Edvinas was telling me how he read one of their billboards. The Billboard stated 'Say No To Unlimited Immigration!' and featured an image of a fat man in a suite. He asked me why they hated him, and why they thought he shouldn't be here. He pleaded with me for some reason, and kept on going on about how he's learned all about British culture and British ideals. I wasn't the one who needed convincing, but he was trying to answer his own question. He carried on, he was now trying to reassure me that he and his family pay taxes and behave. I don't think this was completely sparked by being rather insulted by a UKIP billboard, no I think some people who are fans of party have challenged him before and now he believes the entire country has something against him. He's suffered xenophobic attacks before, but only trifle ones which were duly sorted out by the Lithuanian gangs (apparently, the local Lithuanian community looks after itself rather well).
It was like he was a child who had been beaten for a long time by those who he trusted, and now couldn't accept that not every figure who befriends him has a sadist agenda. I had to explain to him what was the matter with fascists, and who they are and what they believe. Listening to his ramblings, I had an epiphany that the only real excuse UKIP has to deplore him is because he's different. Its never been about immigrants destroying British culture, or demanding special privileges, it has and always will be a resentment of anyone who is different.
Learning this, I hate the extreme right even more.
The whole thing did give me a chuckle though. Ed seemed to think the fat man on the poster was the leader of the party. At one point he called the black and white figure "a fat racist basard".
I haven't got a picture of the exact billboard, but here's one of their posters. They aren't very different.
Yes, it was Winston Churchill.
silly!