Sadly yesterday, the 11th teenager in London was murdered this year.Ken Livingstone response was to blame the newspapers and tv news. This was shown when last night on BBC London, Ken Livingstone was being interviewed, and when questioned about crime in the capital and his insistence that it is declining, he blamed the media by saying “If it bleeds, it leads...”. According to Ken everything is going swimmingly and its all the media fautlt. Apparently it's nothing to do with him even though yesterday the 11th teenager was murdered in London on his watch as London Mayor. This comment is also incredibly insensitive to all those parents who have lost teenagers this year because of violent crime. The message they are getting from Ken is that he doesn't care.
This response is the same thing we have heard from Ken for 10 years. First he'll say well there is no rise in violent crime when all recent evidence points against this. 27 teenagers were killed by guns or knifes on London's streets last year already in 3 months this year 11 have been murdered. It looks to me violent crime is rising not decreasing. Plainly facts dont matter to Ken.
On top of this evidence points to an increase in criminal offences on public transport in particular buses. You would have thought Ken would want to tackle this to give the people of London a better life , but no he'll pay for a million pound self promotion crime and billions on failing companies to the development agencies and millions to his coteries of advisors from Socialist Action, basically he'll give money to anything which will help him and his cronies and nothing to the issue worrying Londoners -crime. This epitomises how out of touch Ken is with the average Londoner does he honestly think that they prefer money to be spent on flashy promotional adds costing millions to tell us all to be nicer to each other on buses rather than doing something which will actually for example stop crime on buses , namely police .
Then he'll say the rise in crime is not his fault, its the fault of the previous conservative government apparently. This is a disgusting attitude to the serious issue that is crime . Ken Livingstone has been in power for 11 years and hasnt done nearly enough in particular to combat violent crime and offers no policies on how to tackle crime , Boris Johnson Conservative Mayoral candidate for London does.
Here is what Boris Johnson will do about the rise in violent crime in particular. He will get rid of the form filling culture endemic in London's police. For example to record a crime they have to fill thousands of forms and God forbid if there actually allowed to stop and search someone they have to fill in a ludicrously long form Ken could have stopped this but he didn't because it serves to his far left politics whose bible is political correctness. He seems more interested in policeman minding there ps and qs and doing there bit for racial equality than doing there bit for crime and actually being allowed to catch criminals. Boris will get rid of this culture of form filling, which has reduced the numbers of people wanting to join the police, has led to officers spending more time in offices than on the streets and even more worryingly stopped policeman from what they do best catching criminals. With this increased police presence , Londoners will feel safe, more crimes will be prevented and if crimes take place police will be able to catch the criminal. This will all be possible with Boris in Charge it wont be with Ken in Charge.
Ken says he will beef up the powers of community support officers so they actually have the power to protect vulnerable neighbourhoods. After 10 years in power , Ken has done nothing on this front , Boris says he will and i for one believe his word over Ken. 10 years of failed promises by ken, Boris aims to repair all this.
At the moment London's buses are a microcosm of the violence engulfing parts of London especially in outer London. How will Boris tackle this, well for a start he will get rid of the flashy ad campaign Ken Livingstone is proposing , telling us all to be nice to each other. This is quite hypocritical given his treatment of the London Assembly which he hardly acknowledges. The campaign will do absolutely nothing to stop rising crime levels. What Boris will do is increase the amount of police on buses , trains, bus stops and train station platforms. This is an active deterrent to crime not some wishy washy campaign costing millions and delivering nothing. Boris if he becomes London Mayor intends to put CCTV cameras on buses as a deterrent to crime we have it on train stations so why not also have it on buses ,where the threat of crime is equally high.
A major problem facing london is gang crime, which has fuelled the rise in Violent crime. In 10 years Ken Livingstone has done nothing to tackle this increasingly prevalent problem apart from telling the public that the right wing media and the conservatives are "scaremongering". Not really Ken your lieing to Londoners in presenting a rosy picture which is non existant. At the moment community groups are not receiving the funding needed to take teenagers out of the crime trap. These community groups are sucesfull in getting teenagers out of gun crime because they are there on the ground they know a lot about the community and the problems it faces. Many of those who have set up the community groups have been former gang members themselves , they know what drives people into gangs and how to get people out of gangs. They therefore need to get the right levels of funding, so they can be involved with the police in getting people out of gangs and rebuilding their lives. Boris would ensure community groups got the funding they needed.
A problem with the rise in violent crime is that the crime information which should be used to tackle it is inacessible. Boris Johnson intends to put online a crime map of London, where anyone from London can go online to see the crime levels in their area and what is being done about it. It will show which areas have the highest levels of crime ,what sort of crime and what is being done and what can be done to tackle it. This idea is not knew it was introduced in New York by the then New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani all evidence has shown it has been extremely sucesfull and led to reduction of crime in New York and also the police were more accountable to the public. This idea by Boris is the big idea of the London Mayoral Campaign , no other London Mayoral candidate offers this highly sucesfull plan ,and this is another reason to vote for Boris Johnson.
To conclude all ken does on crime is blame everyone apart from himself and do nothing apart from spending milllions on pointless advertising campaigns. This inertia on the part of the London Mayor , has left London's police and youth groups unable to tackle crime which has led to a rise in violent crime. Boris will change all of this, he will inform people of what is happening with crime in the area and how it should be tackled .He will hand power from bureaucrats to those who are best at tackling crime , the people on the ground , Community groups and police . Boris has plans to make London safer , Ken in 10 years has been like a driver falling asleep at the wheel , no direction and no policies to tackle rising crime
Friday, March 28, 2008
A novel way to help London's environment and stop Ken's propaganda machine
Every week the unsuspecting London Public are bombarded with vile propaganda from Livingstone's newspaper - the Londoner . Not surprisingly the london people are fed up of this , they can make up their own decision thanks without a load of propaganda being shoved in their faces to try and influence them , they like me thought London's newspaper's were meant to be mouthpieces of propaganda . They also dont like the £2.8 million a year they have to pay for this privilege. it's also incredibly gauling that this newspaper has the name of one of the World's greatest capital's as its name. Never has a paper been so undeserving of the title it has.
Boris Johnson's campaign seeks to end all of this , if elected he will abolish this paper ,and put all the wasted paper to good use. He'll not be only saving trees - as the paper uses oceans of paper's he'll be planting new Trees. London needs more trees not only do they look nice , they are a good way of tackling air pollution and dealing with the threat of CO2 which is a major cause of global warming . Boris with the money saved from abolishing this newspapers aim to plant 100s of new trees across the capital , so everyone in London gets the benefits.
To sum up vote boris ,and save London from propaganda , help the long suffering taxpayer by saving money and improve the environment .
Boris Johnson's campaign seeks to end all of this , if elected he will abolish this paper ,and put all the wasted paper to good use. He'll not be only saving trees - as the paper uses oceans of paper's he'll be planting new Trees. London needs more trees not only do they look nice , they are a good way of tackling air pollution and dealing with the threat of CO2 which is a major cause of global warming . Boris with the money saved from abolishing this newspapers aim to plant 100s of new trees across the capital , so everyone in London gets the benefits.
To sum up vote boris ,and save London from propaganda , help the long suffering taxpayer by saving money and improve the environment .
Friday, March 21, 2008
the papers go trash crazy
it's a week where the global financial system has been teetering on the brink , due to the credit crunch . Where tibetans have been brutally opressed by their Chinese Occupiers .Where John Mccain the Republican nominee has been visiting London and where the fallout from the budget in higher taxes are still being felt . It is a week when the democrat race between Obama and Clinton has been hotting up as we find out Jeremiah Wright , Barack Obama's spiritual advisor is a black supremacist . In other words a lot of important news has been happening .
Still if you were reading the papers apparently the most important things in the world today is DIANA , Heather Mills ,and David Cameron ignoring the highway code for cyclers - apparently this is what is important when discussing a potential conservative prime minister for the Daily Mirror and the BBC .
stop the trash and report real news which effects real people , we're not all interested in celeb culture , we want news which effects us , IE the credit crunch . For those saddos who spend their every waking day looking over celeb lives , go on the internet , we dont want your idea of importance splashed across the papers . with the news how it is , is it any wonder people find it hard to separate fantasy from reality.
Still if you were reading the papers apparently the most important things in the world today is DIANA , Heather Mills ,and David Cameron ignoring the highway code for cyclers - apparently this is what is important when discussing a potential conservative prime minister for the Daily Mirror and the BBC .
stop the trash and report real news which effects real people , we're not all interested in celeb culture , we want news which effects us , IE the credit crunch . For those saddos who spend their every waking day looking over celeb lives , go on the internet , we dont want your idea of importance splashed across the papers . with the news how it is , is it any wonder people find it hard to separate fantasy from reality.
Sunday, March 16, 2008
The Greatest Response to terrorists is our liberty
In an increasingly dangerous world , we are constantly told by the British Government that we need ID cards and 42 days without trial, bans on religious hatred , and more political correctness because there is a difference between free speech and violent speech etc etc .This is all apparently in the name of " national security " . Being the Sceptic that i am , i fear it is just a way for an overbloated government to control it's population.
Now i for one dont want to diminish the threat of international terrorism . We in the West whether we like it or not our engaged in a war in terror to protect Western Civilisation .We have been for the last 29 years , since the revolution in Iran that created a theocratic islamic state which has been used ever since as a rallying point for Islamist terrorism ever since. These terrorists want the most brutal of sharia law to be bought across the world by the international islamic caliphate , where woman are stoned and have to wear the hijab,where stealer's hands are chopped off ,where people are beaten and mass hangings take place ,where homosexuals are executed , where the newspapers are tightly controlled to print anti western Bile ,and where political opposition suddenly disappears , a euphemism for purging political opponents . We are fighting a worldwide Islamist phenonemon ,which hates the West's freedom and wants a world made in their image where freedom wont exist due to Iranian Mullah Style religion enforcers , telling you what you can and cannot do.
New Labour's response to this threat is all wrong i believe . The UK has the most CCTV cameras in Europe and thus is the most surveyed country in Europe . The Government wants to introduce ID cards for everyone so we are all suspects, which is a fundamental loss of civil liberty. They want to introduce 42 day detention without trial ,where the British legal system belief of innocent until proven guilty can be overlooked . Finally they want religious hate legislation put through ,which will make people like you and me , mind their P's and Q's essentially hiding the truth when talking about Islamist Terrorism .
The British government in all of this is creating a fear addled society , and this im afraid is what the terrorists want . The terrorists want us to be afraid of them ,because then we'll be more likely to give into them . The Terrorists want us thanks to their " threat" to be living in a police state. Finally they want British people through religious hate law in the name of political correctness disguising Islamist's real intentions , so they can take over Britain through stealth . This is already shown when the new home secretary Jacqui Smith announced in 2007 , that the Government will no longer being using the words Islamists or Islamic extremists , to describe terrorists such as the one's who flew 2 planes into the World Trade Centre on September 11th 2001 , or caused havoc in London on July 7 2005. The New name for them is Anti Islam Activists and if they carry out an attack, it will be said that they "are pursueing anti Islamic Activity" . Is it just me , or does this sound similar to the Newspeak Governments used in George Orwell's Novel 1984.
There is another way. We could as i believe we should do stick two fingers up at the terrorists .We could live our lives as normal ,without the prying of the state , if we reduced the number of CCTV cameras . This would reduce fear ,and fear is one of the Terrorist's most potent weapon . We could preserve the British Judiciary system believe in innocent until proven guilty , so that liberty is still seen as an important value . It would also be right , that anyone can say what ever they want about these Jihad crazed terrorists , in the knowledge that a government wouldn't flag them up on some trumped up religious hate law . In short where all the values terrorists want to undermine , liberty of the individual , a fearless society and freedom of speech are kept . That's a country i want to live in , not a Police State playing into terrorist's hands.
Now i for one dont want to diminish the threat of international terrorism . We in the West whether we like it or not our engaged in a war in terror to protect Western Civilisation .We have been for the last 29 years , since the revolution in Iran that created a theocratic islamic state which has been used ever since as a rallying point for Islamist terrorism ever since. These terrorists want the most brutal of sharia law to be bought across the world by the international islamic caliphate , where woman are stoned and have to wear the hijab,where stealer's hands are chopped off ,where people are beaten and mass hangings take place ,where homosexuals are executed , where the newspapers are tightly controlled to print anti western Bile ,and where political opposition suddenly disappears , a euphemism for purging political opponents . We are fighting a worldwide Islamist phenonemon ,which hates the West's freedom and wants a world made in their image where freedom wont exist due to Iranian Mullah Style religion enforcers , telling you what you can and cannot do.
New Labour's response to this threat is all wrong i believe . The UK has the most CCTV cameras in Europe and thus is the most surveyed country in Europe . The Government wants to introduce ID cards for everyone so we are all suspects, which is a fundamental loss of civil liberty. They want to introduce 42 day detention without trial ,where the British legal system belief of innocent until proven guilty can be overlooked . Finally they want religious hate legislation put through ,which will make people like you and me , mind their P's and Q's essentially hiding the truth when talking about Islamist Terrorism .
The British government in all of this is creating a fear addled society , and this im afraid is what the terrorists want . The terrorists want us to be afraid of them ,because then we'll be more likely to give into them . The Terrorists want us thanks to their " threat" to be living in a police state. Finally they want British people through religious hate law in the name of political correctness disguising Islamist's real intentions , so they can take over Britain through stealth . This is already shown when the new home secretary Jacqui Smith announced in 2007 , that the Government will no longer being using the words Islamists or Islamic extremists , to describe terrorists such as the one's who flew 2 planes into the World Trade Centre on September 11th 2001 , or caused havoc in London on July 7 2005. The New name for them is Anti Islam Activists and if they carry out an attack, it will be said that they "are pursueing anti Islamic Activity" . Is it just me , or does this sound similar to the Newspeak Governments used in George Orwell's Novel 1984.
There is another way. We could as i believe we should do stick two fingers up at the terrorists .We could live our lives as normal ,without the prying of the state , if we reduced the number of CCTV cameras . This would reduce fear ,and fear is one of the Terrorist's most potent weapon . We could preserve the British Judiciary system believe in innocent until proven guilty , so that liberty is still seen as an important value . It would also be right , that anyone can say what ever they want about these Jihad crazed terrorists , in the knowledge that a government wouldn't flag them up on some trumped up religious hate law . In short where all the values terrorists want to undermine , liberty of the individual , a fearless society and freedom of speech are kept . That's a country i want to live in , not a Police State playing into terrorist's hands.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
learn to stuff up the british economy labour style
i got a new slogan
labour ," never knowingly sound economically "
quiz question what was it that ruined the british economy in the 1970s
- answer , a labour government spending to much and taxing loads, leading to high levels of debt, leading to the absurd situation in the late 1970s during a recession when you need to stimulate the economy - through tax cuts , labour was raising taxes
now whats happening today to the UK economy
oh yes it's the same , which leads to my other slogan " new labour , following the failed old labour policies of the past " - i and many other british people can see past a rebranding exercise , this is the same old labour policies , which always destroy the british economy and make people worse off.
labour ," never knowingly sound economically "
quiz question what was it that ruined the british economy in the 1970s
- answer , a labour government spending to much and taxing loads, leading to high levels of debt, leading to the absurd situation in the late 1970s during a recession when you need to stimulate the economy - through tax cuts , labour was raising taxes
now whats happening today to the UK economy
oh yes it's the same , which leads to my other slogan " new labour , following the failed old labour policies of the past " - i and many other british people can see past a rebranding exercise , this is the same old labour policies , which always destroy the british economy and make people worse off.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
12 days to debate a treaty(constitution ) which A we're not likely to get a referendum on and B -which is of constitutional importance
Now i would have thought 12 days to debate an exceptionally long and complex eu treaty (constitution) or thats roughly 45 seconds per line is to short but apparently it's not . Now as it happens im mostly in favour of the constitution in the fact that it simplifies the EU and gives the Eu parliament more power and the EU comission less , there are some parts i have doubts like the EU high representative which i fear could compromise the British Foreign Secretary . All i think it is a good constitution for Britain but firstly I feel we should have had a referendum on it like we were promised by all the three main parties . After all this is 90% the same as the previous constitution according to the Common's Foreign Affairs Select commitee , Completely the same in vision according to Nicholas Sarkozy the President of France and Angela Merkl the Chancellor of Germany , even the original author of the Constitution Giscard D'Estaing says it is virtually the same . So the public are pretty annoyed that there not getting a referendum on what is basically the constitution in all but name ,but then some of us thought welll at least there's a long 28 day time to debate the revived EU constitution in the House of Commons and that maybe they would table an amendment to put a referendum in . However the government has stopped any chance of this happening by cutting the debate down to 12 days . This is disgusting a matter of this constitutional only gets 12 days , the Government is just scared it will be defeated , and is acting in stalinist like ruthlessness to crush opposition through neutering parliament . Those who support a referendum on what is basically the revived CONSTITUTION should speak out against this Executive Conspiracy first perpretated on backbench MPS and secondly the British electorate. If you want a strong parliament who has enough time to properly scrutinise this you will want an extension in the time to debate the issue . If you believe in democracy , you will want a vote on the constitution in the referendum and this wont happen nows because the government has guillotined the time to debate and thus their will not be enough time to introduce an amendment for a vote on whether there should be a referendum .
Monday, January 21, 2008
how to use the tax system -Gordon Brown Style .
WHAT GORDON WANTS FROM THE TAX SYSTEM
well well well i dont really like rich people -but we need some of them - ie the mega rich so we wont bother taxing the rich non doms but those who have become rich through their own work well there fair game .
On benefits for no reason other than it's more profitable to be on then get a job -well we'll give you tax breaks , or you might not have to bother to pay taxes -because after all we only want people who bother working to pay for the government and of course your benefits.
Your poor and actually working -well we'll get rid of the 10,000 tax barrier so now you have to pay really high taxes - i know that doesn't sound fair , but someone needs to pay for all the government's wasted money and that of course is the british taxpayer.
Your middle class well you've got nothing going to you , i really hate you - your not poor or on a public service so your probably not going to vote labour , your not rich so you aint going to fund labour , you probably vote conservative because they dont hate the middle class well YET anyway. I also hate you because you complain all the time about the National Health Service and because of the poor quality of state schools - i mean what gives you the right to criticise government run services you horrible aspiring oik who wants to earn a living and not give it all to the government- you know what so the tax system will work like this everyone will have to pay quite high taxes apart from those who cant be bothered to work , but the middle clas will pay the highest taxes. Supposed Shortage of money for the NHS - i'll get a stealth tax in their which the middle class will have to disproportionately pay for . A black hole in government funding - well let's get another stealth tax which the middle class will pay for . Then their's inheritance taxes well i did increase the threshold to 600,000 no more mind , with house prices that should soon catch out the middle class.
Then their's small businesses well i really dislike them ,there are always going on about wanting to be treated like individuals ,and breaking free from government regulations , they dont want top down government and they want the government out of their lives they wanted to be treated like individuals and not just as people in a state . Pah that's all rubbish your all people who must follow my GOVERNMENT and just for your disobedience im going to get rid of taper relief for capital gains tax , which helped small businesses . Of course i'll get the sympathy of the media by portraying it as an attack on big business , but me and my puppet Chancellor Alistair Darling know the abolishment of taper relief will effect small businesses harder .
Their's a link about all this tax high taxes . Now i couldn't justify high taxes , if our institutions in the UK weren't crap so to improve them i increase taxes to make them better . the only problem is they dont get better , so i have to put in a stealth tax to pay to see if i can improve it again , again it's still bad in fact worse all your taxpayer's money as paid for is more bureaucracy in say the police , NHS or state education , take your pick , taxpayer's money hasn ' t made it any better. But you know me i love taxing people so i have to justify these higher taxes so i say im really sorry guys , the service has improved a bit but not enough for my liking what we need is radical reform , and we'll have an independent government review to keep our options open on how to reform it- if i dont like the proposals i will ignore them , if i do like it i'll introduce it -and who pays for the review , well it's the taxpayer because of course they fund government .
now this is me stephen hoffman speaking - maybe just maybe the british people our fed up of 50% of their earnings being given away to the government in taxes which makes things in this country no better . Maybe just maybe we want lower taxes which will lead to reform and will lead to institutions needing to reform ,as they wont be able to rely on government taxes . The problem is New Labour a party who supports big government is never going to stand for this as to have big overarching government which stick's it nose in in every citizens life so as to stop being an individuals , you need high taxes to pay for it, otherwise the government if being forced to reduce taxes , would have to lay off thousands of civil servants and advisers jobs ,and when was the last time a turkey voted for christmas or to put it into the tax context can you ever see the government voting to get rid of the need for most of it.
well well well i dont really like rich people -but we need some of them - ie the mega rich so we wont bother taxing the rich non doms but those who have become rich through their own work well there fair game .
On benefits for no reason other than it's more profitable to be on then get a job -well we'll give you tax breaks , or you might not have to bother to pay taxes -because after all we only want people who bother working to pay for the government and of course your benefits.
Your poor and actually working -well we'll get rid of the 10,000 tax barrier so now you have to pay really high taxes - i know that doesn't sound fair , but someone needs to pay for all the government's wasted money and that of course is the british taxpayer.
Your middle class well you've got nothing going to you , i really hate you - your not poor or on a public service so your probably not going to vote labour , your not rich so you aint going to fund labour , you probably vote conservative because they dont hate the middle class well YET anyway. I also hate you because you complain all the time about the National Health Service and because of the poor quality of state schools - i mean what gives you the right to criticise government run services you horrible aspiring oik who wants to earn a living and not give it all to the government- you know what so the tax system will work like this everyone will have to pay quite high taxes apart from those who cant be bothered to work , but the middle clas will pay the highest taxes. Supposed Shortage of money for the NHS - i'll get a stealth tax in their which the middle class will have to disproportionately pay for . A black hole in government funding - well let's get another stealth tax which the middle class will pay for . Then their's inheritance taxes well i did increase the threshold to 600,000 no more mind , with house prices that should soon catch out the middle class.
Then their's small businesses well i really dislike them ,there are always going on about wanting to be treated like individuals ,and breaking free from government regulations , they dont want top down government and they want the government out of their lives they wanted to be treated like individuals and not just as people in a state . Pah that's all rubbish your all people who must follow my GOVERNMENT and just for your disobedience im going to get rid of taper relief for capital gains tax , which helped small businesses . Of course i'll get the sympathy of the media by portraying it as an attack on big business , but me and my puppet Chancellor Alistair Darling know the abolishment of taper relief will effect small businesses harder .
Their's a link about all this tax high taxes . Now i couldn't justify high taxes , if our institutions in the UK weren't crap so to improve them i increase taxes to make them better . the only problem is they dont get better , so i have to put in a stealth tax to pay to see if i can improve it again , again it's still bad in fact worse all your taxpayer's money as paid for is more bureaucracy in say the police , NHS or state education , take your pick , taxpayer's money hasn ' t made it any better. But you know me i love taxing people so i have to justify these higher taxes so i say im really sorry guys , the service has improved a bit but not enough for my liking what we need is radical reform , and we'll have an independent government review to keep our options open on how to reform it- if i dont like the proposals i will ignore them , if i do like it i'll introduce it -and who pays for the review , well it's the taxpayer because of course they fund government .
now this is me stephen hoffman speaking - maybe just maybe the british people our fed up of 50% of their earnings being given away to the government in taxes which makes things in this country no better . Maybe just maybe we want lower taxes which will lead to reform and will lead to institutions needing to reform ,as they wont be able to rely on government taxes . The problem is New Labour a party who supports big government is never going to stand for this as to have big overarching government which stick's it nose in in every citizens life so as to stop being an individuals , you need high taxes to pay for it, otherwise the government if being forced to reduce taxes , would have to lay off thousands of civil servants and advisers jobs ,and when was the last time a turkey voted for christmas or to put it into the tax context can you ever see the government voting to get rid of the need for most of it.
Sunday, December 9, 2007
the EU's shameless lack of a moral compass
on friday -saturday december 7-8th the EU officially lost it's moral compass. This was when the EU -Africa international development and human rights were talked about . To me there was nothing wrong with that , most people right and left of the political spectrum want Africa to develop and improve it's human rights records . However the problem is you dont do that by inviting Robert Mugabe who has persecuted opposition to his rule , torn his country to shreds , and turned Zimbabwe which was one the economic powerhouse in Africa into a basketcase . Then there is another leader called Omar al Bashir the leader ofSudan invited. Omar al Bashir has raped and pillaged black muslim africans in darfur through backing the janjaweed millitia in it's genocidal actions , whilst the world turned a blind eye . At the same time , he has turned Sudan into a hotbed of islamic extremism ,where Osama Bin Laden was based in the 1990s ,and where the government is in cahoots with islamic extremist parties. All in all you would of thought not a a great idea to invite them to the EU -Africa summit , but unfortunately this is what happened.
Lets first take a look at Mugabe. The EU in inviting Robert Mugabe is ignoring it's own travel ban on Robert Mugabe put in place . when you are having a international development and human rights conference , you pick role models , and im afraid Mugabe is completely the opposite. The shameful cowardice in inviting Mugabe , is no way to stand up to African leaders when they are in the wrong , when they demand he be invited , they should have point blank refused this request , and pointed out to his awful human rights record ,and the rampant inflation which means many zimbabweans are left without a daily meal . By giving in to the African leaders request , it shows to the African leaders they to can get away with corruption and destruction of there country's economy , it also shows that there is nothing to gain from standing up to mugabe. very sad that, partly through the blind support of other African leaders, this same process was not allowed to take place. Now Zimbabwe is burdened with a leader ruining his country and guess what: this does make him less of a hero , however by putting Mugabe on the world stage once again , he can show himself as an African hero , and the chances of Mugabe's regime falling become longer not short term odds. The EU in it's decision to invite him is propping up a deeply unpopular leader in Zimbabwe who is surviving over western guilt from colonial times , and African solidarity with a guy they see as a fighter against colonialism , whilst ignoring his henious crimes ,as the international community be it the EU or UN do not seem to be taking serious action against him . What sort of message does this send to Thabo Mbeki the president of South Africa , that South Africa support of Zimbabwe has no effect at all , because Mugabe is still being treated like a international statesman. Europe needs to get over it's post colonial guilt , they were united in there opposition to the horrific apartheid regime in South Africa , so why when Mugabe crimes are on par with this do the EU give him the cloak of legitimacy .It is all to do with post colonial guilt ,it's wrong for African white leader to go power hungry it seems , but not if a black African leader goes power hungry . I am not making a racist point , what i am saying is that the EU shouldn't treat a demonic white leader and a demonic black leader differently. The EU is also not carrying out it's promises , there was a travel ban on Mugabe put on him by the EU due to his crimes against humanity , yet this has blatently been ignored at this summit . The Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu was right when he said on the today programme said the international community, especially South Africa, had to act to help Zimbabwe because people were starving. Speaking as he used a pair of scissors to cut up his collar, he said: "As an Anglican this is what I wear to identify myself, that I'm a clergyman.
African leaders "Do you know what Mugabe has done? He's taken people's identity and literally, if you don't mind, cut it to pieces. This is what he's actually done to a lot of - and in the end there's nothing. "So, as far as I'm concerned, from now on I'm not going to wear a dog collar until Mugabe is gone." The archbishop said power had gone to the Zimbabwean president's head and the leader did not seem to "realise the suffering of people". The EU is not helping Zimbabwe's people when eu leaders say the EU African summit shouldn't be overshadowed by Mugabe's involvement in it . It does have a big effect after all a main part of the summit is on human rights and development , development which Mugabe has stunted ,and human rights which Mugabe has ignored , he should not have been given an invitation to such a prestigious event. It shows the world is not acting in united disgust against Robert Mugabe who seeing the international community's weakeness will keep perpretuating his crimes against humanity.For once I agree with Gordon Brown who has shown strength in a time of EU wide weakness for staying away from the summit, and condemn the EU for inviting Mugabe in the first place.If the other African countries wish to boycott the meeting, then it is up to them. We have pussyfooted around these African despots for too long, and its about time we in the west make a stand. Threaten to take away the billions of dollars sent to prop up appalling regimes and African leaders would soon do something about Mugabe.
Then there is the question , what is the point of having Mugabe there. You would have thought on a summit on good governance human rights would be high up the agenda . However apart from Angela Merkl's spirited attack on Mugabe human rights record, astonishingly Robert Mugabe's abuses on both Zimbabwe's economy and people are off the Agenda . So an all expenses paid trip for Mugabe to talk about giving Zimbabwe's money in trade deals, which will keep him in his luxourious lifestlye whilst the rest of Zimabwe suffers.
Now lets take a look at Omar al Bashir. It seems it wasn't enough to invite one tyrannical leader , the EU went for two . Omar al Bashir through his support of money and arms to the Janjaweed millita , has been complicit in the genocide of the black African Muslim population in Darfur. Due to Omar Al Bashir's government support of the Janjaweed millitia over 400,000 black africans have died and more than 2 million people have been displaced . What sort of message are the EU sending if there inviting someone to a confererence on good governance who has massacred his own people . there is so much tribal and ethnic cleansing going on towards the black African population in Sudan ,Yes we all want Africa to progress but laying a red carpet out for despots is NOT the way to do it. The Sudanese government has suppressed information by jailing and killing witnesses since 2004 and tampered with evidence such as mass graves to eliminate their forensic values. In addition, by obstructing and arresting journalists, the Sudanese government has been able to obscure much of what has gone on. Again by giving Omar al Bashir the cloak of legitimacy through inviting him to the EU summit will mean he can keep on claiming that no massacre has occured in Darfur. How can the EU consider warming relations with Khartoum when demonstrators are marching on capitals worldwide to protest what’s happening there?. The summit after all is all about warming relations between European and African leaders but this is one leader the EU would be foolish to cosy up to Bashir's regime has been buoyed by infusions of cash from the petroleum industry which has refused to bow to international pressure and continues to pump oil along a 2,200 kilometre pipeline to Port Sudan on the Red Sea. the summit is designed to improve trade links with African countries, but in Sudan exactly the opposite needs to be happening as all the money from the trade is being ploughed into killing Bashir's opposition in Sudan.
the EU is rewarding and giving legitimacy to two abhorrent leaders , they should be ashamed of themselves, but with an organisation lacking a conscience they just simply dont care , if they really cared about Africa they would stand up to these tyrants but i guess for the EU thats to much like hard work.
Lets first take a look at Mugabe. The EU in inviting Robert Mugabe is ignoring it's own travel ban on Robert Mugabe put in place . when you are having a international development and human rights conference , you pick role models , and im afraid Mugabe is completely the opposite. The shameful cowardice in inviting Mugabe , is no way to stand up to African leaders when they are in the wrong , when they demand he be invited , they should have point blank refused this request , and pointed out to his awful human rights record ,and the rampant inflation which means many zimbabweans are left without a daily meal . By giving in to the African leaders request , it shows to the African leaders they to can get away with corruption and destruction of there country's economy , it also shows that there is nothing to gain from standing up to mugabe. very sad that, partly through the blind support of other African leaders, this same process was not allowed to take place. Now Zimbabwe is burdened with a leader ruining his country and guess what: this does make him less of a hero , however by putting Mugabe on the world stage once again , he can show himself as an African hero , and the chances of Mugabe's regime falling become longer not short term odds. The EU in it's decision to invite him is propping up a deeply unpopular leader in Zimbabwe who is surviving over western guilt from colonial times , and African solidarity with a guy they see as a fighter against colonialism , whilst ignoring his henious crimes ,as the international community be it the EU or UN do not seem to be taking serious action against him . What sort of message does this send to Thabo Mbeki the president of South Africa , that South Africa support of Zimbabwe has no effect at all , because Mugabe is still being treated like a international statesman. Europe needs to get over it's post colonial guilt , they were united in there opposition to the horrific apartheid regime in South Africa , so why when Mugabe crimes are on par with this do the EU give him the cloak of legitimacy .It is all to do with post colonial guilt ,it's wrong for African white leader to go power hungry it seems , but not if a black African leader goes power hungry . I am not making a racist point , what i am saying is that the EU shouldn't treat a demonic white leader and a demonic black leader differently. The EU is also not carrying out it's promises , there was a travel ban on Mugabe put on him by the EU due to his crimes against humanity , yet this has blatently been ignored at this summit . The Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu was right when he said on the today programme said the international community, especially South Africa, had to act to help Zimbabwe because people were starving. Speaking as he used a pair of scissors to cut up his collar, he said: "As an Anglican this is what I wear to identify myself, that I'm a clergyman.
African leaders "Do you know what Mugabe has done? He's taken people's identity and literally, if you don't mind, cut it to pieces. This is what he's actually done to a lot of - and in the end there's nothing. "So, as far as I'm concerned, from now on I'm not going to wear a dog collar until Mugabe is gone." The archbishop said power had gone to the Zimbabwean president's head and the leader did not seem to "realise the suffering of people". The EU is not helping Zimbabwe's people when eu leaders say the EU African summit shouldn't be overshadowed by Mugabe's involvement in it . It does have a big effect after all a main part of the summit is on human rights and development , development which Mugabe has stunted ,and human rights which Mugabe has ignored , he should not have been given an invitation to such a prestigious event. It shows the world is not acting in united disgust against Robert Mugabe who seeing the international community's weakeness will keep perpretuating his crimes against humanity.For once I agree with Gordon Brown who has shown strength in a time of EU wide weakness for staying away from the summit, and condemn the EU for inviting Mugabe in the first place.If the other African countries wish to boycott the meeting, then it is up to them. We have pussyfooted around these African despots for too long, and its about time we in the west make a stand. Threaten to take away the billions of dollars sent to prop up appalling regimes and African leaders would soon do something about Mugabe.
Then there is the question , what is the point of having Mugabe there. You would have thought on a summit on good governance human rights would be high up the agenda . However apart from Angela Merkl's spirited attack on Mugabe human rights record, astonishingly Robert Mugabe's abuses on both Zimbabwe's economy and people are off the Agenda . So an all expenses paid trip for Mugabe to talk about giving Zimbabwe's money in trade deals, which will keep him in his luxourious lifestlye whilst the rest of Zimabwe suffers.
Now lets take a look at Omar al Bashir. It seems it wasn't enough to invite one tyrannical leader , the EU went for two . Omar al Bashir through his support of money and arms to the Janjaweed millita , has been complicit in the genocide of the black African Muslim population in Darfur. Due to Omar Al Bashir's government support of the Janjaweed millitia over 400,000 black africans have died and more than 2 million people have been displaced . What sort of message are the EU sending if there inviting someone to a confererence on good governance who has massacred his own people . there is so much tribal and ethnic cleansing going on towards the black African population in Sudan ,Yes we all want Africa to progress but laying a red carpet out for despots is NOT the way to do it. The Sudanese government has suppressed information by jailing and killing witnesses since 2004 and tampered with evidence such as mass graves to eliminate their forensic values. In addition, by obstructing and arresting journalists, the Sudanese government has been able to obscure much of what has gone on. Again by giving Omar al Bashir the cloak of legitimacy through inviting him to the EU summit will mean he can keep on claiming that no massacre has occured in Darfur. How can the EU consider warming relations with Khartoum when demonstrators are marching on capitals worldwide to protest what’s happening there?. The summit after all is all about warming relations between European and African leaders but this is one leader the EU would be foolish to cosy up to Bashir's regime has been buoyed by infusions of cash from the petroleum industry which has refused to bow to international pressure and continues to pump oil along a 2,200 kilometre pipeline to Port Sudan on the Red Sea. the summit is designed to improve trade links with African countries, but in Sudan exactly the opposite needs to be happening as all the money from the trade is being ploughed into killing Bashir's opposition in Sudan.
the EU is rewarding and giving legitimacy to two abhorrent leaders , they should be ashamed of themselves, but with an organisation lacking a conscience they just simply dont care , if they really cared about Africa they would stand up to these tyrants but i guess for the EU thats to much like hard work.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
my name is gordon and im taxaholic
Gordon brown is the latest person to enter the taxaholics room for the last 10 years when he was the chancellor of the exchequer , he admits to having a little obsession with taxes . He admits there might have been the odd stealth tax , the odd bit of tax on fuel , alcohol and cigarettes , but ya know he says im here to become a changed man . Now that im prime minister and all , it might be a bit hard well taxing everyhing which moves . So really im here to change myself and become a better person .
OK GORDY --the head of the taxaholics person says lets here your tax and woe story .
Gordon then precedes to go ahead . He says to the rest of the attendees at the taxaholic anoymous club , im really sorry this may take a long time , there was so many tax increases in so many different areas , that well i dont really know where to start
Another tax anoynmous attendee shouts out HOW about the beginning , and then you can all tell us the heartwarming tale , of how you took more and more of our money as taxes .
Then the head of taxaholics person says --now now everyone deserves a fair chance lets hear gordy speak how long do you reckon you'll be gordy
GORDON BROWN : oh you know just the small matter of 1-2 days , not really that long for me i mean im used to waiting, after all i wanted to be prime minister for ten years . it's about time someone else had to wait apart from me
HEAD OF TAXAHOLICS : sorry gordy but this meeting only lasts for 2 hours -- how about the edited highlights
GORDON BROWN( in droning voice ) -- well it all started in may 1997 when New Labour won the election and i became chancellor of the exchequer. well you see in my ten years in power there was a slight raising of the tax burden . it kinda increases from a manageable 39.3% of total GDP to around well 42.2% .
HEAD OF TAXAHOLICS : Forgive me gordon because well im not really versed in economics , especially in taxes who pays for taxes ?
Gordon(stumbling political talk) well err , errm i dont know quite how to break it to you , but it's quite hard to explain and you know it's really not that important who pays for taxes + those tax increases --
ANGRY TAXAHOLICS ANOYMOUS PERSON: I forgot politicians never give a straight answer to a straight question ladies and gentleman we pay for Gordy and his tax rises ..
HEAD OF TAXAHOLICS : so gordon how have these tax increase as your time as the chancellor of exchequer how did you spend them -- you know the first sign of coming to terms with your illness is admitting to the damage your actions caused to others
GORDON(Solemn): well i gave a lot of money to the NHS , in fact for the first 4 years between 1997 +2001 there was a 7% increase in spending , the problem was the money wasn't spent a lot on frontline services , but we did get a shiny tier of new management and a lot more targets you know quite important stuff really .
OTHER TAXAHOLICS PERSON : I still dont undertand though how did all that help us
GORDON(CONFUSED) Well im not sure really , you see i just thought you had to throw money at a problem and hey presto it'd be solved i didn't know you had to specify where that money would go --sorry guys i guess that was a bit of a bulls up on my part .
TAXAHOLICS PERSON: Ok Gordon go ahead
Gordon Brown: Im really sorry guys im going to have to go , i forgot i never say sorry
Chorus from the back of the Meeting : RESIGN GORDON!
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
ken Livingstone
Recently ken appeared on a my space video for democracy .However the conclusions i got from it , is that Ken is nowhere near a democrat and in fact , if he could would support a left wing dictatorship in Britain just as long as it is an american dictatorship.
Already Ken has showed his anti semitic qualities , comparing a jewish reporter to a concentration camp guards and telling the jewish reubens businessman to go back to iran -- but that's all excused because Ken is the darling of the left media . It's what makes him charismatic , im sorry but would this be accepted if a tory had said it no ,would it have been accepted if the remarks had been aimed at blacks, christians or muslims --so why prey does the media just think we jewish people are blowing it all out of proportion . That's not to mention ken's tax tax tax policy . Ken's Philosophy can be summed up as the falling if it moves tax it,if it walks tax it, and if it is from a tory borough double tax it . Ken picks fights with the boroughs because they aren't meaning his stupid tax and spending policies. That's not even starting on the poor people of brent and wembley who in the 80s had to put up with his crazy left wing ideas ,which involved them all giving nearly half of there hard earned money , all in the name of improving the council , yet still brent was poor so good job ken took taxes for no reason there. then there is your mate hugo chavez who london now gets there oil from best friend with the iranian president you know that very nice man Who had a holocaust denial conference ,called the Holocaust a myth oh and just one more thing called for the destruction of the state of israel. Clearly ken character judgement is not your forte ,or you choose to ignore there crimes because there left wing .
Now to go back to the democracy video on my space , i have never heard so much garbage in my life , the amount of hot air you've contributed to global warming in that one video has increased co2 emissions by 20% not to mention all the garbage you've added for our once every 2 week binman ken -- i can see your in your usual excellent (sorry i forgot crap) form.
So here is the conclusions i got from your video. according to you .. women aren't violent and are more consensual im sorry -- mau zse dongs wife was behind the killing of millions of children ... it is bollocks you have evil woman and evil men, strong woman and strong men. then you have a go at the western world for putting in middle eastern dictatorships and according to you there is no signs of western value . Ken Livingstone i think your very much mistaken there is the western values in the arab world it is called israel, you know the country you said creating it was one of the greatest mistakes of the 20th century. then there was your defence of lenin -right then the sick bucket was ready. im sorry but that was just for starters your praise of mao zse dong who killed more people than stalin and hitler put together was downright disgusting -- are you blind . Now you think that is justified that amount of killing by my mao tse dong. you falsely assert china as democratic -china doesn't have democracy , it is a one party state (a dictatorship-- you say that is a bad thing(dictatorship tha is ) --then why support china when it systemically raped and pillaged tibet , and due to communism has killed millions of people. Lenin was an enemy of democracy there was an elections the social revolutionaries won he didn't like it and so he cancelled the parliament and ruled a one party state-- in war communism he killed millions of people --he created the cheka ,the gulags, the camps where dissidents would be sent to he paved the way for stalin . then there is fidel castro again there is no democracy in cuba , castro -- crushes brutally any opposition to his rule through torture and killing --yet this seems ok as long as it is not the United states. ,doesn't allow freedom of religion , has a one party state ,and has been ruling as a dictator for nearly 40 years . It seems to me Ken as long as it is a left wing dictatorship it's fine for you , and the video you have on supporting democracy is rubbish .
Finally id just to like pay homage to our new london mayor in six months boris johnson who has all qualities you dont , charm , listening to people ,and not hating jews and inviting muslim extremists .
Already Ken has showed his anti semitic qualities , comparing a jewish reporter to a concentration camp guards and telling the jewish reubens businessman to go back to iran -- but that's all excused because Ken is the darling of the left media . It's what makes him charismatic , im sorry but would this be accepted if a tory had said it no ,would it have been accepted if the remarks had been aimed at blacks, christians or muslims --so why prey does the media just think we jewish people are blowing it all out of proportion . That's not to mention ken's tax tax tax policy . Ken's Philosophy can be summed up as the falling if it moves tax it,if it walks tax it, and if it is from a tory borough double tax it . Ken picks fights with the boroughs because they aren't meaning his stupid tax and spending policies. That's not even starting on the poor people of brent and wembley who in the 80s had to put up with his crazy left wing ideas ,which involved them all giving nearly half of there hard earned money , all in the name of improving the council , yet still brent was poor so good job ken took taxes for no reason there. then there is your mate hugo chavez who london now gets there oil from best friend with the iranian president you know that very nice man Who had a holocaust denial conference ,called the Holocaust a myth oh and just one more thing called for the destruction of the state of israel. Clearly ken character judgement is not your forte ,or you choose to ignore there crimes because there left wing .
Now to go back to the democracy video on my space , i have never heard so much garbage in my life , the amount of hot air you've contributed to global warming in that one video has increased co2 emissions by 20% not to mention all the garbage you've added for our once every 2 week binman ken -- i can see your in your usual excellent (sorry i forgot crap) form.
So here is the conclusions i got from your video. according to you .. women aren't violent and are more consensual im sorry -- mau zse dongs wife was behind the killing of millions of children ... it is bollocks you have evil woman and evil men, strong woman and strong men. then you have a go at the western world for putting in middle eastern dictatorships and according to you there is no signs of western value . Ken Livingstone i think your very much mistaken there is the western values in the arab world it is called israel, you know the country you said creating it was one of the greatest mistakes of the 20th century. then there was your defence of lenin -right then the sick bucket was ready. im sorry but that was just for starters your praise of mao zse dong who killed more people than stalin and hitler put together was downright disgusting -- are you blind . Now you think that is justified that amount of killing by my mao tse dong. you falsely assert china as democratic -china doesn't have democracy , it is a one party state (a dictatorship-- you say that is a bad thing(dictatorship tha is ) --then why support china when it systemically raped and pillaged tibet , and due to communism has killed millions of people. Lenin was an enemy of democracy there was an elections the social revolutionaries won he didn't like it and so he cancelled the parliament and ruled a one party state-- in war communism he killed millions of people --he created the cheka ,the gulags, the camps where dissidents would be sent to he paved the way for stalin . then there is fidel castro again there is no democracy in cuba , castro -- crushes brutally any opposition to his rule through torture and killing --yet this seems ok as long as it is not the United states. ,doesn't allow freedom of religion , has a one party state ,and has been ruling as a dictator for nearly 40 years . It seems to me Ken as long as it is a left wing dictatorship it's fine for you , and the video you have on supporting democracy is rubbish .
Finally id just to like pay homage to our new london mayor in six months boris johnson who has all qualities you dont , charm , listening to people ,and not hating jews and inviting muslim extremists .
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
IN defence of Boris Johnson
IN DEFENCE OF BORIS JOHNSON
On the first day of the labour party conference ,New Labour Politician Hazel Blears did what she did best have a go at the opposition . Or rather she didn’t. I have no problem with politicians criticise the opposition party , God knows I do it , but unlike hazel I don’t use crude and unfair character assassinations . Recently hazel blears called Boris Johnson “ a bigoted upper class twit “ . So much for new labour saying class didn’t matter in Politics anymore . If she’s going to go on this line why not call Tony Blair an upper class twit after all he went to one of the most posh boarding schools in Durham , Or Gordon Brown who had a very priviledged education in Scotland . Yet that’s ok in the contradictory world of Miss Blears ok to support New labour’s upper class but not the tory upper class . Mrs Blears you wouldn’t like to be called working class scum and indeed it would be abhorrent to call you this but the language you use to describe Boris Johnson was equally abhorrent .
Boris Johnson is a politician who excites people , doesn’t send them to sleep like most politicians and doesn't sound the boring rehearsed party loyalist line all the time . He unlike most MPS is loved by his constituents on Henley on Thames and the town's love in with Boris has led it to be given the endearing nickname Borisville. Also he doesn't mind supporting supposedly unpopular viewpoint like supporting Israel strongly as a London mayoral candidate when if he was being a cynical politician looking for the muslim vote he would surely temper his support with condemnations . Boris is a politician who can laugh at himself , for example calling himself fat at the last party conference . Boris is the sort of person who puts the fun back in politics , he is one of the most well known politicians because he’s interesting ,controversial your guaranteed a laugh with Boris and just offers you something completely different from most MPS. Yes he does say some stupid things , but haven’t we all , yes he’s not perfect he’s had an affair , but all human beings are imperfect ,and at least unlike most politicians admits this .
Then there is the reason to vote for Boris Johnson. Unlike Ken Livingstone you wont hear him comparing a jewish journalist to a concentration camp guard , invite wife beating anti moderate muslims , homophobic , anti semitic , supporter of terrorism Yusuf Al quarwardari , and you wont have these stupid bendy buses which ken livingstone has introduced instead of the Double decker’s buses . Oh and he will stand up for taxpayers rights , completely ignored by Ken Livingstone when he introduced the congestion charge. Unlike the likely liberal democrat candidate Brian Paddick , yes a former deputy police commissioner whose admitted to being an undercover liberal democrat supporter in the police . This is the same person who pushed for the downgrading of cannabis , despite the terrible mental illnesses it causes ,in his time as policeman didn’t see the point in penalising those who used cannabis , has no problem with Policeman not being on the beat . incidentally he was also one of the main supporters of policeman beign sent on diversity courses " how silly of me Brian it obviously more important for policeman to make sure they dont cause offence to anybody rather than actually catching criminals . just imagine what our law and order system would be like under brian paddick even more liberal if that’s possible, policeman would be taught how not to offend criminals not catchign .So boris may be a bit of a fool , but at least you’re law and order system will stay in tact with him, and the law will be on the side of the law abiding citizens not the criminals , at least you wont hear politically correct dribble emanating from his mouth and at least you wont have Islamic extremists demagogues being invited at the taxpayers response and red ken's inviting his red political mates like Hugo Chavez all at the taxpayers expense of course .
In conclusion Hazel its you who is the twit , you will never be as well known as boris , because put it simply your voice is annoying and your as much as a liar as most politicians . Boris is liked because he’s different a character, he’s charismatic. Boris' book is a bestseller ,he appears on popular programmes like Newsnight ,Question time and has even been a presenter on have i got news for you . Hazel it pains me to say it but you just say whatever the party line is , oh and shout it a bit louder so you get some points from your leader --no matter if it goes against your political (sorry i forgot what political views hazel --how silly of me boris is obviously wrong a politician with actual views --how utterly repulsive that must sound . Hazel your the person who appears on question time getting shouted at and booed because you are about as original as a cardboard box , about as exciting as watching paint drying and got as much strong beliefs as the teletubbies . The reason you criticise Boris is maybe because your jealous he's got strong political views you dont , he's popular your not , he gets loads of money from his book ,you drive people to anger on question , he's interesting your not . So next time you call someone a twit Mrs Hazel Blears , think is this going to make me look bad ,and maybe just maybe he's more popular than me so i should shut up and get back to my job of towing the party line and not having anything original to say.
On the first day of the labour party conference ,New Labour Politician Hazel Blears did what she did best have a go at the opposition . Or rather she didn’t. I have no problem with politicians criticise the opposition party , God knows I do it , but unlike hazel I don’t use crude and unfair character assassinations . Recently hazel blears called Boris Johnson “ a bigoted upper class twit “ . So much for new labour saying class didn’t matter in Politics anymore . If she’s going to go on this line why not call Tony Blair an upper class twit after all he went to one of the most posh boarding schools in Durham , Or Gordon Brown who had a very priviledged education in Scotland . Yet that’s ok in the contradictory world of Miss Blears ok to support New labour’s upper class but not the tory upper class . Mrs Blears you wouldn’t like to be called working class scum and indeed it would be abhorrent to call you this but the language you use to describe Boris Johnson was equally abhorrent .
Boris Johnson is a politician who excites people , doesn’t send them to sleep like most politicians and doesn't sound the boring rehearsed party loyalist line all the time . He unlike most MPS is loved by his constituents on Henley on Thames and the town's love in with Boris has led it to be given the endearing nickname Borisville. Also he doesn't mind supporting supposedly unpopular viewpoint like supporting Israel strongly as a London mayoral candidate when if he was being a cynical politician looking for the muslim vote he would surely temper his support with condemnations . Boris is a politician who can laugh at himself , for example calling himself fat at the last party conference . Boris is the sort of person who puts the fun back in politics , he is one of the most well known politicians because he’s interesting ,controversial your guaranteed a laugh with Boris and just offers you something completely different from most MPS. Yes he does say some stupid things , but haven’t we all , yes he’s not perfect he’s had an affair , but all human beings are imperfect ,and at least unlike most politicians admits this .
Then there is the reason to vote for Boris Johnson. Unlike Ken Livingstone you wont hear him comparing a jewish journalist to a concentration camp guard , invite wife beating anti moderate muslims , homophobic , anti semitic , supporter of terrorism Yusuf Al quarwardari , and you wont have these stupid bendy buses which ken livingstone has introduced instead of the Double decker’s buses . Oh and he will stand up for taxpayers rights , completely ignored by Ken Livingstone when he introduced the congestion charge. Unlike the likely liberal democrat candidate Brian Paddick , yes a former deputy police commissioner whose admitted to being an undercover liberal democrat supporter in the police . This is the same person who pushed for the downgrading of cannabis , despite the terrible mental illnesses it causes ,in his time as policeman didn’t see the point in penalising those who used cannabis , has no problem with Policeman not being on the beat . incidentally he was also one of the main supporters of policeman beign sent on diversity courses " how silly of me Brian it obviously more important for policeman to make sure they dont cause offence to anybody rather than actually catching criminals . just imagine what our law and order system would be like under brian paddick even more liberal if that’s possible, policeman would be taught how not to offend criminals not catchign .So boris may be a bit of a fool , but at least you’re law and order system will stay in tact with him, and the law will be on the side of the law abiding citizens not the criminals , at least you wont hear politically correct dribble emanating from his mouth and at least you wont have Islamic extremists demagogues being invited at the taxpayers response and red ken's inviting his red political mates like Hugo Chavez all at the taxpayers expense of course .
In conclusion Hazel its you who is the twit , you will never be as well known as boris , because put it simply your voice is annoying and your as much as a liar as most politicians . Boris is liked because he’s different a character, he’s charismatic. Boris' book is a bestseller ,he appears on popular programmes like Newsnight ,Question time and has even been a presenter on have i got news for you . Hazel it pains me to say it but you just say whatever the party line is , oh and shout it a bit louder so you get some points from your leader --no matter if it goes against your political (sorry i forgot what political views hazel --how silly of me boris is obviously wrong a politician with actual views --how utterly repulsive that must sound . Hazel your the person who appears on question time getting shouted at and booed because you are about as original as a cardboard box , about as exciting as watching paint drying and got as much strong beliefs as the teletubbies . The reason you criticise Boris is maybe because your jealous he's got strong political views you dont , he's popular your not , he gets loads of money from his book ,you drive people to anger on question , he's interesting your not . So next time you call someone a twit Mrs Hazel Blears , think is this going to make me look bad ,and maybe just maybe he's more popular than me so i should shut up and get back to my job of towing the party line and not having anything original to say.
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Many Points which prove how wrong the Boycotters of Israel are
Recently in the unions , politcally correct so called liberals and hardcore leftwingers even in the national union of journalists , israel boycott is all the rage . Boycott of Israeli Universities , Boycott of Israeli Goods , Boycott of Israeli Foods , Boycott of Israeli Politicians , Israeli Books , you name it the boycottt movement have tried boycotting it .
Some groups behinds these boycotts say they are doing it to end the occupation . Fine --then Why weren't u boycotting Eygpt for holding the gaza strip between 1948 -1967 , Jordan occupying the west bank between 1948-1967 , China's continuing occupation of Tibet ,the USSRS occupation of the whole of eastern europe , the Syrian occupation of lebanon. Other's claim they are doing it to protest against israeli's genocidal treatment of palestinians . Hang on history has taught us what genocide truly is , and whilst many believe for example inside israel itself israel needs to improve it's treatment of palestinians it is nowhere genocidal treatment . Genocidal treatment is that of sudan's treatment of african muslims , the rwandan genocide , cambodia , the armenian genocide committed by the ottoman empire , the jordanian , or Slobadan's milosevic ransacking of kosovo and the horrific genocide that took place at srebenica , that is genocide . I for one can tell you none of this is happening in the West Bank or Gaza . Most of these occupations or treatments are far more brutal , and for far worse reasons then israel took over the west bank and gaza and killed palestinian civilians most of the time i should add acidentally . Yet you never hear anyone asking to boycott any of these nations .
There is another reason for not boycotting israel . The high levels of morality itself it achieves in the face of adversity which most present day nations do not face . Israel is a bastion of democracy in an ocean of tyrannical and opressive regimes bent on the destruction of the state of israel, for example the head of the government of iran this year has said " Israel must be wiped off the map" . Israel has freedom of speech and press in israel , which can be seen for example by one of the leading Israeli Newspapers Haaretz constantly criticising the Israeli government . There is also Israel's committment to basic human rights such as the rights of woman , israeli arabs , druze and bedouin . Doing all this despite having to struggle against terorists who target innocent woman , children , students and other civilians .
Then there is other boycott movements saying that they are Boycotting Israel because they are an apartheid state . Firstly israeli arabs , druze ,and bedouins whilst there treatment is not perfect , receive more money from the government than in any other arab country ,live in a vibrant democracy where they are represented in the Israeli Knesset (parliament) and can vote . They are also represented in the Israeli Supreme court ,are more prosperous than there arab partners in arab states. Also importantly all israeli universities are integrated including israelies from all backgrounds , religions and races . Secondly Israel opened with passion the door of israel to thousands of black ethiopian jews , hardly the act of a nation engaging in apartheid . If you want to see apartheid in action how about the actions of 2 arab countries Saudi Arabia and Jordan , where jews and christians can't legally become citizens . Where are the boycott movements for them . It seems the boycott movements believe there is one rule for israel as a nation and one rule for every other nation on the planet ,and this is fundamentally unfair .
Boycotters have a notion , that only when israel is internationally boycotted will they start to think about peace with the palestinians and giving up land. Some boycotters especially members of trade unions such as Unison encouraging a boycott of Israel dont even claim to want peace they are calling for the end of the jewish state itself . Boycotting israel also wounds the chance of a sustainable peace between israelies and the palestinians . This is because israeli citizens will see it as nothing less than demonisation of Israel .This in turn weakens the Israeli peace movement and pushes Israelis who are for peace into the arms of israeli hawks . In other words it appears the boycotters are giving up on the israeli peace camp . So actually what the boycotters are doing is a hindrance rather than a help to peace. It also ruins the case of people like me who believe in the two state solution and think israel should get out of the West Bank. This is because the majority of the israeli public could see those in the peace movements in the west supporting the two state solution in league with the boycotters . So what are the boycotters actually achieving lets see tarnishing the image of those genuine two state solution supporters in the west , the israeli peace movement ,and the chance of peace in the middle east . Clearly it seems the boycotts dont follow the path of reason and common sense.
Then boycotters seem to be putting israel on a higher level of morality than any other state . Just to give one example In Britain trade unions such as Unison and the university of college's and university has been the heartbeat of the campaign to boycott israel . Yet there is no boycott of China where no trade unions are allowed . This is in complete contrast to Israel where the Histradut the Israeli Trade Union movement is one of the most powerful in the world certainly more powerful than American and British Trade Unions .To me this just shows the utter absurdity of boycotting israel .
What is worrying me is that these boycott movements have reached the top echelons of british society . In may 2007 the conference of british universities agreed to a boycott of israeli academics and universities . Not only is this vote a stab in the eye for freedom of expression and speech , it is pure and simple discrimination . Why cant an israeli academic speak or express his opinion to british universities , when british university academics have no problem in lambasting israeli universities and academics. The Univeristy and College union Boycott is counter to the cherished principle of freedom of expression .freedom of expression meaning that academics do not discriminate against colleagues on the basis of factors that are irrelevant to their academic work. What does an israeli science academics belief have anything to do for example with his pioneering work in chemistry , i'll tell you equivoqually , absolutely nothing . What we have here is a case of the boycott movement being involved complicity in curtailing academic freedom of israeli professors . the boycotters quite simply are putting a barrier in front of israeli professors , a barriers which blocks out the voices of moderate israeli university professors . To quote from the independent on this subject" Israeli academics have worked hard to oppose the excesses of their Government in the West Bank and Gaza. What good does it do to punish them in this manner" . I can tell you in no uncertain terms absolutely nothing . Israeli universities is where the heart of the Israeli peace movement is , if as the boycotters are saying you take out there voice , you've taken out a large chunk of the spiritual soul of the israeli peace movement . To conclude on this point i think it harms the palestinians as well. Thats to say how can the palestinians learn to talk to israelies which is essential to the peace process if the union of colleges and university's aren't even talking to the israel. Also it harms the palestinians because it encourages the use of terrorism by the palestinians , as it seems from there prospective every time israel responds to there terrorist act key international organisations boycott israel , and therefore they should continue on the terrorist path , so that israel can be condemned even louder . That doesn't sound logical to me , im pretty sure it doesn't sound logical to those people reading my article , it seems only logical to those organisations and people at the head of the boycott movement against israel .
The boycotters constant demonisation of israel and it's universities who they see as complicit with the israeli government can also be seen as anti semitism . this claim is backed up by quotes from a times online article on the academic boycott of israel ,written by Anthony Julius and Alan dershowitz .In it , it says "the boycotters are not just adopting bad politics derived from faulty thinking. There is an edge of malice to their campaign. Their desire to hurt, to punish, outstrips their ability even to identify with any precision their targets – all Israeli universities without exception? All academics within those universities? Israeli academics in non-Israeli universities? They cannot say. And so the question arises – does this malice have a name? To be blunt, is it anti-Semitic? The academic boycott resonates with earlier boycotts of Jews, whether those of medieval Europe or the Third Reich. The history of anti-Semitism is in part the history of boycotts of Jews. Each boycott derives from a principle of exclusion: Jews and/or the Jewish State are to be excluded from public life, from the community of nations, because they are dangerous and malign". Also the boycott pretext can be seen as a campaign to defame the jews. Why else do the boycotters hypocritcially sign up to the belief of national self determination especially the palestinians , but not the jews in particular zionism .It seems the boycotters would only be happy if the jews kept playing the role of victim . The boycotters are seething at the jewish nature of israel , yet have no problem with the islamic nature of Saudi Arabia ,or the christian nature of Italy . They do not seem to mind the hezbollah rocket attacks specifically trying to kill jews or hamas and islamic jihad suicide bombers specificially trying to kill jews , and then have the audacity to complain and expect more self restraint of israel than of any other nation when it defends itself . Israel is 0.1% of the land mass of the world , and the boycotters inexclusably overstate the importance of the israeli -palestinian conflict and also wildly the case to be made against israel's actions .
i think it would be apt to quote from the jerusalem post an israeli english language newspaper just to show how crazy, ill thought out ,and morally lacking the UCU ( university college union) boycott of israeli academics an university is ."Our academicians are not kosher, but Palestinian intellectuals are? The Palestinian Authority that sees Hamas and Fatah exchange gunfire in hospitals, throw people off roofs, murder each other in the streets execution-style and burn each others' houses to the ground, killing all the occupants including innocent children - its scholars are welcomed guests of the UCU? Does the UCU see no contradiction in opening its university doors to Palestinian academicians whose leadership tramples human rights with impunity? Extending preferential treatment to Palestinian academics makes a mockery of the UCU's boycott".
to conclude, does israel not have every right to protect themselves from rockets , sucide bombings and the constant threats from middle eastern governments and newspapers to wipe them off the face of the earth . i think the real problem many boycotters have is of a jewish nation and the jewish people of this nation not playing the innocent victim as the jewish people have played throughout history but actually standing up for themselves . This is why the boycott is fundamentally wrong Israel is not committing genocidal acts , Israel is defending themselves and sure Israel has made some mistakes and this has led to criticism and healthy criticism and proportional criticism of israel. The boycott is not proportional it condemns israel as an apartheid state when it's clearly not . It treats the palestinians as innocent victims , when palestinians terrorists have launched numerous terrorist attacks and rockets inside israel. In short the boycotts of israel supports palestinian terrorism and makes palestinian peace activists jobs much harder. The boycotters are fixated on israel and seem to ignore other more worthy nations of boycotts . just to name a few how about China Brutal occupation of Tibet, Burma's brutal millitary regime , Saudi Arabia's disgusting treatment of woman , and the boycott of Mugabe's Zimbabwe with it's terrible human rights records . The boycotters of israel can be likened to playground bullies they wont torment or attack the larger kids who can defend themselves such as china , but they have no problem in attacking israel as it is small and vulnerable .On concentrating on the only jewish state in the world and presenting such a one sided view , the boycotters even if they themselves aren't anti semitic , are adding to the problem of anti semitism in the western world ,and even more importantly the effects of there actions are anti semitic . Today the desire to destroy Jews has been reconfigured as the desire to destroy or dismantle the Jewish State Boycotters are adding to this by essentially calling israel an immoral state which doesn't deserve to exist for example giving it the hateful label "apartheid state" . The boycotts of is unfair, malicious , an affront to academic freedom and will lead to anti semitism .I urge all right minded people to stand up to those who boycott israel \
Some groups behinds these boycotts say they are doing it to end the occupation . Fine --then Why weren't u boycotting Eygpt for holding the gaza strip between 1948 -1967 , Jordan occupying the west bank between 1948-1967 , China's continuing occupation of Tibet ,the USSRS occupation of the whole of eastern europe , the Syrian occupation of lebanon. Other's claim they are doing it to protest against israeli's genocidal treatment of palestinians . Hang on history has taught us what genocide truly is , and whilst many believe for example inside israel itself israel needs to improve it's treatment of palestinians it is nowhere genocidal treatment . Genocidal treatment is that of sudan's treatment of african muslims , the rwandan genocide , cambodia , the armenian genocide committed by the ottoman empire , the jordanian , or Slobadan's milosevic ransacking of kosovo and the horrific genocide that took place at srebenica , that is genocide . I for one can tell you none of this is happening in the West Bank or Gaza . Most of these occupations or treatments are far more brutal , and for far worse reasons then israel took over the west bank and gaza and killed palestinian civilians most of the time i should add acidentally . Yet you never hear anyone asking to boycott any of these nations .
There is another reason for not boycotting israel . The high levels of morality itself it achieves in the face of adversity which most present day nations do not face . Israel is a bastion of democracy in an ocean of tyrannical and opressive regimes bent on the destruction of the state of israel, for example the head of the government of iran this year has said " Israel must be wiped off the map" . Israel has freedom of speech and press in israel , which can be seen for example by one of the leading Israeli Newspapers Haaretz constantly criticising the Israeli government . There is also Israel's committment to basic human rights such as the rights of woman , israeli arabs , druze and bedouin . Doing all this despite having to struggle against terorists who target innocent woman , children , students and other civilians .
Then there is other boycott movements saying that they are Boycotting Israel because they are an apartheid state . Firstly israeli arabs , druze ,and bedouins whilst there treatment is not perfect , receive more money from the government than in any other arab country ,live in a vibrant democracy where they are represented in the Israeli Knesset (parliament) and can vote . They are also represented in the Israeli Supreme court ,are more prosperous than there arab partners in arab states. Also importantly all israeli universities are integrated including israelies from all backgrounds , religions and races . Secondly Israel opened with passion the door of israel to thousands of black ethiopian jews , hardly the act of a nation engaging in apartheid . If you want to see apartheid in action how about the actions of 2 arab countries Saudi Arabia and Jordan , where jews and christians can't legally become citizens . Where are the boycott movements for them . It seems the boycott movements believe there is one rule for israel as a nation and one rule for every other nation on the planet ,and this is fundamentally unfair .
Boycotters have a notion , that only when israel is internationally boycotted will they start to think about peace with the palestinians and giving up land. Some boycotters especially members of trade unions such as Unison encouraging a boycott of Israel dont even claim to want peace they are calling for the end of the jewish state itself . Boycotting israel also wounds the chance of a sustainable peace between israelies and the palestinians . This is because israeli citizens will see it as nothing less than demonisation of Israel .This in turn weakens the Israeli peace movement and pushes Israelis who are for peace into the arms of israeli hawks . In other words it appears the boycotters are giving up on the israeli peace camp . So actually what the boycotters are doing is a hindrance rather than a help to peace. It also ruins the case of people like me who believe in the two state solution and think israel should get out of the West Bank. This is because the majority of the israeli public could see those in the peace movements in the west supporting the two state solution in league with the boycotters . So what are the boycotters actually achieving lets see tarnishing the image of those genuine two state solution supporters in the west , the israeli peace movement ,and the chance of peace in the middle east . Clearly it seems the boycotts dont follow the path of reason and common sense.
Then boycotters seem to be putting israel on a higher level of morality than any other state . Just to give one example In Britain trade unions such as Unison and the university of college's and university has been the heartbeat of the campaign to boycott israel . Yet there is no boycott of China where no trade unions are allowed . This is in complete contrast to Israel where the Histradut the Israeli Trade Union movement is one of the most powerful in the world certainly more powerful than American and British Trade Unions .To me this just shows the utter absurdity of boycotting israel .
What is worrying me is that these boycott movements have reached the top echelons of british society . In may 2007 the conference of british universities agreed to a boycott of israeli academics and universities . Not only is this vote a stab in the eye for freedom of expression and speech , it is pure and simple discrimination . Why cant an israeli academic speak or express his opinion to british universities , when british university academics have no problem in lambasting israeli universities and academics. The Univeristy and College union Boycott is counter to the cherished principle of freedom of expression .freedom of expression meaning that academics do not discriminate against colleagues on the basis of factors that are irrelevant to their academic work. What does an israeli science academics belief have anything to do for example with his pioneering work in chemistry , i'll tell you equivoqually , absolutely nothing . What we have here is a case of the boycott movement being involved complicity in curtailing academic freedom of israeli professors . the boycotters quite simply are putting a barrier in front of israeli professors , a barriers which blocks out the voices of moderate israeli university professors . To quote from the independent on this subject" Israeli academics have worked hard to oppose the excesses of their Government in the West Bank and Gaza. What good does it do to punish them in this manner" . I can tell you in no uncertain terms absolutely nothing . Israeli universities is where the heart of the Israeli peace movement is , if as the boycotters are saying you take out there voice , you've taken out a large chunk of the spiritual soul of the israeli peace movement . To conclude on this point i think it harms the palestinians as well. Thats to say how can the palestinians learn to talk to israelies which is essential to the peace process if the union of colleges and university's aren't even talking to the israel. Also it harms the palestinians because it encourages the use of terrorism by the palestinians , as it seems from there prospective every time israel responds to there terrorist act key international organisations boycott israel , and therefore they should continue on the terrorist path , so that israel can be condemned even louder . That doesn't sound logical to me , im pretty sure it doesn't sound logical to those people reading my article , it seems only logical to those organisations and people at the head of the boycott movement against israel .
The boycotters constant demonisation of israel and it's universities who they see as complicit with the israeli government can also be seen as anti semitism . this claim is backed up by quotes from a times online article on the academic boycott of israel ,written by Anthony Julius and Alan dershowitz .In it , it says "the boycotters are not just adopting bad politics derived from faulty thinking. There is an edge of malice to their campaign. Their desire to hurt, to punish, outstrips their ability even to identify with any precision their targets – all Israeli universities without exception? All academics within those universities? Israeli academics in non-Israeli universities? They cannot say. And so the question arises – does this malice have a name? To be blunt, is it anti-Semitic? The academic boycott resonates with earlier boycotts of Jews, whether those of medieval Europe or the Third Reich. The history of anti-Semitism is in part the history of boycotts of Jews. Each boycott derives from a principle of exclusion: Jews and/or the Jewish State are to be excluded from public life, from the community of nations, because they are dangerous and malign". Also the boycott pretext can be seen as a campaign to defame the jews. Why else do the boycotters hypocritcially sign up to the belief of national self determination especially the palestinians , but not the jews in particular zionism .It seems the boycotters would only be happy if the jews kept playing the role of victim . The boycotters are seething at the jewish nature of israel , yet have no problem with the islamic nature of Saudi Arabia ,or the christian nature of Italy . They do not seem to mind the hezbollah rocket attacks specifically trying to kill jews or hamas and islamic jihad suicide bombers specificially trying to kill jews , and then have the audacity to complain and expect more self restraint of israel than of any other nation when it defends itself . Israel is 0.1% of the land mass of the world , and the boycotters inexclusably overstate the importance of the israeli -palestinian conflict and also wildly the case to be made against israel's actions .
i think it would be apt to quote from the jerusalem post an israeli english language newspaper just to show how crazy, ill thought out ,and morally lacking the UCU ( university college union) boycott of israeli academics an university is ."Our academicians are not kosher, but Palestinian intellectuals are? The Palestinian Authority that sees Hamas and Fatah exchange gunfire in hospitals, throw people off roofs, murder each other in the streets execution-style and burn each others' houses to the ground, killing all the occupants including innocent children - its scholars are welcomed guests of the UCU? Does the UCU see no contradiction in opening its university doors to Palestinian academicians whose leadership tramples human rights with impunity? Extending preferential treatment to Palestinian academics makes a mockery of the UCU's boycott".
to conclude, does israel not have every right to protect themselves from rockets , sucide bombings and the constant threats from middle eastern governments and newspapers to wipe them off the face of the earth . i think the real problem many boycotters have is of a jewish nation and the jewish people of this nation not playing the innocent victim as the jewish people have played throughout history but actually standing up for themselves . This is why the boycott is fundamentally wrong Israel is not committing genocidal acts , Israel is defending themselves and sure Israel has made some mistakes and this has led to criticism and healthy criticism and proportional criticism of israel. The boycott is not proportional it condemns israel as an apartheid state when it's clearly not . It treats the palestinians as innocent victims , when palestinians terrorists have launched numerous terrorist attacks and rockets inside israel. In short the boycotts of israel supports palestinian terrorism and makes palestinian peace activists jobs much harder. The boycotters are fixated on israel and seem to ignore other more worthy nations of boycotts . just to name a few how about China Brutal occupation of Tibet, Burma's brutal millitary regime , Saudi Arabia's disgusting treatment of woman , and the boycott of Mugabe's Zimbabwe with it's terrible human rights records . The boycotters of israel can be likened to playground bullies they wont torment or attack the larger kids who can defend themselves such as china , but they have no problem in attacking israel as it is small and vulnerable .On concentrating on the only jewish state in the world and presenting such a one sided view , the boycotters even if they themselves aren't anti semitic , are adding to the problem of anti semitism in the western world ,and even more importantly the effects of there actions are anti semitic . Today the desire to destroy Jews has been reconfigured as the desire to destroy or dismantle the Jewish State Boycotters are adding to this by essentially calling israel an immoral state which doesn't deserve to exist for example giving it the hateful label "apartheid state" . The boycotts of is unfair, malicious , an affront to academic freedom and will lead to anti semitism .I urge all right minded people to stand up to those who boycott israel \
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