Not Enough Ribbons ?

Nottingham has been named as Britain's naughtiest city. Who'd have thunk it with a guy like this running law enforcement ?

Paging Big Gay Al

Say what you like about the Tories Class A list, but at least bringing in a proper process for selecting candidates means they’ll avoid getting caught up in any stupid scandals. Oops. Never mind that our Class A star was having an affair with a senior member of the Parliamentary Party, they say it didn't influence the decision, and if you can’t trust politicans, who can you trust ? Besides, Liz Truss is a former Lib Dem who used to embarrass the leadership by pushing conference motions too far out even for the Treason Party, and you can’t let talent like that go to waste.

Needless to say, Blue Labour will no doubt try and claim that anyone pointing out the ethical implications of this situation is merely a crazed moralist who wants to turn the clock back and herd women back into the closet and chain gays to the kitchen sink. Or something. And never you mind wondering about the likely reaction to an analogues situation at a bank or other serious business. They only want to run the country, not do anything important.

After all, Tory modernisers keep yammering on about their desire to free the Party of anyone who suggests there’s a moral dimension to politics. According to these people, there are millions of Britons out there who would otherwise vote Conservative, but they’re put off by the hostility of some in the Party to teaching five year olds about oral sex. Throw a bucket of water over a Blue Labourite at 3 AM and he’ll jerk awake denouncing the ‘Tory Taliban’. Hey, modernisers, here’s a free clue: if you’re criticising people for overly hostile rhetoric, it’s probably not a good idea to compare them to an insane dictatorship where women were shot for painting their nails.

Nope, it’s a while since the Tories-In-Name-Only have felt under any pressure to actually make any sense. All we’re left with is a bunch of folks who recoil like Dracula facing a crucifix whenever social issues are mentioned. Hence, the Class A list, a specially-selected group of people without any embarrassing political baggage, or indeed any baggage at all. Oops again.

A campaign leaflet issued last year when she stood for Dewsbury, and in which she is seen wearing a Western business suit, focused on mainstream Tory issues including Europe — “Sayeeda Warsi believes in putting Britain first”. In a second leaflet, in which she wears a shalwar kameez, her concerns are homosexuality, which Labour is accused of promoting, and the “illegal” war in Iraq, which she says “may lead to further military action in places such as Syria, Lebanon and Iran”.

Speaking personally, I’m shocked – shocked! – that a ‘moderate Muslim’ could turn out to be an full-on Islamopath once away from Infidel scrutiny. It’s like Christmas in December! It does raise an interesting question though. Here’s one case where the ‘Tory Taliban’ tag would seem to be justified, so where are Alan Duncan and the rest of the hip’n’happening Nu Tories ? Surely their opposition to social conservatism wasn’t just an excuse to purge the party of grass roots Conservatives in favour of Metropolitan elitists ? Perish the thought!

UPDATE

By popular request, well, one request anyway, here's a quick reminder of Lizzie's moment of glory:

The front-runner for Tory candidate in the safe seat of Broxbourne is Elizabeth
Truss, a director at Cable & Wireless. She is the same Elizabeth Truss who
as a Liberal Democrat activist in a debate in 1994 on holding a referendum on
the monarchy, uttered the words: “I agree with Paddy Ashdown when he said that
everyone should have a chance to be somebody, but only one family has the chance
to provide the head of state. I cannot agree with that. We don’t believe people
should be born to rule.”

This Is Al Zheimer, Reporting For MSM News

If only Isaiah Young-Sam had had the foresight to be murdered by skinheads, he'd at least have qualified for the full, five-star Liberal victimhood program. Unfortunatly, he was killed by Islamopaths, and so the MSM claims to be baffled by the whole thing. Even so, the BBC's headline is a minor classic: 'Three guilty of riot night murder'. Got to watch those 'riot nights'.

Needless to say, the Context Squad are still back at base. Don't go looking for any background here. In fact, the MSM are delibrately trying to obscure the issue by referring to the killers as 'Asian'. Call it a wild shot in the dark, but I think we can rule out any involvement by Bruce Lee or Ghandi.

This is par for the course with the MSM and controversial topics. Consider the violent death of another young black man. Even if you don't follow the news, you can't help but notice that casaulty figures in London schools seem to be somewhat higher that you'd expect, but no - again the MSM reports this as a bolt from the blue, with every wider issue deftly kicked to the curb.

All this would be bad enough, but contrast this reporting with the MSM's treatment of the un-PC. Non-Kool Aid drinkers are regularly accused of 'creating an atmosphere' and the like. The innuendo is that, say, Conservatives might not be actively out there murdering black passers-by, but they're practically accessories to those who are doing it. Drugs, gang culture and race hustling poverty pimps have nothing to do with the mayhem in our inner-cities, no, the real problem is people coming out in favour of school vouchers.

What Does A Guy Have To Do To Be An Extremist Round Here ?

Apparently, the illness of Rotty Pup’s front man has inspired some people to try and fill the gap in VRWC blogging capabilities. Take it away, T-Dog.

Not bad for a first post, but I think T-Dog is going to have to deal with one big problem before he qualifies for the rock star lifestyle of a Right blogger. How can I put this ? A search on google.co.uk for ‘Cherie’ + ‘Witch’ returns 11 600 hits.

It’s nice that Princess Tony finally acknowledges that the courts are out of control, but he’s possibly the least qualified person in the world to shout ‘whodunit’ ? Back when the Human Rights Act was passed, folks in the VRWC were shouting to the rooftops that it would allow moonbat judges to legislate from the bench – and we were being called ‘Nazis’ for doing so. Blair not only passed this act, he packed the bench with off-the-scale moonbats like Brenda Hale. Let’s see: L3 judges plus Humpty Dumpty legislation allowing judges to claim the law is whatever they say it is, yet somehow it turned into a train wreck. Who’d have thunk it ?

Cameron’s eco-posturing is absurd, but at least he isn’t married to the Chairman of Ford. From the Leftists perspective, things are working as advertised. The L3 have managed to outsource legislation from publicly-accountable politicians, to a self-perpetuating freak show of unaccountable moonbats. They get all the benefits of letting Afghan terrorists stay, without the downside of bad publicity.

We don’t need new laws to deal with this insanity; we just need the old ones back again, with judges acting to interpret the law, resolve disputes and clear up ambiguities, not to carve law out of whole cloth. Ditto, we need to reaffirm that judicial independence means independence from the other branches of government, not from the wider society. Believeing that the law should be restored to the basic principles it operated under for 400 years is what Liberals call 'radical' and 'extreme'.

Not Dead After All

Just in case you haven't heard the good news, Rotty Pup is on the mend.

If Only Harold Shipman Had Lived Long Enough To Come Out Against The Iraq War....

Don’t be shocked but the Bunny has found evidence that Liberals are a bunch of hypocritical, cowardly weasels. Oh alright, he doesn’t quite put it that way, but he does put his finger on something that’s annoyed me for years, namely the way the statute of limitations for national naughtiness varies according to how Liberal a nation is.

Apparently, we’re not supposed to mention Germany’s earlier attempts at forging a European union, I mean, hey it was, like, sixty years ago. But how about the conquest of the American West ? Why do Liberals talk about the ‘genocide of native Americans’ while insisting no one talk about the actual, real, no kidding genocide of 16 million Europeans ? Wasn’t Wounded Knee a few years before Auschwitz ?

This works on the personal level as well as the national one. For proof of that, look no further than Pope Benedict XVI. It appears that you can lose your Leftard licence if you’re caught writing an article about the Pope which doesn’t mention his brief, involuntary service in the Hitler Youth. Apparently, that never goes out of date.

It happens closer to home too. Look at alleged working class hero Ricky Tomlinson. I guess as long as he keeps in with the Left, no one will mention his history with the National Front. Ditto, moonbat face card Tam Dalyell will stay a loveable elder statesman, no matter how much anti-Semitic garbage he comes out with. But the best case of all has to be dear ol’ Garri Holness. Liberals loved him, first as an ethnic victim of the racist police, man, then later as the pin-up boy for attempts to turn the outrage of July 7 into some kind of touchy-feely, national learning experience. When it was revealed that cuddly Garri was the leader of a group of gang rapists, Liberals were outraged. Specifically, they were outraged at the people who revealed the truth. Sure, being the ringleader behind an almost-certainly racially motivated gang rape was, so to speak, a bad thing, but hey, nobody’s perfect.

The bottom line is that if you’re a pervert, thug or racist, then you’d better be Liberal, otherwise…well, actually our side doesn’t take these people, so I guess it’s no wonder they’re all Leftards. Besides, lookwhat happens when a Liberal steps off the reservation. Bob Geldof was a hero when he was carrying water for the Leftards’ Taxes For Tyrants aid policy, but he blew it when he started talking about fathers rights. It took a Live 8 act of contrition for him to be restored to his position as a moral guardian. Meanwhile, Michael Portillo went from daygo weirdo to respected political commentator, just as soon as he put in for a bulk order of Kool Aid.

The MSM’s Good Dog/Bad Dog rhetoric is so transparent that you’d wonder just how people can take it seriously. Or at least you would if the Conservative Party wasn’t busy turfing out actual Conservatives in favour of the media-friendly Class A list. Or to put it another way, the Conservative Party is busily gutting itself to try and appeal to people for whom the only moral judgement of any worth is whether or not a particular person or entity is useful to Liberalism. It’s for this sort of logic that Cameron is hailed as a genius.

Found!

The only bogus asylum seeker Liberals ever wanted to deport.

The Tories’ A-List: Because Politics Wasn’t Already Enough Like High School

So now we’re getting the first hints of an answer to the burning question: who’s going to be in the Big Brother house who’s on the Tories’ Class A list. Hey, it’s an easy mistake to make. After all, both Big Brother contestants and the Class A list are both supposedly cross-sections of the British public that on closer inspection turn out to be nothing of the sort.

As far as the Tories go, I can only conclude that Cameron decided to give up on the vision of A Party That Looks Like Britain, in favour of A Party That Looks Like North London. Don’t get me wrong – I still think identity politics are antithetical to the whole idea of Conservatism, but the Manchurian Candidate obviously doesn’t, so we’re entitled to draw conclusions when he draws up a supposedly representative sample of the public that includes not a single, unapologetic Northerner.

Actually, being left off this list doesn’t sound so bad, after all. Look who’s on it: a chick lit author, an actor who plays a moron in real-life, a wastrel legatee and House of Dumb heroine Margo, who is a lesbian. I understand Jade Goody was also briefly considered by the Tories, but was ditched because she had too much of a ideological paper trail.

It hardly argues for a deep respect for parliamentary democracy that Cameron can even think of parachuting this collection of muppets into the legislature. Then again, you can say the same about the people who elected him. Maybe that was the point of the exercise: to find the only people in Britain that could make Cameron look like a credible politician.

Drink 4 England

As if we needed encouragement on a Friday night, here's one more reason for hitting the bar like a battering ram: the EU has come out against drinking.

[The report] says 23 million Europeans are alcoholics and that alcohol
causes 16% of child abuse and 2,000 murders every year. The report says that
extending the opening hours of bars and pubs leads to an increase in violence
and suggests a 10% rise in alcohol taxes for the EU15 could save 9,000 lives
annually, lead to a cure for cancer and make cars run on water.

Actually, I added a bit to that paragraph, but it's not out of keeping with the tone of the report. After all, it has been written by a group of self-confessed neo-prohibitionists. Of course, the EU coming out against hooch isn't that surprising - one of its spiritual fathers was a notorious teetotaller.

(A wave of the glass to Tim Worstall)

Who Can Argue With A Track Record Like That ?

Liberal academics have decided that they can no longer waste their lives sitting in their ivory towers, it's time to make sacrifices for the common good. They've decided to get jobs in the private sector.

Just kidding.

Nope, they've decided to take a brave stand and boycott Israeli insitutions. They claim to be hacked off by events in the territories. Not to put too fine a point on it, but Britain occupies part of Iraq - can they boycott Britain as well ? Just how much land do we need to take till we get a break from these whiny tarts ?

Israeli academics will be able to avoid the boycott providing they publically disassociate themselves from their homeland. The exact procedure for this has not yet been decided on, but it'll definitely involve them burning their nation's flag while eating a hamburger and admitting that Tesco's quality has really gone downhill recently. Originally, it was also planned that they'd have to apologise for the crucifixtion but Liberals admitted that they never liked the guy either.

Some may say that it is needlessly cruel to expect people to denounce their own country, but British academics say it never did them any harm. Also, they deny any anti-Semitic intent, and in fact they'll soon be debating a motion requiring potential students from Muslim countries to disavow terrorism - that debates scheduled for the 31st of June. No, not only are Islamically-inclined students free of any requirement to renounce blowing up the No 32, but the unis themselves refuse to take any responsibility for who and what they're teaching. Why, if the Mad Mullah of Tehran's first born wants to learn all about genetic manipulation of anthrax, well, what could possibly go wrong ?

Another Despatch From The War On Fascism

Laban points out this interview with a BNP candidate in the council elections. It's all worth reading, but what caught my eye was this: 'She also has just been warned by a neighbour to expect some kind of assault, but she still thought it was worth it.'

And let me be the first to say: what the hell ? When exactly did threatening grandmothers get to be part of mainstream politics ? Here we have a situtaion where someone has stood for election and been threatened with violence as a result, but you have to read the blog of a right-wing think tank to find out about it.

Hey, there's not a lot you can say about the BNP, but they do a fine job of exposing the true nature of modern Liberals. Could there be a better metaphor for modern Liberalism than a howling mob of knuckle-dragging thugs stalking a grandmother because 'she's a fascist' ? And is there a truer measure of the state of British Conservatism than that they turn a blind eye to all this, hoping that Liberal thugs will refrain from using 'anti-racism' as an excuse for indiscriminate violence against Conservatives ? After all, that strategy worked so well with hate speech laws.

Liberals originally claimed that these laws were designed so that citizens could go about their business without being threatened by racist thugs screaming abuse at them. Now, we have golliwogs being arrested, police officers placing adverts in papers to trawl for people who might have been offended by a Conservative speaker and even ultra-bland media blonde Alison Pearson threatened with arrest for anti-Welsh comments made on Question Time, even though she wasn't, in the strictest sense of the word, on the show, and she's from Swansea anyway. Now, Conservatives are giving tacit approval to election fixing and mob violence ? Hey, maybe we need all those immigrants after all. It looks like standing up for freedom is one of those 'jobs the British just won't do'.

Quote Of The Day

I have decided to become a post-modernist vegetarian. Yes I will still eat meat, but I will only eat it ironically.

-Mr Free Market

Mixed Messages

Not to give aid and comfort for the enemy, but I can't take it anymore: Liberals, for the love of Gaia, don't try wheeling out the violins for the Dafydd D'Jour while at the same time sniggering over the fact one of your oppoents is a queer.

Snafu notes some more humbuggery here.

Are You Sure, Professor ?

More on yesterday’s theme of great moments in Liberal thought:

A sex attacker who killed a mother-of-one while on licence from a life sentence was "too dangerous" to be released, a watchdog has said.

Robert Mugabe Phoned And Said You Were Sleazy

In the days following July 7 whole rainforests worth of newsprint were taken up with Liberals pontificating that if we took any action at all to prevent a repeat showing then ‘the terrorists would have won’. Mass slaughter was a problem, to be sure, but our freedoms were too precious to risk in any but the most serious scenarios, y’know, like people voting the wrong way.

Obviously, this all needs to be taken with a pinch of salt. Yes, there is no independent evidence of malpractice, but equally where’s the rebuttal ? Serious charges have been made about the conduct of an election and there’s a news blackout. It’s not exactly reassuring.

Liberals adopting the ‘we had to destroy democracy to save it’ approach is all too predictable, as is the fact they’d no doubt justify themselves by claiming the BNP are ‘fascists’ – self-awareness has never been a big hit with Liberals. Still, it is depressing to see the entire MSM taking a vow of silence. Hell, this should be a great example of how the BNP lies to try and stir up trouble, right ?

For that matter, what about some of the folks in the blogosphere ? Plenty of bloggers like to bang on about civil liberties, well, here’s the State raising two fingers to democracy. Enough with the weeping and wailing for moonbats banned from rampaging outside Downing Street – banned in the sense that they have to move 500 yards up the road – what about government officials declaring that an election result is whatever they say it is ? Where’s the outrage ?

This is the flip side of multi-culturalism. On the one hand, we have the violence and the mayhem but there’s a corollary to that – as the chaos spreads, it becomes harder and harder for the Liberal establishment to deny that magnitude of the disaster, which in turn means they have to resort to more and more blatant forms of thuggery to keep the manure heap in orbit, all the while warning us of the dangers of ‘fascism’.

Who Said Liberals Were Fick ?

The BBC surprises with a pro-American article, highlighting just how generous were the terms of US support in WWII. But never underestimate the ability of a Liberal to find something stupid to say:

Anne Moffat, the MP for East Lothian, asked the parliamentary question that revealed the end of the WWII loan after being pressed by an interested constituent. She is a little surprised that we are still paying the Americans off all these years later.

"It is certainly bad that no-one seems to have known about it. It seems to be a dark, well-kept secret."

That’s the Liberal’s definition of a dark, well-kept secret: anything you’d have to crack open a book to know.

If Only He'd Told A Homophobic Joke...

OK, Nu Lab is 'Tough on crime' and their first priorities are 'Education, Education and Education', so at least this sort of thing can't happen:

An education authority says it is to take action after it emerged a teenage sex attacker is attending the same school as his 12-year-old victim.

Well, quite. And what is this action ?

A spokesman for Hampshire County Council, which runs the school, said a risk assessment was now being undertaken to ensure the girl was safe.

That 'll do it!

Let's move on, as Leftards would no doubt say, from the implication that, had the victim been at a different school, then it would have been just ducky to have a known sexual predator mixing freely with other pupils. Ditto, it is depressingly predictable that the State has maintained its usual omerta over the identity of this deviant. Apparently, parents have the right to be informed if a mobile phone mast is going up in their area, but not if their daughter is being forced to work with a known sex offender. The key point is that even with a case like this, Liberals can't get any further than the absurd rhetoric of bureaucracy. Is there no Liberal anywhere capable of taking an actual moral stand ? Can not one of them see that having a predator mixing with the general school population is just wrong ?

Let's just say the bar seems to be a little lower closer to home. At least there would be some logic if the L3 were just generally sloppy about health and safety, but it's quite the opposite. These people are obsessed with mythical threats like 'junk' food or institutional racism. Hey, the femiloons keep whining about super, extra-secret prejudical 'atmospheres' which somehow turn girls away from studying maths and physics. Does having a known predator sitting at the next desk produce an 'atmosphere' ? Yes, I believe it does, but the femiloons are too busy dealing with the shocking case of a City Witch whose boss called her fat to deal with actual, real violence.

So this is where we are today: the victim of a sexual assault is forced to spend every day seeing the scumbag who violated her living it large and all our 'caring services' can offer is vacuous bureauspeak about monitoring the situation. And these people claim to have moral authority ?

Our Smart Opponents

You could keep a blog going just keeping track of MSM stories which miss the point like Stevie Wonder at a clay pigeon shoot: "Prison Population Soars, Even As Crime Falls", "Revenue Up Despite Tax Cuts", and now this.

Yep, somehow, enrolment is up in private schools, even while numbers fall in state schools. What can it all mean ?

I Said Morrison's Vodka Was Bad

Looks like the Rotty Pup is still hungover as a, well, dog. Still, it reminds me of a link they sent me back when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, as recently excavated from the triassic trainwreck of my inbox. Now, this is funny.

Dismissing The Electorate And Choosing Another, 2006 Version

Just don't accuse them of hating Britain.

Of Course, Suicide Would Be One Answer

Scott at the Daily Ablution is wondering about Liberal self-loathing, while the Devil's Kitchen wonders why they’re so miserable. Me, I think it’s quite simple: the problem in both cases is their elephantine sense of entitlement. They really do think it’s their right to rule the world.

Spending your life feeling that your destiny is being thwarted is a certain means to an unhappy life – or, as Liberals would no doubt call it, depression. Equally, it's a nice excuse. Liberals so commonly claim to be suffering from depression, addition, trauma, radiation sickness and the like because it’s another way of coping: I would rule the world, if only it wasn’t for this disease.

But there’s another way to deal with it. If you are destined for power, but you don’t achieve it then clearly that proves that there’s something deeply wrong with Britain as a whole. Clearly, our society is manifestly unjust. Hence, Liberals’ obsession with dear ol’ Big Business, conspiracies and miscarriages of justice. It’s all further proof that an honest guy has got no chance in our system. It’s not that they’re constitutionally unfit for command, ah no, it’s just that they won’t sell out.

The trouble is that Liberals seeking to prove the evils of the West keep running into a problem. No matter how much they hate us, everywhere else in the world is worse. More to the point, the places Liberals like best, are worst of all. Havana vs Newcastle. Pyongyang vs Miami, Zimbabwe vs just about anywhere. Liberals keep telling us how bad capitalism is, but everywhere their philosophy is tried turns, as night follows day, into a cess pit. No wonder they hate the Anglosphere – it’s a living rebuttal of everything they’ve ever believed.

Just as on the personal level, so nationally: Liberals try to explain away the success of the Anglosphere by trying to find a way, any way, to prove the West has somehow cheated. We might be more successful than the Fifth World thugocracies that make Liberals weak at the knees, but the only reason these places are hellholes is that they’re being exploited by the West. Yes, that’s it. Or there’s the environment. We might be better now, but there’ll be a huge price to pay in 2506. The funny thing is that we don’t need dodgy computer models run by card-carrying Conservatives to illustrate the negative effects of Leftism. But the search goes on for a way to prove that the West is Worst.

The thing is that the failure of these people to obtain all the power they want is a feature not a bug. Nixon supposedly said there were two types of people who went into politics, those who wanted to do big things, and those who wanted to be big people. Liberals are almost all of the second type. Consider, say, the public services. Liberals managers genuinely believe that they rule by divine right. Concepts such as loyalty to the troops or accountability to the public have no place in such a worldview.

Similarly, do we really need conspiracy theories to explain why Zimbabwean agriculture is such a train wreck ? Shoot the farmers, evict the workers and give the land to a party hack from Harare, yet somehow yields collapse. Who’d have thunk it ?. For fifty years Africans have suffered under various forms of insane collectivism, all cheered on by Liberals. No wonder they’re trying to deny responsibility.

Twenty years ago, Liberals at least had the USSR. Now it turns out that the Soviet Union was a hell hole just like that Nazi Reagan said. Meanwhile, China has become the very model of all pigs to the trough capitalism. No wonder Leftism has degenerated from an actual ideology into the whiny runt of modern Liberalism. Everything they ever believed has been proven wrong, so now all they’re left with is negative whining.

The Philosopher, The Model & The Auntie

There’s an old story about a philosopher and a model who meet at a party. The philosopher asks the model if she’ll sleep with him for £1 million. She agrees, then he says ‘How about £10 ?’. ‘What do you think I am ?’ says the model, ‘A prostitute ?’. The philosopher says ‘We’ve already determined that, now we’re talking about price’.

What set me to thinking about all this was the BBC’s pious sermons on the glories of its own impartiality. I leave it to the actual philosophers whether such a thing is really possible, but in the light of last week’s events, it turns out that the BBC’s impartiality is just a matter of price after all. Consider Nick Robinson here.

Yes, yes, yes: we’re all supposed to hate the BNP. Supporting the BNP is one of those things like child molestation. Oops. It’s not just pedophiles either. Well-known Saudi reformer Osama Bin Laden’s tapes get plenty of that sweet, sweet oxygen of publicity too.

For that matter, it’s worth remembering who coined that phrase in the first place: the then Mrs Thatcher talking about media coverage of the IRA. Back then, Liberals were enraged at the idea of restrictions on the media’s reporting, but now the BBC wants to impose its own blackout. I guess things would have been different if the IRA had had a record of violence like the BNP’s. Ahem. Come to think of it, in the very same set of elections, Respect had a lot of success too. What can you criticize the BNP for that doesn’t apply to Respect ? How come the BBC reports on them are anodyne to the point of torpor ?

Not to say that I’m opposed to confrontational reporting. Take the Dimbleby interview with Griffin. Here’s was an interviewer who was obviously well-briefed and prepared to go for the throat in pointing out some of the absurdities of the BNP’s position. How come that never happens with mainstream politicians ? Of course, some may say that the BBC has a responsibility not to give publicity to racist lunatics, but I see no need to drag the Treason Party into this.

We need some kind of scorecard, so we can tell when the BBC is reporting straight and when it’s on a crusade. After all, how else can we tell, when the BBC goes for the throat against the BNP, while reporting straight the latest rantings from Iran’s president, Al-Quiada or Gerry Adams ? For that matter, if the excuse for suspending normal journalistic standards is that the BNP is on the extreme Right, just how flexible is this ? How Right does a Rightist have to be to be an extreme Rightist ? We’re back to the model again – if the BBC isn’t biased, except when the price is right, we’re entitled to ask just what that price is. Still, for now, at least we know how much credibility to give all that talk of impartiality: absolutely none.

Mysterious Sudden Dismemberment Syndrome Strikes Again!

In a similar vein to the last post but one, consider the contrasting ways the MSM reports certain stories of murder and mayhem. Look at the BBC's coverage of the slaying of Christopher Alaneme. The BBC have no problem stating authoritively that this was a racist murder. More to the point, there are 'background' pieces, seeking to put the murder in context.

Now consider the reporting on the Banaz Mahmod Babakir Agha case. Of course, the mere fact it is being reported is progress of a sort, but there's a certain difference in tone there. Straight reporting only need apply. She was savagely murdered and dismembered. End of story. No speculation as to motive there, no H K phrase, far less any M word. No context either.

What it's all about, as ever, is that one murder serves the Liberal agenda, the other is like a dagger to the heart of it. Articles such as this on the Alaneme killing make all but explicit the Liberal's desire to leverage this incident into some kind of collective indictment of native Britons in general. Gosh darn it, we're just not PC enough, we haven't drunk enough of the PC kool aid and swallowed whole the idea that all cultures are equal, except for Western culture which is the worst ever.

A case like Banaz Mahmod Babakir Agha reminds us what multiculturalism really means: diving headlong down the cesspit of moral and cultural relativism until we can't even call a depraved Fifth World abomination what it is. What chance any BBC reporters interviewing members of the - ahem! - 'Kurdish' community about their attitudes to honour killing ?

Every time the MSM find a 'racist murder' that goes in the ledger as further proof that the native British are evil scum, but when the killers are Islamically-inclined, the MSM's reporting is an alzheimer's joke given unnnatural life. Every incident involving the RoP is a bolt from the blue. Liberals are the only people in the world who claim it's a coincidence that the ringleaders of Sep 11 and July 7 both had the same first name.

D-Day, June 6

All new material as well.

Sauce For The Goose

Picking out Liberalism's sleaziest tactic takes some doing, but one of the contenders must be the way anyone who questions their witch hunting is themselves accused of owning a pointy hat, so that - to take a completely hypothetical example - a judge who criticises the prosecution of a 10 year old for hate crimes is himself accused of sympathising with the BNP.

It's a despicable and nasty tactic, even by their standards, but since they mention it, it looks like I'm not the only one to have noticed a certain coincidence of worldview between Liberals and a well-known third world activist:

During this period he has sounded almost indistinguishable from various left-wing blogs. In April 2004 he ranted about “big media,” describing them as “agents of deception and exploitation.” He said the war in Iraq “is making billions of dollars for the big corporations, whether it be those who manufacture weapons or reconstruction firms like Halliburton and its offshoot sister companies.” (Halliburton is, of course, the bête noir of anti-war bloggers.)

Hey, Lucky I've Just Bought A New Nano-Violin

Just in time for the Liberal pity party:

Critical school inspections represent a "public humiliation", the annual conference of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) has heard.

See, that’s that whole ‘taking skip loads of public money’ thing. Yes, indeed – the insensitive swine do like to see a little evidence that you’re not just throwing it all in the sea.

The practice of sending letters to pupils describing the findings of the education watchdog Ofsted also came in for condemnation.

Yes, it does seem rather silly to send letters to kids who’ve never been taught to read.

These were "patronising, condescending and supercilious", the NAHT said.

Mr Kettle was not available for comment.

The letters gave children a "licence for bad behaviour", the conference in Harrogate heard.

As opposed to the splendid example set by a bunch of people who unleash their inner chimpanzee whenever it's suggested that they might actually do the job for which they're paid.

Delegates voted to oppose the "current punitive inspection regime that at its worst can be inspection by public humiliation".

Or you could, y’know, stop constantly screwing up.

There was "a need to create an inspection system that truly recognises and values the work of schools", it was argued.

We did, that’s why they’re whining like a singed cat.

Ofsted has changed the system to one of shorter-notice, quicker inspections, no more than three years apart.

Hey, quicker inspections. That’s got to go down well with the hippies, right ?

Delegates heard that heads nearing three years since their last visit were in a "state of persistent paranoia".

I believe this is one time when we are truly justified in using that phrase ‘if you’ve got nothing to hide, you’ve got nothing to fear’. Meanwhile, in the real world, we don’t get to screw around for three years at a time without consequences. How do we manage ?

David Kitching, from the Isle of Wight, said the new system created "instant judgements".

Hey, I thought they welcomed shorter inspections. Oops no, guess it’s better to radical than rational.

He added that Ofsted was a "bully" which was "there to promote short-term government objectives".

Later, he added that Ofsted were, like, total bad vibe merchants, maaan. It says a lot about where these people are that the thought of a government body that serves the elected government strikes them as somehow underhand. But isn’t it funny that Liberals are always proposing long-term plans that involve doing the exact opposite of what any rational person would do in the short-term ?

David Pannett, from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, said he was quitting the profession in protest at the new regime.

Oh no! How will the country survive if dirty Liberal hippies keep jacking in their jobs-for-life ?

It was possible to "ruin" schools in a couple of days, he added.

Hey, those guys should know.

Delegates were also urged to "deplore" the sending of letters detailing inspection findings to pupils.

Yep, when the kids have to ask their parents to read the letters to them, that gives the game away.

A motion said: "At best, these letters are patronising, condescending and supercilious.

And that’s their job.

"At worst, the letters may expose and humiliate some teachers, while misrepresenting good individual teaching with blanket criticisms of the school."

So the letters are bad because they single out individual teachers, but also because they don’t single out individual teachers. Uh OK.

It added that inspections were "undermining the human rights of all teachers in a school", which "flies in the face" of the government's respect agenda, aimed at improving young people's behaviour. Liz Paver, from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, said she was "horrified" at the letters and prepared to strike in protest against them.

It’s the fundamental human right to a job for life, irrespective of how badly you do it. Call it a hunch, but I’m thinking what really undermines young people’s behavior is seeing their teachers showing utter contempt for the public while still claiming they’re entitled to huge wodges of their cash.

An Ofsted spokeswoman said the letters allowed better "feedback".
She added: "The letter to pupils is a new service offered by Ofsted under the new inspection system which, for the first time, lets them directly know about the outcome of the inspection of their school.

Which is probably what hacks off the zombies. They’d much rather we went back to the Seventies, when insiders knew which schools were good and bad, while the folks actually paying for it all had to take pot luck.

"About three-quarters of head teachers agree that the post-inspection letter to pupils is helpful."

See, that’s the problem right there. We don’t care. We have a bunch of burnt-out New Age trash with their fangs firmly locked on the public teat, and we’re supposed to worry what they think of us ? Hello ?

With approximately 750 000 riders on this particular gravy train it’ll never happen, but I’d love it if some politician would just stand up and say 'up yours!'. After all, it's not as if they're even hiding it anymore. Back in the day, there used to be at least a millimetric layer of bogus educational justification for the shakedown d'jour, but now ? Nope, accountability is bad because... they say it is, so there!

It's not only that folks with real jobs are being soaked to provide a bunch of drug-sodden, going nowhere losers, idiots and deadbeats with jobs for life (plus a gold plated pension). No, it's the fact that they take all this then they sneer at us. In the moral cesspit of British education, people with actual jobs are either dupes of 'the system' or fascists, depending on just how much more successful they've been than the average teacher. Hell, look at them at the average parent's evening, a bunch of disheveled, dirty losers dressed like circus clowns. Could they make their contempt more obvious ?

This vile collection of worthless idiots spend their lives snarling hatred of everyone who hasn't thrown their life away smoking pot and waiting for the revolution, man. Yet, staggeringly, British educational standards have somehow collapsed. Not only have billions of pounds have been wasted, but so has the potential of millions of children, all because no politician has the courage to call these poisonous vermin what they are. 'Public humiliation' ? Right now, public execution wouldn't be over the top.

Talking Of Racially Motivated Violence....

The race hustelers are in the middle of another highly lucrative performance of the victimhood symphony. Yep, another supposedly racist murder, this time down in Kent. Trouble is, the evidence seems kind of weak:

Police say Mr Alaneme, who was black, was racially abused before the attack.

"After speaking to witnesses, we believe there were words said prior to the incident that suggest racial motivation was a factor," said Supt Steve Corbishley.

Isn't that just super ? Liberals wax lyrical about judical independence, but when an agent of the state decides we don't need an actual trial after all to determine the matter of motivation, Liberals are cool with it. Maybe Supt Corbishley could just pronounce the suspects guilty and we could avoid the whole drawn out process. It's not as if it's an open and shut case. When it comes to the question of racial animus, there turns out to be a honkey in the woodpile:

A 29-year-old white man, who was also stabbed, is stable in hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

See, they were just about to sell us on the idea of a gang of Nazi trash roaming round looking to kill anyone with dark skin when suddenly it turns out these guys are quite happy to kill white men as well. That's not a problem if, like me, you're a real Conservative and you think a killer's a killer, but since our Liberal friends apparently think there's a huge distinction between the social faux pas of mere murder and the evil of RACIST MURDER, I think we're justified in demanding they actually prove racial motivation.

The funny thing is that six months ago attacking people from more than one race was proof positive that you were not a racist. What can possibly be different in this case ?

(More on this from Tottenham Lad)

The Ladder Of Victimhood Lives!

Zut Alors! Police have admitted they're seeking a black guy in connection with a series of racial attacks. It's the end of days! Oooh no - looks like the vics are members of a certain peace-loving religion, and as we all know Islamopath trumps Homeboy every time.

Heads We Win, Tails Toss Again

Never mind the other questions about Nu Lab's innovative approach to deporting criminals, what I want to know is what happened to all that Liberal abhorance of political interference in judical decisions ? When some bewigged fool decides that Mohammed Al-Scumbag can stay in the country, that's it: game over. But when the courts decide a criminal's to be deported at end of sentence ? That's just friendly advice. Take it or leave it.

The Cap Fits

Returning briefly to England from France for a speaking engagement, I bought three of the major dailies to catch up on the latest developments in my native land. The impression they gave was of a country in the grip of a thoroughgoing moral frivolity. In a strange inversion of proper priorities, important matters are taken lightly and trivial ones taken seriously.

As ever, the good doctor is bang on. Consider recent events in law enforcement. Liberals have been all a flutter after Channel 4 exclusively revealed that public sector workers can be lazy (not that they put it that way), but while Cheapkebabgate was dominating the headlines, you needed to hire sniffer dogs to find this story (or have a commenter point it out – thanks Max!).

Lemme check the scorecard here….hmmm, now I think about it, I’d have to say that murder does seem more serious than cricket in the car park. But don’t tell Liberals that. What an insight it was into the way Britain is policed that a Chief Constable can come out with this:

Even if we had arrested Quintas following the assault, it can only be a matter of speculation whether that would have changed his intentions or behaviour

True enough, but by completely failing to mount an effective response to his crimes, the police themselves encouraged Quintas to ramp up his offending. It’s ‘broken windows’ again. Come to think of it, isn’t domestic violence just about the only context where Liberals think there’s a role for ‘zero tolerance’ ? But no, the femiloon community, predictably enraged by the failure of police to treat allegations by members of the underclass as the Word of God, are unmoved by actual, real savagery.

So now the worker bees face another round of witch hunting, with raids being made on suburban police stations to try and find naughty pictures. Meanwhile, a dysfunctional system that sends cops after mystery dogs instead of psycho ex-boyfriends needs no overhaul. Chief Constables can go about their business mercifully free of the ‘professional standards’ KGB, no matter how many pointless deaths there are on their watch. For the rest of us, I guess the answers simple: if you need the police fast, make a point of telling them how worried you are about ‘mein sheepen’, that way they might mistake you for a distressed German shepherd.

Pot Calling The Kettle......Something

The BBC reports the Treason Party’s demand that the BNP not put up a candidate in the local elections in Huyton. And why ? Ah well, that’s where Anthony Walker was murdered. Huh ?

As it happens, and despite the impression the BBC give, the Walkers refused to be press ganged into the Lib’s rantings, restricting themselves to releasing an anodyne statement saying that they can’t see how the BNP candidacy will help race relations – not hitherto known to be a major concern of the BNP. Fortunately, the Liberals’ never need anyone’s help to rant:

To actually put a candidate forward is not only repugnant but also goes against what I would consider to be decent human values

In which parallel universe is the party of Mark Oaten, Jenny Tonge and voting mills qualified to talk about decency ? You can imagine the furore if the BNP had started declaring that their opponents lacked decent human values. For the record, there is no evidence that the killers were members of, approved of, or even knew any members of, the BNP.

In so far as an actual point can be identified, Liberals seem to be saying that the killers of Anthony Walker were racists and so is the BNP so the BNP killed Anthony Walker. Or something.

If nothing else, this attempt to mau-mau a political party into withdrawing from an election should stop Liberals taking out onions over the world’s ‘disenfranchised’. But let’s, for the sake of the Liberal’s insane argument, accept that the BNP is responsible for the death of Anthony Walker. Can we have some sauce for that goose ?

After all, exactly this kind of PC hysteria has become endemic in the public services. Laban catalogues some of the more extreme examples in the prison service, and asks whether or not the atmosphere of frenzied witch hunting had anything to do with the development of a culture where no one dared look at a serious offender’s file and say ‘hey, I thought this guy was scheduled for deportation’ ?

On a similar theme, why is there this fatwa on asking who the July 7 bombers would have voted for ? After all, whatever the BNP may or may not believe, it’s not like they had MPs or national media exposure to push their policies. The BNP never ridiculed the possibility of racial attacks in Britain. They never expressed sympathy for those who committed racists murders abroad. They never complained about the demonisation of racist killers. More to the point, they never tried to block legislation aimed at racist killers or smeared law enforcement professionals trying to track down these thugs as closet totalitarians. Liberals did all this and more when the issue was terrorism.

There’s no need for girly-girl talk about ‘values’ when the subject is Liberal support for terrorists, we have hard facts. Right up until July 7, the Treason Party was denouncing everyone who warned of the danger. Afterwards, there was a short silence, for all of about five minutes, after which mentally subnormal service was resumed. Maybe the BNP should be shamed by the possibility that two racist morons might support them, but looking at the Treason Party’s policies, the problem isn’t so much that the July 7 bombers would approve of the Treason Party, so much as that so many of their members seem to approve of the bombers.

Can't We Just Deport The Liberals ?

Given that the chief excuse for the Conservatives electing David Cameron was that he was a political genius, it’s interesting to see his cunning plan to defeat the BNP. As his far saner namesake shows, urging people to vote for anyone else sure covers a lot of ground. More to the point, here's a party that markets itself as the natural home for people left on the kerb by the political establishment - calling for the formation of a cartel is not the obvious way to undercut their message, the more so when it involves coddling up to Communists, Islamofascists and stoners.

Of course this sort of thing has quite a track record. Following July 7, we were told that we had to understand the root causes but now, faced with the prospect of people voting in a way they disapprove of, the self-same people are starting to sound like Little Green Footballs commentors. So, let’s just check the scorecard here: mass slaughter requires understanding, voting the wrong way deserves carpet bombing. It makes perfect sense!

For the record , I think prophecies of a breakthrough for those of a BNP tendency are overblown – just like the last 3000 times Liberals have raised that bogeyman. Nevertheless, something is happening, just not what Liberals say it is.

Liberals claim that folks opposed to immigration are all secretly obsessed with racial purity, but the wheels have come off ever since half the population of Gdansk moved here. The Poles have suffered a lot, but no one ever accused them of having a natural sense of rhythm.

The flip side of that is that Britons of Indian descent are now supporting the BNP. At one level that’s insane. After all, the BNP is the natural home of the Dulux Warriors – folks who want to run round the country with colour charts checking who’s really British and who’s only pretending (and I don’t think grandparents in Madras really help). On another level though, it makes perfect sense.

Suppose your dad came to this country and worked sixty hour weeks as, say, a postman. You yourself have dedicated years to the long and arduous process of becoming a neurosurgeon, now the Liberals not only want to bleed you dry to pay for free houses for some ‘splodey dope from South Yemen, but they think you should be happy to support Islamoloons because, hey, you’re all the same, right ?

Seems to me that all the talk of race is coming from one side of the political divide. Opposing giving free money to any maroon who can make it through the channel tunnel is no more evidence of racial prejudice than opposing agricultural policies is evidence of an unhinged hatred of farmers.

This is the thing, of course. Liberals are so keen to talk about race not only because forty years of monopoly control of the institutions has left them barely capable of anything else, but also because the debate brings into question some other Liberal sacred cows.

Inusrance companies well understand the phenomenom of ‘moral hazard’. Basically, this is the idea that if your pride and joy is insured, then you take less care where you park it than if you had to buy a replacement yourself. But the welfare state goes one better. If insurance worked like the DSS, then you’d be able to firebomb your own Fiat and get a BMW delivered the next day. That’s always been the problem with the welfare state or, more particularly, with the Liberal insistence that payouts be based on (perceived) need, but it has been thrown into sharp relief by folks running off the plane at Heathrow shouting ‘Show me the money!’. We’re told, for example, that immigrants get first choice of social housing because their bigger families means they’re in greater need, to which I reply ‘So ?’ Anyone who moves somewhere else ‘needs’ a house. Enough with the ‘need’, how about we start talking about ‘desert’ ?

But there’s a wider issue here than just the financial. Most people would find the kind of two-faced whining here nauseating, yet it’s the perfect example of what Liberals mean by citizenship. Just as when Liberal talk about helping ‘working families’ they mean non-families where no one works, so any talk of social responsibility means taxing the productive to pay for freebies for their clients. The idea that citizens have actual responsibilities to the nation (emphatically not the same as the state) ? Forget it. Again, this was always an underlying theme in Liberalism, but a terrorist demanding the British government rescue him from the consequences of waging war on Britain sure rams the point home.

Equally, when L3 top brass suddenly claim that large parts of Britain have too many native Britons, they’re simply making explicit the hatred of Britain that has always been a key part of Liberalism.

Immigration is an important issue – perhaps the issue – but it’s not the whole issue. That thing again, the Culture War. Immigration policy shows us the Britain Liberals seek to create. That’s why people object, not because of some insane obsession with racial purity, and that’s why Liberals call them racists, because to engage with their objections would mean admitting to the true nature of Liberalism. As ever, Conservatives are weird and nasty, but it’s Liberals who won’t give you a straight answer as to what they believe.

Multiculturalism Latest

How low can the L3 go ? Well, this low actually:

A BANGLADESHI woman who shook a baby boy so violently that he suffered brain damage walked free from court yesterday because a judge conceded that she did not know how to behave in the West.....

The injuries inflicted on the child over several weeks had caused one side of his brain to shrink. It was believed that the boy would have been screaming in agony for eight weeks because his injuries went untreated.

Yes, she was unfamiliar with our wacky Western customs such as NOT TORTURING OUR KIDS. After all, who's to say that torturing your child is necessarily any worse than not doing so ? Well, actually, just about every worthwhile civilisation that's ever existed. Being sympathetic to child abusers isn't moral relativism, it's moral nihlism. All this Liberal talk of 'tolerance' is just a euphamism for the surrender of every moral precept western civilisation has ever believed in.

Those of us who hate multiculturalism are often denounced as racists by the L3, but look what's happening here. The 'racist right' want child abuse treated as a serious crime under all circumstances, but the L3 (and never has the phrase Loony Left Liberal been so apt) claim that it's serious if it's a native child, but if it the progeny of some fourth worlders, well, hey, it's just a wacky faux pas, so slap on the wrist, and no hard feelings. Consider this, if you were a hardcore white racist, just how would your position differ from that of the Left ?

That's the X-factor behind the BNP's recent rise to prominence. If you're going to call people Nazis for being sickened at the sight of the courts doing all but giving group hugs to child abusers, then don't be surprised if they turn to folks like the BNP.

Of course, these cases do seem to happen rather more frequently amongst certain people. Even our Liberal friends have to admit that:

The court was told that Khanom, a Muslim, did not understand that shaking a helpless baby would not exorcise an evil spirit.

Well, m'kay. Clearly another of those 'highly skilled immigrants' our economy needs. Still, I guess we do have to take into account the fact some people really believe that their baby is possessed by an evil spirit, but can the L3 at least stop yammering about 'Islamophobia' ? If the courts are allowed to take into account the fact Islam drives people to behave like savages even to their own kids, then I don't think it's unreasonable for the rest of us to take note as well.

Liberals Eating Their Own (Part II)

They are simply outraged that the corporation is paying so much money to people who chatter on air between playing records.

Well, quite.

Liberals Eating Their Own (Part I)

Lawyers Vs Academics, it's the Culture War equivalent of the Iran-Iraq war.

Schools In Toxic Wasters Shocker

One of the most significant, yet least often mentioned, reasons for Conservative dominance in the 1980s was that large parts of the Left were certifiably insane. Now, under the twin influences of Blairism and anti-psychotics, most of them can at least pass as sane for short periods, but some are still keeping that 80s vibe going. Literally, in some cases: Brian Garvey, president of the NASUWT, has just given a speech denouncing Thatcher.

Why, yes, as it happens the NASUWT is a teaching union. How ever did you guess ?

As far as I can make out, the charge is that bad behavior in British schools is down to Lady Thatcher. Considering that even the oldest students in British schools would have been approximately 3 months old when Lady Thatcher resigned, this makes ‘the dog ate my homework’ sound almost plausible. Needless to say, all the usual clichés are present and correct: ‘legacy of selfishness’, ‘I'm all right Jack" culture’, ….zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

It’s tempting to mock the sheer insanity of trying to cast the woman who popularized the phrase ‘Victorian values’ as the patron saint of classroom mayhem, but let’s just pretend Garvey’s trainwreck understanding of Thatcherism is correct (while praying that he doesn’t teach history). OK, Mr Liberal, Conservatives are selfish, now how does that lead to people stabbing each other ? I might have missed a page, but I don’t recall knives playing a large part in ‘Atlas Shrugged’.

In so far as these freaks have a point, it’s that teachers have lost respect, but whose fault is that ? They’re trying to claim that British education sucks because of someone who hauled her flag down sixteen years ago and folk don’t respect them ? Sounds like one for Mulder & Scully. Then we get the union general secretary babbling on about the 'scars' of 18 years of Conservative government. Spare us. Folks in the private sector (aka the real world) are stuck dealing with a hostile administration right now, but do you see any of them whining about their ‘scars’ ? But wait…in the private sector you need actual results rather than being able to brush off constant failure with insane arguments about people who quit back when mobile phones were the size of small cars.

Lady Thatcher’s contribution was merely to help expose the double standard by which people in the private sector had to perform to stay employed while public sector professionals could do pretty much whatever they wanted. So now the dirty, drug-sodden, workshy members of our professionally unemployable class are whining about lack of respect ? Personally, I think it speaks well of kids when they can recognise these toxic losers for what they are. They might be young, but they can recognise that if our society is structured such that spending your life wasted and waiting for the revolution, man, means you end up a bitter loser, that's a feature not a bug.

Consider this though: these people insist that they are entitled to a publicly-funded job for life, gold plated pensions and high wages, irrespective of results, all the while claiming the public is too FICK to make any worthwhile judgment on their effectiveness. They claim that even management stopping by to see how they perform is apparently the height of unreasonableness. They issue ranting denunciations of faith schools and the like, all the while claiming that they are being victimized by all and sundry. So, massive sense of entitlement, contempt for the wider society, belief that they should not be subject to any form of authority, unhinged abuse of anyone not conforming to their views and permanent (and ludicrous) sense of grievance. Gosh, can’t see why the kids turn out the way they do!

While We're On The Subject...

The immigration debate is coming to the boil in the US as well. Here's Ann Coulter:

This is the only country on Earth that thinks it's not sporting to consider our own interests in choosing immigrants. Try showing up in any other country on the planet, illiterate and penniless, and announcing: "I've seen pictures of your country and it looks great. I think I'd like to live here! Oh, and by the way, would you mind changing all your government and business phone messages, street signs and ballots into my native language? Thanks!" They would laugh you out of the country.

Well, I can think of at least one other. Hell, round here you get to play the asylum version of the Generation Game ('free house, free car, free cuddly toy...'). If the worst comes to the worst and you meet the one immigration tribunal in the country that won't believe that you're being persecuted by the fascist government back home in your native Sweden, well, once you've exhausted your 72 Legal Aid funded appeals, you can always stay on as an illegal. After all, as Mark Steyn reminds us, it's not all bad news:

Here's my immigration "compromise": We need to regularize the situation of the 298 million non-undocumented residents of the United States. Right now, we get a lousy deal compared with the 15 million fine upstanding members of the Undocumented American community. I think the 298 million of us in the overdocumented segment of the population should get the chance to be undocumented. You know when President Bush talks about all those undocumented people "living in the shadows"? Doesn't that sound kinda nice? Living in the shadows, no government agencies harassing you for taxes and numbers and paperwork.

More Of That Liberal Anti-Racism

It’s ‘BNP Week’ in the political world, which means charges of racism will be flying round like MPs on fact-finding tours. Fortunately, an unusual voice has emerged to stand against bogus charges of racism. Yes, indeed, thanks to the BBC and their many generous Liberal commentors, we can now see the list of things that sound like racism, but aren’t.

Of course, there’s no helping some people. Even the first of the victims claims that being abused on grounds of her national origin ‘feels like a kind of racism’. Well, quite. The BBC helpfully points out that she ‘doesn't agree with the war in Iraq and didn't vote for Bush’, thereby subtlety implying that if she did or she had, she’d deserve all she gets. Frankly, that’s a relief. Just last week the L3 were explaining to us that black employees were entitled to wear racist regalia in the workplace, but I like these new rules much better. Now, we can insist blacks disavow drug-dealing, rap music and Ian ‘Moron, Init’ Wright, otherwise all PC bets are off.

But it’s in the comments where the real revelations are (as in the comments hosted by our ultra-sensitive, PC BBC, host of the censorfest that is Don't Have Your Say). Did you know, for example, that it’s OK to hold people responsible for alleged offences carried out by completely different people who are members of the same racial group ?

As a Muslim studying abroad I can sympathise with her. However, she has only suffered a black eye and had hurtful words thrown at her, whereas I have family members who are now buried six feet under in Basra due to her government's actions.
Ahmed, UK

Oh, yeah, don’t worry if the charge makes no actual sense – like blaming the Americans for what happens in the British sector of Iraq - that still doesn’t make you sound like a bigoted loon.

Once again, remember those people only deserve civilized behavior if they express the right views:

It's very unfortunate that individuals should be singled out like this purely because of where they come from. But I would say to Christian Cox, don't defend Bush if you don't agree with him, and don't express unqualified pride in your country which is - like ours - great, but flawed, and you might get a better reception from most Brits!
David Ewen, London

Besides, the victims probably deserve it anyway:

I can understand how upsetting it is for people such as Ms Cox. However, I think Americans need to be educated in such a way that equips them better to travel without appearing to treat to rest of the world like an extension of Disneyland. I frequently hear patronising, insensitive comments made by American tourists who are tarnishing the reputation of their compatriots.
Tom Watson, Rome, Italy

As always though, be alert to members of inferior races trying to avoid racist abuse by passing themselves off as humans.

If you suspect your 'Canadian' is actually American, ask them to name three provinces (excluding Ontario). Or ask them what the capital of Saskatchewan is. You'll soon know. (We don't like the either, by the way.)
Jim Connolly, Toronto, Canada

So, there you have it, a license-fee funded look into the world of the anti-racist Left, all courtesy of a company which won’t even call Islamic terrorists 'Islamic terrorists' lest it encourage bigotry against bombers.

At Least John Wayne Didn't Demand The Sioux Built Him A House

Trust a Liberal to focus like a laser on the real problem. Margaret Hodge has warned that allowing uncontrolled mass immigration of unassimilatable welfare queens into this country increases support for the BNP. Yes, that’s it. Doubtless, her colleagues in government are busy making preparations for a pandemic of lethal influenza, lest it undermine support for the NHS.

Deftly refuting the stereotype of Liberals as out of touch snobs, Hodge has identified the reason why so many people are turning to the BNP: not enough council houses. All we need to do is build enough houses for the locals and the tidal wave of immigrants pouring into the country (apparently, scrounging off the welfare state is one of those jobs the British just won’t do). Call it a wild guess, but I’m thinking we’ll need a hell of a lot of houses – and a hell of a lot of native British taxpayers to pay for them.

Of course, now our fearless MSM has been given permission to cover the subject, we can now find out just how many houses we’ll need for all these ‘highly-skilled immigrants supporting our high-tech industries’ (who need free houses). We now find out that approximately 8500 Africans alone took up residence in a borough of just 164,000 in one year. Or to put it another way, in five years the ethnic population went from 18% to 30%. And how are they assimilating ? Well, the Spectator’s fearlessness runs out at that point, so we only get vague hints like the observation that our ‘new Britons’ are busily setting up their own shops and churches. Is this immigration or colonisation ?

Not that the locals are worried, no sir. Hodge explains that it’s just the pace of change that’s alarmed the natives. Yes, indeed, if things would slow down so that it was, say, twenty years until native Britons became unwelcome squatters in their own country, why, everything would be just ducky.

So, that’s the answer: keep giving away freebies to any idiot who can make his way to Heathrow and mumble the word 'asylum' but tax the natives even more so that their kids might have a vanishingly small chance of obtaining socialhousing, and also marginally slow down the pace of social collapse. Is it ironic, or just stupid, that a woman calling her party out of touch produces such a profoundly loopy diagnosis ?

But What If He Wanted To Bomb A Football Ground ?

Liberals think that firemen, police officers and soldiers are all shambling thugs. True courage is piously repeating Liberal talking points to general acclaim. The latest winner of the Liberal VC (Vacuous Chatter) is Mr Justice Sullivan, who fearlessly used his position on the High Court to denounce government anti-terror measures – just like the last 600 or so judges. Hey, is the chance of a nice obit in the Guardian really that compelling ?

What gave the bewigged one the chance to take the mike at the Liberal’s one note karaoke was government legislation restricting the right of terrorist suspects to travel abroad. If you didn’t know anything about the law, you could almost think the Libs were making a reasonable point, but I don’t think High Court judges really have this excuse. Mr Justice Sullivan must know that the law already allows the government to withdraw passports from suspected (emphatically not just convicted) footie hooligans – his ‘principled stand’ is nothing of the sort.

The Left is fine with seizing the passports of those who might wreck a foreign pub, but not the passports of those who just want to blow one up. I can’t see this line being a big seller with the man on the clapham omnibus, which may be one reason why Liberals and the MSM have completely ignored the football issue, as though seizing passports without convictions was some crazy idea from out of the blue.

You can draw your own conclusions from the fact Liberals find a law perfectly acceptable right up until it affects the ability of Jihadis to go about their business. What’s more intriguing is Sullivan’s attempt to justify this ruling.

[Sullivan] ruled it was "conspicuously unfair" that there was no impartial review of the control orders.

‘Unfair’ ? Is this some kind of new legal term ? Sullivan may as well have ruled that ‘Control Order’ is a really ugly name. Meanwhile, the nation waits with baited breath for Sullivan’s ruling on the fairness of July 7.

Although there was nothing technically wrong with the control order, he said the review process revealed the "thin veneer of legality" of the government's anti-terrorism laws.

Isn’t that just great ? Even Sullivan admits there’s nothing actually wrong with the laws, but he wants to strike them down anyway. Call me old fashioned, but if Sullivan feels so deeply that our current system is so ‘unfair’, he should do the decent thing, and resign to campaign against these laws. Of course, that might force to make actual arguments, and it wouldn’t allow him to be lauded as a hero merely for regurgitating Liberal talking points with a silly wig on. That’s the bottom line. Whether you hate Blair or loathe him, at least he is answerable to the public in at least some respects. The courts ? Forget it – it’s a Liberal Fantasy Island where all the legislation they couldn’t get through Parliament magically becomes a ‘human right’.

Why Liberal Educrats Are Like Vampires

The NUT conference might have been dominated by Liberals ranting about faith schools but, proving once again the Educrats’ famous commitment to diversity, the ATL conference has been dominated by Liberals ranting about faith schools. For a guy they claim doesn’t exist, God sure annoys Liberals.

In fairness to the ATL, at least some of their delegates saw a certain problem in their position:

Teachers are calling on the government to end all state funding for newly created faith schools by 2020.
The Association of Teachers and Lecturers' annual conference heard they could be "an assault on tolerance".
But some delegates in the conference hall at Gateshead said the ATL's motion was itself intolerant.

Well, quite. It’s hard (i.e. impossible) to imagine a conference of churchmen being dominated by folks ranting about non-faith schools. The hate is all coming from one side of the debate.

Hank Roberts, from Brent in London, who proposed the motion, said: "Massive forces and billions of pounds are being mobilised and spent in a worldwide assault on tolerance, secular education and scientific rationality."

Run for your lives! The Christians are coming! Pretty soon, they’ll be no chance of our kids getting the kind of enlightened, rational education where they don’t actually learn anything. When Liberals start talking about their desire to serve the needs of employers, it’s time to put the waders on – it’s soon going to be waist deep (not that a bunch of drug sodden dropouts who’ve never held a real job in their lives aren’t just the perfect people to decide what business really needs).

What it’s about, of course, is getting out from under those pesky objective standards. After all, teaching kids actual knowledge runs the risk of someone testing them to find out how much they’ve actually learnt. Much safer to spend time on happy-clappy ‘skill development’.

It’s no wonder these people are desperate to nobble faith schools. With great minds like this running our state schools, they sure can’t compete against faith schools in a fair contest.

Liberal Tells Truth Shocker!

See, this is how I get confused. Via e-mail (Thanks, SM), I find out that the government is apparently clamping down on racial abuse, except in the comments on this post, Joe reminds us that it's apparently it’s no big thing after all. It’s a mystery all right!

As it happens, DSD has identified another of these mysterious cases. Fortunately, he has a fan who can explain it all. It goes against the grain to say something nice about a Leftist, but at least the guy is remarkably upfront about what Liberals really believe about racial issues. Normally, these guys would rather drink battery acid than tell the truth about what they believe.

It takes sodium penthol to get a Liberal to admit that when social workers left Victoria Climbe to die, they were doing no more than following the tenets of multiculturalism, most of all, the insane belief that if Africans – even ones living in Britain – want to torture their kids over a period of months, well, who are we to say that’s necessarily wrong ?

Now, Liberals have gone further than mere multiculturalism. Insane though this doctrine was, you could almost recognise it as a warped mutation of a belief in racial equality. But now ? Equality has been thrown overboard; now the world is divided into oppressors and oppressed based purely on racial classification. So black Premiership players are oppressed, while white guys selling ‘The Big Issue’ are oppressors. Obvious, init ? Whites have the racial equivalent of original sin, meanwhile almost any form of social pathology exhibited by a black guy has to be excused because they’re victims. Bluurgh!

There are approximately 2 billion things wrong with this argument, but just to expand on an obvious one that I pointed out in the comments to that post, here we have a group of people who claim that their victim status means they don’t have to conform to the demands of normal society, then whine that they’re marginalized. Huh ? Are we supposed to be shocked that, say, employers tend to go for people who don’t claim the right to wear racist regalia in the workplace ?

But mentioning the specific idiocies of this argument risks obscuring the more basic insanity. Liberals claim to abhor racial prejudice, but consider where that word comes from. Ah yes, the praejudicium, the Roman pre-trial hearing held to determine the ranks of the contending parties. Now, we have Liberals insisting that we can’t judge people merely based on trivia like who they are, no, we have to take into account their racial rank. Meanwhile, it's the racists who want people judged on the content of their character rather than the colour of their skin. So, is screaming racist abuse a good or a bad thing ? Well, that depends who’s doing it.

Insane Cult Threatens British Education

Ignoring such trivia as rampant illiteracy, endemic violence and industrial scale drug abuse, the NUT conference will concentrate on the real threat to British education: faith schools – just like every other year.

There is "enormous concern" among teachers and parents at the influence of some religious "fundamentalists" on education, a union leader says.

Yet, strangely, despite this enormous concern, it’s the faith schools that are over-subscribed and Nelson Mandela Comp that’s emptying out faster than the Tony Blair Fan Club. Not that that’s got anything to do with the educrats monomaniac hatred of these institutions, obviously.

National Union of Teachers general secretary Steve Sinnott said there was a view that faith groups could damage social cohesion.

Call it a wild shot in the dark, but I’d guess that if these people spent less time dribbling on about social cohesion and more time actually teaching, parents wouldn’t be queuing up for faith schools in the first place. Even the NUTs can’t deny the popularity of these schools, that’s why they have to resort to argument by innuendo:

It focused on the influence of groups with "views on religion "outside the mainstream - sometimes described as fundamentalist"…..

Some school sponsors - "because they have millions of pounds they wish to spend on education" - could "present to youngsters in the classroom their prejudice and their narrow views on religion

Curse those non-mainstream people and their narrow views! We need to leave education in the hands of the perfectly representative people running state schools, y’know, people like this:

A judge who said a legal case against a 10-year-old boy over alleged racism was "political correctness gone mad" has been criticised by a teaching union….

Judith Elderkin, NUT National Executive member, said the judge should have taken the allegation of racism more seriously.
She added that she thought he was "out of date" with the way issues are dealt with in schools today.

Except, of course, that the issue wasn’t dealt with in school at all, otherwise it would never have come before the court. But leave that aside, and think about the degree of chutzpah required for people who believe 10 year olds should be charged with thought crimes to call other people ‘fundamentalists’. That’s the bottom line here. Faith schools aren’t so popular just because people want a specifically religious education; they also have one other great advantage: they also keep kids as far away as possible from L3 fanatics like Elderkin.

Tories Come Out Of The Closet

The latest news from Opus Dave is that they’ve decided prison doesn’t work. Add that to their embrace of the Michael Moore tendency, as evidenced by their tacit endorsement of the rampaging loons during Condi’s visit, their weak as water opposition to ID cards and their bizarre attempt to cast opposition to the Common European Light Bulb as tantamount to being a Nazi, and the question has to be asked: in what sense are these people actually Conservative ?

It’s tempting to blame all this on the Manchurian Candidate, but look at the history of the Tories. Even under their most Thatcherite leaders – Thatcher, for example – the Tories barely waged the Culture War. Maybe all Cameron has done differently is come out of the closet ? That’s why the dominant emotion on hearing Cameron’s rantings on, say, UKIP isn’t anger, it’s relief. Now at least we all know where we stand.

Silence Of The Libs

At last, we've found a young offender Liberals believe should be prosecuted. So what's turned the folks who wanted the Bulger killers all but given a caution into Judge Dredd with OCD ? Need you ask.

See, this is what I keep saying. The Liberal's supposed opposition to authoritarianism is purely tactical. They don't believe we should enforce laws they disagree with, but if it's their ox that's being gored, well, public execution isn't out of the question.

Foxes Meet To Discuss Henhouse Security

Today was the day Princess Tony met the Manchurian Candidate to discuss party funding. I haven’t heard any reports of the meeting, but I’ll take a wild shot in the dark as to the conclusion: both parties are bent as a £7 note so the only answer is to give them huge amounts of public money, presumably with a small sum set aside to investigate why people are so cynical about politics. Maybe they should remind people that if it wasn’t for Big Government people in businesses would be able to get together to rip off the public ?

Still, there’s something weird in finding out just how dependent the ‘People’s Party’ is on filthy lucre from millionaires. Then again, what’s with a Party that supposedly represents low tax and personal responsibility getting behind massive bailout for a failing nationalised industry ? Right for Scotland explains what’s going on. The delightful duopoly have so successfully alienated just about everyone in the country with a real job that few people see any ideological reason to support them. Hence, it’s all about payback.

Needless to say, this has passed the MSM by. Of course. The MSM exists in the self-same bubble as the politicians, they never meet any normal people either. Equally, it was the MSM that started this sudden demand for cash in the first place. Seriously, has any sane person ever changed their vote through seeing a party leader being serenaded by twenty-six dwarfs ? Nope, these insane photo ops are all about appealing to the jaded hacks in the MSM, with the public as bemused onlookers.

It was only recently that I realised what this reminded me of. Here, we have the MSM breathlessly reporting on a bunch of vacuous Metropolitan weenies, while the public at large ignores them completely. The MSM keeps telling us how brilliant they are, and the public keep spending their money somewhere – anywhere – else, so naturally these people demand huge quantities of public money so they can keep on producing their self-indulgent garbage. No wonder politicians get on so well with movie people. No wonder the parties are so brokeback.

So now we have Nu Lab in favour of the redistribution of wealth from the poor to ad agencies, while the Tories claim people choosing who to give money to is undemocratic. The argument goes that if we don’t give these low-life huge amounts of public money, they’ll take industrial quantities of bribes. I’m not sure when being unbelievably corrupt became an argument for being trusted with public money. Speaking personally, I favour an alternative way to deal with rampant bribery, the method used in every other sector in Britain. Not only would this clean up politics, it would also reduce other forms of crime. After all, what better deterrent could there be than the possibility of having David Cameron as a cell mate ?

Feminazis No Longer Pro-Choice

Via Mike Jericho, more evidence of that Liberal tolerance.

It's National Socialism

Also hitting the nail on the head is DSD when he points out an odd political fact: Nick Griffin's latest manoeuvre means that the head of the BNP has denounced anti-Semitism far more forcefully than 90% of the Left (and let’s not even mention Cuddly Ken ‘Jews Go Home!’ Livingstone).

Of course, like DSD, I suspect it’s all BS, but isn’t that significant in and off itself ? The media’s favourite example of a ‘far right’ politician perceives a political advantage in coming out against Judenhass. What does that say about the Right ? And what does it say about the ‘tolerant’ Left that it’s hard to think of a prominent Leftist who has made a similar statement ?

Seal Off The Borders

The blogosphere is abuzz with news of Border’s collapse to the Islamopaths. Actually, it shouldn’t be that much of a surprise. Consider their previous surrenders over the Satanic Verses and the positioning of the Koran (really!).

There’s a certain logic to Border’s move, of course. It’s that old thing about risk vs reward. Border’s face the risk of enraged Islamopaths vs the (short-term) reward of knocking out a few copies of a reasonably obscure magazine. Put that way, it sounds like an easy (if hardly inspiring) decision.

This is back to something I was writing about a few days ago. Our supposedly hip’n’happening intellectual classes extol the virtues of both multiculturalism and the market. Well, this is what happens when this type of thinking is allowed to predominate free of any higher principles. Everyone agrees that free speech is kind of important, but no one will be the one to actually defend it. It’s the culture war's very own Prisoner’s Dilemma.

So how do we get out of this ? Actually, it seems like we’re already making a start. While bombings get the headlines, most companies fold because they’re faced with the prospect of Islamopath boycotts and the like. On the other hand, if they surrender, all that’ll happen is that most people will be disgusted but won’t feel they can do much about it. Except now we’re online, we can see that there are plenty of other people who share our disgust. MSM to the contary, there are plenty of folks out there who’ve had it up to here with Islamopaths and their dhimmi enablers.

If all companies can understand is the bottom line, then that’s where we have to hit them. Hey – it’s not even a matter of principle: the whole advantage of Borders vs You-Know-Who is that you can browse around and maybe find something new. Now, it turns out you can browse around and find something new, providing the local Mullah doesn’t object to it. Who needs that ? So yay for the boycott. Who’d have thought you’d be able to help defend Western Civilisation by clicking here ?

It's Not About The Science

Devil’s Kitchen takes the words right out of my mouth when it comes to medics who proclaim themselves shocked – shocked! – by the coming measles epidemic. It really is more than flesh and blood can stand hearing these folks taking out an onion for all those crippled kids while they themselves had blocked one of the primary means of preventing the epidemic.

Sure, there are some anti-vaccination kooks who just plain don’t like the whole scheme, but there are a hell of a lot more parents who were/are worried about the MMR vaccine in particular. Not only did the government not give these parents the option of single jabs, they actually went out of their way to nobble those clinics which did offer these jabs – and yes, the scientific establishment was 100% behind them. See, that’s the problem right there. Measles is that bad, so surely almost any counter-measure must be justifiable ? But no, they theytell us that the single jabs are expensive, have lower efficacy, take up more medical time…..

Hang on a minute. These people just got through telling us how awful measles was – against that background, surely their reasons for refusing to deploy the single vaccine seem distinctly anorexic ?

The real reason why these people will not countenance deployment of the single vaccines is given away by one of DK’s commentors when he claims that ‘The media stoked a frenzy for their own dubious interests, the job then fell on the NHS to crush it, not pander to it.’ Huh ? Ever since Wakefield’s report came out the scientific establishment has been trying to ‘crush’ this issue. Less crushing and more science might have saved us all a lot of trouble.

The clue is that, as ever, when these people say ‘media’ they mean ‘public’. This debate was about who runs science. Almost from day one, this issue was perceived as the Dien Bien Phu of the science wars. This was the issue the scientists would use to crush those interlopers and their talk of ‘oversight’, ‘accountability’ and the like.

Having kids die or be crippled by measles is one thing, but public scrutiny ? Now that’s terrifying. Even now, the scientific establishment could yet save lives, if only they would demand deployment of the single vaccine, but they won’t. More than that, having stood aside and let it happen, they’ll wave the bloody shirt to ‘prove’ the dangers of public accountability. That’s how utterly detached these people are from reality. They’ll exploit a hideous disease and the death and mutilation of children to try and prove that we should…. trust them ?

What have they been injecting ?