Thursday, April 19, 2007

A few cracks in the Curate's Lawn

It's not grown much at all this year ...


After the lunatic idea of Greg Dyke for Mayor, I started reading this Mary Sieghart piece on the Hammersmith Tory 'open selection' procedure with a sinking feeling.

The shortlist could not have been more diverse. There were two women and two men; two whites (one from a gypsy family), one mixed-race and one black. There was only one traditional Tory candidate: a white merchant banker, the classic perfect son-in-law who usually prevails at these occasions. But, despite the presence of a claque cheering him on, there was also a strong desire that Hammersmith should do something different. After all, ours is a gritty Inner London seat, not a genteel Home Counties affair.

There was genuine enthusiasm, too, from those of us who are neither party members nor tribal Tory voters. We were pleased to have the chance to vote in an open primary.


So far so bad. But it turns out the black candidate is one Shaun Bailey, of whom I have blogged before. And he won.


Polly Toynbee wants Britain to become more like Sweden. Looks like it's the other way round. Brussels Journal also comments.

RosengÄrd, an area with a very high immigrant population, is yet again on the frontpage as the riots from Saturday continue. On Sunday, several storage facilities were set ablaze.


I think this woman may have issues. Not professional conduct.


Three people sought after 89-year old woman conned out of £100,000 ? I try to fight my prejudiced stereotyping, but for some reason the headline made me wonder if they could possibly be from the travelling community ?


Ethnic Population change 1971-2001, David Owen, University of Warwick. Uses official census figures FWTW.


Ruth Gledhill puffs more Ekklesia lunacy.

Out must go the dragon, the crusades and the associations with patriotism and Empire. Instead St George's Day should become a 'day of dissent' when England celebrates its noble, alternative tradition of rebellion against the abuse of power, Ekklesia says.

What these idiots don't grasp is that 'alternative dissent' is now establishment orthodoxy, and that today it's far more subversive and radical to praise Empire or to regret the failure of the Crusades (perhaps looting Constantinople en route wasn't the brightest idea) than to beat ourselves up, the default ruling class position. They still think they're rebels, where Ms Gledhill and Ekklesia are total conformists.



The unveiling in the presence of Labour MP Gerald Kauffman of a bust of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan, to go alongside Gladstone and other Victorian greats at Manchester Town Hall, reminded me of something.

Jinnah believed that Muslims could not live peacefully as a minority in Hindu-majority India. At a Muslim League conference in Lahore in 1940, Jinnah said:

"Hindus and the Muslims belong to two different religions, philosophies, social customs and literature... It is quite clear that Hindus and Muslims derive their inspiration from different sources of history. They have different epics, different heroes and different episodes... To yoke together two such nations under a single state, one as a numerical minority and the other as a majority, must lead to growing discontent and final destruction of any fabric that may be so built up for the government of such a state."

The 1947 Labour Government agreed with this Two-Nation Theory and partitioned India.

What I can't understand is this. A Labour government agreed in 1947 that it was impossible for an Indian state to survive with a large Muslim minority. Let sixty years later anyone who questions whether a British state can survive with a large Muslim minority is declared by a Labour government to be a swivel-eyed Nazi.

Can anyone explain this historical conundrum ?

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ekklesia is a front for social workers....a Gramscian organisation

http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/about/staff

St George is the Patron Saint of England, Canada, Catalonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Greece, Montenegro, Serbia, Portugal and the cities of Moscow, Istanbul, Ljubljana

I think this Gramscian Group is way behind the times....and should start talks with these countries and the Roman Catholic Church before making yet more sill pronouncements

Anonymous said...

Mandela in Westminster next to Churchill, Disraeli and Smuts......Jinnah in Manchester next to Gladstone.....

Typical of the New Regime placing its non-British icons alongside historical figures. Labour really has behaved like a Fifth Column since returning to power in 1997....it would appear that so long as it did not raise the 40% tax band established by Nigel Lawson in 1988 British voters would accept a Communist-type regime destroying all British values and remodelling the society as some kind of Socialist Dictatorship

The Long March through the Institutions has brought us tio the unravelling of the British national identity

Anonymous said...

Who are these 'mixed race' people? Do my children count, half Scots half Italian?

Anonymous said...

Who are these 'mixed race' people? Do my children count, half Scots half Italian?

Just because you prepare zabaglione with Scotch does not make you any less British....if you instead you could prove your children were mulatto you'd be on the scheme

ba ba said...

The explanation of labours reversal is that they are swivel eyed loons.

Anonymous said...

Because our modern liberal leftie leaders are, at best, swivel-eyed fuck wits.

Anonymous said...

Ha! I hadnt even read BNP members comment before I wrote mine. Im channeling the BNP!

Anonymous said...

No, the explanation for the reversal is that they do want to destroy Britain, and between power give-aways to the EU, unfair 'devolution' plus a the highest levels of immigration in history they have succeeded.
Britain could have never been taken with a fight, but they found another way.
(and when I say 'they' I mean radical leftists, not some kind of ethnic group)

Over at samzidata, Perry wonders why the English people have stopped defending the English system yet suggesting it might be because the English no longer make up 99% of the country is out of bounds.

Anonymous said...

Perry et all are as much use as a one legged man at an arse kicking party.

Anonymous said...

voyager, I think your right but I still think abortion is the biggest problem of why the country has changed so fast.
If we had a vibrant young country the elites couldn't get away with pissing on our culture. In the same way as the young Muslims stand up for theirs.

The ethnic English demographic is too old and has no appetite for a fight.