snafu???
You should be so lucky! Meanwhile, try answering the question…
snafuUh-oh… Duck and cover!
British Asian Ukip youth leader quits ‘racist’ and ‘terrifying’ Ukip
Sanya-Jeet Thandi, who defended her support of Ukip on Channel 4 News, says the party is now appealing to ‘stupidity of ignorant anti-immigrant voters for electoral gain’
A British Asian leader of Ukip’s youth wing has quit the party, branding it “racist” and “terrifying”.
Sanya-Jeet Thandi, who had been introduced at Ukip’s party conference as a future leader, said the party has abandoned its core supporters and now appealed to the “stupidity of ignorant anti-immigrant voters for electoral gain”.
Miss Thandi appeared on Channel 4 News this week to defend her membership but has now quit the party and is calling on other Ukip supporters to boycott the upcoming European and local elections.
Miss Thandi, who joined Ukip at 17 as events co-ordinator of the youth wing and spoke at the party conference, said new Ukip posters pointing the finger at immigration “epitomise” what has gone wrong with the party.
Nigel Farage has recently sought to rid Ukip of its racist image by appearing at a rally flanked by 40 ethnic minority supporters. At an event in London, he said: “I don’t care what you call us, but from this moment on, please do not call us a racist party.”
However, the strategy, Ms Thandi said, is not “good enough” to reverse the “form of racist populism” that had developed in the party over the last three years.
Over the last few weeks a string of Ukip candidates have been exposed as harbouring racist views. Andre Lampitt, who featured in the party’s election broadcast, was suspended after saying Ed Miliband was “not a real Brit” and describing Islam as an “evil organisation”.
Another supporter said Lenny Henry, the comedian, should emigrate to a “black country”.
Mr Farage said people with “offensive and idiotic” views had managed to join the party, despite his efforts to vet candidates and imposing a ban on former BNP and National Front members.
Ms Thandi, a privately-educated London School of Economics student born to Punjabi parents, joined Ukip because she said David Cameron was “going soft”.
Three years ago, she agreed with Ukip’s policy on immigration because current policy favoured Eueopeans over other migrants when her grandparents had to “work so hard” to come to England, she said.
Miss Thandi, who grew up in Kent, became one of Mr Farage’s biggest cheerleaders, telling The Times that Mr Farage was “a babe” and describing Godfrey Bloom as “cute and so kind and hilarious, he just says things for the reaction. Lovely guy but a bit misunderstood”.
However, announcing her resignation on The Guardian website Miss Thandi said people with “racist views” had now been slipping through Ukip’s checks “time and time again”.
She wrote: “In order to convince society they are not racist they need to stop giving positions in the party to people with racist views.
“It is not good enough to say that these individuals just slipped through the net, time and time again. Yes, Ukip is still a relatively young party.
“No, that is not an excuse to allow racists to stand for election. Nor is it an excuse to exploit the ignorance in British society and indulge the racist vote by telling them ‘they’ll take your jobs’.”
Obviously Farage will have to give her job to another ‘true believer’ who thinks he is a babe…
snafuDepends on your point of view, does it not? And from that we can work out what yours is…
I always try to work out how I would feel if those accused had practiced their ‘art’ against Britons, and I think it would be fair to say that if the accusations were true then people like you would be up in arms and baying for blood – am I right?
snafuAnd he might not; please be good enough not to put your spin onto what I’ve said.
Just trying to understand, to make things clear…
I can’t explain this in one-syllable words, so will have to hope that you can keep up.
Oh, you are pushing it. Why not try using three words instead of one to make your missives even more confusing?
I couldn’t care less what that “artist” looks like, wears, or how he behaves, since I gave up on that show years ago; my “gripe” (as you so charmingly put it) is about the deliberate juxtaposition of two words, in his stage name, which together are an obscenity.
Nope. Try making it even harder.
Apparently it has acquired a new meaning (just like “gay” and “the n-word”,) and my “knowledge” comes from being able to read the internet dictionaries. So, you see (though I very much doubt it) the “Austrian bearded woman” (actually a man) is not “my obscenity”; my objection is to his name, AND THAT IS ALL.
Really? I doubt it too.
It must be your dirty mind making it obscene…
I’m having some difficulty understanding your objection to her name.
Well, there’s your problem! She is not a she! Do keep up…;o)
Were you similarly riled when Conchita Martínez was a star on the professional tennis circuit? After all, here’s a lady’s small part juxtaposed with the nose of some male person called Martin.
But were internet dictionaries around at the time? It would make it difficult for Edgar to find it obscene otherwise.
Sounds rude to me.. know what I mean? Nudge.. Nudge..
No, please don’t wind him up like that!
His “forename” has apparently assumed a new meaning (and I needed somebody, on another forum, to tell me this.) Had it stopped there, I wouldn’t have had a problem, but add the “surname,” and the two words take on a whole new connotation.
You needed somebody to point out how obscene his/her name was so that you could come back here to complain about it? Are you going to complain to anyone else, or are we the only ones so blessed…?
Does this work in Austrian, or only English?
Just as I feel sorry for a former work colleague, whose Christian name is Gay, I have sympathy with Miss (unless she is now married) Martinez, who has had her Christian name hijacked (apparently.)
Why, what does it say about you that you always assume everyone’s mind is as filthy as yours…?
Material, which is obviously designed to be offensive, leaves me cold; I was never able to watch Kenny Everett, in front of my mother, because of his “Cupid Stunt” character.
But surely everything she did was always in the best possibly taste…?
It took a while for me to get Sid Snot’s apology for arriving late because his (he’s!) piston broke… Mind you, I was young at the time.
snafuThis one won’t be back for more…
A former academy head teacher who charged the school for her birthday party, furniture and taxi rides has been banned for life from teaching.
Joanna Shuter had admitted unacceptable professional conduct while working at Quintin Kynaston School, St John’s Wood, north-west London.
Publishing its judgement, a professional conduct handed Ms Shuter a prohibition order banning her from teaching indefinitely.
She resigned last May after 11 years.
The National College for Teaching and Leadership brought the misconduct hearing after a government report found Ms Shuter, credited with turning the school around, had presided over the misuse of public funds.
Ms Shuter admitted:
- Claiming her 50th birthday party expenditure of £6,292.90 from the academy in 2011
- Claiming £8,269 for an overnight stay at the Grove Hotel in Chandler’s Cross for her leadership team
- Charging the school for furniture worth £1,500 delivered to her home
- Making extensive expenses claims, including mobile phone contracts for herself and her children
- Instructing her PA to book flights and arrange the rental of her holiday home on school time, and organise her consultancy engagements
- Taking on extra paid work for speaking at conferences and consultancy during term time
- Claiming for travel expenses she had already been reimbursed for by someone else
- Claiming £5,855.67 for taxi journeys not made on school business
‘Influential figure’
In its judgement, approved by a senior Department for Education official on behalf on the education secretary, the panel recommended Ms Shuter should not be allowed to apply for the order to be lifted at a later date.As Ms Shuter, who was named Head Teacher of the Year in 2007 and appointed a CBE, had made “extensive expenses claims” for “personal gain”, her conduct should be treated with the “utmost seriousness”, the panel ruled.
It said that given her “high national profile as an influential figure in the education world”, to do otherwise risked undermining public confidence in the profession.
Although she had admitted her wrongdoing, she had also showed “a lack of insight into the severity and impact of her behaviours”.
Andrew Christie, executive director of children’s services at Westminster City Council, which ran the school until 2008, had referred the case to the professional body.
“We expect very high standards from teachers and head teachers in Westminster,” he said.
Doubt she’ll be down for long.
snafuI don’t know – not watched it, not likely to.
But if their message, for the sake of argument, was that we should build large internment camps and starve all foreigners to death in them as an incentive not to immigrate here then I’d imagine there might be sections censored in their broadcast.
snafuI thought this was about Clarkson…
Me too, but Edgar Brooks – he who deleted several of his earlier posts – has come in and posted his message for all to read; feel free to read it and figure out what his message is.
(Hint: he might be saying that it is fine to use the ‘n’ word if the BBC can broadcast an obscene event like the Eurovision Song Contest with its winning bearded lady blah blah blah. Possibly he likes the ‘n’ word, doesn’t like men in drag…)
snafuI think there is things that cannot be broadcast, as controversial items, which are understood by all parties.
Maybe they overstepped this agreement?
snafuHead cop says he doesn’t know why his underlings visited the blogger…
Cambridgeshire police chief condemns blogger visit
A chief constable said his officers should not have attended the home of a blogger who tweeted “fact checks” about UKIP.
Green Party member Michael Abberton claimed officers advised him to delete the tweet, which the police deny.
Cambridgeshire’s chief constable Simon Parr said: “In this instance police attendance was not required.”
UKIP said it contacted the police because it believed the tweet breached Electoral Commission rules.
As a result two officers visited Mr Abberton.
Mr Parr said: “I believe in this instance police attendance was not required and I have asked for our approach to this sort of incident to be reviewed to ensure we do not get involved unless there is clear evidence that an offence may have been committed.”
Officers said no further action would be taken against the blogger.
UKIP national nominating officer Pete Reeve confirmed he had contacted the police and the Electoral Commission about the tweet.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-27392662
UKIP – no sense of humour.
Police – no sense of proportion?
snafuBut if their resources enable them to catch real criminals and those of malicious intent of whatever type, good luck to ’em!
More likely to enable other identities for their agents, based on your appearance and the likelyhood of you going to a particular country, or to hide themselves by misappropriating your ISP number (or whatever it’s called), or takie an interest in you because of your job, interests or family.
Still, at least the US is trying to keep up with the Chinese…
snafuDepending on which alleged obscenity you refer to, it was never actually broadcast.
Keep up Charlie – the Eurovision winning Austrian bearded woman is Edgar’s obscenity, and it was broadcast. That was his gripe.
snafuIf you look at other images on the Columbo Racecourse pages there are other Barracudas with similar markings – I’m assuming they had just arrived from Britain and hadn’t been allotted to a squadron yet. Not found anything to indicate that they were dispatched in ‘red-less’ markings, and the colour scheme remained the same (for Barracuda, at least).
snafuHe could always get sponsorship on his jeans…
…Conchita = “little c—” (that four-letter word snafu will never use,)…
Well, literal meaning is ‘little seashell’, but I bow to your knowledge about such things.
snafuAnd you are surprised, how?
snafuIn answer to the question posed by the title
Yes he is.
The long-suffering Mrs Clarkson has just filed for divorce and is looking for £15 million
Moggy
Filed them in April. But don’t say too much, he has a wonderful sense of injunction…
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