Wednesday 14 May 2008

Why does ZZ Top's "Sharp Dressed Man" Come To Mind?




Richard Barnbrook: The BNP's man in the GLA. Who says you can't look good in brown?


This is republished and slightly changed from Friday...got some bile from a BNPer as a consequence [see below]...


It is worth noting that the BNP got virtually the same share of the vote in this year's GLA Elections- 5.4%- as the NF did in the 1977 GLC elections (the NF got 5.3%. They took 119,000 votes, compared to the BNP getting just under 131,000 this time). The only real difference from 31 years ago is that there is an element of PR in this year's elections*. Under PR it is generally easier for fringe political groups to gain seats (although try telling the SWP that after their latest "cunning plan" ie Left Luggage went arse over tit last week. No wonder Lindsay G didn't turn up to the Mayoral election count...).If the benchmark of racist sentiment in London is the city-wide performance of "the Far Right", not much has changed over 30 years. There are still Racially Obsessed types out there, but overall they haven't really increased in number over three decades.

* I can see anti-PR people arguing that Sharp Dressed Man's election to the GLA proves that PR encourages "the Far Right". However, those who defend First-Past-The-Post will have to explain why when Italy had PR, overt Mussolini worshippers got nowhere near national political power, while now under FPTP they are Government Ministers. Plus I'm sure if Richard B was Italian, Berlusconi would give him a job, simply due to his natty threads...

2 comments:

Sid said...

It's ironic that an ugly, smug, bastard like you would mock Barnbrook's appearance. And you actually look quite a bit older than your age (pssst - the boys down on the common are just flattering you to get your money).

By the way, the BNP's vote was actually better than the NF's thirty years ago because of the huge demographic changes since then which make 5.3% much harder to get. Understand, you thick cunt?



2020: As Nick Griffin becomes PM, Sid and friends crack down on erstwhile anti-BNP bloggers...

Anglonoel said...

Hey Sidney! (or should I call you Mr. Vicious...or Mr. Little?)

Cheers for your first ever contribution to my blog. You really know how to win friends and influence people on behalf of the BNP (I take it you are a loyal BNP member/supporter- or do you think Nick Griffin has sold "British Nationalism" out to the Zionist Occupational Government?).

Unfortunately, that'll be your last to be published here as I've changed the settings. All comments from now on need my approval before they appear.

Before you start effing and blinding (which you seem incapable of NOT doing- or did the Stella/Special Brew make you do it?) on the grounds that I'm gagging your freedom of speech, I would point out:

(i)where's your blog with comment box, so people (ie 95% of the population) who disagree with you can take issue with, and take the piss out, your "thoughts"?; &

ii) by the way you attacked me, you foul mouthed nasty piece of work, I should guess that if you want a picture of future BNP Government, just imagine a boot stamping on a human face for ever. If the BNP took over I don't think anti-Government free speech would last very long. In particular, if your attitude is anything to go by, taking the piss out of BNP would be a thing of the past, and there would be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy.

So, sorry Sid, I'm pulling the plug on you. However, you'll be glad to know that your erudite contribution will be the focus of my next post. If you think I took the piss out of Richard Barnbrook (got a suit like his have you?), you ain't seen nothing yet.

So long, you sad race obsessed loser.

PS I might be ugly in looks, but at least my politics ain't. BTW where's your mugshot? I take it that YOU haven't put male Supermodel Fabio out a job yet...

Saturday 3 May 2008

Elections v. v.quick update- First Highgate, then the world...



Well, Boris won the Mayoral Election. The best thing you can say for him is that he is opposed to ID cards.

Furthermore, the BNP got a seat in the GLA.

On the plus side, the Greens took the 3rd seat in Highgate ward. Lab came second and the Cons third. The Greens took two seats on the GLA (same as in 04)and Sian Berry (who I found out on Wed night drinks bitter, after an evening getting soaked leafletting letter boxes in Archway) came fourth in the first round of the Mayoral contest. Furthermore, the Greens did pretty well in most of the constituency contests.

Respect (apart from 15% in City and East) and Left Luggage, sorry Left List, did extremely badly. It seems the last hope of the English Left is the Green Party. However, how more disasters it will take for the message to get home to all those wanting to re-stage Sergei Eisenstein's October?

Will blog more Sunday night/Monday morning here. I saw Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine going dirt cheap in a bookshop yesterday so I'm going to splash out and read it in the park this afternoon, either trying to get a suntan or rust...

Update: Early Hours of Monday 5th: Just finished Shock Doctrine. It is even better than No Logo. The book it complements is Greg Palast's Armed Madhouse (I need to look hard in the footnotes to see if NK cites him). I want to review it at length, or at least use it as a starting point for other posts. For instance, surely there is a viable political way between grovelling to Corporate Capitalism on one side and pandering to RORO (Racially Or Religiously Obsessed) types on the other? I'm tired and I digress...

There has been talk over the weekend that there may be a challenge to Gordon Brown's leadership of the Labour Party at some point in the coming months if things don't impove. There seems to be hopes on the Labour Left that NuLab can be defeated at last, but I'm pretty sure NuLab will find someone else to lead them all on the Forward Path to Reform and Modernisation if GB fails. The Tories seem to think the next General Election is all over bar the shooting, sorry shouting, but I still think we will have a hung Parliament in 2009-10 and a National Government of "Reformers" and "Modernisers" will form in the aftermath. We will see...