{"id":2679,"date":"2010-05-07T15:11:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T20:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=2679"},"modified":"2010-05-07T15:19:12","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T20:19:12","slug":"anti-islamic-uk-candidate-street-scuffle-the-perfect-youtube-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2010\/05\/07\/anti-islamic-uk-candidate-street-scuffle-the-perfect-youtube-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Islamic UK Candidate Street Scuffle :: The Perfect YouTube Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sa0775lH2ak&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>This is video circulating that might turn into a meme, but it&#8217;s not that exciting. It involves a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/politics\/election_2010\/england\/8663681.stm\">right-wing candidate for Parliament in the UK getting into an altercation with local South Asian youths<\/a><\/strong>. The British National Party candidate, Bob Bailey, made a reference to the youths as &#8220;robbers&#8221; that caused them to come over. After some words, one of them spat at Bailey and a scuffle ensued. It looks like nobody was hurt and just some egos got bruised.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if the youths even knew who Bailey was, but his views might explain his interest in engaging them. Last June, Bailey went on the record stating his concerns about Islam, how the &#8220;British&#8221; birth rate is below the Islamic birth rate in the UK, and his looking out for the white indigenous population of Britain {go to 1:33 to see Bailey in an interview-via Iranian <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/\">PRESS TV<\/a><\/strong>}::<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JWb6ASCmRuw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Bailey<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/constituency\/1252\/romford\"> lost the election and finished in 4th. place<\/a><\/strong>. The Conservatives won the outer east London constituency of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.ca\/maps?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=romford&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;redir_esc=&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=Romford,+Essex,+UK&amp;gl=ca&amp;ei=i3DkS8moDcL48AbG9vSwBA&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=geocode_result&amp;ct=image&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CCIQ8gEwAA\">Romford<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Song:: <\/strong>The Specials-&#8216;Simmer Down&#8217;<br \/>\n<object classid=\"d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"250\" height=\"40\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"hostname=cowbell.grooveshark.com&amp;widgetID=21075104&amp;style=metal&amp;p=0\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/listen.grooveshark.com\/songWidget.swf\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><strong>Twitterversion:: <\/strong>British National Party candidate taunts S.Asian youths, gets spat on, &amp; a scuffle ensues\u2014a perfect YouTube moment. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Prof_K\">@Prof_K<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is video circulating that might turn into a meme, but it&#8217;s not that exciting. It involves a right-wing candidate for Parliament in the UK getting into an altercation with local South Asian youths. The British National Party candidate, Bob Bailey, made a reference to the youths as &#8220;robbers&#8221; that caused them to come over. 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