Category: Politics

Jam tomorrow – Eurostyle

I won’t bore cherished scientists with the true, Latin origin of this phrase, which Lewis Carroll parodies in Alice,  but let me draw attention to CS Lewis’s Hymn to Evolution –  which I think should become the EU’s mantra:

Lead us, Evolution, lead us
Up the future’s endless stair:
Chop us, change us, prod us, weed us.
For stagnation is despair:
Groping, guessing, yet progressing,
Lead us nobody knows where.
Wrong or justice in the present,
Joy or sorrow, what are they,
While there’s always jam to-morrow,
While we tread the onward way?
Never knowing where we’re going,
We can never go astray.

(to the tune, Mannheim, ‘Lead us, Heavenly Father, lead us’)

A moot point

Our resident lawyer has raised a vital issue:

… how are there going to be ‘British’ embassies to no longer promote whisky? … (whatever name you come up with for the rest of the Disunited Kingdom).

If Nova Caledonia floats away, Britain will be diminished! Britannia’s rump will be……what? Anglia, including West Anglia?

This problem would never have arisen if Victoria’s desire to rename Scotland ‘North Britain’ had been adopted. Britain would now survive any minor pruning by hysterical apostates.

Please submit name suggestions for un-Jocked Britain – there’ll be prizes of course: 1st prize a week in Stirling, 2nd prize 2 weeks in Stirling.

A Michael Caine moment

As a mere Sassenach I’m hardly qualified to draw conclusions but I wonder if Alex the Braveheart realises how much business his Nova Caledonia stands to lose by cutting itself adrift?

The other day a Tory minister let slip that scotch would no longer be promoted by British embassies worldwide. No doubt Irish whiskeys and bourbon would do instead. And an even deeper cut was revealed today: English people consume more haggis than Scots! Which would certainly cease to be the case if Alex prevailed. We’d resort to tripe and onions, Cornish pasties and Eccles cakes.

So be careful, once more, for what you wish for, you apostates.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/9038376/English-eat-more-haggis-than-Scots.html

Democratic Alliance Students Organisation – poster

Driving home this evening an hour on our national broadcaster (SAFM) was dedicated to the controversy that this poster has created.

My wife and I are both members of the D.A. (Democratic Alliance.) I of course had no idea what the controversy was about but had to see what had caused all the fuss.

Does this offend you?

Facebook link and comments

So, I’ll ask the question again, does this offend you?

Update Jan 25 – The ‘controversy’ made front page news in my daily today, I’ve reproduced the article for your further reading…

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Mystified Marxist Mouse

I have recently been involved in an interesting discussion Elsewhere on the subject of Cultural Marxism and the Frankfurt School. Simplistically, Political Marxism morphed into Cultural Marxism from there to Political Correctness and Multiculturalism. Thus Marxism is responsible for all the ills of the Western World today.

But that is just the background. I have made mention on this site that I studied history, and I was intrigued by the views of Marxist Historians. Very simply, it was a way of looking at historical events which gave more importance to underlying socio-economic factors.

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Bugger educating the kids, let’s give the Windsors a little gift

Our wonderful Education Secretary, a minister in HM’s government Michael Gove, has suggested that the nation give the happy couple a gift for the Jubilee this year.

(Hang on, didn’t we have a Jubilee only 10 years ago? Why another one already? He’s nearly dead and she must be getting a little knackered, give her a rest poor love!)

What a lovely thought bless him. So what might that be you wonder?

BBC linky thing here.

Hey – a new yacht costing £60 million. Fantastic idea – especially when cuts are being made everywhere, including the stopping of building any new schools – a policy Mr Gove brought in within minutes of being given teh education portfolio. Continue reading “Bugger educating the kids, let’s give the Windsors a little gift”

A War Monkey Called Sue! (Further adventures on the Internet.)

Yesterday I read Charles Moore’s review of Stephen Spielberg’s latest film, War Horse. Having seen and thoroughly enjoyed the play, which I saw inLondon, 18 months ago, I read the review with some interest. Without going into details,Moore was less than enthusiastic, criticising Spielberg for the gratuitous sentimentality. What was perhaps more interesting, was the comment section, some of which dealt with aspects of the Great War and the vast tragedy attached to it. Continue reading “A War Monkey Called Sue! (Further adventures on the Internet.)”

Be careful what you wish for

Cherished readers from other climes may not fully appreciate the delicacy of this. But it is with some trepidation that I dare to post on the topic of North Britain because a wrong word might lead to a punch-up – or even worse, a Glasgow kiss.

You see the Independent Tendency north of the Border (or perhaps north of Hadrian’s Wall) fancy going it alone in the new, globalised environment. But mine not to reason why they choose now as opposed to some future time when there might just be enough wonga about to pay for it all. They want a referendum in 2014, 700 years after the Battle of Bannockburn, which history records was a defeat for the English. A fitting date, they aver. Continue reading “Be careful what you wish for”

Now that’s my kinda President

Eric Cantona has asked French mayors to back his bid for President of the Republic

That’s the problem with monarchy – we never get a chance to be ruled by a man of the people like Eric. He’s passionate, popular and apolitical and wasn’t a bad footballer either. Angela Merkel would swoon in his presence too. Best of all, if he came across Mandelson he’d kung fu him bigtime*!

* a reference to Eric’s treatment of an abusive spectator when he was red-carded.