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She pulled up at the Burger van.

NF down to seven (claiming they could have stood more were it not for their latest split, but that's bullshit), BNP down to eight. Mutters of "alliances", but in reality both have finally been crushed beyond all repair, and if the continuing Social Democratic Party beat the NF in Hull East (where Mikey Cooper has been a well known local oddball for the NF/ND/BNP "cause" for decades) I don't see them surviving the humiliation. Time to say "I told you so" about UKIP doing in four years what Searchlight, the ANL & their ilk failed to do in forty years? Mind you, they had good financial reasons to keep the BNP & NF alive, but that's another story... UKIP was always essentially a party of the Home Counties and Channel shires - traditional middle class Tory & Eurosceptic liberal territory. The BNP's main strength was in the north, and all of the far right enjoyed permanent sustained interest in the Black Country and within London. But above all, it was with white blue collar & low income white collar workers. For UKIP to break into the big time, they needed to nick support from somewhere - and there was a big reserve of latent far-right voters waiting to be hoovered up as the far right did what the far right always does best: ie. indulge in party squabbling the moment they taste the smallest modicum of success. By pushing the immigration issue to the fore & stating it in a manner likely to get support from descendents from Commonwealth communities - ie. points system & an end to favouritising those from the EU - UKIP massively trumped the BNP's own stance of stopping all current immigration & offering cash inducements for existing immigrants or anyone non-white to leave (which in itself was a massive softening down of thirty years worth of "if they're black, send them back" bonehead rhetoric). For those white people who had given the BNP their vote out of frustration but against their better judgement, now they'd a valid alternative. But also at a stroke, UKIP appealed to those of the Afro-Carribean (which is far more "old Tory" in attitude than is often given credence) and South Asian communities seeing friends or relations denied the opportunity to come to work here because EU citizens took precedence. Plenty will have saw black and Asian candidates in UKIP (indeed, Rusty Lee was one of UKIP's earliest candidates) but still been wary, now they had all the proof they wanted that UKIP saw them as friends rather than racial undesireables like the so-called "racial nationalists" of the NF/BNP. They also knew every UKIP candidate beating a far right candidate crushed their desire to continue locally, knowing they'd had their one & only issue of any electoral value whipped out from right under them & couldn't get it back. There is also a small "revenge" element amongst those Afro-Carribeans and South Asians who feel they've been patronised and treated as "noble savages" by Labour, the Tories and the LibDems happy to play footsie with racism when it suits them over the decades to appeal to Alf Garnett types in marginals. It's no coincidence that UKIP's first breakthroughs occured in the East Midlands - an area of the country of diminishing returns for the far-right by contrast as the non-white population increased - when many Asian run small to medium enterprises (which ought to have benefitted from the EU) suffered badly from Labour & Tory governments giving favoured status to multi national big businesses at their expense, often employing EU migrants on minimum wage and enforced overtime at normal time rates to drive down costs. Quite simply UKIP capitalised on two large groups of people with nowhere left to go & promising them a return to a not-so-Good-Old-Days-but-better-than-this - and the more the three mainstream British parties cry "oh the humanity!" about them, the more attractive they appear. If mass fracking in the Weald becomes reality over the next five to ten years, it may well be the Greens turn to enjoy the fruits of successive governments thinking they have to vote either Labour or Tory because they've nowhere else to go on the environment. Most important of all, Farage runs his party with a rod of iron - anyone remotely iffy gets booted out without second chances or exceptions from expedience (see Alistair McConnachie and Mike Nattrass for details). It's a powerful message to the electorate he's trying to appeal to that they are not a safe haven for the sort of cranks often to be found (and encouraged tacitly) within the likes of the NF, BNP, etc. over the years. There's a long of hand wringing about UKIP's rise, some valid, some little more than airheads espousing fashionable rhetoric. But as someone who remembers only too well the sheer evil and poison people like John Tyndall, Colin Jordan, Richard Edmonds (sadly still around) and Martin Webster injected into the British body politic, seeking so-called "racial nationalism" being starved to death make UKIP a price well worth paying in the long run of making this country just a touch more civilised than it has been since the shameful days of Smethwick and Orpington.

I can just imagine Tedi thinking "for every five red dots the P&D's use I'll use ten", and in true Rangers fashion he'll issue dots he doesn't have by some dodgy offshore VPN server using an EBT alias.

Wid

PUNS ARE SHITE

Not many SFW ones on google images after you type her in for True Detective, but here's the girl in question. Incredible body when her clothes come off. She appears half naked quite a few times in it from memory.

These threads are here for our amusement, not that of the Orc horde. However, you may feel free to contribute as it makes it funnier for us.

Why doesn't she move closer to the well?

Its pleasing to see Tedi red dots me so much he is now using his aliases to do it as well! What a fukin loser.

You have no idea, you really are a fucking moron.

There you go, a wee bit teeth whitening and some facial plastic surgery (click to enlarge for full effect) Still fucking mingers though!

Ex Dundee United and Hibs Player Mixer Pit A Line Oan

Kenny Rogers - Just Dropped In To See What Condition My Condition Was In

Deep Blue Something : Breakfast At Tiffany's

The Supremes & Four Tops - River Deep, Mountain High

Well done, you're learning!

Need to do the job against St Mirren now...

He's a UK citizen so he won't be a non Dom. And even if he were it wouldn't be a fine as the change won't be retrospective

you trying to say i.m old & creepy. Lad, Thailand is a lot more than this...7 years now could have been better, arbroath harbour?

Jackie Wilson - (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher

Now, I read that and I agree with the points made about the Scottish Press, but as a Non-Old Firm or 'Rangers' fan I got distracted by the splatterings of Celtic related mini-bleats and the utterly absurd statement about Phil McGillivan being respected, I don't know anything about the author so I might just have this wrong, but an article criticising journalists for being bias towards one club shouldn't highlight that the author is biased towards another club himself Phil McGillivan & the word 'respected' FFS

Shame Maghees pal wasnt there to catch the fone and bell the guys wife....

I had a fiver on you moaning about cars - I'm away to spend my winnings on a new Callaway driver.

Is it a link road to somewhere?

This is the main entrance gate to a 1million pound property in Edinburgh. Notice anything odd?

Swallow, swallow we will swallow bullsh1t Swallow swallow we will swallow lies Charles Green, Craig Whyte, Ashley's men all fed us sh1te Now Dave King's back to feed us shameless lies

He'll be using his aliases to red dot you because his Tedi account has been using up all his red dots on me for the last month. Just like his dead football club, he doesn't like a level playing field, and needs the red dots from his aliases to "get us all telt".

Linda Ronstadt - When Will I Be Loved

you're just as obsessed with the Gers as Dhens mate give it a break its boring as f*ck, just follow your own Jakey mob

Amy Studt - Just A Little Girl

Donalded is my new go to word for getting malkied, well played sir. Of course it goes wrong, but I've got a mate whos broken his ankle at a game before jumping and celebrating, should we all sit down permanently? It's soft as f**k IMO. If you don't want to be involved in a Rhumba, sit in the Coxer or Main Stand. Surely that's the logic of deciding where you sit? My old man introduced me in the old Provie Road end, then when I got old enough to last a full match got me a ST for the family section in the Main Stand, and then when he felt I was auld enough a Derry ST, assuring me that if we score, be prepared to loup around. The last 10 years of shite atmospheres softened the Derry too much for my liking, get it back to a venomous ball of rage. I've nothing against you mate - I just severely detest anyone who suggests that Derry Tsunamis, Rhumbas and standing (on seats at important times) is wrong. It's wrong for the Coxer or Main Stand, but the Derry is held to a much, much, much lower standard.

The Lives Of Others - 9/10 Watched this on the advice of other posters and i wasnt disappointed. Excellent film, well acted, well written, well directed.... I dont tend to watch that many foreign films but that might change if this is the standard being put out

Or practicing his lawn mowing skills while thinking about his bank balance?

Was there a side letter with that?

I was expecting conspiracy theorist alex Jones

Just another his tales that he started posting to prove that he wasn't homophobic after being caught using derogatory words to describe gays.

Scotland needs thousands upon thousands of immigrants as our population is ageing faster than the UKs. A future immigration policy dictated by Westminster will harm the Scottish economy.

The "open door policy" is not the problem and never has been. It has benefited the UK massively.

Good point but the fact is that the change to home teams keeping all the gate money was seen as a good idea at the time and not just by the OF. Prior to that the home team was massively disadvantaged by having to pay out all of their expenses off half the gate money. So an away match was much more lucrative. It's not the gate money that disadvantaged the smaller clubs it was the unfair share of prize money once sponsorship and TV money came in. In the SPL it was loaded so that the top two got the majority of the cash. The added honey pot of the Champions League cash exacerbated the financial difference between the OF and the rest. Unfortunately with all the cash coming into the game in Scotland going one way the game as a contest deteriorated and the OF deteriorated with it. With little or no competition they were poorly prepared when they came to competitive matches in Europe. They trot out the same excuse everytime about there being no competition at home, then when they get some they go and buy up their best players. I am not denying them the right to buy good players but please dont then moan about a lack of competition when you actively weaken your opponents. From having two clubs qualifying straight through our Champions now have to negotiate three qualifying rounds. Gone are the days of two clubs in the CL group stages and it is extremely doubtful if we will ever see them back. In my opinion the blame for that can be laid fairly and squarely on the inequality and lack of competitiveness at the top of Scottish Football. Please dont suggest sharing the gates as a way to remedy this as it plainly isn't.

No I don't. I want them to fcuk off.

Tremendous stuff. Really enjoying your story and style of writing.

Even the language you use reflects a really warped perspective.When organised professional football took off in this country and for about its first century, people paid money to watch football matches between two teams at the venues that were staging them, in much the same way they might pay to visit a theatre, or later on, a cinema. Nobody saw this as being about offering "financial help" to a club, "subsidising" them, or "funding" a rival. It was payment on the understanding that without two teams, no spectacle took place and that the contract involved paying to watch a contest, even if that person paying had a partisan interest in the outcome. Obviously, this enabled the bigger clubs from bigger cities to earn significantly more through gates as they got to play in front of big crowds much more frequently than smaller clubs. Now sadly, plenty of people see this as you - and indeed most OF fans - do and wish for difference in stature to be as exaggerated as possible, so that their team wins more often. That's why it changed. Don't however pretend that a view that says otherwise is wacky or unfair. It's not. It's entirely sensible and was the prevailing one until football started veering hideously off the rails.

Hugh Scott's coming on next week.

"Bart after dark" just finished on ch4 (ch4+1 is your friend) - definitely one of my top 5.

^^^Club Dece?

As my friendly Gers fan says above, it is good when they are confident! Hibs have the better forward line and will win 3-2 110 years is a good time to win and it is all set up for the Greatest Game in History apart from 7-0 on New Years Day 1973. A fit Hibs team with the luck of our great Irish Manager can secure the Cup. Plus we will have no debt!

Gary Linear

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