Bigotry posted by your Facebook account? Use this, Mister UKIP MP wannabe: 'I was hacked' A UK Independence Party candidate has claimed hackers broke into his Facebook account and posted racist and homophobic comments under his name. Alan Harris, who is standing in Oxford West and Abingdon in May's general election, cried foul after the blog Hope Not Hate posted screenshots of remarks made by the wannabe MP's …
Whole crusades have been won by HAM BOMBARDMENT! And Yurope's "Common Agricultural Policy" is heavy into channelling taxpayer funds (current or future) to BIG HAM, the consumption of which will VERY SOON be made less appealing by the ham-fisted application of sin taxes ("to ensure continuing health of the populace", natch) to these fatty goods with artificially depressed prices. Coincidence? I THINK NOT. I CAN SMELL THE BACON!
Two men have been in the desert for a week or two. They found a bit of water but no food. They're now reduced to crawling as they are so weak from lack of food. One says to the other
"Look, look, there's a bush and it's growing bacon! We're saved."
The other replies
"Watch out mate it's a ham-bush."
I'm here most days........
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Labour Councillor John Tanner seems to be leading a band of activists whose behaviour is perhaps not so very different from the Blackshirts. They do manage to get press coverage with their own brand of bigotry, so presumably they think their actions are justified.
http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/11751906.More_than_300_people_sign_petition_against_Marine_Le_Pen_at_Oxford_Union/
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-31155755
Now I'm sure I've seen a copy of a book by Voltaire somewhere...
What I find completely astonishing is the complete lack of awareness of some candidates. If you are pushing yourself into the public arena you would think making sure what's on the Internet about or connnected to them is as clean as possible. On balance is it probably a good thing for the world that the complete maniacs don't, as at least they can be weeded out.
@keithpeter - 'a few skeletons' - more like 'Revenge of killer zombie skeletons III'. Not sure there is any way of dealing with the fact UKIP is stuffed the gunnals with nutters. You must be very happy that these evil hackers - with the preternatural foresight to both identify the future candidate and slide in their hack to remain undetected until it could be uncovered at a time of maximum political damage - have been uncovered and we must all hope they are brought to justice soon. I hope Mr. Harris has already contacted the Police and they are already making a request to Facebook for the account access history; then makes this fact public and shares the results with the world. If not, wouldn't the only logical conclusion be that he is soft on crime? I couldn't bear to think this poor victim of a smear campaign wasn't able to get justice. We must all hope he has taken action and doesn't leave any niggling doubts in the minds of anyone about the veracity of his statement, "I’m absolutely disgusted. My account has been hacked – again. You know what Facebook is like,"
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'Not sure there is any way of dealing with the fact UKIP is stuffed to the gunnals with nutters.'
What, other than comparing the ratio of nutters in other parties for example.
Whilst I might agree with the phrase 'stuffed to the gunnals with nutters' could apply to UKIP it doesn't preclude other (name(set(all)).party from also being 'stuffed to the gunnals with nutters'.
In fact you could surmise that because UKIP is indeed 'stuffed to the gunnals with nutters' that all parties are similarly afflicted in their membership/followers.
My original comment was in response to a comment from another poster, which they then deleted by the looks of it (in shame?). My comment was meant humorously - obviously - as recycling 'swivel eyed loons' would have been a little lame. My use of a random anachronistic idiom should have been a pointer to the 'humour' element. Sorry if it passed you by (also sorry for any passerby reading this, I am now shooting for the most pretentious language I have used since I was in the education system and was meant to sound clever...)
I would obviously not be able to support the fact that any party does not have 'nutters' within their supporters. Whichever definition of 'nutter' we take where at least one party has some, this will certainly be true in general for all parties. We obviously need to say that nutter≠mentally ill; common usage of the word means we can use it without fear (whereas saying UKIP has lots or retards/spastics/mongs in the membership would not be OK with me as the potential insult to the mentally handicapped would be unfair in my eyes).
However BobRocket, you allude to the 'ratio' of 'nutters' to 'non-nutters' in your comment. Then try to draw the conclusion that all parties would have an equal ratio of 'nutters' stuffing their ''gunnals', Regardless of my opinions, it is an interesting question. If there were an agreed definition of 'nutter' with an 'nutter test', which party would have the highest proportion of nutters in the membership (NQ - Nutter Quotient)?
Field-testing this would be hard (like, impossible). So the ordinary girl or guy in the street is reduced to anecdotal evidence. I guess we could look at the number of people UKIP vs other parties who have been chucked out from the party recently? Is there a public list anywhere? Without doing more research, we are left to guess at the NQ...
All of the main parties have had problems with people (they always will), but the NQ score of the following stuff kind of stands out:
- Tory MPs defecting to UKIP, like Reckless, "He said that, as a Tory, he could not keep a promise to "cut immigration while treating people fairly"". High NQ?
- Tort MEP defecting to UKIP , one commented when caught going to a massage parlour, "MEPs are entitled to a private life. I work extremely hard and when I do occasionally have time off I enjoy a massage." High NQ?
- 'Meet the Ukippers' - Mensa level NQ!
- Labour supporter Natasha Bolter, turned PPC for UKIP claimed sexual harassment from UKIP General Secretary - a truly weird story - 178 NQ
- The fact that UKIP has attracted far-right support (based on polling studies) and stuff like this: "the EDL leadership said: “All nationalist parties should stand aside in areas that Ukip have a good chance of winning. Let’s not split their vote. We might take a couple or a few hundred votes of them, we don’t come no where and we’ve cost UKIP the win because they come 50, 60 votes behind Labour.” Gulp NQ!
Small things, but as the UKIP membership is very small (not talking about the people who may vote for it, but the members) it is pretty much sure there is a higher NQ for UKIP than the three mainstream parties. Analyzing the Scots and Welsh nationalists is a little tricky as they are mostly 'nutters' anyway, won't mention Northern Ireland as the NQ there on both sides meant 50 years of rubbish. The Greens probably have a high NQ, but at least they mean well to all people, so if they are not going to be in contention we should leave them alone to be mostly confused.
I do have some time for the central argument of UKIP - that the EU isn't 'right'. Their approach to fixing it, by ignoring the problem and saying 'we leave' is not really that useful.
Based on my careful analysis - as presented above - I can confidently say it is the party with the highest ratio of nutters to gunnels out of all of the relevant parties is UKIP.
in he debate (not sure if the Monster Raving would have a higher NQ than UKIP if analysed properly... in the same way we can ignore the rest)
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He is a spineless twunk.
What is wrong with standing up and saying 'yes, I posted that and I am right' and letting the electorate judge whether he is worthy of being their representative ?
The perception is that politicians have to be so clean as to be sterile in opinions and actions, blandness is a virtue, not a one is worth voting for as they are all the same.
Why are we shocked that (prospective) representatives live and behave just like everyone else. I would rather they just got out there and said what they believed rather than what they would like us to believe.
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