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Dear BNP
thankyou for your recent communication. I am very glad to see your thanks for Polish efforts in WWII. I, too think this is long overdue. We must never forget how many Polish lives were lost in the struggle for our freedom. It's very nice to see this welcome of our Polish neighbours to the EU

no love,
person who knows that's a Polish spitfire on your leaflet.

Date: 2009-06-04 08:28 am (UTC)
emperor: (Default)
From: [personal profile] emperor
WIN

Date: 2009-06-04 09:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] robinbloke.livejournal.com
That's fantastic; nice teardown :)

Date: 2009-06-04 05:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ghoti.livejournal.com
That's excellent.

Date: 2009-06-04 08:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] khalinche.livejournal.com
Great observation! If this weren't friends-locked, I would link to it. Would you consider unlocking it?

Date: 2009-06-04 08:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alison-lees.livejournal.com
You could always write a similar post in your own blog; it's not as if this information isn't in the public domain.

A recent leaflet tells me; the 'British workers' are in fact American models. An elderly couple who appear to be promoting the BNP on a BNP leaflet are in fact Italian, and their pictures have been used without permission. A doctor and a mother are fake, and a soldier also had his picture used without permissiona and put it on record as 'I would never vote for them in a million years'. I am invited to find more at www.hopenothate.org.uk, but I haven't bothered.

Date: 2009-06-04 09:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] khalinche.livejournal.com
I could, but it would be disingenuous and derivative, because I don't know the difference between a Polish Spitfire and a British one, or a Kenyan or Mauritanian one for that matter, and [livejournal.com profile] ghoti (or at least Benedict) does, and that's what makes this post funny and effective. If I made a closely copied post then I would look like a plagiarist rather than an admirer.

Yes, I saw that piece of information about the non-Uk models, too, and Hope Not Hate probably have good information, but they have been annoying me by spamming me with daily emails since I signed one of their petitions. I had to unsubscribe with prejudice. As it were.

That's quite a good campaign slogan - Prejudice? Unsubscribe.

Date: 2009-06-04 07:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alison-lees.livejournal.com
I like it!! Forgot that ghoti, who is only my little sister, could spot a Polish spitfire if she saw one.

Date: 2009-06-04 05:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ghoti.livejournal.com
Done. And it was the historian who pointed it out, he's your historian too!

Date: 2009-06-04 05:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ceb.livejournal.com
They're stealing out jobs *and* our spitfires?

Most of the clip-art people are also not British.

Date: 2009-06-04 05:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ghoti.livejournal.com
I didn't know you were Polish.

Oh, wait... no, the BNP are stealing Poland's spitfires, (and pilots) not the other way around.
Edited Date: 2009-06-04 05:47 pm (UTC)

Date: 2009-06-04 07:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alison-lees.livejournal.com
My godmother is Polish, and ghoti is my little sister. Does that count?

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