relatives and shame (or why you should never google for people you know)

[burntcopper]

Oh. Dear. God.

...If anyone's seen anything about The Freedom Association and ID cards or muslim demonstrations on CNN or any other tv stuff, and noted an early twenties bloke from TFA with dark hair, slight Geordie accent, being terribly articulate and witty but horribly right-wing in on the debates?

Understand that I'm hiding my head in shame. All resemblances of this bloke to the cloning operation that is the male side of my family are completely coincidental.

Completely.

....This is what happens when one branch of the family are natural Lib Dem supporters and the others are so right wing they think Thatcher was soft.

(For the record, Mark is actually funny, nice, witty, completely lovely person, it's just his politics that make me want to hide under the blanket of shame)

Comments

[hackenbacker.livejournal.com]

There are all kinds of scary. I don't necessarily agree with the details of what Labour are doing, even if I agree with some of the principals (for example, I don't necessarily disagree with it being compulsory to have some form of ID, but an actual compulsory ID card? Some of the details of what it will actual contain?). Yes, in some parts Labour scares and appalls me - trouble is, try and find me a political body that doesn't (and wouldn't).

Although what I was particularly referring to on the TFA website was some of the quotage and comments (as in from visitors).

[mrslant]

I remember the comedian Mark Steele once wrote about when he used to go to Labour meetings: "you'd be having a discussion about the holes in the road, and someone would get up and make a speech blaming it all on the failure of the German revolution of 1923..." Both left and right have their share of fruitcakes! :-)

[hackenbacker.livejournal.com]

Well, yes... quite clearly that was the fault of the Romans...

[mrslant]

The only people we hate more than the Romans... are the Judaean People's Front! Splitters!

[hackenbacker.livejournal.com]

I thought we were the Judean People's Front?

:runs and hides before somebody slaps me:

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

Front for People's Rights in Judea, me. Has anyone seen the Popular Judean Front?

[hackenbacker.livejournal.com]

He's over there (http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/brian/inlines/07_popul.jpg)