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Sitting waiting for a blood test at my GP's surgery and the woman next to me starts ranting to the guy opposite that the receptionists are conspiring to let the non-white people waiting jump the queue 'I heard them talking in their language". It runs on a ticket system and I think what happened was the receptionist was helping a (non-white) wheelchair user and grabbed him a ticket while his wife was getting him into his wheelchair. I'd guess a good third-to a half of the people in the waiting area were non-white, they would all be able to hear her, and she was less than ten feet from the people she was railing against for being "foreigners". I bit my tongue the first couple of times, but eventually had to point out that there might be a very good reason behind it and there was no need to jump to race as the issue, which shut her up (after ranting at me that she had a good reason too).

This is what UKIP are doing to us and it has to stop.

davidgillon: Text: I really don't think you should put your hand inside the manticore, you don't know where it's been. (Don't put your hand inside the manticore)
Latest *headdesk* on the UKIP front is a parliamentary candidate found to have posted online that gays are 'fascist perverts' and 'paedophiles':

UKIP candidate: Gay people are ‘fascist perverts’ and ‘paedophiles’


The article is in Pink News, so their focus is understandable, but I think a mainstream news organisation might have led with the fact that he was posting online in the forums of the BNP's website, and defending the EDL when he made the remarks.

This is someone who has supposedly been through UKIP's enhanced background checking to ensure he's never been a BNP supporter or the like. If it misses something as blatant as him posting on the BNP website, then you have to wonder just what sort of an enhanced checking process they've come up with - I'm picturing something along the lines of those forms they hand out on US-bound flight asking if you're entering the country for the purpose of the overthrow of the state, cos they always work....




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Not me, I'm afraid, but I was just sat at the window table of my favourite restaurant on Rochester High Street watching a black guy absolutely berating the UKIP supporters outside their campaign headquarters. I couldn't hear anything of what he was saying as he was a few doors down, but the body language was incredibly passionate. A couple of customers who'd popped out came back in to say he was brilliant, and that Farage had been there for at least part of it - result!

The owner was sat at the next table and commented he was hoping Farage would pop in so he could refuse to serve him :)

(Rochester isn't my constituency, I'm in the next one over, Chatham and Aylesford, so unfortunately I don't get the pleasure of casting a vote against their candidate, Mark Reckless, who while he was Tory MP for Rochester responded to a TV interview with me on disability hate crime by saying that people were entitled to feel angry at disabled benefit claimants - Reckless by name, Reckless by nature, he'll fit well in UKIP).

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