Tags
(satire?)
The war of words between Bongo Bongo Land and Cloud Cuckoo Land has worsened after UKIP’s representative to the fantasy island refused to apologise for criticising the amount of aid it spends on hatstands.
Cloud Cuckoo Land is most famous for producing home-grown nuts, bananas and hat stands and the UKIP MEP‘s remarks sparked outrage among anti-racism campaigners after he was filmed saying that aid supplies of Cloud Cuckoo Land hatstands to Bongo Bongo Land were being misappropriated.
However, another senior spokesperson for Cloud Cuckoo Land, Mr Nigel Farage said exports of fruitcakes, cuckoos and boxes of frogs were unlikely to be affected by the controversy.
.
Related articles by Tom Pride:
The UKIP – under us thousands will lose their jobs and most will pay more tax (not satire)
Jamie Oliver on UKIP – anything so full of nuts has got to be good
Bananas, nuts and fruitcakes express outrage at being compared to UKIP members
UKIP candidate – physical exercise prevents homosexuality (no – not satire)
UKIP activist calls Drummer Lee Rigby’s family ‘idiots’
Nigel Farage, the Tea Party Godfather and the man who tried to trash the pound. Twice.
UKIP chairman – every UK city should have 1 or 2 ‘holding’ camps for immigrants
Cameron must be balder to counter UKIP threat say senior Tory slapheads
If UKIP is so bloody libertarian – why has it said nothing against secret courts?
UKIP and a little matter of bestiality and necrophilia …..
.
Please feel free to comment – you don’t need to register and I’m extremely minimal with the moderating – so please go ahead.
.
If you click on any of these buttons below, you’ll be doing me a favour by sharing this article with other people. Thanks:
Pride's Purge 
MORE MADNESS and corruption..
“Many of our members of staff are engaged in voluntary roles in the community, such as magistrates, school governors and councillors. At last count, GCHQ had over 70 school governors, a significant contribution to the effective running of our schools.”
“For a number of years GCHQ has operated a highly successful ‘Paired Reading’ group. A pool of volunteers takes time from their lunch breaks to read with groups and/or individual children in local schools. The scheme is hugely popular with the children, the teaching staffs and our volunteers. ”
yes just what we need, spooks in the classrrom and also being magistrates too..
http://www.gchq.gov.uk/AboutUs/Pages/GCHQ-in-the-Community.aspx
LikeLike
Pingback: Alternative News Network – UKIP controversy – diplomatic rift between Cloud Cuckoo Land and Bongo Bongo Land deepens
Pingback: UKIP controversy - diplomatic rift between Clou...
is this really a story ukip are nutters i mean we all knew that in the first place.
LikeLike
Thing is. Bongo-Bongo isn’t a term I’d use, but I’m not 63 yrs old! My gran used similar language, lovely lady; not a nasty bone in her body.
What offends me far more, is that the term Bongo-Bongo is considered worse than the fact that UK companies steal Africas resources, our military assists in bombing it, (Libya, Mali, Somalia etc.etc.); and our politicians do whatever they can to install the loony dictators who end up with Foreign ‘Aid’ as a sweetener.
But the likes of KG Murthy don’t consider the above as… http://corneliustownedge.wordpress.com/2013/08/07/bloom-dont-bluster/
LikeLike
Anti-common sense campaigners were trying to identify exactly which race actually inhabits Bongo Bongo land so that they can be outraged on their behalf.
The outraged anti- common sense campaigners are considering applying for minority status because they represent such a small minority of public opinion.
The outraged minority will be allowed to feel thoroughly outraged that other campaigners who are outraged that Cloud Cuckoo land, which is trillions of pounds in debt because of the collapse of it’s traditional hatstand industry, and which cuts benefits for it’s most vulnerable, can dish out billions of pounds that it has to borrow in order to give aid to nuclear powers to help fund their space programmes and to set up hatstand industries to compete with those in Cloud Cuckoo land.
The Cloud Cuckoo government is considering the introduction of a bill which will allow outraged campaigners to be outraged by proxy.
When the bill is passed the minority outraged by proxy anti common sense campaigners will be allowed to be outraged on internet blogs, thus saving them the trouble of joining the real world where common sense is embraced by an overwhelming majority, much to their surprise and outrage.
The anti-common sense outraged minority will be able to sooth their consciences by becoming virtually outraged by proxy at being dismissed as an outraged minority.
LikeLike
From the context of his comments I’d say it’s pretty clear as to what race he was referring to. Unless of course, he really was attempting to open up a debate on the issue of the UK giving foreign aid to countries that only exist in people’s imagination.
LikeLike
Yeah I’m absolutely outraged that for every billion pounds we give to Bongo Bongo Land to spend on Ray-Bans and Ferraris we could have paid off about .001% of our national debt.
LikeLike
Is bongo bong land any worse than what the daily mail call the sick, disabled or the unemployed?
LikeLike
He used the unfortunate phrase as a generic term for countries which receive billions of pounds of our money with no audit trail to show how it is being spent rather than any particular race of people.
This issue of foreign aid is a contentious one and resonates with voters, both India and Pakistan are nuclear powers. India has a space programme and has contemptuously dismssed Britains aid although they continue to receive it as does China, a wealthier country than Britain and a direct competitor to our manufacturing industry or what’s left of it.
There is no accountability, no one knows where our money is being spent and Godfrey Bloom repeated the phrase which had been previously used by Tory minister Alan Clark to highlight the fact.
UKIP need to recognise that their every utterance will be picked over and used to try to discredit them by politicians who are running scared of being ousted by UKIP.
LikeLike
Well said
LikeLike
Foreign aid programmes are hugely important, not only for the countries which benefit but for the UK. Of course they need to do something about where it goes and how it is spent. But it is hugely important for our influence and trade overseas. The emerging nations are going to be hugely important in the future and participating in the developement and reform of Africa is essential if we are going to compete and remain a force in the world.
The other day I heard someone say that benefits should be for our ‘own kind’ first – presumably meaning white British people. I disagree. Paying tens of thousands of people to do nothing who have no intention of working or people who have large families they cannot support is a huge drain. The UK benefits bill is huge compared to the tiny overseas aid budget.
People on the right who criticise overseas aid are wrong and short sighted and are allowing their prejudices and political allegience to govern their thinking. Just like the petty minded people of the left who criticise the royal family who have contributed to our prosperity and influence, not to mention the Commonwealth which has helped us develop better relations with many developing African nations.
I suspect this post will attract crticism from ideologues on both sides but I think it is important for people to cast aside their own political opinions for a moment and think about this logically and sensibly.
LikeLike
” Paying tens of thousands of people to do nothing who have no intention of working or people who have large families they cannot support is a huge drain”
But presumably paying our money to people who have ‘large families that they cannot support’ is ‘hugely important’ as long as the families are not British?
LikeLike
well said
LikeLike
ps I would like to add that I do believe in helping poorer nations, but charity should begin at home. On the void site, the mass sleep out posting highlights how the unemployed are in actual fact going hungry and are practically worked to death on work programme, read their comments. Sorry Tom but loverat should read some of these comments.
LikeLike
Likewise Guy Fawkes, Britons are generous when it comes to charitable donations but the choice of where our money is spent should be ours, not the governments.
The links below show how our money is being misappropriated, how can a Nigerian space programme be of benefit to us?
‘A major milestone in the implementation of the Nigerian Space Programme was achieved with the inauguration of the National Space Council by his Excellency, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR, on the 11th of June 2013 at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.’
http://nasrda.gov.ng/en/portal/?q=node/7
Meanwhile our money continues to be wasted:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20405140
LikeLike
Aynuck
You’ve missed the point. The point being that the UK benefits budget is huge. Compare that to the overseas aid budget which is tiny.
The other point is the British Government are not paying African people unemployment benefit. If you have a look at the way the money is spent (admittedly the money that is not wasted) it helps the people whose lives are threatened by wars, famine and disease. Alot of the aid is channelled in ways which helps these people to help themselves rather than promoting the handout and compensation culture which prevails in this country.
Personally I would rather pay my taxes to people whose lives depend on it rather than a bunch of slobs who complain their benefits are not enough to buy an over-sized flat screen.
The British press are doing a great disservice to people who depend on aid and this country by churning out misleading stories. About time they campaigned against the layabouts here.
LikeLike
@ Loverat
I agree that the UK welfare budget is huge and there has to be a crackdown on benefit fraud but there are some major flaws in your argument.
Why is the domestic welfare budget so high?
Large scale unemployment in the UK is the direct result of globalisation, which in case you didn’t know, is the exploitation of cheap labour markets often in developing nations where social and working conditions are dreadful.
Overseas aid may well help people to help themselves but a lot of this self help consists of sweatshops which often employ child labour.
The textile industry in this country has all but disappeared as a result of this cheap overseas labour.
Our welfare state is set up so that those who are unemployed or disabled receive money from our taxes to tide them over until they find alternative employment but this is becoming increasingly difficult due to globalisation.I’d agree that the British press are doing a great disservice but mainly to people in this country who claim benefits.
The claimants are for the most part genuine, they are not claiming benefit because we are a nation of slobs or layabouts as claimed in certain newspapers.
Only 3% of the entire UK welfare budget is spent on JSA and despite newspaper propaganda just 0.7% of benefit expenditure was overpaid due to fraud in 2011/2012 according to the latest DWP estimates.
http://www.redpepper.org.uk/mythbuster-welfare-reform/
We are constantly bombarded with media stories about benefit cheats, Iain Duncan Smith has launched such an effective smear campaign against disabled and unemployed people that Josef Goebells would have been envious of.
The British are the first to put our hands in our pockets to help when war famine or disease threaten the lives of anybody else in the entire world. We should be able to have a say about where our overseas aid budget is being spent and the money that we spend should be accounted for down to the last penny.
We now have food banks, people facing eviction from their homes because of the bedroom tax, youth unemployment at an all time high and austerity for the foreseeable future, and when a UKIP politician wonders why we are paying millions to help fund the space programme of a nation where 70% of the population live on 64p a day there is outcry because he used the term ‘bongo bongo land’.
No wonder we are switching to UKIP in droves, it’s the only way to end the madness
LikeLike