I have a masters, a rental property, a small business employing skilled tradesmen and grad students all full-time. I've travelled, I can speak two non-English languages fluently (German and Indonesian), read two others reasonably (French and Javanese).
My grandfathers (both) and all grand-uncles fought for King and country though 1940- to V-day- one was at Dunkirk.
Why should I be slandered for supporting for a party that loves me and my beloved Indigenous British Islander kinsfolk?
2007-05-02 23:59:32 · 28 answers · asked by ? 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
Apparently it's a crime to be English and a patriot these days. The balance needs to be redressed.
2007-05-03 00:03:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 11⤋
If by "indigenous British Islander kinsfolk" you mean "white", which tends to be the case with BNP supporters, then it doesn't matter how many qualifications and talents you can list.
That you think it's acceptable to discriminate against people based on something as arbitrary as skin colour makes it inevitable that most people will regard you as that "illiterate drooling, knucle-dragging troglodyte".
Such people don't exhibit pride in their country or culture. They only demonstrate a lack of confidence in it - a fear that their culture is so weak and feeble that it is threatened by the proximity of others.
Uncle Jo's answer that you're supporting an ideology of arbitrary, generalised and dangerously angry discrimination that your grandfathers fought against is spot on.
2007-05-03 08:50:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
No one should be slandered for the political party they support. However, if they post views that are offensive, then they are fair game. This should apply to those who seem to want to deny that Muslims were behind the 7/7 bomb attacks or would wish to deny that millions of people were murdered by the Nazi's in concentration camps. Other views that have been posted recently are also deliberately offensive.
Freedom of speech is a right, and also, as with other rights one that we should use in a responsible and courteous manner.
2007-05-03 09:44:12 · answer #3 · answered by The Patriot 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What the hell are "indigenous British Islander kinsfolk"? Please elaborate, providing specific examples, including a cut-off point as to when British people are no longer to be considered as such.
This is BNP crap at its best!
Re: posting above:
The BNP don't get more and more votes each year. They have a lame number of coucillors and their recent wins have comprised Parish Council seats, which can be won with vote tallies in only double figures.
Wow. That should have the legislature quaking in their boots.
However, what they do have is an effective system - promoted on their webs(h)ite - of proactively spreading the word, with particular focus online. What you get on here is an extremely distorted representation of the Party's nationwide strength, due to a number of motivated BNP supporters.
What you get in reality is a no-hope party that struggles to get more than one per cent of the actual vote - which is about 0.65% overall support when non-voters are taken into consideration.
Again - the legislature are quaking at such mighty strength.
For Goodness sake - their leader could only muster less than 7 per cent of the vote in the last General Election - hardly the stuff of which governments are made, is it?
2007-05-03 07:51:50 · answer #4 · answered by . 4 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Slander is a charge that requires to be tried before a court of law. You may consider it slander, yet when you examine the evidence, it could well be that it is decided as fact.
Such trials of evidence are unlikely to be effective here on Yahoo answers.
I'm sure that you may consider that the BNP loves you. I'm guessing here, but I reckon that you are a white male. The BNP attracts its support by suggesting that the colour of your skin somehow makes you superior to those afflicted with pigmant.
Yet in truth the underlying message is one that tries to engender hatred and fear. Both of these are likely to cause schism in society and increase the likelyhood of violence.
I wonder if you would like to define what you mean by indigenous? I think that would spark another interesting debate as the typical British Islander tends to have a rather varied and far flung blood line.
2007-05-03 07:28:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋
You know, with that first sentence, you've pretty much answered your own question....ahem.
Yes, both your grandfathers fought in WW2 (as did many others, not forgetting, of course, the large part of the RAF that was comprised of POLISH fighter pilots), but so did mine...
What really raises my ire about the self-righteous, hatred-spreading bigotry of the BNP is that they have claimed England's symbol (the Cross of St George) and made ME ashamed to fly my own national flag.
The British National Party are the thin end of the wedge....oh yes, they may seem quite reasonable (if you're somewhere to the right of Alf Garnett), but then again, look at what the National Socialist Party in Germany mutated into....
All those proud men (and women) who have fought and died for this country would be ashamed if they knew that the people they sacrificed themselves for would vote for the BNP
2007-05-03 08:05:01 · answer #6 · answered by Simon L 3 · 9⤊ 2⤋
You are not be slandered by me. It is quiet simple really. What you and the BNP stand for is wrong. My Uncle was one of the last off Dunkirk, where he was wounded. One of my ancestors was the first to print the new testiment in English. The three feathers of the Prince of Wales coat of arms are the three central feathers of our family coat of arms. I had an ancestor killed at the battle of Crecy in 1346. What you and the BNP stands for is ultimatly wrong. If we tested the DNA of all our residents and only allowed "true" Brits to stay there would be no people left. You included. I live in Germany and my wife is Polish.
2007-05-03 08:32:15 · answer #7 · answered by Reg Tedious 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
No. But are you forgetting the 10's of 1000's of Indians that fought beside your ancestors in both of the wars.
There really is no such thing as an indiginous Brit anymore. I bet you have danish, french, german as well as other immigrant blood flowing through your British veins.
our shops and banks were founded and largely in the main still run by Jewish people, so I learned today from another Y/A user.
Don't get me wrong, some of the BNP policies are on the right track but lack substance.
So no youre not a macho, skin head etc etc... just a little misguided.
I have a black friend who is proud to be British, so proud he is fighting in Iraq.
2007-05-03 07:19:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 14⤊ 3⤋
what Indigeneous British kinfolk?
Prove you only have blood and genes from BEFORE the Roman invasion, and I will believe you are a true Brit.
As for the rest, if you support the BNP, you dishonour the memory of your grandparents and granduncles who fought facism and Nazism.
If you support the Birtish Nazi Pary, you are supporting facism and nazism with a populist face and a pin stripe suite (apart from the more open and honest ones who wear the 88 Heil Hitler tattoos on their heads, along with the swastika!)
Do you know that the BNP leadership believe it was a mistake to fight hitler?
Do you know they want our schools to teach that the Holocaust didn't happen?
Do you want your children to be taught that Hitler was a hero, white apartheid?
thanks for the two points.
2007-05-03 08:03:07 · answer #9 · answered by Our Man In Bananas 6 · 8⤊ 1⤋
If you want to know what the BNP truly stands for, check out the source listed below:
2007-05-03 08:42:31 · answer #10 · answered by gortamor 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
theres a difference between being proud to be british & being proud to be british But also trying to alienate those that arent which, is what the BNP do. you should be embarrassed that you are ignorant enought to support such a party
2007-05-03 08:23:38 · answer #11 · answered by helen b 3 · 6⤊ 1⤋