General Chat

Nick Griffin:"Frankly they need to sink several of those boats"

The EU should sink boats carrying illegal immigrants to prevent them entering Europe, British National Party leader Nick Griffin has told the BBC.

The MEP for the North-West of England said the EU had to get "very tough" with migrants from sub-Saharan Africa.

Pressed on what should happen to those on board, he said: "Throw them a life raft and they can go back to Libya".

Libya has long been a staging post for migrants from Egypt and sub-Saharan Africa wanting to reach Europe.

Nearly 37,000 immigrants landed on Italian shores last year, an increase of about 75% on the year before.

But with the prospect of a new immigration and asylum policy being voted on this autumn by MEPs, Mr Griffin is advocating measures to destroy boats used by illegal immigrants to reach the EU's southern coastline.

In an interview with this week's edition of BBC Parliament's The Record Europe, he said: "If there's measures to set up some kind of force or to help, say the Italians, set up a force which actually blocks the Mediterranean then we'd support that.


Europe has sooner or later to close its borders or its simply going to be swamped by the Third World "

from the BBC...

thoughts ? did you vote for his party? would you?

such a lovely guy - his mother must be so very proud of him!!!!

lol Ann , my thoughts exactly...

I had been looking on ancestry just prior to seeing that , at immigration and emigration, a lot of us would be short some ancestors if that had been suggested and done 'back in the day'( LOL we probably wouldn't be here at all though so wouldn't 'miss' them! )

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I'll just fill in the gaps mentally Lynda ;))

I bet I would Lynda ....but if you have any new ones for me , please send them in a plain brown envelope .... :)

Perhaps they should do his family tree on WDYTYA - see how far his British roots go back ... you never know.

Jill

Rose I totally disagree with that man but we have to do something or Britain will sink.
We are only a small island after all and we cannot keep taking in immigrants year after year after year.
I wish we could and in a perfect world then we could.

How come so many end up here when we are surrounded by sea, just HOW do they get across so many countries without being stopped and helped?

I'd be deep in the do do.......if we went a couple of generations back i'm from Eastern European Jews on one line.........and one of my best mates has Italian born parents.......who are lovely and have paid masses of tax to this country and have been upstanding citizens.......they'd be out of the door too under their rules.........

So no........haven't voted for them and wouldn't.

Oooh what a good idea Jill, I might make that my 'pet project' lol

I wouldn't be here, I would be missing a gt grandfather on one side ( Ireland) and a gt grandmother on the other side (Canada).

I wouldn't be here either or OH.
Well my Dads side as one line goes back to the six Earls of Normandy and that King Rollo chap from Denmark or wherever he came from (I forgot where) LOL
Once I discovered we were Normans I gave up on that side of my tree,I mean they were 'orrible!!!!

LWD, I might have an odd (very odd !) Norman or two....both surnames ( mum and dad) could have originated there.

Very odd eh Rose?? lol

explains a lot. just joking!!!! pmsl

lol it does LWD ! my temperament is from the Irish side ( on Mum's side) and their surname is Norman in origin 'probably' ... so it is no wonder I am a bit 'odd'

(that and the fact my mum dropped a family size tin of peaches on my head when I was a toddler LOL ( she swore it slipped out of her hands as I ran underneath ....hmmmm! lol)

Have to admit I don't know a great deal about the BNP I have never been interested as they seem so nasty.

We are led to believe our voting system is private??
Well I know of some persons who did vote for that party for the sole purpose of finding out if they get anything in the post from that particular party! Or indeed any other political party.
Silly strategy to me but I must say I wil be interested to hear what they get in the post in the future.
Well all ballot papers have a number on them so they can identify each of us can't they?

Tin of peaches ooer big ouch Rose.

I remember reading on the tin they came from the Cape of South Africa and I thought that was so posh. LOL

I am (so far) 100% English - that's English, not British, tracing most sides back to the 1600's - though there may have been a Dutch immigrant in the 1600's who came over, with many others to drain the Fens - I only surmise this because of his forename - Jarrett - and the fact that I can't trace him back any further...

However, I suffered racial abuse in my youth because of my olive skin and jet black hair. My fantastic 'double afro' enabled me, at first hand to be kicked in the back by a pr*tt on a bike and to 'go back home n......'. It was when he turned to spit in my face, and realised I wasn't black that he fell off his bike, thus enabling me to put him in a situation of fear - and I was wearing ball crushing platforms at the time!! LOL

My grandad's best mate in the 1920's was black. His dad was from Barbados, but his mother was at least 6th generation in Britain - hardly a recent immigrant!!!

As Jill says - Griffin should be a candidate on WDYTYA- and if he refuses, the public should know.
Actually, it's not beyond the realms of GR members to do a bit of searching.......

Here's your starter:
Nick Griffin was born in Barnet in 1959 - father Edwin

ooh thanks Maggie! now you do realise i shall be up all night doing the Griffin family tree? lol ....

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You're welcome Rose!! I'm off to bed now - work in the morning.

Anne of GG - his mother IS very proud, she's an administrator for the BNP, and her husband took Nick to his first BNP rally when he was 15.

Didn't really have much chance did he?

This man has finally shown his true colours in public. Though we knew this already, that he & his party are racist bigots.

The great shame.......As I see it.........is that, despite the rights or wrongs of todays economic & political woes. That people decided to show there dissatisfaction by voting in the likes of him.
OK two fingers to the government is one thing. But in doing this. It has given him 4yrs of office, load of money to his partys coffers & media coverage. Just so that the BNP can spread their vile, xenophobic, racist policies.

And what will the people of his constituency receive for his term as a MEP.......Nothing but bad publicity.

Steve.