Petition to oppose political correctness

It’s a bit late in the day now, but here is a petition for parliamentary candidates to sign stating their opposition to the political correctness which has brought our country so low.

The party which shines brightest is UKIP. There are plenty of good statements worth reading there, including:

“I’m not a……sorry, force of habit. Most things people say these days starts with those words. I’m sure signing this will make me an ‘ist’ of some sort or guilty of some form of ‘ism’ that will alert Blair & Brown’s Thought Police to my need for re-education but what the heck. I’ve saved up really, really hard and I can now afford to switch the heating on between 3.15 and 3.37pm as a treat so I’m in a good mood. Just contemplating where I’m going to emigrate to on Friday should THEY get back in again. Got to go, there’s a knock on the door…..”

Bryce Mailer

“UKIP Parliamentary Candidate.
Political Correctness is downright divisive, dangerous and offensive to millions of British citizens. PC nonsense is fuelling growing resentment, anger, hatred and tensions between communities and should be completely outlawed. A UKIP Government and UKIP run councils would ban all forms of political correctness and close all national Government, local Government and quango PC posts and positions. The PC Brigade gravy train wouldn’t be so much derailed but more blown completely off the tracks! Destroy now!”

Steve Grey

I think we will indeed see a big increase in emigration of all the people we most need to stay here if Labour are re-elected. I would certainly look at the option seriously: an already sinking ship would have just had its sails removed and a hole blown in its side. No point hanging around to watch the demise. This is the chance to save the UK, right here, right now.

Fixed voters

You sometimes hear people say, on vox pops, “I’ve always voted Labour so I’ll vote Labour again this time”. Or – even more idiotic – “I come from a Labour voting family: me granddad voted Labour, me Dad voted Labour so I’ll vote Labour too. I just can’t imagine voting for any other party”.

What people are saying, of course, is that they do not possess the critical faculties to assess party policies for themselves. The Appeal to Tradition is sufficient for them.

In the case of Conservative voters, such blind allegiance is also regrettable, but in this case at least the ideology is, I believe, better. Socialists often try to pass off their position as altruistic and morally superior, whereas I believe they are more often driven by envy, bitterness and a “hard-done-by” mentality. If they cannot be successful they want nobody to be successful, or – at least – they want to reap the benefits of others’ success. (Among these I do not count “Champagne Socialists” and “Limousine Liberals”, who are hypocrites  – often thespian – with unnecessary guilt complexes.) The self-made millionaire and entrepreneur Duncan Bannatyne, for example, faced hostility from many among his northern roots, despite creating 3,000 jobs for the country having started with only an ice-cream van and the determination to work very hard.

In fact, in Britain -  a country where it is impossible to do anything, no matter how heinous, that will cause the state to abandon you (let alone put you to constructive work in a chain gang) – people are not as deprived of opportunity as they often like to think.

Brown’s gaffe

Gordon Brown has made the mistake of calling one of his own supporters a “bigot” while he thought his mic was off because she was rightly concerned about Labour’s open door immigration “policy”.

This incident is quite revealing, I believe, because it shows not only that Mr Brown says one thing in public and another in private (as we might have presumed), but it also shows us how detached from reality Mr Brown is regarding the issue of immigration that he could consider someone with her valid complaints “bigoted”. It shows us that Labour still hasn’t changed its crazed position on immigration (or, probably, multiculturalism) at all.

To me it is not so important that one thing is said in public and another in private. I believe it is of importance what is said in each situation. While we should be as consistent as we can be, most if not all people speak somewhat differently depending on who they are with. Diplomacy is sometimes called for in a public situation where there are other costs at stake, but one would hope that the speaker’s genuine position, when in private, would be the right one. In this case it was the wrong one, and that’s what principally concerns me – especially as Mr Brown is in a position to actually realise his plans (or lack thereof).

Brown’s method of dealing with this faux pas was also dishonest, and this was entirely public. He claimed to have misunderstood the woman, claimed that what he said in the car was not his genuine position. Both of these claims are most likely false. He also said he apologised if what he said has been offensive, which is not the same thing at all as saying “I’m sorry for what I said”. Furthermore his initial response was to say he would not willingly have put himself in a position where had to say something like that about someone – undoubtedly his most truthful comment and of course not an apology but rather an expression of exasperation.

No public figure is lauding it over Mr Brown too much, because everybody knows this is something most people do, and they might themselves be caught out in the future, but the fact remains that although people claim to want leaders who are “like them” they really mean only like their good points. Really they want Kipling’s impossible If character. Nonetheless this incident will undoubtedly damage Brown severely at the polling booths, where he was already going to do badly.

If he cared about the party Mr Brown would resign at this point and insert someone such as David Miliband in his place. I’m not very keen on Miliband but he would stand a better chance than Brown in the election. But he will not resign because – unlike Nigel Farage, for example – he cares more about his own success than that of party policy. Ironically this will probably cause him to suffer the humiliation of one of the greatest Labour defeats in political history.

One effect of this incident is that it deprives us of knowing just how heavily Labour would have been defeated on May 6th had the incident not occurred. Quite heavily, I dare say – I believe their vote now comprises almost entirely of benefits recipients and those who are opposed to traditional British cultural identity. But with the addition of this gaffe it is now highly likely that Labour will trail in third place after the Liberal Democrats, as many who would have voted for them now vote Liberal – and this will change our political landscape.

I will still be voting for UKIP, however if hearsay is anything to go by my vote will count for nothing, because I am voting by post and they say Labour have those votes rigged. It wouldn’t surprise me.

Forthcoming election

Many people remain unimpressed by any of the “main three” candidates for the forthcoming election. Brown has allowed incompetence and corruption within his party and almost every decision Labour makes seems to be wrong. Cameron comes across as somewhat slippery and fake and you have no idea what he really stands for. Clegg and the liberals come across as naïve. So who’s left?

As Pat Condell urges here, you should vote with your conscience. Vote for the only credible party whose aim is for us to gain control of our country again. Go out and vote UKIP on May 6th. That’s what I will be doing.

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An example of biased journalism

Radio Netherlands website has run an article on the popularity of Geert Wilders in that country, heavily biased against him, of course. I have “marked” the article here, supplying corrections which will expose the politically correct bias which is sadly evident across all of Europe’s mainstream publications:

“And the winner is… Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party. As elections are held for the country’s municipal councils in the Netherlands, it is already clear who will come out ahead. We need not wait for the ballots to be counted.

Right-wing populist Rising star Geert Wilders, pictured above casting his vote in The Hague this morning, has managed to dominate the agenda appealed to voters once again. Everyone’s talking about immigration, integration and Islam – the Freedom Party’s main issues. Evidence? Or they are talking about the Freedom Party (PVV) itself, and whether it should be ruled out of potential coalition talks due to allegedly racist standpoints. ? You tell us.

30,000 votes
The Freedom Party’s hold (Like a stranglehold? Nobody is forcing people!) on the Dutch national attention is the more remarkable given that it is taking part in only two of the 394 municipalities holding elections on Wednesday. About four percent of the Dutch population will be able to cast a vote for the Freedom Party. Good..

The municipal councils in these two cities, The Hague and Almere, right now are divided between 12 and 10 parties, respectively. The Freedom Party could become the biggest party in Almere with just 30 percent of the vote. Plus, turnout for local elections is always low. Good – reporting facts, avoiding blatant bias..

Add up all these factors, and about 30,000 votes for Mr Wilders’ party will make him the hands down winner on Wednesday. Can you be sure? What leads you to this conclusion?

All politics are national
Wednesday’s local elections were on the calendar long before the fall of the cabinet ten days ago. Local elections are always seen as a barometer for national politics, this time more than ever.

In the wake of the cabinet’s collapse (after failing to agree about extending the Dutch mission to Afghanistan), national elections have been called for 9 June. Wednesday’s municipal elections are the kick-off to what will be an intense three-month campaign.

Geert Wilders currently has nine seats in the lower house of parliament (out of 150), but his party has been polling much higher for the last year. The Freedom Party could become one of the largest, if not the largest party in The Netherlands.

And that on the basis of 20 percent support, due to the fractured nature of the Dutch electorate.

Wilders already in the driver’s seat
That steady support for Geert Wilders means that he is already much more influential than he was before the fall of the cabinet. The Netherlands is now being governed by a caretaker government. The cabinet must defer to parliament much more so than under normal circumstances. But not only is the current parliament more powerful – the wishes of potential coalition partners in the next government are also taken into particular account. No one wants to make policy that will be reversed after the next election.

So Mr Wilders’ current nine seats in parliament have already grown in influence in a certain sense, if not – yet – in number.

Proof in the pudding
Of course, many question the Freedom Party’s ability, or even its willingness, to govern. Who? Who questions this? It is not enough to merely cite “many” Taking populist standpoints Risking one’s life on principle is easier than making policy. A number of PVV policy proposals would be difficult to implement, but are attractive to some many voters: a ban on Muslim headscarves in public buildings, eliminating the fee for residential parking permits and eliminating the tax on dog ownership.

And that leads to another reason why Wednesday’s municipal elections matter. For the first time, in Almere and The Hague, the Freedom Party may be in a position to leave the opposition benches behind, and join the government. Governing at city level is not unlike governing at the national level – it involves forming coalitions, and making compromises.

Wednesday’s elections will tell us a lot about the state of play in Dutch national politics.”

6/10 Not too bad – some facts in here, but readers will be able to see your extreme liberal bias. You present Wilders as though he is some kind of villain, without giving any reasons why he should be seen as such. Stick to the facts.

Daniel Hannan on elephants

An unusual title you might think – here’s his blog article and speech. I note this because Hannan is quite politically incorrect (often a sign of an intelligent mind) and points out what I will coin as the “Liberal Fallacy” – namely thinking that just because you see things a certainly way then surely everybody else around the world must see them that way too (especially given half the chance). It ain’t necessarily so, as Hannan points out with regard to Africans in this case.

He also quotes Aristotle (“That which nobody owns nobody will care for.”). I have a lot of time for Aristotle’s ethics and this quotation immediately put me in mind of the council housing up my street which is strewn with rubbish and never maintained by the residents. No further evidence of the truth of this remark is required, I think.

I met Mr Hannan last night and he is certainly an extremely eloquent speaker, and well educated. He endorsed Theodore Dalrymple’s observation that the removal of personal responsibility has led to considerable societal disintegration in the UK. One to watch, as pheonixes may one day (we can hope) rise out of the ruins of Broken Britain and start about the repair process.

Pat Condell on Geert Wilders’ trial

Pat says it all, as usual, and very well indeed:

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Quick letter to NSS

“Geert Wilders (currently on trial for telling the truth in the Netherlands) has again been invited by members of the House of Lords to come and show his short film Fitna there.

The Telegraph reports here that Lord Ahmed has again threatened to mobilise 10,000 Muslims to block Mr Wilders from entering the House of Lords. If this is true then Lord Ahmed should be arrested for breach of the peace. I’m tired of this man’s threats.

Best regards,

Gavin Orland”

Geert Wilders coming to London again

Breaking news: Geert Wilders MP, currently being tried for speaking the truth in the Netherlands, has announced his intention to travel to the UK again to screen his short film Fitna.

Mr Wilders has again been invited by Lord Pearson and Baroness Cox and will travel to London to show the film in the House of Lords on 5th March.

Dr Goebbels describes propaganda

Joseph Goebbels understood propaganda. Here he describes propaganda methodology in a way that seems also to describe the policy of the government and the BBC here in the UK. For example, they are both devoted to the ideology of multiculturalism despite mounting evidence of its inherent problems, and both repeatedly tell us that Islam is a religion of peace, despite considerable evidence to the contrary.

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

- Joseph Goebbels, Reichsminister of Propaganda, Nazi Germany

This is an extremely interesting quotation at this point in time, because right now the political, economic and military consequences of various leftist ideological “lies” are now indeed becoming undeniable. The topsy-turvy case of Geert Wilders being tried for speaking the truth in his own country. One law for Muslims, another for non-Muslims. High indigenous unemployment. People like Pat Condell scoring over 1 million hits on his videos (well, there is no-one else like Pat). Commenters on the BBC’s “Have Your Say” near-unanimously contradicting politically correct news articles. Judges saying they think the maximum sentences they can impose are ludicrously lenient. You can find links for all of these on my site. The lie’s coming undone in all sorts of directions.

I await now, of course, accusations of Nazism from brainwashed liberals, who fail to see that it is the Left who have embraced Dr Goebbels’ rules of propaganda to wholeheartedly, silencing any dissent from the from “allowed” PC views, and therefore in many cases silencing the speaking of truths.

Geert Wilders’ opening speech

Here’s is Geert Wilders’ excellent opening speech at his disgraceful trial in the Netherlands:

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I believe this is a win/win situation for Wilders and whatever the outcome he will win more support.

I have written to the National Secular Society as follows:

“This week, the principle of freedom of speech while not inciting violence has gone on trial in the Netherlands, in the form of MP Geert Wilders being tried by his own government.

I want to note first of all that the start of this very significant trial has so far gone completely unreported by the BBC. (Of course, the Today Programme did instead run a feature on the “triumphs of Muslim science“. That’s “triumphs” of several hundred years ago, mind you. The bias of the BBC is embarrassingly transparent now).

It will be interesting to see how this trial proceeds. If Wilders is found guilty, then telling the truth, even while not inciting violence, will be seen to be illegal in the Netherlands. The Dutch government particularly disliked Wilders’ film Fitna, but in that film he hardly said anything at all, and merely quoted from the Qur’an.

This brings me onto my next point, which is that Islam itself is effectively also on trial. If Wilders can show with reference to his witnesses and to the text that the Qur’an is indeed hateful towards unbelievers, then Islam is guilty. Whether the court would ever honour such a finding, however, is of course another matter entirely.”

George Orwell predicts political correctness

“The first and simplest stage in the discipline, which can be taught even to young children, is called, in Newspeak, CRIMESTOP.

CRIMESTOP means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction.

CRIMESTOP, in short, means protective stupidity… orthodoxy in the full sense demands a control over one’s own mental processes as complete as that of a contortionist over his body.”

- George Orwell, 1984

Geert Wilders receives summons

Straight-talking Dutch MP Geert Wilders has received a summons from the Dutch Public Prosecution Service, the charge being:

“Group insult of Muslims, incitement to hatred and discrimination against Muslims due to their religion and incitement to hatred and discrimination against non-western immigrants and / or Moroccans due to their race.”

This, despite more than 36,000 people around the world signing a petition to support him.

Mr Wilders says on his website:

“On the 20th of January 2010, a political trial will start. I am being prosecuted for my political convictions. The freedom of speech is on the verge of collapsing. If a politician is not allowed to criticise an ideology anymore, this means that we are lost, and it will lead to the end of our freedom. However I remain combative: I am convinced that I will be acquitted.”

You can read the full summons here, and hope it isn’t really possible to convict a person in the Netherlands merely for telling the truth.

Sally Keeble MP fails to acknowledge gift

An elderly couple have just died in Northampton because Social Services failed them. Sally Keeble, Labour MP for Northampton North, has just been on the radio about it.

Mrs Keeble is an MP who was elected having been placed on a “all-women shortlist” back in 1995. This blatantly sexist policy which Labour introduced was declared illegal in the UK in 1996, on the basis that everybody ought to earn their own place regardless of gender. But then in 2002 all-women shortlists were legalised again.

Jacqui Smith (the Home Secretary who was so obviously out of her depth over the Geert Wilders affair), was also elected on an all-women shortlist. In March 2009 a leaked poll of Labour Party members revealed that Smith was considered to be the worst performing member of the cabinet, with only 56% of her party believing she was doing a good job.

Anyway, I sent Sally Keeble a hardback copy of The God Delusion two years ago. While many MPs thanked the sender, hearing Mrs Keeble on the radio reminded me that I’m still waiting to hear from her.

Islam4UK to be banned?

Incredible news. I’ll believe this when it actually happens.