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Lol! He isn't alt right in the slightest you clearly know nothing about him at all. The content of the joke video he made whilst viewed by many in poor taste is a side issue to the absolutely shocking verdict which ruled that it was for the court to decide the context of a joke. It's summed up well by the always excellent Jonathan Pie character here:

I think the clear implication of the speech was that it was against black people- or from what I've read that's how people viewed it at the time.

What's interesting about the rivers of blood speech is that it complains about an influx of immigration that is many times slower than the current levels. It's curious that such low levels caused such alarm fifty years ago- it obviously wasn't just Powell fretting about immigration- yet massively higher levels today barely cause a ripple amongst politicians or those at the top. Certainly the speech has some ideas worth discussing- though the tone and how it comes across is undoubtedly racialist in nature and was more about venting against foreigners than actually trying to solve any problems. Unfortunately it started the polarisation of the issue of immigration to the point that you can't now have sensible discussions about control without being called racist of a nazi so in that sense it was incredibly damaging.

Not sure I agree with you there- the whole debate was lame- but at least that was a good example of potentially controversial ideas being given a good airing and allowing people to make their own minds up. I'm not a massive fan of Harris anyway.

Turkish I do agree regarding nick Griffin and I was going to make that point that he didn't really get a fair crack of the whip- it was more Jeremy Kyle than question time- nevertheless it's true that once his views gained more exposure his parties popularity waned.

We don't live in a country of free speech. See Count Dankula being sentenced later this month for proof of that.

Grownups allow all ideas airtime so that the racist or poor ones can be refuted by better arguments. Far far better to give commonly held views an airing and watch them lose their attraction to many. Nick Griffin for example was allowed to share his views on Question Time and overnight his parties popularity crumbled. Many so called adults have now been infantalised by some aspects of modern culture and so believe that ideas they disagree with should be censored. The rivers of blood speech should absolutely be heard and then discussed, analysed and challenged. Its bizarre to think that it would encourage racism by being broadcast, particularly because I could find it with a thirty second Google search and also because there are ideas just as insidious and likely to incite division and hatred being given mainstream airtime today- the ideas of intersectionality, white privelege and identity politics for example.

Plus the speculation that his daughter could have been an agent too. If that is the case then we can be certain it was Russia. Whilst that may not be true, I'm sure the security services will have more evidence that we are not aware of that would make them sure. I simply don't believe they are accusing Russia with this level of certainty without being sure themselves.

Our fatal flaw was making all the evidence look too convincing. It's all so obvious!

Mick Mccarthy anyone? From memory he's always done well in the championship.

Has there ever been a more expensive striker who has never scored for their club?

I noted with interest that Gervais and David Baddiel were the only two comedians to speak out against the conviction of the Nazi pug guy last week. I don't always agree with his opinions and I've found much of his stuff since extras incredibly unfunny but fair play to him for having the balls to stick his head above the parapet in defence of possible jail time for a joke.

I don't think it summed up our season at all. I haven't seen us perform this well for probably the large majority of the season. I thought we weren't great defensively but we actually posed an attacking threat for once. If we do go down this highlighted who we need to rebuild the team. If possible keep romeu, jwp, long and Austin.

Probably our best performance since about November. Just maddening that we didn't get Hughes in earlier, we would undoubtedly have more points. Probably too late now

Someone has driven a truck of peace into people in Germany again. At the risk of being shouted at for "jumping to conclusions" the smart money is on another Islamic terror attack.

No problem. I'm going to try and see him live this year. My feeling is that he speaks so much sense that he tends to unite people of all political persuasions. This one is great too:

What site?

Soggy go and annoy someone else. You're clueless.

It's a very complex issue and much too simplistic to just label it as simply a black issue. As you say, social factors play a part and economic issues among others but to absolve individuals of all responsibility because they happen to be black or because of something idiotic like systemic racism is simply wrong. You need to address a number of different problems but I do happen to think that the met have their priorities grossly out of whack when they announce things like the amount of resources they have policing imaginary hate speech or "online violence" whilst we see this rise in actual crimes.

That isn't what I said but I know you like to wilfully misinterpret. The fact she wore a headscarf would give a good indication that she is a Muslim and given he amount of Islamic terror attacks we have it MAY point to yet another one. Doesn't appear to be the case at the moment but don't let me stop you engaging in your favourite pastimes of screaming about racists and islamaphobes at every opportunity. I didn't jump to any conclusions whatsoever. You're so desperate to try to square the circle in your own head that there are a load of baying racists on here that think every single person who identifies as a Muslim is a terrorist and its quite pathetic. Easier to do that and live in your closeted world permanently jammed on your high horse than consider that there may be legitimate criticisms of Islam and Islamic terror that is worthy of discussion.

Only to the likes of yourself but you've shown yourself to be utterly deluded and living in your own little world for a good few years now so you're easily discounted.

Yes we understand you don't like Boris Johnson. You've made it abundantly clear and despite your protestations, your political allegiances are transparent.

Who brought race into anything? Not me. Seems you're the one obsessed by it... Superb response from Saint Clark above, which I'm guessing will get short shrift from yourself despite being entirely true. Go on, tell us again about war torn Maidstone and those Christian rape gangs. Anything, anything to distract and to avoid discussing the actual problems and the solutions because it conflicts so wildly with your blinkered world view.

Lol. Certainly would help wouldn't it. Definitely a case to be made that they have their priorities all wrong. If the main complaint is that there have been cuts then surely you would be looking to mitigate any damage from these cuts by focusing on priorities?

To be fair, Diane would be very experienced with how racists act.