Howling Paranoia, Simmering Fascism, and a Distinct Lack of Irony.

The howling paranoia demonstrated by Brexiteers, after the decision of three high court judges, that parliament must vote on triggering Article 50, is a textbook example of a nation in danger of being consumed by neo-fascism.

The irony that such grotesque levels of hate and paranoia are being incited against the so-called self-serving establishment elites, by such people as Rupert Murdoch (News International), Dacre and The Rothermeres (Editor and proprietors of the Daily Mail), the Barclay brothers (owners of the Telegraph), right-wing members of the Tory party, and Nigel Farage (leader of the right-wing United Kingdom Independence party), is beyond satire. These people are not anti-establishment or anti-elitist. They are the self-serving establishment! They are the self-serving elite!

Brexiteers moan about being patronised and portrayed as uneducated by those who voted to remain in the European Union, but when you have a situation where there are calls by Brexiteers, for Nigel Farage to be given a peerage and become a member of the House of Lords (the most establishment and elitist institution in Britain, apart from the Monarchy), when he has built his political career by attempting to portray himself as anti-establishment and anti-elitist, it’s laughable. And those Brexiteers who believe Farage should be made a Lord and cannot see him for the liar, fraud and fascist rabble rouser, that he is, deserve to be ridiculed and laughed at for their utter hypocrisy and stupidity.

When Brexiteers accuse anybody, who exercises their right to freedom of speech by constructively pointing out the negative aspects of leaving the European Union and, using facts and empirical evidence, point out how it could be to the detriment of many mainly poor people, of being treasonous, or traitors, then those Brexiteers can rightly expect to be treated with the disdain their attitudes deserve. Or when British judges, who are just doing their jobs by carrying out the letter of the law, are branded by a right-wing rag, masquerading as a newspaper, as ‘enemies of the people’, then expect that newspaper to be called out as the fascist supporting rag it is. Is that echoes of “hurrah for the Black shirts” I hear, emanating out of Wapping? It would appear that the dark clouds of fascism are yet again gathering above Britain.

Why are Brexiteers so afraid of democracy? I thought they voted leave so that British sovereign laws would be applied in British courts by British judges. Their wish has been granted, yet because a judgement hasn’t gone their way, the Brexiteers cry foul and scream victimhood. Again, if you act like paranoid, small-minded, infantile, ill-thinking, irrational hypocrites, then expect to be treated in that manner. I’ve known toddlers, who have been told they can’t have a biscuit until they’ve eaten all their dinner, to be more reasonable and to have a better grip on reality.

Why are Brexiteers always so angry and furious? Last time I looked, they won the referendum, yet Brexiteers seem to be in a constant state of rage. If we are not careful, the tragic murder of Jo Cox will not be an exception, but a normality. Already, as a nation, we are experiencing a massive increase in hate crimes. People attacking or killing others because of their skin colour, or because they speak with an accent or in a foreign tongue????? What has this country come to???? The people that perpetrated these crimes are racist scum and shame Britain.

There is a fault line developing in Britain which, if it is not addressed, will see Britain descend into an inferno of hate and neo-fascism. This inferno is being stoked by right-wing newspapers, radio presenters who are nothing more than talentless self-interested hate preachers, and opportunistic politicians. Their hate-filled ideologue is being poured into the ears of Brexiteers, many of whom are happy to listen and are willing foot soldiers for neo-fascism. When a Minister of the State, Sajid Javid, irresponsibly stokes the fires of discontent, by openly questioning the impartiality of the British justice system, you realise we are moving into dangerous times. Javid has shown himself to be just another opportunistic and populist politician. The way the Tory government are now parading themselves as zealous Brexiteers, you would be forgiven for forgetting that over two thirds of the party were avid Remainers. Javid came across as a budding Asian Oswald Mosley.

My message to Brexiteers is simple, Calm down. Crawl out of the dark and step into the light. Do not worry. Britain is leaving the European Union. Your wet dreams will come true. Parliament will vote in favour of triggering Article 50. If you can name me more than twenty Members of Parliament (excluding Scottish Nationalists), who will vote against the government, then I will show you a group of MP’s who are either standing down at the next General Election, are happy to commit political suicide, or represent a pro-remain constituency.

What Brexiteers will have to accept, is that we are a parliamentary democracy and we elect MP’s to represent us and to pass legislation on our behalf. They are charged with upholding the Constitution and working in the best interests of the nation, ‘the entire nation’. Britain is not a dictatorship ruled over by Chairman May and her Politburo of apparatchiks.

The sooner Brexiteers realise it is not all about them and it’s not all a massive conspiracy, then the sooner they can rid themselves of the giant persecution complex that appears to be weighing them down, and then hopefully their victimhood, and their hatred for anybody with an opposing view, will eventually subside.

It’s either a grown up and rational discussion about what’s best for the country, or bring on the Civil War.

Of course, if Brexiteers feel so strongly about the judgement and things don’t go their way in the Supreme Court, they could always take their case to the European Court of Human Rights.

The homophobic Daily Heil.

Part of the Daily Mail’s coverage of the High Court judgement involved the paper describing one of the judges as ‘openly gay’. This is possibly one of the most disgusting pieces of veiled homophobia I have seen printed for many a year.

Neo-Fascist Hate Trolls.

Below are some of the online comments made about Gina Miller, one of the people that brought the Brexit case to the High Court.

“someone kill her, put two behind her ear and dump her with the rubbish”.

“anybody want to sign up and rape her”.

“someone should stab the black b&*ch”

“who’s going to help me rape this b&*ch

“P&*S off back to that p&*s-pot banana republic you came from, b&*ch”.

These commenters are the willing foot soldiers of neo-fascism mentioned in the main article of this blog. Proof they are not a fabrication of my addled mind.

 

“emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds”. (Robert Marley).

A Guide to Being a Fascist Racist Bigot Patriot (?).

·        Start the day with a full English breakfast until you remember your wife has left you for a Polish plumber.

·        Have a packet of crisps for your breakfast.

·        Jump in your van, flatbed truck, or salesman’s saloon, and look at the pictures in The Sun newspaper, you tossed onto the dashboard yesterday,

·        Ogle the picture of the barely legal, topless women on page three and ponder whether you have time to pop back indoors and have a wank.

·        Tune your radio to Dogwhistle Radio.

·        Listen to the presenter complaining about the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) while nodding in agreement and muttering angrily “BBC, bunch of commie lefties”.

·        Wind down the window and sexually harass a young girl who is obviously a schoolgirl. The school uniform being the clue.

·        Get angry with young girl when she doesn’t smile at you and show any  gratitude for your attentions, before informing her “what she needs”.

·        Stop at newsagent, park on yellow lines, and buy The Sun.

·        Resent the Asian man that serves you.

·        Ogle picture of barely legal topless women on page three.

·        Carry out job of work whilst complaining that wages have been suppressed, working conditions have deteriorated and workers’ rights have been stripped away. Take the cowards way out by blaming immigrants rather than exploitative employers.

·        Complain that trade unions have too much power and ‘hold the country to ransom’.

·        Shout at person in street, who isn’t white, “to go home” while reminding them, “that’s what we voted for”.

·        Tell work colleagues, or a stranger, how “that Theresa May knows what she’s talking about when she talks about patriotism”.

·        Tell a joke, to work colleagues, about how Scottish First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon hasn’t got any kids because she’s obviously a lezza.

·        Tell a joke about how that immigrant loving kraut, Angela Merkel, hasn’t got any kids because she’s obviously a lezza.

·        Go quiet, and hope nobody remembers that Theresa May hasn’t got any children.

·        Sexually harass two attractive women before shouting, after they’ve rebuffed you, to “go back where you came from” when you realise “they’re talking foreign”.

·        Ring estranged 16-year-old daughter.

·        Ogle picture of barely legal topless girl in paper.

·        At least three times a day, blame everything that is crap about your life on foreigners or people that look foreign.

·        Never blame anything that is crap about your life, on the right wing, predominately foreign owned, racist spewing press/media, or opportunistic politicians.

·        During the day, tell at least three people that you think Donald Trump seems to know what he’s talking about.

·        Mistakenly tune radio to BBC.

·        Shout at radio.

·        Remind yourself to watch The Great British Bake Off tonight.

·        Retune radio to Dogwhistle Radio.

·        Nod head in agreement with the burkini being banned whilst getting angry when western women are required by law to wear the hijab in some Arab countries.

·        Listen to presenter doing the work of Rupert Murdoch by criticising the BBC.

·        Agree with the presenters’ idea that all foreign workers should wear some sort of marking on their clothing. Maybe a yellow star.

·        Straighten Cross of St George seat covers.

·        Stare angrily at a black man.

·        Shout “go back where you came from” before staring, blank and confused, when he replies, in a Birmingham accent “What, Solihull”.

·        Buy coffee from non-tax paying conglomerate.

·        Resent being served by a foreigner.

·        Jump in vehicle of choice, probably foreign made.

·        Complain about potholes and wonder where our taxes are spent. Blame immigrants.

·        Don’t forget to differentiate between the good foreigner (White South African, Australian, North American, Kiwi) and the bad foreigner (Eastern European, Asian, middle eastern, South American and African, particularly North African).

·        Agree with yourself that this country is turning into a shithole and that it’s all the fault of Muslims.

 ·     Throw empty coffee cup, from non-tax paying conglomerate, out of vehicle window and into hedge.

 

·        Reminisce about the Empire at least once during the day.

 

·        Resent a disabled person.

·        Feel superior by laughing at a homeless person.

·        Admire attractive woman while wondering why she’s dressed like a slut.

·        Try to ring daughter again.

·        Tell any work colleagues, who will listen, that you can’t say what you want these days.

·        At least twice a day, dehumanise a foreigner. Like the Nazi’s did to the Jews. (note to Author: you’re not allowed to mention the Nazi’s. It upsets the Nazi’s Patriots).

 

·        At least once a day yearn for the days when Britain was British. When there was a copper on every street and a porter on every train platform. When you could put up signs saying “no blacks, no Irish, no dogs”, or when the Tory’s could use an election slogan saying “If you want a ni**er for a neighbour vote Labour, or P*ki bashing was considered a legitimate weekend pastime and when women knew their place.

·        Mention ‘political correctness gone mad’ at least three times during the day, that freedom of speech doesn’t exist anymore in Britain and then scream for someone who has said something you disagree with, to be sacked. 

 ·      At least once a day whine on about ‘do gooders’ and anybody who has the temerity to care about the plight of others.

·        Complain about the Human Rights Act unless of course your human rights are being breached, because your human rights are really important whereas you don’t give a toss about anybody else’s because you're a self serving hypocrite.

·        Complain that the person who wrote this blog is a traitor and should be shot or hung, or both, because he or she has a point of view which you don’t agree with.

·        Go to pub. Stand at end of bar.
 

This guide is not exhaustive and is supposedly humorous. If you don’t laugh, it means I’m writing about you.

If you read this article and just feel sad, it is perfectly understandable.

Although this blog is male-centric, female Fascist Racist Bigot Patriots are also available. Go to katiehopkins@vile&hateful.co.uk.

 

 

“Cowards always punch downwards. Heroes always punch upwards.”

Two Months of Nothing but Empty Words.

 

Theresa May has been Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland for two months, and it has been two months of vacuous platitudes followed by knee jerk reactionary nonsense, probably dreamt up by the policy advisor she has presumably headhunted from UKip (United Kingdom Independence Party) or some extreme right wing think-tank.

She began by standing outside No 10 and delivered a pile of platitudinous bull crap about social justice, helping the poor, and saying how she understood how people were struggling, whilst reminding us that Brexit means Brexit (whatever that means?). Just remembering it makes me want to dry heave. She then gave into the corporates over the sugar tax and continued her predecessors habit of not answering any questions at Prime Ministers Questions Time, but instead continuing to use it as platform to spew out rehearsed and meaningless propaganda, as well as delivering pathetic prescripted jokes in such a stilted and embarrassing manner, even I cringe on her behalf. I think humour and Theresa May are very distant cousins. I’m certain they’ve never met.

In two months the Brexit negotiations have quickly descended into empty rhetoric and has highlighted that May, David Davis (Oberleutenant in Charge of Brexit Negotiations), Boris Johnson (Oberleutenant in Charge of not wanting to leave the European Union but pretending he did for the purposes of career advancement), and Liam Fox (Oberleutenant for ??), have not got a clue what they are doing. I just hope their travel expense claims are being checked, because a Tory minister was caught claiming tax payers’ money for their man friend as he accompanied Fox (oops) the minister around the world on ministerial business and the minister was sacked. Weird that isn’t it. If you are claiming welfare benefits and claim monies you are not entitled to, you get banged up, yet if you misappropriate tax payers’ money as a minister, you get to step back for a year or two before being offered another well paid job within the government of the country you ripped off. How very meritocratic. Anyway, enough about suspect politicians. Back to Brexit.

The government’s attitude to Brexit at the moment is, we don’t know what we’re doing, so stop asking annoying questions about the negotiations because we are not going to tell you anything because then you won’t know what we haven’t achieved. Apparently reclaiming sovereignty means a lack of transparency and a government acting in secrecy. When David Davis, the Minister for Brexit, made a statement in the House of Commons, instead of presenting a coherent strategy with objectives and deadlines, all we got was a blancmange of insipid generalisations, vague clichés and a lot of touchy feely nonsense about talking to people.

The brexiteers attitude (or as they like to be known, The 52, even though they’re actually only The 35) is, stop being critical you traitorous dogs. And why can’t you doubters embrace our neo-fascist nationalist dream of returning to those black shirted sunlit uplands of the 1930’s, when there were hardly any foreigners about, as well as shouting, “look it hasn’t fallen apart yet has it, ha,ha. I caught a bus yesterday. So there”. To which the reply is “we actually haven’t left the European Union yet, moron”. And  “oh and by the way, I thought I lived in a democracy with freedom of speech. so if I want to voice opinions on a particular subject, it’s my right to do so whether you like it or not. So shut up Fascists!” 

Finally, in an attempt to draw peoples’ attentions away from the Brexit debacle and all those annoying questions, Theresa May has deployed her first dead cat by announcing a policy to reintroduce selective educations through Grammar Schools and removing the obstacle that prevented faith based schools from being totally exclusive to one faith. Now we will be faced with the possibility of Catholic schools being solely filled with catholic children, Muslim schools will be solely Muslim, Hindu schools for Hindus and Jewish schools will be exclusively filled with children of the Jewish faith, rather than schools being filled with a diverse population of children from different faiths, class and demographics. They will become ghettos of faith where diversity is a dirty world and where it will be taught that people who are different are not to be trusted, considered as unbelievers, and destined for eternal hellfire. Exclusive faith schools will propagate fundamentalism and extremism as well as increasing the chances of flat earther’s teaching crackpot theories such as creationism whilst embedding misogyny and homophobia into impressionable minds.

This is not creating a fair and meritocratic society. This is creating a society based on difference and division. It is segregation. The end of any form of multi culturalism. It is one step nearer religious and social apartheid. It is the type of future members of Alt-Right have wet dreams about. A society will be created similar to the banlieus in French cities, where minorities are isolated and forgotten, leading to resentment, and where extremism often thrives.

Selective education leaves 80% of the school population behind, and is particularly deleterious to the chances and opportunities of children from poorer backgrounds. Labelling young children as failures is not a particularly constructive attitude to take. The majority of studies have shown selective education does not promote social mobility. Selective education benefits the few and impairs the opportunities of the many. In existing grammar schools, only 3% of pupils are eligible for free school meals. Grammar schools are stuffed full with middle class children while children from working class backgrounds are neglected and left to fail in substandard secondary schools. Selective education is anti-utilitarian. It is a retrograde step based on distorted, rose tinted memories from the 1950’s, and hampers meritocracy rather than facilitating it. I would have thought money used to finance yet another upheaval in our educational system would be better used creating technical and vocational schools and colleges, where people can train to become plumbers, electricians and carpenters rather than creating more Media Studies post graduates. An interesting footnote to the grammar school argument is that the Education Secretary who closed the largest amount of grammar schools was a certain Margaret Thatcher. Not sure what happened to her.

Theresa May’s words, and her actions, are miles apart. Her first two months in office started with progressive liberal rhetoric, stolen from former Labour leader Ed Milliband, and has ended with the promise of backward-looking and out-dated actions, where she is just granting wishes from the wish list of the right wing media and the extreme arm of the Tory party, whilst attempting to dress it up as social justice.

The chances of this policy coming to fruition are slim as it was not part of the manifesto that the Tory’s were elected on, which means when it goes through the House of Lords it will be rejected, and as it was not part of the Tory manifesto the Prime Minister will not be able to overrule the House of Lords, therefore this policy is destined to fail unless May calls a General Election.

So I’m afraid you’ve failed your exam Mrs May, so you will not be attending the local grammar school. But not to worry, we’ve managed to find you a place at the Creationist and Homophobe School for Women Haters Secondary but Not Very Modern School.

Travel Advice.

A Chinese airline has given some very helpful information to travellers to the United Kingdom, in their in-house magazine. They have advised travellers not to enter certain areas in the United Kingdom as they are full of Indians, Pakistanis, and Blacks, and it may be dangerous. All very enlightened stuff.

I felt it would only be right to reciprocate.

However, my advice is for cats and dogs, and is as follows.

If you are a cat or a dog, and you find yourself travelling in China, beware, there are some areas where you might be thrown into a boiling vat of water, skinned alive, and then eaten by sub-human scum.

The difference between the Chinese airlines advice and mine, is that my advice is true.

 Canned Hunting.

In South Africa they carry out the incredibly unpleasant pastime of Canned Hunting. This involves lions, and other game that have been reared in cages, being let out in fenced enclosures to be shot by gutless spineless cowards, normally men, but not exclusively, from the back of trucks or other places of safety. These so-called 'hunters' are in no danger whatsoever from the lion, which normally wanders listlessly around, bemused at being freed for a few minutes, before these gutless scumbags and sorry excuses for men blast away at it and then congratulate each other for being so 'brave'. Some animals are shot with crossbow's.
Obviously the rifles and crossbows are an extension of the incredibly small penis's these retards are in possession of and killing animals from the safety of a truck is replacement therapy for their sexual inadequacies and latent, 'probably' unfulfilled sexual yearnings, they experience towards their mothers. What a bunch of sad fuc*s!
I expect it's the kind of leisure activity muscle stimulant salesman, Ian Botham, would probably enjoy.

 
The Houses of Parliament.

The Houses of Parliament are in a state of disrepair and Members of Parliament may have to move out for up to six years. The question is, where should they move to? The answer is obvious. Why don’t they cut out the middle man and just relocate to the headquarters of Rupert Murdoch’s News International?

Ways to wind up a Brexiteer. No 764.

Suggest to them that the best way to take back control of our borders would be to move the Calais jungle across the channel to Dover.

 

“the only education a child needs, is to be taught to read. The rest is brainwashing”.

Five Million Pounds a Medal.

 

Each medal that Britain won at the Olympics only cost 5 million pounds. So when your local baby unit is starved of funds, or your library has been closed, or your care visit is nothing more than someone appearing briefly at your window and waving, I hope you stop for a minute and think about the sacrifices that were made for each of those medals and perhaps have a thought about the people who made those sacrifices................. you and me.

 

More News About Bird Killers.

In my previous blog I suggested that ex-cricketer and current Muscle Stimulant Machine salesman, Ian Botham, was attempting to get television presenter and wildlife campaigner, Chris Packham, sacked from the British Broadcasting Corporation because of Packham voicing his views on the crimes being committed and the environmental damage being perpetrated on grouse moors.

 That wasn’t totally accurate and I feel I must amend my comments.

It would appear that Botham also wants to tarnish the reputation of the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) who are obviously an evil organisation, as they go around doing all that protecting of bird life and their environment. Botham is a rent-a-gob for an organisation called ‘You Forgot the Birds’, which is backed by a hedge fund manager, several newspaper editors and bankers, as well as several owners of grouse shooting moors. In other words, a lot of tweed clad, privileged, self entitled hoorays and their fellow inbreds.

I think I know whose side I’m on, and it’s not Botham’s and the sociopathic 1 percenters he does his toadying for, while doffing his cap and tugging his forelock.

The real concern here is that we have an organisation, backed by wealthy individuals, that is economic with the truth, spews out self serving propaganda and believes that they can silence freedom of speech, using their money and the right wing media.

Their attitude is “You’re poor. Shut the *uc* up plebs. We’re wealthy, we can do what we like”.

It’s fascism in action. Loud and proud in 21^st century Brexit Britain.

 Whining Brexiteers.

Talking about Brexit (note: we’ve not left yet Brexiteers, and I don’t think we’re going to. Hee Hee.) A lot of Brexiteers have been whining about people who voted to remain not getting behind the project and that we should all pull together. The response to that is, GET STUFFED!!!! YOU BROKE IT, YOU FIX IT! DON’T COME INTO MY HOUSE, SMASH IT UP, AND THEN TELL ME I HAVE TO SORT OUT THE MESS.

You created the mess, you sort it out. And if you don’t do a proper job, we’ll come a-knocking. If the party, you voted for, doesn’t win the General Election, it’s not the law that you have to support the party you didn’t vote for. What you do, is point out why you didn’t vote for them and hold them to account until you get another chance to vote (note: in this case, when a second referendum is held. hee hee).

So shut up whining, Brexiteers, you’ve got a lot of work to do.

 Stuff That Doesn’t Prove the Remainers were Wrong. (it’s just a bit of fun Brexiteers. Chill out. We accept that 65% of the electorate, eligible to vote, didn't vote to leave.).

·        The economy not crashing immediately after the referendum vote. Give it 2/3 years.

·        On the morning after the referendum, your bus was on time.

·        The electric’s still on.

·        Tourists are still coming to Britain. Fall in the pound?

·        Yesterday it was sunny.

·        Unemployment figures dropping. A low wage and insecure jobs market is not proof of a booming economy. It’s the exact opposite.

·        Great Britain winning 60+ medals at the Olympics. If we do ever leave the European Union, totally, I expect the 500 million pounds spent on our athletes will be needed for a new round of quantitive easing by the time of the next Olympics.

·        England finally triumphing in the European Championships………. Oh, hold on.

·        Wales doing well in the European Championships.

·        The housing market hasn’t crashed…….yet.

·        Positive economic news. Unless you have empirical evidence it is down to Brexit it’s probably just cyclical.

·        Major companies like Nissan haven’t packed their bags and left…….yet.

The true effect of Brexit will only become known 5-10 years after Article 50 is triggered. That’s if it is ever triggered.


Don't Forget the Orangutans.

 

Within the next ten years, Orangutan’s living wild will be extinct.

 

 

Murderous Psychopaths Roaming Free in the British Countryside.

 

Shooting and hunting folk are a law unto themselves. They like to be thought of as the guardians of the countryside. The people who supposedly care for the environment and who are saving it from destruction. They do it with the proviso that the taxpayer hands them millions of pounds in subsidies (benefits for the upper and middle classes), but insist that those same taxpayers should keep their noses out of countryside business. “Bloody townies, gerroff my land!” They cry. “You don’t understand country ways”. They add. And, “to be honest, if you don’t give us bucket loads of money, we won’t give a toss about the countryside.” Although that last comment is rarely said but often thought.

The truth is, we understand all too well.

We understand that subsidies, or the proper word for them, Benefits, keep failing businesses alive and is poorly targeted. How can it be right that a 1000 acre shooting estate should be in receipt of thousands of pounds in benefits, when the low paid and the disabled, living in the countryside, are having their benefits stripped away from them.

We understand that their desperation to have the Hunting Ban lifted has nothing to do with controlling the fox population but because it is, in their opinion, jolly good fun for a bunch of hoorays and their inbred followers to chase a sentient creature across the countryside, with a pack of hounds, to the point of exhaustion, before watching, probably with erections, as the living creature is ripped apart.

We understand that grouse moors are stripped clean of all wildlife, to protect non-indigenous game birds, so that the same hoorays along with bankers, gormless ‘celebs’, newspaper editors and other assorted idiots, can blow those same game birds out of the sky, for fun, while the same inbred followers walk towards the guns with sticks.

We understand that shot gun licences are also subsidised by the taxpayer. How strange that a nurse from Exeter, or a low paid care worker from Grimsby, or a firefighter from Newcastle should see their taxes used to subsidise the cost of a gun license for Lord Hooray, the editor of the Daily Mail, or some nouveau riche restaurateur. Suddenly, it seems, they are quite happy for a bit of townie involvement.

We understand that criminal acts are being frequently perpetrated throughout the countryside, as protected raptors such as harriers, buzzards, eagles and other species are shot and poisoned, while hardly any criminal prosecutions see the light of day. Even Prince Harry has knowingly been involved in the criminal act of shooting a protected raptor with apparent impunity.

We understand that numerous raptors that were being tracked, have disappeared over grouse moors, including eight electronically tagged golden eagles.

We understand that the population of indigenous species such as stoats, weasels, badgers and foxes are being depleted or destroyed in the countryside because they are poisoned or shot as vermin. I think we can all agree that the real vermin are standing at the other end of the heavily taxpayer subsidised shotgun.

We understand that grouse moors are drained, which leads to extreme ecological damage and causes flooding in cities, towns and villages lower down.

We understand that grouse moors are burned, which destroys any wildlife that may have managed to avoid the murdering psychopaths and causes major environmental damage.

We understand that people from the ‘nasty brigade’ like Ian Botham (in case you’re wondering, he used to play cricket. Now he advertises Electrical Muscle Stimulation machines ?????????), pop up on a regular basis to berate and try to shut down anybody who has the temerity to point out the crimes, damage and misdemeanours being committed in the countryside. Botham himself has recently called for the sacking, from the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) of presenter and animal rights campaigner Chris Packham, because Packham has the temerity to voice his views on grouse shooting, inconveniently highlighting the environmental damage being caused and the crimes being committed. Isn’t it strange how the people who whine about not being free to say what they want, normally blaming political correctness, are always the first to try and shut down freedom of speech when someone else says something they disagree with. I think it’s called self-serving hypocrisy with a whiff of fascism.

We understand all of the above.

What we don’t understand is this. Why do they enjoy killing things? Are they psychopaths? Why do they enjoy slaughtering beautiful creatures like hen harriers or golden eagles? What pleasure do they derive from seeing a living creature being ripped apart or blown to smithereens? Why do they want to wipe the countryside clean of iconic animals such as the badger or the stoat or the weasel or the buzzard or the otter?

Do they, like a serial killer, get pleasure from watching life die before their eyes? Do they experience the same emotions and urges as the Yorkshire Ripper, or Fred West or Harold Shipman? All three were heartless killers who enjoyed hunting down their prey and revelled in the kill.

Is it the power that hunters crave and enjoy? The control over another living creature? Are these the same squalid perversions that also drive the paedophile, or the women beater, or the rapist? Are the depraved and deviant appetites of the paedophile and the rapist the same as the game hunter?

I think we may be onto something.

Two Ideas to Improve my Olympic Experience

Idea 1: Rating: Mischievous.

As a Brit, over the last few Olympics, I have been able to bask in the reflected glory of strangers who happen to share the same nationality as me. However, I’m bored with it now. I miss the days when the whole nation was heartened when a three-day eventer won a silver or when an extraordinary, rather than ordinary event occurred, such as a 400 metre hurdler winning gold while his fellow teammate won a bronze, (oh joy! Thank you David Hemery and John Sherwood. Mexico City 1968). Now British rowers, athletes, and cyclists are winning golds for fun, and even trampolinists are winning silvers (I didn’t even know trampolining was a sport!). I’m not even sure that’s how you spell trampolining. That’s how uneducated I am about the sport and its existence. I hope the trampolines used, were left out in the garden all winter, had half the safety netting missing, and were covered in some unidentifiable green algae. Otherwise it's not proper trampolining!!!!!!!

The solution is simple. Withdraw all lottery funding immediately and redirect it into the National Health Service, so that Aunt Netty can get her varicose veins sorted, and in future we can share vicariously, in the rare but precious glory of a boxer winning a silver, or a trap shooter who manages to scrape a bronze.

Idea 2: Rating: Serious.

If you are successful as an athlete, because of lottery funding, and that success leads onto lucrative endorsements such as high end watches, clothing, jewellery, beauty products or cars, surely, rather like tuition fees, if the athlete achieves a certain level of income, that funding, or at least a part of it, should be paid back to the treasury so it can be used to help another young athlete.

 Death of a Schoolgirl.

Although I do not agree with the misguided actions of London schoolgirl Kadiza Sultana, who went to join Islamic State and eventually died in a Russian airstrike in Raqqa, I also do not agree with the levels of triumphalism and glee demonstrated by the mainly right wing goon squad, who appear to be revelling in the death of a child. Frankly I find it disgusting and probably similar to actions you would expect to see from Islamic State supporters if the situation had been reversed. I have a distinct feeling that the right wing goon squad and supporters of Islamic State are probably cut from the same cloth.

 Bumper Stickers Currently Annoying Brexiteers.

It’s not my fault. I voted to remain.

You broke it, you fix it.

It wasn’t me. I voted to remain.

 

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