Cynical, wrong-headed and dangerous.
Ed Balls is a show-boat whose efforts to play the BNP card earlier today are cynical, wrong-headed and dangerous.
He has appointed former Chief Inspector Maurice Smithe to run an investigation into the merits of a ban on BNP members becoming teachers.
We believe that using the full force of the State in the workplace like this smacks of the kind of totalitarianism espoused by the BNP.
It is an erosion of our right to freedom of expression that cuts across the spirit of our unwritten constitution. Most people who see this will worry that, “today it is the BNP, but tomorrow it could be me”. And what ab0ut members of groups that espouse terrorism, vilify homosexuality, or sanction wife-beating? Are they to be banned too?
We think that Balls’s intemperate rhetoric at a party political function dangerously helps the BNP rally its own recruits with a narrative about an over-mighty state only too happy to prosecute racists, “so long as they’re white”.
Ed Balls is out-of-date and undemocratic to imply by association that everyone connected with the BNP is a racist. That group includes 947,000 voters, many of whom come from Labour’s heartland.
Of course, it is imperative that school kids are protected from racist brain-washing, overt or subliminal. Teachers must respect the honour of their profession and the authorities must not be complacent. That is why the teaching profession is already protected by a number of measures, including a requirement for schools to have equal opportunities policies, a duty to promote racial equality, a statutory duty to promote community cohesion, a duty on governing bodies, head teachers and local authorities to forbid the teaching of partisan political activities, and the disciplinary powers of the GTCE.
Where problems have arisen, these are implemented with vigour. For example, Adam Walker, a BNP activist, currently faces a General Teaching Council tribunal for allegedly using a school computer for inappropriate reasons. Despite Balls’s cynical implication, there is no new evidence that there is a BNP problem in our class-rooms.
The irony is that the BNP have flourished under this Labour government. They have exploited the bona fide concerns of British voters on key issues like job displacement, immigration, Islamism and now, the economy. Many of Balls’s Labour colleagues are bravely adapting to the new challenge by reviewing “no platform” policies and preparing to address these concerns head on. He, instead, is retreating to the failed, inflammatory tactics of legislation and regulation which will only create more resentment amongst the dispossessed, more martyrs amongst Griffin’s rag-tag army and take Britain a step closer to a police state.
It is one thing for Trade Unionists and anti-fascist groups to fly kites about oppressive legal remedies against their opponents. But it is quite another for a Secretary of State and potential candidate for the highest office of the land to exacerbate the problem with this sort of grand-standing.
I agree, it’s totally illiberal; but a brave act for a possible leader of the party whose voters elected the BNP MEPs in the first place.
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are labour the new bnp
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So who’s the fascists now?
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Hardcore Marxists & the like can still be teachers as they will follow the agenda.
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aye why no ,teach the weans fascism never wins
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Sam
But mass murdering regimes do?
EM
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nope i think youll find that yer beloved nazis LOST,maybe we can get teachers that can teach history?
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oops i forgot your party insits there was no holocaust
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There was a holocaust & Communist regimes murdered even more, which takes some doing.
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You were very brave to come out on here Sam Pauli
http://www.nothingbritish.com/09/football-golly-wog-row-rumbles-on/comment-page-1/#comment-14525
If you are ever on Clapham Common look me up.
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yup but the powers that be uk usa let it happen,where they too frightened to take on auld joe and mao,i think so
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Sam, I guess so.
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thats when they didnt appoint themselves as the world policw
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Team America eh?
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thats the chappies
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Anyway balls to Balls!
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thats the established parties all over : ” you are free to think anyway you want, as long as it is in line with our way of thinking “.
I bet you love big brother looking after you , eh Sam
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aussietwat america looks after us all,you just dont know it yet!
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rather them than the ussr ( you know, that defunct ideology that gave everyone freedom ) or the Chinks ( who send the family of executed prisoners, the bill for the cost of the bullet ). But i suppose in your infinite wisdom, you prefer them to the good ol USA, who helped save us from real fascism, unlike your warped perception of fascism.
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a,ye pal thats it,now go and play with yer digiridoo,and tie that kangaroo down sport.
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of course hitlers fascism saw many many people being able to live their liberal lifestyles didnt it?
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he was a fascist, i dont think the bnp falls into the same category, take that aspirin and lie down and relax, you keyboard reactionary
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I’ve just realised you’re a shirt lifter…………dirty b…..d
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Balls the fascist.
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Balls to the Fascists of the bnp/edl/kkk/c18 or whatever 3 letter synonim they call themselves today,still i suppose its a step up from the 2 letter ones of the seventies and eighties,NF
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nullius fruitcake
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aussietwat…everyones a fruit and nutcase!
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aussietwat,are you really defending the usa,the mightiest nation on earth,the upholders of freedom and democracy…the same usa who elected a BLACK African/American as president,seems like double barrelled hypocrisy from you again,have these dyed in the wool(pardon the pun aussie)Racist/Fascists no ethics whatsoever,or is it just the usual rantings of the deluded brain dead zombie following of the far right
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i have no problem with Obama or his colour, in fact, so far he seems the right person for the job. He is far superior intellectually than his predecessor and a little less closed minded, which is more than i can say for you.
my arguments have been about mass migration and the right of britons to call themselves ethnically british.
yet you seem to think this makes me a neo nazi, which iss really quite offensive as i detest nazism, hitler etc…
however, i accept your ravings for what they are as they are nothing new from people with your narrow mindset.
ps hows the weather in sunny scotland, i bet your tan is looking a treat (black n tan )
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sunny scotland?and you accuse me of dabbling in drugs!you detest fascism,but are on here telling whitey to vote for a fascist neo nazi political party,double standards double entrendes as per usual
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they are not a fascist neo nazi party…. they are merely prepared to stand up to political correctness and say ENOUGH is ENOUGH
….. that sounds within the bounds of democracy to me!
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they ARE a neo nazi party,but they wont tell the TRUTH,they ll LIE to manipulate the brain dead,and reading the posts on here they re succeding
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they are appealing to the disenfrachised, the ignored and the pissed off, all because the pc elites are too morally up themselves to address the waves of mass migration engulfing your rain swept islands
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och ,to be honest aussie friend im pissed off with the whole country myself,but i honestly dont think EVERTHING can be blamed on immigration.
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I blame the politicians over many years for the present situation.
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i blame them too
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In China a few enraged citizens have actually murdered corrupt officials as they have no other outlet for their complaints.
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there a few politicians here that should be done in too.
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… off with you head!
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Sam………….i totally agree with your last comment.
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So do I!
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whoah im getting a nose bleed,we scots dont do appeasment,thanks anyway chaps
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Killing you with kindness eh?
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enough enough i might start being a nazi sympathiser if i get any more of this love
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But if you were back in the 1930’s driving that car that Hitler stepped out in front of, you would keep your foot on the gas surely?
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oh aye,but its 2009,so if you substitute hitler for griffin….well its self explanitory
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I guess he will be careful how he crosses the road then………….
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should we really be mentioning the bnp and crosses in the same sentence,or is that the kkk,same difference really
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No, dressing up in bed sheets, pointy hats & burning crosses is not really my thing.
I don’t do Halloween!
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oops that right fascism got a new dress code now of shirts and ties and suits,makes a little more civilised dosent it,nice that.Primark must be raking it in.
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Yes I got my Che Guevera T shirt’s there!
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wtf,youve gone too far if you expect me to believe youve got a che t shirt hasta la siempe victoria
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I’ve got two!
I am wearing one right now!
& bought some of their fake Russian ones!
I also have real Russian ones too.
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seems to me youre a bit of a revolutionist ,good on ye
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Sorry, for off top, i wanna tell one joke) What do you get when you cross a canary and a lawn mower? Shredded tweet.
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What do you get when you cross a sheep & a kangaroo?
A wooly jumper!
Famous graffiti on a toilet wall, “My Mother made me a Homosexual”.
Somebody replied “If I send her the wool will she make me one too?”
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I have a nice joke. What do you call three rabbits in a row, hopping backwards simultaneously? A receding hareline.
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I have a fresh joke for you) Which of these things don’t belong: A tuna, a lobster, or a Chinese guy run over by a truck? The tuna. The other two are crustaceans.
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Wanna very nice joke?)) Where does a one-armed man shop? At a second hand store.
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