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A BRITISH FAR-RIGHT group has continued to share images of a murdered British soldier despite criticism and a plea from his family not to politicise his image.
Britian First has more likes on Facebook than any other UK political party and regularly shares images and stories with an anti-Muslim sentiment. In recent years, the party has launched a number of stunts to gain publicity including “invading mosques”.
As part of its Facebook strategy, the party has frequently shared images of British soldier Lee Rigby who was murdered by Islamic extremists on the streets of London in 2013.
This is despite a plea from his family two years ago who asked that his name not be used in a way that excuses attacks against others.
A family’s statement released through the UK’s Ministry of Defence in the weeks after his killing said that they wanted his memory to promote peace:
“We would like to emphasise that Lee would not want people to use his name as an excuse to carry out attacks against others. We would not wish any other families to go through this harrowing experience and appeal to everyone to keep calm and show their respect in a peaceful manner.”
Britain’s First website is open in its disrespect for Islam, describing it as a ‘barbaric religion’ and encouraging followers to ‘take the fight to hate preachers’.
Earlier in the week, the party shared a picture of the Rigby under the slogan ‘never forget’ and faced criticism.
Today, the party have done so again saying that Rigby is ”Always in our hearts”.
It’s prompted further criticism from people online.
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The what’s in it for me party
I think that’s called Fine Gael or is it Finns Fail
Think I’d give my first preference to the sex party and my second to the hemp party. Glad to see they’ve formed a coalition. They need to get the Rock n Roll party involved and they could really shake things up
Mandatory voting?! What a terrible idea forcing the uniterested and uninformed to cast a vote
There was no problem getting the uninformed to vote in the UK last week
its a shame they didn’t have it in the uk last week, it might have changed things. nothing wrong with making it compulsary tweety, it gets people to think about what they are voting for. not like last weeks nonsense..immigrant this and that. what absolute waffle.
Uninterested and uninformed is just another way of saying lazy ***** who couldnt be arsed voting. I’m all in favour of mandatory voting if it means those that arent bothered voting get fined.
Compulsory voting just means people will turn up and spoil their votes. #dumbaussies
Compulsory voting means uninformed people get to vote, often parroting what the tabloid media is crapping on about. It also means issues can be made up/ overstated to garner votes – for example Tony Abbotts ‘stop the boats’ bullshite and off shore processing for refugees ( far more refugees in Australia arrive in planes than boats, but you can’t make as big a noise about that).
The tabloid media has far too much power because of compulsory voting, and that means Murdoch and Packer pretty much control the country
Cool I’ll go for Brexit
that flux party voting app thing could be the future. one of the great problems is that when we elect our politicians they then have a five year mandate with free reign to do what ever the hell they want. this app would really give people an ongoing say in massive decisions (eg burining unsecured bondholders) that are currently out of our hands.
I couldn’t see any of our political mob as Sex Party material! Now the Flux Party sounds sorta familiar alright!
Joan burton
Boris was rumoured to be running for the sex party, but he pulled out too early.
They should join forces and call themselves ‘The All Night Party’.
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