More from the Islands of the Blessed
Although suffering the ravages of crime, at least they have a government that leaves them alone.
Consider the news update site at falklands.gov.fk, which would seem to suggest that the government of the Falklands has inflicted neither press releases nor speeches on the fortunate inhabitants since 17/6/3. And compare that with the output of our rabble, evident at The Government Says. They make me look slack.
Consider the news update site at falklands.gov.fk, which would seem to suggest that the government of the Falklands has inflicted neither press releases nor speeches on the fortunate inhabitants since 17/6/3. And compare that with the output of our rabble, evident at The Government Says. They make me look slack.
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This might appear to be a bit of a stretch, but I don't think it is off topic. Is it just me or does anyone else sense the fine, controlling hand of the British government on the "race row" on Celebrity Big Brother?
It so clearly has absolutely nothing to do with race, but envy. The Indian woman is very pretty, successful, famous and wealthy.
It is insulting to her to boil her personality down to race. She is envied and hated by these other women for what she has accomplished, not the colour of her skin. If she were a successful, very pretty, very famous Australian pop star or actress, they would be calling her an ocker behind her back and mimicking her accent.
This has nothing to do with race yet it is being built up deliberately, against all common sense. I intuit the imminent appearance of some draconian new "race" legislation. It will be introduced because it's "necessary to stop incidents of this type".
Betcha! (And Janet Street-Porter was arrested for allegedly slanging a neighbour with racial epithets.) This slimey government is building up to some controlling and draconian new legislation.
I mean, the prime minister and the chancellor of the exchequer have involved themselves in a cat fight on British television.
Why?
pandering to the lowest common denominator Verity. After all all the Murdoch press are talking about it.
Therefore it must be a matter of national importance.
C - don't be so bashful. Your own posting is epic. You do not rely on thousands of paid skivvy's for assitance. I have lost count of your numbers - are you over 1000 yet?
Yes, but why is "the Murdoch press talking about it"?
This whole thing is manufactured, I am convinced. It is so trivial on such a trivial, silly programme, it is irrelvant, yet the prime minister and the chancellor of the exchequor are busy fluffing out their feathers in outrage. I note that that fat tub of ghee Keith Vaz has involved himself.
My instinct tells me this has been cooked up to serve an interest of this slimey government. I think we can expect new legislation curbing our ability to express ourselves even further. "Race hate" will be redefined in some way.
My father was once the victim of the crime of robbery.
he was say in the trap of a railway lavatory and had hung his jacket over the top of the door (no hook) some batsard grabbed his coat and ran off with it (and his wallet) pretty crappy as it was chilly, but the worst thing was the local rag got hold of the story and he was on the fron page thus
"DISLEY MAN CAUGHT WITH HIS PANTS DOWN"
I cant stand the man but he is funny.
*coughs*
Pter hitchens has a blog up now and its not too obscene, I have already been visited by mad axe man john hirst
no finer reccomendation.
Verity most people are not interested in the truth, they cannot handle it.
Sheep to the slaughter.
I am interested in why the government has taken such an intense interest in a fleabite on junk TV. They either have an agenda and are laying the groundwork for dangerous new restrictive legislation.
Or, they are obfuscating because they're busy digging a grave to bury some something. But this intense interest by a head of government and a chancellor of the exchequer in a silly matter is deeply suspicious.
I would be none too surprised if Blair ended up on reality TV once the speaking engagements have dried up, so I presume he's preparing the ground work. And Brown will say anything if it makes him look 'human'. I very doubt he is aware of any of the contestants in this or previous 'celeb' reality shows. He is, after all, the man with no cultutal hinterlandf, be it highbrow or lowbrow.
No cultural hinterland.
You are correct. He is empty
And this, of course, is the oaf who sports a lounge suit to white tie dinners. Supposedly to show how much a man of the people and how hair-shirted he is, but I consider his chippiness gets as much of an advance warning as the Omar Sharif character does in /that/ scene in 'Lawrence of Arabia'.
I think it is reasonable to worry about big brother. When you talk to people about the government of the country what always strikes me and any canvasser is the extraordinary gulf between the iconography that motivates most people and the issues and policies that are in question . Admittedly that gap has been closed considerably by Blair with his press driven legislation but even that escapes most. Something I always find incredible is the affect of Rasputin on the course of history .The son was a haemophiliac and so Alexandria fell under his spell .The Russian people related t the Tsar as they did to religious icons and this was a large factor in what happened subsequently . It would have been inexplicable to the various brands of Marxists competing for power .
This is why David Cameron and Blair of course say things that often seem to have no sense if you look to hard . They are like pointillist paintings and we are probably standing to close the get the affect. The fact you have to dwell in this world does not make you a bad politician in fact it says very little about you at all. For this reason I don’t concern myself overly about the various images Cameron tries to convey.
Latest news from the Falklands
http://www.falklands.gov.fk/news.php
Last press release is 15 Dec 2006
Damon - yes, I cheated, but if you do not dig around a bit more, the 2003 list is what comes up.
CBB? Just a storm in a teacup, old boy
I am not paying a huge amount of attention to it, but in the interests of research, I held my nose and went to see what the BNP's site has to say about it, and the answer is nada, zippo, zilch, nothing.
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