January 10, 2011
We’re all doomed!
Filed Under (Big Brother obsession, Depressing, Political) by Keith on 10-01-2011

First let us establish what a ‘hustings’ is. A husting (called a ‘stump’ in the United States) refers to a physical platform from which the candidates present their views to the public before a parliamentary or other election.

Nowadays a husting, although not recognised in law, is the democratic right of all the legal candidates to face the public to explain the policies and intentions of their respective parties.

The BNP, as much as any other political party in the UK, has the right to make its voice heard, to be given a fair hearing, and to present its views to the people on an equal footing with any other party. That is democracy.

It does not matter if people agree or disagree with those views, democracy is not about a government or legal apparatus deciding which views are allowed to be heard, it is about the people being allowed to make up their own minds.

I am not condoning all what the BNP stand for, but as Voltaire said “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”. I disapprove of other political parties as well, but what happened to the BNP candidate yesterday shows that this country is on the downward slippery slope to a dictatorship.

Once the state begins to subvert the democratic process by barring views that do not fit in with their agenda, it ceases to be a democracy, it becomes an authoritarian democracy, a state where the people are free to decide from among only those opinions which the state apparatus considers acceptable. Today is a sad day for Britain, this is not the state or political system that our forefathers fought for and died for, this is everything that they fought against, this is totalitarianism in all but name.

Make no mistake about it, the moment that the state begins to use such apparatus to interfere with the electoral process then it ceases to be a democracy. Whether you love or loathe the BNP, state attempts to disbar them from the democratic process represent a direct attack on the freedoms of every person in this country, and the death knell for democracy in Britain.

Watch the following video to the end before the state have it removed, and think that this incident has now sent a precedence, and in the future the big parties will be turning their attention to all the other small parties who are a thorn in their side and ousting them from the hustings.

We, the British people, have had our democratic system, which was once the envy of the world, subverted and betrayed. It is no more, the BNP are but the first victims of this new political totalitarianism, our country is being led down a dangerous road that ends in a nightmare for all of us.

11 Comments posted on "We’re all doomed!"


Comments:
Anji on January 10th, 2011 at 1:18 pm #

What had he been saying before the police were called?


Keith on January 10th, 2011 at 2:03 pm #

Anji: Apparently he had said nothing. He joined the other candidates on the platform and immediately the Labour candidate objected to his presence and called the police to have him removed, which they did. It’s on record that the Liberal and Conservative candidates didn’t object.

What would have happened if the BNP candidate had objected to being on the same platform as the Labour man? Would the Labour man have been removed? I doubt it very much.


Wendy on January 10th, 2011 at 2:27 pm #

What more proof do you want that the ‘Political’ Police are still controlled by the Labour party. The man (his name is Derek Adams), had not committed an offence and had as much right to be there as the other candidates. He was physically removed from his seat at a public election hustings by the police, which in itself is disgusting and an infringement of his human rights!

A similar incident occurred in a another by-election recently. The BNP and the Freedom Party candidates were stopped from canvassing in their constituency at the behest of the Labour party!


Keith on January 10th, 2011 at 5:34 pm #

Wendy: I thought you were hibenating for the Winter. Tell me more, email me.


Sarah on January 10th, 2011 at 6:36 pm #

According to news reports on this side of the pond, he was out canvassing the neighborhood when he was approached by several Asian youths. When he told them to ‘move on’, one of the youths spat in his face, provoking a flurry of punches which floored the teenager.

It went downhill from there. However unprofessional his behaviour (or not) he has the right to continue as a candidate, it seems to me, and to have his views heard and voted upon. Isn’t that what democracy is all about?


betsy on January 10th, 2011 at 10:01 pm #

just stopping by to say “Hello!”, Keith! :)


Kevin 'In Salford' on January 11th, 2011 at 12:11 am #

I gather from local press reports here (which in fact wasn’t even headline news, which surprises me) he was removed under Police Protection for his own safety – what the video doesn’t show is the angry mob outside baying for his blood!

I think you’re quite right in principle what you’re saying Keith, but with respect you would have to live in Oldham to understand fully their particular situation.

(Was going to try to explain then but it got far too long so deleted it.) But as a summary, Oldham people were lower working class whites until the recent massive influx of lower working class non-whites. It is worth noting that the non-whites there are far more racially prejudiced against whites than the whites are against them, and they are also given priority over the existing whites by the local Council for housing and other services. So now many indigenous whites there are turning to the BNP as a last resort, even though they don’t agree with their methods or policies they just want to use them for a purpose. It’s not a bit like Leicester where there’s integration and harmony, it’s heading towards a small scale South Africa in my opinion.


sablonneuse on January 11th, 2011 at 10:58 am #

It sounded as though there was a vociferous antipathy towards the man in the room anyway. Perhaps things would have got nasty when he tried to speak. All the same, I agree that he should have been allowed to put his point of view.


Keith on January 11th, 2011 at 11:05 am #

Kevin: I dont know when you last visited Leicester, but there is certainly no “integration and harmony” as you put it. In the last few years it has become “a multicultural hellhole” as one Leicester City Councillor put it!. For some reason he lost his place on the Council; can’t imagine why. . .

It is longer safe after sunset. I took a friend to St Margarets Bus Station to catch the midnight bus to London. After seeing him off I was followed back to the car by some asian youths and when I got in and locked the doors one of them kicked a door panel in and shouted abuse. I broke the speed limit getting out of there!

You say “he was removed under Police Protection for his own safety”. Get real Kevin, can you honestly see the police protecting a member of the BNP? It looked to me as if they dragged him from his seat. Outside the hall the police apologised to him and said they were only doing their job, and walked away leaving him to the angry mob.


Keith on January 11th, 2011 at 1:08 pm #

Sandy: Remember Speakers Corner in Hyde Park where at one time you could stand on a soap-box and voice your opinion about anything without fear of prosecution? Well that has now changed. Contrary to popular belief, there is now no immunity from the law, so you have to be careful what you say. So much for free speech!


Keith on January 11th, 2011 at 1:22 pm #

Sorry, no more comments on this subject, I don’t want to get too involved. If you feel that you want to add something then please email me, otherwise we’ll move on to more mundane subjects. . .




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