Just a quick one this evening – I don’t really want to ruin my good mood brought out by Bayern more or less wrapping up the Bundesliga title… One down, two to go. So… Britain, 2010. A situation summed up in a nutshell by two stories, both of which leave me scratching my head in disbelief.
First, the story of a man who found himself being “spoken to” by the police following a complaint by some busybody passer-by about a sign he had put up in his bedroom window – a hand-made poster directed at his local MP and council leadership. In very British red white and blue, seventy-four year old Roy Newman’s sign said “get the lot out”. Assuming that the sign had been referring to illegal immigrants, the local one-legged Bulgarian gypsy troupe or – if you are Gordon Brown – foreign university students, Mr Newman was disturbed by uniformed police asking him to remove the sign on account of it being “racist”. Ah, that old bugbear again.
Having been “spoken to”, Mr Newman has since introduced a splash of yellow to his sign without changing the words, so I can only assume that the local busybodies and local constabulary are happy now that they have saved the world from what was clearly an horrific fate.
Contrast this with the story of one Tohseef Shah, a Muslim who was allowed to walk free from court with a pathetic fine and a slap on the wrist after daubing “Islam with dominate the world” and “Osama bin Laden” on a war memorial:
…the court heard how he was not charged with more serious offences, which would have enabled a harsher sentence, because the CPS’s Counter Terrorism Division in London decided there was not enough evidence to suggest that he had been religiously or racially motivated.
Not racially motivated? Well OK, fair enough. But not religiously motivated? You’ve got to be joking, right? I wonder what might happen if, one day, I decided to pay a visit to the Saturn V minaret in Wealdstone and daub “I love bacon for breakfast” on the walls… I’d get hauled before a court accused of all sorts of made-up crimes, and I’d probably end up on the receiving end of a Fatwa as well. You do have to wonder what sort of politically correct imbecile you have to be to get a job with the CPS’s Counter Terrorism Division.
So there we have it. A law-abiding senior citizen is given grief by the curiously responsive police for posting up a harmless sign, while some complete and utter c*nt is allowed to walk after vandalising a war memorial. It beggars belief.
I can’t end however without mentioning poor old Gordon Brown again – and the latest story about an impromptu heckler being manhandled by Labour Party “security staff”. When Julian Borthwick stumbled across Brown’s latest speech to his minions in Sunderland, he couldn’t resist shouting out a few words – nothing at all offensive, but enough to upset the sanitised spin-routine. Cue Brown’s bully-boys leaping into action in order to save the PM saying something stupid again.
Somehow I don’t think that even Nick Griffin’s “security team” would have reacted in such a heavy-handed way to such low-level jibing.
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