Social networking website Facebook has apologised to the nationalist Britain First group after removing a critical post about ISIS involving a roll of toilet paper made up of the black flag used by the terrorist group. Earlier this week, Britain First – which has been criticised by Britain’s mainstream media for its direct action tactics in opposing radical Islam – reported that one of its Facebook posts had been removed by Facebook due to a ‘Community Standards’ violation. The group reported that its leader, Paul Golding, was “logged out of his Facebook account and given a slap on the wrist by Facebook moderators” for posting a picture of an ISIS flag-themed toilet roll with the accompanying comment, “Soon to be stocked in the Britain First shop!” Britain First then contacted Facebook demanding an explanation. A Facebook chat support employee said: “obviously it was not complying with Facebook community standards” and followed up with “I understand
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GUARDIAN: Union Jack is ‘Ugly and Divisive’
The Guardian has published an horrifically anti-British op-ed by one of its art critics Jonathan Jones, in which he calls the flag of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland – otherwise known as the Union Flag – “divisive and ugly”. Jones and the Guardian – who refer to the Union Flag as the Union Jack despite a long, ongoing dispute over the matter – published the piece after it was revealed that the new British Athletics uniform will no longer carry the nation’s flag. The deeply unpatriotic opinion piece reads: “I have every sympathy for the designers who removed it from the British athletics team’s vests for the imminent World Athletics Championships in Beijing,” and calls the flag – which is usually only referred to as the Union Jack when at sea, or on a ship – “jagged, explosive” and “aggressive”. He continues: Look at it, if you can bear to.
Controversial TTIP Legislation Held in ‘Secure’ Room to Avoid Leaks
The text of the controversial Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment (TTIP) is to be held in a guarded reading room in Brussels so as not to have core elements leaked in advance of the final negotations between Brussels and Washington D.C. The news comes after the Wikileaks organisation offered €100,000 to anyone who is willing to leak the text of the legislation. European Union critics will note that TTIP was sold under the guise of transparency and democracy, but has not yet been seen by the outside world. Last month, EU Commissioner Cecilia Malmström blamed the U.S. government for the secrecy surrounding TTIP, but it appears that Brussels bureaucrats are up to the same tricks. CorrectIV reports that a spokesman for the Malmström said: “This is not a step backwards for transparency in TTIP. We just do not want our negotiating position is weakened if confidential negotiating papers penetrate to the outside.” German parliamentarian
EU Migrant Workers Hit Record TWO MILLION as UK Unemployment Rises
Official figures released today have revealed that the number of EU migrant workers has jumped to a dramatic TWO MILLION people, a rise of four per cent on the previous quarter. According to the Official for National Statistics, estimates by nationality show that between April to June 2014 and April to June 2015, the number of UK nationals working in the UK increased by 84,000 to reach 27.76 million, while the number of non-UK nationals working in the UK increased by 257,000 to reach 3.18 million. ITV News notes there are 973,000 workers now in the United Kingdom who were born in eight ‘A8′ eastern European countries, including Poland and the Czech Republic. Commenting on the figures, Lord Green of Deddington, Chairman of Migration Watch UK said: “The number of EU workers has now topped 2 million for the first time and over one million of these are from Eastern Europe. Clearly the government is
EU Migrant Workers Hit Record TWO MILLION as UK Unemployment Rises
Official figures released today have revealed that the number of EU migrant workers has jumped to a dramatic TWO MILLION people, a rise of four per cent on the previous quarter. According to the Official for National Statistics, estimates by nationality show that between April to June 2014 and April to June 2015, the number of UK nationals working in the UK increased by 84,000 to reach 27.76 million, while the number of non-UK nationals working in the UK increased by 257,000 to reach 3.18 million. ITV News notes there are 973,000 workers now in the United Kingdom who were born in eight ‘A8′ eastern European countries, including Poland and the Czech Republic. Commenting on the figures, Lord Green of Deddington, Chairman of Migration Watch UK said: “The number of EU workers has now topped 2 million for the first time and over one million of these are from Eastern Europe. Clearly the government is
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EU, BBC-Backed Asylum Group: Release Hundreds of Asylums Seekers into UK Communities
A European Union backed charity that promises transparency into its fundraising has demanded that the British government release hundreds of asylum seekers currently held at an immigration centre into British communities. Asylum Aid – which counts amongst its donors the BBC’s Children in Need appeal, as well as the European Refugee Fund – has today called on the government to shut down the Yarl’s Wood immigration centre, where asylum applicants are held while being processed, to be shut down. When asked as to whether asylum applicants would abscond into communities and continue to live in Britain illegally, Zoe Gardner, the Communications Officer for Asylum Aid, said that potential absconders should be released into UK towns and cities at a cost to the British tax payer. Asked, “Where should they go then?” if not Yarl’s Wood, Gardner replied, “It is a lot cheaper for the taxpayer and a lot more humane to
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He Was Asexual… No, He Was ‘Shy’ and Gay’… the Establishment Explanations of Ted Heath are as Bad as Those Jumping to Conclusions
One of the things we have repeatedly heard about the paedophilia allegations against former British Prime Minister Ted Heath in the past few weeks is that we shouldn’t jump to conclusions. There should be no witch hunt. He’s dead, leave him alone. So on and so forth. There’s merit to some of this thinking. Merit that extends to the fact that seven police forces have received information and allegations about Heath and they are obliged to investigate such things. But those attempting to clear the former PM’s name before such investigations have concluded are just as bad as those who would convict without evidence. Because on the one hand, yes, it is less than ideal for the family and friends of Mr Heath to be dragged through the anguish of having to watch a very public argument over his sexuality and indeed with whom he did or didn’t have sex.
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Mean-Spirited Kelly Tolhurst MP: Mark Reckless ‘Means Nothing, He’s History’
Newly elected Conservative MP Kelly Tolhurst has launched a mean-spirited attack on her predecessor, UKIP defector Mark Reckless, in an interview with the Huffington Post UK. Tolhurst, who won a 7,133 vote majority over UKIP’s Reckless at the General Election in May, despite her embarrassing loss against him in a by-election just a few months earlier, has blasted the former MP, saying that he “means nothing. She noted, “he’s history.” But the attack, three months after the election, will no doubt appear gratuitous and mean sprited to the Tory supporters who initially voted for Reckless, but shifted back to the Conservative Party against the backdrop of national panic, caused by Tory strategists, over the Scottish National Party. Reckless was a popular figure locally, and has since taken up the position as Director of Policy for UKIP. He is also regarded as an intellectual powerhouse compared to her. She is most well
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Wikileaks Issues €100,000 Bounty for Leaked TTIP, TPP Documents
Julian Assange’s Wikileaks organisation has issued a whopping €100,000 bounty for the release of the secretive Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) documents, with a further €100,000 aimed at securing the release of the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal. The deals – billed as “free trade” agreements by the political establishments of Europe and the United States, but derided as “corporatist stitch-ups” by both the populist left and right across the two continents – have attracted attention because of the clandestine way in which they are being hurried through legislatures and bureaucracies. As yet, the full details of the deals are yet to be revealed, with European Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom blaming the U.S. government for the secrecy. U.S. Congressman Ted Yoho, as well as UKIP leader Nigel Farage, have spoken exclusively to Breitbart London on the nature of the deals, with the former noting that the Obama administration has a track record of
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Former Govt Minister Admits: BBC IS An Organ of the Political Left
Former British Cabinet Minister Norman Baker has inadvertently admitted that the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is an organ of the country’s political left – an argument often made by right wingers, but traditionally denounced as “conspiracy” or “spin” by their opponents. In an interview with the Independent, wherein Mr Baker outlines his fears that Britain is turning into a “one party state” – he reveals his belief that the “right wing press” are delighted at the fact that the BBC’s public funding is under threat. He portrays the BBC not as an unbiased organisation, as it is supposed to be, but rather a vehicle of Britain’s left wing. Baker, a Liberal Democrat, noted: “The appointment of John Whittingdale to be Culture Secretary is a very clear sign that the BBC is to be eviscerated when Charter renewal comes up shortly, to the delight of Rupert Murdoch and the rest of the right-wing media.”
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