Battle for Britain 2009
British National Party kicked off their EP campaign.
I must admit they did it with uncanny style and stylish cunning.
They decided to play on the sentiments resulting from the recent Polish immigration. The basic idea is brilliantly simple: let's kick'em out so we can get their jobs. I won't dispute the idea, which is very united-European indeed. Last time I overheard any Irish talking about it, it was "hey, but they usually take the jobs we wouldn't want anyway"* - unfortunately I can't say for sure whether British nationalists are quite capable of realizing it.
Stupid as it is, what gave me the best laugh this month is not the idea itself but the way they chose to promote it. Yes, they do refer to The Battle of Britain, which is admirably adventurous choice of itself. But this is just beginning.
The poster used by our brave nazis (yes, they even use the "Roman salute", better known in Poland as the infamous "Heil Hitler" and quite unlikely to have ever been actually used in the Roman Empire) shows a Supermarine Spitfire Mk V aircraft. With a tiny 2x2 chessboard, just below the first exhaust pipe from the propeller. A Polish squadron. Oops. The plane sports the code RF-something. RF means squadron 303 - the top-scoring Allied unit in the Battle. There is also Donald Duck just below the cockpit which means this particular sqn 303 Spitfire is RF-D, flown by sqn ldr.Jan Zumbach (Donald was his personal "logo").
For the sake of historical fidelity: the photo shows Zumbach's machine from 1942-43. During the BoB squadron 303 flew Hurricanes (and shot down numerous superior Bf-109's as a matter of course - sorry, I just couldn't stop myself).
Information about the origins of BNP's poster was duly sent to the party. The officials were quite undaunted and claimed this is no blunder: they know about Polish contribution to BoB's outcome. This is not about anti-Polish resentments, it's about economics.
Isn't this reasoning just lovely?
So, the message is: "Yes, you did greatly help to save our sorry arses six decades ago. We have already thanked in you in Potsdam and Yalta, but we'd like to thank you again". Hurray.
Well, you can't go wrong with nazis. Always ignorant, always blind, always devastatingly
stupid and ridiculously self-righteous. Nick Griffin, who was the star of campaign's opening night, is already quite famous. For denying Holocaust.
Well, it's not the end yet ]:->
I gave a thought to technical origins of the poster. Where could they have got it from? It looked so very, very familiar. I have seen it somewhere before. And then I remembered. There was a bad, bad British film "Battle of Britain", presenting the sqn 303 as a flock of gabbling hens, pissing their pants at the sight of bandits. Well, if this is how your top unit worked, I don't want to think about less efficient, all-British formations.
But never mind, this is far from my point. The film was re-issued a few years ago on DVD. The cover, which I remember as strikingly similar if not quite identical with the poster, was refreshed and printed by Agimedia, pre-press stage and most of printing done by their branch in Poland. And Zumbach's markings were put on the Spitfire by my friend Andrzej.
It's quite possible, as Andrzej was well aware of the anachronism (Hurricanes, remember?) while BNP doesn't seem to. Why should they? They saw a DVD titled "Battle of Britain". Why bother and take a second look when the Inspiration drives you? Copy, paste, done.
What can I say...
*ROTFLMAO*
*) At a B&B near Dublin Airport. It was said before I opened my mouth to flaunt my Polish accent, so I don't think it was PR :P
PS.: BritSDAP has its "own" trade union. The name and the logo seems familiar somehow... :rotfl again:
I must admit they did it with uncanny style and stylish cunning.
They decided to play on the sentiments resulting from the recent Polish immigration. The basic idea is brilliantly simple: let's kick'em out so we can get their jobs. I won't dispute the idea, which is very united-European indeed. Last time I overheard any Irish talking about it, it was "hey, but they usually take the jobs we wouldn't want anyway"* - unfortunately I can't say for sure whether British nationalists are quite capable of realizing it.
Stupid as it is, what gave me the best laugh this month is not the idea itself but the way they chose to promote it. Yes, they do refer to The Battle of Britain, which is admirably adventurous choice of itself. But this is just beginning.
The poster used by our brave nazis (yes, they even use the "Roman salute", better known in Poland as the infamous "Heil Hitler" and quite unlikely to have ever been actually used in the Roman Empire) shows a Supermarine Spitfire Mk V aircraft. With a tiny 2x2 chessboard, just below the first exhaust pipe from the propeller. A Polish squadron. Oops. The plane sports the code RF-something. RF means squadron 303 - the top-scoring Allied unit in the Battle. There is also Donald Duck just below the cockpit which means this particular sqn 303 Spitfire is RF-D, flown by sqn ldr.Jan Zumbach (Donald was his personal "logo").
For the sake of historical fidelity: the photo shows Zumbach's machine from 1942-43. During the BoB squadron 303 flew Hurricanes (and shot down numerous superior Bf-109's as a matter of course - sorry, I just couldn't stop myself).
Information about the origins of BNP's poster was duly sent to the party. The officials were quite undaunted and claimed this is no blunder: they know about Polish contribution to BoB's outcome. This is not about anti-Polish resentments, it's about economics.
Isn't this reasoning just lovely?
So, the message is: "Yes, you did greatly help to save our sorry arses six decades ago. We have already thanked in you in Potsdam and Yalta, but we'd like to thank you again". Hurray.
Well, you can't go wrong with nazis. Always ignorant, always blind, always devastatingly
stupid and ridiculously self-righteous. Nick Griffin, who was the star of campaign's opening night, is already quite famous. For denying Holocaust.
Well, it's not the end yet ]:->
I gave a thought to technical origins of the poster. Where could they have got it from? It looked so very, very familiar. I have seen it somewhere before. And then I remembered. There was a bad, bad British film "Battle of Britain", presenting the sqn 303 as a flock of gabbling hens, pissing their pants at the sight of bandits. Well, if this is how your top unit worked, I don't want to think about less efficient, all-British formations.
But never mind, this is far from my point. The film was re-issued a few years ago on DVD. The cover, which I remember as strikingly similar if not quite identical with the poster, was refreshed and printed by Agimedia, pre-press stage and most of printing done by their branch in Poland. And Zumbach's markings were put on the Spitfire by my friend Andrzej.
It's quite possible, as Andrzej was well aware of the anachronism (Hurricanes, remember?) while BNP doesn't seem to. Why should they? They saw a DVD titled "Battle of Britain". Why bother and take a second look when the Inspiration drives you? Copy, paste, done.
What can I say...
*ROTFLMAO*
*) At a B&B near Dublin Airport. It was said before I opened my mouth to flaunt my Polish accent, so I don't think it was PR :P
PS.: BritSDAP has its "own" trade union. The name and the logo seems familiar somehow... :rotfl again: