A TANGLED WEB

THE CON-SERVATIVE CAMERON...

Well now, hasn't "Call Me Dave" Cameron gotten himself into a real mess following his ever-so-clever idea to abandon English Grammar Schools in order to win plaudits for the left? Faced with a continuing revolt among MPs and grassroots Tories, David Willetts, the education spokesman, has announced that in some specific areas, new grammars could be built after all.  Two weeks ago Mr Willetts and Mr Cameron said selection by ability did not work and that no more grammar schools would be built under a Tory government.

Listen, I couldn't be more pleased than to see Cameron swing on this. His betrayal of our Grammar's is symptomatic of his more general betrayal of Conservative values. This man is a Vichy Conservative, and he has been destroying the Party that he leads. As if you needed any further evidence of Cameron's true values, just consider the fact that he has appointed former editor of the "News of the World", Andy Coulson, as their head of communications and planning. The "News of the World" is a scumbag rag. The fit with Cameron is perfect.

QUESTION TIME WATCH...

Did you happen to watch BBC Question Time last night? The panel were awful, even by Question Time standards. All shades of political opinion were on display, so long as they were LEFT!

Pompous old Labour buffoon Lord Roy "the boy" Hattersley was there, large as life and twice as useless. The oddly moon-faced Liberal-Democrat Sarah Teather was shockingly bad, preening her inept liberalism as if it had any value! Then we had Greg Dyke, former BBC Director General, who earned HIS liberal credentials by describing the BBC as "hideously white". (Whereas Dyke is just, erm, hideous!) We had the token Tory - the drippingly wet Caroline Spelman, who did not leave me spellbound! And finally, we had TV historian Simon Schama - presumably they could not get a left wing enough comedian?

Anyway, they all started off by universally condemning Grammar Schools. The consensus was that it would have been better if Grammar Schools did not even exist, so ALL kids could be MADE to go to their ideologically acceptable Comprehensives  i.e. Schools that comprehensively fail. Spelman's defence of Cameron's Grammar School problems was hilarious to watch- she was a complete hypocrite.

Then they all got stuck into the "folly" of the UK having soldiers in Iraq. In essence, they all agreed we needed to get our soldiers out of there asap. The consensus was that removing Saddam was a huge error, better to have left him in situ. One member of the audience suggested that we also needed to urgently apologise to Syria, Iran and surrounding countries, and...surprise...we need to deal with the "Palestinian question" before any peace can be achieved. 

Pure Moonbattery from start to finish. No one defended Grammars, no one defended our mission in Iraq - this was a hideously liberal programme from start to finish.

GAMBLE'S GAMBLE...

Those who prey on children should be locked up, as a minimum. Paedophilia is a gross crime and any of us who have kids must recoil at the very thought of it! However, the UK Police's Child Protection Chief thinks otherwise. He reckons that child sex offenders should be encouraged to seek treatment rather than be threatened with jail. Jim Gamble, of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), said it was a practical way of dealing with the scale of the problem. He believes that treating some paedophiles in the community is a sensible way of reducing harm.

This is just more bleeding heart liberal claptrap. Those wretches who would prey on our kids MUST be locked up, so they cannot access children for their wicked ways. Gamble seems to suggest that those who are caught looking at images of kids on the internet for their sexual gratification would do better with a community service rather than a penal sentence. Wrong. The intent is there, and if they are treated with the traditional kid gloves, one day they will come for our kids in 3D, not just on a computer screen. Sorry, but locking them up - in a harsh prison environment is the right thing to do. Gamble should resign, his views are out of synch with what people want, I believe.

FIVE GEARS IN REVERSE!

DID you read that less than one week after he urged the German Army to play a more active role in resolving regional conflicts and fighting terrorism, Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung has said Germany would begin as early as December.....to withdraw troops from Bosnia and Herzegovina, a former republic of Yugoslavia that was ravaged by civil war from 1992 to 1995! That's the way to do it - forward but only in reverse gear!

NOSES IN THE TROUGH...

Anyone who doubts that the political class are akin to pigs with their snouts in the financial trough of taxpayer largesse should reflect on the news that  Jack Straw, the Leader of the Commons, will propose handing every MP a communications allowance - which could be worth around £10,000 a year. MPs are expected to approve the plans, which are set to cost taxpayer's more than £6.5m a year and then agree how much to pay themselves in meetings behind closed doors.

I fully agree with th observation that  Straw's proposals are an admission of failure by Commons authorities who have seen postage expenses serially abused by Labour MPs in marginal constituencies - who have been accused of spending taxpayers' money on party propaganda.

Eighteen Labour MPs spent more than £10,000 on postage last year and 11 of them were fighting to save their seats. Under the plans, all MPs will get the 'communication allowance' for newsletters and other political information on top of the existing postage allowance.The amount they can spend on postage will then be capped at £7,000. However most MPs will just claim the maximum allowance, meaning the total bill could rise to around £17,000 for each MP, rather than saving money.

And of the 20 MPs who claimed more than £10,000 in postage costs, who are the WORST offenders?

1. Andrew Dismore, Labour, Hendon, £25,146 -

2. Siobhain McDonagh, Labour, Mitcham & Morden, £22,339.

3. Bill Rammell, Labour, Harlow, £18,267.

4. Liam Byrne, Labour, Birmingham Hodge Hill, £18,212.

5. Jacqui Smith, Labour, Redditch, £16,458,

Socialism in action - spend spend spend - just so long as it is someone else's money.

THE MOONBAT FRONT...

So what do YOU think of the news that the UK government could be facing the prospect of a Commons defeat if it refuses to hold a wide-ranging inquiry into the Iraq war and its aftermath?

The Conservatives say they might vote with the vehemently left wing Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru, who have tabled a motion backing a "parliamentary investigation!. Tuesday's debate will be the first full Commons debate on Iraq since July 2004.

From my point of view, it shows the moral bankruptcy that lies, and lies, at the heart of contemporary British politics. The SNP and Plaid Cymru are both sick political jokes, with their petty little nationalism driving their every move. For the Conservatives to even consider supporting such a ragbag collective shows the sorry state of that Party, led by uberliberal David Cameron.

We do NOT need "a wide-ranging enquiry" into the decision to liberate Iraq and cage Saddam and his terror-supporting regime. Britain did the RIGHT thing by supporting the US led invasion, and my ONLY criticism is that we did not allow our military to overwhelmingly destroy the enemy - but then again, that was because we listened to liberals.

The anti-US hard left, of which the SNP and CP are key members, cannot countenance the fact that we went to war with the States to remove a tyrant. They opposed this decision long before it was taken. So what? Who cares what they think - unless you are a complete moonbat. But when the Conservatives line up to support such lunacy, I think we can conclude that they have well and truly lost the plot - and are now arguing for the de facto retention of Saddam and his genocidal regime. Sad, isn't it?

THE STERN GANG...

Just back to ATW central after a little break and I see that the sky is about to fall in all our all heads!!! Or at least that is what we would conclude if we swallowed the guff trotted out by the Government appointed Sir Roger Stern, the latest recruit to the "We're all doomed" global warming hysteria gang.

According to Sir Roger, global warming could shrink the global economy by 20%.  But taking action now would cost just 1% of global gross domestic product, the 700-page study says. Tony Blair, responding to what his Puppet says informs us that scientific evidence of global warming was "overwhelming" and its consequences "disastrous".  According to David Milliband, the "debate" on global warming is OVER, and the only way forward is...to RAISE taxes! LOL - what a nonsense this all is. I enjoyed Melanie Phillips in the Mail today exposing Stern's fraud...

As the distinguished American meteorologist Professor Richard Lindzen observed last weekend, the computer modelling performed at the Hadley Centre, one of Britain’s most vociferous proponents of man-made climate change, was seriously at odds with the actual warming that was taking place.

The facts are that the rise in temperature over the past century, 0.6C (plus or minus 0.2C), is unexceptional; and that clouds and water vapour are far more significant presences in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide.

Yet this is an issue where ideology is simply driving out evidence. Sir Nicholas will apparently highlight the threat of catastrophic rises in sea level. But according to the IPCC, the seas are not rising. Although they were higher in the last century than in the previous one, it says in its Third Scientific Report: ‘No significant acceleration in the rate of sea-level rise during the 20th century has been detected.’

Attributing global warming to anthropogenic activity is just another scam for lefties to CRANK up your taxes, to try and limit where you can travel, and to punish you for driving a car bigger than a kettle on wheels. Contrary to Blair, Milliband and Stern, the DEBATE is just starting, and the apostles for global apocalypse need to find some science to back up their wild claims.

Talking Point - 29.10.06

'If the UK ceased all CO2 production tomorrow, China would surpass our average annual output in only 79 days.  Proof that 'green' issues are about fleecing the UK public, not saving planet Earth'.  Discuss.

SEEING THROUGH THE VEIL....

How interesting. You will all remember the recent furore concerning Aishah Azmi, the Muslim teacher who insisted on wearing a full face veil in class and who found subsequently herself in the middle of a national row about integration when she took her school to an employment tribunal after it suspended her for refusing to remove the Islamic mask in class.

Ms Azmi insisted it was her RIGHT to don the mask of Islam. Many lemming-like liberals rushed to support HER decision.

EXCEPT it now transpires that she had  received a fatwa, or religious ruling, from Mufti Yusuf Sacha, a Muslim cleric in West Yorkshire and so she was only following Islamic orders.

It appears that in the fatwa Sacha issued to Azmi he ruled that it was obligatory for women to wear the niqab (face-veil) in the presence of men who were not their blood relatives. Sacha is one of several hundred Islamic clerics in Britain with the status of mufti, entitling him to issue fatwas based on Islamic law. Although Muslims are expected to follow fatwas, they are not obliged to do so, particularly if they live in a non-Muslim state. But it's a good idea if they do - if you catch my drift.

Let's leave Azmi aside - she has gained enough publicity. It's this Yorkshire Mufti - and those other hundreds like him, that we need to focus our attention on. These guys are seeking to operate a form of Shari'a law in OUR country. They are the de facto formentors of upheavel, of the advance of a more militant form of Islam that will not integrate but which prefers to subjugate. Are they not the enemy within - and why do we so tolerate them?

They are turning thousands of British Muslims into radical fanatics who have no regard for our laws. Therefore, should we not just either deport these clerics from whence they came from -assuming some of them have not been born here - or lock 'em up until they swear loyalty to British law? Time for a Fatwa against all fatwas?

Too draconian for you? Mmm..in a war you have to make tough decisions. And these Muftis ain't listening to reason...

PRESCOTT TO THE RESCUE...

Not only is John Prescott the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, he is also a man whom Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have publicly described as "indispensable."

To the rest of us, he is lecherous moron who has brought shame on the office he occupies.

And as if we needed ANY further evidence of the monumental ignorance of this buffoon, we read today that he has been praising Malaysia's Muslim-dominated regime for its "success" in achieving "peaceful co-existence" between religious groups. As John puts it...

"I've come to Malaysia, not just to represent my government - but also to listen and to learn about your approach to achieving peaceful co-existence in your communities"

And just how does Malaysia achieve this alleged state of Nirvana? Well, listen to the head of the country's religious police, Mohammed Zin Dollah, who openly admits detaining Muslims who stray from Islam and making them read the Koran every day. He said: "They are brainwashed to become better Muslims."

But these injustices are as nothing compared to the persecutions suffered by the minority Hindus who have watched to 15,000 of their temples swept away to build new roads, offices and apartment blocks. As Western Resistance points out, Malaysia IS a Muslim tyranny. Read the details here. And yet, the UK's Deputy Prime Minister applauds it as a model we can all learn from - and the majority of the UK remains mute on his gaffe.