Reform, and the death of the Tory Party

[CXRAndy]

He's not wrong though.

 

[classic33]

Judging by some posts on this forum it never went away.

I don't think it ever went away. It's raised it's head a few times under various "respectable" names such as combat18, the national front, the british national party, the english defence league and a local offshoot of the latter, the bppfppfp(the british peoples party, putting people first party) formed by expelled members of the edl because they were considered too extreme even for them. Now we've reform pushing "the case", with the result being people jumping on what they want to hear.

It's been the same people moving from one to the other, as one falls "out of fashion"/loses its voice in many cases.

 

[icowden]

A story about racism in a newspaper built & founded on the back of slavery of black people! Oh, the irony.

Not really. You need to brush up on your history. Whilst it is true that John Edward Taylor and nine of his eleven backers had links to the Atlantic slave trade, in 1832 almost anyone with money would likely have had links to the slave trade either directly or indirectly. Almost from the get go, the Guardian opposed slavery and supported free trade.

An 1823 leading article on the continuing "cruelty and injustice" to slaves in the West Indies long after the abolition of the slave trade with the Slave Trade Act 1807 wanted fairness to the interests and claims both of the planters and of their oppressed slaves.[34] It welcomed the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 and accepted the "increased compensation" to the planters as the "guilt of slavery attaches far more to the nation" rather than individuals. Success of the Act would encourage emancipation in other slave-owning nations to avoid "imminent risk of a violent and bloody termination".[35] However, the newspaper argued against restricting trade with countries that had not yet abolished slavery.[36]

 

[Pross]

View attachment 11867 Didn't think I'd see this return to racism in Britain

It never went away, it just became harder to express those views whereas now the likes of Farage have made it acceptable to openly express these views and our Government are scared to speak out in case they lose votes. Poor economic performance always makes these sorts of attitudes more prevalent too, there’s a need for a bogeyman to blame when you’re not doing as well as you’d like. The EU can no longer perform that role so it’s back to the age old scapegoat of “foreigners” and skin colour makes a nice, easy identifier of a “foreigner”.

 

[briantrumpet]

It never went away, it just became harder to express those views whereas now the likes of Farage have made it acceptable to openly express these views and our Government are scared to speak out in case they lose votes. Poor economic performance always makes these sorts of attitudes more prevalent too, there’s a need for a bogeyman to blame when you’re not doing as well as you’d like. The EU can no longer perform that role so it’s back to the age old scapegoat of “foreigners” and skin colour makes a nice, easy identifier of a “foreigner”.

I suspect now, too, instead of the hatred being of a governmental body of foreigners, it's now much more personal, and based on skin colour.

 

[BoldonLad]

It never went away, it just became harder to express those views whereas now the likes of Farage have made it acceptable to openly express these views and our Government are scared to speak out in case they lose votes. Poor economic performance always makes these sorts of attitudes more prevalent too, there’s a need for a bogeyman to blame when you’re not doing as well as you’d like. The EU can no longer perform that role so it’s back to the age old scapegoat of “foreigners” and skin colour makes a nice, easy identifier of a “foreigner”.

This exactly, in my view.

People with different colour skin are easy to spot, thus, easy to discriminate against, if you don't have any of them, or, enough of them, in your population, you have to try harder to find a bogeyman (different language, different religion/sect, etc etc).

It may not be a "pleasant" aspect of human society, but, it appears to be wide spread.

 

[laurentian]

Nothing wrong wanting to be with your own kind

. . . speaks volumes.

 

[icowden]

. . . speaks volumes.

Not least of which is why Andy is still here, given he's desperate to be with his own kind...
Surely he should be here...

 

[CXRAndy]

How did you know I had a bridge over a brook

 

[Pinno718]

Not least of which is why Andy is still here, given he's desperate to be with his own kind...
Surely he should be here...

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Why ruin such a picturesque bridge, why?

 

[Xipe Totec]

Not least of which is why Andy is still here, given he's desperate to be with his own kind...
Surely he should be here...

Fixed.

 

[CXRAndy]

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Fixed.

Oh know, they are doing I love you from the heart gestures.

What a lovely bunch of people

 

[TailWindHome]

 

[icowden]

In other news, here's the latest scoop from Henry Morris. The Reform history curriculum
https://mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/exclusive-leaked-pages-from-reforms

Following the news that one of the first things a Nigel Farage led Reform government will do is ensure that “the young are taught correctly about our history”, I have been passed these leaked pages from Reform’s proposed GCSE history textbook.

• Britain’s golden age began in 6500 BC when it become foreigner-proof after Doggerland was outsourced to SERCO who promptly lost it under the North Sea.
• The era peaked in 3,000 BC with the erection of the first circle at Stonehenge, which most serious archaeologists now agree was a carvery.
• The Bronze Age, named after the perma-tanned chieftain Tice of the Ticeni, follows. The indigenous population passes time subsistence farming, lobbying for the petrochemical industry, and painting red crosses on cromlechs.
• 43. The crease-free Iron Age ends abruptly when Roman Emperor Claudius establishes an integrated trade system with our continental neighbours: The Dark Ages.
• 383. The fusilli-federalists’ failure to introduce an Australian style points-based immigration system means their western Empire collapses, and chaos ensues until the seventh century, when Anglo-Saxons get a handle on things by insisting everyone drives on the left.
• 1066 and Harold Godwinson takes his eye off the ball, and an arrow, when he is defeated near Hastings by smug EU flaneur William the Conqueror.
• 1075. Saxon bishop Wulfstan is infected with the woke mind virus and proclaims that slavery is wrong from Bristol Docks. This deranged thinking infects everyone from slaves to the National Trust.
• 1215. Poor man’s Lee Anderson, King John, signs the Magna Carta which has been drafted by patriotic barons to stop hairdressers having to obey Covid regulations.
• 1348. The original single currency arrives. A society-obliterating precursor to the Euro, it’s called the Black Death and it kills a third of the population.
• It’s 1415. It’s Saturday. It’s three o’clock. It’s Agincourt! A cross-party fact-finding mission about the French renewables industry goes south when several hundred stout British yeomen see it for the hoax it is and hand the Frogs their arses at EDF’s Agincourt headquarters.
• 1485. Red Wall falls at Bosworth.
• 1513. Scottish Indyref 1, the Battle of Flodden.
• 1534. Following Henry VIII’s conscious uncoupling from Catherine of Aragon, separation from Rome inaugurates the Church of England. The tyranny of trendy vicars are invented several centuries ahead of time.
• 1642 and a Civil War breaks out between a mung bean munching metropolitan elite, and people who aren’t allowed to say anything anymore.
• 1666. A Greggs, and the City of London with it, go up in smoke when a stressed-baker drops his Lambert and Butler on a mountain of unnecessary European red tape. Nobody is certain why the fire spreads so quickly, but the answer is probably cycling lanes.
• 1707. The Kingdom of Great Britain is formed in order to inject a bit of needle into Old Firm derbies.
• 1750. To silence the hysterical climate alarmists, far-sighted British visionaries start an Industrial Revolution in order to demonstrate that the laws of physics don’t apply to incinerated hydrocarbons when money is being made.
• 1815: Duchess Sarah Pochin of Hunter Wellington defeats Napoleon at Waterloo after he impounds a British scallop trawler in Le Havre.
• 1914-18. WWI. Decent warm up for WWII.
• 1939 – 45. WWII. The big one. Several million Brits who haven’t yet been born defeat the Nazis at Dunkirk, Pearl Harbour and Stalingrad. They then get poppy tattoos and vinyl Spitfire car wraps to celebrate.
• 1967. Nigel Farage isn’t racist at school.
• 2016. Nigel Farage isn’t racist in public life by convincing everyone to avoid breaking point by voting to voluntarily impose trade restrictions on themselves.
• 2021. Nigel Farage secures the return of crown crests to pint glasses. Britain is great again.
• 2028. Nigel Farage’s Reform UK are elected with 98% of the vote at the general election. Anybody who can’t trace their lineage back to Alfred the Great is deported, and England immediately transforms into a cross between a Richard Curtis film and Clarkson’s Farm.

 

[Pinno718]

In other news, here's the latest scoop from Henry Morris. The Reform history curriculum
https://mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/exclusive-leaked-pages-from-reforms

Is that the Fagash updated version of Mein Kampf?