Treading a fine line between "cool" and "wanker".

The Brexit Party refuses to release a manifesto. So what do they stand for? Apart from "Brexit means Brexit."

From gay conversion therapy advocates to supporters of paedophilia legalisation, from climate change deniers to rampant tax avoiders, from NHS abolitionists to besties of neo-Nazis, from fracking supporters to unabashed profiteers of chaos…

I have a hunch that 2–10% of my friends, family and colleagues are going to go to their local voting booths on Thursday and scrawl a tick next to The Brexit Party.

Firstly, I still love you guys. Despite, um, everything.

Secondly, I wrote this handy list for you. It’s about your favourite party’s candidates.

Now, I was kinda worried you might be voting for The Brexit Party for one reason (especially as they forgot to publish more than one policy). And that you might reconcile yourself with the motley crew as a wanky means to an end.

Some of you might not have the time to investigate what kind of people you’re voting for, and what views they have, something made harder by their often suspicious levels of secrecy and stonewalling. Put simply, you might not know who you are voting to give power and influence to.

Which is why I took the time to do the reading for you.

I read up on every single listed Brexit Party MEP candidate, and some staff members, to find out what kind of people they are. And it was an epic, revealing slog.

PLOT SPOILERS: Many of them are really, really into things like conversion therapy for gay people, many support and are beaming friends to actual fascists, and a number have campaigned for a paedophile’s right to access child porn or groom children. Heck, that’s just for starters.

A vast amount have a history of tax avoidance / using tax havens, or are minted enough for Brexit to present a massive green light for such practices — see the pesky EU Anti Tax Avoidance Directive, which sets out to clamp down on several types of tax avoidance (https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/company-tax/anti-tax-avoidance-package/anti-tax-avoidance-directive_en). And many candidates preside over corporations that are paid to show other corporations how to comprehensively dodge and mitigate paying tax.

A vast number of Brexit Party candidates work in property, finance, or real estate. Which is fine, only many of them have been spectacularly candid about — and quoted on — their desire to personally profit from and fecklessly exploit the chaos and decline that they openly admit Brexit would cause.

Many candidates manage huge businesses and have been vocal about how fed up they are with annoying things like the EU telling them that their food produce needs to be safe to consume, or that they need to pay their employees sick leave.

If this doesn’t make you angry, read that again...

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Lammy is brilliant. What an MP ought to be.

OMG this is precious. Genius from Andy Serkis.

Since I have been harassed, my chums have been harassed, and some have been beaten up for trying to protect others from harassment, this seemed like a good possible approach to try and protect others and hopefully dodge getting attacked. Obviously, this covers all the harassment I've had reported from friends in their own personal experience since Brexit. (Including abuse subjected to me and my family.) Racism, sexism, homophobia, disablism - all these have been experienced to a greater degree by myself and friends since the Brexit vote.



I do hope I'd have the guts to come to the support of anyone I see getting harassed. I've done so in the past, and gone to support strangers in distress. Not everyone can do this, not everyone can do this every day. Some days I feel too vulnerable, weak and scared. Stand up alone to a gang of able-bodied, drunken louts? I've always felt that sooner or later I'll get my nose punched in.

But I hope I can keep trying, can't let the fuckers win.

Credit to the original artist. And advice from her blog...

This is an illustrated guide I made as part of my co-admining work at The Middle Eastern Feminist on Facebook! It will be published there shortly.
The technique that is displayed here is a genuine one used in psychology - I forgot the name and couldn’t find it again so if you know about it, feel free to tell me!
Some could say: “Yes but you can use that technique for instances of harassment other than Islamophobic attacks!”, and my reply is: Sure! Please do so, it also works for other “types” of harassment of a lone person in a public space!!
However I’m focusing on protecting Muslims here, as they have been very specific targets lately, and as a French Middle Eastern woman, I wanted to try and do something to raise awareness on how to help when such things happen before our eyes - that way one cannot say they “didn’t know what to do”!
I’d like to insist on two things:
1) Do not, in any way, interact with the attacker. You must absolutely ignore them and focus entirely on the person being attacked!
2) Please make sure to always respect the wishes of the person you’re helping: whether they want you to leave quickly afterwards, or not! If you’re in a hurry escort them to a place where someone else can take over - call one of their friends, or one of yours, of if they want to, the police. It all depends on how they feel!