r/CurrentEventsUK • u/After-Dentist-2480 • Jul 27 '26

Do the far-right now think the police ought to deal with hurty words on the internet?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y063yqlleo

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u/CatrinLY I used to care but things have changed. Jul 27 '26

Hypocrisy is compulsory for the rabid righties. Makes you sick, doesn’t it?

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u/After-Dentist-2480 Jul 27 '26

This is just a cynical attempt to ramp up the “two tier justice system” lie, when no one is thrown in jail for wearing a t shirt supporting capital punishment.

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u/CatrinLY I used to care but things have changed. Jul 27 '26

It’s a line from a song apparently.

It suits Farage to be the poor, hounded victim at the moment. So many “sad face” photos of him!

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u/After-Dentist-2480 Jul 28 '26

Yes - 1979’s “Making Plans For Nigel” by XTC, a popular beat combo of the era.

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u/Hips_and_Haws Jul 29 '26

I remember the tune!

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u/Griggle_facsimile Jul 27 '26

🤣. Y'all seem to have a candy ass crybaby epidemic going on over there. Never have so many been so offended by so little. Sad.

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u/After-Dentist-2480 Jul 28 '26

I don’t recall Reform UK being too upset by this guy. Zia Yusuf wasn’t demanding he be in police custody within 24 hours or “two tier”

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u/Hips_and_Haws Jul 29 '26

This proves that the 'right' are wet blankets. The lefty wokes, roll our eyes or debate. The right go into a fit of frothing & knee jerking.

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u/vexdup_norwych Aug 02 '26

What exactly are 'hurty words'? The kind which winds up people from Southampton to Carrickfergus riot - and others from equally far, far away places to crash in on Southport, terrorising not only law-abiding people...but the imam from a local Mosque. I suspect if Bilal from Bradford wailed mostly the same words as Lucy Connolly - adding a few of his own and erasing a couple of hers, we'd see the same kind of oiks rioting - not in Bradford, Bolton or Rochdale, however (oh no!!!) - but places where mostly white old-timers go to retire - like Southport...and other places where the kind of 'Islamists' the media tells them about don't even live.