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Friday, 3 February 2012

Paul Weston's British Freedom Party

Here is the platform of the British Freedom Party, headed by the admirable Paul Weston:

20 Point Plan

1. Introduce a US style First Amendment guaranteeing Free Speech.

2. Leave the profoundly undemocratic European Union.

3. Abolish the Human Rights Act, which benefits only foreign criminals/terrorists.

4. Halt any further immigration for a period of five years.

5. Deport foreign criminals, seditious dual nationality Islamists and illegal immigrants.

6. Abolish all multicultural and equality quangos.

7. Halt and turn back all aspects of the Islamisation of Britain, including Sharia finance.

8. Drastically reduce crime – criminals should fear the consequences of their behaviour.

9. Repair the damage wreaked by the progressive educational establishment.

10. Promote British values and assimilation, rather than multiculturalism and division.

11. Rebuild Britain’s Armed Forces to 1980 levels.

12. Diminish the public sector and government interference in the private sector.

13. Withdraw troops from all areas where we are not directly threatened.

14. Cancel foreign aid to countries which do not deserve or need it.

15. End welfare payments to immigrants; they must pay for their housing and children.

16. Ensure no elderly person lives in fear, and can afford both heat and food in the winter.

17. Ensure that a no class-A drugs policy is enforced.

18. Promote morality, marriage, the family, the community and the nation state.

19. Allow pubs the choice of operating as smoking or non-smoking establishments.

20. Live by Christianity’s Golden Rule: “Do unto others as thou wouldst be done by.”


It sounds good.

But I have one quibble.

I would like to suggest  a change in that last point, #20 of twenty, the familiar one about doing to others as thou wouldst be done by. That rule, maxim, policy,  just isn't working out for themuch put-upon Western world, nor for Christians, post-Christians, Judeo-Christians, elsewhere. .

I would prefer to see enshrined in the platform of the Freedom Party (and similar groups, in other countries), and lived by, too, an autres-temps-autres-moeurs update of the traditional Golden Rule:

"Do unto others as thou wouldst be done by, but only up to a point, and after that point has been reached,  do unto others as they have been doing to you."

Posted on 02/03/2012 8:52 AM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Comments
3 Feb 2012
PDK

As a GB outsider, I am an American, and without the desire to meddle in the business of others, but  further, with the sharing of similar problems here in America, I must say Paul Weston's plan sounds pretty good to me.

I suspect the liberals over there will be the problem to Brits taking back their country. I know liberals over here are the problem America has with preserving our founding fathers American culture, which among other things is life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

There can be, there will be, no liberty or happiness if Islam conquers ones country. Further socialism breeds tyranny, poverty and misery. Capitalism generates wealth. Once capitalism makes a country wealthy, said country can afford, up to a point to take care of its own less fortunate. However, once generosity crosses over into socialism the countrys direction is down hill.

Islam and socialism are the two sides of the "coin of misery". They are both tyranny and poverty which always begets misery.

If I were God for a day, one of my accomplishments would be the ending of the UN, a joke these days if not worse, and the establishment of a new international club.

Moving shop out to rural Idaho I would enjoin all English speaking countries and near and dear allies to join. I would call this new enterprize "The Friends of Liberty and Wealth.

PS, no liberals allowed.

Islam pursues its superiority at the expense of anothers liberty and happiness.

Woe will be humanity, when all are enslaved to Islamic insanity. Thank you.






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