Walking to work the other day I noticed a new billboard poster had appeared beside a busy roadside heading into town. 'Say NO To The EU' was the motto at the top of the billboard followed by an image of barbed wire on top of a wall.
At the bottom of the poster sprayed in black spray paint are the words 'Racism' and other fasciast sayings/slogans. Now when I looked closer, in smaller writing on the poster, I could see that it was a BNP poster from one of the parties members in Huddersfield but what annoyed me was the individuals who had sprayed all over the bottom half of it. If it had been said by any other party in the United Kingdom nothing would have been sprayed at the bottom of it but because it had been said by BNP it was immediately classed as racist both certain individuals.
Now I think the majority of us agree with not beeing part of the EU and so do I but if BNP says what everyone is thinking then it gets classed as being racist. The poster is just one of many circumstances where this has happened yet really the majority of the things they say are what the majority of the public are saying but darent say aloud.
Now I aint no BNP fan but at the end of the day they are an official national party and deserve respect as if any other national party had put that very same poster up, nothing would of been sprayed on it to ruin it. Free speech should always be allowed as long as it does not offend anyone or a certain religious group and 'Say No To The EU' is not offensive what so ever so why the spray paint?
I will try and get a picture of it next time I walk to work, that is as long as it hasn't been taken down by the council or wrecked completely!
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