Well, it didn’t take him long did it? The BBC reports:
If there’s measures to set up some kind of force or to help, say the Italians, set up a force which actually blocks the Mediterranean then we’d support that.
But the only measure, sooner or later, which is going to stop immigration and stop large numbers of sub-Saharan Africans dying on the way to get over here is to get very tough with those coming over.
Frankly, they need to sink several of those boats.
What a pillock.
I’m truly lost for words on this one and completely outraged by it, so I’ll keep it short and simple.
The Telegraph is reporting that Lisa Greenwood, an administrator in the Department of Children, Schools and Families, has lost her job for writing an anonymous message on an internet site at the height of the expenses scandal.
After learning that Hazel Blears had allegedly ‘flipped’ her second home to avoid capital gains taxes, Lisa Greenwood wrote:
“How dare you wave a cheque about on national TV, saying that you are sorry.
You are only sorry that you have been caught. You are a disgrace (including all the other honourable members). Why haven’t you been sacked?”
The message was written anonymously on the “They Work for You” website, but was still traced back to her work computer. She was promptly suspended and then sacked.
Last week Yossarian introduced you to the latest stealth campaign being run by Hizb ut Tahrir: “The SRE Islamic Campaign”. In a nutshell, they’re getting worried about plans to teach ‘sex and relationship education’ (SRE) at school. The co-ordinator is Yusuf Patel, whose brother, Jalaluddin, used to be the leader of HT in Britain. On Facebook Yusuf boasts:
I am leading a national campaign against the plans to make SRE statutory. But I recognise that it does not start and end there.
*(see the facebook group “Rochdale Muslims against sex and relationship education for 5 year old’s“)
In this campaign, Patel lists his aims as being:
OUR VALUES
As Muslims we believe in the primacy of marriage, the prohibition of sexual relations outside marriage, the unacceptability of homosexuality which is often portrayed as a lifestyle choice. We also subscribe to the concept of Hayaa (modesty) which guides the interaction between men and women.
I love the fact this competition always riles the Islamist apologists. This week’s mugshot is of Azad Ali (in case you didn’t know), the jihad loving civil servant who went back to work this week at the Treasury. As ever, captions in the comments section below.
Ain’t he pretty?
The terrible repression of ordinary Iranians and reporters continues unabated in Tehran. The latest news to emerge is that the Canadian-Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari who was covering events for Newsweek has apparently ‘confessed’ to participating:
in a Western media effort to promote irresponsible reporting in Iran.
The whole thing started after Maziar gave Channel 4 News footage of Basiji members opening fire on a crowd of protestors. The Basiji responded by arresting Maziar who has been detaind since June 21. Then, as if right on cue, we have this from Iran’s state sponsored broadcaster Press TV:
…Bahari explained the nature of some of his activities in Iran over the past years and the role that Western media had played in the events, which unfolded in the country.
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Not really, but its a good excuse to post this video…
Here we go folks, captions in the comments box as usual please:
All the news stations seem to be reporting that Michael Jackson has died. A respected celebrity gossip site in America, TMZ, says:
A source tells us Jackson was dead when paramedics arrived. A cardiologist at UCLA tells TMZ Jackson died of cardiac arrest.
We’ve just learned Michael Jackson has died. He was 50.
Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon at his Holmby Hills home and paramedics were unable to revive him. We’re told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back.Once at the hospital, the staff tried to resuscitate him but he was completely unresponsive.
Of course, off-stage Jacko was embroiled in endless controversy and it’s clear he was a man haunted by some dark demons.
Well, you may have noticed that the Friday Caption Competition has been running about as smoothly as the Iranian elections. Last week I simply forgot to run it, D’oh! The week before I left it in the seemingly capable hands of George who, er, ran the Friday competition on a Thursday. Double, D’oh!
I almost forgot today too. But, better late than never.
Ps, this week’s winner has already been predetermined: me.
A member of Muhajiroun trying to enforce segregation earlier today
Well, the debate between Douglas Murray and Anjem “Andy” Choudary was scheduled to take place tonight in Conway Hall, Holborn.
The whole thing was a set up. A press release from the Centre for Social Cohesion explains:
Al-Muhajiroun hijacked the debate, ‘Sharia law vs British law’, which was organised by a student society. Members of the radical organisation responsible for the Luton protests took over the debate: the SIA – licensed security guards were al-Muhajiroun and members of the group attempted to intimidate and segregate the audience…The security guards were members of al-Muhajiroun. The student society had neglected to mention that the event would be segregated. The society’s “independent chair” was involved in the assault. It soon became clear that the student society was, if not a front group for al-Muhajiroun, then at least Islamist-sympathisers hijacked by the extremist group.