They’d rather have no one…

Posted on 23. Oct, 2009 by RK in United Kingdom

We could harp on about Question Time but let’s keep it short and sweet.  Griffin showed himself up to be a falsifier of facts and an intolerant and economically retarded man.  What’s new, right?

We checked the BNP website post-Question Time and came across this ridiculous “/tempsite”.  It seems the BNP would rather turn memberships away (Ed: After that performance, I’d be surprised if they got any) than recruit ethnic minorities and ‘non-indigenous’ people living in Britain.  (I think we call them British, Nick).

See for yourself.  Apparently due to the EHRC ruling, the BNP are ‘unable’ to recruit.  False.  They just need to open it up to people of all backgrounds.  But they won’t.  Because they’re racists.  Because they’re idiots.  Because they’re the BNP.  (Ed:  Nice new ad campaign!)

The Bastard Nazi Party

Posted on 27. Aug, 2009 by RK in United Kingdom

As if we needed more proof that the BNP were nothing but a purely evil, racist and utterly despicable organisation:

They caused this incident. They are inciting hatred and violence. They are sick f**ks.

A cautionary Facebook tale

Posted on 14. Jul, 2009 by keeprightonline in United Kingdom

As if the political graveyard weren’t replete enough with the corpses of young Facebook noobs, there’s one more cautionary tale to add to the pile: whatever you do don’t do what Audra Shay, the newly-elected national chairwoman of the Young Republicans, did.

The complaint that 38-year-olds aren’t young notwithstanding (Ed: thank goodness we don’t have anyone trying to pretend 30-somethings are CFers – whoops!), it’s pretty damn stupid of anyone with a pretence to political office to even look like they’re condoning racism. Or homophobia or sexism, for that matter.

The comments may have been taken out of context, and the claim to privacy may be fair, but everyone has to agree: giving the media nothing to run is better than giving them a ‘conservative is racist’ story. Despite the protestations that the media are biased: yes, the media are biased, but they’re still the media. Shay may have won, but, with the glare of publicity on her, that’ll be the last election she’ll ever win.

Racism is an accusation that dogs conservatives: one that is sometimes justified, and one that we have to shake off. If you want to condone racism, you can do it in private. But don’t expect your privacy to be respected, don’t expect your opponents to have any humour about it, and don’t expect people that aren’t racist to stand by you.

Take a second… think about it… UPDATED

Posted on 25. May, 2009 by keeprightonline in United Kingdom

This week as many of you may already know, Former Birmingham University Conservative Future President Dan O Doherty was expelled from the Conservative Party for allegedly wearing a Hitler moustache to a fancy dress party- and then posting a picture of said incident on Facebook. Right, so that’s the gist of what’s happened- but let’s take a moment to analyse the circumstances surrounding this unfortunate incident.

Comments on the article posted on Conservative Home yesterday decried the CF ‘Thought Police’ while Party Officials are said to have contacted Mr. Doherty to criticize his actions and expel him from the party. That won’t be the end of Dan, however. We all know Matt Lewis, of Maddygate fame is said to be active once again in the Conservative Party- for shame I say, but not for the shame of the action, more the shame of the lack of judgement of the individual.

Perhaps one might have felt that no longer being in an executive position within BUCF, he could get away with doing these things? Perhaps it was an alcohol-fuelled student error, which is not a strange thing to happen in an organisation with an average age of 18. True or false, when you’re in these societies, in these positions and representing and national political party (on any scale) you need to watch it. WATCH IT. Let it be a message to the lot of us.

Quoted as saying, “I don’t hate everyone, I just hate women” and known for once defending Enoch Powell’s, “Rivers of Blood,” speech and then later seeming to backtrack on his endorsement, Mr. Doherty is not a malicious or racist individual, but one perhaps lacking the media savvy and what one might call Diplomacy 2.0 skills.

So once again, Conservative Future is learning lessons- as if the organisation wasn’t without it’s problems before. KeepRightOnline suggests that right now is the time for strong leadership for CF, and for decisive action to be taken in asking the members if they really have what it takes to represent the Conservative Party proper (this is no reflection on Mr. Doherty). Perhaps some are looking for a title, some are looking for networking or drinking buddies, most of us however, are in it for the good. The good of the party, good of our communities and the good of the country.

Let’s KeepRight, people.

Update 26/05/09: Daniel O’Doherty has since commented that the statements made on his Facebook profile, specifically those regarding the hatred of women were in fact satirical and taken from a television show, whilst other quotes in the same vein were friend’s quotes, listed in a tongue-in-cheek manner. This blog has, since the original story broke- maintained confidence in Mr. O’Doherty.