They were all radical student leftists. They were handed the levers of the machinery of government and given a chance to enact the politics of their dreams. Now when they are starting to see the chaos they've created they start to backtrak. Hopefully it is not too late, but the mayhem New Labour (in conjunction with the old Tories of the John Major wing) has created in Britain will take a long long time to rectify.
And the man to do it is not the "Boy King" Cameron of the New Tory party.
Britain, just like most Western countries has a terrible lack of good leaders. At the moment the only two countries that actually have a politician of class leading their countries are Australia and Canada (good old Anglosphere).
(I still haven't given up on President Bush, but he appears to have been totally winged after the last election. Waiting for the fightback!)
Ping!
(Hiding behind my desk in expectation of a proper thrashing!)
:-)
"The era of stupid government is over."
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
It has been under-remarked upon, or even unremarked upon, but our President has been frighteningly weak since the election. If he doesn't step up, and soon, he'll get rolled for the next two years to the detriment of all, especially us.
Alright dammit, if Tony freaking Blair has seen the light on assimilation why are some Americans still hazy on the concept?
Meanwhile, Bush protested, saying that Britain needed guest terrorists and that the Muslim immiagrants were only doing the carrying out of Allah's will that the British didn't want to.
Reading this makes me feel warm inside!
"They were all radical student leftists. They were handed the levers of the machinery of government and given a chance to enact the politics of their dreams. Now when they are starting to see the chaos they've created they start to backtrak. Hopefully it is not too late, but the mayhem New Labour (in conjunction with the old Tories of the John Major wing) has created in Britain will take a long long time to rectify."
You got it; hope you are wrong about the long time thing
this is not the first thread posted on this subject; but there seems to be a dearth of British posters
The most telling fact of his presidency was the nomination of Harriet Miers. There is no possible way, none whatsoever, that her nomination could have been made except by a shallow man, a man who skimmed his way thru life. No doubt a good person, Miers was of the ilk, so lacking in integrity and intelligence, that she did not care to take into consideration that she did not qualify for the job.
Conservatives are the anchor of this country. Or they ought to be. But the support of many conservatives of George Bush is witless; in my opinion, they defend him because of his enemies, and not because he deserves defending. That is illogical.
Islam is the antithesis of the liberty, rationality, and humanity of American conservatism, whatever variety. Yet the President is either a liar, or completely fails to grasp the fact. Islam is not "Islamism," nor is it "Isloamo-fascism". It is islam, a belief system so primitive and so barbaric, that most western minds refuse to consider that it actually exists.
The most prominent dunce about islam is the President. He has neither the insight nor the skill to deal with it.
The worship of mohammed is a bizarre and surreal fact of life. It is too obvious of a fact for this President, a skimmer, to notice.
Yep. Sorry too about bush. He was winged and is now being field-dressed to be trussed up for roasting.
Sounds like he read "Londonistan" and got the wake-up call
America, take note.
Thanks for the compliment on our Conservative PM Harper...a man of good character and integrity we had the good sense to elect to clean house after years of publicly scandalous Liberal govt corruption [including Liberal ties to a NY Mafia crime family].
Bush has not done the best job of convincing the American public that what we did in Iraq was the right thing. And, of course he is hampered by the media, but so have been all recent Presidents of the Republican stripe. In the beginning the Catholic Church came out against the war in Iraq and I understand that position much better now than I did then. I think the Church had a better understanding than our politicians of what would happen in that country. We were not prepared for what we found...or didn't seem to find (weapons of mass destruction).
Most people in this country are tired of being there and I think two things have worked against the President. We have not had another attack from terrorists (people are rather forgetful), and his administration has not done enough to put forth the evidence that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Sorry to say but so many of us on this side of the pond have a gamers attitude about conflict. We think that if we have just the right kind of weapon or right level of power we should be able to beat the foe pretty quickly. We waltzed into Iraq and thought the rest of the conflict was going to be just as easy as toppling Saddam's statue.
Wow.
Hope this spreads through the entire monarchy.
I wouldn't count on it, but you have to start somewhere.
B-b-but that's racist!
ScaniaBoy,
Don't give up on Bush.