Haven't made up my mind yet about Daniel Hannan. Is he for real? As a paleoconservative, yes, though it would be nice to see some talk about the monetary system from him and less sucking up to bankster-puppet-to-be, next UK PM, David Cameron. As of now he's no Ron Paul.
One tip I would give is to not cite Enoch Powell as a source of inspiration! I have no doubt Powell had some decent views, though politically correct history (and the fascist BNP) remember him for his "Rivers of Blood" speech which forecast terrible outcomes if immigration continued.
I feel anti-socialists have a hard enough time with being subtly labelled 'racist' by the establishment media, without adding fuel to the fire.
He certainly has an intelligent and somewhat... lovable face.
ReplyDeleteHe disturbingly reminds me of Freddie Bartholomew.
His politics, if genuine, aren't bad.
I saw him on Glenn Beck's show, and he made an excellent case against government-run health care there as well.
I skimmed the "Bloody River" speech (I want look into it further), but I did notice you Britishers say "letterbox" instead of the American term "mail slot" or "mailbox".
And that's just one more worthless fact about your ally across the Atlantic you could have gone the rest of your life without caring to know!
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Yes, the thing I found most strange about America is your 'mailboxes' which are far away from the house. Very convenient for the paper boy I guess. In Britain everyone just has the standard hole in the door, meaning the postie had better be on good terms with any dogs in the neighbourhood :D
ReplyDeleteAs for the speech, it was made in another era really, before political correctness kicked in. The warnings about massive immigration I agree with, not so much the whole 'black man enslaving the white man' rhetoric. Today that speech - and Powell himself - have unfortunately become an icon of the neo-fascist British National Party.
Those guys are real scum from what I know personally, won't go into it, but they pose as being legitimate patriots - scratch the surface and they are neo-Nazi thugs who in many ways provide legitimacy to the socialist thugs in our mainstream parties.
"Postie" You Brits crack me up! :D
ReplyDeleteIn the rural parts of America, the last sanctuary of the paleoconservative, our houses are set a ways back from the road.
Only when packages are too large to fit in the mailbox do the mailmen (not "posties") bring it to the door; papers are thrown in the driveway; city folks are a different story, and have slots like you all.
The mailboxes are "far away" because we have yards. British "gardens" are a typically smaller than our yards.
An American "garden" is that fenced-off area in back where we grow tomatoes and spinach, and we have to chase the rabbits out; the "yard" is the large mass of grass and weeds encompassing the entirety of one's property, needing frequent mowing.
Anyway, your BNP, as I'm sure you know, is just like our GOP: backstabbing liars, and you think, "Shouldn't they be doing something about that?"
Then you realize, "Oh yeah, they love it!"
"Honesty is the best politics." ~Stan Laurel
Yes, it's a little old-fashioned even in Britain to say 'postie'. But we do say postman. To say mailman is a sin showing you have been Americanised! :P
ReplyDeleteInteresting distinction between 'garden' and 'yard'. We do say 'yard' in Britain, depends on whether the house has a grass or paved area I guess.
One thing about America is indeed the size of the houses (I guess due to the lower price of land). And despite the size your houses are generally cheaper than ours!
Thing is about the BNP - so many of their policies on the surface seem good. For firearms legalisation, withdrawal from the Middle East, for paying immigrants to resettle abroad (which I think isn't a bad idea to solve our immigration problem, since like in the US the govt simply refuses to secure the borders).
The big difference with them vs the Republicans is size. Our top 3 parties, Labour/Liberal/Conservative (all statist/socialist/internationalist parties to some degree) take 90+ percent of the vote generally. BNP are one of the biggest minority parties, they get the skinhead vote :P
If you want the truth about the BNP, look up where a lot of their members and supporters come from - the less politically correct National Front.
To me, the BNP are useful idiots, kind of a political Timothy McVeigh, making certain anti-NWO views out to be 'far right extremist'.