Another week done at the coalface of capitalism. True public servants, we heroes of the productive economy deserve a well-earned rest.
We’re reminded that prior to the EU Referendum, Remainers assured us, many times, that the EU is “just a trading club”. We were told that it hardly interferes in anything, really. What’s the fuss about?
There is a better way. Each country should decide for itself what its clocks should say.
The murder investigation continues, the sentence relates only to the refusal of the suspect to divulge his Facebook password. Yes, the prosecution for that is outrageous. Americans might be thinking about the 5th Amendment here, and the right to not incriminate oneself. The Fifth derives ultimately from the English common law. It was enshrined in Law in 1641 and included into the (English) Bill of Rights of 1689. From there it found its way into the Virginia Bill of Rights and then the US Constitution.
That we have a murder suspect is of no significance. Such protections exist to protect us all. It’s typical of the modern so-called “liberal” politician to so casually chip away at them. In fact Blair was a radical authoritarian. RIPA, his government’s creation, is a typically nasty Blairite statute.
If the police wish to see that Facebook account then I have no problem with them taking a court warrant to Facebook. I don’t believe that Facebook cannot get into it. Incarcerating people for what is nothing more than maintaining their age-old right to silence is not acceptable.
When a respected commentator, Guardian columnist and BBC regular like Yasmin Alibhai-Brown gets nervous about the rise of the right, we should all be worried. Oh yes, this is “scary”.
In other news, Diane Abbott is reported to be worried that her position as “dumbest woman on the planet” is about to be usurped.
Moderate Dutch patriot Geert Wilders was going to host a cartoon contest. Of course some pius muslims didn’t like that. Showing all the tolerance for which they’re famed, there were protests and death threats. So now it’s cancelled.
The situation is quite clear: any muslim who cannot tolerate free speech must leave the West. Their views are not compatible with civilised life. They simply must go.
I shudder to think what Marxist drivel and eco-voodoo children are being subjected to, so the news that there’s a “severe” shortage of teachers is cheering.
Of course it takes government to stuff up on such an epic scale. Ever since 1997, when Blair came up with the idea to indoctrinate young adults with left wing propaganda, it’s been government policy to get up to half of school leavers into university. The Tories are so dumb they’ve never noticed what the true purpose of the policy is.
And 21 years of this policy has left a shortage of maths and science teachers, but thousands of burger-flippers who can tell you all about intersectional feminism.
Academics have made off like billy-o. Everyone else ha been swindled.
Dedicated, with love, to Florida Democratic Party Chairwoman Terrie Rizzo.
Veteran Labour MP Frank Field has quit the party’s group in Parliament, saying the leadership has become “a force for anti-Semitism in British politics”.
Frank Field is one of very few decent MPs, respected both in Westminster and in the country. He’s been an MP since 1979, so he’s Labour to the core. Even so, he couldn’t take the antisemitism and abuse from Corbynites any longer.
His letter is a devastating critique of the Labour Party, which is now a hate group. If it was regarded a right wing group the Shadow Cabinet would be under arrest by now.