Election Year or Fear!

[Geoff Parkstone]

Please rA.... there are two "k's" in that word, and you and English teacher too

Also intriguing, yet unsurprising, that you hold only one side to blame in your last paragraph.

[ramAnag]

Please rA.... there are two "k's" in that word, and you and English teacher too

Also intriguing, yet unsurprising, that you hold only one side to blame in your last paragraph.

I don’t think there are actually.

That is your interpretation of what I said, nothing more.
I fully accept that a minority of immigrants have behaved badly and brought trouble on themselves. Equally I fully accept that a significant minority of ‘indigenous’ British people have a history of displaying racist behaviour. It’s sadly been there in one form or another for as long as I can remember and, almost certainly, a great deal longer.

[Andy_Faber]

No, not particularly. We’ve been here before. Enoch Powell, skinheads in the seventies setting out to go ‘Paki bashing’ and the NF marches of the seventies and eighties.
I was at Red Lion Square, gave evidence at Bow Street in the mid seventies and was an active member of the Anti Apartheid movement, also in the seventies.
A huge amount of progress has been made. Just a bit sad that racial and religious tolerance is being held back by the usual suspects and the behaviour of a few.

Thanks

[Geoff Parkstone]

I don’t think there are actually.

That is your interpretation of what I said, nothing more.
I fully accept that a minority of immigrants have behaved badly and brought trouble on themselves. Equally I fully accept that a significant minority of ‘indigenous’ British people have a history of displaying racist behaviour. It’s sadly been there in one form or another for as long as I can remember and, almost certainly, a great deal longer.

Why is one merely a minority and the other a significant minority? I would ascribe "blame" fairly evenly. Does this infer you don't? I recognise here that as a writer you chose your words carefully, hence my inference.

Regarding your elsethread comment about being at Red Lion Square (I assume 1974) does this mean that you carry Lord Scarman's "measure of moral responsibility" for the death of Kevin Gateley? Presuming that is you were there pro Liberation / IMG as opposed to pro NF, but stranger things have been known!

[ramAnag]

Why is one merely a minority and the other a significant minority? I would ascribe "blame" fairly evenly. Does this infer you don't? I recognise here that as a writer you chose your words carefully, hence my inference.

Regarding your elsethread comment about being at Red Lion Square (I assume 1974) does this mean that you carry Lord Scarman's "measure of moral responsibility" for the death of Kevin Gateley? Presuming that is you were there pro Liberation / IMG as opposed to pro NF, but stranger things have been known!

So you carefully overlook the point you were wrong on.

You’re being pedantic. The context was that around 25-30% of voters have been attracted by Farage/ReformUK. That is a ‘significant minority’. I don’t doubt that some immigrants have proved their own worst enemy but I’ve no idea how many or how you’d measure them. In my experience they are a minority.

I’m not going to go back over half a century to discuss the death of Kevin Gately. I was there, as a 20 year old student, to demonstrate entirely peacefully against the National Front as, I believe, was he. There is very little stranger, even in your world, than the thought of me ever being ‘pro NF’, whether that be the initials of a trouble making political organisation or the equally troublesome leader of a new political party.

[SithHappens]

You missed Notts Forest off, although maybe that's the troublemaking political organisation you referred to

[Geoff Parkstone]

I fear that the architect Norman Foster may feel the world is against him

[SithHappens]

And Nick Faldo

Although Faldo and Farage do have something in common. Faldo plays in a sport that's full of holes, and Farage has policies that are full of them too.

They also both have a history of below par performances.

[Andy_Faber]

And Nick Faldo

Although Faldo and Farage do have something in common. Faldo plays in a sport that's full of holes, and Farage has policies that are full of them too.

They also both have a history of below par performances.

Although one of his greatest achievements featured par all the way

[ramAnag]

You missed Notts Forest

Well that’s a first, but good point, seems to be a theme developing. Apparently there’s an American rapper called NF too. Has OCD apparently. Doesn’t everybody have letters after their name these days? Suspect I won’t be going to see him.