Politics. Culture. Controversy.
Last month Britain’s Independent newspaper reported that the controversial English Defence League movement, which campaigns against radical Islam, had signed a “pact” with the relatively new British Freedom Party. The Independent’s headline suggested that, through the alliance, the EDL was preparing to “storm local elections.”
I received notice from UKIP this morning that the party will joining members of the People’s Pledge outside of Parliament on Monday, and is inviting anyone that supports the British public having a say on whether the UK should stay in or leave the EU to come and join them. The notice follows below:
Can you spare a couple of hours on MONDAY, to let your MPs know that you expect them to Vote For Democracy?
There are occasionally moments in history that have defining effects on the future. Such a moment will happen on MONDAY, 24th October, in the afternoon or early evening.
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Mark Pritchard, the secretary of the 1922 Committee has demanded a vote on Britain’s membership of the EU. The committee is composed of Eurosceptic and traditionalist Conservative MPs, and had an early run in with Prime Minister David Cameron, just after the election of 2010, when he insisted that Ministers be allowed to help choose its chairman — almost needless to say, to ensure that it would be in lockstep with Government decisions.
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Political science lecturer Matthew Goodwin has said a “noticeable tide of anti-immigration sentiment” has emerged in Europe over the last decade. He says that there is now “open skepticism toward” the affect of immigration “on the welfare states of Europe, on public services, culture, values, way of life, but we’ve also seen quite high levels of dissatisfaction over the response of mainstream parties on that issue.”
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First published by Hudson New York
Anarchists smashing up the RItz. “Student” mobs attacking the Conservative Party HQ. “Anti-globalist,” anti-capitalist, and pro-Hamas demonstrations in London. Britain has seen it all over the last few years. Its recent history is stuffed full of Leftwing violence masquerading as serious politics. No wonder, then, that the BBC and respectable, high-profile individuals on the Left, were convinced that last weeks rioting and widespread violence against police and passersby, muggings and looting were a messgage about “social justice” and Government cuts.
As more and more graphic details filled the news, and with this position apparently indefensible, the “protesters” were recast by the tax-payer funded BBC as the “poor,” merely seeking a crust of bread and a hand up. Next, as viewers began calling in to point out that these “poor” people were communicating via their Blackberries, and looting designer stores, the narrative shifted to worrying about “football fans” who had come out to defend their neighborhoods against mob violence arson attacks.
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