Far right attacks increase after BNP election defeat

[Tangled up in Blue]

http://gu.com/p/2pc9x

Carry on like this and the EDF is likely to get itself banned.

 

[MK Shrimper]

What would be the point of banning them? They'd just go underground or start up under another name.

 

[Napster]

EDF deserve to be banned, the prices of electricity these days!

 

[BrettieAngell]

http://gu.com/p/2pc9x

Carry on like this and the EDF is likely to get itself banned.

This isn't the Soviet Union!

 

[TrueBlue]

Bit like the far left really throwing stuff from the top of tall buildings

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[Tangled up in Blue]

According to Yorkshire Blue, I'm "Encouraging people to vote BNP by saying attacks increase if they lose"
Am I?

 

[canveyshrimper]

http://gu.com/p/2pc9x

Carry on like this and the EDF is likely to get itself banned.

Serious question, has a political party been banned in this country? I honestly don't know, but I'll add a proviso, since 1800.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Serious question, has a political party been banned in this country? I honestly don't know, but I'll add a proviso, since 1800.

Sinn Fein in Northern Ireland? Just a guess.

 

[canveyshrimper]

Sinn Fein in Northern Ireland? Just a guess.

Good shout Paul, but I'm not sure, the likes of the charmless Adams & McGuinness were often interviewed with an actor voicing their words. And I'm pretty sure that SF and other Republican parties stood for Parliament in the 70's.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

According to Yorkshire Blue, I'm "Encouraging people to vote BNP by saying attacks increase if they lose"
Am I?

Yes. You are also compounding it by moaning about rep.

 

[Benfleet A1]

I laughed, I honestly laughed out loud after reading that complete tripe. Concrete pillars thrown, reinforced glass headbutted and chucked through holes in the glass like frisbees, spare us from this rubbish. Couldn't poor old Beverly have her hand photographed so the world could see the horrendous injury that required surgery and a drip while she spent 3 days in hospital. Whats next, Nick Griffin turned her into a newt but she got better. Slow news day or perhaps The Guardian is making up its own version of events.

 

[BrettieAngell]

Sinn Fein in Northern Ireland? Just a guess.

They were never banned no.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

According to Yorkshire Blue, I'm "Encouraging people to vote BNP by saying attacks increase if they lose"
Am I?

Yes. You are also compounding it by moaning about rep.

How so?Where?(in answer to your second point).

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Serious question, has a political party been banned in this country? I honestly don't know, but I'll add a proviso, since 1800.

Try Oswald Molesley's British Union of Fascists proscribed in 1940.

 

[canveyshrimper]

Try Oswald Molesley's British Union of Fascists proscribed in 1940.

Fair enough, as I said I didn't know, and I'd suggest given the circumstances the government of the time would have had no option. I believe although not banned leading members of the Communist Party were detained.

Ok, I'll rephrase the question, in peace time and since 1800 have a political party been banned in the UK.

Incidentally Phil, you're a fan of Keynes I believe, if so it appears that you and Oswald Moseley may have something in common.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Try Oswald Molesley's British Union of Fascists proscribed in 1940.

Fair enough, as I said I didn't know, and I'd suggest given the circumstances the government of the time would have had no option. I believe although not banned leading members of the Communist Party were detained.
Ok, I'll rephrase the question, in peace time and since 1800 have a political party been banned in the UK.

Incidentally Phil, you're a fan of Keynes I believe, if so it appears that you and Oswald Moseley may have something in common.

I would have thought that Molesley and his British Union of Fascists, have far more in common with their modern contemporaries, such as the NF,BNP and the EDL, than they might do with an unaligned left winger,such as myself.
As you suggest, Molesley was an early convert to Keynsian economics(in the 20's) but then so was his good personal friend Hitler(in the 30's).They, of course, were both fascists.Whereas Keynes was a lifelong radical but political (and economic)Liberal.So,no real comparison there, then.:nope:

(In answer to your coment about the CPGB:In September 1939, despite the Hitler-Stalin pact, Harry Pollitt(General Secretary of the CPGB) welcomed the British declaration of war on Nazi Germany. When this turned out to be contrary to the Soviet line (as Rajani Palme Dutt, who succeeded him as General Secretary, had warned him it would be), he was forced to resign.
He was reinstated in 1941 when the Soviet Union entered the war)