Hehe, I might have started something tonight.
My cousin, who is a Scouser that has retired in Spain, where he lives with loads of other English people, has been getting more and more vociferous about immigrants etc lately (I think he must've had his irony gland removed). He's also been sharing loads of that Britain First shite, so it's reached the point where I felt the need to pull him up on it:
My cousin, who is a Scouser that has retired in Spain, where he lives with loads of other English people, has been getting more and more vociferous about immigrants etc lately (I think he must've had his irony gland removed). He's also been sharing loads of that Britain First shite, so it's reached the point where I felt the need to pull him up on it:
Steve - you seem to be sharing a lot of these Britain First things lately, so I'm curious - do you know who these people actually are?
They're a splinter group from the BNP, who left the BNP because they felt they were becoming too moderate; were betraying the BNP's original values and going soft by trying to appeal to a wider audience by letting 'the ethnics' join.
Essentially, they split from the BNP because they felt they weren't racist enough.
Let me just say that again, so we can revel in the ridiculousness of that statement:
They felt the BNP - the BNP! - weren't racist enough.
They're people that think people like me should "fuck off back to where we come from" and that we are some kind of bizarrely imagined weapon in a fictitious war designed to subjugate the white race by diluting the bloodlines.
They're people that think people like my Dad, who was a pillar of the community and was a public servant to generations (to the extent that years after his retirement, he still can't walk around town without people coming up to him and asking him when he's coming back, or telling him they miss him), are what's "taking the Great out of Britain" merely by virtue of being an immigrant.
Now, I've known you all my life, and never once have I felt that these are the kinds of values you uphold or the attitude you've felt towards me, never have I felt unwelcome or anything less than loved, so I can only assume that their appeals to populism (such as 'supporting the troops' etc) are what you agree with, rather than the actual ideology and philosophies they espouse, so I thought you should know a bit about their background so that when you share these things you know what it is you're promoting.
Basically, hatred and racism, dressed up as false patriotism. I know that ain't you mate.
Love you x