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By Youngian
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Tubby Isaacs wrote: Mon Feb 13, 2023 6:27 pm Lee here with "Take that, elite! Dominic Lawson likes me"

If Lee had spent more time with working class swing voters in key marginals, he’d have discovered they preferred tax cuts from Dominic’s dad to subsidizing the demands of Arthur Scargill.
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By Malcolm Armsteen
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I suspect that a lot of them are.
By Youngian
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davidjay wrote: Tue Feb 14, 2023 8:53 am Round about 1992-ish I was talking to an anti-racist worker who told me that fash activism could be mapped from an estate near Walsall, then up the A38 corridor before reaching Mansfield, where even then the BNP were getting 2-300 at meetings
Don’t know why the ‘not far right, oh no’ have a foothold in that region. I get how the BNP’s populist protectionism would gain traction in a region where thousands of secure jobs in manufacturing have disappeared but a free market cowboy like Farage? You muppets.
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By Andy McDandy
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Mainstream media brand the far right as knuckle dragging thugs, barely coherent and unable to string a sentence together.

Suburban slime think "how crude, we're not like that.

Vaguely smart looking (and sounding) man in a smart suit turns up spouting the same ideas in slightly more flowery language and with the rough edges sanded off. "Oh well, he's just saying it as it is, if he's such an extremist how come they let him on Question Time, you've got to admit he's got a point...".
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By Watchman
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According to Wikki he was a miner for 10 years, given his age he must have started early/mid 80's so after the big strike. Working in a coalfield that did not strike so would have been in UDM not NUM. He's been saying recently he was working 12 hour nightshifts 7 days a week, something I find very unlikely, unless he pushed himself to the from of the queue
By davidjay
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Youngian wrote: Tue Feb 14, 2023 10:07 am
davidjay wrote: Tue Feb 14, 2023 8:53 am Round about 1992-ish I was talking to an anti-racist worker who told me that fash activism could be mapped from an estate near Walsall, then up the A38 corridor before reaching Mansfield, where even then the BNP were getting 2-300 at meetings
Don’t know why the ‘not far right, oh no’ have a foothold in that region. I get how the BNP’s populist protectionism would gain traction in a region where thousands of secure jobs in manufacturing have disappeared but a free market cowboy like Farage? You muppets.
This was the pre-Nick Griffin BNP, who were more extreme than even the NF. It was all about being white in a white area and seeing the neighbouring cities being 'invaded'.
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By Abernathy
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kreuzberger wrote: Mon Feb 13, 2023 7:56 pm He wouldn't be the first fashy-Midlander to big up his part. I recall that baldy Kipper who reckoned he was the first man on the moon and had played for Crewe. Or summat.
Paul Nuttalls of the UKIPs?

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