..:laugh:..no indication we're going to be in the front of any lines either...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...P=share_btn_tw



The leader of the new pro-Brexit party backed by Nigel Farage abruptly resigned on Wednesday after the Guardian asked her about a series of deleted anti-Islam Twitter messages sent before she took on the role.

Catherine Blaiklock, the leader of the Brexit party, repeatedly retweeted posts from far-right figures as well as sending her own messages. Among the messages she shared was one by Mark Collett, a former British National party (BNP) activist, referring to “white genocide”.

The term is often used in extreme rightwing and racist online activism of the sort seen as having inspired the man suspected of shooting dead 50 people last week at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.


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One of her own messages read: “Islam = submission – mostly to raping men it seems.”

The news will call Farage’s judgement into question after he left Ukip because of its “fixation” on Muslims and its alliance with far-right activist Tommy Robinson.

Blaiklock retweeted seven messages from Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.

The tweets, sent between 2017 and this year, came from an account that Blaiklock deleted shortly after she co-founded the Brexit party. They were uncovered by researchers from Hope Not Hate, which monitors the far right, and have been seen by the Guardian.

After the Guardian asked Blaiklock about the messages, she said her role “was only ever supposed to be temporary”, and involved mainly helping Farage set up the party and get it registered with the Electoral Commission.

She said: “The out-of-character comments that I made on social media some time ago were unacceptable in tone and content. After speaking to Nigel Farage, I realise that my comments fall well short of what is expected in any walk of life.

“I have accordingly tendered my resignation as party leader.”

Among other tweets sent by Blaiklock was one that referred to Islam as “a non-democracy ideology that is incompatible with liberal democracy”. Another said of Islam that it was “perfectly rational to be phobic about people who want to kill you”.

Another, from December 2017, recounted being at a north London tube station, and read: “8 people waiting for lift, 5 Muslim girls, 1 black, 1 other Asian Chinese, 1 white. Immediately outside saw a drug deal take place. Looked like Turkey.”

She also retweeted a message by the US radio show host and former state congressman Joe Walsh saying: “Haiti is a ****hole and it’s run by blacks.”

Blaiklock was formerly Ukip’s economics spokeswoman. She left the party late last year, shortly after Farage, who is listed on the Brexit party website as “supporting” it, and has promised to stand if new European elections are held in May.

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She shared 45 Twitter posts by Collett, who formerly headed the youth wing of the BNP, one as recently as January this year. One retweet, from 2018, shows a photo of a multiracial primary school class with the message: “This is a British school. This is white genocide.”

Another post by Collett retweeted by Baiklock claims that multiculturalism amounts to “the replacement of the indigenous European people”.

As well as Collett and Robinson, Blaiklock also retweeted dozens of posts by the far-right agitators Peter Sweden and Stefan Molyneux, and Paul Joseph Watson from the US conspiracy theory website Infowars.

Her own tweets about Islam also included: “Islam = submission, slavery. Western thought = critical thinking freedom.” Another, sent 10 days later, read: “I want my country back. I want seaside donkeys on the beach and little village churches, not acid attacks, mobs and mosques.”

In January, deleted posts from Blaiklock’s personal blog emerged in which she expressed concern about “Muslim enclaves” and argued that crime and fatherlessness among black men were due to high testosterone levels.

At the time, Blaiklock said she had taken down her Twitter account “because I have no time right now to monitor it”.

Matthew McGregor, the campaigns director of Hope Not Hate, said: “Blaiklock’s abhorrent racist social media posts have revealed the true nature of Nigel Farage’s Brexit party: new branding, same old nasty underbelly.

“The only reason Blaiklock has gone is because these vile comments were exposed by Hope Not Hate.”

A spokesman for Farage said he had nothing to add.

That Stupid President
went on UK TV news
and made more Vote for Brexit
it was a dumb panic move
by Cameron.

So leavers didn't believe all the lies told by the leave campaign, and voted leave anyway because Obama said something? You think we'll get the best deals negotiating from a position of weakness?

https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage

Farage Live Stream

no thankyou

Rees-Mogg Sister has left the Conservatives
to join the New Brexit party.



Sign Of The Times

Note for Sticks
Sky UK is now owned by NBC (Comcast) USA

Adrian Chiles was asking the reporter who broke this news on 5 Live what they could call her for short, and he came up with Nunny..... :omgno: I don't think so

Sorry about our racism, it's just teething problems.

https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/8e8...t=712&fit=crop

We are sorry that our leader wrote a book detailing how international Jewry is the scourge of the world, but they were just teething problems.

IMO, whats happening now is basically, MPs are slowly cancelling brexit. I think this 'extension' stuff will go on for years now, and its just a way to stall. Eventually someone will have to deal with it, but I can't see it being for a while yet.

Hopefully Mr Farage will show them the way.

They sacked her
She did not make it to the start of the party.


At least he has standards
and cleans house unlike other party's

Young Black British standing up for their new Political Party.

Farage is pot calling the kettle black!!! :mad:

Farage, if I heard him correctly claimed to have set up UKIP, which is wrong

UKIP was set up be Alen Sked and from the article you will see how he criticised UKIP under Farage, which became a racist party. He even said "UKIP is even less liberal than the British National Party (BNP). Certainly, there is a symbiosis between elements of the parties"

The government has wasted 4 billion on brexit plans, post vote.

Here's the breakdown

https://www.instituteforgovernment.o...nal-web-vb.pdf

Yes Wasting Money
and it starts again in early October

I wish they'd just pass this withdrawal agreement and then hopefully see this dangerously divisive Farage maybe to again retire and head off.

He's been going to have been done with things more times than Mrs May has had to alter her plans.

Wasn't one-off though was it. There was another one high-up in the party removed for the same far right views wasn't there.

I have to disagree with you Vicky.The EU will not allow Brexit "stuff" to carry on for years.
With all due respect ...this is a UK decision ...we need to know what you want so we can ALL move on...But if the UK can not decide what this Brexit stuff is ...how do expect us to?

So frustrating as an Irish/South African watching your media let Brexiteers go unchallenged ..They lie constantly...you will hear some say let's get on with "it".
Would be helpfull if the UK let the EU what "it" was.

An Irish friend of mine told me to listen to nigel Farage on LBC so I did a week ago..OH my in the space of an hour he contractided himself 4 times .This myth that the EU are holding the UK in the EU...whilst May was seeking to extend .The Uk is free to leave at any time.


Iknow this is petty but it annoys me when British media report that May was left alone till the early hours waiting for EU to decide your faith...as if this was the EU trying to humiliate you guys.May can not be part of those disscussions amongst EU nations as she no longer wants to be part of the EU.I have seen "mainly in the Telegraph" that the remaining left May on her own whilst they ate and drank.For the love that allis sacred ...do their readers not get that it might take a couple of hours for 27 coutries to come to an agreement...If the Uk can't agree with themselves over 3 yrs Why when the remaing 27 take a few hours it is considered an insult

Well said Lime

I did wonder, with he media profile at the moment if Philip Hammond MP would make a good replacement PM, but when he was a transport secretary he questioned why trains did not stop at level crossings to let the cars go by...