They shouldn't stop until he actually cries in public, looks like they got close here
― Then in walked Barbara Castle with the Lady Eleanor (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 15:32 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Old Ned 1962 Vinyl Edition (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Get somebody to dress as a Klansman and follow him around all day.
― Westwood Ho (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 15:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Same suit, same tie. Hopefully we won't see him for a week while that lot's in the cleaners.
― Enemy Insects (NickB), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 15:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Andrew Brons can loan him one of his old Nazi uniforms
― Then in walked Barbara Castle with the Lady Eleanor (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 15:36 (fourteen years ago) link
... but I imagine only on condition that he watches him to change into it
― Then in walked Barbara Castle with the Lady Eleanor (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 15:37 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 22:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Am going to start carrying a dozen large free-range in my coat pocket from now on, just in case.
― Bill A, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 22:11 (fourteen years ago) link
In fact, there's surely a market for a tailor-made egg bandolier for this purpose?
― Bill A, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 22:14 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Enemy Insects (NickB), Thursday, 11 June 2009 13:26 (fourteen years ago) link
More like Brongton.
― Westwood Ho (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 11 June 2009 13:28 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― 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)
― Mark G, Thursday, 11 June 2009 13:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Least it's not Bronston, Yorkie folks.
― Enemy Insects (NickB), Thursday, 11 June 2009 13:32 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 11 June 2009 13:33 (fourteen years ago) link
I trust you, grimly...
― Mark G, Thursday, 11 June 2009 13:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Greens also won Norwich and Oxford.
A handy sortable list.
(May have been posted upthread, sorry).
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 11 June 2009 13:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Hey good list. Tories got 51% of the vote in Gibraltar. Do they let the monkeys vote or something?
― Enemy Insects (NickB), Thursday, 11 June 2009 13:42 (fourteen years ago) link
All the paps had the "lol" angle
Star had the inevitable "The Yolk's On You"
― Then in walked Barbara Castle with the Lady Eleanor (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 June 2009 13:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Has anybody asked Nick Griffin what he thinks of all these Gurkhas coming over here, stealing our women and sleeping with our jobs?
― Then in walked Barbara Castle with the Lady Eleanor (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 June 2009 13:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Didn't he say they were mercenaries and don't deserve anything?
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 11 June 2009 13:45 (fourteen years ago) link
nah that was Gordon Brown
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Thursday, 11 June 2009 13:45 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 11 June 2009 13:46 (fourteen years ago) link
I remember posting something along the lines of "they say "Labour want to allow half a million Gurkhas to settle here"" a short while ago.
― Mark G, Thursday, 11 June 2009 13:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Mentioned this on another thread already but the Express won with its front page photo caption of "Griffin was spattered with egg yolk. The BNP only accepts whites."
Not sure if it was intentional, though.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 11 June 2009 13:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Quail egg attack by Joanna Lumley is a must
― Then in walked Barbara Castle with the Lady Eleanor (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 June 2009 13:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Good luck Doncaster:
http://andys.org.uk/b/2009/06/08/a-whole-lot-of-nothing/
― DavidM, Thursday, 11 June 2009 19:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Like a true Englishman, Peter Davies is celebrating his victory with a pint of foaming nut-brown ale in the Dome's Icebreaker Bar.
― DavidM, Thursday, 11 June 2009 19:12 (fourteen years ago) link
I would like to make love all night long to BBC Radio Sheffield's Toby Foster for that.
― Westwood Ho (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 11 June 2009 19:15 (fourteen years ago) link
lolz, don't know what this guy was expecting. toby foster runs the comedy night at my local back home. notorious quick-thinking wag.
― caek, Thursday, 11 June 2009 19:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Wonder if he is up for the craic crack?
http://img37.yfrog.com/img37/4229/65vs.jpg
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 14 June 2009 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link
you laugh, but let me just get you something real quick
― U2 raped goat (darraghmac), Sunday, 14 June 2009 14:54 (fourteen years ago) link
look, it's cllr luke 'ming' flangan, shaking up the stuffy image of the west of ireland political scene
http://www.sdgi.ie/images/films/ming.jpg
― U2 raped goat (darraghmac), Sunday, 14 June 2009 14:57 (fourteen years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4oCVcQRd5yg/Si1K3CDoqKI/AAAAAAAAATo/h9_lv2-KsBw/s1600/partly-political-news-flash.jpg
― suggestzybandias (jim), Sunday, 14 June 2009 14:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Luke 'Ming' Flanagan is an Irish politician and social campaigner. He began his political career running unsuccessfully as an independent candidate in the Galway West constituency in 1997, and went on to contest the Connaught Ulster constituency in the European elections of 1999 and the Longford-Roscommon constituency in the 2002 Dáil election.[1] On none of these occasions did he reach two per cent of the vote.[2]
He was viewed as a joke candidate, shaving his hair and styling his beard in the way of Ming the Merciless from the film Flash Gordon. His posters and other election material featured a cannabis leaf, and legalisation of the drug was one of his main policy platforms. He voiced uncompromising support for radical social and environmental issues, and displayed a knack for using the media, being featured in many newspapers and radio programmes who were attracted by his colourful appearance and strong rhetoric.
In 2001 he hit the headlines when he sent more than 200 cannabis cigarettes to politicians in the Oireachtas, one to each TD and senator, as part of his campaign to have cannabis legalised.[3][4]
He returned to his native Castlerea and contested the 2004 local elections, and was elected to Roscommon County Council,[5] topping the poll and getting elected on the first count, defeating sitting councilors John Murray and Danny Burke.[6] He was re-elected on the first count in June 2009, receiving 16.8% of 1st preference votes in his Castlerea electoral area, and exceeding the quota by 394 votes
― U2 raped goat (darraghmac), Sunday, 14 June 2009 14:59 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/about-us/media-centre/news/general/an-open-letter-to-nick-griffin-chairman-of-the-bnp-and-mep-for-north-west-england
zing
― DavidM, Monday, 15 June 2009 14:57 (fourteen years ago) link
classy zing
― U2 raped goat (darraghmac), Monday, 15 June 2009 14:59 (fourteen years ago) link
a lot more effective than swp'rs throwing eggs imo.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Monday, 15 June 2009 15:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes, let's get old soldier throwing eggs instead, as long as someone does i'm happy
― Then in walked Barbara Castle with the Lady Eleanor (Tom D.), Monday, 15 June 2009 15:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Will give him another excuse to mouth off on national tv no doubt.
― Old Ned 1962 Vinyl Edition (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 15 June 2009 15:04 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean I expect this will play right into his usual guff about PC GONE MAD while missing the REAL ISSUES of, I don't know, some crap about CHURCHILL.
Not that the letters not a good thing, I just don't think it makes any dent on him or his supporters.
― Old Ned 1962 Vinyl Edition (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 15 June 2009 15:10 (fourteen years ago) link
idk, but it does make a dent on potential supporters.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Monday, 15 June 2009 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes, it'll be like egg off cheap suit for him but might make some of the people who voted for him even more embarrassed about it than they already claim to be
― Then in walked Barbara Castle with the Lady Eleanor (Tom D.), Monday, 15 June 2009 15:15 (fourteen years ago) link
and i think it's a good thing if groups that have the potential to command respect amongst likely recruitment/expansion ground for the bnp come out and directly oppose griffin et al.
― U2 raped goat (darraghmac), Monday, 15 June 2009 15:16 (fourteen years ago) link
exactly
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Monday, 15 June 2009 15:17 (fourteen years ago) link
They should definitely have Brons on telly more because he'd give anyone the creeps
― Then in walked Barbara Castle with the Lady Eleanor (Tom D.), Monday, 15 June 2009 15:19 (fourteen years ago) link