IT SEEMS RACISM IS OK IF YOU HAVE AN ELECTION TO FIGHT
Posted by Caledonian Jim in Daily Posts
Under-pressure UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown (pictured above) yesterday outlined plans to tighten Britain’s immigration rules by reducing the number of professions which can recruit from outside Europe and limit the numbers coming in to the country on student visas. In his first significant speech on immigration since taking office, the PM also stressed that the case for managed and controlled migration was not an issue for “fringe parties nor a taboo subject” but about what it means to be British, and said reforms introduced since the start of his tenure had made current laws more responsive to new global trends. Amazing what the threat of impending electoral disaster can do to convince New Labour to ditch puerile political correctness, isn’t it ? At any other time and if any other political party suggested such a move, the New Labour chattering classes would be breathlessly bleating about alleged racism and Islamophobia. In some ways, their cynical U-turning is even more obnoxious than the right-wing British National Party’s subliminal fascism.
But Gordon’s not the only man under pressure. The Archbishop of Canterbury has pleaded with the Church of England’s Anglo-Catholics to resist the temptation to convert to Roman Catholicism over women bishops. Dr Rowan Williams (pictured above) admitted yesterday that the future of the Anglican Communion looked “chaotic and uncertain”. Preaching in London, he said: “God knows what the future holds.” But he said that it remained possible to be at once holy, Catholic and Anglican.
Dr Williams did not refer directly to the response from former Hitler Youth and Nazi anti-aircraft gunner Pope Benedict XVI (pictured above) to requests from some Church of England bishops and traditional Anglicans around the world for a means of admission to the Roman Catholic Church. But earlier this week the Vatican published a papal decree, setting out the norms for a new “Anglican Ordinariate”. This will allow Anglo-Catholics to become Roman Catholics while still retaining their liturgies and other aspects of their Anglican heritage. Farcically, the new ordinariate is likely to be named after the late Cardinal John Henry Newman, the homosexual Roman Catholic convert from Anglicanism who is to be beatified when the Prussian Pontiff visits Britain next year. What a load of ecclesiastical bollocks these dreary, self-indulgent, cross-dressing religious pantomimes are. But then again, Dr Williams, it just goes to show that if you keep making speeches advocating the introduction of Sharia Law, your deluded adherents will eventually prefer even the illusory doctrinal safety of a misogynist Rome-based international paedophile ring to your own divided Church of England. Bless.
Even the police (pictured above) are under pressure. Rude and sarcastic police officers are to get a lesson in manners after a surge in complaints about incivility. Police Chiefs have singled out officers who swear at members of the public and ordered them to attend a training course to make them more polite. Hundreds of officers and 999 call handlers from Greater Manchester Police have been sent on the course to learn to “mind their Ps and Qs”. The worst culprits in the riot squad and drug-fighting teams have also been given lessons in deportment and told how to stand at a person’s door without “acting overbearingly”. But the courtesy course has angered many officers who claim they are being forced to act like “Mary Poppins” when dealing with thugs. Hmmm…… well it’s good to know our policemen are going to be polite and gentle from now on – but a word of caution to any young lads going out for a few beers that get lifted for drunk & disorderly in Edinburgh or Glasgow over the weekend and expect “Constables’ Customer Service” – don’t hold your breath !
The rising cost of energy (above) – also known as the great energy rip-off. British Gas is reportedly on course for a 50% rise in annual profits, taking them above £500 million, after denying price cuts to customers. The UK’s biggest supplier is cashing in after refusing to pass on big falls in the wholesale price of energy to its 15.7 million customers. The news came the day after Scottish & Southern Energy (SSE) revealed a 36% increase in its profits for the past 6 months. Other major UK energy suppliers, which are owned by the Germans, French and Spanish, are also cashing in from these controversial tactics. Wholesale gas and electricity prices have fallen by more than 50% since their peak in the summer of last year – but domestic bills are down by an average of just 4%. Amazing – hard to believe these arrogant, profiteering sods allowed any reduction. And what is the government doing about this situation ? Naff all, as usual.
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Voter turnout, at 33.2%, was a record low for a Scottish by-election.
A truly shocking statistic made even worse by the state of this particular constituency and the poverty of ambition that resides there. the lack of aspiration, an acceptance of their lot and the willingness to continue to vote for a party that has failed the area so miserably is an affront to those that have fought & died to give us these freedoms.
The inability to imagine change, to envision real improvement and that this area can really improve has been shown to be completely missing from Glasgow North East and must surely be a matter of concern for all political parties and in particular the Labour Party who have represented these people for so long.
Will anything change, I doubt it.
It will take big ideas to change Springburn and no party offered that change during this campaign, no-one other than Tommy Sheridan offered an alternative vision to the failure of the last twenty five years and yet the voters flatly rejected that vision in favour for a campaing run negatively with no real policy content.
NB It would be interesting to see the demographic of those that voted, Glasgow City Council reported over 6000 registered postal votes, which accounts for 30% of votes cast, surely some kind of record in there too.
PS Just how much like the emperor in starwars can the pope actually look?
Equally chilling is the revelation that over 4000 extra voters have been added to the electoral register in the last month, accounting for 25% of those that voted.