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Well it is the day after the latest round of local elections in the UK. Those hearty souls who stayed the pace last night, or lasted into the wee hours, will be picking up their papers to look at the result. Mostly, they will be hearing bleating about the fact that the British National Party won 2 seats (and maybe a 3rd currently in recount) in Burnley. Labour, feeling guilty, is blaming everyone else but themselves for this result, especially, as one might have guessed, the Conservatives.
In a breathtaking bit of demagoguery, a Labour MP on the BBC declared that there were Conservative candidates in the North of London expressing extreme-right and racist views. When weakly challenged, by the buffoon that is Eric Pickles MP, the man in question rescinded his remarks.
In other more amusing news, some nitwit in a monkey suit won mayor in Hartlepool (Peter Mandelson MP’s patch). The mascot of the local football club is a monkey because those clever people in the town hung a monkey that washed up on their coast during the Napoleonic Wars. They thought it to be a French spy. Inotherwords, a symbol of Hartlepool’s ignorance is now their mayor. How very fitting. An independent, former police chief, nicknamed Robocob, looks to have won mayor in Middlesborough. Senior Labour members were visually bemused that their “invention” for England was being used to elect this sort (ie non-Labour) of candidate.
Overall, the Tories did rather well, taking several councils including Enfield, with the Liberal Democrats having a mixed night and Labour having a pretty poor one. Independents all over the country were up as well. Expect the Labour machine to go into overdrive, spinning this one as a “victory.” We can look forward to Charles Kennedy of the Lib-Dems decrying how badly the Tories have done. I suspect he will jump on the, “blame the Tories” for the Burnley mess bandwagon, as well.
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On a more technical note: I would recommend that anyone running either XP or OSX use the latest release of Mozilla for posting. It is significantly faster and more stable than IE. In addition, it is a joy to use.
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David Pryce-Jones has written an insightful article on Islam’s relationship with the West. He takes to task Patten et al ending his piece with this piquant final quote:
“The Vedrines and Pattens and such spokesmen are in the inexplicable position of lining Europe up with Saudi Arabia, Hamas, and the Islamists against the rest of the West. This is an intellectual, and a moral, failure.”
Kind of says it all, doesn’t it? It will be interesting to see what Adil has to say about this.
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Goldstein has called for the Tory Party to push the idea of a withdrawl from the EU. I, for one, agree with him wholeheartedly. Good one, Emmanuel!
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