UKIP a correction

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I really must apologise, my previous article UKIP losing the plot I’d rather presumed that UKIP wanted a blanket ban on the burqa. However as Dick Puddlecote points out over at Old Holborns this isn’t actually the case. They just want to ban it in public buildings and allow for it to be banned in private buildings as well and they actually want to ban “anything which conceals a woman’s face“. Which is marginally more reasonable, except why just women’s faces? Surely experience tells us that men with covered faces are far more likely to be a problem? And what does it matter if you’ve got your face covered in a library say? Or if they word it really well in a council run community centre attending a group for Islamic women? Also surgical masks? I’m very sure that you can’t over estimate how badly a law can be worded, and how stupidly it will subsequently be enforced.

So given that they single out both women and Islamic garb, I’m going to stick by my previous conclusions even though I did misread the report and think they were after a blanket ban on just one type of garment.

If they proposed that it all face coverings could be requested to be removed when security concerns or the establishment of identity required it, that’d be far more reasonable – but one would hope that was the law already? And as for private buildings given that hoodies, crash helmets and even hats are banned from all sorts of places wouldn’t it just make more sense to allow private venues to ban whatever clothing they like? what with them being private property and all?

So my final question stands failing a LPUK candidate, as UKIP seem to be trying to join the rest of the authoritarian part who’s left to vote for?

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Blogging by edict

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I’m up way too late, but it’s the weekend, so here’s a wonderful bit of amusement, courtesy of
Anna Raccoon – a dissection of why the left aren’t generally terribly good at blogging. Though I do find it odd that they can’t get their heads round all the free blog providers as they’re normally quite good at taking handouts.

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UKIP losing the plot

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The news is currently full of reports that Lord Pearson head of UKIP has announced that they’d like to ban the burqa. Oddly there’s nothing about this on the UKIP site, which makes me wonder how well thought out it is. Equally puzzling is why UKIP feel the need to announce such a policy, I don’t believe that “white working” class votes actually care that much about women dressing as daleks, and as Archbishop Cranmer expounds so well this policy really has nothing to do with UKIPs stated aim of getting us out of the EU. It’s got the Furries worried as well.

Unfortunately what it does do is add one more party to the list of authoritarian shits that want to restrict our freedoms and to control us by banning things. So no point in voting Lib/Lab/Con, the greens and BNP are no better so had been thinking I could vote UKIP to get out of Europe. But no. now it looks like the getting out of Europe comes with the same authoritarian, dog whistle package as all the rest. Best hope that LPUK and independents/jury team make a good showing as we’re running out of options for people actually in favour of freedom.

Does anyone have any idea what UKIP were thinking other than to grab some cheap headlines by shooting themselves in the foot?

update Leg Iron wonders if they’re not all trying to lose, there’s also a rather interesting take on the whole “ban the burqa” fashion over at Feminazery observing that banning it is as restrictive as enforcing it, and that given that fantasies of sex or revealing clothing can be seen as an excuse for rape that perhaps wearing a niquib or burqa might not actually be a very rational choice.

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