Farage Has To Apologise Yet Again !

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-28853367

I am on record here as feeling somewhat sorry for Farage....you know...herding cats and all that. But just when it looked as if it had all gone quiet on the UKIP front, along comes another of his daft Members, this time a woman, and spoils it all again. Still, its an opportunity for Farage to get into the media again, so maybe its not so bad after all. Just to remind everybody what this daft UKIP MEP actually said :::

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-28841018

[Retrochic]

nice one mikey -I think that's called passive aggressive behaviour. You better sit down and make yourself a nice cup of tea, get your breath back. I'm not Racist,not offensive and probably a lot of people would agree with what I'm saying but just too frightened to admit it.

[Gromit]

Not sure how offensive Ting Tong Thai is?

There are cafes of that name, and no one batted an eyelid when Little Britain had a character of that name.

Don't think it will put offmany voters, except possibly fat ugly blokes with bad tattoos and sovereign rings.

[Retrochic]

careful gromit your last remark could offend someone ;-)

[andy-hughes]

Retrochic - "andy-hughes I think the underlying problem with UKIP is that its recruiting people who have a passion rather than an Education ..."

An interesting point - though not one which will stand up to close scrutiny i fear.

Passion is perfectly desireable and acceptable in anyone in public life, but simply to have passion, and be absent in other vital areas of cultural awareness will simply not cut it.

If an MEP was selected and elected because they were passionate,but they were unable to eat with a kife and fork, they would not be acceptable in political or social circles.

By being able enough to secure enough votes to be an MEP, the lady in question should have been able to allow the electorate to take for granted that she knows enough to think before she speaks.

[xstitcher]

It seems to me that he is a very weak leader when he can't keep his party members under control with their very unwise utterances. Are there no guide lines as to how they should speak in public?

[andy-hughes]

xsticher - as I opined, I think we should be able to take it for granted that certain social skills are in place in our Euro MPs - toilet training / eating with a knife and fork / getting dressed in a morning / not making throwaway racist comments about potential voters ... that kind of thing.

[Retrochic]

andy An MEP with good table manners and the ability to walk upright should of course be taken for granted. Passion coupled with Education is a great thing, but until UKIP becomes more acceptable or popular to the more 'Academic' candidates, then they will have to put up with the UKIP equivalent of the Tories 'Hooray Henries'

[New Judge]

"Some people need to go read the actual definition of Racism..... "

Unfortunately, retro, as a result of the often preposterous seventy recommendations contained in the Macpherson report into the handling by the Metropolitan Police of their investigation into the death of Stephen Lawrence a "racist incident" has a far wider interpretation than many people think. Recommendation number 12 of that report (seen by some as "the defining moment in British race relations") says this:

"A racist incident is any incident which is perceived to be racist by the victim or any other person"

So it doesn't matter what the alleged victim of these heinous name calling incidents think, nor does it matter what those investigating such incidents think. "Any other person" also has a say and it is their perception that can hold sway, never mind the facts.

Yes a defining moment indeed.

[xstitcher]

Lol Andy. :-D

[Orderlimit]

Another non-story about nothing & the usual nonsense that follows.

[mikey4444]

Andy (14:54)...in the case of UKIP, I'm not sure you can "take for granted" anything of the sort, and that is my point...a ungovernable, ill-educated and ill-disciplined rabble.