Uk affairs, The Double Lizzie Crisis (Part 1)

That Nazi one who writes for the Daily Heil has been sacked by LBC.

But not by the Heil.

Imagine undercosting a proposal by 666%.

What kind of breakfast can you get for 25p anyway, I wonder?

A slice of toast with no butter?

Figures compiled by the Education Datalab thinktank showed that even if only one in five of England’s 3.6 million primary school pupils ate just 25p worth of food, the costs for the daily breakfast clubs would cost £100m a year more than the Conservatives’ estimate.

“We think they are under-costing free breakfasts in primary schools by something like a five-fold factor. They say it’s going to cost £60m but we think it’s going to cost something over £200m to £400m,” said Rebecca Allen, the director of Education Datalab.

Nothing like a bit of godwinism on a sunny Friday morning.

So much for tolerance of divergent opinions and freedom of speech.

Katie Hopkins called for a “final solution”, mate.

The Daily Mail did actually support Hitler, by the way.

I know, I saw the tweet. Only she will know if she meant endgame or holocaust.

She knew exactly what it could sound like and had a little giggle to herself. Delighted with herself.

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She made it quite clear what she meant.

UKIP candidate Aidan Powlesland’s election campaign poster. Read the last paragraph.

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I think he may not have fully costed the proposed initiatives.

A wonderful speech by Jeremy Corbyn. Full of compassion and empathy, but cognisant of the total failure of current British foreign policy and making a well-articulated case for much needed change.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb3I7vHwZok

Boris Johnson has predictably steamed in and called the speech “monstrous”.

Except Boris has voiced very similar, more considered opinions in the past.

They were not metics, or the second-class citizens of the Occupied Territories. We cannot build a wall against them, or erect turnstiles on the way into London, foul-smelling pissoirs of the kind that connect the West Bank and Israel. So we have to focus — in the way that only this kind of slaughter can make us focus — on what we should do now to stop people like them hating us so much that they want to kill us. Something so scorched these fools in their young male psyches that they were prepared — in at least one case — to leave wife and child, and to take their own lives and the lives of dozens of other Britons.

In groping to understand, the pundits and the politicians have clutched first at Iraq, and the idea that this is ‘blowback’, the inevitable punishment for Britain’s part in the Pentagon’s fiasco. George Galloway began it in Parliament; he was followed by Sir Max Hastings, with the Lib Dems limping in the rear. It is difficult to deny that they have a point, the Told-You-So brigade. As the Butler report revealed, the Joint Intelligence Committee assessment in 2003 was that a war in Iraq would increase the terror threat to Britain. Anyone who has been to Iraq since the war would agree that the position is very far from ideal; and if any anti-Western mullah wanted a text with which to berate Britain and America for their callousness, it is amply provided by Fallujah, or the mere fact that Tony Blair cannot even tell you how many Iraqis have been killed since their liberation — only that the number is somewhere between ten and twenty thousand.

The question is what action we take now to solve the problem in our own country, and what language we should use to describe such action. The first step, as we swaddle London and Yorkshire with Police/Do Not Cross tape, is to ban the phrase ‘war on terror’, as repeatedly used by G.W. Bush, most recently on 7 July in Edinburgh, with Blair nodding beside him. There is nothing wrong in principle in waging war on an abstract noun; the British navy successfully waged a war on slavery, by which they meant a war on slavers. But if we continue to say that we are engaged in a war with these people, then we concede several points to the enemy, and set up a series of odious false equivalences.


There has been a fatal elision between the ‘war on terror’ and the campaign to democratise the Arab world, and many Muslims can be forgiven for thinking that this is really a war to democratise the Middle East in the interests of General Motors, evangelical Christianity, Hollywood and global pornography. No wonder they dislike it; and if we use the vocabulary of war, it gives the maniacs all the more excuse to wage war on us. When Bush said, ‘If you are not with us, you are against us,’ and then invaded Iraq on charges that were frankly trumped-up, he co-opted tens of millions of Muslims into the camp of his enemies, even though they might loathe Saddam. They had nowhere else to go.

Worst kind of apologism. Nauseating. Is the war on terror, Iraq 2003, the reason for muslims blowing up and killing non muslims in the Phillipines, Egypt, Indonesia recently? Trying to find excuses to rationalise their behaviour, always a quest for nuance, it’s brutal.

Worst kind of political commentary from you there.

Ignore what Corbyn said, twist it to try and make it look he said things he didn’t say, introduce red herrings to mask your lack of a point.

Deal with the points Corbyn made and stop deflecting to mask your lack of an argument.

Oh, and you’ve just absolutely trashed Boris Johnson, who is only the Foreign Secretary.

Corbyn is a filthy scumbag, typical lefty traitor, blaming foreign policy for muslim atrocities, these filth want to destroy western values and society wIth their backward ideology, Andrew Neil eviscerating him now on BBC1

Corbyn getting slaughtered here :joy:

Corbyn’s IRA past catching up with him now :joy:

this is absolutely brilliant, someone needs to get corbyn out of there

this is actually embarrassing now, corbyn lying through his teeth

this is as good as a filleting as you will ever likely witness

Jeremy Corbyn is a good guy.

I’d love to see him get into no 10.

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Mrs Brasier is just woeful. Michael Gove was the only man for that vacancy when it arose.

CUP running a much better campaign in Scotland. Ruth Davidson is playing a blinder and gave that bluffer Sturgeon a right hiding in the Scottish leaders debate the other night.