Some top quotes this week from the best argument ever against allowing working class people a platform to talk about anything of any kind ever (apart from his ex).
“We believe that the police should be given whatever they ask for” and “we will do [China's] proud, decent, hard-working people no favours at all by [...] constantly abusing their president“.
Christing hell. What is the man on?
This is very wrong.
According to a member of the Scottish Parliament, “this is supposed to be a serious legislative chamber“. Supposed by whom, for God’s sake?
“This sends out a message that we will go after every penny people make from crimes like this,” says a stupid copper on confiscating all the assets of a businesswoman who hasn’t done anything that could sanely be categorised as morally bad.
Oh well. In America they’d probably have hanged her…
This seaman is humourless. Keelhaul him!
OK, so advertising regulators have got different objectives from the Department of Health. Nonetheless, if you’re talking about antismoking campaigns that might actually work, then telling 12-15 year olds that smoking will make you impotent is a fucking good idea, and not one to be roundly stomped on and condemned…
The government black helicopters know what I’m going to do, and they’re coming to get me! I can’t stop them, even if I try and shoot them down (and no, tinfoil hats won’t work).
This particular isn’t Tony great? feature appeared in Friday’s Guardian. It read like an article by a subservient junior Labour MP. Actually, it was by neocon godfather Irvin Seltzler. This identical article, however, appeared on Monday. NuLab accolytes will never let you down, don’t you worry…
Iranian anti-terrorist arbitrary detention laws more lenient than ours? Surprise on a fucking bicycle…
According to Tony Blair, there is “a worrying gap between parts of Parliament and the reality of the terrorist threat and public opinion”.
This sentence is somewhat ambiguous. The context in which it makes most sense is “although parts of Parliament understand how real or otherwise the terrorist threat is, the public are overly terrified about the whole thing”. Pointing this out is a surprisingly candid admission of failure, since Mr Blair’s lies and distortions are the main reason why the public are overly terrified about the whole thing.
The alternative interpretation – that public opinion is in accordance with reality, on this subject or any other – is so patently insane that not even Mr Blair could countenance making it…
