Quote: Renegade Carpark @ 27th May 2014, 4:00 PM BSTMeanwhile Rolf Harris had to sing a song about a man in a raincoat with an extra leg and play with his didgeridoo in court.
Newsjack writers everywhere have gone into erection induced cardiac arrests at the bounty of material.
It's like a Chris Morris show come to life.
Am I missing something? Why the Hell did he sing to the jurors?
>_< "A UKIP councillor has been suspended by his party over claims he made racist and homophobic comments on Facebook. Dave Small, who was elected to Redditch Borough Council's Church Hill ward on Friday, now faces a disciplinary hearing."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-27565266
Stop it Matthew. You are very very unfairly portraying UKIP as a party of racists. They are just the same as all the other parties. Every political party has members suspended every other week for being racist. What..you mean they don't? Well just because their members seem to be accused of racism on a regular basis does not make them racist! Just look at their policies..
And if in doubt, we point to the Lib Dems historic sex allegations.
No the conservatives punish them by making them mayor of London and labour by making them home secretary
Only ukip is so sinister as to give them anonymity by sacking them
You cannot sensibly advance the argument that the mainstream parties have as many errant members as UKIP. Any politician calling gay people "perverts" would lose their job.
Actually you can add the last labour mayor of london
A new established party is inevitably going to have very little control of its membership. It is going to attract some odd types, and will not have the resources to adequately vet candidates before allowing them to run for office. This is obviously a problem for the party management, but neither evidence of the ideological position of the party leadership nor a necessarily representative sample of party membership. UKIP deal with these characters promptly when they come to light, and that is surely what they should be judged on.
I am not a UKIP supporter by the way; just cynical of attempts to smear emerging voices that might disturb the cosy political establishment, and of course the vested interests that control them.
Quote: Jennie @ 27th May 2014, 5:43 PM BSTYou cannot sensibly advance the argument that the mainstream parties have as many errant members as UKIP. Any politician calling gay people "perverts" would lose their job.
You can go one better and look up the number of arrests and imprisonments in the last 20 years since UKIP began and compare all of the main parties.
Or you can pretend you're a Daily Mail / Mirror journalist and trawl through the local press to find stories about minor councillors -
http://www.suttonguardian.co.uk/yoursay/letters/11083815.Racist_assault_councillor_must_resign/
Sorry about my page lengthening links. 
I'm not trying to smear anyone, thought it was funny. Unfortunate timing for UKIP, guy only won a couple of days back!
Quote: Jennie @ 27th May 2014, 5:43 PM BSTYou cannot sensibly advance the argument that the mainstream parties have as many errant members as UKIP. Any politician calling gay people "perverts" would lose their job.
From Jack straw telling Muslim women to take their veils if they want to talk him to him, to Boris insulting the dead at Hillsborough and Jenny tongue accusing Jews of stealing body parts in Haiti and controlling parliament
There's lot of bastards out there not just in ukip
Ukip sacks them
Quote: sootyj @ 27th May 2014, 10:18 PM BSTThere's lot of bastards out there not just in ukip
Ukip sacks them
Well of course they do, they sort of have to. They're a party on the rise, trying to appear clean and credible, and it's hard to deflect negative claims in the media if you allow people who make terrible public statements like some of the members have to actually stay in the party. It turns it into a positive to act so quickly to cut them out.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ 27th May 2014, 10:51 PM BSTWell of course they do, they sort of have to. They're a party on the rise, trying to appear clean and credible, and it's hard to deflect negative claims in the media if you allow people who make terrible public statements like some of the members have to actually stay in the party. It turns it into a positive to act so quickly to cut them out.
What I find really amusing is that the anti-fascists are so fixated on UKIP that they're totally ignoring what is happening with the real 'far right'.
The BNP is nearly bankrupt and it's lost thousands of members. 'A-ha!' you cry 'they've all gone to UKIP!' - except it has been made apparently clear that they're not welcome at UKIP and the party is going to great lengths to exclude these members.
So where are they going? They're setting up their own smaller, more violent parties and linking up with Nazis all over the continent - who said European integration was a pipe dream?
Pakistan when people can be. Murdered in front of your high court then maybe a legal revue is over due?
Quote: sootyj @ 28th May 2014, 8:41 AM BSThttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2640632/Stoned-death-marrying-man-loved-Woman-attacked-sticks-bricks-20-members-OWN-family-broad-daylight-Pakistan.html
Pakistan when people can be. Murdered in front of your high court then maybe a legal revue is over due?
This defenceless girl was killed for merely LOOKING at a boy