Justin at Chicken Yogurt has been similarly disenchanted by the electioneering as the rest of us, but I can’t let this one pass.
Just spotted an election poster on my manor, the first one I’ve seen. It’s a Tory one…
As I’ve been travelling around the country this past week, I’ve noticed them, too. So what?
It’s clearly a favourite spot for the Conservatives that billboard, opposite the Hindu temple and the convenience store run by the nice Asian family. In 2005 that’s where Michael Howard’s crew put one of their ‘It’s not racist to impose limits on immigration‘ masterpieces.
Oh, my, where to start?
Okay, I’ll simply ask a straight question; do all Hindus and Asians (Hindus are Asian, aren’t they?) vote as a block? Do they all think the same and vote the same, or are they, like the rest of us, individuals with individual opinions and preferences? Why shouldn’t they want to vote for the Conservatives? A number of the Asians I have known have been very conservative, so such a vote wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest. Given that, what is wrong with the poster’s location?
And, it is not racist to impose limits on immigration, and the Michael Howard posters, absurd though they were for stating the obvious, were not racist. Stupid, yes, but racist, no. Again, there was nothing wrong with the location of the poster merely that the poster was daft.
So, Justin’s point is?
…that maybe the Tories should have thought a bit more carefully about where they put their piss-poor dog-whistle crap if they want to avoid accusations of being the ‘nasty party’.
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But as I have pointed out, it is no better and no worse there than anywhere else.
And, as we are on the subject of the nasty party – they have some serious catching up to do on that one… 😉
Catching up..? With the head start the Labour Party have, I’m not even sure that’s possible…
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Probably not. Preying on the fears of the terminally ill is pretty sick and makes Michael Howard look like a rank amateur.
Lost me here. Need an intelligence shot.
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I lost you, or Justin lost you?
Some people have got so used to compartmentalising or classifying everybody else that they’ve forgotten that each person is an individual and has different wants and needs. We aren’t all drones, or drone-esses.
They’re forgetting that not all British-born people are white European, and they’re forgetting that it isn’t only white Brits that are losing their jobs because of the recent surge of EU and non-EU immigrants.
As for a “nice Asian family” – what’s the betting they’d much prefer to be called British instead of being classified according to their genetic ancestry?