I wonder how many MPs have been elected on the back of votes of racists.
Some obvious ones:
1964 Conservative Smethwick, Birmingham Perry Barr and Slough
1970 Conservative Clapham and without looking up the results Birmingham Yardley and Cannock
You can probably add any Conservative MP elected with a majority of under 100 in every election from 1964 onwards and probably many elected with majorities way above that.
Possibly Cheltenham in 1992 but the swing there was similar to that in Bath and the majority was quite comfortable.
Possibly Oldham East in 2010 but it would be impossible to say as I expect there was racist voting for all three main parties.
O/T You know how finicky the US neworks are - the wardrobe malfunction at the Superbowl some years back for example.
Today South Carolina played at Clemson. During the game a key Clemson player was ejected for targetting (driving his helmet oto another player's helmet, aka spearing). Replay after replay showed the call was highly questionable, but it was upheld on review.
For the next 2 or 3 minutes it was glorious to hear 88 thousand people shouting in unison - "Bullshit! Bullshit!." It almost drowned out the commentary.
That does sound good (though exceedingly off-topic!).
88,000 people is very impressive. Why is College Football so popular? Are College baseball, hockey etc. similarly popular?
Actually not that impressive. Most FBS college football stadiums are bigger than that - several over 100,000 people.
There are somewhere in the region of 28 NCAA college sports. Everything from Women's lacrosse thru golf, basketball, baseball and many others. Pretty much all of them lose serious money. Some basketball schools - Duke, North Carolina, Gonzaga etc - make money on their programs, but FBS college football programs bring in billions. and fund the rest. Think of the beheoth that is the NFL, and you have some idea of the size of college football.
Other than college football - and some basketball schools - college sports are pretty much ignored on TV, which is where the money comes from.
Since my question on the last thread remained unanswered (even by Ninoinoz, who very cleverly tried to avoid it by asking the same about paedophiles), I'll ask it again.
Which party are white racists most likely to vote for in the election next year?
Why don't you ask some?
I know that you know that I know that you know the answer to my question.
You not answering it doesn't change that fact.
It's a stupid question.
It's a stupid question to those not worried about associating with obvious racists.
You're the kind of person who flings allegations of racism at anyone they disagree with.
But strangely enough, he's also the kind of person who comes out with corkers like this:
'@BenM are second generation immigrants, ie those born in the UK whose parents were born abroad, considered to be natives? Or are they immigrants? Or are they a bit of both?'
Awkward.
My question then was very specific, with a good reason behind it.
BenM was incessantly referring to the report that said immigrants were a financial benefit to the uk. I wanted him to disagree with my question. He wisely didn't. You've foolishly brought it up.
The report he quoted counted kids of immigrants as immigrants themselves until their sixteenth birthday.
I never said that they should be considered as natives or immigrants.
Whether or not it was another scintillating attempt at a rhetorical bear trap, it was thuddingly insensitive at BEST. Perhaps race is just a subject you should steer clear of for a while?
Can I just say the film Paddington is possibly the greatest British film of all time.
Better than Kes?
Yes.
It is the heart warming story of a Brown coloured illegal immigrant in this country who keeps his head covered and changes the life of an English family.
Since my question on the last thread remained unanswered (even by Ninoinoz, who very cleverly tried to avoid it by asking the same about paedophiles), I'll ask it again.
Which party are white racists most likely to vote for in the election next year?
Probably thé LibDems, on their track record you are highly unlikely to get an ethnic minority MP
Kippers will talk about 2008 and the BNP endorsing Boris
Note Boris Johnson's immediate repudiation of the BNP endorsement.
"I utterly and unreservedly condemn the BNP and have no desire whatsoever to receive a single second-preference vote from a BNP supporter," he said. "I hope as many Londoners as possible turn out on May 1 to prevent the election of a BNP candidate."
How long, if at all, Farage repudiates the endorsement?
Indeed. The Griffin Tweet was issued yesterday evening.
Anyone want to own up to following Nick Griffin?
Naughty.
Mike 'BNP follower' Smithson follows BNP exmember?
Can I just say the film Paddington is possibly the greatest British film of all time.
Better than Kes?
Yes.
It is the heart warming story of a Brown coloured illegal immigrant in this country who keeps his head covered and changes the life of an English family.
Based on Shadsy's Blog The Political Bookie, Ladbrokes' recent odds on UKIP's most likely wins suggest they are on course to capture around 5-8 seats next May, give or take a couple...
There seem to be two types of betting markets. Those that are better guides to the outcome than professional political pundits and those that have been skewed by wishful thinking by partisan supporters so that easy money can be made by the unbiased punter.
Under which heading do the UKIP seat markets fall? Are they skewed by naively optimistic Kippers, or do they provide better guidance than the political columnists who have little idea about the exten of UKIPs likely gains?
Kippers will talk about 2008 and the BNP endorsing Boris
Note Boris Johnson's immediate repudiation of the BNP endorsement.
"I utterly and unreservedly condemn the BNP and have no desire whatsoever to receive a single second-preference vote from a BNP supporter," he said. "I hope as many Londoners as possible turn out on May 1 to prevent the election of a BNP candidate."
How long, if at all, Farage repudiates the endorsement?
Indeed. The Griffin Tweet was issued yesterday evening.
Anyone want to own up to following Nick Griffin?
Naughty.
Mike 'BNP follower' Smithson follows BNP exmember?
Surely not..
Next up, the Pete Townshend defence?
I follow Nick Griffin on twitter.
My defence is simple, it helps me understand UKIP better
Since my question on the last thread remained unanswered (even by Ninoinoz, who very cleverly tried to avoid it by asking the same about paedophiles), I'll ask it again.
Which party are white racists most likely to vote for in the election next year?
Why don't you ask some?
I know that you know that I know that you know the answer to my question.
You not answering it doesn't change that fact.
It's a stupid question.
It's a stupid question to those not worried about associating with obvious racists.
You're the kind of person who flings allegations of racism at anyone they disagree with.
But strangely enough, he's also the kind of person who comes out with corkers like this:
'@BenM are second generation immigrants, ie those born in the UK whose parents were born abroad, considered to be natives? Or are they immigrants? Or are they a bit of both?'
Awkward.
My question then was very specific, with a good reason behind it.
BenM was incessantly referring to the report that said immigrants were a financial benefit to the uk. I wanted him to disagree with my question. He wisely didn't. You've foolishly brought it up.
The report he quoted counted kids of immigrants as immigrants themselves until their sixteenth birthday.
I never said that they should be considered as natives or immigrants.
Whether or not it was another scintillating attempt at a rhetorical bear trap, it was thuddingly insensitive at BEST. Perhaps race is just a subject you should steer clear of for a while?
What, in case I offend the kippers?
Aim your vitriol at the "immigrants are great" report writers who classified the children of immigrants as non-native until their sixteenth birthday, not me.
I asked a simple question and didn't give any hint of my view on it. I don't think I've noticed you attack the insensitivity (at best) of those who highlight every Muslim indiscretion that appears in the Daily Mail.
Kippers will talk about 2008 and the BNP endorsing Boris
Note Boris Johnson's immediate repudiation of the BNP endorsement.
"I utterly and unreservedly condemn the BNP and have no desire whatsoever to receive a single second-preference vote from a BNP supporter," he said. "I hope as many Londoners as possible turn out on May 1 to prevent the election of a BNP candidate."
How long, if at all, Farage repudiates the endorsement?
Indeed. The Griffin Tweet was issued yesterday evening.
Anyone want to own up to following Nick Griffin?
Naughty.
Mike 'BNP follower' Smithson follows BNP exmember?
Surely not..
Next up, the Pete Townshend defence?
I follow Nick Griffin on twitter.
My defence is simple, it helps me understand UKIP better
Since my question on the last thread remained unanswered (even by Ninoinoz, who very cleverly tried to avoid it by asking the same about paedophiles), I'll ask it again.
Which party are white racists most likely to vote for in the election next year?
Why don't you ask some?
I know that you know that I know that you know the answer to my question.
You Gov's figures appear rock solid at present and Labour will be pleased with further evidence of their 2% lead or thereabouts.
Yes, the super coverage of Cameron's speech didn't have any obvious effect.
No speech this year seems to have made an obvious effect.
I think we can say Forgetful Ed's Conference speech had an obvious effect. Perhaps more to his personal numbers, but they are linked in to Labour's.
It is perhaps too soon to say whether the Griffin endorsement of UKIP will have an obvious effect. But I imagine Reckless and Carswell are feeling a little queasy tonight about their newest bezzy mate. It may be enough to stop any further defectors from making the plunge towards career-ending electoral oblivion.
Kippers will talk about 2008 and the BNP endorsing Boris
Note Boris Johnson's immediate repudiation of the BNP endorsement.
"I utterly and unreservedly condemn the BNP and have no desire whatsoever to receive a single second-preference vote from a BNP supporter," he said. "I hope as many Londoners as possible turn out on May 1 to prevent the election of a BNP candidate."
How long, if at all, Farage repudiates the endorsement?
Indeed. The Griffin Tweet was issued yesterday evening.
Anyone want to own up to following Nick Griffin?
Naughty.
Mike 'BNP follower' Smithson follows BNP exmember?
Surely not..
Next up, the Pete Townshend defence?
I follow Nick Griffin on twitter.
My defence is simple, it helps me understand UKIP better
I laugh at all those answering by not answering my question. I know that you all know the answer but are ashamed by it because of your common association with it.
I don't believe that any of you are racist, hence your shame, but you will share a political base with the racists as long as you stick with the party you currently support.
So are you saying that any Conservative supporter from at least 1964 onwards was sharing a political base with racists ?
Perhaps that's why the Conservative leadership is obsessing about immigration and puts more immigration restrictions on Africans and Asians than it does on Europeans.
Peter Griffiths, Mp for Smethwick 1964 & later Portsmouth N. Conservative
Why do you mention Peter? I knew him when I was based in the area. Nice chap.
Kippers will talk about 2008 and the BNP endorsing Boris
Note Boris Johnson's immediate repudiation of the BNP endorsement.
"I utterly and unreservedly condemn the BNP and have no desire whatsoever to receive a single second-preference vote from a BNP supporter," he said. "I hope as many Londoners as possible turn out on May 1 to prevent the election of a BNP candidate."
How long, if at all, Farage repudiates the endorsement?
Indeed. The Griffin Tweet was issued yesterday evening.
Anyone want to own up to following Nick Griffin?
Naughty.
Mike 'BNP follower' Smithson follows BNP exmember?
Surely not..
Next up, the Pete Townshend defence?
I follow Nick Griffin on twitter.
My defence is simple, it helps me understand UKIP better
*Innocent Face*
Is that where you learnt about the grooming gangs in the North West?
A female Tory Minister made a spoof Commons speech on animal welfare in order to say an obscene word after a dare at a dinner with Navy officer friends.
Communities Minister Penny Mordaunt said ‘c**k’ six times, ‘lay’ or ‘laid’ five times and mentioned the names of at least six officers during a debate on poultry welfare.
Her speech, recorded in full in Parliament’s Hansard official report and broadcast on television, received a formal reply from a fellow Minister, who believed her interest in the subject was genuine.
Speaker John Bercow was also duped, making copious notes as Naval Reservist Ms Mordaunt addressed the House.
Thé Mail rreally has no sense of humour. I can't be thé only personne to find that mildly amusing. And thé word c**k, as thé Mail spells it, is hardly obscene.
Kippers will talk about 2008 and the BNP endorsing Boris
Note Boris Johnson's immediate repudiation of the BNP endorsement.
"I utterly and unreservedly condemn the BNP and have no desire whatsoever to receive a single second-preference vote from a BNP supporter," he said. "I hope as many Londoners as possible turn out on May 1 to prevent the election of a BNP candidate."
How long, if at all, Farage repudiates the endorsement?
Indeed. The Griffin Tweet was issued yesterday evening.
Anyone want to own up to following Nick Griffin?
Naughty.
Mike 'BNP follower' Smithson follows BNP exmember?
Surely not..
Next up, the Pete Townshend defence?
I follow Nick Griffin on twitter.
My defence is simple, it helps me understand UKIP better
*Innocent Face*
Is that where you learnt about the grooming gangs in the North West?
Nope. I learned it from The Times.
Funny you mention grooming in the North West, none of you lot linked to the big grooming story in the North West this week.
Since my question on the last thread remained unanswered (even by Ninoinoz, who very cleverly tried to avoid it by asking the same about paedophiles), I'll ask it again.
Which party are white racists most likely to vote for in the election next year?
Why don't you ask some?
I know that you know that I know that you know the answer to my question.
You not answering it doesn't change that fact.
It's a stupid question.
It's a stupid question to those not worried about associating with obvious racists.
You're the kind of person who flings allegations of racism at anyone they disagree with.
But strangely enough, he's also the kind of person who comes out with corkers like this:
'@BenM are second generation immigrants, ie those born in the UK whose parents were born abroad, considered to be natives? Or are they immigrants? Or are they a bit of both?'
Awkward.
My question then was very specific, with a good reason behind it.
BenM was incessantly referring to the report that said immigrants were a financial benefit to the uk. I wanted him to disagree with my question. He wisely didn't. You've foolishly brought it up.
The report he quoted counted kids of immigrants as immigrants themselves until their sixteenth birthday.
I never said that they should be considered as natives or immigrants.
Whether or not it was another scintillating attempt at a rhetorical bear trap, it was thuddingly insensitive at BEST. Perhaps race is just a subject you should steer clear of for a while?
What, in case I offend the kippers?
Aim your vitriol at the "immigrants are great" report writers who classified the children of immigrants as non-native until their sixteenth birthday, not me.
I asked a simple question and didn't give any hint of my view on it. I don't think I've noticed you attack the insensitivity (at best) of those who highlight every Muslim indiscretion that appears in the Daily Mail.
"In our analysis, therefore, we consider immigrants’ children under the age of 16 as immigrants regardless of birth country but classify as natives everyone who is at least 16 and UK born, regardless of parents’ birthplace."
Since my question on the last thread remained unanswered (even by Ninoinoz, who very cleverly tried to avoid it by asking the same about paedophiles), I'll ask it again.
Which party are white racists most likely to vote for in the election next year?
Why don't you ask some?
I know that you know that I know that you know the answer to my question.
You not answering it doesn't change that fact.
It's a stupid question.
It's a stupid question to those not worried about associating with obvious racists.
You're the kind of person who flings allegations of racism at anyone they disagree with.
But strangely enough, he's also the kind of person who comes out with corkers like this:
'@BenM are second generation immigrants, ie those born in the UK whose parents were born abroad, considered to be natives? Or are they immigrants? Or are they a bit of both?'
Awkward.
My question then was very specific, with a good reason behind it.
BenM was incessantly referring to the report that said immigrants were a financial benefit to the uk. I wanted him to disagree with my question. He wisely didn't. You've foolishly brought it up.
The report he quoted counted kids of immigrants as immigrants themselves until their sixteenth birthday.
I never said that they should be considered as natives or immigrants.
Whether or not it was another scintillating attempt at a rhetorical bear trap, it was thuddingly insensitive at BEST. Perhaps race is just a subject you should steer clear of for a while?
What, in case I offend the kippers?
Aim your vitriol at the "immigrants are great" report writers who classified the children of immigrants as non-native until their sixteenth birthday, not me.
I asked a simple question and didn't give any hint of my view on it. I don't think I've noticed you attack the insensitivity (at best) of those who highlight every Muslim indiscretion that appears in the Daily Mail.
I'm not aiming any vitriol. However, you do seem to play with the issue of race quite a lot, and it is one issue that when you go stomping in with your size 12s, you can end up saying something stupid.
Kippers will talk about 2008 and the BNP endorsing Boris
Note Boris Johnson's immediate repudiation of the BNP endorsement.
"I utterly and unreservedly condemn the BNP and have no desire whatsoever to receive a single second-preference vote from a BNP supporter," he said. "I hope as many Londoners as possible turn out on May 1 to prevent the election of a BNP candidate."
How long, if at all, Farage repudiates the endorsement?
Indeed. The Griffin Tweet was issued yesterday evening.
Anyone want to own up to following Nick Griffin?
Naughty.
Mike 'BNP follower' Smithson follows BNP exmember?
Surely not..
Next up, the Pete Townshend defence?
I follow Nick Griffin on twitter.
My defence is simple, it helps me understand UKIP better
*Innocent Face*
Is that where you learnt about the grooming gangs in the North West?
Nope. I learned it from The Times.
Funny you mention grooming in the North West, none of you lot linked to the big grooming story in the North West this week.
Kippers will talk about 2008 and the BNP endorsing Boris
Note Boris Johnson's immediate repudiation of the BNP endorsement.
"I utterly and unreservedly condemn the BNP and have no desire whatsoever to receive a single second-preference vote from a BNP supporter," he said. "I hope as many Londoners as possible turn out on May 1 to prevent the election of a BNP candidate."
How long, if at all, Farage repudiates the endorsement?
Indeed. The Griffin Tweet was issued yesterday evening.
Anyone want to own up to following Nick Griffin?
Naughty.
Mike 'BNP follower' Smithson follows BNP exmember?
Surely not..
Next up, the Pete Townshend defence?
I follow Nick Griffin on twitter.
My defence is simple, it helps me understand UKIP better
*Innocent Face*
Is that where you learnt about the grooming gangs in the North West?
Nope. I learned it from The Times.
Funny you mention grooming in the North West, none of you lot linked to the big grooming story in the North West this week.
Why is that?
I've hardly been on here all week, I genuinely haven't seen the story. I don't care who is behind any of these disgusting crimes, they should lock them up and throw away the key.
A female Tory Minister made a spoof Commons speech on animal welfare in order to say an obscene word after a dare at a dinner with Navy officer friends.
Communities Minister Penny Mordaunt said ‘c**k’ six times, ‘lay’ or ‘laid’ five times and mentioned the names of at least six officers during a debate on poultry welfare.
Her speech, recorded in full in Parliament’s Hansard official report and broadcast on television, received a formal reply from a fellow Minister, who believed her interest in the subject was genuine.
Speaker John Bercow was also duped, making copious notes as Naval Reservist Ms Mordaunt addressed the House.
Thé Mail rreally has no sense of humour. I can't be thé only personne to find that mildly amusing. And thé word c**k, as thé Mail spells it, is hardly obscene.
It's got nothing to do with whether or not someone has a sense of humour, it's the fact that it was bringing the Commons into disrepute, (if that's possible given the low esteem it's already held in).
Kippers will talk about 2008 and the BNP endorsing Boris
Note Boris Johnson's immediate repudiation of the BNP endorsement.
"I utterly and unreservedly condemn the BNP and have no desire whatsoever to receive a single second-preference vote from a BNP supporter," he said. "I hope as many Londoners as possible turn out on May 1 to prevent the election of a BNP candidate."
How long, if at all, Farage repudiates the endorsement?
Indeed. The Griffin Tweet was issued yesterday evening.
Anyone want to own up to following Nick Griffin?
Naughty.
Mike 'BNP follower' Smithson follows BNP exmember?
Surely not..
Next up, the Pete Townshend defence?
I follow Nick Griffin on twitter.
My defence is simple, it helps me understand UKIP better
*Innocent Face*
Is that where you learnt about the grooming gangs in the North West?
Nope. I learned it from The Times.
Funny you mention grooming in the North West, none of you lot linked to the big grooming story in the North West this week.
Why is that?
You missed it. To busy agreeing with Nick?
No I read it, and I though, PB's Paedo-Groomer Finder-Generals would be all over the story, but they weren't.
Kippers will talk about 2008 and the BNP endorsing Boris
Note Boris Johnson's immediate repudiation of the BNP endorsement.
"I utterly and unreservedly condemn the BNP and have no desire whatsoever to receive a single second-preference vote from a BNP supporter," he said. "I hope as many Londoners as possible turn out on May 1 to prevent the election of a BNP candidate."
How long, if at all, Farage repudiates the endorsement?
Indeed. The Griffin Tweet was issued yesterday evening.
Anyone want to own up to following Nick Griffin?
Naughty.
Mike 'BNP follower' Smithson follows BNP exmember?
Surely not..
Next up, the Pete Townshend defence?
I follow Nick Griffin on twitter.
My defence is simple, it helps me understand UKIP better
*Innocent Face*
Is that where you learnt about the grooming gangs in the North West?
Nope. I learned it from The Times.
Funny you mention grooming in the North West, none of you lot linked to the big grooming story in the North West this week.
Why is that?
You missed it. To busy agreeing with Nick?
No I read it, and I though, PB's Paedo-Groomer Finder-Generals would be all over the story, but they weren't.
Perhaps you misunderstood. Nick's boys do that you know.
I laugh at all those answering by not answering my question. I know that you all know the answer but are ashamed by it because of your common association with it.
I don't believe that any of you are racist, hence your shame, but you will share a political base with the racists as long as you stick with the party you currently support.
So are you saying that any Conservative supporter from at least 1964 onwards was sharing a political base with racists ?
Perhaps that's why the Conservative leadership is obsessing about immigration and puts more immigration restrictions on Africans and Asians than it does on Europeans.
I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to by mentioning 1964, Mandela's incarceration possibly?
Whatever it is, I expect that 1964 Tories time-travelled to today would all be Kippers. 2014 Tories obviously aren't.
There was a general election in 1964 which included a rather infamous Conservative campaign.
And I'm not sure the likes of Ted Heath would have been a UKIP supporter today.
Still the PB Tories of 2014 do include individuals who refer to Muslims as 'ragheads'.
A female Tory Minister made a spoof Commons speech on animal welfare in order to say an obscene word after a dare at a dinner with Navy officer friends.
Communities Minister Penny Mordaunt said ‘c**k’ six times, ‘lay’ or ‘laid’ five times and mentioned the names of at least six officers during a debate on poultry welfare.
Her speech, recorded in full in Parliament’s Hansard official report and broadcast on television, received a formal reply from a fellow Minister, who believed her interest in the subject was genuine.
Speaker John Bercow was also duped, making copious notes as Naval Reservist Ms Mordaunt addressed the House.
Thé Mail rreally has no sense of humour. I can't be thé only personne to find that mildly amusing. And thé word c**k, as thé Mail spells it, is hardly obscene.
I think your auto-correct has been nobbled by Johnny Frenchman..... thé ????
A female Tory Minister made a spoof Commons speech on animal welfare in order to say an obscene word after a dare at a dinner with Navy officer friends.
Communities Minister Penny Mordaunt said ‘c**k’ six times, ‘lay’ or ‘laid’ five times and mentioned the names of at least six officers during a debate on poultry welfare.
Her speech, recorded in full in Parliament’s Hansard official report and broadcast on television, received a formal reply from a fellow Minister, who believed her interest in the subject was genuine.
Speaker John Bercow was also duped, making copious notes as Naval Reservist Ms Mordaunt addressed the House.
Thé Mail rreally has no sense of humour. I can't be thé only personne to find that mildly amusing. And thé word c**k, as thé Mail spells it, is hardly obscene.
I think your auto-correct has been nobbled by Johnny Frenchman..... thé ????
I'm not aiming any vitriol. However, you do seem to play with the issue of race quite a lot, and it is one issue that when you go stomping in with your size 12s, you can end up saying something stupid.
You haven't aimed any harsh criticism at me? That's one of the definitions of vitriol that I know..
And do you have any other quickly accessible, maybe bookmarked, examples of my playing with the issue of race?
I've been accused of being a racist on here in the past, and just this evening one who accuses people who I disagree with of racism.
I've admitted in the past my difficulties in dealing with the complexities surrounding immigration. While I'm instinctively against an open door policy, most of the friends I made during my seven years living in London wouldn't have been there were it not for the lax immigration rules we had.
Am I racist, or a lover of immigration? Or both?
You're obviously the one who should make the final call on that.
A female Tory Minister made a spoof Commons speech on animal welfare in order to say an obscene word after a dare at a dinner with Navy officer friends.
Communities Minister Penny Mordaunt said ‘c**k’ six times, ‘lay’ or ‘laid’ five times and mentioned the names of at least six officers during a debate on poultry welfare.
Her speech, recorded in full in Parliament’s Hansard official report and broadcast on television, received a formal reply from a fellow Minister, who believed her interest in the subject was genuine.
Speaker John Bercow was also duped, making copious notes as Naval Reservist Ms Mordaunt addressed the House.
Thé Mail rreally has no sense of humour. I can't be thé only personne to find that mildly amusing. And thé word c**k, as thé Mail spells it, is hardly obscene.
It's got nothing to do with whether or not someone has a sense of humour, it's the fact that it was bringing the Commons into disrepute, (if that's possible given the low esteem it's already held in).
When she got her ministerial position, Penny Mordaunt didn't even know that she was responsible for the Fire Service. She actually asked the FBU on twitter why they were tweeting congratulations to her, and saying they looked forward to working with her.
Speaking of watching TV series - whenever I get a US TV series dvd made in the last decade, the sound is always Dolby Digital 5.1. Whenever I get a UK TV series on dvd, it's always Dolby two channel stereo.
Also pretty much all HD TV shows here have Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. It's part of the HD spec so why do UK dvds (which presumably were shot in HD orignally) not have the full sound?
A female Tory Minister made a spoof Commons speech on animal welfare in order to say an obscene word after a dare at a dinner with Navy officer friends.
Communities Minister Penny Mordaunt said ‘c**k’ six times, ‘lay’ or ‘laid’ five times and mentioned the names of at least six officers during a debate on poultry welfare.
Her speech, recorded in full in Parliament’s Hansard official report and broadcast on television, received a formal reply from a fellow Minister, who believed her interest in the subject was genuine.
Speaker John Bercow was also duped, making copious notes as Naval Reservist Ms Mordaunt addressed the House.
Thé Mail rreally has no sense of humour. I can't be thé only personne to find that mildly amusing. And thé word c**k, as thé Mail spells it, is hardly obscene.
It's got nothing to do with whether or not someone has a sense of humour, it's the fact that it was bringing the Commons into disrepute, (if that's possible given the low esteem it's already held in).
When she got her ministerial position, Penny Mordaunt didn't even know that she was responsible for the Fire Service. She actually asked the FBU on twitter why they were tweeting congratulations to her, and saying they looked forward to working with her.
I'm not aiming any vitriol. However, you do seem to play with the issue of race quite a lot, and it is one issue that when you go stomping in with your size 12s, you can end up saying something stupid.
You haven't aimed any harsh criticism at me? That's one of the definitions of vitriol that I know..
And do you have any other quickly accessible, maybe bookmarked, examples of my playing with the issue of race?
I've been accused of being a racist on here in the past, and just this evening one who accuses people who I disagree with of racism.
I've admitted in the past my difficulties in dealing with the complexities surrounding immigration. While I'm instinctively against an open door policy, most of the friends I made during my seven years living in London wouldn't have been there were it not for the lax immigration rules we had.
Am I racist, or a lover of immigration? Or both?
You're obviously the one who should make the final call on that.
I wouldn't presume to make that judgement. What I would say is that you (like many of your cohort) like to use racism as a 'killer argument' against your opponents. That was also the basis of our last disagreement. I don't find that racist but neither do I find it an advancement of the anti-racist cause, because it cheapens real racism.
A female Tory Minister made a spoof Commons speech on animal welfare in order to say an obscene word after a dare at a dinner with Navy officer friends.
Communities Minister Penny Mordaunt said ‘c**k’ six times, ‘lay’ or ‘laid’ five times and mentioned the names of at least six officers during a debate on poultry welfare.
Her speech, recorded in full in Parliament’s Hansard official report and broadcast on television, received a formal reply from a fellow Minister, who believed her interest in the subject was genuine.
Speaker John Bercow was also duped, making copious notes as Naval Reservist Ms Mordaunt addressed the House.
Thé Mail rreally has no sense of humour. I can't be thé only personne to find that mildly amusing. And thé word c**k, as thé Mail spells it, is hardly obscene.
It's got nothing to do with whether or not someone has a sense of humour, it's the fact that it was bringing the Commons into disrepute, (if that's possible given the low esteem it's already held in).
When she got her ministerial position, Penny Mordaunt didn't even know that she was responsible for the Fire Service. She actually asked the FBU on twitter why they were tweeting congratulations to her, and saying they looked forward to working with her.
It would be funny if it wasn't so contemptible.
Didn't she think of finding out what the job entailed before she felt the need to make public utterances ?
Since my question on the last thread remained unanswered (even by Ninoinoz, who very cleverly tried to avoid it by asking the same about paedophiles), I'll ask it again.
Which party are white racists most likely to vote for in the election next year?
Why don't you ask some?
I know that you know that I know that you know the answer to my question.
You not answering it doesn't change that fact.
It's a stupid question.
It's a stupid question to those not worried about associating with obvious racists.
You're the kind of person who flings allegations of racism at anyone they disagree with.
But strangely enough, he's also the kind of person who comes out with corkers like this:
'@BenM are second generation immigrants, ie those born in the UK whose parents were born abroad, considered to be natives? Or are they immigrants? Or are they a bit of both?'
Awkward.
My question then was very specific, with a good reason behind it.
BenM was incessantly referring to the report that said immigrants were a financial benefit to the uk. I wanted him to disagree with my question. He wisely didn't. You've foolishly brought it up.
The report he quoted counted kids of immigrants as immigrants themselves until their sixteenth birthday.
I never said that they should be considered as natives or immigrants.
Whether or not it was another scintillating attempt at a rhetorical bear trap, it was thuddingly insensitive at BEST. Perhaps race is just a subject you should steer clear of for a while?
What, in case I offend the kippers?
Aim your vitriol at the "immigrants are great" report writers who classified the children of immigrants as non-native until their sixteenth birthday, not me.
I asked a simple question and didn't give any hint of my view on it. I don't think I've noticed you attack the insensitivity (at best) of those who highlight every Muslim indiscretion that appears in the Daily Mail.
"In our analysis, therefore, we consider immigrants’ children under the age of 16 as immigrants regardless of birth country but classify as natives everyone who is at least 16 and UK born, regardless of parents’ birthplace."
I laugh at all those answering by not answering my question. I know that you all know the answer but are ashamed by it because of your common association with it.
I don't believe that any of you are racist, hence your shame, but you will share a political base with the racists as long as you stick with the party you currently support.
So are you saying that any Conservative supporter from at least 1964 onwards was sharing a political base with racists ?
Perhaps that's why the Conservative leadership is obsessing about immigration and puts more immigration restrictions on Africans and Asians than it does on Europeans.
I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to by mentioning 1964, Mandela's incarceration possibly?
Whatever it is, I expect that 1964 Tories time-travelled to today would all be Kippers. 2014 Tories obviously aren't.
There was a general election in 1964 which included a rather infamous Conservative campaign.
And I'm not sure the likes of Ted Heath would have been a UKIP supporter today.
Still the PB Tories of 2014 do include individuals who refer to Muslims as 'ragheads'.
Given that 1964 was 32 years before I could vote I think I can be forgiven for my ignorance of it.
I would be rather interested to see the percentage of 1964 Tories who are now Kippers. I may have been a bit bold in claiming that they'd all be such.
How many 'individuals' have called Muslims "ragheads"? I do remember hearing that term being used when I first went to flat race meetings at Newbury when I was about twelve, and thinking it was quite funny since the Sheikhs did seem to be wearing tea towels for hats.
pretty much all HD TV shows here have Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. It's part of the HD spec so why do UK dvds (which presumably were shot in HD orignally) not have the full sound?
Not part of the original UK Freeview spec apparently
pretty much all HD TV shows here have Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. It's part of the HD spec so why do UK dvds (which presumably were shot in HD originally) not have the full sound?
Not part of the original UK Freeview spec apparently
I'm not aiming any vitriol. However, you do seem to play with the issue of race quite a lot, and it is one issue that when you go stomping in with your size 12s, you can end up saying something stupid.
You haven't aimed any harsh criticism at me? That's one of the definitions of vitriol that I know..
And do you have any other quickly accessible, maybe bookmarked, examples of my playing with the issue of race?
I've been accused of being a racist on here in the past, and just this evening one who accuses people who I disagree with of racism.
I've admitted in the past my difficulties in dealing with the complexities surrounding immigration. While I'm instinctively against an open door policy, most of the friends I made during my seven years living in London wouldn't have been there were it not for the lax immigration rules we had.
Am I racist, or a lover of immigration? Or both?
You're obviously the one who should make the final call on that.
I wouldn't presume to make that judgement. What I would say is that you (like many of your cohort) like to use racism as a 'killer argument' against your opponents. That was also the basis of our last disagreement. I don't find that racist but neither do I find it an advancement of the anti-racist cause, because it cheapens real racism.
You have a poor memory. Our last disagreement was due to my pointing out that someone was a "9-11 truther".
I still haven't accused anyone here of racism. I asked which party was most likely to attract racists. I can still understand your shame at the obvious answer.
I laugh at all those answering by not answering my question. I know that you all know the answer but are ashamed by it because of your common association with it.
I don't believe that any of you are racist, hence your shame, but you will share a political base with the racists as long as you stick with the party you currently support.
And there we have it, the famed guilt by association.
So heartily condemned by TSE when he became a victim, but used before by him and again now.
A female Tory Minister made a spoof Commons speech on animal welfare in order to say an obscene word after a dare at a dinner with Navy officer friends.
Communities Minister Penny Mordaunt said ‘c**k’ six times, ‘lay’ or ‘laid’ five times and mentioned the names of at least six officers during a debate on poultry welfare.
Her speech, recorded in full in Parliament’s Hansard official report and broadcast on television, received a formal reply from a fellow Minister, who believed her interest in the subject was genuine.
Speaker John Bercow was also duped, making copious notes as Naval Reservist Ms Mordaunt addressed the House.
Thé Mail rreally has no sense of humour. I can't be thé only personne to find that mildly amusing. And thé word c**k, as thé Mail spells it, is hardly obscene.
It's got nothing to do with whether or not someone has a sense of humour, it's the fact that it was bringing the Commons into disrepute, (if that's possible given the low esteem it's already held in).
People can be so up themselves. She was just having a laugh. No harm done. I don't see why politicians can't take the piss occasionally.
OK - I'm confused - why would there be so many fewer HD channels than SD channels? Pretty much every channel here now broadcasts in both SD and HD.
It's not like HD is new. I've had an HD TV for over 8 years.
here is no equivalent to Freeview here - the FCC and broadcasters make the standards.
Limited spectrum
In the mid nineties, all the UHF radio mics that theatres and broadcasters had been using were moved onto TV channel 69 at great expense. Every unit had to be retuned or replaced. Then in the noughties they announced everything had to be retuned out of channel 69 to allow for something else.
While not welcomed by the leadership, many ex BNP voters, especially in the north and Midlands, have now moved to UKIP which has increased the UKIP voting base. Witness how UKIP topped the Euro poll while the BNP lost all their seats
I laugh at all those answering by not answering my question. I know that you all know the answer but are ashamed by it because of your common association with it.
I don't believe that any of you are racist, hence your shame, but you will share a political base with the racists as long as you stick with the party you currently support.
And there we have it, the famed guilt by association.
So heartily condemned by TSE when he became a victim, but used before by him and again now.
A very dangerous game to play, TSE and Mike.
You continue to exhibit the traits of someone ashamed by their association with racists.
While not welcomed by the leadership, many ex BNP voters, especially in the north and Midlands, have now moved to UKIP which has increased the UKIP voting base. Witness how UKIP topped the Euro poll while the BNP lost all their seats
OK - I'm confused - why would there be so many fewer HD channels than SD channels? Pretty much every channel here now broadcasts in both SD and HD.
It's not like HD is new. I've had an HD TV for over 8 years.
here is no equivalent to Freeview here - the FCC and broadcasters make the standards.
Limited spectrum
In the mid nineties, all the UHF radio mics that theatres and broadcasters had been using were moved onto TV channel 69 at great expense. Every unit had to be retuned or replaced. Then in the noughties they announced everything had to be retuned out of channel 69 to allow for something else.
It's a mess.
They solved that here by abolishing channels 2-99 as analog channels several years ago.You could buy a heavily subsidized adapter for about $35 to allow your existing over the air TV to receive digital signals. If you have cable or satellite, as 90% plus do, it didn't affect you.
I'm not aiming any vitriol. However, you do seem to play with the issue of race quite a lot, and it is one issue that when you go stomping in with your size 12s, you can end up saying something stupid.
You haven't aimed any harsh criticism at me? That's one of the definitions of vitriol that I know..
And do you have any other quickly accessible, maybe bookmarked, examples of my playing with the issue of race?
I've been accused of being a racist on here in the past, and just this evening one who accuses people who I disagree with of racism.
I've admitted in the past my difficulties in dealing with the complexities surrounding immigration. While I'm instinctively against an open door policy, most of the friends I made during my seven years living in London wouldn't have been there were it not for the lax immigration rules we had.
Am I racist, or a lover of immigration? Or both?
You're obviously the one who should make the final call on that.
I wouldn't presume to make that judgement. What I would say is that you (like many of your cohort) like to use racism as a 'killer argument' against your opponents. That was also the basis of our last disagreement. I don't find that racist but neither do I find it an advancement of the anti-racist cause, because it cheapens real racism.
You have a poor memory. Our last disagreement was due to my pointing out that someone was a "9-11 truther".
I still haven't accused anyone here of racism. I asked which party was most likely to attract racists. I can still understand your shame at the obvious answer.
Labour. Has the highest number of minority voters who have the strongest levels of ethnocentricism, or racism if you prefer.
They solved that here by abolishing channels 2-99 as analog channels several years ago.You could buy a heavily subsidized adapter for about $35 to allow your existing over the air TV to receive digital signals. If you have cable or satellite, as 90% plus do, it didn't affect you.
Look on the bright side
You will have plenty of choice of things to watch in January when your team's season is over for another year...
Saw Imitation Game this evening, Cumberbatch excellent, as were the supporting cast and a fascinating story well told of an eccentric but brilliant character
A female Tory Minister made a spoof Commons speech on animal welfare in order to say an obscene word after a dare at a dinner with Navy officer friends.
Communities Minister Penny Mordaunt said ‘c**k’ six times, ‘lay’ or ‘laid’ five times and mentioned the names of at least six officers during a debate on poultry welfare.
Her speech, recorded in full in Parliament’s Hansard official report and broadcast on television, received a formal reply from a fellow Minister, who believed her interest in the subject was genuine.
Speaker John Bercow was also duped, making copious notes as Naval Reservist Ms Mordaunt addressed the House.
Thé Mail rreally has no sense of humour. I can't be thé only personne to find that mildly amusing. And thé word c**k, as thé Mail spells it, is hardly obscene.
I think your auto-correct has been nobbled by Johnny Frenchman..... thé ????
I have worked out what it is. On KitKat the keyboard has a button that changes the language, inbetween the numbers/smileys button and the settings/comma button. I must have hit it by mistake.
I have now worked out how I can make the keyboard bilingual in Dutch, which is good as I am trying to learn that language in Duolingo.
I laugh at all those answering by not answering my question. I know that you all know the answer but are ashamed by it because of your common association with it.
I don't believe that any of you are racist, hence your shame, but you will share a political base with the racists as long as you stick with the party you currently support.
And there we have it, the famed guilt by association.
So heartily condemned by TSE when he became a victim, but used before by him and again now.
A very dangerous game to play, TSE and Mike.
You continue to exhibit the traits of someone ashamed by their association with racists.
There has been little sign of remorse or shame for Rotherham.
They solved that here by abolishing channels 2-99 as analog channels several years ago.You could buy a heavily subsidized adapter for about $35 to allow your existing over the air TV to receive digital signals. If you have cable or satellite, as 90% plus do, it didn't affect you.
Look on the bright side
You will have plenty of choice of things to watch in January when your team's season is over for another year...
Looking forward to the Iron Bowl this evening - Auburn at Alabama. Should be a goodie. (Not a Tim Brooke-Taylor type goodie)
I laugh at all those answering by not answering my question. I know that you all know the answer but are ashamed by it because of your common association with it.
I don't believe that any of you are racist, hence your shame, but you will share a political base with the racists as long as you stick with the party you currently support.
And there we have it, the famed guilt by association.
So heartily condemned by TSE when he became a victim, but used before by him and again now.
A very dangerous game to play, TSE and Mike.
You continue to exhibit the traits of someone ashamed by their association with racists.
I should add that before the rise of UKIP I was somewhat ashamed by the racism of many in the party I support. I'm glad that most of them have gone Kipper.
I obviously need to add here that I don't believe that all Kippers are racist, because I've only said it five times on this thread and that's clearly not enough, and that specifically I don't believe that anyone here is racist
Ask your stupid questions of me so we can shut you up.
Are you emailing CREAM to ask why they would be so racist as to count you as an immigrant until your sixteenth birthday?
Nope, because I don't care.
It's been bloody obvious to everyone who has known me that I'm Italian and not insulting their intelligence is, I find, the preferable way to start the relationship.
And unless someone is advocating sterilisation of immigrants, it is bloody obvious that immigrants will be starting families, except to those who think that babies are delivered by storks.
And it is jolly useful to have a measure of children born of, say, Polish stock as we Catholics have to provide school places for them.
Thank you for your concern over this matter, but I think you'll find that we are perfectly able to defend ourselves.
I'm not aiming any vitriol. However, you do seem to play with the issue of race quite a lot, and it is one issue that when you go stomping in with your size 12s, you can end up saying something stupid.
You haven't aimed any harsh criticism at me? That's one of the definitions of vitriol that I know..
And do you have any other quickly accessible, maybe bookmarked, examples of my playing with the issue of race?
I've been accused of being a racist on here in the past, and just this evening one who accuses people who I disagree with of racism.
I've admitted in the past my difficulties in dealing with the complexities surrounding immigration. While I'm instinctively against an open door policy, most of the friends I made during my seven years living in London wouldn't have been there were it not for the lax immigration rules we had.
Am I racist, or a lover of immigration? Or both?
You're obviously the one who should make the final call on that.
I wouldn't presume to make that judgement. What I would say is that you (like many of your cohort) like to use racism as a 'killer argument' against your opponents. That was also the basis of our last disagreement. I don't find that racist but neither do I find it an advancement of the anti-racist cause, because it cheapens real racism.
You have a poor memory. Our last disagreement was due to my pointing out that someone was a "9-11 truther".
I still haven't accused anyone here of racism. I asked which party was most likely to attract racists. I can still understand your shame at the obvious answer.
Labour. Has the highest number of minority voters who have the strongest levels of ethnocentricism, or racism if you prefer.
That's why I originally asked about white racists.
O/T You know how finicky the US neworks are - the wardrobe malfunction at the Superbowl some years back for example.
Today South Carolina played at Clemson. During the game a key Clemson player was ejected for targetting (driving his helmet oto another player's helmet, aka spearing). Replay after replay showed the call was highly questionable, but it was upheld on review.
For the next 2 or 3 minutes it was glorious to hear 88 thousand people shouting in unison - "Bullshit! Bullshit!." It almost drowned out the commentary.
That does sound good (though exceedingly off-topic!).
88,000 people is very impressive. Why is College Football so popular? Are College baseball, hockey etc. similarly popular?
Actually not that impressive. Most FBS college football stadiums are bigger than that - several over 100,000 people.
There are somewhere in the region of 28 NCAA college sports. Everything from Women's lacrosse thru golf, basketball, baseball and many others. Pretty much all of them lose serious money. Some basketball schools - Duke, North Carolina, Gonzaga etc - make money on their programs, but FBS college football programs bring in billions. and fund the rest. Think of the beheoth that is the NFL, and you have some idea of the size of college football.
Other than college football - and some basketball schools - college sports are pretty much ignored on TV, which is where the money comes from.
Yes, the popularity of College Football is mind-blowing - until you think about it a little more carefully and take in the sheer size of the States. Firstly some pretty big cities don't actually have NFL teams, and so if you're a fan, college is the highest level you can logistically watch - most notably Los Angeles and UCLA, but also Austin and the Texas Longhorns - Austin being roughly double the population of Liverpool. Alabama (population 4.83m) has no teams at all in any of the major professional leagues. Secondly, even those teams who share a catchment area with an NFL team aren't too put out as each team only plays 8 guaranteed home games a season (or 7 now for some due to the London games), meaning that there's always going to be greater demand, unlike perhaps baseball where MLB teams play a ludicrous 162 game season, or basketball which has an 82 game regular season plus their own elongated play-offs. Add in the fact that it has the appeal of supporting your local team, whose players will always be 'yours' even when they graduate to the NFL and you've got something that's huge business.
How many 'individuals' have called Muslims "ragheads"? I do remember hearing that term being used when I first went to flat race meetings at Newbury when I was about twelve, and thinking it was quite funny since the Sheikhs did seem to be wearing tea towels for hats.
Derogatory racial sterotyping is often 'quite funny' if done well.
That doesn't mean you should do it.
I just use the 'ragheads' example as a contrast to those people here who obsess about one UKIP nobody calling another UKIP nobody 'Ting Tong'
For the record I think 'Ting Tong' is also derogatory and that Little Britain was a vastly overrated, deeply nasty 'comedy'.
Whether the UKIP nobodies viewed it in those terms I wouldn't know. But I would hope they do now.
Saw Imitation Game this evening, Cumberbatch excellent, as were the supporting cast and a fascinating story well told of an eccentric but brilliant character
Saw it last week Excellent entertainment with Cumberbatch head and shoulders above everyone else. Read up a bit on the actual codebreaker story. the truth is far, far, different from the film!
can I also plug 2 other films I have seen this week. Mr Turner with an excellent performance from Timothy Spall, film is slow and I would advise anybody reading up on wiki a little about his life before you see the film, and Paddington(yes Paddington). Great entertainment and I understand why it got a PG, not a U certificate. some of the innuendo would have gone over the head of a child, though!!
I laugh at all those answering by not answering my question. I know that you all know the answer but are ashamed by it because of your common association with it.
I don't believe that any of you are racist, hence your shame, but you will share a political base with the racists as long as you stick with the party you currently support.
And there we have it, the famed guilt by association.
So heartily condemned by TSE when he became a victim, but used before by him and again now.
A very dangerous game to play, TSE and Mike.
You continue to exhibit the traits of someone ashamed by their association with racists.
Well, at least I am a member of an ethnic minority, unlike you.
I am also a Christian, and Christ associated with lepers, Mary Magdalene, publicans, Samaritans, etc.
How am I to spread the Gospel if I preach only to the converted?
I laugh at all those answering by not answering my question. I know that you all know the answer but are ashamed by it because of your common association with it.
I don't believe that any of you are racist, hence your shame, but you will share a political base with the racists as long as you stick with the party you currently support.
And there we have it, the famed guilt by association.
So heartily condemned by TSE when he became a victim, but used before by him and again now.
A very dangerous game to play, TSE and Mike.
You continue to exhibit the traits of someone ashamed by their association with racists.
There has been little sign of remorse or shame for Rotherham.
I've made my thoughts on Rotherham clear enough on here in the past, ie that I pray that there is far more going on behind the scenes than we know about and that the results of that action will soon be clear. If not I will be disgusted and utterly disillusioned.
If Labour try and create some fake outrage at Penny Mordaunt it could well swing around the other way with people defending her and saying she's human.
With Penny also going on that reality TV show, she could be portrayed as not taking the job seriously. Ladbrokes have her seat 4/5 Con, 5/4 Lab, despite the fact she has a 7000 majority.
I'm not aiming any vitriol. However, you do seem to play with the issue of race quite a lot, and it is one issue that when you go stomping in with your size 12s, you can end up saying something stupid.
You haven't aimed any harsh criticism at me? That's one of the definitions of vitriol that I know..
And do you have any other quickly accessible, maybe bookmarked, examples of my playing with the issue of race?
I've been accused of being a racist on here in the past, and just this evening one who accuses people who I disagree with of racism.
I've admitted in the past my difficulties in dealing with the complexities surrounding immigration. While I'm instinctively against an open door policy, most of the friends I made during my seven years living in London wouldn't have been there were it not for the lax immigration rules we had.
Am I racist, or a lover of immigration? Or both?
You're obviously the one who should make the final call on that.
I wouldn't presume to make that judgement. What I would say is that you (like many of your cohort) like to use racism as a 'killer argument' against your opponents. That was also the basis of our last disagreement. I don't find that racist but neither do I find it an advancement of the anti-racist cause, because it cheapens real racism.
You have a poor memory. Our last disagreement was due to my pointing out that someone was a "9-11 truther".
I still haven't accused anyone here of racism. I asked which party was most likely to attract racists. I can still understand your shame at the obvious answer.
Labour. Has the highest number of minority voters who have the strongest levels of ethnocentricism, or racism if you prefer.
That's why I originally asked about white racists.
Well UKIP does show the ocassional sign of sticking up for the interests of indigenous Britons, if you want to call that racism.
If Labour try and create some fake outrage at Penny Mordaunt it could well swing around the other way with people defending her and saying she's human.
With Penny also going on that reality TV show, she could be portrayed as not taking the job seriously. Ladbrokes have her seat 4/5 Con, 5/4 Lab, despite the fact she has a 7000 majority.
It would be very hard on Penny for anyone to get the willies over such an immaculate oral presentation. I think they will soon come round to her position.
I laugh at all those answering by not answering my question. I know that you all know the answer but are ashamed by it because of your common association with it.
I don't believe that any of you are racist, hence your shame, but you will share a political base with the racists as long as you stick with the party you currently support.
And there we have it, the famed guilt by association.
So heartily condemned by TSE when he became a victim, but used before by him and again now.
A very dangerous game to play, TSE and Mike.
You continue to exhibit the traits of someone ashamed by their association with racists.
Well, at least I am a member of an ethnic minority, unlike you.
I am also a Christian, and Christ associated with lepers, Mary Magdalene, publicans, Samaritans, etc.
How am I to spread the Gospel if I preach only to the converted?
Yet you seem entirely comfortable with supporting the same party as ex-BNPers..
It must be complicated being a non-white-English Kipper (I've always suspected that Sunil is wracked with confusion before he says anything!).
I'm not aiming any vitriol. However, you do seem to play with the issue of race quite a lot, and it is one issue that when you go stomping in with your size 12s, you can end up saying something stupid.
You haven't aimed any harsh criticism at me? That's one of the definitions of vitriol that I know..
And do you have any other quickly accessible, maybe bookmarked, examples of my playing with the issue of race?
I've been accused of being a racist on here in the past, and just this evening one who accuses people who I disagree with of racism.
I've admitted in the past my difficulties in dealing with the complexities surrounding immigration. While I'm instinctively against an open door policy, most of the friends I made during my seven years living in London wouldn't have been there were it not for the lax immigration rules we had.
Am I racist, or a lover of immigration? Or both?
You're obviously the one who should make the final call on that.
I wouldn't presume to make that judgement. What I would say is that you (like many of your cohort) like to use racism as a 'killer argument' against your opponents. That was also the basis of our last disagreement. I don't find that racist but neither do I find it an advancement of the anti-racist cause, because it cheapens real racism.
You have a poor memory. Our last disagreement was due to my pointing out that someone was a "9-11 truther".
I still haven't accused anyone here of racism. I asked which party was most likely to attract racists. I can still understand your shame at the obvious answer.
Labour. Has the highest number of minority voters who have the strongest levels of ethnocentricism, or racism if you prefer.
That's why I originally asked about white racists.
Well UKIP does show the ocassional sign of sticking up for the interests of indigenous Britons, if you want to call that racism.
Just in case you missed it, I asked which party is most likely to attract the votes of white racists at the next election.
The only posters to not answer with their answers, and to seemingly take offence at the question, are Kippers.
This confirms my belief that the answer to my question is UKIP.
Comments
Some obvious ones:
1964 Conservative
Smethwick, Birmingham Perry Barr and Slough
1970 Conservative
Clapham and without looking up the results Birmingham Yardley and Cannock
You can probably add any Conservative MP elected with a majority of under 100 in every election from 1964 onwards and probably many elected with majorities way above that.
Possibly Cheltenham in 1992 but the swing there was similar to that in Bath and the majority was quite comfortable.
Possibly Oldham East in 2010 but it would be impossible to say as I expect there was racist voting for all three main parties.
There are somewhere in the region of 28 NCAA college sports. Everything from Women's lacrosse thru golf, basketball, baseball and many others. Pretty much all of them lose serious money. Some basketball schools - Duke, North Carolina, Gonzaga etc - make money on their programs, but FBS college football programs bring in billions. and fund the rest. Think of the beheoth that is the NFL, and you have some idea of the size of college football.
Other than college football - and some basketball schools - college sports are pretty much ignored on TV, which is where the money comes from.
Kicking Bishop Brennan up the arse and Speed 3 were my favourites.
Mike 'BNP follower' Smithson follows BNP exmember?
Surely not..
Next up, the Pete Townshend defence?
Under which heading do the UKIP seat markets fall? Are they skewed by naively optimistic Kippers, or do they provide better guidance than the political columnists who have little idea about the exten of UKIPs likely gains?
My defence is simple, it helps me understand UKIP better
*Innocent Face*
Aim your vitriol at the "immigrants are great" report writers who classified the children of immigrants as non-native until their sixteenth birthday, not me.
I asked a simple question and didn't give any hint of my view on it. I don't think I've noticed you attack the insensitivity (at best) of those who highlight every Muslim indiscretion that appears in the Daily Mail.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B3pKUfZIMAA2lFx.jpg
It is perhaps too soon to say whether the Griffin endorsement of UKIP will have an obvious effect. But I imagine Reckless and Carswell are feeling a little queasy tonight about their newest bezzy mate. It may be enough to stop any further defectors from making the plunge towards career-ending electoral oblivion.
Yawn.
Funny you mention grooming in the North West, none of you lot linked to the big grooming story in the North West this week.
Why is that?
http://www.cream-migration.org/files/FiscalEJ.pdf
And I'm not sure the likes of Ted Heath would have been a UKIP supporter today.
Still the PB Tories of 2014 do include individuals who refer to Muslims as 'ragheads'.
And do you have any other quickly accessible, maybe bookmarked, examples of my playing with the issue of race?
I've been accused of being a racist on here in the past, and just this evening one who accuses people who I disagree with of racism.
I've admitted in the past my difficulties in dealing with the complexities surrounding immigration. While I'm instinctively against an open door policy, most of the friends I made during my seven years living in London wouldn't have been there were it not for the lax immigration rules we had.
Am I racist, or a lover of immigration? Or both?
You're obviously the one who should make the final call on that.
Also pretty much all HD TV shows here have Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. It's part of the HD spec so why do UK dvds (which presumably were shot in HD orignally) not have the full sound?
Didn't she think of finding out what the job entailed before she felt the need to make public utterances ?
Obviously not.
Is 'ragheads' now "bad"?
Ask your stupid questions of me so we can shut you up.
I would be rather interested to see the percentage of 1964 Tories who are now Kippers. I may have been a bit bold in claiming that they'd all be such.
How many 'individuals' have called Muslims "ragheads"? I do remember hearing that term being used when I first went to flat race meetings at Newbury when I was about twelve, and thinking it was quite funny since the Sheikhs did seem to be wearing tea towels for hats.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeview_(UK)
How 'bout them Eagles !!!!!!!
...in the Daily Mail.
@gabyhinsliff: Excitingly, that Penny Mordaunt splash in the MoS is apparently recycled from a two-day old diary story in, um, the Mail.
@gabyhinsliff: But it offers the opportunity to put the words "OBSCENE" and 'lewd' alongside a giant photo of a female MP. So, you know. NEWS.
@charlotteahenry: Tomorrow's Daily Mail story just makes me like @PennyMordauntMP more!
It's not like HD is new. I've had an HD TV for over 8 years.
here is no equivalent to Freeview here - the FCC and broadcasters make the standards.
I still haven't accused anyone here of racism. I asked which party was most likely to attract racists. I can still understand your shame at the obvious answer.
Ford Prefect would approve.
Which is why some professional 'anti-racists' see racism everywhere.
But I would say that 'ragheads' is clearly a derogatory term.
Nick > humanises Lab
Ed > SNP and saves the UK
Dave > LD and saves his tortured soul.
Nigel > The New Conservatives and saves the World.
(Alex ascends to Heaven).
So heartily condemned by TSE when he became a victim, but used before by him and again now.
A very dangerous game to play, TSE and Mike.
In the mid nineties, all the UHF radio mics that theatres and broadcasters had been using were moved onto TV channel 69 at great expense. Every unit had to be retuned or replaced. Then in the noughties they announced everything had to be retuned out of channel 69 to allow for something else.
It's a mess.
Should the Guardian have been embarrassed about this?
You will have plenty of choice of things to watch in January when your team's season is over for another year...
I have now worked out how I can make the keyboard bilingual in Dutch, which is good as I am trying to learn that language in Duolingo.
I obviously need to add here that I don't believe that all Kippers are racist, because I've only said it five times on this thread and that's clearly not enough, and that specifically I don't believe that anyone here is racist
It's been bloody obvious to everyone who has known me that I'm Italian and not insulting their intelligence is, I find, the preferable way to start the relationship.
And unless someone is advocating sterilisation of immigrants, it is bloody obvious that immigrants will be starting families, except to those who think that babies are delivered by storks.
And it is jolly useful to have a measure of children born of, say, Polish stock as we Catholics have to provide school places for them.
Thank you for your concern over this matter, but I think you'll find that we are perfectly able to defend ourselves.
That doesn't mean you should do it.
I just use the 'ragheads' example as a contrast to those people here who obsess about one UKIP nobody calling another UKIP nobody 'Ting Tong'
For the record I think 'Ting Tong' is also derogatory and that Little Britain was a vastly overrated, deeply nasty 'comedy'.
Whether the UKIP nobodies viewed it in those terms I wouldn't know. But I would hope they do now.
Read up a bit on the actual codebreaker story. the truth is far, far, different from the film!
can I also plug 2 other films I have seen this week. Mr Turner with an excellent performance from Timothy Spall, film is slow and I would advise anybody reading up on wiki a little about his life before you see the film, and Paddington(yes Paddington). Great entertainment and I understand why it got a PG, not a U certificate. some of the innuendo would have gone over the head of a child, though!!
I am also a Christian, and Christ associated with lepers, Mary Magdalene, publicans, Samaritans, etc.
How am I to spread the Gospel if I preach only to the converted?
With Penny also going on that reality TV show, she could be portrayed as not taking the job seriously. Ladbrokes have her seat 4/5 Con, 5/4 Lab, despite the fact she has a 7000 majority.
http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2014/04/28/ukip-the-party-for-decent-bnp-voters-boasts-hamilton
How about Labour Racist Prime Minister says "British Jobs For British Workers" to gain votes?
Such is 'proof'..
The return of tim.
G'Nite.
It must be complicated being a non-white-English Kipper (I've always suspected that Sunil is wracked with confusion before he says anything!).
What do you know about my ethnicity?
The Labour vote rose by 9.19% mainly from the 6.71% fall in the LD vote
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament_election,_2014_(United_Kingdom)
Neil Hamilton UKIP attracts decent BNP voters
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27177864
The only posters to not answer with their answers, and to seemingly take offence at the question, are Kippers.
This confirms my belief that the answer to my question is UKIP.
Hmmm
Correlation is not causation