn't.

I repeat what I said...

Like I say, "Now, I am not calling Brexiteers racists and Little Englanders.

But...

Why are there so many racists and Little Englanders in the Brexit camp, and very few in remain camp?

I don't know what's got into you these days 59. If you want to claim that us Brexiteers are motivated by racism, then come right out and say it, you're perfectly entitled to if that's what you think. But please don't just make sly insinuations and then back off when challenged, I used to think you were better than that, but now I'm beginning to wonder.

[1959_60]

I don't know what's got into you these days 59. If you want to claim that us Brexiteers are motivated by racism, then come right out and say it, you're perfectly entitled to if that's what you think. But please don't just make sly insinuations and then back off when challenged, I used to think you were better than that, but now I'm beginning to wonder.

Evening Sinkov!

I asked a perfectly valid question and no one has given an answer.

Instead, I was accused of calling all, or most, Brexiteers racists and Little Englanders which is total tosh - and you know it.

I seem to have struck a nerve with one or two....

[The Bedlington Terrier]

To infer someone who belongs to the Socialist Equality Party is a racist or had a "nerve struck" about "Little England," is a bit rich even if it comes from a Lib Dem.
I will ask again, just what bit about the EU protects worker's rights? Zero hour contracts and the "Gig Economy" come right out of Trump's play book. The EU sucks and when we leave, just watch the orderly queue grow to join us.

[sinkov]

I asked a perfectly valid question and no one has given an answer.

In what respect is this question valid in the context of posters on this msgboard discussing Brexit ?

Why do you expect anyone on this forum to be able to answer this question ?

[1959_60]

"To infer someone who belongs to the Socialist Equality Party is a racist..."

Stop making stuff up BT.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

"To infer someone who belongs to the Socialist Equality Party is a racist..."

Stop making stuff up BT.

It was you who brought up the "Little Englander" myth 1959-60.