UKIP's typically vocal
Paul Nuttall was recently reported in OTS News announcing that St George’s Day
should be declared a Bank Holiday,
What else resides behind this man’s past conduct?
BLISTERING DOUBLE STANDARDS
Nuttall seems quite happy for us to take time
off work for this Christian – inspired festival yet he had ‘other’ opinions a while
back when people of a different spiritual makeup asked for similar.
So why are we experiencing such ‘selective
political’ engineering from this man today?
OK, start a new political
gathering; wave your fists about and shout a lot then grab a swift bit of
bigoted support, via attacking the nearest spiritual minority!
Southport - based author, Pat Regan, tackled Nuttall, a while back following his uncalled for attack on
the UK Pagan minority.
The Southport media covered this story, as below...
19 May 2010
The region's Pagan community
has reacted with uproar this week after a political party branded moves to let
police officers celebrate their festivals as “madness”.
Pat Regan, founder of the Pagan
Anti-Defamation Network, told The Champion on Monday, May 17, 2010, that a
statement sent out by the UK Independence Party describing a ruling allowing
Pagan police officers in Lancashire and Merseyside to take time off to
commemorate their festivals as “politically correct madness” was offensive, and
called for UKIP MEP Paul Nuttall to resign.
“I was saddened, shocked and
appalled at recent comments made against the UK's Pagan minority by Paul
Nuttall, MEP for the UK Independence Party. This type of negative diatribe
against an innocent spiritual minority may in fact breach UK laws relating to
Incitement to Religious Hatred. He may also be in breach of the UN Declaration
of Human Rights and in particular articles 18 and 19. If Mr Nuttall values his
own freedom of expression then he should be prepared to extend this essential
liberty to others,” he said.
“Nuttall's disgraceful language
belongs to a radical 1930s Germany and not a free and democratic UK 21st
century society. I fully intend to expose and complain about Mr Nuttall's
blatant ignorance and apparent bigotry, which may affect many ordinary Pagan
families in society. After Pagans who will Mr Nuttall single out next?”
The comments come after the
Pagan Police Association has just been officially recognised as a 'diversity
staff support organisation' by the Home Office, allowing Pagan police officers
to take time off. Mr Nuttall, who stood as UKIP's parliamentary candidate in
Bootle at the general election, said in a statement issued to The Champion last
weekend that Pagans had “unabashed sexuality and promiscuity”.
“These pagan festivals include
believers behaving with 'unabashed sexuality and promiscuity', casting spells
and dancing around naked,” he said. “It is politically correct madness of high
order for the Home Office to give this approval. Everyone is entitled to their
own religious belief and if they want to use their holiday entitlement to be
off for their festivals that's fine but it should not be a legal right.”
Lancashire Constabulary said it
recognised the Home Office decision, saying: “Lancashire Constabulary
recognises that in order to effectively deliver policing services, the make-up
of our staff needs to be fully representative of the communities we police and
that religious needs and beliefs should where possible be accommodated in order
to satisfy individual requirements.”
Drumming up revulsion against
any spiritual minority is unacceptable in any fair-minded society. Pagans today remain as the folk
who generally follow the 'native (not imported), earth-orientated,
spirituality' of our British ancestors.
Intolerance kills
We have already seen the
worrying extremism from this party in Southport when their main man called for
others who failed to agree with UKIP policy to be 'hung'!
Do we really wish to turn back
the clock to the insanity of such persecution as we previously saw in Germany?
Many may say, "so what, who cares that does not involve me".
But many said the same in
Germany when the Jews etc, were being murdered and look how all that
escalated...
So after UKIP rids society of
its political dissenters, who they perceive as "traitors", and
religious minorities, who they see as expendable, what faction will be 'next'
on their hit list? Sound at all familiar, it should, and history has been known
to repeat itself!
Waving a finger about and
shouting a lot does 'not' make one right!
Prejudice based on silliness, unawareness
and any sort of political pampering to public mob-mentality is unacceptable and
must always be challenged by everyone who values their freedom of belief and
expression!
Sadly, some may not have heard about the concept of ‘freedom of opinion’, yet it is enshrined within article 19 of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Does anyone really fall for such obvious political spin?
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