An anniversary that won't feature on the BBC news today

Today is the 27th anniversary of the Provisional IRA firing mortars at Downing Street in an attempt to kill the Prime Minister and members of the British War cabinet sitting at the time. This attempt seems to have all but disappeared from the collective British memory.

Maybe Theresa May could have asked Jeremy Corbyn for his thoughts on the actions of the Provos on that day. I wonder if he could have managed to condemn their actions without also condemning the actions of the British state?

The elderly voters deserted the Conservatives at the general election

Mike Smithson at Political Betting has a great article that includes the above chart.

'There’s one group of voters that traditionally the Tories have been able to regard as bankers – the oldies, those in the growing 65+ age segment.

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 My analysis of that, reflected in the chart above, finds that the PM is struggling to hold onto to the oldies. The chart numbers are based on subtracting those who have an unfavourable view of TMay from those who have a favourable one.

As is shown she had been doing extremely well with the 65+ group with huge favourability margins.

In the latest polling she’s still in positive territory but only just by just 4 points. It used to be 55%

This doesn’t bode well for the blue team if there is a new general election which the party’s precarious parliamentary position might well lead to.

She used to be an electoral asset. Now it is looking like she is an electoral liability.'

Why did Theresa May attack the elderly in her Conservative Party manifesto? Stupidity or deliberate, I can think of no other reasons.

Theresa May or Teresa May

As I blogged back in May 2010, there is a world of difference between Theresa May and Teresa May:

'I was looking up the ages of cabinet members last night and made a spelling mistake. For a moment I was reading that Teresa May was 'Teresa May (born Teresa Betteridge, December 15 1967, Epsom, Surrey)... an English glamour model. In addition to films, May has appeared in numerous ...'

As well as being a former porn star she was surprisingly younger than me and had an alternative career to politics then I realised that I had omitted an 'h'. Theresa May is described thus 'Theresa Mary May (née Brasier, 1 October 1956 in Eastbourne, Sussex) is the Conservative Home Secretary of the United Kingdom. She is one of the most senior ...'

The letter 'h' is an important one, isn't it?

Most important now as people look for more information on their new Prime Minister...

After all you don't want to confuse Teresa May...

with our new Prime Minister who would never show off her cleavage.... or would she...

 Enough? I think so, now be a good Prime Minister Theresa May.

The Article Pulled By Telegraph After Pressure From Theresa May's Campaign per Guido Fawkes Media Guido

'It's surely about time – and not too late – for conservatives to look behind Mrs May's carefully-wrought image and consider if she really is the right person to lead the party and the country.

There's a vast gulf between being effective in office, and being effective at promoting yourself; it's not one that Theresa May has yet crossed.'

More here http://order-order.com/2016/07/02/read-full-article-pulled-telegraph-pressure-may-campaign/ despite the best efforts of Theresa 'nasty party' May's team.

When democracy becomes inconvenient...

'Ministers and senior Tory MPs are discussing whether Theresa May could be installed as leader without a vote by ordinary members if she has overwhelming support in the parliamentary party.

Mrs May could have the backing of up to half the 330 Conservative MPs when the first round of votes is held next Tuesday. A senior Tory minister, however, called yesterday on fellow MPs to decide on a new leader quickly, without the need for a wider vote.

Anna Soubry, the business minister and a prominent EU supporter, said that it was bad for Britain to allow uncertainty to continue…'

More here in The Times as the Conservative Remainers look for ways to ensure they get Theresa May as leader. If that happens you can expect a large number of Conservative MPs to leave for UKIP and for the number of seats won by UKIP to be in double figures at the next general election.

May Supporters' Plot to Keep Gove Off Ballot per Guido Fawkes

Reading this Guido Fawkes revelation http://order-order.com/2016/07/01/may-supporters-plot-keep-gove-off-ballot/ I was struck by how quickly people forget... 

'Rumours are doing the rounds that several as yet undeclared Theresa May supporters are considering endorsing Andrea Leadsom in order to keep Michael Gove off the ballot. With less than half of the parliamentary party openly declared, May currently has 87 MPs publicly backing her and many more supporters yet to declare – she is absolutely nailed on to make the final two.

Her allies are allegedly now pushing her right-wing Leave backers over to Leadsom, with the aim that Andrea gets the numbers to beat Gove to the ballot.

This would make sense as a calculated piece of election skullduggery – May's friends know the membership is unlikely to choose Andrea over Theresa, Gove is the high-profile Brexit candidate they want to keep off the ballot. '

Do these May supporters not remember the last Labour Party leadership contest when Jeremy Corbyn only got the necessary number of nominations because other candidates leant some of their nominations to ensure a wide debate? 

Those who are unwilling to learn from history...

"... the attacks have nothing to do with Islam..."

Theresa May tells us that "... the attacks have nothing to do with Islam...".

The trouble is that ISIS say diferent, that's The Islamic State. Now who is likely to be the bigger expert on Islam: Theresa May or ISIS? Please watch this previous post.

Banned in Britain

I read that the UK Home Secretary, Theresa May, has banned Pamela Geller from entering the UK as it would not be conducive to the public good.

More here http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2013/06/banned-in-britian-uk-caves-to-jihad.html

Meanwhile Islamic preacher Muhammad al-Arifi who has advocated Jew-hatred, wife-beating, and jihad violence was recently admitted to the UK with no difficulty. Why the disparity in treatment? Are Islamist preachers, and there have been several on recent years, who preach hatred, conducive to the public good? Is promoting hatred of Jews & homosexuals, the beating of women and jihadi violence conducive to the public good? What's wrong with this country? Are our leaders so scared of the reaction of Muslims in the UK that criticism of Islam is no longer allowed?

Theresa May: Beggars and thieves from across the EU are flocking to the streets of Britain | Mail Online

'Speaking last night, Mrs May said: 'We are already taking tough action in this country to stamp out the abuse of free movement, to protect our benefits system and public services.

'We will not allow this country to be a soft touch but this isn't just a UK problem - it will take the joint efforts of all our EU partners to tackle it.'

It comes at a time of heightened tensions between the British government and the EU.

Last week, the European Commission announced it was taking Britain to court for insisting migrants pass a 'right to reside' test before they can access some State handouts.

Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, is planning to defy the EC and make existing restrictions even tougher.'

More here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2336446/Theresa-May-Beggars-thieves-EU-flocking-streets-Britain.html


"We will not allow this country to be a soft touch" - Too late love...

A better example for Theresa May to use in the future, should she have a future

'So a person accused of committing genocide in an ‘unsafe country’ (which country that has genocide is safe!) simply has to get into an ECHR country and they will get away with it. The ECHR is providing cover for people who commit genocide. Madness.'

The words of Phil Woolas in his diary, when he was the previous Labour government's  Immigration Minister, as reported in The Mail. Here's the context:

'June 28
Back to Rwanda. We have four people wanted for genocide in Rwanda (there are 100 but the four are the test case). The magistrates had agreed to extradite them but the High Court had disagreed on the grounds that they would not get a fair trial in Rwanda.

I am advised that I should grant six months leave to remain in the UK ‘in the hope that the legal system in Rwanda improves’.

I had asked why we couldn’t try them in The Hague and was told as they were not British, I couldn’t send them there!

So a person accused of committing genocide in an ‘unsafe country’ (which country that has genocide is safe!) simply has to get into an ECHR country and they will get away with it. The ECHR is providing cover for people who commit genocide. Madness.'

Madness? I would say that just about covers it.

Theresa May and the Human Rights Act

I was preparing a barnstorming piece on Theresa May's missed opportunity to attack this iniquitous piece of legislation but then I read Gildas the Monk's article on Anna Raccoon and I thought why bother; this article says it all and far more eloquently than I could have managed. So go read it all, here are a few excerpts to whet your appetite:

'I quite like Theresa May. It may be because I am an inveterate flirt and quite like posh women with fancy tastes in shoes. I don’t know. And when she makes a serious point that the legal system is being abused by a motley collection – nay, army – of thieves, murderers, drug dealers and malefactors who make hay in the United Kingdom by virtue of the “Yuman Rights” Act, she should be on solid ground with me.

The “Yuman Rights” Act, by the way, is an Act of Parliament which says that if you are a law abiding citizen of this country you are not allowed to complain if some Somali pirate with a penchant for knife crime stabs someone in the neck and we cannot throw him out of the country, back into the nasty pit whence he crawled. Provided, that is, he has managed to sire some offspring with one of his crack whores first, in which case he has a “right to family life” and is entitled to remain here. Usually at public expense.

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Why can’t politicians get their speeches to back up what they are saying with hard fact? As I leafed through the Sunday Times a couple of days ago, for example, I noticed an article on page 20 which detailed the systematic abuse of Human Rights law to avoid extradition by Albanian criminals found guilty in their absence of crimes, including murder using a sub machine gun (at a cost of millions to the tax payer).

And the case of a Mr Siraj Yassin Abdullah Ali. Mr Ali was sentenced to nine years for helping the 21/7 bombers who killed more than fifty innocent people and maimed and seriously injured many more, but he can’t be deported because he might face “inhuman treatment” in his native Eritrea. Which begs some questions. Why was he here in first place? How was he allowed in? How did he get here? What will happen when, not if, he is released? Presumably he will vote Tory and join a golf club? Maybe not…

I am a great believer in the maxim that if you are going to do something, you had better do it well. If you are going to put the boot into the lunatic Human Rights industry, take a good long run up, and put that boot in properly and hard, right where it hurts. Get your facts rigorously right. If you wish to complain about the bloody cat, quote the judgement, quote the words, set the context…

Be relentless, merciless, dry, and to the point. Find the best examples. Spell them out in soulless, cold, unremitting and accurate detail. Tell us the costs of the fiasco in lawyers fees. The case is crying out to be made.'

A prize for the most non-connected comment on a Blogpost

My frivolous post concerning the potential for confusion between porn star Teresa May and Conservative minister Theresa May has attracted a comment from blogger Vic that simply reads http://falseproofs.blogspot.com/2006/06/e-e-escultura.html.

It was a fascinating article, I understood very small parts of it but the link?!?!?

'Marr splashes out on Theresa May'

Bearing in mind that there are two famous Theresa May's: one is our current Home Secretary, the other a (now retired)  'glamour model', I don't think that that Standard headline is entirely suitable... 'splashes out' - what an image it leaves in the mind!

Can you tell which is which?

Yes I know the glamour model was Teresa May not Theresa May but that would spoil a good gag; oops another inappropriate word...

In fact I have covered this similarity before... Once you start down this path it's hard to stop the double entendres from just flowing... Enough, no more!

Hazel Blears "speaking from her heart"

Did Hazel Blears lie on, and to, the BBC? Will any other BBC programme other than Andrew Neil's report this? Will we see this lie (if lie it be) reported on the BBC website? Because you can be sure that such a 'misspeak' by a Conservative ex-Minister would be headline news. Remember Teresa May's 'Nasty Party' comment and how often that was played and recalled over the years, something tells me Hazel Blears' remark will be forgotten (by the BBC) by the weekend.




Thanks to Guido Fawkes for the spot.

Teresa May is a Sontaran?

This country gets odder by the minute

'A special immigration court said Abid Naseer was an al-Qaeda operative - but could not be deported because he faced torture or death back home in Pakistan.'

To quote Ed Balls and the Anti-Nowhere League - "SO WHAT" Why should we care about people who are not British citizens and who apparently want to kill as many of us as they can? Why are their human rights more important than those of the British public to not be blown up as they travel on the tube or bus? Why are the human rights of two Pakistani citizens more important than mine? Why should two Pakistani citizens have the right to stay in this country even though they apparently hate what this country stands for?

This sort of thing makes me so angry and it looks as though this Conservative government is going to be a limp wristed about it as the last Labour government; I despair, I really do.

The importance of a letter 'h'

I was looking up the ages of cabinet members last night and made a spelling mistake. For a moment I was reading that Teresa May was 'Teresa May (born Teresa Betteridge, December 15 1967, Epsom, Surrey) is an English glamour model. In addition to films, May has appeared in numerous ...' was surprisingly younger than me and had an alternative career to politics then I realised that I had omitted an 'h'. Theresa May however is described thus 'Theresa Mary May (née Brasier, 1 October 1956 in Eastbourne, Sussex) is the Conservative Home Secretary of the United Kingdom. She is one of the most senior ...'

The letter 'h' is an important one, isn't it?

A Perfect Day - well nearly

I just realised that I will never have to hear Gordon Brown described as Prime Minister and watch him shamble across the world stage like a second rate history teacher at a Scottish comprehensive school. Nor will I have to listen the poison and thinly veiled threats dripping from the voice of the unelected, twice disgraced, Peter Mandelson. Nor will I have to watch Ed Balls desperately trying not to blink whilst aggressively 'taking on' an interviewer. Nor will I have to listen to humourless diatribes lectures from Harriet Harman. Oh joy, oh joy...

But then again - Theresa May as Home Secretary? The woman who caused more damage to the Conservative party than anyone since David Mellor with her stupid remark about the 'nasty party', a remark that was used as a stick to beat the Conservative party for so many years. Just the sort of person we need in one of the main offices of state. Hopefully she will last as long as the average Labour Home Secretary.


I will comment on the rest of the Cabinet when all positions have been announced, I already see some problems and at least one genius appointment!

Tuesday morning catchup

Too mnay interesting things to blog about and not enough time this morning, so here's a few in summary form.

1. Prodicus asks "Why the reserve at PMQs? Why no flame-throwers in the campaign to date?" and then writes a piece that summarises so much of what I have been thinking for some time now that I wish I had written it. It's all there from the frustration at David Cameron being 'nice', the bad feelings towards Teresa May for

' That ghastly woman has done more substantive damage to the Conservative Party with her mal mot than almost any other single speech including 'unemployment is a price worth paying' and 'back to basics'. The dread connotation has shaped Cameron's personal and party campaigning from the word go. It colours every - EVERY - Conservative Party policy idea even before it's mooted, hamstringing the party philosophically, politically and practically whenever the Tories should be rallying the country with an appeal to sanity and a call to realism and the prospect of responsible capitalist prosperity for all.

...

Teresa May removed the lead put into in the Tory pencil by Margaret Thatcher. She is the living incarnation of anti-Thatcher Conservatism and I loathe her for it. "

and a wish that:

"Once the election trumpet sounds, I trust the Cameron-Coulson-Hilton grid includes a snarling and biting break for the dogs.

Surely they know that Nice is knifed by Nasty on a daily basis in Brown's Britain? FFS, Gordon Brown is living proof that Nasty can gain power and will do anything to keep it. Don''t be too nice too long, Dave, or you may not outlive a kamikaze enemy.

I'll wait. For now.

But the electorate is angry, Mr Cameron. Fucking furious, since you ask.

We want revenge on Labour. We want some blood, even if it makes you wince a bit. OK, not the all out slaughter of which we have been dreaming. The odd gnash will suffice. Then you can go back to playing nice."

2. Donal Blaney reports the latest piece of US Democrat brainwashing and Obamamessiah news; that:

"In an effort to brainwash kids, Random House have published Barack Obama - Out Of Many, One, a book targeted at 5-7 year olds and that I have been sent by a concerned parent. It makes for very disturbing reading. Needless to say George W Bush didn't merit such a book to be written about him.

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Out Of Many, One is a piece of propaganda that Goebbels would have been proud to have produced.

Out Of Many, One omits reference to One Term Barry's education at a madrassa in Indonesia, his work with the corrupt community group, Acorn, his underhanded campaigning in the City of Sleaze (aka Chicago) or his consorting with domestic terrorists such as Bill Ayers and hate-filled preachers and race-mongers such as Jeremiah Wright or Al Sharpton. Instead kids are force-fed a diet of one-sided pap that would make Stalin blush. The only surprise in Out Of Many, One is that his white grandmother actually gets a mention. "

I do wonder if the US Democrats really want to encoiurage this 'cult of personality', have they no knowledge of history and how such left wing cults end up - Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot etc. etc.


3. Tory Bear wonders how low the Gordian will go and concludes that:

"Gordon is deliberatly trying to score party political points by stirring up trouble. Now TB knows that sectarian politics is relished in the inner workings of the Scottish Labour Party, but when you are representing the United Kingdom as its leader, you do not stir up a delicate balance of power with references to an English enemy to score cheap shots at your rival. And frankly the piece is a shoddy copy and paste of a one sourced smear."

I am shocked...