Jacqui Smith....Strike two

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Wrong again, Jacqui, but you left yourself with no choice once you'd backed yourself into a corner over Geert Wilders. Read more...

The frenzied "ban this sick fanatic" headlines left you with no option but to reach for the red stamp.

Yet more proof, were it needed, that this government thinks we're incapable of listening to peoples opinions, weighing up the arguments and making up our own minds.

Oh do get a grip

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It's called humour, you appalling termagant. Read more...

Something you clearly lack.

Update....

Dizzy says it far better than we can.

What can you possibly mean?

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Of course we don't live in a surveillance society. Read more...

Jack Straw says so.

Mandy - The Green Slime breaks her silence

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And we thought Draper was bad.

The monstrous regiment of spare ribbers has taken over at Labour List, where we're overjoyed to report that Leila Deen has taken up an invitation to put her side of the green slime story. Read more...

Little to be gained, really, by examining the meat of the piece, which can best be described as a few paragraphs of envious spartist sloganising with a dash of Militant Gay Whales Against Trident lesbianism for that extra bitter flavour.

There is one thing, however, on which we feel we cannot stand idly by.

Leila describes herself variously as....

....dare I say attractive....

and....

....a smartly dressed woman....

Sorry, love, you may well dare say it, but in actual fact you've got a face only a mother could love and the dress sense of a five-day-old greengrocer's display.

The Bring Back Derek campaign starts here.

And talking of splendid ideas....

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One of today's Greatest Living Englishmen, Pat Condell, had an interview published in AD (Netherlands) at the weekend. Read more...

Here is the transcript in full.

I believe the BNP is a racist party, and therefore I don't support them. They're getting more support now because the mainstream parties have consistently ignored people's legitimate concerns about multiculturalism, and many people feel they've been left with no choice but to vote for them. If politicians listened to what people actually want, the BNP would be nothing.

Quite, and while Geert Wilders gets unceremoniously bundled back across the North Sea, Ibrahim Moussawi is given a free pass to spew his hate speech wherever he wishes.

Does Jacqui Smith want to drive people into the warm embrace of the BNP?

Update....

Moussawi will not be given leave to enter the country.

A rather splendid little idea....

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....which we hope may, in the fullness of time, become a big one. Read more...

It seems that disillusionment with the mainstream political parties' (apart from certain worthy individuals - stand up, Messrs. Benn, Davis, Green etc.) refusal to address the steady erosion of fundamental liberties that has characterised the last 11 years of Labour rule, has reached such a pitch that hardly a day goes by without the announcement of a new political party or group, calling for an end to curruption and authoritarianism in public life.

We have been contacted today through Twitter by two such organisations, Jury Team and Popular Alliance.

Excellent. Any action, be it a new political party or a barrage of indignant correspondence to candidates, that keeps the major parties honest in respect of civil liberties is to be welcomed. However, we wonder if such a proliferation of candidates from minor parties doesn't rather defeat the object of the exercise, namely to loosen the big three's grip on the democratic process and force a rethink on their approach to liberty, by diluting the protest vote.

Be that as it may, it's at least heartening to know that there is a growing nationwide animus towards the political inertia and disrespect for Parliament that has allowed such a raft of mean spirited, politically driven legislation that criminalises thousands of ordinary, decent people.

Mandy and the Attack of the Green Slime

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Pretty dim witted stuff really. In the unlikely event that this woman is any kind of success in her life she won’t recall this incident with any pride. If she doesn't amount to anything, well that just goes to show what sort of witless twonk goes around egging ministers. Read more...

Loathsome individual though he is, we’d have applauded Mandy if he’d given the daft bint a gay slap.

Though we would not, of course, have “stood behind” him or “backed him to the hilt”, as we're sure you’ll appreciate.

Martial law? Surely not!

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The Devil raises a profoundly disturbing story, originally told by the redoubtable Ian Parker-Joseph, about the possible use of the army to quell disturbances during the forthcoming Summer of Rage™ (self-fulfilling prophecy, anyone?). England Expects fans the flames with a link to this unconsidered trifle. Read more...

Now we would put nothing past this devious and mendacious Government of all the Invertebrates, least of all the leaking of a scare story which they know will whip the conspiracy theorists into a frenzy, in order to draw attention away from the growing cross-party consensus for restoration of our stolen freedoms, exemplified by Saturday's Convention on Modern Liberty.

However, as we said in another place earlier today, if there is a grain of truth to this horrifying revelation, soldiers from General Sir David Richards to the lowliest private, would do well to remember where their allegiances lie, that their oath is to Her Majesty the Queen and not to any elected government.

Did somebody say something about populism?

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We're sure they did.... Read more...

Ah yes, it was us.

Well, it was Iain Martin actually but he got the free plug so he can button his lip.

Boris' acid quill is really on form here....

She is meant to be Labour's deputy leader. She is a solicitor, and an alumna of Hammersmith's highly regarded, fee-paying St Paul's School for Girls, and she can sometimes be perfectly pleasant and rational. But here is a sample of Harman's ravings on the subject of Sir Fred and his pension: "He should not be counting on being £650,000 a year better off as a result of this, because it's not going to happen," she told the BBC. "It will not be accepted."

There. Savour the bleating leftie inanity of that sentiment: it will not be accepted. By whom will it not be accepted, Hattie, and how will it not be accepted? Since she agrees – in the same breath – that the details of Sir Fred's severance from the Royal Bank of Scotland may, in fact, be watertight, her highly trained legal mind must envisage some change in the law.

Does she really imagine that parliamentary draftsmen should be now at work on the Fred Goodwin Pension Reclamation Bill? In which case, exactly how much of Sir Fred's pension does she think should be recouped? All of it? Or just 95 per cent of it? And what about all the other cock-up artists who used to be in charge of the Royal Bank, and what about the people who made a hash of Northern Rock, and all the bankers who have been kicked out of institutions in which the state has been obliged to take a share?

Will their assets be expropriated under the same Act? How will their guilt be determined, or will Hattie just put on her leopardskin accessories and stomp and jingle through the City, waving her calabash rattle and sniffing out the culprits?
Sir Fred's settlement is nauseating; it is unbelievable. But it will be accepted, and it must be accepted, because it already has been accepted – by Harriet Harman's ministerial colleague.

Certain people who like to characterise Boris Johnson as buffoon (we bet Northern Monkey likes to show that one off to his friends) need to haul their necks in.

It should be perfectly clear to anyone with a brain that he is anything but.

Ahmedinajail

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Curious Snippets, among a host of others, returns to the Geert Wilders controversy following Lord Ahmed of Rotherham's motorway texting death crash trial. Read more...

Tush and fie, gentlemen! This man does not deserve our opprobrium. He deserves our pity. He is clearly in dire need of immediate clinical intervention.

He is after all the man who, in condemning Salman Rushdie's knighthood, compared the writer to a holocaust denier, and in the very same breath, without a trace of irony, referred to the "alleged Armenian genocide".

The evidence....



The possibility should at least be examined that long-term committal to a home for the bewildered would keep him off our roads, and our television screens, for considerably longer than a 12 week sentence for causing death by reckless driving.

Logic and magic and legerdemain

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Iain Martin in Yesterday's Telegraph blog....

I have a theory about what exactly Brown is up to with these diversionary tactics, which I'll post on later. But for now, remember the bread and circuses aspect to this 'hunt the banker' chase after Goodwin. He deserves the public anger but remember that it suits the government for attention to be diverted from as yet unspecified billions which will cripple the taxpayer towards, instead, the smaller but more easily understood £650,000 going to Fred the Shred.

Gordon Brown has form: he usually has a populist story leaked for a reason. And it's often designed to divert attention from an even bigger story.

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And five hours later in the same blog....

As the flames from this story grow higher, the leaking last night of the detail that Godwin gets £650,000 a year, now, for leaving, is starting to look like the most stupid leak for many a year. Its effect may have been to obscure the detail about the bail-out, but it has now spun out of control.

So, even by this government's lofty standards, a piece of populist misdirection that, had it been performed by Derren Brown, would have drawn gasps of admiration from a dumbfounded audience. Or rather it would be, were it not for the fact that for such prestidigitation to have the desired effect, it's generally a good idea if the victim doesn't see the illusionist's fumbling hands and the cards cascading to the floor.

Surely by now everyone's onto the Prime Minister's increasingly desperate and transparent efforts to save his floundering government and his own reputation.

Not quite everyone, it would appear.