The Rev John Stanton gets about a bit doesn’t he? According to the Times he appears on the infamous BNP members list, but before that he had been a local party chairman of the Green party, had spent four years as a Lib Dem councillor, five years as a Tory and before joining the BNP [...]
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Feed the World?
July 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Jane, Politics
Just to show that Skuds isn’t the only one who can use song titles for his posts….
We have been a touch busy recently and, among other things, we spent a very rainy Saturday last week helping the Huddersfield Friends of the Earth Group in their protest against EU Biofuels targets.
(I’m holding the % and a [...]
Tags: Environment·UKIP·Yorkshire
Local politician banged up
September 4th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Politics
Nobody likes to see a 71-year-old man sent to prison, but when they are an ex-UKIP MEP its a bit harder to find sympathy, especially when they have been flirting with the various far-right groupings in the European Parliament.
My favourite bits of the story:
Mr Donne said Mote had worked tirelessly for the European Parliament, travelling [...]
Lancaster UAF
February 6th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Politics
The Lancaster UAF blog has moved onto a Blogspot server. It can now be found at http://lancasteruaf.blogspot.com/ and is always worth a read.
One recent post on there is about Andrew Spence joining the BNP, a story which amused me when I saw it in the papers. It amused me because in the comments on [...]
Vote blue get red, white & blue?
May 15th, 2006 · 4 Comments · Politics
Fortunately that is not the case everywhere, but there still seems to be a significant number of BNP supporters hiding within the Conservative ranks, as the story of the Rev Robert West shows. In a statement, Mr West said:
"I have decided to seek refuge from political correctness by applying for asylum with the British [...]
Election material – UKIP
April 27th, 2005 · No Comments · Politics
I have been looking at the UKIP leaflet – a single glossy A4 sheet folded in half.
The only topics or policies mentioned are withdrawal from the EU and immigration.
The candidate’s biography states that his career has been sales and marketing. I hope he does a better job of selling his automotive parts than [...]
Victory for Europe
September 19th, 2004 · No Comments · Life, Politics
So. Europe won the Ryder cup.
I am not a big fan of golf. I got a set of clubs for Christmas several years ago and haven’t used them yet except to take a couple off to the pitch & Putt course. But its good to see Europe competing as a team. [...]
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