The New Canadians
8 April, 2010
Gay "Rights" Should Not Be An issue In The Election
by Ian R Thorpe
The first stormette of the election campaign has centred on remarks made by the Conservative shadow Home Secretary concerning a complaint made by two gay men against a Christian couple who offer bed and breakfast in their home but refused this couple accommodation because their Christian faith condemns male homosexuality. Having overshadowed real issues like unemployment, immigration, crime and public sector pending in the election news, Grayling's remarks played a big part on the BBC Question Time programme on television lst night.
Labour Foreign Secretary David (Thunderbirds Puppet) Milliband did not want to talk about any of the issues that concern real people and neither did the audience which the BBC had packed with undercover Politically Correct Thought Police agents and People With Beards. They wanted to talk about gay rights, Muslim rights, womens rights and racism. You would think these people all came from a planet where the debt crisis had not happened.
I don't know anything about Chris Grayling but though I'm not a conservative or homophobic and I'm not a Christian either I applaud his statement about the rights of private homeowners who provide b & b. When will all political parties learn to stand up to the whining minorities and their supporters in the Politically Correct Thought Police.
The gay community have whined about their rights so irritatingly and for so long they now enjoy many "rights" not extended to the rest of us. The right for example to piss us all off by talking about their sex lives when people really do not care to hear it. I don't want to know that anybody, male or female, has a sore hole because their partner gave them such a good seeing to last night. Tell a gay man you don't want to hear about the ins and outs of his love life however and you are likely to be accused of being homophobic.
My wife and I did not, when we were younger, entertain people with whom we were only slightly acquainted by providing details of our lovemaking. We may have been into fetishistic dressing up, slathering our bodies in lard and wrapping ourselves in clingfilm or wallowing naked in a bath filled with dead fish. Or we may have been pretty straightforward about it all. It's nobody's business and few people would be curious to know. It's private. Oh but not when gay bloke wants us all to know about his new love, and if you dare to say "Shut the fuck up, I really am not interested, he's going to sue you for infringing his rights. And the Politically Correct Though Police will be on his side.
So far from being an oppressed minority gays are now in fact a privileged elite, not bound by the cultural mores of society.
In the twelve years I've been disabled I have been insulted and offended more by the small number of smug, self righteous, stereotype wielding politically correct idiots who try so very hard and succeed in making me feel like a freak who has to be patronised and belittled than by all the normal people who politely ask if I need any help and when politely told no just leave me to get on with what I'm doing.
Milliband is a knob and he came over as a knob on QT. As much a knob as the New Lab apparachik who used to tell me, "Don't think of yourself as disabled, you're differently abled. What other people do standing up you do from a wheelchair. Sure, like walking ten miles over rough terrain (walking, not being carried by my mates) riding a spirited horse or windsurfing in a force 5. Riing for the disabled or disabled windsurfing does not cut it somehow.
The Politically Correct Thought Police are the most prejudiced bigots of all, prejudiced against those who refuse to obediently wear the identity politics labels they have been assigned.
Before I was disabled my work required me to spend a lot of time on the road and occasionally when visiting remote places I would stay at private house where the owners offered b & b. The point to bar in mind is that it is a private house and one is a guest in a private house and ought not to pick one's nose at the table, make a mess in the bathroom or do anything likely to offend or embarrass the hosts. It is just a question of manners.
Now if the main parties would care to stop lecturing us on minority rights and start to tell us what they plan to do about immigration they might get some of the respect they crave.
6 April 2010
No Child Left Behind - Just £800 million
by fatsally
Everybody has been feeling the pinch this past couple of years so just think how well off we would all be if this government stopped wasting our money! Each party is suggesting the other will bring in the more savage cuts to public spending. But they don't have to cut any necessary spending at all, just stop wasting the money we bung into the kitty via our tax on stupid schemes thought up by The Politically Correct Thought Police...
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5 April 2010
Minimum Wage - Benefits And Costs
by John De Roe
Over the Irish Sea Paddy Healy's Blog sets out to detail some "facts" about the recession. Unfortunately Paddy begings by defending the public sector claiming it is not bloated. Now we cannot speak for Ireland but their economy is similar enough to ours and other European nations in having used the expansion of the public sector to mask the job losses and pressure on the indistrial economy caused by increased automation, globalization and crazy economic policies such as The Minimum Wage and the increase in University places.
Unfortunately the introduction of a minimum wage has always had the effect of increasing deficits and reducing jobs. Go back to the Speenhamland System used in England in the early 19th century which had a disastrous effect on the economy, the result was the same then as now.
It is easy to repeat political clichés about attracting investment to create jobs. But investment in what? People are unlikely to quickly fall for scams aimed at persuading them to go into debt to buy stuff they don't need or really want, the great technology scam of using planned obsolescence to make us scrap and replace our computers, mobile phones, DVD players etc. every two years has been exposed.
Green jobs are a fantasy built on politicians exaggerated expectations of technologies that don't work.
The ruse of keeping people in education longer is another way of delaying economic catastrophe without doing anything to avert it. Both the UK and USA now have too many vitually unemployable graduates because we need engineers, computer professionals, plumbers, carpenters, electricians, contruction tradesmen and factory workers and we have educated people to be media professionals, psychologists, sociologists, creative writers, political scientists and lesiure management graduates. An algortithm will never resolve unless it has two sides and the economies of the west no longer have the balance needed to makethem work.
We, the developed nations, are in far more trouble than anybody is letting on. Mere tinkering with tax rates is not going to solve anything and neither is hiring more public sector employees.
2 April 2010
Is There No Limit To The Arrogance Of Scientists?
John De Roe
Yet another of the government's scientific advisers on drugs has resigned over a matter that is nothing to do with science and everything to do with social policy. This makes eight in total now.
The controversy began last year over the regrading of Cannabis as a Class B restricted drug aftr it had been downgraded to Class C. This upset the scientists who think Cannabis is less dangerous than alcohol or nicotine. Now the row has moved on and is about the decision to crminalise the "legal high" Cat (Mephedrone). The scientists (supporters of the "progressive left to a man or woman) are upset because they think the decision has been made by the government for political reasons.
Of course it has been made for political reasons. That is what politics is about, doing things for political reasons. What I think is really upsetting these se;lf important "scientific advisers is that they gave their advice and it was not acted on, a big blow to their collective ego.
What the fuck is going on. When one is hired as an adviser the task is to study a case and offer informed advice. The hirer is contractually obliged to pay the agreed fe for that advice but not to act on it. These government scientists seem to think their job is to tell the elected government how to run the country. And if their advice is not acted on they stomp of in a strop like pathetic teenagers. They really are getting above themselves.
1 April 2010
Can We Have Our SUV's Back Please...
by Xavier Connolly
Can we have our SUVs back please asks an American writer. No, it is not an April Fool joke
The Daily Stirrer answers, No, and when you see the price fuel is going to be you will not want your SUVs back.
One of the drivers behind the AGW scare was the way we have been misled over oil reserves. There is nowhere near as much left in the midde east as was claimed ergo all the sudden interest in drilling around The Falkland Islands.
The trick (that word again) that was being attempted was to fool us into cutting our usage to “save the planet” so the authorities would not have to admit the Arabs had us over a barrel.
