Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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'If no one went no faster than what I do there'd be a sight less trouble in this world'
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Red rag to a bull, Brian. But any protestors who use or threaten violence are scum, far worse than the targets of their protest.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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for grown ups to be this scared they must know that there policies are wrong for that area.
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Brian I'm sorry but that is simply ridiculous. In Brighton this morning rentamob abused blood donors thinking they were UKIP people.
Its nothing to do with policy at all, it simply gives morons and cowards the opportunity to get together in a gang and make some noise. Greenham Common this week, fracking next week, ST Pauls cathedral last week, UKIP in the meantime.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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the magistrates got it right when farage was struck with the banner by sentencing the "Herbert" to 80 hours unpaid work which was probably 80 more hours than he had done previously.
no point in handing out fines that don't get paid.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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david so you think its ridiculous idea then.
there is a saying david if in doubt keep out.
Bob Whysman- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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Do nothing and nothing happens.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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this just about sums up the whole campaign, idiots from rent-a-mob shouting abuse followed by the ukip candidate ms Atkinson abusing the host city.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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I wonder if the labour party ever realised in the early days, as they planed to open up the borders, to all the riffraff of the east. That it would one day bring about there own political downfall.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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for abstract art lovers, taken earlier in bridge street.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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And the bankers and politician responsible walk away scot-free as the fools chase the wrong people.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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a flying visit from the battle bus this morning.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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I wanderd why ukip members have gone quite all of a sudden.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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There is a lot of intellectual snobbery from Sked but I found this part accurate.
"They do nothing in the European parliament and take the money. They're no better than these people on [Channel 4 documentary series] Benefits Street. Farage has become a millionaire from expenses." Farage, of course, told foreign journalists in 2009 that he'd taken £2 million of taxpayers' money in expenses and allowances as an MEP on top of his £64,000-a-year salary. "There's no reason to vote for Ukip," says Sked, "because if they believed in what they said they wouldn't be there."
But aren't Ukip MEPs in Strasbourg and Brussels there to expose the workings of the European parliament, and aren't their expenses funnelled into promoting the party's message that the UK should get out of the EU? Sked giggles. "Oh, that's nonsense," he says. "They're hardly ever there. They just turn up for expenses. They don't turn up for key debates." And when Ukip does vote, he suggests, there's no party line. "When there were only three Ukip MEPs, the LSE European Studies institute found they voted three different ways."
A few days later, I ring Sked to get his take on last week's local authority election results. Political pundits are widely suggesting that Ukip's victories demonstrate the party's emergence as a fourth national political force. Sked says he expects the party's European ineptitude to be replicated in town halls: "I feel very sorry for voters who are now going to have as councillors people who aren't very sophisticated, who have no local government policies and who have no experience in running things. All Ukip is good for, if their behaviour in Strasbourg and Brussels is anything to go by, is taking public money."
What of Farage's suggestion that Ukip will hold the balance of power after next year's general election? "He's a fantasist. They always do well in Euro elections because they're the obvious party of protest, but the idea that they're going to come from nothing to be holding the balance of power is ridiculous. I don't expect them to get any seats."
Any vote for Ukip in the European poll, says Sked, was wasted. "If you elect a Ukip MEP, you're just going to elect another incompetent charlatan that you're going to turn into another millionaire. They go native in Brussels, take the expenses and the perks and do **** all."
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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correct me if I am wrong,is he saying that they are a bunch of scroungers then.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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The reds and blues always claim their party is a broad church but UKIP have gone one better by being a broad mosque.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ummer-farooq-ukip-election-hopeful-3464369Bob Whysman- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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Here's a chance Howard to save £70 and find out which immigrant DNA you possess; it seems that we are all mongrels!
http://www.dealmonster.co.uk/deal/shop/britainsdna?tag=ShopDo nothing and nothing happens.