The Devil finds work….

Having little else to do this morning, apart from fielding a complaint from my eurozealot neighbour and his harpy of a wife about this flag….

….which has been fluttering gaily atop my summer house roof since Sunday, I thought I’d have a little fun with Old Holborn’s Labour List Automatic Quote Generator (scroll to bottom of homepage).

The results are startlingly accurate….

Q: What is David Milliband’s position on pubs?
A: Millibands, eh? Chimpy wants Cuba for the oil! As a baby seal, I am crestfallen. Imperialists!!!

Q: Does Harriet Harman’s equality legislation help or hinder the country’s return to economic prosperity?
A: Why do you say legislation!? We’ve seen this before, in Tibet. Bu$h lied about THAT too!!! (Or is that supposed to be a secret!?) This is an outrage!!!! What next!!!? If you aren’t dissatisfied about this Boy King, then you must concede you are a Replicant empty-HEADED gopher of Rupert Murdoch!!!

Q: How can anyone ever trust Labour again after it reneged on its promise of a referendum on the EU Constitution?
A: Constitution, eh? Say goodbye to gender parity and free health care!!!! So long!! I reject neocolonialism AND COLONIALISM!

Depressing, isn’t it, that you get more sense out of an insensate piece of software than you do from Labour’s grass roots?

Quote of the week

Hate crimes complaints, I learned, are like hydras: attempt to chop up one and you find yourself facing two. Douglas Murray

James Delingpole has also incurred the righteous ire of the Diversity Police this week.

Oh, I say!

This blog really likes this little gem from the English Democrats.

English Democrats have submitted the following questions to be answered by the BBC by the end of September 2010 under Section 65 of the Race Relations Act.

To a BBC Board Member:-

A. Do you accept that “English” is a protected group (“racial group”) within the meaning of the Race Relations Act 1976 as amended;(“RRA”) if not please state reasons why not and, if yes, please specify the type of racial group within the meaning of section 3 of the RRA you accept English as being?

etc. etc. etc….

You can’t say that!

Please vote for Ed Balls! Please!

Ed “Flipper” Balls, this blog’s preferred candidate for leading Labour into a twenty-year trek through the political wilderness, is clearly not afraid to exploit a tragedy for personal gain, as can be seen in this cri de coeur in today’s Groan.

Coincidentally, evidence emerged today of just what a resounding success Mr Balls and his colleagues managed to make of their education and children’s policies over the last thirteen years.

Allow me to present Dr Antony Edkins, head teacher at Harrop Fold Specialist Arts College in Worsley, Greater Manchester.

A teenage schoolgirl was arrested by police for racism after refusing to sit with a group of Asian students because some of them did not speak English.

The story continues with further details of Codie Stott’s crime….

“She said I had to sit there with five Asian pupils,” said Codie yesterday.

“Only one could speak English, so she had to tell that one what to do so she could explain in their language. Then she sat me with them and said ‘Discuss’.”

According to Codie, the five – four boys and a girl – then began talking in a language she didn’t understand, thought to be Urdu, so she went to speak to the teacher.

“I said ‘I’m not being funny, but can I change groups because I can’t understand them?’ But she started shouting and screaming, saying ‘It’s racist, you’re going to get done by the police’.”

Codie said she went outside to calm down where another teacher found her and, after speaking to her class teacher, put her in isolation for the rest of the day.

A complaint was made to a police officer based full-time at the school, and more than a week after the incident on September 26 she was taken to Swinton police station and placed under arrest.

On searching the internet for more information on this ground-breaking establishment, I came across his little snippet from the Harrop Fold website, which is particularly telling….

Our sense of being is centered on a willingness to take risks.

It would appear so, Dr Edkins, by which I mean you certainly seem to specialise in taking risks with your pupils’ education by obliging them to study with a group of children who don’t speak their language, and then compounding the felony and traumatising them by having them arrested when they complain. Innovative stuff!

In the interest of fair and balanced blogging, I decided to put this latest fallout from Labour’s catastrophic social policies to the former Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families himself. I didn’t have to wait long for an opportunity to present itself….

So I pounced….

I’m sure he’ll get around to replying sometime soon.

Incidentally, Dr Edkins’ rejoices in the title of Executive Head Teacher. I know who I’d like to execute.

John 11:35

It may be tough being a lesbian, but apparently it’s blondes who really suffer….

What about blonde jokes… I’ve had to suffer them all my life from teachers, bosses, friends ..and am tired of people thinking its funny to make me the butt of their joke.  If I had an afro and people were making afro jokes it wouldn’t be acceptable.  If I respond I am treated like I have no sense of humour.  My teenage son is blonde and everytime he does something silly… Its because he is blonde… How is that okay?  How many blogs do you read about people protesting about it?

Not many, love. Can’t think why. Maybe you should start one.

So what do we do to end this victim/entitlement culture that seems to have us all in some kind of collective paralysis?

A start might be to put and end to Trevor Phillips’ cozy little sinecure, a stellar candidate for Little George’s axe.

Update: Somebody apparently tweeted the following to Clare….

If you’re the ‘dyke on the bike’, I can only assume that AA Gill travels by punt.

Bingo! AA Gill put in his place amusingly, without fuss and without recourse to the Press Complaints Commission, the courts or the equality police.

Look at me! I’m a victim! Probably time we passed another law

For those who may not have noticed, the interweb was in a ferment yesterday when AA Gill referred to Clare Balding (she’s on the telly or something) as….

….the dyke on a bike, puffing up the nooks and crannies at the bottom end of the nation.

Of course it didn’t take the Militant Sapphic Tendency long to mobilise the troops….

Perhaps if Clarkson were referred to as a “breeder in ill-fittting jeans” there might be a comparison to be made, but I’m pretty sure that he isn’t.

I’m not so sure. I suspect that Clarkson would laugh like a drain if he was referred to as a “breeder in ill-fitting jeans”.

But then he is blessed with a sense of humour.