[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by Scrooge

Why would they publish all their policies so far from the election?

are you familiar with UK politics?

Some will do. We dont know any.

Quite familiar. Are you?

[Kizzy]

I live in the north and we don't say it now, we did years ago probably

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by ArchAngel

I live in the north and we don't say it now, we did years ago probably

This. I know people who used to talk like this but I dont hear that expression anymore.

[the truth]

yet more drivel from the radical liberals who took over this country under new labour and banned free speech with their mental politically correct drivel.

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by the truth

yet more drivel from the radical liberals who took over this country under new labour and banned free speech with their mental politically correct drivel.

Well said Truth.

[Northern Monkey]

I also hear 'off for a chink' more often than 'off for a chinese' tbh.I am also in the north.

[user104658]

Err.. So because everyone says it that suddenly makes it all fine and dandy? Not following the logic to be honest. "Most people" do all sorts of stupid, vulgar ****. No, most people don't do it with racist intent. They don't do it because they're racist. They do it because they're simple minded and ignorant. Since when is being ignorant acceptable?

Meh. All I can say is, as a Scottish person who lived in North England for 3 years, being repeatedly referred to as "Scotch" really did my tits in. I wasn't crying myself to sleep over it or anything, but I'd honestly have happily given anyone who said it a slap in the chops for saying it if I thought I could get away with it... Especially when it came along with a good old cultural stereotype, "haw haw haw you're Scotch where's your bagpipes haw haw I bet you love haggis". How about, go and **** yourself? Is that an appropriate response?

So yeah. I get that it's just words and I don't think it should be a legal matter or anything or like that but... How about just... DON'T use words like ****, chinky or "jock"? Is it really going to be a massive inconvenience to anyone to just ****ing not?

[MTVN]

Don't think it's a northern thing tbh, seems fairly countrywide, the sort of language that was commonplace on a show like Only Fools and Horses but it is inappropriate now, even if the majority who use it don't do so with malicious intent

[Shaun]

Yeah I've heard the word used quite a lot down here (Torbay, can't get much more southern )

The word makes me cringe. I'm not sure if that's more out of it being a pointless kind-of nickname like whenever I wince when someone refers to a postman as a postie, or if it's out of people using it derogatorily.

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by YaFilthyAnimal

Yeah I've heard the word used quite a lot down here (Torbay, can't get much more southern )

The word makes me cringe. I'm not sure if that's more out of it being a pointless kind-of nickname like whenever I wince when someone refers to a postman as a postie, or if it's out of people using it derogatorily.

Can I come and stay with you?

[joeysteele]

I am glad he is gone as others have said, these people who even have thoughts that are probably seen as offensive and discriminatory to others have no place in politics.

This man was aspiring to be elected as a MP to Parliament, we need Parliament cleaned up not soiled even more with people like this.

I am just glad he was exposed as to his probable thoughts and possible prejudices before the voters were fooled into electing another undesirable to Parliament
So I say again, good riddance to him and all like him too.
I do still believe it will be the case that a good number of UKIP 'candidates' will probably find themselves in similar situations and that Nigel Farage will likely be spending a lot of time dealing with the 'unsavoury' comments of same.

[smudgie]

Going for a Chinese takeaway is still very much called going to the Chinkies in these parts.
Like all the people I know that use it, I have never thought of it as anything but a shortened nickname.
However having seen a Chinese gentleman in the news sayng how offensive he finds it, I will refrain in future.
I suppose it is ignorance in part, but really don't think most people use it to offend.

[Mystic Mock]

I'm from the Midlands and I know people that say that they're “off for a chinky.”

And with UKIP, MP's have said way worse than this in that party before yet it gets brushed under the carpet rather quickly by the right wing media, tbh I wouldn't be surprised if this is not mind wiped in a weeks time as if it never happened.

[Niall]

I find it hilarious how more and more of these racist/homophobic/generally disgusting fucks keep getting exposed for the human scum that they are. I hope it's shocking the idiotic public into not voting such garbage in next May.

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by Niall

I find it hilarious how more and more of these racist/homophobic/generally disgusting fucks keep getting exposed for the human scum that they are. i hope it's shocking the idiotic public into not voting such garbage in next May.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Niall

I find it hilarious how more and more of these racist/homophobic/generally disgusting fucks keep getting exposed for the human scum that they are. I hope it's shocking the idiotic public into not voting such garbage in next May.

I fond it hilarious that people who vent bile and anger at people who they dislike end up sounding just like them....

"idiotic public"


smh

[Niall]

Originally Posted by Scrooge

I fond it hilarious that people who vent bile and anger at people who they dislike end up sounding just like them....

"idiotic public"


smh

I'm sorry but anyone who thinks a racist, homophobic and bigoted party is the correct choice for this nation is a profound moron. I don't care how rude that is, it's the facts. And if every person had plainly exposed to them just how bigoted and disgusting this pathetic excuse for a party is then I'm sure they wouldn't be supporting it.

People only support them because of the huge sway they've had over the media, as the right tends to have. Wipe away that media campaign and reveal them for what they truly are and no decent person would dare touch them. They are absolute poison.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Niall

I'm sorry but anyone who thinks a racist, homophobic and bigoted party is the correct choice for this nation is a profound moron. I don't care how rude that is, it's the facts. And if every person had plainly exposed to them just how bigoted and disgusting this pathetic excuse for a party is then I'm sure they wouldn't be supporting it.

People only support them because of the incredibly sway they have over the media, as the right tends to have. Wipe away that media campaign and reveal them for what they truly are and no decent person would dare touch them. They are absolute poison.

Yes, you are right and the millions of ukip supporters are wrong

[Niall]

Originally Posted by Scrooge

Yes, you are right and the millions of ukip supporters are wrong

Well yes, the racist and homophobic policies of UKIP are wrong. So, by extension all of those people are too wrong in addition to being stupid for believing they aren't wrong.

Anything else you'd like me to confirm for you today?

[Crimson Dynamo]

if i was going for a chinky thats what i would say but i hate that food so would never.

As for Poofter, come on its quaint but hardly offensive

What Nigel said was spot on, as per.

[Northern Monkey]

I think the media has alot to do with painting an unsavoury image of UKIP tbh.This statement has alot of truth in it.

'what people need to wake up to is the serious media slant on this. Recently a Lib Dem councillor in Worcester Park, South West London, pleaded guilty to racially aggravated assault. If this had been a UKIP councillor, or even a far removed ex member of UKIP, it would have been splashed across the pages of all the national newspapers and covered by all the main broadcasters. Yet, because he is a Lib Dem and therefore it does not fit the media agenda, Stephen Fenwick’s unprovoked attack on a man in a bar where he called him a ‘migrant’ and told him to ‘go back to his own country’ resulting in a year-long conditional discharge and fine of Ł200, has been confined to only the local press. Compare this to the coverage of Henley Town Councillor David Silvester when he wrote to the local paper expressing some rather wide of the mark, yet personally held religious views attributing the Same Sex Marriage Act to the recent flooding. Although his comments were certainly eccentric, and to many unpalatable, they were his opinions, not the party’s and he had long been making them to his local paper throughout his tenure as a town councillor. It was only when he defected to UKIP from the Conservatives, that these regular letters expressing the deep religious beliefs of an actually well-liked and respected elderly man, suddenly made national newspapers as the latest let’s-mock-UKIP-media fodder. It’s hardly balanced is it?'

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by EyeballPaul

I think the media has alot to do with painting an unsavoury image of UKIP tbh.This statement has alot of truth in it.

'what people need to wake up to is the serious media slant on this. Recently a Lib Dem councillor in Worcester Park, South West London, pleaded guilty to racially aggravated assault. If this had been a UKIP councillor, or even a far removed ex member of UKIP, it would have been splashed across the pages of all the national newspapers and covered by all the main broadcasters. Yet, because he is a Lib Dem and therefore it does not fit the media agenda, Stephen Fenwick’s unprovoked attack on a man in a bar where he called him a ‘migrant’ and told him to ‘go back to his own country’ resulting in a year-long conditional discharge and fine of Ł200, has been confined to only the local press. Compare this to the coverage of Henley Town Councillor David Silvester when he wrote to the local paper expressing some rather wide of the mark, yet personally held religious views attributing the Same Sex Marriage Act to the recent flooding. Although his comments were certainly eccentric, and to many unpalatable, they were his opinions, not the party’s and he had long been making them to his local paper throughout his tenure as a town councillor. It was only when he defected to UKIP from the Conservatives, that these regular letters expressing the deep religious beliefs of an actually well-liked and respected elderly man, suddenly made national newspapers as the latest let’s-mock-UKIP-media fodder. It’s hardly balanced is it?'

A cracking post Paul.

[the truth]

farage is an absolute legend, the ONLY man with the guts and backbone to speak the truth....he also does it with style and humility and has brilliantly sidestepped the petty mud slinging of politicians and the nasty populist narcissist russell brand. farage has been particulalry epic in completely exposed the corrupt disgusting monsterously wasteful burocratic nightmare that is europe

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by the truth

farage is an absolute legend, the ONLY man with the guts and backbone to speak the truth....he also does it with style and humility and has brilliantly sidestepped the petty mud slinging of politicians and the nasty populist narcissist russell brand. farage has been particulalry epic in completely exposed the corrupt disgusting monsterously wasteful burocratic nightmare that is europe

The Truth has spoken

[the truth]

an official increase of population of 8 million in less than 20 years in a small island is mental and thats just the OFFICIAL figures, you can bet your candy ass theres millions more...and we wonder why the nurses cant run the hospital wards and the waiting lists are out of control and the hospitals are 20 times filthier than some countries who dont have totally open borders