Wow Here Is One That Slipped Through Unnoticed, And A Member Of The Ethnic Minorities To Boot, Still Think Ukip Are A Bunch Of Racists?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/ukip-switch-former-labour-councillor-7962582

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// UKIP constantly have to apologise for its members' racist utterences, and have expelled several members for racist behaviour. More so than any of the other parties. ///

Surely that can only be a good thing, UKIP are a party who are prepared to hang their dirty washing up for shame, whereas the other parties must but putting theirs back in the laundry basket.

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

/// Except that Mr Harjinder Singh Sehmi, was awfully glad that he was allowed to immigrate to Britain, but now seems to want to prevent others being so lucky. ///

/// Smacks of hypocrisy to me. ///

Not hypocrisy at all but clear common sense, but I suppose it is quite reasonable not to expect Labour and it's supporters to know the difference between the two.

Mr Harjinder Singh Sehmi, is now a British citizen, and like most other sensible British citizens he is concerned at how mass immigration into this country is destroying our infrastructure.

[anotheoldgit]

youngmafbog

/// My, what a lefty love in you have got going here AOG ! ///

Just let them all climb into bed together YMB, perhaps with a bit of luck and due to the cramped positions some will fall out of the bed.

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

/// Its the hypocrisy of UKIP biting the hands that feeds it with caviar and champagne that irritates me. ///

Yes quite see your point Labour would never do that, since they enjoy their caviar and champaign so much themselves.

[mikey4444]

This is hypocrisy, pure and simple AOG and has nothing whatsoever to do with the Labour Party. He was an immigrant and now he wants to stop other people from benefiting in the same way. If this isn't hypocrisy, than I don't know what is.

But its obvious what this really all about. Its a desperate attempt by UKIP to try and show a few brown faces in their line up. Farage will start recruiting 2nd generation Polish people next, to stand as UKIP candidates !

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

/// This is hypocrisy, pure and simple AOG and has nothing whatsoever to do with the Labour Party. He was an immigrant and now he wants to stop other people from benefiting in the same way. If this isn't hypocrisy, than I don't know what is. ///

So just because one is an immigrant one is not allowed to be concerned about mass immigration?

/// But its obvious what this really all about. Its a desperate attempt by UKIP to try and show a few brown faces in their line up. Farage will start recruiting 2nd generation Polish people next, to stand as UKIP candidates ! ///

Perhaps there are already some, but those who have a fixation on colour, would not notice since they have white skins

[mikey4444]

"Perhaps there are already some, but those who have a fixation on colour, would not notice since they have white skins"

AOG...he has a flipping turban on for goodness sake !

He is still a hypocrite, with or without it.

[Gromit]

The Huguenots fled France and by the 18th Century, hundreds of thousands were living as migrants in the UK.
Including Farage's Great Grandfather, hence his name. I wonder what he would make of his great grandson?

[mikey4444]

My mother could trace her ancestry directly back to the Huguenots and my Dad was Irish. And when my Dad first came to London as a teenage boy, there were signs all over the place, especially boarding houses that said

" No Dogs, no Irish and no Blacks"

Some people in Britain would clearly like to see those days come back Gromit, more shame on them for doing so.

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

/// AOG...he has a flipping turban on for goodness sake ! ///

I was referring to your Polish remark.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// The Huguenots fled France and by the 18th Century, hundreds of thousands were living as migrants in the UK.
Including Farage's Great Grandfather, hence his name. I wonder what he would make of his great grandson? ///

Or of what 21st century UK has now become I would have thought.

[chaptazbru2]

"No Dogs, No Irish and No Blacks". A bit like a polish shop in my town recently that had a sign blatantly stating 'Polish only' !

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

/// My mother could trace her ancestry directly back to the Huguenots and my Dad was Irish. And when my Dad first came to London as a teenage boy, there were signs all over the place, especially boarding houses that said ///

/// " No Dogs, no Irish and no Blacks" ///

And to be fair to the animal kingdom it is still not against the law to put up a sign stating "No Dogs"

[mikey4444]

AOG...not sure how that takes this debate any further forward but thanks anyway...my old Dad would have been amused !

[anotheoldgit]

chaptazbru2

/// "No Dogs, No Irish and No Blacks". A bit like a polish shop in my town recently that had a sign blatantly stating 'Polish only' ! ///

Yes some are so fussy about their signs, they don't like any abrasives to be used on their signs, :0)

[Gromit]

AOG
Mr Farage's Great Grandfather would, I suspect, have been very grateful that the UK accepted him as a refugee. I would hope, that if he could see this tradition being practised three centuries later, that he would be pleased that this core British value has been retained.

[Zacs-Master]

I'd love to have a look down AOG's family tree.

[chaptazbru2]

Ha ha AOG x

[sp1814]

AOG

You asked:

"Oh so it doesn't quite have the same effect to use the term "I can't be racist because some of my best friends are Asian"?

Why bring the word black into the argument?"

It's because that phrase during the 70s and 80s nearly always referred to black people, rather than Asian people.

It's something that is openly acknowledged amongst the ultra right - White working class people, no matter what their political leanings are almost always closer to black people, than Asian people, because there is a greater shared cultural heritage amongst the black working class and white working class.

Asians have a much greater affinity with the White British middle class, than the White British working class.

I have nothing to back this up with, other than personal observation.