Can We Safley Say

[Furunculus]

I, for one, thought that was a splendid idea. I just hope Cameron will have enough grace to keep Obama. After all, the GOP here is closer to BNP than the Tories...

now now, that is really not true, i don't want you going around making the BNP look good by comparing them to the Grand Old Party!

seriously, neither the Cons nor the GOP have nothing in common with the BNP, just as Labour and the Dems don't either.

the BNP is a crazy fringe party of little historical provenance, totally unlike the four above.
the BNP is pretty much a single issue party, totally unlike the four above.
the BNP is has limited demographic pull and thus little plurality, totally unlike the four above.

there is no sensible comparison that can be made. :)

[Centurion1]

now now, that is really not true, i don't want you going around making the BNP look good by comparing them to the Grand Old Party!

seriously, neither the Cons nor the GOP have nothing in common with the BNP, just as Labour and the Dems don't either.

the BNP is a crazy fringe party of little historical provenance, totally unlike the four above.
the BNP is pretty much a single issue party, totally unlike the four above.
the BNP is has limited demographic pull and thus little plurality, totally unlike the four above.

there is no sensible comparison that can be made. :)

wait isnt the bnp the nazi party.

AP it is one thing to say you dislike the GOP and totally another to say they are Nazi's.

[Pannonian]

I can safely say that in personal and business dealings, if someone says they are "conservative," I ask immediately what they mean by that, since the term, as used by 99.999% of people, is meaningless.

As for "progressive," it's just going through a rough patch due to Glenn Beck flogging it five hours a day on radio and teevee.

In history I was taught that Disraeli rebranded the Tories as "Conservatives", conserving the good and changing what needed to be changed. The brand may have different connotations nowadays, but the political opposite to the rebranded Progressives would be the originally rebranded Conservatives.

I find it noteworthy how many Americans see the word "socialism" differently from other Americans.

I am sorry to say this but political language is beyond the comprehension of about half the Americans I've met, and it's something that many insist on using when they don't understand what things mean. Especially when it involves big concepts like economics or taxation. And to be fair, that's from all sides of the political spectrum.

Debate and intelligent discourse is impossible when we speak the same language, but don't understand it, or have different definitions for the same words.

The US Orgahs here probably have a different idea of some political terms from that understood by other Americans, as a result of their greater contact with Europeans.

[Furunculus]

wait isnt the bnp the nazi party.

AP it is one thing to say you dislike the GOP and totally another to say they are Nazi's.

the BNP is not a nazi party:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_National_Party

The British National Party (BNP) is a far-right political party formed as a splinter group from the National Front by John Tyndall in 1982. Until 2009, when it was challenged in the courts on grounds of racial discrimination,[15] it restricted membership to people of "Caucasian origin".[16] After a vote by members in a February 2010 extraordinary general meeting the party dropped this policy, with chairman Nick Griffin saying that the party will now "accept anyone as a member providing they agree with us that this country should remain fundamentally British"[17]. The party will go back to court in March when a judge will decide if the new rules are within the law.[18]

The BNP seeks to restore the overwhelmingly white ethnicity of Britain that existed prior to 1948 through legal means, including "firm but voluntary incentives for immigrants and their descendants to return home",[19] and the repeal of anti-discrimination legislation. It believes that there are significant differences between races.[20] The party is ostracised by mainstream political parties in the UK.[21][22][23][24][25]

In 2005, the last UK general election, the party received 0.7% of the popular vote but had no candidates elected to Parliament. In the 2006 English local elections the party doubled its number of seats in England. The BNP finished fifth in the 2008 London mayoral election with 5.2% of the popular vote and secured one of the London Assembly's 25 seats.[26] They won their first county council seats in 2009[27] together with two seats in the European Parliament.[28]

it might be the closest thing we have to a nazi party, but that does not mean that their is a substantial equivalence between the two.

[Centurion1]

so they are just racists.........

still insulting comparison.

[Beskar]

Maggie Thatcher is classed as a left-wing Democrat in American politics. It is amusing.

so they are just racists.........

The BNP are fascists with neo-nazi elements in its make up. "Young, Nazi and Proud" shows this off the best. It is a good programme at explaining it.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...6632184074561#

[Centurion1]

Maggie Thatcher is classed as a left-wing Democrat in American politics. It is amusing.

not on any political spectrum she isnt

[Beskar]

not on any political spectrum she isnt

?

(Since Lemur is the one who said she was, I allow him to explain)

[Centurion1]

sure i want to hear as well i think of her as a rightie as well. but she is european and to some extent her politics reflect that, she is more socialist than any conservative here. that being said i wouldnt call her a far left american liberal, least because of her outlook on defense which is a major difference between left and right in america.

[Louis VI the Fat]

Maggie? She's a Marxist, mate.

She supported socialised healthcare, wanted to destroy the American way of life with the Global Warming scam, and supported the commies against the conservative, freedom loving Argie junta.

[Pannonian]

sure i want to hear as well i think of her as a rightie as well. but she is european and to some extent her politics reflect that, she is more socialist than any conservative here. that being said i wouldnt call her a far left american liberal, least because of her outlook on defense which is a major difference between left and right in america.

Thatcher was never socialist by choice. She maintained some socialist institutions because it would be political suicide (at the time) to disband them. But she hacked away at all she could, and psychologically laid the basis for her successors to hack away even more. She's right wing even by American standards.

[Sarmatian]

To take your gun, take your bible

Keep 'em, I wouldn't know what to do with them anyway...

[Furunculus]

so they are just racists.........

still insulting comparison.

yes, an unworthy and insulting comparison.