Brits - Who are you voting for in the European Elections?

dmac may have a point in that egging him may encourage more sympathy ... it's likely to as much if not more harm than good in this case.

Are you kidding me?

Who's the woman?

Anybody know where I can score these?

http://www.pstros.sk/images/ostrich_egg_size.jpg

JK Rowling, I think

xpost, or possibly not

Good job he's got all that muscle he wanders around with, not even prepared to take an egg for the Great Leader.

Are you kidding me?

nope. seems like the kind of publicity he and his supporters will just use as an example of why they are right.

Prescott got egged in 2001. Labour then won two general elections. Coincidenceithinknot.

seems like the kind of publicity he and his supporters will just use as an example of why they are right.

The thing that will make it funny tho is if somebody eggs him as he explains that.

this guy's been elected by a considerable number of people. trying to pretend that their vote was in some way invalid or 'wrong' with this sort of behaviour (or simply refusing to deal with it as if it ever happened) isn't really going to address any of the marginalisation issues that were likely a huge factor in these guys getting in in the first place.

They're right because an egg got thrown at him? Could this egg be the BNP's fire at the Reichstag?

On one level you're completely right darragh, on another level it would be awesome if Griffin became "that guy who gets egged every time he appears in public".

this guy's been elected by a considerable number of people. trying to pretend that their vote was in some way invalid or 'wrong' with this sort of behaviour (or simply refusing to deal with it as if it ever happened) isn't really going to address any of the marginalisation issues that were likely a huge factor in these guys getting in in the first place.

No, but he deserves to get an egg thrown at him, so he's getting an egg thrown at him

ok, i fully agree with you there NV. but it has to be all or nothinh imo

if it happened tony blair more often i'd be happier.

looks like he's about to start blubbing

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Arshavin etc.

yeah what about Brons? perhaps he is not recognisable enough for eggs

btw isn't that woman her out of Dragon's Den (back off lawyers)

LOL, scared of an egg

Perhaps they could cover the egg in faeces next time, just to stop the whole thing getting predictable?

unhappy fascist is unhappy

Guy could have an egg allergy, that could've killed him.

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Here's hoping he tries a fact-finding mission to Lithuania.

I'm sure that Griffin understands that you need to break a few eggs to make an umlaut.

Prescott got egged in 2001. Labour then won two general elections. Coincidenceithinknot.

To be fair, Prescott's response was to punch the guy whereas Griffin is hiding under his KKK Weekly SS Gazette Daily Mail Grauniad like a reet ponce.

Speaking to BBC News afterwards Mr Griffin alleged that the three main political parties were trying to prevent the BNP getting its message across by colluding with protesters who he said were mainly left-wing students.

LOL, idiot

To be fair the Tories do recruit a lot of members from SWSS.

John Major got egged in around 1994 as well I think. In the face.

But enough about Edwina Currie.

Excellent times to throw eggs.
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Griffin is hiding under his KKK Weekly SS Gazette Daily Mail Grauniad like a reet ponce.

It is the Guardian probably. Griffin was making a speech whining about the bad press he is getting, poor old diddums.

Presumably the BNP have a policy to stop that happening.

^^ Those chaps prob not about to win two elections.

People need to get inventive here. I'd like to see somebody play hugely amplified farting noises next time he tries to speak in public.

They shouldn't stop until he actually cries in public, looks like they got close here

I'm all for a few eggs being thrown but not under any illusion that he will try and use this to his advantage. However the thought of seeing him like this...

http://i.thisislondon.co.uk/i/pix/2009/06/nick-griffin-415x220.jpg

VS.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00570/pohle_1_570900a.jpg

...makes me inclined to encourage the egg throwers.

Get somebody to dress as a Klansman and follow him around all day.

Same suit, same tie. Hopefully we won't see him for a week while that lot's in the cleaners.

Andrew Brons can loan him one of his old Nazi uniforms

... but I imagine only on condition that he watches him to change into it

Well, I guess we can tell newspapers sympathies tomorrow by whether they run the 'OMG, affront to democracy! Innocent fascist got egged' line, or the 'LOL, look at this' line.

it would be awesome if Griffin became "that guy who gets egged every time he appears in public"

Am spreading this idea everywhere I can think of. Britain, we can do this.

Am going to start carrying a dozen large free-range in my coat pocket from now on, just in case.

In fact, there's surely a market for a tailor-made egg bandolier for this purpose?

Just heard about the Euro election results for Brighton. The Greens got 20,000 votes (a third of all votes cast) - 6,000 more than the Tories and Labour was third, quite some way behind that. Dunno how this would translate to a GE vote, but pretty O_O all the same.

More like Brongton.

Well, I guess we can tell newspapers sympathies tomorrow by whether they run the 'OMG, affront to democracy! Innocent fascist got egged' line, or the 'LOL, look at this' line.

― dowd, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 16:33 (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Not so. All the paps had the "lol" angle, but the letters page... (which is where you truly get the newspapers' sympathies: Hey, they get to pick the letters for publication with a "We didn't say it, he did" shrug)

More like Brongton.

Least it's not Bronston, Yorkie folks.

Er, trust me: that is not how newspaper letters pages work at all. Indeed, quite often the letters chosen will be wildly at odds with the paper's editorial stance, in order to foster debate.

If you want to know what a paper thinks, it's astonishingly simple: read the leader column.

I trust you, grimly...