I hope they will too. He’s been quicker than normal in exposing his own idiocy.

But then Sunny wants the Telegraph to remove him, so he can’t expose himself.

Meanwhile the Guardian CiF moves even further into self-parody yesterday by publishing a piece, not by a buffoon wannabe fascist, but a real live (just) dictator: lefty hero Fidel.

This is a ridiculous scenario, I think.

The alienation that it presupposes, that a majority would vote for an idiot like Richard Barnbrook is beyond the pale. Have you read the idiots web site?

Here it is, with all it’s vainglorious fans:

http://my.telegraph.co.uk/cllr_richard_barnbrook/

This is idiocy writ large. I’d hope most folk that voted for him read the shit he’s written. Sadly, I suspect they won’t.

Who is ‘you’? Would you say that the British media and other Labour parties should refuse to acknowledge the existence of the BNP and ignore all the people who voted for them?

If the BNP came in to power here, I would too refuse to deal with them.

I could equally ask whether the right talks of anything other than how the growing number of Muslims will soon take over Britain and turn it into a shariah state.

Trading insults is quite easy but it doesn’t address the point.

Should we have to listen to Hamas? Not every day, not constantly. But they are the democractically elected party and to think that we can close our ears to them and then make up our minds to what they’re saying is typical nonsense.

It used to be back in the old days that the attitude was: “We don;t have to hear what they have to say because we know everything we need to know about them already” etc etc. The internet has changed all that.

Now, you could assume what they stand for, without listening to what they’re saying, or you could actually listen to them.

And incidentally, I do have the same attitude towards the BNP. I don’t go around saying that anyone who vaguely sympathises with BNP sentiments should be shot on site as a nazi or be branded with a big swastika on their back.

People vote for the BNP for a variety of reasons… people voted for Hamas for a variety of reasons.

This

Palestine is the cause celebre not just of the Muslim world but of the left.

relates to this

The Guardian gives Hamas a platform because it feels that its political voice is being marginalised at a time that it should be heard.

You think the Guardian readers or the liberal left need to hear the ‘unspoken’ voice of the Palestinian brand of Islamist extremism? Unspoken? Do the left talk about anything more than the Palestinians and how we are all causing Islamic extremism?! Pah.

“The difference is this you see. The BNP don’t have any problems getting their voices heard. The Guardian gives Hamas a platform because it feels that its political voice is being marginalised at a time that it should be heard.”

Hamas has been actively plotting assassinating as many civilians as possible in the most atrocious of ways – including old people, women and children. The BNP hasn’t. So, if you defend that the Guardian should give a platform to these people, then you lose any credibility to criticise other publications for giving a platform to a legitimate political party like the BNP.

This is worth reading

Comment Is Free, perhaps too free?

and… it shouldn’t be?

Therefore CIF has legal responsibility for articles on Comment is Free and the Telegraph does not for My Telegraph (until informed of objectionable content).

I think.

As a supporter of Palestine and Israel, I find the idea that support for Palestine is not represented in the media to be bizarre; sort of like Armistead Maupin’s comment on San Francisco: “In this town, the love that dare not speak its name never shuts up”.

P.

LOL!

So some of the bloggers invited by the Guardian do spout hatred.
Which bloggers invited by the Telegraph do so?

As an opponent of the BNP (wanted to get that out of the way) I have to say what utter bollocks.

Islamists riddle national dialogue about Islam, misrepresenting the majority throughout the mainstream media. Hamas are simply the Palestinian brand.

There is plenty of sympathy and reportage of the Palestinian cause in the press, certainly balancing pro-Israeli coverage and often overwhelming it.

Palestine is the cause celebre not just of the Muslim world but of the left. We even have universities trying to impose academic apartheid against Jewish academics.

The BNP draw a fair amount of sensation, but are clearly given no more exposure than their support merits. They draw much of their support from a class of people who are massively under-reprsented in national discourse (and certainly around the middle-class dinner table) – the white working class – who seem to be the only people left in this country one can get away with treating with contempt, bleeding chavs.

If anyone is being marginalised it is the white working class, by the Guardian and their ilk, who just lurve to have their snooty prejudices confirmed when the oiks flock to the only party that seems to respond to their concerns – the BNP.

Choosing your poison Sunny?

I don’t think that Sunny actually said to deny him a platform, and I expect that anyone who starts arguing Daily Telegraph = BNP will look a touch foolish.

Anyway – my tuppence.

Here’s Yasmin A-B equating buying local cabbages with stereotyping indigenous Britons as a whole being per-se xenophobic:

“Indigenous Britons are in a mighty sulk over strangers on their shores, our weird languages, strong colours and tastes, and “unBritish” ways. Keeping out Kenyan beans and Caribbean pineapples is a sop to cultural paranoia, rising nausea. The country can’t stomach any more foreignness and wants old simplicities back again. The rightful inhabitants think they want nothing but turnips and potatoes through our long winters, and in the summer, asparagus of genetically proven Englishness.”

and

“Should good people be party to a vociferous movement which wants to refuse entry to “alien” foods?

Look at the language used and you realise it is a proxy for anti-immigration sentiments: these foods from
elsewhere come and take over our diets, reduce national dishes to third-class status, compete unfairly with Scotch broth and haggis, both dying out, excite our senses beyond decorum, contaminate the identity of the country irreversibly.”

It’s bonkers, but it wasn’t published on April 1st – and it doesn’t do much for social relations either.

I may not have noticed, but perhaps Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is the Grand Master of the KKK, and it has its global base at River Cottage.

Link on my name.