tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post116288585478212606..comments2024-03-29T09:13:55.008+00:00Comments on UK Commentators: The Wicked UncleLabanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12031578024191117985noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-1163008711851736692006-11-08T17:58:00.000+00:002006-11-08T17:58:00.000+00:00I know I shouldn't be surprised by the prison offi...I know I shouldn't be surprised by the prison officer's comments but I am nonetheless. As usual, the people at the coal face were mere marionettes to be manipulated by theory worshipping superiors. You can't fault them for taking the easy way out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-1162986974978602702006-11-08T11:56:00.000+00:002006-11-08T11:56:00.000+00:00>led by a former Education Minister who abolished ...>led by a former Education Minister who abolished more grammars than Crosland ever did<BR/><BR/>Now now, Laban. You've made this comment about Thatcher closing down record numbers of grammar schools a number of times, so it's time I set you straight.<BR/><BR/>Thatcher as Education Minister actively opposed the closing of grammar schools and did all she could to stop them happening, but there was little she could do.<BR/><BR/>The public services, most of the ruling classes, most of the pollies, and a lot of the media were by then in the grip of mania about this issue, and the process was going to continue take place whether she liked it or not. As Education Minister (and a minor figure in those days, without much influence), she simply didn't have the power to do that much about it.<BR/><BR/>She writes about this in ch. 6 of her second set of memoirs (which were about her early days).<BR/><BR/>I really recommend you read these books, because there still seems to be a remant of anti-Thatcherism lingering in you from your old leftie days. In actual fact you now have an awful lot in common with her!<BR/><BR/>By the way, for some mid-century philosophical/psychological roots of the anti-punishment social-engineering approach to crime and punishment, which as you rightly say made the early inroads into society, read some Karl Menninger.<BR/><BR/>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_menningerBlithering Bunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15116081985963847583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-1162964446928163452006-11-08T05:40:00.000+00:002006-11-08T05:40:00.000+00:00"It makes them feel, it can't help it, that they'r...<I>"It makes them feel, it can't help it, that they're not really bad people at all; it's everyone else outside who's wrong, not them."</I><BR/><BR/>That sentence <B>alone</B> nicely sums up the trouble we have been storing up for our society ever since.....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-1162947401866511042006-11-08T00:56:00.000+00:002006-11-08T00:56:00.000+00:00Amazing stuff, that guy should be Home Secretary.L...Amazing stuff, that guy should be Home Secretary.<BR/><BR/>LurkerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-1162945911366902062006-11-08T00:31:00.000+00:002006-11-08T00:31:00.000+00:00What interesting, commonsense comments from that p...What interesting, commonsense comments from that prison officer! Yet the country's run by people who have no experience on the ground of the everyday life of most British people. People like OE Dave Cameron who presumably feels it was "circumstances" (as in the time of Charles Dickens, when it often really was) as opposed to inclination and laziness which causes people to commit crimes. What on earth can this man be presumed to know about Britain and his countrymen?<BR/><BR/>What does he know of respectable two-parent families with both parents forced to work,although they would prefer for the mother to stay home, in order to provide a decent living standard for their children, after taxes to pay for 1,500 illegal immigrants a day?<BR/><BR/>Dave is so remote, as his comments prove. People living on council estates are desperate for a quiet, civilised, neighbourly life - not for lofty platitudes from the Islington cognescenti with windmills on their roofs. But the police are too busy boldly tracking down "race" crimes (usually for badmouthing islam, which isn't a race) and thought crimes because it is s-o-o easy to have a high clean-up figure. To go on the books. And look good. Who can prove they didn't commit a 'thought crime'?<BR/><BR/>Speaking of thought crimes, what is happening with the Scottish firemen who failed to volunteer to hand out leaflets on fire safety at a gay pride parade? Hello, people in garters and suspender belts, stiletto heels and blond wigs came to the parade to learn about fire safety? (They were going to tuck the leaflets thoughtfully into their suspenders and study them when they got home?) And the officers had previous experience of being groped at those parades and didn't want to go through the experience again? And, when no one volunteered, they were sent away to Mao-esque 're-education' camps now re-named 'diversity training'.<BR/><BR/>This is why this clique have imposed this 'A' list. They think the people on the ground in the constituencies are too stupid to choose candidates they think will appeal to the local electorate, so the ruling class will choose their candidates for them with their A list of people who are just like them. It's bloody tragic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-1162936678863698282006-11-07T21:57:00.000+00:002006-11-07T21:57:00.000+00:00The Leftist hijacking of History lessons in school...The Leftist hijacking of History lessons in schools to thrust multiculturalism down our throats is unforgivable. Peter Hitchens' 'The Abolition of Britain' describes the whole process in more detail.<BR/><BR/>Thank God for the occassional History teacher who breaks proceedure is all I can say.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com