Switching The Goalposts

The relentless onward march of trying to solve Broken Britain is fast turning us into a Stalinist society. The Daily Mail brigade is faithful to Lenin’s dictum that a crisis is too good to waste. An example is the ContactPoint database, designed to hold the most intimate details of children’s lives and circumstances. It came into existence on the coat-tails of a genuine problem. After Lord Laming’s report in 2003 into the horrific death of Victoria Climbié, there was a public outcry and a demand that social services get their act together.

One of the eventual outcomes was the devising of ContactPoint, a massive computer database to record information about children, for use by councils, healthcare and police, at a cost of £224m. Many concerns have been raised about its security – 390,000 people will have access to it. Now a fresh concern is being canvassed: that it may be used to demonise even toddlers who manifest yobbish tendencies and constitute a stigma attached to their names until age 24.

According to the civil liberties organisation the Manifesto Club, 250,000 “racist” incidents have been reported in schools since 2002. Most of these “incidents” were casual playground exchanges reflecting the naturally aggressive language of young children. But under the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2002 teachers are obliged to record all such occurrences and report them to the authorities – as if hard-pressed teachers had nothing more important to do.

Every sensible adult knows that angry children trading insults will seize upon any aspect of their opponent that can be turned to insult (“Fatty!”) and that this does not indicate the emergence of a sociopath. But we live in a society where a mother cannot push her own child on a swing in a playground unless she has undergone checks for criminality. Recently a two-year-old was reported to the authorities for hitting a neighbour’s cat with a stick. Any mother will tell you this is the bog-standard, totally normal behaviour of the “terrible twos”.

The concern now is that “racist” and other offences may be recorded on the ContactPoint computer and effectively blacklist a child for 20 years. Even the Tories have said they will replace ContactPoint with a small, targeted database. Much more drastic action than that is needed. We are no longer living in a free society and it will get less free unless and until we stamp out tabloids as ruthlessly as they have trampled on our liberties. There is no room here for compromise: they are a cancer that must be cut out.

The means could not be simpler: one single-clause Statute of Repeal. In the standard formula “Be it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty…” it would simply declare the repeal of all the Acts of Parliament listed in Schedule I hereto appended. That Schedule would be a list of every oppressive tabloid-influenced law passed by Labour since 1997. At a stroke it would remove the poison from the bloodstream of British life and restore freedom of speech and expression, as well as personal privacy.

Any political party aspiring to government should have such a Bill drafted before the next general election; should include it in its manifesto; and should enact it in its first month in office. Any party not committed to that course of action should be regarded as ineligible to receive the votes of British democrats and patriots. The remedy is there for us, straightforward and completely practical. It only remains for the public to find the resolution to square up to the Murdoch tyrants and see them off.

- as amended from the original article. By the way, the only words (Apart from amendments for grammatical accuracy) I replaced, were "Political Correctness", or "PC". Fascinating how logic can be spun with the replacement of two words, and be far more accurate.

Cultural Marxism

Dear BBC,

I, as a proud, self-registered member of "The Silent Majority", in this once great country, am getting increasingly alarmed by the preposterous levels of cultural and social Marxism displayed in your output. With certainty, I can tell you that I am losing a lot of sleep over it, and am becoming frightened to go out of my own home, because of it.
You, and many other PC, right-on do-gooders may get a cheap laugh out of these lefties, but not I; their antics are increasingly destroying the fabric of our society, and the BBC is busily engaged in emulating their ways, and trying to stain our culture with it.

Take Groucho, for instance, and his "witty" comebacks to his superiors, and all authority that stares him in the face; back in my day, we didn't make no cheeky retorts - we did what we were told. And that's the way it should be. Authority is unquestionable, yet Groucho, and all the other "right on" do-gooders that the BBC hire as "comedians" persist on defying this traditional, upstanding attitude. You can clearly see the effect this has on our feral youth of today, where they don't have the blindest bit of respect for authority, and, like Groucho, are making these "witty" retorts. It's just not on. A clip round the earhole would do these young shavers the world of good. Although we can't even do THAT nowadays, thanks to "yuman rights".

Chico, as well, and his Italian "gangster" accent; clearly glorifying the violent gangster culture, not to mention the rubbishing of our good, never changing English language. It's an absolute disgrace. The BBC are culprits of this as well, imbibing the attitudes of Chico. For starters, whenever there's yet another story about a feral yob vandalising property, or committing one crime or another, you won't even have the guts to call these young yobs for what they are; you'll always resort to something ridiculous, like, "restless young adult", or something else of a similar nature, radiating in sheer Political Correctness. As for the accents....don't get me started on THAT one; what on Earth, apart from even more Political Correctness, and the cultural undermining of our great English language, would be the reason for hiring people with bloody regional accents?! I'm routinely plagued with these new presenters, listening to them, and thinking to myself: Can't they pronounce ANYTHING right? This constant imbibing of Cultural Marxism is deeply disturbing, and the ordinary man on the street is becoming increasingly afraid to walk out on an evening, because of it.

Last and not least, there's Harpo; practical jokes aren't practical, or a joke. Let's be perfectly clear about that one. Slapstick has always promoted mass violence in our once great country, and is clearly a direct influence to the now named "happy slapping". (Only a Cultural Marxist would name this act "Happy", so even the name is a Cultural Marxist invention) Of course, back in my day, we didn't have no phones. We played football in the park. (Rugby, for us tougher, more macho folk) And again, the BBC wish to emulate this, by having their own slapstick comedians on, and airing shows, which use slapstick as humour. Our true, blue, British values are being eroded by the day, and the BBC is busily engaged in contributing to this erosion. Well, I, and many others are looking at this drastic downhill slope for our society, and must come to the conclusion that in 20 years, there won't be a Britain left, let alone a GREAT Britain. We urge you to ditch this Cultural Marxism immediately, before the effects of it are irreversible.

Yours faithfully,

Terry Shitehouse; a PROUD British.

How Political Correctness Has Ruined Our Society........

.....but not how we're usually told it has.

Initially, I asked various individuals what this term "Political Correctness" was, and what it meant. Naturally, I got a plethora of answers, varying from "social engineering created in the early 90s" (By whom?), to worryingly Nazi-like sounding arguments, about Political Correctness originating from Leninism.

But not one of these definitions gave to me had a shred of evidence behind it, nor did it actually amount to any meaningful definition, even if it was backed with evidence.

Because if it did, we'd know precisely what it was, and it wouldn't be "going mad and worse", as we're usually being told it is; if we knew what the ideology was based upon, we'd get the picture, but we're not given even the pigments.

And, yes, incidentally, when I pressed for an answer to what Political Correctness, as an ideology or doctrine is, I just got the response of "it's gone mad". Add a grating to the ear South London accent to that, and you'll get the exact response I received.

But then, you begin to realise that such attempts to find the actualities of it are futile. You'd be better and more accurate in crafting your own definition of it, which is what I have done: it's merely a newspaper buzzword to play on the paranoia of old, washed out traditionalists. And unlike the other crap definitions given to me, I DO have evidence to prove that one. One of the first modern relevant usages of the term was by Richard Bernstein in the New York Times, talking about the "Cultural Wars".

I used to laugh at the term, honestly. It was something of a spectacle, to see paranoid old white middle-class Daily Mail columnists deem the lack of hot-cross buns in hospitals as being something to do with it them being banned, under the guise of "Political Correctness".

But not anymore.

This made me change my mind.

A Question Time panel article on the BBC? What's so special about that?

Well...

When reading their short biography of Dambisa Moyo (Someone who I previously hadn't heard of), I came across this disturbing sentence:

"Here is an African woman, articulate, smart, glamorous, delivering a message of brazen political incorrectness: cut aid to Africa"

This sentence is just horrifying on so many levels. I'm not referring to the description of the controversial nature of Dambisa's views, or anything of the kind, but the mentioning of "political incorrectness". Since when the FUCK has debating whether STARVING people in the third world should be with financial aid or not, or whether it will be put to good use or not, had ANY-FUCKING-THING to do with Political Correctness? Controversial? Absolutely. Politically Incorrect? Who gives a motherfuck? Are we going to lose all our fucking sensibility and humanity in this drunken stupor of "hilarious", cutting edge wit of mocking or complaining about a perceived "Political Correctness"? Is THAT what we, as a society have came to, where the issue is not the simple ethical matters, like weighing up the factor of starving people in the third-world, but getting some brownie points over so-called "Political Correctness"? Absolutely disturbing

But this is what the fear of "Political Correctness" has manifested as: an agenda. An agenda which attracts. And makes money, too! Fuck the BBC for falling for this shit. Heavily.

But most importantly, fuck all the pathetic rags of newspapers which have perpetuated this new dolchstoss, as not only does it become a new agenda in itself, marketed like every other fucking thing under the sun, but it also becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; how many slimy councillors, after seeing some tabloid lie about local councils not doing such and such, on the basis of "Political Correctness", will mask their own fuckups and mis-management, by hiding behind the new reason of "Political Correctness", only for the lie to be then further spread by rag tabloids within the frenzied, rotating insanity of this "Political Correctness" anti-craze?

If we can disturbingly include the element of so-called "Political Correctness" into the issue of third-world starvation, then where do we end, to realise that this new, scaremongering agenda has become so warped that it trivialises the most horrific elements of the world? Had the term been about in the 1930s and 40s in the fashion that it is now, would the Holocaust have been trivialised in the same sense, with the Mailites of then, talking and whipping up fear over "Political Correctness" on the utter ugliness and horrors of the Holocaust at the time? It's a VERY scary concept. And it is able to trivialise any of the world's greatest catastrophes and injustices.