SATURDAY, April 27, 2024
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Far-right extremists are trying to pass themselves off as reasoning moderates

Far-right extremists are trying to pass themselves off as reasoning moderates

I can almost taste the humidity coming from Nigel Pike’s latest spittle-flecked bombast. Nigel seems to enjoy indulging himself in one of his usual paroxysms, that of Pavlovian knee-jerk grandiloquence when confronted with the absolute truth.

As such, and judging by his latest (syntactic) ejaculation, he continues to be the bull that carries its own china shop around with it.
Let’s take a short excursion through his latest bout of silliness. He wails that he never stated that he wanted to “ban Islam in the UK, that was Britain First (BF)” – yet he admits this is an organ he supports. So he agrees with their beliefs. Beliefs that resulted in BF being de-registered by the UK Electoral Commission. Its founder, Jim Dowson, left in disgust because he considered the organisation to be unacceptable and unchristian. I wouldn’t be surprised if the revisionist Pike says he left to “spend more time with his family”.
Pike also stubbornly seeks to present these neo-Nazis as a “reasonable” organisation, a nonsense that sensible folk emphatically reject. As did the electorate in the 2014 Rochester and Strood by-election, where BF polled 56 votes or about 0.09 per cent of the total, finishing behind the Monster Raving Loony Party. These facts are reported by Medway Council.
Pike also invites us to think about his negatively posed connection between Muslims and beheadings, while at the same time side-stepping the inconvenient truth of his hero Trump’s endorsement of Saudi Arabia, a country where such punishment routinely occurs. Make your mind up, Nigel. Which is it to be? Or, do you want to “move on” again?
He can oscillate semantics and embroider until the cows come home, or in his case until the chickens come home to roost, but the immutable fact remains: he advocates far-right extremism as a reasonable political expression. 
In conclusion, he seems to be concerned about my gonads (I pray this is not in an unnatural way!); well that is very, erm, nice of him. My suggestion is that he grow a pair himself, the better to experience the crisp bite of winter should he, too, find himself in “chillier climes”.
Dr Frank
Bangkok

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