British tabloid hypocrisy shocker

Posted on 20th May, 2009 by

The Sun today featured the story of a former British soldier whose image was featured in a British Nazi Party election leaflet, in uniform next to the words, “we’re fed up with being sent ill-equipped into foreign wars. The BNP will bring our troops home and ensure that British troops will not be abused on the streets of our cities by Muslims”. The ex-soldier left the Army in 1997, long before any of the present wars started, and told the Scum that the BNP “are scumbags and [he’d] never vote for them in a million years”.

Well, the quote is most likely made-up - in fact, it’s probably not even a quote, just words intended to be put into the mouth of “every-soldier” - but the BNP did not make up this tactic. In November 2005, the Scum had a picture of John Tulloch, a professor of media studies at Brunel and Cardiff universities, bloodied in hospital after suffering injuries in the July 2005 London bombings, with the slogan, “Terror laws: Tell Tony he’s right”. In fact, Tulloch was against the new laws the paper was referring to.

It also turns out that one BNP leaflet, purporting to show “ordinary British people” telling us why they will vote BNP, actually used stock pictures, and at least two of the people were not British at all, but Italian. What a shambolic, sorry excuse for a party they are.

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  • http://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.com/ Andromeda

    What’s your problem, Indigo Joe? The BNP were against the war from the beginning, and said so. I went on the anti-war march in Hyde Park in 2003. The BNP were there all right.

    Credit where credit’s due, surely.

    All UKIP could bring themselves to say about it was to call the war “illegal”. Talk about mealey-mouthed, eh?

    If some Muslims see suicide bombing as Islamic, then maybe they can see the point of suicide voting?

    It is cutting your nose off to spite your face, perhaps, but sometimes, suicide is the only honourable option.

    Obviously, vote UKIP on 4 June if you just dislike the Lib-Lab-Con.

    But, if you want a stronger message and deliver a harder kick, then it is quite obvious which party you should vote for.

  • http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/ Indigo Jo

    I have no intention of voting for either in the local elections. These are LOCAL and European elections, not a referendum on the government, much as people may treat them like one. The war in Iraq or Afghanistan is not an issue in these elections. The BNP would stick the boot into other people besides the major political parties (assuming they don’t just ban all other political parties, if they ever get to power, God forbid).

    Both the BNP and UKIP have racist undertones, but the BNP is pretty blatant about it, and this particular campaign - in which they put words into people’s mouths so blatantly - shows that they are a bunch of thugs and losers making a very shabby attempt to look respectable.

    As for UKIP, I won’t vote for them because I don’t agree with pulling out of the EU, which is the whole point of their campaign. I like being able to freely travel within the continent and settle where I like in several countries (I support signing the UK up to Schengen also). They are also believed to be a pro-American party, in the sense of binding this country, economically and politically, closer to the USA. It would be a disaster for this country to be an island satellite of the USA, with political walls separating us from our two closest neighbours.

  • LeedsLad

    Why bother voting when all the issues that matter most to people is decided by the European Parl?

    And the UK has already been canonised into these “assemblies” or “parliaments” which I think will give the future generations headaches as far as identity politics is concerned.

  • http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/ Indigo Jo

    LeedsLad: England doesn’t have its own parliament. It’s only legislature is the Westminster parliament.

  • LeedsLad

    Well, my postal voting papers arrived and I have now decided to share my vote with the English Dem Party. I think they are realists when it comes to their push for an English parliament, however the EU has plans to canonise England even more to make decisions and unity even harder.

  • M Risbrook

    LeedsLad is indeed right about what he says about the EU breaking England up into regions each with their own elected assemblies. The eventual objective is to abolish Westminster as a level of government.

  • Thersites

    “the EU breaking England up into regions each with their own elected assemblies. ” They existed now until very recently they had real powers. They were called county councils. They were deliberately deprived of power by a series of governments that objected to their independence.

  • M Risbrook

    The pro-EU Green Party has openly stated for over 10 years that they wish to abolish county councils as a level of government. Recently, a few county councils such as Northumberland, Durham, and Shropshire have been abolished.

  • Thersites

    Given how little power county councils and their city or urban equivalents have we might as well abolish them.

  • George Carty

    No, in Northumberland and Durham it was the district councils which were abolished, not the county council.

  • http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/ Indigo Jo

    Don’t forget that some English counties have had all their heavily populated areas excised by metropolitan counties and unitary authorities: Northumberland and Durham are classic examples, having lost Newcastle, Gateshead and Sunderland, and their surrounding areas, to Tyne & Wear. Durham also lost Hartlepool and whatever it had of the Middlesbrough-Stockton conurbation to Cleveland (which has itself been split up). So, making a unitary authority of some of these depopulated counties makes some sense, although actually County Durham still has Durham itself, Bishop Auckland and Darlington, leaving a fairly substantial population.

  • M Risbrook

    To be pedantic, this abolition of county councils is actually the creation of one-tier local government where unitary authorities represent all local government in England. Northumberland and Durham are only county councils in name as they are unitary authorities in reality. I suspect that district and borough councils will be the survivors in more populous counties such as Essex or Hampshire.

  • http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/ Indigo Jo

    Yes, although unitary authorities seem to be free to call themselves what they like - all of Wales’s councils are unitary, and some call themselves counties and some use the old-fashioned term “county borough”, although actually, old county boroughs were much smaller and were nominally part of their actual county; their suburbs often actually were. We have seen UA’s carved out of other highly populated areas in counties elsewhere, like Wrekin, Milton Keynes and Swindon. Before long, it’s possible that some of the resulting counties will have to go unitary and will be impoverished by the loss of the urban centres.