Closing down debate using the R word is a desperate move by the Conservatives

Today the Conservative party went into full headless chicken mode and rolled Jeremy Hunt out to use the Racism attack against UKIP.

This is a low form of politics since:

1. It aims to close down debate, and not to win it.
2. Its a smear, which is most effective for the person who first reaches for the mud ( normally ).
3. See the pictures below - which political party / govt produced these ? The charge is hypocrisy.
4. You legitimise this tactic to close down debate in the future and damage democracy as a result.

Of course the Conservatives think it will be effective in intimating people at the ballot box. 

There was a time when the Conservative party stood for principled debate, indeed it was a time that the Conservative party was confident in its own arguments and position to welcome a full and extensive debate - as it had the courage of its convictions and expected to be judged the winner of that debate by the jury of the British electorate.

No more. Today the tactics of Blair have been officially adopted.

There is one problem though, what the interns at CCHQ forget is that it wasn't the message in 2005 that was unpopular ( indeed polling showed it was very popular ) - it was the Conservative party.

That's even more their problem today, and its a position they have bought on themselves by unprincipled mud slinging that has been on show from their friends in the media and today by the Conservative party itself.

Conservatives 2005 campaign poster ( vandalised )

Home office campaign

I like Diane Abbott but

The now infamous tweet from Diane Abbott MP hasn't been taken out of context. ( The hash tag she used herself shows that she was referring to the present ).

She initially refused to apologies - all we got was weasel words. Even now that #RedEd has been on the case the line carries on being about being misunderstood.

We understood you fine Diane, and what's more you know we did.

Should she be fired ? I hope not. She's one of the few MPs with character who is capable on occasion of being  brilliant and independent minded. Yes she's suffered from the intellectual and moral failure of being a socialist, but we are all fallible.

But let remember next time some one from a different race or political creed makes a similar type of gaff not to build up that bonfire on the vanities any higher.

When someone says something racist they need putting right  not, in most instances, having their careers and lives ruined.

Perhaps this stupidity with John Terry could be treated the same way.

Labour to pay the price for its anti-Christian bias at the ballot box

Just found the quote over at Labour home from a Catholic voter in Crewe:

"None of the Catholics I know who take their faith seriously can take Labour seriously anymore"

The same article reports the views of a Labour MEP Mary Honeyball who has questioned the rights of a catholic to hold high office.

Whilst Stephen Pound (Labour MP and also a catholic) decries her views, he clearly suspects they have wide spread sympathy inside Labour as he introduces the possibility of a catholic political party.

So that's Labour showing bigotry in terms of religious, race and sexism - all in the same week.

As I've said before I don't see how any Christian could vote for the current Labour government or even be a member of such a monstrous party that whipped the legalised mnurder of children between 20 and 24 weeks gestation and tries to deny it ( see Harriet Harman. )

Labour to legalise discrimination and ingrain fundamental injustice

Harriet Harman - the woman who ran for her position in the Labour party on the basis of being a woman, rather than her rather obvious failings as a politician - is to try the first stage of ingraining an anti-male and anti-white culture into British law*.

Racism and sexism are now to be excused. (To some degree they have already been in place in some large companies. There are few employees in blue chip companies who don't know people who were promoted/favoured because of their 'diversity' rather than their talent.)

In the short term this will allow Ms Harman to force Labour MPs to have a higher token ethnic and female quota, a form of injustice that has till now been illegal.

What will follow in a few years will be required quotas for large and medium companies, especially boards. ( This is already the case in Norway ). Probably also for Parliament.

Thank goodness this government can't last much longer. I look forward to the long list of newspaper articles about white men being denied jobs because of Labour's racist and sexist law.

* Note: Of course in the area of family law males are already discriminated against.

PS No prizes for guessing what the BNP will make of this in Labour's heartland constituencies.

So MPs are to be chosen on racist grounds ?

Looks like a yes if your a Lib Dem .....