howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Sorry to disappoint you Brian but Mr Farage has been selected according to the BBC.
Brian Dixon
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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He will get what he is after a few MPS in this part of the UK but Dover will not be one of them..
Folkestone they might just to it they have a very good leader there who has worked hard for UKIP over many years and a person I know well.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Guest 683- Registered: 11 Feb 2009
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Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Mark, as part of a balanced discussion would you agree with immigration being managed - and if so how?
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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I think the councillor in Howard's link is correct about learning the language.
Almost any official form has several languages available or interpreter when seeing someone like the doctor, how can foreigners ever integrate if they do not bother to learn the language of the host country.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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How can anyone not want to learn the language of their new country?
Not just for employment purposes but just general interaction, making new friends etc.
The same applies to our citizens that move abroad, mixing solely with other ex-pats is no way to become part of that community.
Guest 683- Registered: 11 Feb 2009
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David, this isn't about my opinions on immigration but about yet another UKIP member making bizarre claims - you must remember the "going to the gym will cure you of homosexuality" or "same sex marriages cause flooding" or references to "bongo-bongo land". It would be pointless trying to debate anything with people of such mindsets as their views are mistakenly believed to be absolute truths rather than personal opinions.
As these people are representatives of your party perhaps you can answer my earlier question: are they the true face of UKIP?
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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So Mark it would seem that actually you don't want "a balanced discussion".
All of the people you refer to were sacked, perhaps that answers your question.
A question for you:
Chris Huhne went jail, are all lib dems criminals?
Guest 683- Registered: 11 Feb 2009
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Well then, can I assume that since Janice "ting-tong" Atkinson hasn't been sacked she is the true face of UKIP?
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Mark, I thought you were above that tbh, it seems you're just as tribal and unwilling to engage as most others.
Best wishes
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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It was not Janice's use of the phrase 'ting-tong' that offended me, it was the way she prefaced it with the word 'only'. She really does have to go.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Peter, I'm never going to defend Janice's use of the expression, I'm almost certain she didn't say "only"
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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From BBC website
In the audio footage Atkinson can be heard saying: "...so that was good. We've got Fa who's, I dunno, she's a ting tong from somewhere."
Bob Whysman
- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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Do nothing and nothing happens.
Guest 683- Registered: 11 Feb 2009
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You've lost me there, David. I posed a question that you have not been able to (or choose not to) answer, you defend your party and then try to divert attention to the Lib Dems, and I am being tribal?
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Then I must of misheard.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Then I must of misheard.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
John Buckley
- Registered: 6 Oct 2013
- Posts: 615
As usual, a big deal has been made out of not a lot because, quite simply, that is all the media has in their attempt to denigrate UKIP. Perhaps instead we should be asking ourselves WHY the Brussels Broadcasting Corporation chose to highlight this "incident" as a major issue and milked it for all its worth? What was their actual agenda on this oh so important issue?
Apparently, according to the chief editor of the south east tv news programme, this non story received major coverage as it was deemed to be "in the public interest". Really, not for political motives then or perhaps in the BBC`s interest as a body that has received umpteen millions in "soft" loans from the EU?
The beeb must have thought that all of their Christmas`s had come at once in order to get such a "scoop"! Third rate journalism at its best I personally would have thought.
Admittedly, in her position, Janice Atkinson should have been a bit more wary of the dangers of being "wired up", but I don`t believe for one minute that she actually meant or intended any offence to the lady concerned in what she she said.
Furthermore, the BBC have surely shown a degree of hypocrasy here? After all, it was their own comedy programme "Little Britain" that coined the phrase "Ting Tong" in the first place when referring to people from the far east. So when used in THEIR programme as a comedy that`s ok and we can all laugh, but if someone then uses that same term as a generalization of race then we are suddenly supposed to be all upset and outraged.
Am I missing something here or is this the true face of the BBC?
