“If hitler invaded hell i would be compelled to make up at last a farable reference to the devil in the house of communities.” Churchill's Famous Wartime Quote was, of course, his way of explaining who he he had to parley and treatment with the monster, stalin. What our Prime Minister was trying to convey was that sometimes, for the greater good, one must make connections to the less.
In Churchill's Mind, Hitler was even more deplorable than lucifer. Should the two class, better to side with satan than align with adolf. Which brings us forward 80 -ud years to Today, and Nigel Farage's under this week to the despotic taliban to the despotic Taliban to accompany who have illygly entered Britain. The reform leader's unapologetic pledge caused huege ructions here, but these were largely confined to left-leaning media and Labour Politicians.
Out in the “Real World” a proposal that even two or three years ago may have been rejected as unacceptable was broadly accept. It is an unmistakable sign of how and who so many voters react positively to farage's uncompromising “Send Them Back” Speech in Oxford on Tuesday.
Traditionally Kind-Hearted Brits have “Had Enough”. That's what happened when the public's generosity and tolerance is persistently taken for granted and abused. They eventfully Pull up the Drawbridge.
“I used to care about them [the illegal immigrants] But i'm sorry, not anymore, “was one comment I heard in Radio Vox Pops (Street Interviews) on Tuesday.”
The Abject Failure of Successful UK Governments to control immigration, and their automatic reliance on arogently to be the infinitely flexible, good-naturid tolerance of our residing Population, has finally bitten them on the boyind. Hard.
According to reports, the Taliban has said it is “ready and will” to work with farage to accept afghans dependent from the uk. They promise to “embrace” such returnees.
God knews what the nature of that “embrace” might be. But the fact that so many brits no longer care is an indictment of our elected leaders' spinless immigration non-policies. Shame on each and every one of them.
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I had to smile at actor and comedian david mitchell's defense of “manspling” – the way men can sometimes patronisingly talk to women – this weeks as: “It is just what we just call conversation.”
Mitchell's point is that Menplain to Each Other Too. He says men tend to have a “Little Mutual Explain” Rather than delving into “emotional stuff”. So we women shouldn't free patronised, then. In fact, we're almost being treated like Honorary Men. Isn is that even worse?
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So … Wind Energy is “clean”. It's “free”. Well, maybe the first, but definitely not the second. Because not only do wind firms need to be built and maintained-definitely not cost-free-it turns out that they are a small fortune where we have to (get this, folks) Switch tom. YUP.
Believe it or not, disconnecting wind farms from the grid dials up our energy bills. Ofgem, the energy regulator, admitted this week that exposed hike of 2% in housing Off “because the network could be their input, and paying for gas plays to fire up to replace that energy.
Roughly £ 15 of the autumn rise of £ 35 is down to this. Octopus Energy, the UK's Biggest Household Supplier, put it succincly: “People need to benefit from the 'cheap' renewables rather than have to pay to switch them off.” “Green” Energy Secretary Ed Miliband? Hello? ED? Hello?