‘Swastika tattoo’ is misunderstood Buddhist peace symbol says Reform councillors wife
https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/swastika-tattoo-is-misunderstood-buddhist-peace-symbol-says-reform-councillors-wife-8638451?fbclid=IwT01FWAR-7RBleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR4vHk1KlzLYHOWHiyXhdp_ELDyoW_-PrSVzP6rFP_llULofx3CAke_d2NhHAg_aem_7KJALEiNLiwiWXjhE2V5Bg
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And a hammer and sickle are tools/farming instruments.
Except when they are yellow on a red flag, context sodding matters.
As he’s not a practising Buddhist from northern India but a reform councillor from northern England, I will let all of you judge which ideology it represents…
It must be really difficult for Reform to find candidates who are decent human beings.
Is there a pic of the tattoo so we can see for ourselves?
It would be easy to tell which it was if they showed the pictures.
Neo-nazis 🤝 Buddhist monks
{shaved heads and swastikas}
He’s had it covered up now. But the pictures are still available.
I mean, the claim is that he had it tattooed as a teenager and then later had it covered up (at some point after 2024) because people kept on confusing the swastika for a swastika.
So…this guy wandered around for the last 30-50 years with a swastika tattooed on him and only recently got opprobrium for it? About the only way I’d buy that is if he was hanging out with the blind, or those who were okay with public displays of Nazi symbology.
About a decade ago I was in line to collect my University Gown and the girl in front of me had a Buddhist Swastika tattoo on the back of her neck.
Like I get it was a Buddhist symbol first and faces the other way…but enough people are always going to get this confused and think your a Nazi that…why would you ever want to get it done l
Yeah & the eagle like thing sat on it is a tribute to his pet budgie…
Because a white guy with a tattoo of a Buddist symbol is really the type of candidate for reform?
It’s quite clear what the tattoo is.
Crazy how the media is always pushing for the antisemitic narrative to crush the left… Meanwhile Reform is up to the neck in actual fascists.
I find it hard to believe that anyone even remotely interested in Buddhism would be a supporter of reform let alone a councillor of theirs
And the Roman salute, Charlie chapman moustache, bed sheets over the head is a ghost, 88 is two fat ladies.
And this is dog whistle politics.
“I didn’t know it was gonna come off like that.”
“Pretty sure you did.”
Holocaust denier councillor last week, swastika this week… there is legitimately a party with a Nazi problem leading in the polls in this country.
“I swear, the cock and balls tatoo on my forehead is because I’m a urologist that just happens to be a burglar as a side gig”
Oh Jesus Christ. When people trot out that bloody line… It doesn’t end well
I’d like Rabbi Sir Mirvis or the BoD to kick up a stink about this one.
Swastikas are and ancient symbol in many cultures including hinduism. I gave him the benefit of the doubt and checked to see which direction his swastika goes, the good one goes anti clockwise the Nazi one clockwise.
He got the Nazi one.
Hmm I find this utterly confusing. You represent (whether you believe in it or not), a “british values” party, of everything that’s great to be British, and yet… you have a swastica… Like isn’t that the complete opposite considering they were our great enemy?
Yeah sure dude, name 3 practices of the noble eightfold path and then describe how you abide by them
There was a time when even a sniff of being associated with these racists would be the end of their political career. Now we have the Nazi wife condoning the Nazi symbol. What does this woman’s family have to say about it? There was a time such shame would keep them in check but the checks and balances are gone for good I fear.
Either he has grown in up Britain and been taught about WWII, the Nazis and what the swastika represents, and still decided that was a good tattoo choice during his “teenage interest in Buddhism”. In which case he’s a complete moron.
Or he’s got the tattoo because he, at least some point in his life, believed in Nazi ideals strongly enough to permanently mark them on his body, and has fed his wife a lie. In which case he’s a Nazi and she’s gullible enough to win a jackpot from a Nigerian prince.
Google Andy Arnold, and look at his forearm in the tattoo parlour photo. That is the tattoo in question.
Looks like a swastika, it’s thick black and rectangular. There is some small text below that I can’t make out, but I imagine it could answer some questions here.
Yeah lightning bolts. Because my mum said I always light up any room I’m in.
And the skull one’s all about my love of Prussian royal cavalry, nothing sinister about it.
Flaming cross? No, it’s a T. Cuz my dad’s name was Tim innit and he liked a bonfire.
Guys in white hoods? Ghosts, mate; proper spooky. Always loved Halloween; reminds me of being a kid again.
And the guy with the little moustache is me old funnyman Charlie Chaplin waving to his fans; who did you think it was?
How the fuck can you be “bridish” and yet still think a swastika is an okay thing to have tatooed on yourself.
Okay, yeah, that makes sense. Reform”s platform is notoriously consistent with the precepts of Buddhism.
It’s really unfortunate that of all the ethic non-Christian religious symbols, he went for the one that has been appropriated by the Nazis, 80 odd years before he decided to get ink.
It’s a sign of the state of our schools he didn’t realise that this had happened and so made such a faux pas.
It’s an unfortunate coincidence that his tattooist didn’t spot that he may have were in his judgement. Or perhaps he was just unlucky to ask one that had Nazi sympathies.
But most curious of all, is why someone who has such a strong interest in Hindu symbology and it appears zero interest in UK history has decided to stand for Reform.
To be fair….
Canadian artist ManWoman was absolutely covered in Swastikas because he wanted to “reclaim the symbol” or something. Also, like many artists, he was clearly “an out-of-the-box thinker,” to say the least.
This guy…. I’m sceptical.
Makes sense to me, because it’s just the sort of thing Reform voters believe. And if you believe that, you’ll believe anything!