Feminism a Neo-Con Tool 2656


UPDATE

Minutes after I posted this article, the ludicrous Jess Phillips published an article in the Guardian which could not have been better designed to prove my thesis. A number of people have posted comments on the Guardian article pointing this out, and they have all been immediately deleted by the Guardian. I just tried it myself and was also deleted. I should be grateful if readers could now also try posting comments there, in order to make a point about censorship on the Guardian.

Catching up on a fortnight’s news, I have spent five hours searching in vain for criticism of Simon Danczuk from prominent or even just declared feminists. The Guardian was the obvious place to start, but while they had two articles by feminist writers condemning Chris Gayle’s clumsy attempt to chat up a presenter, their legion of feminist columnists were entirely silent on Danczuk. The only opinion piece was strongly defending him.

This is very peculiar. The allegation against Danczuk which is under police investigation – of initiating sex with a sleeping woman – is identical to the worst interpretation of the worst accusation against Julian Assange. The Assange allegation brought literally hundreds, probably thousands of condemnatory articles from feminist writers across the entire range of the mainstream media. I have dug up 57 in the Guardian alone with a simple and far from exhaustive search. In the case of Danczuk I can find nothing, zilch, nada. Not a single feminist peep.

The Assange case is not isolated. Tommy Sheridan has been pursuing a lone legal battle against the Murdoch empire for a decade, some of it in prison when the judicial system decided his “perjury” was imprisonable but Andy Coulson’s admitted perjury on the Murdoch side in the same case was not. I personally witnessed in court in Edinburgh last month Tommy Sheridan, with no lawyer (he has no money) arguing against a seven man Murdoch legal team including three QCs, that a letter from the husband of Jackie Bird of BBC Scotland should be admitted in evidence. Bird was working for Murdoch and suggested in his letter that a witness should be “got out of the country” to avoid giving evidence. The bias exhibited by the leading judge I found astonishing beyond belief. I was the only media in the court.

Yet even though the Murdoch allegations against Sheridan were of consensual sexual conduct, Sheridan’s fight against Murdoch has been undermined from the start by the massive and concerted attack he has faced from the forces of feminism. Just as the vital messages WikiLeaks and Assange have put out about war crimes, corruption and the relentless state attack on civil liberties have been undermined by the concerted feminist campaign promoting the self-evidently ludicrous claims of sexual offence against Assange.

As soon as the radical left pose the slightest threat to the neo-con establishment, an army of feminists can be relied upon to run a concerted campaign to undermine any progress the left wing might make. The attack on Jeremy Corbyn over the makeup of his shadow cabinet was a classic example. It is the first ever gender equal shadow cabinet, but the entire media for a 96 hour period last September ran headline news that the lack of women in the “top” posts was anti-feminist. Every feminist commentator in the UK piled in.

Among the obvious dishonesties of this campaign was the fact that Defence, Chancellor, Foreign Affairs and Home Secretary have always been considered the “great offices of State” and the argument only could be made by simply ignoring Defence. The other great irony was the “feminist” attack was led by Blairites like Harman and Cooper, and failed to address the fact that Blair had NO women in any of these posts for a full ten years as Prime Minister.

But facts did not matter in deploying the organised feminist lobby against Corbyn.

Which is why it is an important test to see what the feminists, both inside and outside the Labour Party, would do when the leading anti-Corbyn rent-a-gob, Simon Danczuk, was alleged to have some attitudes to women that seem very dubious indeed, including forcing an ex-wife into non-consensual s&m and that rape allegation.

And the answer is …nothing. Feminists who criticised Assange, Sheridan and Corbyn in droves were utterly silent on the subject of Danczuk. Because the purpose of established and paid feminism is to undermine the left in the service of the neo-cons, not to attack neo-cons like Danczuk.

Identity politics has been used to shatter any attempt to campaign for broader social justice for everybody. Instead it becomes about the rights of particular groups, and that is soon morphed into the neo-con language of opportunity. What is needed, modern feminism argues, is not a reduction of the vast gap between rich and poor, but a chance for some women to become Michelle Mone or Ann Gloag. It is not about good conditions for all, but the removal of glass ceilings for high paid feminist journalists or political hacks.

Feminism has become the main attack tool in the neo-con ideological arsenal. I am sceptical the concept can be redeemed from this.


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  • Republicofscotland

    The far-right British National Party has been stripped of the right to put up candidates in elections, after failing to register its existence with a watchdog.

    The Electoral Commission said the BNP had been removed from the register of political parties in Britain, because it had not submitted the required annual notification and £25 fee which was due yesterday.

    It means the party’s name, descriptions or emblems cannot be used on ballot papers, unless the extremist outfit submits a fresh application to be considered a recognised party.

    The BNP which in 2009 had more than 50 council seats and two MEPs, has been in steep decline for several years and fielded only eight candidates at the general election, down from 338 in 2010.

    If they never fielded any candidates again, would they be missed?

  • John Spencer-Davis

    Node
    10/01/2016 1:49pm

    Oh dear! No, Node, that really was from me.

    [whisper: it was because I read another posting you made about 25 min before the one at 4:45am: but the mods have since had the kindness to delete it. Possibly you do not remember it (wink).

    I did not want you to wake up, re-read that posting and think oh shit…so I was offering some comfort.]

    Kind regards,

    John

  • defo

    Forgot.
    Why didn’t you apply Craig ? Over qualified !

    I can’t remember seeing anything, but i’m sure it must have been advertised somewhere.

  • Macky

    Node; “Looks like there’s been some impersonating going on.”

    Well certainly iro Nevermind; funny how this has just occurred while a certain commenters is on a ban.

    I would add that it tends to get a little confusing for me between all the various “Neverminds”, Node & the Poster simply called “N”, especially as all have similar povs; it’s probably just me with an inexplicable hang-up over the “N” letter ! 🙂

  • ------------·´`·.¸¸.¸¸.··.¸¸Node

    @JS-D. Now you mention it, I do vaguely recall having difficulty with the CapsLock key in the wee hours while trying to explain something of enormous importance. Ah well.

    @Macky. From now on I will type my name with the capital N upside down so you know it’s me.

  • Republicofscotland

    I found it rather insulting that the Whitehall Gazette aka the Telegraph newspaper, could only concentrate on what Scotland’s FM Nicola Sturgeon, had on, on her visits too flood ravaged areas of Scotland.

    Instead of focusing on the help that will be offered to the poor souls who’ve lost everything in the unprecedented floods. The Telegraph newspaper questioned the cost of the FM’s jacket and Wellington boots.

    Of course the Prime Minister David Cameron, came in for praise from the Telegraph newspaper. He and his entourage, had the political savvy, to rush out and buy cheap Wellington boots from B&Q, when visiting flood hit areas in Northern England.

    Which left the door open to attack Scotland’s FM, for wearing fashionable wellies to a flood.

    It’s comforting to see that the Telegraph newspaper has its journalistic priorities right.

  • fred

    “Instead of focusing on the help that will be offered to the poor souls who’ve lost everything in the unprecedented floods. The Telegraph newspaper questioned the cost of the FM’s jacket and Wellington boots.”

    Yes I think they could have pointed out that of the £16 million pounds Nicola so generously pledged for flood relief £14 million is coming from Westminster. Thanks to Barnett Consequentials Scotland receives 10% of the £140 million pledged by George Osborne.

  • Macky

    Node; ” From now on I will type my name with the capital N upside down so you know it’s me.”

    Keep up quips like that & you’ll definately stand-out ! 😉

  • ------------·´`·.¸¸.¸¸.··.¸¸Node

    After the US accused Putin of being personally involved in spying operations all over the world, Russian secret services have retaliated. They’ve compiled this video of US intelligence agents in Russia disguised as women and pretending dolls are babies.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OMvfJNjTEw

  • fedup

    Isn’t it odd that certain cretins get barred from a blog that has high thresholds of tolerance fir disruptive zionist miscreants post which there seems to be an avalanche of impersonations and odd new monikers appearing to disrupt the blog albeit under a different pretext?

    The fact that it now has transpired that the Cologne incidents were planned, is a curious bit of news that has not been getting much traction, of course the subsequent question would be; who has planned this kind of disruptive conduct to further reinforce the cultivated negative image of the refugees in Germany? Why is of course to create even greater hatred towards these refugees but “who” will clarify the beneficiary of such a planning and execution.

    Now that the boards have been somewhat cleansed from malevolent entities, isn’t time to start enjoying the debate and stop contemplating that said malevolent entities secondary retaliatory ops?

  • ------------·´`·.¸¸.¸¸.··.¸¸Node

    “Ethical” Co-op Bank leaves Palestinian cause in the lurch.

    “Several organisations in the UK that support Palestinians in their struggle for freedom are reported to have had their accounts frozen or closed by the Co-op Bank or been threatened with the chop.

    The bank until recently was part of the well-regarded Co-operative movement and famed for its business ethics. After running into financial difficulties it was rescued in 2013-14 by, among others, US hedge fund outfit Perry Capital, which now has a seat on the board. According to Wikipedia, billionaire Richard C. Perry has served as a director of The Israel Project

    http://www.redressonline.com/2016/01/ethical-co-op-bank-leaves-palestinian-cause-in-the-lurch/

  • Winkletoe

    Lysias, though many seem to think it is, Dr Werrity Fox’s Atlantic Bridge isn’t defunct. It’s quietly going about its bubiness still, just under another name.

  • Tony_0pmoc

    This is on topic, relevant and terrifying. Its a US planned result of NATO bombing African and Middle Eastern countries to hell. The Americans are now Covertly attacking Europe. That much was obvious 2 years ago to anyone closely following The US coup in Kiev.

    The USA is Attacking Europe. Get that through your thick skulls. Russia is not attacking us. America is.

    Tony

    http://thesaker.is/sexual-terrorism-in-the-heart-of-europe/

    by Andrew Korybko

    Extract

    “By and large, it appears as though the “refugee” crisis is wildly succeeding in its ultimate US-scripted objective of destabilizing the EU from within. Washington has engineered and choreographed the forceful imposition of identity-driven divide-and-rule tactics right into the heart of Europe, all with the end goal of making the continent’s strongest actors overwhelmingly vulnerable to on-demand Color Revolution threats. It’s this Damocles’ Sword of a matrix of uncontrollable violence between the citizens and the state, locals and “refugees”, the far-left and the far-right, and “refugees” and the state, that is expected to scare Europe’s most important decision makers (Angela Merkel chief among them) into continuing their subservience to the US.”

  • Tony_0pmoc

    This was 2 months ago. At first I didn’t know whether to believe it. Is this right wing German racist propaganda – or is this ordinary Germans being terrified by a massive almost overnight influx of an extremely large number of “refugees”?

    http://cluborlov.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/an-exit-strategy-for-traitors.html

    Extract

    “Do you remember the last time you saw a man with wild eyes, strange clothes and a giant sign around his neck saying “The End Is Nigh”? “How ridiculous and pathetic!” you might have thought. Now, imagine the reality of your country changing within weeks to a point where you come to the same conclusion as him, suddenly feeling that his approach might be ever so reasonable. When a large part of your fellow-humans catch a strange sort of illness, one which leads to complete insanity faster than in the worst zombie outbreak, you might find yourself out of more viable strategies.

    This exactly is happening to me, as well as most people I know, right now, right here in our export-champion, model-democracy Germany. Sane people are finding themselves isolated and helpless amid insane politicians, an antagonistic press, paralyzed communities and a large inert populace unable to even fathom what’s happening. I am of course talking about the so-called “refugee crisis,” but because even this name is working against us, I will call it what it really is—a war against Europe by means of invasion. It is now vitally important to call things by their right name, because this distinguishes friend from foe.

    But it is even more important is to understand why this is a war rather than a crisis caused by refugees. Everything about this development bears the hallmarks of a military/intelligence operation.

    First of all, look at the timing and the scale. It really took off around September, and within less then two month it is already threatening the stability of Europe as a whole, to a point where even the European “Leaders” are talking about the end of the European Union. Credible numbers are not available, but the German government estimates the number of “refugees” that have already arrived somewhere between one and two million, so the real number is probably much larger. Almost all the camps are crammed with far more people than is claimed. Some towns are being forced to cope with more “refugees” than they have citizens, some double as many. The estimates for next year amount to something between two and five million more “refugees.”

    Ask yourself, why would millions of men (the overwhelming majority are young men) suddenly and collectively decide to leave their families behind, leave their country, travel thousands of miles and head for either Germany, Austria or Sweden, ignoring all the other safe countries on the way? Who told them that this would be worth it? Where did they all get the money to pay for it? Why was there absolutely no effort at any border to stop them? Why did this not start earlier? After all, the middle east has been a war zone for years—ever since the USA exploited 9/11 to start “spreading democracy.” How could this happen within days, weeks at most. Did the first hundred thousand send a message to the rest that it was OK for them to come too? If so, how?

    Secondly, look at the character of the average “refugee.” Why are they all well-fed, well-clothed, self-confident young men showing no signs of stress or hardship? Why are they leaving their families behind? Do they know their wives and children can follow them later? If so, how? Why do these men not want to stay behind and try to rescue their countries? Why do they all own high-quality mobile phones charged with seemingly endless minutes? It is clear that the “refugees” have been briefed on exactly what kinds of social benefits they can demand, and how to go about doing it, and so they are audacious and become violent if met with resistance. They even demand expensive medical treatments, which are granted and taken for granted. Why? There are no background checks for any of these people—naturally, because there is no time to do ten thousand-plus background checks every day. For all we know, these people could be criminals, mercenaries and terrorists. An unknown number have serious diseases, such as hepatitis, TB and even the plague. No one keeps track of that, no one registered them, no one limits their freedom of movement. Those who register do so mostly with forged Syrian passports, which Turkey hands out like candy, even to black Africans who look nothing like the Syrians. Tens of thousands of “refugees” have “disappeared” from their camps, some even stopped the special trains midway to their destinations by pulling the emergency brake and ran off into the wilderness. Where to and why—no one knows. No one asks questions, but what is clear is that we have completely lost control over European territory.

    Thirdly, there is the little matter of collaboration and treason. Even if this is a genuine refugee crisis, why is that none of the policies of the German/European government make any sense? And why is the press acting continuously and uniformly in favor of their policies, and is downright hostile toward the European populace? If millions of people have to flee immediate peril, there are a lot of different ways to care for them without endangering the integrity of Europe and ruining several national budgets. But instead of discussing what to do, how to do it and how to pay for it, the plan seemed to be predetermined, decided and fixed long ago.

    The political “solution” is to soak every city and town in Germany, Austria and Sweden with people of unknown origin and intention. Flanked by a press hailing the process, underestimating their numbers and suppressing reports of crimes committed by the “refugees,” damning and demonizing every form of opposition. Every branch of government, all authorities and parties, in concert with the press, stand should to shoulder in pushing this agenda against the overwhelming indignation of their citizens and closing their eyes to the fact that this is against the law. Censorship, propaganda, hate speech, defamation and open rejection of basic democratic rights against any opposition, are simply exploding right now. A prime example of this is Germany’s vice chancellor Sigmar Gabriel, who called an undefined but large part of the German populace who dare to oppose this insanity “Pack” (vermin).

    Everyone who takes a stand in Germany now, opposing any refugee-related policy by the government, is subjected to insults is labelled as a right-wing extremist, a hateful criminal and a danger to society. Some get singled out and persecuted in public using extensive defamation campaigns. The author Akif Pirinçci became the latest victim after giving a speech at the PEGIDA demo, the accusation against him based on a shameless misrepresentation of the facts.

    Even the most peaceful protest is immediately threatened with a ban (but most are still granted permission anyway). Every speech or publication mentioning treason or comparable accusations is instantly subject to investigations under the charge of demagoguery or threat of violence. Current examples can be found daily in the major mainstream outlets such as Der Spiegel, Die Welt, Bild and the like. If this situation came about by chance, such a spontaneous consensus would have been extremely unlikely. But from day one this has been an obvious propaganda/defamation campaign against the truth and against the interests of the European populace.

    The German press even earned itself a new name that sticks: “Lügenpresse” (the lying press) is a word that can be heard on every corner. In private, the politicians are being called traitors all the time.

    The national railroad company is ordered to offer special trains free of charge for the “refugees,” bringing them into every corner of Germany the fastest way possible while delaying regular trains.
    Vacant houses and apartments are confiscated by force and given over to the “refugees” free of charge. Every “refugee” given rental housing is paid for by the communities, as much as 500 Euros per person per month. This is a big opportunity for some scumbags to make money really fast, by making, ill and elderly Germans homeless.

    The police and the press have been ordered to suppress reports of any crimes the “refugees” commit, and so you will not find any in the press, nor even in police reports. But if you ask around, you will hear plenty of stories about rampant assaults and rapes in every city and many towns in Germany. Some “refugee” camps burned down, but most were burned down by their inhabitants, mostly in protest or because of minor disagreements. Police sirens are heard in every city every hour now.

    When the “refugees” started shoplifting, then raiding supermarkets, the government told the retailers to keep quiet about this, and has been paying for everything that was damaged or stolen ever since. The only exceptions are alcohol and cigarettes—all other retail goods are free, no questions asked….”

  • Summerhead

    Craig – Stella Creasy doesn’t have a Porsche ( I got these two self-serving MPs mixed up), she has a VW Golf. The other corporate mouthpiece has stated her disdain for Danczuk on Twitter which is quite public. I’m not in total disagreement with you but it gives your argument more credibility if the facts are all present and correct.

  • Republicofscotland

    “Yes I think they could have pointed out that of the £16 million pounds Nicola so generously pledged for flood relief £14 million is coming from Westminster. Thanks to Barnett Consequentials Scotland receives 10% of the £140 million pledged by George Osborne.”

    _________________

    Indeed Fred, but not to worry, with HS2 and a third runway at Heathrow in the pipeline not to mention the billions needed to renew London’s sewers and Parliament. Scotland will more than pay over the odds.

    Just like it’s has done since oil was first pumped onto land to pay for the Falklands war the London Olympics and the Thames Flood Barrier, and that Fred, is just the tip of the iceberg.

  • Tony_0pmoc

    Being obsessed with one MP from Rochdale (4 miles from Oldham) is part of the diversion techniques to take your mind away from what we in “The West” do. That includes people I know who have spent their lives making Weapons of Mass Destruction and selling them to e.g. Saudi Arabia, who are currently using them to bomb the people of Yemen to hell…with targeting training and advice from “Military Experts” from the UK.

    http://www.garstangcourier.co.uk/news/bae-bullish-on-middle-east-spending-1-97458

    I am disgusted with ourselves.

    Don’t blame anyone else. You did it.

    Tony

  • Tony_0pmoc

    Republicofscotland,

    My cousin is still alive and well, and very tall. I know he is a very clever and a very nice man. A real English Gentleman – and the accent too (he’s from near where I live now).

    I sent him a Christmas Card

    He lives in Whalley, near Ribchester in Lancashire very near to the test site for the latest British Built Military Aircraft

    They built a Special Test Site there – isolated in every way from any kind of external interference…We drove past it a couple of years ago…

    However God has recently been Pissing All Over Them

    They are Completely Flooded Out.

    And its going to Freeze next week, and then get exceedingly cold.

    Tony

  • Kempe

    ” Just like it’s has done since oil was first pumped onto land to pay for the Falklands war the London Olympics and the Thames Flood Barrier, and that Fred, is just the tip of the iceberg. ”

    Because it’s a Well Known Fact that nobody south of the border pays any tax.

  • Tony_0pmoc

    I want to post a cine 8mm film from about 1989, or even 1992 that I saw about 20 years ago.

    She was in a very green field towards the back of an exceedingly large number of people at a Music Festival (I was behind just watching her)

    You know the type slim blonde girl with flowers in her hair breastfeeding her baby…

    I can’t find it. I am still not completely convinced that we were there..and I am seeing my wife and child (it ain’t her…but they look the same).

    She saved my life.

    Blimey – is that my wife and kid?

    Tony

  • exexpat

    @fedup just enjoy the quiet whilst it lasts… Its only on a one week ban so will be back to BAU soon 🙁

  • Macky

    Here’s an interesting analysis of the ratonale behind the targetting by Assad & the Russians in Syria;

    https://elijahjm.wordpress.com/2016/01/09/why-defeating-al-qaeda-and-its-allies-is-a-top-priority-for-assad-rather-than-isis-isis-is-a-marionette/

    @Tony_0pmoc,funny you mentioned Led Zeppelin the other night, as I was just checking one of my recently converted VHS to DVD’s today, and enjoyed seeing this again;

    https://vimeo.com/65539679

    (Nice to see a recently departed member here, now being appreciated elsewhere);

    http://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/thread/1452386319.html

  • Habbabkuk (la vita e' bella)

    MODS re post from “Macky” :

    “Node; “Looks like there’s been some impersonating going on.”

    Well certainly iro Nevermind; funny how this has just occurred while a certain commenters is on a ban.””

    ____________________

    Please check and then state publicly on this thread – and forthwith – that this insinuation is not acceptable. And incorrect.

    In other words, please do your job.

  • giyane

    Macky

    Who could argue with ‘feminism’ as a slogan for the cynical neo-con wolves?
    ‘feminists ‘ would obviously be both feminine and petite, kind of a 1920s charlestoney frocky frolic.

    but I still don’t understand why IS is a ‘marionette’. Slogan meaning, puppet, doll. Again with possible 1920s undertones of too much make-up and not much common sense. This page is full of hints of between the wars German menace, people dressing up as victim-actors and other people dressing up as sadist-actors, in a mix between Cabaret and Bonnie and Clyde.

    The War on Islam has gone into a few weeks of hibernation as the powers that be pretend to prepare for peace talks, by upping the antis against the Shi’a, BBC propaganda against evil Assad starving his own people, and the disappeared of Al Qaida having been tipped off that Russian bombs were around and run for cover for Xmas in Turkey, wondering if it was safe to resume terrorising the Syrian people while European hands were wrought over civil war starvation and refugee depravity in Cologne.

    I don’t think anybody believes either political Islam mercenary bull-shit or USUKIS MSM slap-stick any more.

    What would a world run by an ethical, international law-abiding Russia and China, and ethical, as opposed to mercenary, Muslims feel like? It looks increasingly as though that is what we are going to get.

    1/Saudi Arabia is bankrupt after squandering trillions on funding jihadis with USUKIS.
    they have nothing to show for their efforts, except accountants bills. Saudi hasn’t yet worked out how to push its war bills onto the nation’s slate, as we do in the UK and US.

    2/Saudi Arabia falling into the trap of justifying its rage at being conned by both USUKIS and political Islam, out of its trillions, by fulminating over Shi’a Islam and chopping off heads, doesn’t look cool to anyone.

    3/ Saudi Arabia, being the keepers of the language of the Qur’an and its Holy sites, is being made to look ridiculous by snips of trash in the Western media, about sexual assaults on civilised German fraus and Saudis keeping Indonesian maids as sex slaves.

    I am delighted that the western media is puncturing Saudi hypocrisy, at last, and Israeli hypocrisy in sponsoring Islamic State. What worries me is if al Qaida’s frost of nihilism were to melt under the sun of Putin’s common sense, who would hold these evil bastards to account for their five years of pillage and rape? In Yugoslavia they just took their passports and went home, saved on a computer file in London and Washington for future possible use.

  • BrianFujisan

    Guardian Comments are now closed…

    Interesting Post and Comments.

    Here be a recently(ish) departed REAL voice for Eastern Women – Fatema Mernissi –

    A devout Muslim, Mernissi found proof in history and in Islamic texts that the subjugation of women was a male machination justified by “manipulations” of sacred texts. She found no evidence in the Quran and other scriptures that Muslim men were meant to dominate women. “The elite faction is trying to convince us that their egotistic, highly subjective and mediocre view of culture and society has a sacred basis,” she wrote. “But if there is one thing that the women and men of the late 20th century who have an awareness and enjoyment of history can be sure of, it is that Islam was not sent from heaven to foster egotism and mediocrity.”

    In her book “Islam and Democracy,” published in 1992, the feminist thinker also analyzed the role that the first Gulf war had in turning the Arab world against the idea of democracy, a concept many have come to conflate with “violence and religion in the west, as perceived by Arab observers of American broadcasts.”

    After a life dedicated to feminist Muslim scholarship as well as to work on “civil society, democracy and the digital revolution,” the writer died of cancer on Nov. 30, 2015, at a clinic in Rabat.

    For her widening of the scope of progressive feminism to include the important perspectives of women in the Arab world as well as her defiance of conservative elites who use Islam to oppress women, Fatema Mernissi is our Truthdigger of the Week.

    http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/truthdigger_of_the_week_fatema_mernissi_a_founder_of_islamic_20160110

  • MerkinScot

    Kempe : “Because it’s a Well Known Fact that nobody south of the border pays any tax.”
    .
    I disagree because it is simply not true.
    Scotland does, in general, subsidise the Westminster version of the PNAC project, but many people south of the border do pay their fair share of tax.
    .
    Don’t believe everything the Jannerites tell you.

  • fred

    “Scotland does, in general, subsidise the Westminster version of the PNAC project, but many people south of the border do pay their fair share of tax.”

    Like the people who live where the oil actually comes from subsidise the people down in Edinburgh and Glasgow, like the people who only have single track roads with passing places are paying for those motorways in the central belt and a person who it takes nearly three hours to get as far south as Inverness will be paying as much for a high speed train as someone in Glasgow who will get half an hour knocked off their train time to London.

    But we ain’t the ones griping about it.

  • BrianFujisan

    Haa..Good Stuff from A Thousand Flowers –

    He was drunk, horny and is into younger women anyway. So, that’s alright then! Queue sympathetic coverage from across the media, with multiple pieces in the Guardian talking about how “complicated” he is, and how if you don’t like what he‘s done, it must mean you just hate democracy.

    Fuck accepting this dangerous nonsense. Dismissing the importance of age in the context of sex undermines so much of the work done by those who campaign for child protection. No-one gives a shit if you’ve winched someone who’s a few years younger than you but there’s a huge disparity in wealth, age and status between an 46 year old MP and a 17 year old and that power dynamic matters. If you’re 16 or 17, there are specific laws which protect you, in the event your doctor, your teacher or your employer misuse their position for sex – because we recognise those positions are based on power and trust. There are be few positions more based more on trust or power than being an MP.

    Weekly Wanker –

    http://athousandflowers.net/2016/01/10/weekly-wanker-063-simon-danczuk/

  • Doug Scorgie

    J. R. Tomlin
    8 Jan, 2016 – 1:51 pm

    “I have rarely been so disappointed in someone I have held in high esteem.”
    …………………………………………………………………

    Who are you talking about Tomlin?

    It is regarded as polite on this blog to reference your posts so that others can refer back and understand your point.

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