How mad is Robert Kilroy-Silk?

[Pert_UK]

Poll question: How mad is Robert Kilroy-Silk?

It is a univerally acknowledged truth that vain, racist, bright orange, Euro-sceptic MP Robert Kilroy-Silk is insane - but exactly how mad is he?

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. as nutty as squirrel shit (n/t)

[non sociopath skin]

2. I rate him 98% on the Icke scale ....

... and confidently expect to see him playing in goal for Coventry City (in a purple tracksuit) against a Planet Zog First XI ere long.

The Skin

[Anarcho-Socialist]

3. The Icke scale, lol

The winner of Icke/Coventry City v Zog First XI will meet Underground Earth Lizards FC for the Galactic Football Championship.

[T_i_B]

7. I'm normally not a fan of Johann Hari

But on this occasion he has written a good one about Kilroy-Silk's press conference launching his party!

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=607246

I ask if he accepts that Enoch Powell - who made exactly the same points about immigration and Europe - was a racist. In the spirit of straight-talking, this is his answer: "I understand agendas. You have come with an agenda. You want to fit me to your agenda. It's a press agenda. I've been there, and it's sloppy journalism." There is a line on his forehead that tightens like a noose when he is angry. I ask again. He spits, "Enoch Powell? What are you going to ask me about next, Genghis Khan?" No, I'm asking about a very similar politician who espoused the same agenda - and appealed to the same people - just a few decades ago. Although now I think of it, it is clear Genghis Khan would have been an avid Veritas supporter.

Eleanor Goodman from Channel Four News asks if Kilroy is trying to appeal to BNP voters. "Bitch! Bitch!" snarls the pack of Kilroyites sitting behind me. Kilroy responds - of course - by citing The People and how they love him. "The People don't say I'm racist. They support me - people of all races." It reminds me a line from Citizen Kane - "You talk about the people as if you owned them."

Shaken though I am, I must admit: Veritas has converted me. I used to dismiss one particular far right belief - but now I see that it is true. David Icke has long argued that many of our politicians are in fact seven-foot lizards wearing human masks. As I gaze upon Kilroy, his skin stretched tight across his face, his eyes bulging as he spits out the word 'asylum seekers' to the cameras one last time, it's time we all admitted: Icke is right.

[Briar]

8. Good piece

but it's easy to send Kilroy up. It would have been easy to do so last year, as well, when the racist tabloids were taking him seriously and helping UKIP get a sizeable hunk of votes. What I really want to hear is someone prepared to say that immigration is *not* a problem. The problem is the fact that the racist tabloids and the Murdoch press have persuaded people that it is (as they have persuaded people that the EU is a descendant of the Third Reich). What I want is to hear this:

"If you do the sums - if you add up how much immigrants and asylum seekers cost us, and how much they put back into the economy - you'll find they make a net contribution of £2.5bn. This country is richer and happier because of immigration."

made a main plank in a mainstream party's manifesto.

[Pert_UK]

4. I'm leaving this poll open for a couple more days.....warning PICS!

http://www.dw-world.de/dwelle/allgemein/bilder_show/0,3772,90184_6,00.jpg

[non sociopath skin]

5. Could we have a few more options, please, Pert?

The originals seem so inadequate now ....

BTW, the ultimate vanity test used to be counting how many times David O. Selznick's name appeared in the credits of his movies ("David O. Selznick presents a David O. Selznick Picture produced by David O. Selznick" &c. &c.). Try counting the number of times Chairman Kiljoy-Slick's name appears on the In Vino Veritas site. Wonderful!!!

The Skin

[ikri]

6. How mad?

Heard him interviewed yesterday by Jeremy Vine. It was painful, demanded that pensions should be raised, then admitted that he had no clue how much the state pension was.

Unhinged Loon is the best description I can think of for him.

[non sociopath skin]

10. He also thinks that Afghanistan is an "arab country" ....

... according to yesterday's Guardian.

The Skin

[SweetLeftFoot]

9. Mad As ...

a cut snake.