Aside from the unpleasant views expressed by the EDL representative on Newsnight last night his argument showed a lack of logic which he failed to comprehend.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeD5maZmAXg&feature=related
During his interview with Jeremy Paxman he started asking him whether he knew of any Muslims who had commented various crimes from drug dealing, paedophilia and murder before answering each question himself "You probably don't, but I do". His admission that others probably don't know of such criminal activity aside from himself and his prejudices highlights that such cases are very rare and that he has been very unlucky in his dealings with the Asian population or he's a bigot. The latter is the more likely especially given his brushing aside of Paxman's response to his claim of being worried by the presence of Muslims when Paxman said that people would be worried by his group claiming that they had a righteous cause. Just because you think you're right does not mean you are.
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This morning the Conservative MP for Sevenoaks was defending the Governments decision to sell of forests and before long he got round to the "Big Society" and how local people would do a better job of running their local forests than the Forestry Commission can which has been losing money in that cut-throat economic cauldron of looking after some trees. This would be the MP Michael Fallon who is so keen on local issues that he used to represent us in Darlington (despite being born in Scotland) http://www.michaelfallon.org.uk/?page_id=1171 before losing his seat to Alan Milburn in 1992. Did he bravely stand by the people who had elected him since 1983 and continue to take an active role in local politics until the chance to win the seat back in the subsequent election in 1997 presented itself? I think you know the answer already. Instead he opted to be parachuted into the safe Tory seat of Sevenoaks which he has held since 1997. A hypocritical politician, whatever next?
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