Farage attacked in Barnsley!

You’ve alluded to it

 

I said I think it would have been to the benefit of the country if he would have died. That's expressing an opinion as to his negative effect on the country over the past decade or so. In no way am I saying I hope he dies.

 

Unfortunately my stuff looks to be still on my old XP hard drive so I can't just access it....but going from memory..a few random snippets. They held a rally in Doncaster Market place, the papers reported that only around 40 Fascists attended mainly arriving by train from other parts. The regional organiser lived on Eccleshall Rd in Sheffield. The Barnsley Office was in what ( at the time I wrote it) was the Iceland on Peel St. Mosley was invited by the mine owners to tour a local pit . Most of their Yorkshire supporters were from Leeds and Bradford..in Lancashire they opened a social club (Wigan), it was closed by licensing magistrates after not attracting enough Members to form a Cttee and fulfil legal obligations. The largest County membership was Hampshire, their AGM said 300 Members, but nearly 200 hadn't paid subs. They organised fund raising dinners at the poshest of London Hotels and published guest lists..one interesting guest was Mr Alliott Verdon Roe...whose Avro Lancaster aircraft bombed Germany flat a few years later. The watershed for them was the banning of political uniforms plus the loss of support from The Daily Mail. One of the most interesting things I found was that the Women's section of the BUF was organised and staffed almost exclusively by former Suffragettes.

 

Indeed there was a negative effect yesterday, while all the cops and security teams were on Eldon Street monitoring a bunch of kids protesting, the usual scroates were stealing with impunity on Peel Street etc.

 

Brilliant, this period in history fascinates me .

 

Do you think any party appeals to the working class?

 

The fact that comparison is being made between Moseley and Farage speaks volumes. I can’t condone violence as a reaction but I heartily embrace the town’s rejection of his views and his politics.

 

Its strange really. As a kid, the message was that you should always punch a Nazi. Yet now you get arrested for it...

 

Does the town reject his views? On the basis of the Brexit vote it sadly doesn't. On the basis of a certain front page cover of the Chronicle it sadly doesn't.

 

But he will die....won't he!

 

The working class shouldn't go anywhere near the two Tory parties as both want to turn us into USA mk 2 .Where the rich and ultra rich pay next to nothing in tax and the public services are on a par with a third world country unless you have the money or insurance to pay for it. But sadly too many believe the lies they tell.

 

The Brexit Party did not get elected in Barnsley. People rejected them.

 

They voted heavily for Brexit. You don't do that if you significantly disagree with Farage's policies.
I'm sorry but I've always thought a big portion of the Labour vote in Barnsley are fundamentally right wing on a lot of issues but vote Labour because it has best suited their personal interests in terms of representing the workforce.
Didn't UKIP do well at local elections in the Borough? Just my thoughts.

 

There's only one lesson to remember......Fascism doesn't start with Concentration Camps, that's where it ends.
Smash all fascists wherever they fester and spout their spiteful and divisive ideas.

 

I do not agree with your views Nigel but political violence has no place in politics or frankly in our society.…..renta mob bused in from Chesterfield and 3 labour councillors laughing and giggling at the bottom of the Arcade isn’t a good look

 

I see nothing wrong with people from chesterfield coming in on a bus to protest against him. If he's literally been bussed in to spout his bile then people should be able to bus themselves in to campaign against it.

Violence however is just ******* stupid and inexcusable

 

I thought 'Gerrymandering', was when Gerry Taggart used to have an orange or a mandarin, in the dressing room at half time.
Ohh well, we learn summat new every day.

 

Btw, why was Farage wearing the flat cap, at first I wondered if it was a sarcy anti Northern/Yorkshire thing.
But I realised it wasn't, as he's surely not that stupid to bite the hand that feeds him (to take the mick out of people who he wants as voters).

 

It's his man of the people look, along with enjoying a pint of bitter.