fahrenheit451:188

It's always gratifying, albeit in a mostly superficial kind of way, to see the Guardian washing the Labour Party's dirty laundry in public.

The United Kingdom's metropolitan ruling elites' discredited irrational ideology of politically correct multiculturalism has spawned more categories of fiction than the Annual Costa Book Awards.

We've got in the major fiction categories, #HateCrime #islamophobia #racism and #homophobia ; alongside of which there's such a plethora of subsidiary categories of proscribed errant thought ,speech and behaviour that would have been the envy of Stalin's Cheka.

On Saturday 2 September  Guardian aka Islington Pravda published their comments on the following Times piece :-

The Rotherham MP has used an interview with the Times to highlight differences in attitudes between the capital and Labour’s northern heartlands.

Labour MP Sarah Champion has declared the “floppy left” is afraid of speaking out on issues such as sex grooming gangs for fear of being branded racist.

Champion last month quit as shadow equalities minister after a backlash for saying “Britain has a problem with British Pakistani men raping and exploiting white girls”.

She told the Times: “If I’m on the floppy left, to be accused of racism is probably the worst thing you can call me. That fear will motivate me to step away from a lot of topics I’d maybe tackle head on if I didn’t have that phobia.”

Her constituency was the scene of a grooming scandal and she said many Labour members and politicians based in London had “never been challenged by a reality that’s different” from their largely “tolerant, multicultural world”

Even a prominent worn out old hacks such as Trevor Phillips - whose entire career was built on the smoke and mirrors of multiculturalism and the promulgation of the cult of equality - has come to the end of his tether with all the decades long spouting of bullshit on this issue by the Labour Party in particular and you can add to that the Liberals,Greens and virtually the entire non-parliamentary Left.

And so it goes. Schadenfreude is in order,don't you think?

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Time here in Britain seems to have slowed down since Monday. We were even granted a little welcome respite until Friday 26th from the interminable otiose cant of  party political electioneering. Though of course, PC metropolitan elitist prejudices and dominant multiculturalist ideology all but subsumed the various ceremonies and public expressions of grief and remembrance,held thus far for the victims of the islamic terrorist attack. Former Met.Police Kommissar ,now Lord, Blair aired the ruling elites' view on how best to deal with the islamic terrorist threat. We mustn't go around upsetting their communities by carrying out robust, effective preventative measures such as stop and search and detention without trial or even house arrest.Were our security forces to do so, it would in his corporate view only make matters worse and cause long term damage to the nebulous concept of community relations in mainstream society. Quite.You can see the problem that the 60 or however many years of self-inflicted post-imperialist ruling class guilt has created for us in normal civil society. We simply can't go around upsetting the acolytes of a stone slab in the middle of the desert. Bummer. Time here in Britain seems to have slowed down. The clock needs winding up again.

fahrenheit451:154

Today is not a good day here in Great Britain.We have suffered yet another Islamic terrorist outrage.Yet more innocent civilian lives have been lost. And there are bound to be another thousand and one blog posts along discouragingly similar lines that have yet to be written at some point in the not too distant future. The usual PC, multiculti #PrayFor #StandTogether hashtags have been enlisted to the cause of appeasement and acceptance. The usual vacuous,sanctimonious platitudes and calls for tolerance and good neighbourliness are out in force. Our enemies are digging our graves for us and our political Class,our metropolitan elites and their commentariat are lining up to ( do what they always do at times like these ),piss on the graves of our own fallen.Because that's the way Western Christian civilisation is supposed to react. Any expression other than a group hug with the adherents of the desert sands death cult is in effect treated and recorded as a " hate crime ". Pathetic. Perhaps the stupid neocons and dimwit Trump might've considered expending 59 missiles against ISIS/DAESH and AlQaeda instead of those who are fighting them. And so it goes...It's not been a terribly good day here in appeasement,Petainist Britain.

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Here's a prediction.It's Nostradamus time again! Just kidding, honest. Yet when it comes to Mainstream Media ( MSM ) reporting these days, Nostradamus is by comparison a pretty reliable source of news. To the matter in hand; the French Presidential elections are up and coming, with the first round of voting on April 23 and the decisive run-off between the two leading candidates from round one on May 7. Marine LePen, the leader of the populist Front National  is going to be one of the two candidates on May 7, she might even emerge however marginally as the highest scoring candidate on April 23. Her long hoped for success will be predicated on the as yet unquantified subterranean  tectonic shift in politics,the same shift that has brought about #brexit in Britain and catapulted Trump into the White House. One thing that is guaranteed to intensify and then go into hyperbolic overdrive between April 23 and May 7 is the collective, voluble hissy fit that's going to bellow forth from the Left all across the decrepit, moribund western faltering democratic world. If #Brexit can lead the largely metropolitan elitist seditionist led, middle class publicly funded careerist professionals and their uni student common room agitators-manque shills to vilify Brexit voters as cretinous subhuman bigots then heaven help those on the receiving end of  what will be a tsunami of unregenerate bile and acrimony heading toward MLP and those who welcome her, let us hope Victory. meanwhile the auguries are set for such a propitious outcome:- Bloomberg Brexit reports from the French heartland,

Haulage companies rely on the open borders and seamless trade that the European Union created. But in France and other wealthier EU states, the drivers they employ are also at the mercy of the low-cost competition from the former communist east that comes with it. Polish trucks alone now account for a quarter of all international road transportation business in the EU. That’s driving down delivery prices for consumers, and also the salaries of an unhappy workforce with few other career options.

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First,the context.A year ago Peter Hitchens, journalist and commentator non pareil wrote the following for Mail Online :-

A THREAT FAR BIGGER THAN PUTIN

 noisy promoters of a ‘New Cold War’ rage and shriek at the wrongdoings of Russia’s Vladimir Putin, even though Russia has no designs on us and poses less of a threat to this country’s freedom and autonomy than Jean-Claude Juncker or Angela Merkel.

How odd that these people seldom if ever say anything about Turkey’s swollen and increasingly dangerous despot, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

President Erdogan, who rules his spectacularly corrupt country from a gigantic new palace, kills his own people by thuggishly suppressing peaceful demonstrations. He hates criticism. His political opponents are arrested at dawn and tried on absurd charges.

He throws journalists into prison and seizes control of newspapers that attack him. He has been one of the keenest promoters of the disastrous Syrian war, which has turned millions into refugees and hundreds of thousands into corpses.

He is an intolerant religious fanatic, and curiously unwilling to deploy his large armed forces against Islamic State. And now he seeks to blackmail Western Europe into allowing his country into the EU and dropping visa restrictions on Turks, not to mention demanding trainloads of money.

If we do not give him these things, then he will continue to do little or nothing about the multitudes of migrants who use Turkey as a bridge into the prosperous West.

And yet for years he has been falsely described as a ‘moderate’ by Western media flatterers, and his country has been allowed to remain in Nato, supposedly an alliance of free democracies.

He is a direct threat to us. Yet the anti-Putin chorus never mention him. Is it because they cannot pronounce his name?  "

Or is it because they have a silly phobia about Russia, left over from the real Cold War, and aren’t paying attention to what’s really going on?

Behold, fast forward a year and Turks are rioting on the streets of Rotterdam having been incited by Erdogan and his cronies.The last few days have seen the Netherlands deny entry into their country by leading Turkish politicians, a similar refusal of permission having previously been enacted by Germany.The faux-casus belli is the imminent referendum on the constitution and extension of presidential powers, being held in Turkey. Turkish Law itself expressly prohibits electioneering abroad by politicians.The particular edict itself is almost uniformly ignored by the very legislators who promulgated it. No matter, what drives the demagogues in the cheap suits to wander all across western europe are the hundreds of thousands of potential voters who retain,in effect, dual  Turkish nationality. Given all the preceding and seemingly ineluctable events involving Erdogan,Syria,the Migrant/Refugee crises,EU accession ,etc. to say that the rioting in Rotterdam is disconcerting is an understatement.  The legions of gastarbeiter / guestworkers who were enticed to pour into the booming national economies of post war western europe have over the decades metastasized into a clear and present existential danger for the hosts. #brexit has for lucky Old Albion presented us with a chance,and a slim one at that, to cauterise and avert to a large degree the unholy cataclysm set to engulf  the PC multiculturalist,neoliberal, globalist Continent. But only by a whisker.

fahrenheit451:126

Contemporary western PC leftist-liberalism has created and is perpetuating a Statist leviathan and a totalitarian ideology. Its ultimate expression is ineluctably economic in its realisation across civil society. Unrestricted labour market competition is represented in official language or newspeak as some wholly specious immaterial notion which they call" equality ". Its most immediate expression is embodied in the EU's " freedom of movement ". This is in practice a neoliberal mechanism that perpetuates the necessary conditions for the existence of a " reserve army of labour " which is a fundamental requirement in order for capitalism to maintain its own existence. There is no intrinsic mystery about the basic laws of capitalist economics.The greater the number of available units of labour ( workers ) you have competing for a finite and decreasing number of job vacancies,the lower the general level of wages needs to be in order to attract applicants.Supply and demand. Helping to naturalise this state of affairs is an ongoing ideological process initiated and conducted by metropolitan academic elites through the various apparatuses of the state which by turn is itself wholly committed to the goals of the hegemonic project of the global corporate ruling elites. And so we come to the political / industrial dispute in which the EHRC is currently embroiled.

The Equality & Human Rights Commission was established in 2007 to help eliminate discrimination, reduce inequality and protect human rights in the UK

( The EHRC has offices in Manchester, London, Glasgow and Cardiff. It is classed as a non-departmental public body (NDPB) sponsored by theGovernment Equalities Office, which is part of the Department for Education (DfE). As an NDPB it is separate and independent from Government but still accountable for its use of public funds. )

EHRC has been accused by a union of targeting disabled and ethnic minority staff after 10 people were sacked by email and given one day to clear their desks.PCS claimed seven of the sacked staff members were of black or minority ethnic origin, and six were disabled

The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union said dismissal at such short notice was "unprecedented" in the civil service and government agencies. However, the staff had previously been threatened with redundancy.

The dismissal, emailed while PCS and United members were striking over cuts to the Commission, said: “I therefore give you notice of the termination of your employment by reason of redundancy…Your last working day will therefore be Friday 10 February 2017.”

PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka called the decision "reprehensible."

“That this has happened at the government body charged with upholding human rights and fair treatment in our society is an absolute scandal and we will continue to fight it," he said. 

The irony in all this, is the role played by the official Trades Union movement which itself is historically tied to implementing the ideological fetishisation of  PC multiculturalism, human rights and the entire farrago of equality for this that and the other personal pecadillo. The time honoured adage "Hoist by their own petard " springs to mind. The busybodies busybody swallowing its own tail ; who investigates the investigators.Who indeed carries out an Inquisiton into the Inquisiton itself?