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Surely by protesting you ideally want to gain sympathy and support from people that otherwise wouldn't? By scrawling that shit onto a public monument to honour the dead all you do is turn people against you even more. Coming from a person arrested on numerous occasions for painting on things I shouldn't if I saw this person painting this onto the wall of the Daily Mail or Mr Cameroons car... Go ahead and exercise you right to protest. But if I saw you paint this onto a monument of this sort I'd do my very best to squeeze that can of paint into the place your mother never washed... And get another charge for the other thing I was good at getting arrested for... Not keeping my hands in my pocket when I should.

To be honest, i couldn't swear i wouldn't do the same if i witnessed it. I don't really like it either.

But at the same time, i just can't help but think people with the mentality to put their lives on the line for "the greater good" would be utterly appalled at the situation we are now in. And would probably be at the forefront of these kind of protests. I get that maybe its only me. But thats how i would feel.

I think to focus on one bit of (clearly disrespectful) graffiti, just draws focus away from the actual intentions of many of the people that were protesting. If every single one of them had sprayed onto the monument, then fair enough, vilify the protestors, but still try to understand why they did it. But (as of right now) nobody knows who did it. They could have just been an idiot. A moron. Someone that had no idea what the monument even symbolises. Could have been an 80-year old war veteran that's had his benefits stopped or his pension plundered. Judge it as a single act, and not as the press release for the entire anti-austerity movement.

To focus on this one thing, like we're doing, and like the media are doing right now, just conveniently plays into the hands of the people it's aimed at.

Instead, whether it's on here or just in our own minds, let's focus on the cause of the financial crash, growing inequality, corrupt corporations and governments, the selling off of national resources and infrastructure, and the very real and harmful effects of austerity. Always ask why, how and who.

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Kind of just shows yours silly as then who wrote fuck Tory scum on the monument.
Your right they fought for freedom and the freedoms in the UK are great and ridiculous in comparison to others in the world.
But sorry you may cry but there is very little suffering in the UK
Similarly with all the freedoms gained I don't expect people to be surpressed but their not really are they. Not sure they want to love the Tories but then again I don't expect them to daub the monument to women who gave their lives in the war.
So sorry there should be no support or understanding of the idiot who did this.
Its done by an idiot who understands nothing. Lives in a country who clothes, houses and feeds him/her because of those who gave their lives. So to disrespect them is just sad.
As said if they want to daub graffiti on the Tories fine...but war memorials.... Sorry just sad and pathetic
But of course the main thing wrong with your justification of this desecration is that it follows a political belief.
Eg would you give it the same support if it said fuck labour or the working class.
If a UKIP supporter had written fuck immigrants.
What ever your politics nothing justifes this.

attacked is a very strong word and I probably just commented on a nonsensical post you made like the one you made in this thread supporting/understanding why someone did what they did to the monument .
The point here has nothing to do with where I live most of the time but I have a home in the UK thx.
The point is also non political it does not matter what party you support you should not daub nonsensical graffiti on the monuments of the war dead. It's quite simply really.
And sorry to correct you and I understand people in the UK having a hard time etc but I seriously doubt it was one of them who daubed the monument
it probably was not put on the monument by a homeless person was it
But all gets away from the real point which is its wrong to daub graffiti on the monuments to the war dead whatever the politics and you don't need to live in England 365 days a year to work that one out.

It's also only a couple of days since the people using democracy voted in a Tory govt so you might wanna look a little closer to home

Yes john. Or should i say all seeing eye. 

Odd that you are clearly so blind to everything and yet remain so fully aware of the situation. 

The rest are just watching you flick matches on your trousers mate. 

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Farage stays on as leader.
Resignation not accepted.
This isn't a joke.

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Nigel Farage is to remain as UKIP leader after the party rejected his resignation.
Mr Farage said he would stand down after failing to win a seat in last week's general election.
But the party said there was "overwhelmingly evidence" the UKIP membership did not want Mr Farage to go.
It said: "He has therefore been persuaded to withdraw his resignation and remains leader of UKIP."[

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Sorry, mate; I think you must be mistaken. In March he said "if I fail to win South Thanet...I will have to step down" and only three days ago after failing to win South Thanet he said "I am a man of my word". Surely you're not trying to imply otherwise?

I don't even know where to start with some of the Tory's proposals like abolishing the Human Rights Act but here are a few things that have at least made me smile over the last few days - the 7 year old girl was my highlight of the election campaign: