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Official crime rate falling? Think again
This may explain a few things:
Feel-good story: burglar is stabbed, his victim receives praise from judge
This is a truly feel-good story – just in time for Christmas, this really warms one’s cockles, doesn’t it? A woman who found herself in the middle of a violent home invasion, and facing the very distinct possibility that her son might have his fingers cut off, grabbed a knife and lunged for the intruder. He got away, but left his blood/DNA evidence behind. Since he was in the system, the police were able to track him down.
Even mainstream left-wingers have no truck with ‘Occupests’
Declaring one’s support for the principles of certain groups can be political suicide. Many a politician has had to learn this the hard way. Naheed Nenshi, the mayor of Calgary, is only the most recent example of a political leader who, either explicitly or implicitly, has backed the wrong horse and seen his approval ratings plummet.
The other one learning this hard lesson now is Britain’s Labour leader Ed Miliband.
Note to Conservatives: Believe in yourselves and your principles
I don’t recall who said it, but it’s been a line going around for some time: conservatives can lead successful governments if they govern as conservatives. If they don’t, they usually won’t stay in power for too long. I’ll take that further and posit that this applies to all types of parties. Parties are elected by people, and people make those choices because they expect certain results. If voters feel that limiting the reach of government is a top priority, they’ll vote conservative. If they want more Big Government and pampering by a Nanny State, they’ll vote for one of the usual suspects on the left.
To protect its sovereignty, Britain must leave the EU
So, you’re a taxpayer, but you don’t mind because you believe that your taxes help to provide essential government services, such as welfare and health care. You understand that people can sometimes fall on hard times through no fault of their own, and when that happens, they need assistance. You’re fine with that. But you get frustrated when some people abuse the system by claiming benefits without ever looking for work, or by feigning disability, for example. Unfortunately, this is the downside of a society built on the idea that those who can’t help themselves must be propped up by the rest. However, even though such abuse can be quite costly, the overall burden still remains but a drop in the ocean when compared to total government expenditure, and some welfare cheats are in fact caught and punished. While not perfect, and nothing in life is, it’s still a fairly reasonable system.
Can David Cameron deliver on conservative promises?
Conservatives aren’t a happy bunch – in Britain, that is. They were hoping against all odds, and with plenty of evidence to the contrary, that David Cameron would ring in a new conservative era in British politics and government. Why did Britons vote Conservative last year? They wanted a government that would take Britain out of the EU, or at least one that would rescind the nefarious Lisbon Treaty, and that would do away with the Big Government excesses of previous Labour governments.
Starkey is right to some degree, but he’s definitely not a racist
Historian David Starkey recently commented on the possible causes of the riots in England, blaming them on what he called the “Gangsta” culture. True to form, lefties, still suffering from the chronic “political correctness” mental disease, were quick to brand him a racist. Nothing could be further from the truth.
British PM calls a spade a spade
Many of us in the common sense elite have at times despaired of British prime minister David Cameron and his increasing move to the soft centre, such as his refusal to stand up to the corrupt, morally and otherwise, eurocrats in Brussels and Strasbourg. But his most recent words of condemnation for the riots that erupted in several British cities have redeemed him somewhat. In fact, when it comes to the social ills in British, or any Western, society, Mr. Cameron has managed to pinpoint all the root problems.
Millions would love to be as ‘poor’ as the British
Surely, you have heard the news over recent weeks about the famine in parts of Africa, and how innocent children die as their parents try to reach help. Do you consider those people poor? No doubt they are among the poorest of the poor on this weird planet of ours. But when you look at the “poor” in Britain, particularly those who lefties say engaged in the horrible riots to protest against their pitiful lot and fight against government and big corporations, do you really think they are “poor”, you know, like those in Africa and elsewhere?
UK riots prove once and for all that there are humans and subhumans
Most of us are fortunate enough to live in democratic countries. No country is perfect, of course, but as long as governments are elected in accordance with the prevailing rules and laws, anyone who doesn’t like the outcome has no other choice, and legal obligation, but to accept it and promise to work harder next time to achieve the desired result. In between elections, citizens are free to organize for or against one party or another, and they can also stage demonstrations or protests to draw attention to their causes. But violence, and crime in general, is not a legitimate weapon in a democracy.
Hacking scandal – don’t throw baby out with the bathwater
What started out as an annoying scandal in Britain has now gripped the entire world. Every newspaper or news organization has been reporting and opining wildly about the hacking scandal involving the now-defunct News of the World tabloid in Britain.
Britain under assault from all sides
If I were a Briton living in Britain today, picking up just one Sunday newspaper, I’d be treated to one shocking article after another, with each thrusting the proverbial fist from within the pages and punching me in the face hard. In fact, it’s so bad that I’d either consider emigrating, and fast, or join some kind of paramilitary organization to wage war against the insalubrious influences on my once-proud mother country. Short of that, this would be the time to put one’s head in the oven and turn up the gas.
The Telegraph exposes Labour’s depravity
Anyone in the habit of shedding tears for the “good old times” when Labour was still in power, while spewing vitriol at the austerity measures implemented by Prime Minister David Cameron, should look at recent revelations about how former PM Gordon Brown wasted £90 billion, and how the anti-Blairites (including current Labour leader Ed Miliband) in the party spent all their waking hours trying to knife Tony Blair in the back even in the immediate hours following the 7/7 bombings in 2005.