Karen Buck - arsehole for today

The picture tells the story - only bovine women join the Labour party. The Independent reports that this cow, the Shadow Work and Pensions Minister, also has a bad case of foot in mouth. The eevul savage slashers of the Coalition, it seems:

. . . do not want lower-income women, families, children and, above all, let us be very clear – because we also know where the impact is hitting – they don't want black women, they don't want ethnic minority women and they don't want Muslim women living in central London. They just don't. They want people to be moving out of anywhere that is more prosperous into the fringes of London and into places like Barking and Newham. I have nothing against Barking and Newham. The problem is they are already full of people who are quite poor.

So - despite the evidence to be seen daily at Harrods, Asprey's and similar venues, ethnic minority women are by definition poor; and Barking and Newham, governed by Labour pukes since time immemorial, are shit-holes that nobody should be forced to live in.

Nice one, Karen. You just increased the anti-Labour vote among the majority ethnic voters in your constituency (Westminster North) while insulting the minority ethnic voters. One question: what was it that persuaded you to become a politician?

P.S. Archbishop Cranmer also found the pic irresistible, while drawing attention to the factual as opposed to simply party political imbecility of the silly cow's words.

A boomerang for the multiculties

Oh, this is too good. The Searchlight Education Trust commissioned pollsters Populus to check out popular opinion about immigration and got it up the butt without KY gel. Populus found that 63 percent of white Britons, 43 percent of British Asians and 17 percent of black Britons believe immigration has been a bad thing for Britain.

But the one that must really make multiculty rings sting is that no less than 38 percent of British Asians, more than the 34 percent of white Britons and 21 percent of black Britons, think all immigration should be halted until the economy is back on track. Just over half of the sample agreed with the statement "Muslims create problems in the UK" and just under half would consider supporting a far-right party if it did not promote "facist imagery" or violence.

The Searchlight weenies said the report "paints a disturbing picture of our attitudes towards each other and the unknown". In the foreword to the report, the aptly named Jon Cruddas, one of the Labour pukes who flooded the country with unvetted immigrants to provide clients for their party, multiplied by race-based fraud and corruption, had the almighty gall to write the following: 

Put simply, unless political parties step up and provide a new language of material well-being, of identity and belonging, then these political forces might refract into more malign forms.

Refract, eh? Refraction is the change in direction of an optical or acoustic wave due to a change in speed, typically when entering water. What an unwittingly accurate word to use when writing about opening the floodgates to indiscriminate immigration, overflowing the cup of British tolerance; and to the detriment of the majority of ethnic immigrants, who come here seeking a better life, leaving behind the crime, ignorance and superstition that have made shit-holes of their countries of origin.

Sólo en Inglaterra

The Mail reports the case of 46 year-old Nizar Ahmed, judged by the General Teaching Council to be incapable of ever improving his work, who has become the first teacher to be banned for life due to incompetence.

Ahmed was head of business studies at the John O'Gaunt Community Technology College in Hungerford, Berkshire, from September 2007 to January 2009, when the governors of the school agreed to consider him for a "formal capability process". The process involves setting teachers targets for improvement, but Ahmed resigned.

Despite what would appear to be a tacit admission that he was irredeemable, Ahmed will appeal the decision. "They have made a scapegoat out of me", he said. "I'm deeply unhappy about it and don't deserve to be the first to be struck off for life."

The head of the school said "you can't have pupils disadvantaged by inadequate teaching. They only have one chance at this."

Unlike Nizar Ahmed, who appears to have had an almost unlimited number of chances.

Has the tide of cultural imperialism turned?

When grandees travelled to the provinces of the Roman Empire, they would observe with often ill-concealed scorn how the provincial elite did not just copy metropolitan fashions, but over-did it in their eagerness to show how up-to-date they were. So it has been with the American Empire, with the servile British leading Europe in the rush to embrace whatever pseudo-ideological fad the vast US academic establishment spewed forth, principally political correctness, eek!-o-freakery, and multiculturalism.

When the first British eek!-o-freaks started to get air-time, they even pronounced "pollution" in the American way (pol-oo-shun), and British academics fell over themselves to adopt PC and multi-culty verbiage, some in the hope of getting a much better-paying job in the States, the rest for the same reason the pseudo-ideologies swept through the American academy: they attracted new funding and gave birth to whole new departments.
 
Actually, it all started with the last significant example of reverse cultural imperialism, which was when the American humanities faculties uncritically adopted post-modernism, post-structuralism, and the technique of deconstruction drawn from the convoluted writings of the Jewish pied-noir Jacques Derrida.* Amplified back at Europe through the prism of American power and wealth, it took hold in a manner that it could never have achieved on the basis of its limited intellectual merits. 

Since the majority of academics are possessed of weak, furtive personalities, there was the additional attraction of being able to disguise their mediocrity with impenetrable verbiage, savagely and fairly satirised by the Postmodernism Generator, which produces a completely meaningless and randomly generated essay every time you click on it. Thus also the self-protective language of the other fads that swept across the Atlantic to be embraced by a European academy that abandoned self-respect in the rush to seem up-to-date.  

During the great, American-led economic boom of the twenty years up to 2006, universities over-expanded and faculties filled up with ever more conformist mediocrities, creating a declining spiral of quality and value for money that seems certain, now, to result in a higher education bust. The revelation that the economic boom itself had been in most respects a Ponzi scheme must lead to critical attention being brought to bear by governments, at last, on the poor returns obtained by pumping money into the higher education bubble.

I have previously gloated, more than enough I think, on the hissing sound as hot air leaks out of the climate catastrophist bubble. So it is with great pleasure that I can now gloat over the fact that German Chancellor  Angela Merkel has denounced multi-culturalism for the pernicious, ghettoising, and demoralising cult it has always been. I take further pleasure in underlining that the Merkel link is to a BBC report, since in Britain the Bitchy Boys have been the main multiculty evangelists.

Just a thought - but is it possible that all of this may relate to the fact that American-led liberal imperialism has failed so spectacularly in the Middle East, simultaneously with the failure of the US economy to emerge from the bust part of the last boom-and-bust cycle as quickly it has always done in the past? 

Watch this space. The Brits, of course, will be the last to desert the sinking ship. But if you look carefully, there are signs even in Westminster of doubts whether the "special relationship" is worth the candle. Can intellectual emancipation be far behind?

* Long before that, US sociologists copied not only the ideas but even the badly translated terminology of German exemplars, which has been a stone around the neck of that particular pseudo-science ever since.

Prat's Clegg-fall at the UN

It is hard to select which part of Clegg's address at the UN was more cringe-worthy. It certainly puts him ahead of Jack Straw, who set the previous benchmark for arse-crawling foreign policy statements.

Straw, of course, had the Muslim voters in his Blackburn constituency in mind when, as foreign secretary, he claimed blame on behalf of Britain for the problems of the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent. Nobody in either area even commented on his nostra culpa: unlike the self-abusing Labour pukes, the peoples once part of the British Empire have more important things to do than to wallow in a distant and ambivalent past.

At least Straw's crawl had a strong basis in historical fact. Not so Clegg, who, confronted with the self-imposed mission of crawling up Indian and Muslim arses simultaneously, produced this gem:

Four centuries ago, the great [Islamic] Mughal emperor Akbar was legislating for religious freedom and equality in what is now India [actually conquered northern India, but what the hell], while in parts of Europe heretics were being burned at the stake [there goes the Roman Catholic vote].

Actually, Akbar ruled with much the same indifference to local cults as the British were to do later, although the insensitive British imperialists hanged offenders instead of getting war elephants to step on their heads, and offended against multiculturalism by abolishing suttee and thuggee.

That phrase alone might have won the title for Clegg, but then there was this gem: 

The United Kingdom will also show leadership by example. As fierce advocates of the international rule of law, we will practice what we preach. No nation can insist on the law, and then act as though it is above it.

Nice one. Leadership implies that someone may follow, an optimistic view of Britain's current world status. Plus declaring that Britain acted illegally in joining the Iraq invasion, although consistent with LibDem orthodoxy, is not Coalition policy - the Tories, after all, supported the invasion - and admits a legal liability that the Iraqis, who bear Britain a grudge for surrendering Basra to Shia extremists, may choose to exploit.

And finally there is this POS:

In recent years we have learned – in some cases the hard way – that democracy cannot be created by diktat. Freedom cannot be commanded into existence.

Let's see now: Italy, Germany, Japan are the more screamingly obvious exceptions to Clegg's newly-discovered principle of political science. And what about all those wars of national liberation? Finally, who in his right mind would argue that democracy creates freedom? Unless the rule of the majority is circumscribed by fundamental laws that the majority cannot change - which is not the case in Britain - freedom is an extremely fragile flower that may be trampled at will.

Electoral fraud Part 2

As reported previously, the Labour party in Tower Hamlets turned a blind eye to the registration of phantom voters, bribery and intimidation by Councillor Lutfur Rahman, who thereby won the party nomination as candidate for the Mayor of Tower Hamlets. After all, it worked for them in the General Election, so why not?

Here's why not - Peter Golds, leader of the Conservatives on the Council, today demanded that the police investigate Rahman's breaches of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act. With electric haste, the Labour party's National Executive Committee made the following announcement:

Having received a number of serious allegations concerning both the eligibility of participating voters and the conduct of Lutfur Rahman, the NEC has decided to investigate the allegations made. As a result, administrative action has been taken to remove Lutfur Rahman as a candidate pending the investigation. Nominations for Tower Hamlets mayor close this week and in the circumstances the NEC had no option but to impose another candidate. The NEC has voted to select Helal Abbas Uddin as Labour's candidate.

Abbas Uddin was always the NEC's favourite son, but they were prepared to put up with Lutfur rather than open the can of worms about how Labour keeps itself in power in all its rotten boroughs.

So now their opponents know: it's a waste of time expecting the Labour pukes to show any respect for democracy or civic decency - the only thing that works is the cattle prod of imminent police scrutiny.

A colossus for the Thames

My thanks to The Count for drawing my attention to this. The Telegraph reports that the mayor of Dresden is in Britain to open an exhibition on the bombing of London, her city and Coventry. It seems Dresden and Coventry are now twinned - how sweet. While here, Frau Helma Orosz intends to lobby against the proposed memorial to the Bomber Command aircrew who died during World War II.

My first reaction is: Right after you demolish this vaunting memorial to the U-boat crewmen killed during the war, you presumptuous bitch.

But hey, why not? Starting in 1945 with Air Chief Marshal Portal and Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the architects of the strategic bomber offensive, the British establishment has behaved with consummate shabbiness towards the young men who were the only ones to take the fight to the Nazis before D-Day.

Enough of monuments to dead white males! Better, surely, to spend the money on a colossus to match New York's Statue of Liberty, perhaps bestriding the Thames, representative of modern, multi-cultural Britain.

My suggestion? A mouse-coloured man with his trousers around his ankles, bending over to peer past his flabby buttocks and shrivelled testicles, with the bold motto: Fuck me - I like it.

Never apologise, never explain

Cardinal Walter Kasper, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, has decided his gout will not permit him to join Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Britain because "when you land at Heathrow you think at times you have landed in a Third World country."

Right on, Cardinal K, was my first reaction. For twenty years, whenever I visited Britain from Latin America, I had the same thought. Dirt and litter everywhere, surliness and bad manners ever more apparent, and millions of pounds of ludicrously unnecessary road alterations bearing witness to endemic municipal corruption.

Cue outrage from offended Brits. In response to which the Vatican PR department explained that the cardinal was commenting on Britain's multicultural society.

Ah. So it's the untermenschen he objects to. That makes it all better!