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Monday, January 27, 2014

The Ghost Rat Cannibal Ship Will Enrich the UK























  1. Jack Dwyer27/1/14

    Oh Mighty Sultan...

    Every Western country clearly has a U.N.-mandated obligation to accept a specified quota of these cute allegedly self-eating furry critters and look after them and their offspring! I find the term "cannibal rat" very judgemental and grossly offensive though, and it should not be used...

  2. Anonymous27/1/14

    Great Britain only exists in the minds of a small number of people now. It's not a practical reality for the majority of the population. It's something that's confined to the history books. The Empire is long gone (the wealth and power along with it), and any notion of an independent identity has been psychologically beaten out of the people in fifty short years by Gramscian marxists; they control the cultural and political levers of the country, no matter who's in power.

    To all intents and purposes, it is now just an island off the NW coast of continental Europe that people from all over the world live on. It happens to be called the UK.But that's as far as it goes...

  3. Anonymous27/1/14

    "...we shall have a BBC camera crew there in five minutes and a Guardian blog on it shortly thereafter...". And why might that be? see below:


  4. Anonymous27/1/14

    Daniel, your point is well taken. However, the "cannibal rat" metaphor, while initially effective at the beginning of the article loses its impact by being dragged out and constantly repeated throughout the entire article from start to finish.

  5. This essay could just as well have substituted the cannibal rats with the zombies of AMC's "The Walking Dead." Singly, or in herds, they, too, could "enrich" a multicultural society by teaching us to tolerate their decrepit and decomposing differences, to offer them a neck or a shin for their continued sustenance (zombies, as ambulatory entities, have rights, too) to demonstrate how open minded we have been taught to be towards those whose appearance and behavior are initially repellant, and to welcome them to our bosoms whether or not they have already begun gnawing on our hearts, muscle tissue and other innards. For the present, the Walking Dead zombies make no music, cannot speak but in guttural wheezes, and are insensate to standard English and flash cards of the West's greatest artistic achievements, but, if we wait long enough, some day they will produce Shakespearean drama, compose great symphonies, and make major life-changing contributions to science and industry. All we need do is be patient, and wait...and somehow survive. We must not fight them in the air, or on the beaches, or on the land as they invade the country. That would be so discriminatory and "racist" and xenophobic.

  6. Harvey27/1/14

    I don't think you understand, cannibalism is beautiful. You must look below the surface. It has contributed to society in many ways. Jodi Foster's career advanced by merely being associated with the concept. She lost no tissue whatsoever. The examples are plentiful. Just think of how difficult it is for a cannibalistic group to increase their numbers unless they migrate to a source of new meat. Give 'em a break.

  7. No one says it better than Daniel.

  8. roger in florida27/1/14

    Mr. Greenfield,
    If you keep writing articles such as this you are a shoe-in to be the next Archbishop of Canterbury.

  9. Anonymous27/1/14

    I see a heart-warming , family-friendly Pixar movie in the works with Johnny Depp and Colin Firth as the voices of the lead rats.


  10. Anonymous27/1/14

    If they had other food they would not be eating each other.

  11. and why don't the cannibal rats have food? Because they're the 99%

  12. Anonymous27/1/14

    "and why don't the cannibal rats have food? "
    That was my point

  13. My hat is off to you, I have no idea how you can write so well and so often.

  14. I have previously reported on this looming threat at: http://thepeoplescube.com/post173557.html#173557 My fellow rodents and I thank you for further exposing this important societal issue.

  15. Anonymous27/1/14

    Oh, this is rich. An "Animal Farm" for our time! Although the experts say that there may not be any rats, cannibal or other, on the Lyobov Orlova, the urban legend created by Pym De Roodes is much more interesting. One merely has to overlook the fact that the scrap value of the ship's metals alone is about a million dollars and that De Roodes wants to get his hands on it to salvage, and that his story about the rats might keep others away, and pretend it's true. Then it makes for an absolutely wonderful parable.


  16. Outstanding; the 'importance of voting Labour' really ties it all together! Please move to the head of the internet.

  17. Rich W27/1/14


  18. Kol bo Gary27/1/14

    Rich W, you have exquisite taste! Daniel, thanks as always. How fitting this is on Holocaust Rememberance Day!

  19. Anonymous27/1/14

    Read Raspail's THE CAMP OF THE SAINTS. "It's in there."

  20. Anonymous27/1/14

    It wasn't that long ago that Europe considered Jews to be vermin and did not a multicultural Europe with Jews. Monocultural Europe would not include Jews.

  21. This article is outstanding because it demonstrates the survival of the real, and astounding because it is written by an American Israeli who understands Britain today.
    I need some advice about how you screen out the insane threader fraternity: the kosher cowboy settlers on the one hand, and the peace flotilla adherents on the other.
    In the meantime, you've gone into favourites....but remember another Orwell quote:
    "Journalism is publishing something powerful people don't want to be seen. Everything else is just PR".

  22. Anonymous28/1/14

    Nice story. I get the feeling there is some kind of analogy here.......that you are not really talking about ghost ship cannibal rats, but actually Serbian terrorists.

  23. Wow, such incendiary writing is sure to provoke a ratophobic backlash. Alert the Beeb.

  24. Anonymous28/1/14

    Never have I read such a thorough postmodern rhetorical deconstruction of the tropes of hysteria. I was, to wit, laughing like a hyena from start to finish.

  25. "It wasn't that long ago that Europe considered Jews to be vermin and did not a multicultural Europe with Jews. Monocultural Europe would not include Jews."

    That's an overgeneralization. Jews were more welcome in some places than others. As early as the 13th c., the Statute of Kalisz granted Jews in Poland rights and autonomy. In the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Hebrew was recognized as an official language. People like Thomas Aquinas were not exactly philosemites but did engage seriously with Jewish writers and didn't use terms like "vermin." I think it's possible to strike a balance between xenophobia and cultural masochism.

    The problem is not immigration per se. The real problem is the brainwashing, particularly of the young, into accepting all cultures as equal (and some more "equal" than others...). I don't have a problem with immigrants. I do have a problem with socialists brainwashing children to abandon their traditions at the altar of multiculturalism and relativism. I'd also add that there should be reasonable limits on the number of immigrants admitted, to keep the social fabric intact, and also attention should be paid to political parties buying votes through state benefit programs. Wealthier countries should try to help poorer ones, but that means actually helping them, and not cynically exploiting them for votes.

  26. I think the white male Brit is pretty much dead, he has lost his voice and now its too late to do anything about it. The UK is over run with these rats as you call them and they ain't leaving, instead pushing all the Brits out to Spain, Australia, Malaysia and Thailand.....

  27. This article was outstanding because it demonstrates the survival of the real and great, and astounding amazing, because it is written by an American Israeli who understands Britain today.2049 Waxed Cotton Coat




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