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'Extremists hijack' military name
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pcernie
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8315616.stmRight at this moment I'm sorta thinking, 'If you don't like the BNP etc, stop drawing attention to them!'... 
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Amnesia10
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bobbdobbs
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IMHO attention should be on them. By ignoring a radical party and ensuring the media etc marginalise them, you ensure they will only grow stronger. _________________Finally joined Flickr
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paulzolo
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Tricky one, as I feel both statements are correct. As long as the BNP don’t start controlling the kind of media attention they are getting, then I think that we are on safe ground. This current development is one I agree with the military brass on very much. Those symbols are, if anything, British - that is to say that they belong to us all. I bet that Churchill would be horrified to know who was using his image, and the Spitfire pilot would be none too happy either, being that he is Polish.  The bigger problem here is that symbols such as the Union Jack, the Cross of St george etc. have been so mis-appropriated by the far right, that when I see them, I don’t think of the football team, the country etc., I think first of the National Front marches that used to go through the town where I used to live.
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pcernie
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I have to say that I'm young (and possibly indoctrinated due to where I grew up) enough to see it as the flag of the country and little else. I don't follow football though  _________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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| Tue Oct 20, 2009 12:37 pm |
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paulzolo
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I grew up in an town that seemed to have a very high NF/Combat 18 population. Certainly, if you travelled out to South Oxhey (yes, the place that the BBC staged the Choir recently), you would find a high head count of Nazis (I don’t know if this is still true, but back in the 1970’s and 1980’s it was). There is a web site: http://www.nothingbritish.com/Good luck to them.
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Amnesia10
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Publicly we should ignore them but privately we should watch them like hawks. _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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pcernie
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paulzolo
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Well, apparently the BNP is comparing the Generals to those who were hanged at the Nüremburg war trials. Griffin, on the BBC this evening, tried to convince Nick Robinson that it was a bit of “dark humour”. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8317353.stmRight now, Bladon has adopted an eccentric oscillation caused by Churchill’s spinning.
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cloaked_wolf
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I saw something on the BBC News about this and they showed a clip of something about the BNP. It ended with the line 'There's nothing British about the BNP'. Completely agree.
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paulzolo
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That’s the Nothing British campaign. http://www.nothingbritish.com/
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