Quote: Tim Walker @ June 9 2009, 3:14 PM BSTWe expect it of the French, of course.
It's second-nature to those cheese eating surrender monkeys.
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Quote: chipolata @ June 9 2009, 3:08 PM BSTThat wasn't really freedom of speech, though, was it? Unless the guy launched it from his mouth?
Sorry, they were two separate points. Should have been a gap between them.
Quote: Nil Putters @ June 9 2009, 3:06 PM BSTAgreed.
No one complains when the likes of Prescott get egged. But, then again, he sorts it out himself. *boff!*
Is anyone complaining about Griffin being egged, the act itself?
Quote: Aaron @ June 9 2009, 3:17 PM BSTIs anyone complaining about Griffin being egged, the act itself?
I thought that's what you were getting at with this;
Quote: Aaron @ June 9 2009, 2:51 PM BSTThey're nearly as bad as the police. Whatever happened to free speech?
Obviously not.
Quote: Aaron @ June 9 2009, 3:12 PM BSTThat's because Prescott gettnig egged isn't a huge crowd stopping him from talking.
Like those c**ts at Oxford.
Ironically, the BNP's policies are quite left-wing.
Reading the BBC I don't see anything left wing about their policies except closing off the boarder since its protectionism...which could be considered old style conservatism since free trade is a neo-liberal thing...but of course neo-liberal is the new conservative....so confusing.
Anyways everything I read has social conservative written all over it.
Quote: Aaron @ June 9 2009, 3:17 PM BSTIs anyone complaining about Griffin being egged, the act itself?
He's been egged? Now I understand the Prescott references. Although it seems to me an awful lot of people in the public eye - Peter Mandleson, Jeremy Clarkson, Boris Johnson - have had things thrown at them.
Most things are left wing from Aaron's POV. 
Quote: Nil Putters @ June 9 2009, 3:22 PM BSTMost things are left wing from Aaron's POV.
Quote: Aaron @ June 9 2009, 3:17 PM BSTIs anyone complaining about Griffin being egged, the act itself?
"Egging" a politician is a traditional British form of protest. It perfectly combines absurdity, comedy value, protest and mild physical aggression with a good British dose of faint embarrassment (both on the part of the "egger" and "eggee"). Long may it continue.
I'm glad we throw eggs at our politicians/Establishment, rather than put them in gulags or cut off their heads. We're not a people of truly violent revolution. Indeed, someone once said that for there to be a revolution in this country, we would first want permission from the Queen.
Egging is a waste of egg, though.
Quote: chipolata @ June 9 2009, 3:27 PM BSTEgging is a waste of egg, though.
Unless the egg has gone bad.
Quote: Nil Putters @ June 9 2009, 3:19 PM BSTI thought that's what you were getting at with this;
Obviously not.
That was regarding them forcing the event to be called off and not letting him speak. The egg throwing was part of why it had to be called off, but it wasn't the eggs themselves, but the disruption it caused. Or something.
Anyway, even if I was referring the eggs specifically, Prescott wasn't trying to make a speech, I don't think?
Quote: chipolata @ June 9 2009, 3:27 PM BSTEgging is a waste of egg, though.
As are egg and cress sandwiches. Or boiled eggs. I do like omelettes though. And of course you need eggs to bake a nice cake.
I like scrambled eggs.
Quote: Curt @ June 9 2009, 3:21 PM BSTReading the BBC I don't see anything left wing about their policies except closing off the boarder since its protectionism...which could be considered old style conservatism since free trade is a neo-liberal thing...but of course neo-liberal is the new conservative....so confusing.
Anyways everything I read has social conservative written all over it.
Protectionism, anti-globalisation, anti-privatisation, pouring money into the NHS, lots of environment crap, blah blah blah.
And those are the policies which get them elected, because they're (largely) what so many people support. See: 1997, 2001, 2005.