Ballerina Gate: It’s a Bloody Disgrace

From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Tue, 2007-01-02 09:49

A quote from Deadbrain, 1 January 2007

The British National Party is facing calls to expel one of its members over allegations that she is a ballerina. Simone Clarke, a BNP supporter, was recently ‘outed’ by the Guardian as being a member of the English National Ballet. […]

Doug Ramsbottom, a local BNP organiser in Bootle, said he was appalled by Ms Clarke’s behaviour. Speaking shortly after getting his head shaved, he told DeadBrain: “I’ve always believed that what someone gets up to in the privacy of their own home is their business, so long as they’re not a Paki or a poof. But prancing around in a tutu in front of people? She’s an embarrassment to the party.”

Greg Mullet, a BNP councillor until he was convicted of benefit fraud last month, was similarly outraged. “Apparently her husband's part Cuban, part Chinese. It makes you think, doesn’t it?” he said. “They come over here, take our jobs and make our women dance about on stage to stupid music. It’s a bloody disgrace.”

Despite the criticism, Ms Clarke said she was proud of her career as a dancer. “Everything will be different now, I’ll be known as the ballerina BNP member,” she told the Mail on Sunday. “But I don’t regret anything. I’ve wanted to be a ballerina all my life and I’m not going to give up now.” [...]

Joke Or No Joke... it's Pathetic

Submitted by American Conservative on Tue, 2007-01-02 18:43.

What you call "joke" in Europe is not a joke anymore... it is happening.

Political correctness is like water and air in Europe now and it is making you delusional. You can't even realize the danger you're in already.

If you don't rescue yourselves pretty soon, you are going to be sucked up by the Muslims and Islam.

Your situation is worse than the one in America. At least here there is still a strong resistance to the "islamization" of America.

"Eurabia" is not a joke anymore.

Wake up idiots!

Satire

Submitted by Paul Belien on Tue, 2007-01-02 16:27.

Of course this quote is a joke (and a good one too). We thought that would be obvious to our readers.

Joke is on us

Submitted by Mission Impossible on Tue, 2007-01-02 17:58.

Paul, you and your team were perhaps a little too good. The world has gone so crazy in recent years, it is getting quite difficult to identify when someone switches to humour. Heck, it is only the 1st January, not 1st April, ha-ha.

Deadbrained Reactions

Submitted by Mission Impossible on Tue, 2007-01-02 14:22.

Gentlemen (and ladies) calm down a moment.

Doug Ramsbottom, according to the piece above, is a local BNP organiser in Bootle. Let me illuminate the readership about the west Liverpool district known as Bootle.

Bootle is a "hard-knock" area, where you'd best go outside with your Rottweiler only in the daytime. Nighttime? Forget it unless you are prepared to use physical force. Bootle was once a functioning container port area on the River Mersey, until it was ravaged by the demise of the Atlantic trade, and the shift to ports much nearer European markets.

Anyone who hails from that part of the world has no inkling of culture, and would probably view a bowler hat as a bull sees a matador's red cloak.

Having said that, one can have some sympathy for the view Mr. Ramsbottom may be trying (in a crude fashion) to show some concern for the personal dignity of Ms. Clarke. And her being married to a Cuban comes as no surprise, as modern dance is a very popular pastime in Cuba. She has married someone who isn't gay but who can dance. Most British born male dancers are homosexuals (it would seem).

Greg Mullet has committed benefit fraud. The BNP then took disciplinary action to penalize him. Mr. Mullet is one of tens of thousands who commit benefit fraud in the U.K. every year, including relatively wealthy people, who claim benefit even when they know they don't need it, or by misrepresenting facts, or by playing the system. For all we know, Greg Mullet may also be one of those millions pushed into financial difficulty by the policies of the present New Labour administration. The job loss data has been suppressed since the late 1990s / early 2Ks, so we don't know the full extent of the employment opportunity transition during PM Blair's tenure.

If journalists and bloggers scrutinized the ideas, comments and activities of Labour, Liberal, or Conservative party members, as closely as they apparently like to scrutinize known BNP members, then no doubt we'd be rolling on the floor laughing at such weirdos and antics.

If you have a look at the

Submitted by Frank Dupont on Tue, 2007-01-02 13:54.

If you have a look at the previous headline on the Deadbrain site ("New Year cancelled due to bad weather"), you will realise, like the Onion, it is a site that takes real news and puts its own, satirical spin on it. The joke here is on the imposition of conformity, both by the BNP's political platform as by the Guardian's editors.

WTF

Submitted by American Conservative on Tue, 2007-01-02 13:31.

What this BNP stands for? British Nada Party?

I'd say to that brave Simone: Leave them, screw them, they don't deserve you. Just like the majority of your compatriots, they are cowards, politically correct, and they will lose their country and way of life because of that.

National Party my ass!

Bunch of cowards!