UK Independence Party is fuckwits who should be smacked upside their heads with newspapers

glennmagusharvey

In UKIP's literature, the party has placed an emphasis on "restoring
Britishness" and counteracting what it sees as a "serious existential
crisis" exhibited by the "Islamification" of Britain

(source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Independence_Party )

Fucking shitbags.

Fossilmaiden

Nigel "Lots Of People Would Say They're Going Out For A Chinky" Farage

Obā-san

what's a chinky

it sounds

racist

Tachyon

and when the interviewer said he wouldn't call Chinese food that, "A lot of people would.  Not me, obviously, but a lot of people."

glennmagusharvey

Tachyon said:

and when the interviewer said he wouldn't call Chinese food that, "A lot of people would.  Not me, obviously, but a lot of people."

wait what

Fossilmaiden

Today is Tomorrow said:

what's a chinky

it sounds

racist

A racist term for the Chinese.

Obā-san

Fossilmaiden said:

Today is Tomorrow said:

what's a chinky

it sounds

racist

A racist term for the Chinese.

I know but what on earth would "going out for a chinky" mean???

Tachyon

Today is Tomorrow said:

what's a chinky

it sounds

racist

racist term for a Chinese person, which Nigel Farage tried to defend by saying "if you were going out for Chinese food, what would you call it?" then backpedalled when the interviewer said he wouldn't call it that

Sredni Vashtar

Today is Tomorrow said:

Fossilmaiden said:

Today is Tomorrow said:

what's a chinky

it sounds

racist

A racist term for the Chinese.

I know but what on earth would "going out for a chinky" mean???

Tachyon said:

and when the interviewer said he wouldn't call Chinese food that, "A lot of people would.  Not me, obviously, but a lot of people."

Understanding Nigel Farage.

Fossilmaiden

Today is Tomorrow said:

Fossilmaiden said:

Today is Tomorrow said:

what's a chinky

it sounds

racist

A racist term for the Chinese.

I know but what on earth would "going out for a chinky" mean???

Chinese takeaway.

glennmagusharvey

oh gosh I googled "going out for a chinky" and now i'm getting websites of people complaining about political correctness

y'know, you fuckers, i can cuss up a shitstorm too
the difference is that you're actually being horrible jerks

Obā-san

OK

I

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oh dear

Tachyon

Today is Tomorrow said:

Fossilmaiden said:

Today is Tomorrow said:

what's a chinky

it sounds

racist

A racist term for the Chinese.

I know but what on earth would "going out for a chinky" mean???

it is pretty common slang for 'getting a Chinese takeaway', honestly

because, well, a lot of people are racist

Mandelbrot

All I know about Nigel Farage is he just went on British television and admitted that one of the core Leave planks was a lie

Obā-san

in what universe is saying that a good idea????

brutal honesty hour people complain about the republicans a lot but they seem decidedly more tolerable than that lot

Fossilmaiden

Mandelbrot said:

All I know about Nigel Farage is he just went on British television and admitted that one of the core Leave planks was a lie

Both the core leave planks have been recanted. Presumably because the Middle East is not, in fact, full of EU member states.

Obā-san

Tachyon said:

Today is Tomorrow said:

Fossilmaiden said:

Today is Tomorrow said:

what's a chinky

it sounds

racist

A racist term for the Chinese.

I know but what on earth would "going out for a chinky" mean???

it is pretty common slang for 'getting a Chinese takeaway', honestly

because, well, a lot of people are racist

every day I learn new facts that make me never want to leave my home state

Tachyon

a few years ago i'd have said the difference is the Republicans are one of the 2 major parties while UKIP are still pretty fringe

but given their performance in the last general election (votes, not seats) and given Brexit, i'm not sure that stance holds water any more

glennmagusharvey

Dear UK,

Stop laughing at us for our Tea Party movement.

Love,
USA

Klinotaxis

Mandelbrot said:

All I know about Nigel Farage is he just went on British television and admitted that one of the core Leave planks was a lie

this was so bullshit I'm mad even though it (the nhs thing) doesn't remotely effect me

Odradek

Today is Tomorrow said:

in what universe is saying that a good idea????

brutal honesty hour people complain about the republicans a lot but they seem decidedly more tolerable than that lot

Republicans are big blundering idiots and British far-right politicians are Skeksis

Obā-san

exactly

Sredni Vashtar

In retrospect, my joke about the Trial By Stone was inaccurate here. You were right the first time, Myrm.

glennmagusharvey

what's Skeksis?

Odradek

It also kind of works if you imagine the General is Trump and the Chamberlain is Cruz

Sredni Vashtar

The villains from Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal, also known as the best part of that movie.

See below for further context.

Odradek

glennmagusharvey said:

what's Skeksis?

Sredni Vashtar

Odradek said:

It also kind of works if you imagine the General is Trump and the Chamberlain is Cruz

I was actually thinking the same thing but it seems like the UK has more of them somehow. Not worse, necessarily, because Cruz and Trump, I mean, really, but more of them.

Bee

British are all Googling "What is the EU?" hours after voting to leave it

lee4hmz

"S u c k e r s ." –UKIP

Bee

Honestly bothering to Google it after the fact is probably still more effort than US Bible Belt nationalist wingnuts would deign to put in after doing something this dumb.

Obā-san

kinda assuming that's kids doing the googling

Bee

that too, even if it is less funny

Though it will leave a lot of adorable "Daddy, why did you shoot our economy in the nuts?"

glennmagusharvey

should i insult nigel farage on my facebook feed

Sredni Vashtar

You do you, Glenn.

Bee

Americans Confused By System Of Government In Which Leader Would Resign After Making Terrible Decision

Fossilmaiden

To quote Twitter: "I cannot get over the thought that David Cameron's rumoured sexual misconduct with a pig is going to be the ~second~ worst bit of his legacy"

glennmagusharvey

> The American public noted, however, that they completely understood the
part where voters who had made a demonstrably terrible decision
continued to double down on it.

wheeeeeeee~

we r gud xampoe for werld

Aliroz

Do we really gotta make fun of america in the hour of Britain's greatest failure?

I think not.

But, well, it is fun...

ENGLISH SPEAKERS ARE STUPID AND DUMB!

Yarrun XIX

If I have to stare into the face of impending doom, I'd rather it be the less dire doom.

Toolsie

I've checked, and I'm eligible for Scottish citizenship on account of having Scottish grandparents in both sides of the family.

Princess Alice

I will admit, I don't understand why some people's response to "we want to take our country back!" is "but what about all those countries Britain invaded a hundred years ago??"

Like, imperalism is not at all relevant here

Yarrun XIX

Well, there is the fact that a non-trivial amount of Britain's immigration has been from former British colonies. 

Yarrun XIX

It's sort of like how Germany has its knickers in a twist about its Turkish population, despite the fact that the Turks are in Germany because of the Turkish Gastarbeiter that were literally invited to help revolutionize Western Germany's economy in the 60's.

I.e. you brought diversity upon your own heads

Yarrun XIX

In a sense, that's a very American problem as well. It's not as pronounced because, you know, the whole slavery thing, but a lot of the diversity in America is because people came over in bulk looking for work and the American dream, and white America decided to exploit the hell out of them.

Sredni Vashtar

"White America" is extremely misleading there: A lot of those exploited immigrant populations were European, albeit not from the "respectable" countries like France and the UK. Let's not downplay what the tenements were like.

Yarrun XIX

Okay, okay, WASP America then.

I apologize. I honestly did mean to mention the Irish and Italians and such.

Sredni Vashtar

It's fine. The Chinese were probably hit the hardest, all told, particularly the railroad builders, who were slaves in all but name for the most part. It seems like this country (as with many others) just moves from exploiting one group to another, sequentially.

Bee

Hell, not even the UK was immune.  Look at how we treated the Irish Catholics.

Sredni Vashtar

That's not the UK, that's Ireland. It's been the English party line for centuries that the Irish are subhumans,

Princess Alice

Is it weird that I see certain parallels between Brexit voters and freemen-on-the-land?

Like, we have people who want to reap the benefits of certain social structures without having any of the obligations, and are now gobsmacked with the reality that rejecting the latter means losing the former.