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So - what is Farage up to now ?!?

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jura2 Sun 21-Jan-18 17:12:31

any thoughts?

whitewave Thu 08-Feb-18 20:30:44

I’ve posted it gg be impressed by my newly acquired skills.

Mind you I’ve just done the same on the diet thread but the result bears nothing to what I intended. God knows what happened there.

lemongrove Thu 08-Feb-18 20:29:02

Britain First , the EDL, are small groups with no power whatsoever, there are similar groups in most if not all European countries, without the populace there thinking that they are taking over.These groups have been there for years and years in most cases.
There is underlying antisemitism in both the far right and far left.
There is no ‘stirrings of fascism’in the UK, a group would need power for that to happen, in fact there is probably less here than in any other country in Europe.
However, you are all enjoying yourselves so much writing about this ‘fear’ ......so who am I to deny you this.
Carry on ‘carrying on’.

GracesGranMK2 Thu 08-Feb-18 20:28:16

Well done whitewave! The first of many smile

GracesGranMK2 Thu 08-Feb-18 20:26:35

I am not sure what Zoe Margolis said but certainly there was a lot of chatter on the news programmes about the front page article in the Telegraph this morning.

Theresa May’s former chief of staff has been accused of dredging up an antisemitic conspiracy theory after contributing to an article which claims Jewish financier George Soros supports a “secret plot” to thwart Brexit.

Now I think he is a prominent conservative.

It is also fairly obvious that many of the accusations against "the Labour Party" when it comes to anti-Semitism are because many on the left have a great deal of opposition to the Israeli government stand on Palestine - which is not an anti-Semitic stance.

whitewave Thu 08-Feb-18 20:19:52

mobile.twitter.com/girlonetrack/status/961635323250970624/photo/1

Ye!!! Yo yo hoho yippee yippee!!

MaizieD Thu 08-Feb-18 20:14:07

Take your pick of instructions, ww!

www.google.co.uk/search?q=how+do+i+copy+and+paste+with+an+ipad&oq=How+do+I+copy+and+paste+with+an+I%5B&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.12854j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

whitewave Thu 08-Feb-18 20:13:52

Stop showing off dj grin I think that was what Margolis was commenting on.

It is the underlying anti-semitism that gets me. It is so amorphous so difficult to exactly outline, but everyone knows exactly what they are on about.

durhamjen Thu 08-Feb-18 20:11:30

www.rt.com/uk/417981-antifa-mogg-britain-first/

Britain First being given the cold shoulder.

whitewave Thu 08-Feb-18 20:09:51

I have an iPad so I don’t seem to have a paste facility do I?

MaizieD Thu 08-Feb-18 20:08:57

Not a bad attempt! But that just gets me a google search that leads to her twitter account. It's not blue because it's not a web address; a web address has www. in front of it.

durhamjen Thu 08-Feb-18 20:07:34

www.rt.com/uk/418240-nick-timothy-anti-semitism/

MaizieD Thu 08-Feb-18 20:05:10

Click on the tweet so that it comes up as a new thread. Then copy what's in the address bar and paste it into your post on here. (If I were more of a computer expert I'd screenshot to show you how to do it, but I'm not sad)

whitewave Thu 08-Feb-18 20:03:52

Failed!

whitewave Thu 08-Feb-18 20:03:36

This is a test

ZoeMargolis@girlonetrack

MaizieD Thu 08-Feb-18 20:03:16

All I see here is a wee bit of hysteria going on about Rees Mogg.

Actually, lemon that's not all that is on this thread but you clearly have your eyes shut to all the rest. Though, if that's all you can see how come you think we're being silly about the stirrings of fascism in the UK.

Perhaps you'd like to explain how calling judges 'enemies of the people' and MPs 'traitors' and 'saboteurs' is perfectly reasonable and not fascist in the least?

whitewave Thu 08-Feb-18 20:01:55

It’s a tweet so how do I do that?

Honestly I wouldn’t hold your breath my skills are minus zero it is absolutely pathetic.

MaizieD Thu 08-Feb-18 19:58:03

I wish I could blue it.


I wish you could too, ww! Just get the thread up then copy and paste the words that are in the address bar into your post. You don't need to do anything else...

I've looked for it in her timeline but as I'm not absolutely sure what I'm looking for I can't really find it...

durhamjen Thu 08-Feb-18 19:55:02

Not heard of Britain First, then, lemon?
Cold shoulder maybe in your secluded area of the country, but that's not the whole of the UK.
Of course, you don't read anything that doesn't involve you or your family, do you?
Can you explain why?

MaizieD Thu 08-Feb-18 19:50:14

Why am I not getting any justification or defence of the fascist language used by the media or by the 'ultra-Brexiter' politicians?

The Nazi uniform is really a bit of a side issue. It's what people are saying/writing that indicates whether or not they have fascist ideas.

whitewave Thu 08-Feb-18 19:20:28

Zoe Margolis has tweeted an excellent argument accusing the Telegraph of anti-semitism. I wish I could blue it.

Anybody??

lemongrove Thu 08-Feb-18 18:33:54

Not that much of a kid actually and old enough to know what it meant, given that he had an excellent education.

jura2 Thu 08-Feb-18 18:31:12

Yes, Harry was just a kid then - and I am pretty sure he would never make the same mistake or wish to- ever. Not because he is scared of consequences- but because he now knows what it means.

Jalima1108 Thu 08-Feb-18 18:29:25

And a way to retain a red passport!

Actually, I think it's a good idea.

lemongrove Thu 08-Feb-18 18:28:41

Another way for the EU to make money.grin

Jalima1108 Thu 08-Feb-18 18:25:41

I wonder what Farage would do
hmm