[Albion] Brexit party handing out leaflets outside Falmer station..

[Nottseagull]

. You can see from poster I replied to Notts Seagull with, that the Leave vote and the Brexit party are campaigning...

Leafleting of a football match by the far right has nasty connotations and you don't have the age or cultural references to get it.

Look a little closer at that poster and you'll spot that it was produced before the Brexit Party was even formed. That guy (Nigel Farage) was leader of UKIP at the time and Guinness Boy seems to have overlooked the fact that they banned people from joining who had ever been a member of the British National Party (which was the successor party to the National Front he mentions). Both these were racist parties and it suits the Remain campaign to try and associate the Brexit Party with them.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Look a little closer at that poster and you'll spot that it was produced before the Brexit Party was even formed. That guy (Nigel Farage) was leader of UKIP at the time and Guinness Boy seems to have overlooked the fact that they banned people from joining who had ever been a member of the British National Party (which was the successor party to the National Front he mentions).

Who is the leader of the Brexit Party?

 

[Dick Swiveller]

Look a little closer at that poster and you'll spot that it was produced before the Brexit Party was even formed. That guy (Nigel Farage) was leader of UKIP at the time and Guinness Boy seems to have overlooked the fact that they banned people from joining who had ever been a member of the British National Party (which was the successor party to the National Front he mentions). Both these were racist parties and it suits the Remain campaign to try and associate the Brexit Party with them.

How do you explain away it being based on a Nazi propaganda?

https://www.newstatesman.com/2016/0...-depicting-migrants-resembles-nazi-propaganda

 

[Swansman]

To be honest, I don't agree with many of your posts, but that is absolutely spot on. Tiresome it certainly is (to say the least) and the sad thing is that those who apply that 'logic' are in many cases too wrapped in their own prejudices to realise that it applies to them.
"I'm right and I consider myself to be intelligent, so if you disagree you must be thick as shit" is another tiresome variation.

Yup...

I've met a lot of people who says we should jail or even kill all racists (or sexists or climate deniers or whoevers turn it is to get shat on that day). They simply do not understand that racism is a result of a ****ed up society that promotes fear, hate and segregation. Instead they act as if the racist is inherently evil - like its a part of their DNA and the only way to solve it is through eugenics. Its a way of thinking that helps no one. "Racists are a lower standing race!" is a pretty ****ing flawed way of thinking.

 

[Nottseagull]

Who is the leader of the Brexit Party?

The same guy who banned former BNP members when he led UKIP. Funny how the Labour Party never imposed such a ban; I imagine it's because Corbyn's philosophy would be quite attractive to some National Socialists.

 

[e77]

I have helped run political campaigns for the last five years and there is not a way in the world I would have agreed to giving out leaflets in a place where several thousand people, mostly men, were going between pub and football match.

 

[Dick Swiveller]

The same guy who banned former BNP members when he led UKIP. Funny how the Labour Party never imposed such a ban; I imagine it's because Corbyn's philosophy would be quite attractive to some National Socialists.

Then I will repeat the question. Why is he stood in front of a poster based on Nazi Propaganda?

 

[Guinness Boy]

Yup...

I've met a lot of people who says we should jail or even kill all racists (or sexists or climate deniers or whoevers turn it is to get shat on that day). They simply do not understand that racism is a result of a ****ed up society that promotes fear, hate and segregation. Instead they act as if the racist is inherently evil - like its a part of their DNA and the only way to solve it is through eugenics. Its a way of thinking that helps no one. "Racists are a lower standing race!" is a pretty ****ing flawed way of thinking.

"You've met" - predumably they were in Sweden then and not Brighton. The only person I've seen using that sort of polemic on here is [MENTION=15363]Plooks[/MENTION] and he's not exactly the brightest thinker on this board. In fact, the defence of the right to free speech on NSC sent him a bit mad.

You're conflating two points anyway. I said, in my original post "most people in the Brexit party" rather than those being leafleted. And I've just shown you their leader standing in front of the 2016 equivalent of Nazi propaganda. Now, maybe one or two people joined the Brexit Party despite Nigel's obvious racism but they'd have to be holding their noses the whole time.

 

[Chicken Run]

**** me, not only as fans are we arguing about Brexit, General Election and wether the Queen should keep her job we are now arguing about people handing out leaflets, this board really needs now more than ever before a separate section for political posts.

 

[Guinness Boy]

**** me, not only as fans are we arguing about Brexit, General Election and wether the Queen should keep her job we are now arguing about people handing out leaflets, this board really needs now more than ever before a separate section for political posts.

And yet you've just chirped up and bounced it to the top.

 

[bluenitsuj]

Handing out leaflets?

Exactly.

 

[Nottseagull]

Then I will repeat the question. Why is he stood in front of a poster based on Nazi Propaganda?

It isn't. The New Statesman is a left-biased publication which has underhandedly made that association.
The poster is actually based on this

 

[Dick Swiveller]

It isn't. The New Statesman is a left-biased publication which has underhandedly made that association.
The poster is actually based on this

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Sorry you are right. Left wing die hard George Osbourne - I should have known.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...ning-resumes-as-jeremy-corbyn-and-michael-g2/

Also the Marxist Gove

https://www.politicshome.com/news/e...rage-claims-ukip-poster-would-not-have-caused

 

[jimhigham]

This whole thread demonstrates just how polarised we've become as a nation. Corbyn's current policy actually appears increasingly reasonable to me, as nobody seems to have given any thought as to how we try and bridge the divide once this is all over. Sadly, I don't see his neutrality gaining any traction at all in the election. It's too late for that. Positions have hardened and we now seem to firmly identify ourselves in one camp or the other. I have never been more pessimistic for the future of the country than I am now and it's not even Brexit that makes me feel this way. It's the fact that the standard of political debate in this country has been debased and we've lost any shred of empathy.

How the hell do we move forward from here? Would the introduction of civics lessons in schools help? We have to learn how to just speak to each other again.

 

[The Clamp]

The only way to move forward is to revoke article 50. Like Short Round thrusting the flaming torch into the side of Indy to wake him from the black sleep of Khali, this country needs a short, sharp shock to regain sanity.

Revoke. Revoke. Revoke.

 

[swindonseagull]

The only way to move forward is to revoke article 50. Like Short Round thrusting the flaming torch into the side of Indy to wake him from the black sleep of Khali, this country needs a short, sharp shock to regain sanity.

Revoke. Revoke. Revoke.

very democratic.

 

[Weststander]

The only way to move forward is to revoke article 50. Like Short Round thrusting the flaming torch into the side of Indy to wake him from the black sleep of Khali, this country needs a short, sharp shock to regain sanity.

Revoke. Revoke. Revoke.

The LibDems suggest that, and are immediately destroyed by both sides (Brexiteers obviously and Momentum supporters simply looking for another reason to hate the LibDems).

Strange, turbulent, polarised, spiteful times.

 

[BensGrandad]

Slightly OT but I haven't had 1 visit or leaflet put through my door yet.

 

[Da Man Clay]

The LibDems suggest that, and are immediately destroyed by both sides (Brexiteers obviously and Momentum supporters simply looking for another reason to hate the LibDems).

Strange, turbulent, polarised, spiteful times.

Exactly this. That policy alone has basically turned off a lot of potential support. I may have voted Lib Dem but I won’t with that view (as a center-left remainer). It just isn’t right to unilaterally revoke.

 

[Iggle Piggle]

The Greens have just put a leaflet through my door. They put another leaflet through on Friday.

They haven't thought this strategy through have they?