Personally I’d put them Lib Dems a fair bit further left. UKIP isn’t listed, but I’d put them right of the Conservatives, and in the Libertarian section.

Is this diagram taken from Steve Tierney’s “Fenland” blog, by any chance?

Although it’s usually an interesting read, it’s hardly an objective source for political information. 🙂

I’m not claiming it represents all rap, I’m merely providing some evidence that rap contains “not nice” lyrics in support of my statement to that effect. However, broadly speaking, I think rap incites more violence and serious crime than other types of music, such as pop.

I share your discomfort with the – ahem – lyrical content of rap and other forms of contemporary “urban” music.

However, I can’t help remarking that someone who could be influenced to commit violence and serious crime by the words to a music track is probably rather easily led in the first place.

Gentlemen

At a time of great personal sadness ( the minister of my church,just a year older than me,is dying ), your sparkling repartee has made my day.

Some of you need your heads banging together.

I’m quite sure that we’re all truly very sorry to hear about your minister, and would extend our condolences and best wishes to those around him.

Having said that, you do need to explain:

a) How this is relevant to the subject at hand, and

b) Why any of us should modify the way in which we express ourselves on this forum in the light of this sad news.

Extream left and right views can end up being very close together in certain circumstances.

This is quite correct in the sense that extremes of both left and right lead almost inevitably towards authoritarianism and totalitarianism.

As for sidestepping your provocations, yes I am, and shall continue to do so 😀

I have consulted several reputable dictionaries, but cannot find a single one that defines “provocations” as “points I have no answer to”.

Would you mind quoting your source for this definition?

….Firmly on the left.

Because you say so, presumably.

I note the manner in which you carefully side-stepped the point that the BNP promotes itself as being opposed to the left.

Still twaddle, I’m afraid.

😉

Edit … I didnt mean that all of your 11,000 posts were odd btw 😉

Many of them are, to be fair. 🙂

Ah, the unmistakable sound of barrels being scraped. 😎

The BNP are probably better described as left wing….

And that statement is probably better described as complete and utter hogwash.

You can repeat this nonsense ad nauseum, but it changes nothing.

The BNP, just like their forerunners the British Movement and the National Front, are of the hard right.

The fact that the BNP and their noxious ilk use “socialist” as a term of insult gives the lie to your, frankly, ludicrous assertion.