The BNP is all about England for the English - but if you want to distance yourself from them by actually pointing out that you are even MORE blinkered and narrow-minded than they, go for your life. At least we're finally getting somewhere.

"Perhaps it's their general inability to cope, and they fasten onto a former time in which they feel they would fit."

Spot on, Don. Maybe Wavey should create a 1930s re-enactment society - he could sit in a cheerless brown room in front of a mean little coal fire, eating bread and cheese off a newspaper tablecloth, and chunter away to other similarly misanthropic and socially backward specimens - happily there was no internet in the 50s, so presumably we'd never have to hear from any of them again. Until, of course, they form some sort of Oswald Mosely tribute band.

"I just heard an estimate that the number of UE here will soon double due to recession"

Yes, but you've been sitting there on your arse during the boom years, Wavey, taking the English taxpayer's shilling because you couldn't get a job in your chosen profession - unlike all the immigrants (including me) who have done whatever work we could find, if need be, to keep ourselves and our families, and who have never claimed a penny in benefits.

As someone who has taught at undergraduate level, I'd like to be absolutely honest about what a BA proves: bugger all. I taught students whose language and reasoning skills were as piss-poor as yours, Wavey, and unfortunately, several of them walked out with a decent degree. Now, I can't speak for the Australian education system, but I'm not aware of it as a shining pinnacle of world academic excellence. So assuming the standards to be similar to those in the UK, there will be many different types of universities and institutions of higher education. Some of these are desperate for bums on seats (usually the ones whose academic credentials are a bit rubbish, and where pretty much anyone can get in because the twin mantras of Recruitment and Retention hold sway. They will pass anyone. Indeed, I found myself not allowed to fail students, because if we did, we wouldn't meet our targets.

So you see, Wavey, a bachelor's degree is just a bit of paper, and for some years now they've been handed round like sweets. It's what you do with the bit of paper that matters, whether it's using it as a stepping stone into further study or getting out and driving a forklift truck.

IB has proved over and over again that his capacity for critical analysis is first rate. He also has an intellectual curiosity which leads him to seek out specialist study, not wikipedia articles and one-volume encyclopediae. He is also very articulate and expresses himself with clarity and focus, and does not simply repeat the same lines of dogma until everyone wants to throttle him.

Based on your proven intellectual capacity, I wouldn't let you onto a hairdressing course, let alone into a university. Just because an admissions officer with some hardcore recruitment targets once took pity on you, please don't assume that this makes you the intellectual superior of anyone here, especially IB.


"DON'T publish it anymore"

If you can publish whatever old shite you like and pimp it round the internet, who are you to tell dictate what others can "publish", particularly when it's clearly based on conclusions anyone could draw from your writings?

England was more English 50 years ago...immigrants are coming here and taking jobs from native-born English people...English culture is taking a hammering...different cultures cannot live under one state law...

You are a racist, David. A nasty, narrow-minded, sad little racist. And I'll shout it from the flipping rooftops, as long as you continue to try and harness your poisonous ideology to the folk culture I love.