These are the photos that caused two prospective Tory councillors to resign from the partyBill and Star Etheridge are seen posing with a controversial golly doll. 41-year-old Mr Etheridge was due to stand for the Tories in the Dudley Council elections in May along with his wife Star, aged 39. But a Conservative Party disciplinary committee suspended the pair after a complaint from party volunteers. The couple have now resigned from the party and Mr Etheridge said he was joining UKIP instead.
Mr Etheridge said he posted the pictures on Facebook to promote a “healthy debate” about the toy after the couple bought one on a market stall. He and Star organise their local branch of The Campaign Against Political Correctness.
“We thought we’d post pictures of it as an interesting talking-point and to provoke a healthy debate,” said the dad-of-three. “We never said ‘bring back gollies’. I’m aware some people may be offended, but they’re offended on behalf of someone else – they’re do-gooders.”
Conservative disciplinary committee secretary Stephen Phillips wrote to the pair about their 30-day suspension on Friday. He said: “The committee is satisfied that the complaint raises serious issues that might bring the party into disrepute and/or that you may be guilty of conduct not compatible with membership of the Conservative Party.”
A Conservative Party spokesman said: “Following a complaint by members of the voluntary party in the area, two Conservative members have resigned from the party.”
Mr Etheridge added: “We do not intend to be silenced and will increase our campaigning against political correctness.”
And UKIP MEP Mike Nattrass said he would be welcomed into their party. He said: “Bill’s decision to join UKIP is yet another boost for the party and an endorsement of all the good work we have done here.”
Birmingham Mail
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ANTI-RACISM PROTESTORS OUTNUMBER NEO-NAZIS IN CALGARY: -
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/prairies/neo-nazi-rally-fizzles-in-calgary/article1948517/
NEO-NAZIS MARCH IN CALIFORNIA: -
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/20/neo-nazis-california/
(WHAT'S WITH NAZIS OPENLY MARCHING IN USA/CANADA ALL OF A SUDDEN?)
There are still pockets of racists in the Tory party.
I expect they will be on Midsomer Murders soon.
It says a lot about UKIP that it wants them.
GRIFFIN FALLOUT LATEST: - TOM HOLMES OF ROTHERHAM BNP QUITS AFTER DRUGS OVERDOSE: -
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/03/476296.html
They wouldnt touch the BNP though would they...... Cant have Gri££in nicking their 'hard earned' money.
They'll be thinking:
'BNP nice idea, not enough money'
'Tories enough money, not right wing enough'
Oh It'll be UKIP then
What's the betting that disillusioned BNP voters and a number of ex-members of the BNP move over to UKIP. The Barnsley by election was perhaps the first real tangible sign that UKIP could start to take enough white working class votes as well and not rely on their traditional tory heartlands for votes and support with their message of back to the 1950's and all that.
They like to give the impression that they have a soft centre unlike the BNP, but like some chocolates they can have a very hard centre. They also like to believe they are the acceptable face of racism and bigotry. They are more dangerous than the BNP on the grounds that they are more credible. How long will it take us to find UKIP as the new home for many former BNPers, etc.
How can gollies not be racist when the BNP sell them on their cheapskate websites and take them along to their meetings???
As for these two individuals, they seem to be living in an England that existed, not exists.
How long will it take us to find UKIP as the new home for many former BNPers, etc.
It won't take long, if that is the case, for the racism to come spewing out of UKIP. They're already full of Holocaust deniers and dickheads such as Godfrey Bloom. Here in the Midlands, Mike Nattrass (local MEP) only got himself involved in a local community's 'battle' against a proposed Halal slaughterhouse for the obvious reason - had it been a supermarket or flats, do you think he'd be on the scene???
And, as Nikki Sinclaire (elected as second West Midlands MEP but resigned from UKIP over the attitude of her new colleagues from her sexuality to their European 'grouping' alongside Wilders and Le Pen) will tell you, they ain't too gay friendly either!!!
UKIP need to be nipped in the bud as they are yet another bosses party, offering the working classes sweet foxtrot alpha in terms of practical solutions to the problems faced by ourselves.
Yes, after the BNP finishes imploding, UKIP is going to scoop up the racist vote.
UKIP is actually a lot more similar than the BNP to parties such as Geert Wilders' PVV in the Netherlands which have had more success. They need to be dealt with using different tactics. They are all ultra-Zionists, so using that against them can go a long way. I've tried it; it works every time.
UKIP are capaigning heavily in pubs. They did do in Oldham and again in Barnsley.
Once the territory of BNP sentiment, out-of-town local pubs are rapidly becoming the land of UKIPers.
Everybody has seen the bigots who prop up bars everywhere rambling on about "darkies". Sometimes racist bar staff join in, somethimes they don't, depending on how far the racism is entrenched in community life and the fabric of the pub.
It didn't take long for UKIP to pump their money into muscling-in on the heart of little England and turning rightwing boozers "hard-right".
UKIP might be "RBNF" Racist But Not Fascist but it doesn't make them any less reactionary and counterrevolutionary, especially when wealthy ex-Tories have millions of pounds to burn.
Combatting racism is harder when out-of-town pubs, the "local" which was characterised by the "Pub Landlord" but isolised much like Alf Garnett, makes hardcore racism more socially acceptable by swathes of working class and middle class people not already poisoned by weathy divide and conquer media barons.
I mentioned this idea years ago, that Hope Not Hate should help sponsor anti-racist pubs as "All-Inclusive Community Pubs" but the idea of pubs being given a mark or award for combatting casual racism, wasn't acted upon by anybody.
Now, drip-by-drop, the rightwing reactioanries are moving in, making many out-of-town pubs undrinkable for many people with a social conscience.
And we are not just talking flea-pit pubs here. Plenty of well-to-heel establishments are now home to more racist conversations than ever at the bar.
What the fuck (other than staying at home) can concerned drinkers do any it?
They seem like your average arrogant UKIP-supporting "pub racists". Bet all of the locals at their regular haunt love them, while giving suspicious looks if a black customer enters the bar.
At one end of the sprectrum, you have self-important middle class racist idiots, and at the other end of the spectrum, you have Minger The Merciless and his Muslamic Ray Guns.
Minger The Merciless and his Muslamic Ray Guns.
Rofl..... does anyone know who minger is? Can someone email him and let him know he's about to go viral.... for all the wrong reasons.
At one end of the sprectrum, you have self-important middle class racist idiots, and at the other end of the spectrum, you have Minger The Merciless and his Muslamic Ray Guns.
The old traditional fascism has had its day in Britain. There was a line going from Arnold Leese in the 30's through Colin Jordan, John Tyndall and ending effectively with Nick Griffin in the decade just past. The BNP are the last of the 'conventional' fascist parties to find any mass following.
From now on it will populism, English nationalism mixed with talk about culture with the out-and-out racism played down (but still there) and anti-semitism all but dispensed with. Crying 'Nazi' at these people will meet with diminishing returns. We have to take on their arguments.
"UKIP might be "RBNF" Racist But Not Fascist but it doesn't make them any less reactionary and counterrevolutionary".
Less reactionary than what? I assume that means than the BNP but UKIP are far less reactionary than the BNP. UKIP are just the Europhobes of the Tory Party outside the Tory Party. They're racist but you get little Englanders like them in the Labour Party, Lib-Dems, Greens, etc.
There's no way UKIP can be deemed to be anywhere near as big a threat as the BNP. I'm glad they beat the BNP in Barnsley and Oldham. If they can be used to undermine the BNP in the same way as Thatcher undermined the NF all well and good. You don't have to support them politically to realise they have a use as the lesser of two evils.
Yes, after the BNP finishes imploding, UKIP is going to scoop up the racist vote.
UKIP is actually a lot more similar than the BNP to parties such as Geert Wilders' PVV in the Netherlands which have had more success. They need to be dealt with using different tactics. They are all ultra-Zionists, so using that against them can go a long way. I've tried it; it works every time.
It really is amazing how you have the nerve to call anybody a fascist, when you lot are the biggest nazi's ever. If you don't agree with it you think you have to destroy it with lies. You won't even post this because your mini Hitlers & only believe that your opinion is the only one that matters.
Is she named "Star" after the rightwing Richard Desmond newspaper?
"you lot are the biggest nazi's ever"???
Looks like some tinpot nationalist troll has thrown his toys out of his cot.
And what's with the Zionist comment?
From Planet Z.O.G., are we??????
Do any of you work?
Do any of you work?
I work, wash and campaign against fascism.
There are still pockets of racists in the Tory party.
Yes, but the whole Golly thing is incredibly infantile.
You know those two in the photos want to hold up "W*gs Out" Placards but they haven't the guts so they parade around with golly badges and dolls as an implied threat. Patriotism for them is a longing for the days of Bernard Manning routines and "The Black & White Minstrel Show".
They think they are being anti-Establishment but they're pathetic, really.
(WHAT'S WITH NAZIS OPENLY MARCHING IN USA/CANADA ALL OF A SUDDEN?)
The whole Nazi thing is Canada and America is still run along the lines of Blood & Honour circa 1989 (e.g. swastika flags and shaven heads). They haven't progressed beyond that. There are no real versions of the BNP thankfully.
The real threat comes from the right-wing of the Tea Party Movement, militant anti-abortionists and their links to the Republician Party.
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