...and that was 700 by the way. And given what the BNP represents, 700 posts is not too many. Six million might be a better number.
Americans may feel happy to have the KKK spout their stuff because of a belief in free speech, but they don't have to live with the fact that fascists have now been elected in the UK and will get given the best part of three quarters of a million dollars of tax-payers' money to promote their twisted ideology. The sort of ideology that suggests we sink boat-loads of migrants to stop them reaching our shores, that suggests that Jews are behind a conspiracy to do down the white race, that...well, need I go on?
I know the wish is to keep this place a touchy-feely, politics free zone, where the real world doesn't intrude, but in the UK the fascist right is making a deliberate effort to appropriate traditional music and dance to further its own filthy ends. I don't want that to happen. If that means shouting out a few home truths, so be it.
And if this post is pulled as well, then what remains of any respect I had for the people who set up the Mudcat as an inclusive place to celebrate folk and blues will finally have evaporated.