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February 2, 2005Veritas: more than it seems?
There was a pronounced delay between Kilroy's departure from the They Won't Let Me Be Leader Party and the launch of his own party - which was even then rumoured to be called 'veritas'... and this man thinks he knows why.
UPDATES:
Europhobia - Veritas to sue Veritas?
Guardian - Kilroy-Silk colleague linked to ex-National Front leader: Anthony Bennett, whose name appears in the Electoral Commission's database as the official leader of Mr Kilroy-Silk's party Veritas, was also fired from the UK Independence party last year after publishing a pamphlet describing the prophet Muhammad as a paedophile.
Telegraph - The Prophet Mohammed was a paedophile, says Kilroy-Silk aide
He's in good company. That's a favourite line of Jack Chick. Incidentally, you may be interested in the "powerful new gospel film" by Jack Chick. I found this clip to be particularly compelling.
What's that I hear? Kilroy Veritas? (Cheers Chicken Yoghurt. Duly bombed.)
We pause now for a fundraising infomercial from Honourable Fiend...
Telegraph - Your view: Do you trust Veritas? (via this post at The UK Today). Some awfully fawning replies in there; one might wonder how many come directly from Veritan central.
Posted by Manic on February 2, 2005 10:14 PM in the category UK General Election 2005
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There's a spoof site already - http://www.vanitasparty.com/
Posted by: Daisy at February 3, 2005 1:40 AM
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There's a googlebomb running with "kilroy veritas" linking to http://www.vanitasparty.com/ - Nick Barlow kicked it off.
Posted by: Chicken Yoghurt at February 3, 2005 9:10 AM
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Done.
:o)
Posted by: Manic at February 3, 2005 9:34 AM
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I hate to be a grammar pedant, but the Veritas slogan "the straight talking party" really should be hyphenated: "the straight-talking party".
[twitches]
Posted by: mww at February 3, 2005 12:01 PM
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Shhh! Don't *help* them!
Posted by: Manic at February 3, 2005 1:31 PM
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That stopveritas bloke is a bit of a loon. Kilroy needs opposing, but comparing Vanitas (the software company's) logo to the Nazi party's ensignia is very, very misguided, and stupid.
Posted by: snooo at February 3, 2005 4:14 PM
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Funny how some languages are more politically acceptable than others.
Old Kilroy-Permatan wants a political party called 'truth' so he turns to Latin and comes up with 'Veritas'. Of course, had he turned to Russian he;d have come up with 'Pravda' which is probably not the image he's looking for.
Did a UK trademark search on 'Veritas' the other day - all the software stuff cam up along with a recuitment company and a finacial services company.
My favorite Veritas trademark, however, has to be one for 'lubricating oil' - seems rather appropriate if you ask me.
Posted by: Unity at February 6, 2005 3:36 AM
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