Thursday 22 June 2017

This deserves a round of applause...

Unlike yesterday's so-called revolutionary Day of Rage, which deserved this reaction:

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The shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, had called for a million protesters to take to the streets for a mass conniption fit/nappy-filling tantrum over Labour's failure to win the general election - apparently, "up to" 500 were involved in yesterdays' demo. Presumably, all the trustafarian snowflakes melted in the intense heat. 

Pondering the efforts to rehouse and compensate victims of the Grenfell Tower fire, I was relieved to realise that our property isn't sufficiently upmarket to be requisitioned by our Labour council for humanitarian purposes. But, like the comedian Lee Hurst, I was somewhat bemused by the laissez-faire attitude to weeding out false claimants which some of our politicians are demanding:
I have absolutely no idea why somebody who shouldn't be in this country occupying a property they shouldn't have been living in should be rewarded in any way whatsoever for having survived the disaster. Are private landlords expected to compensate squatters who get hurt in a building they're illegally occupying? (I wouldn't be in the least surprised to hear that the answer is yes.) Khan is merely deploying the standard left-wing technique of upping the virtue-signalling ante in an effort to come up with a demand that no sensible government could possibly accede to - at which point, he can accuse the Tories of being grotesquely uncompassionate and Literally Hitler. It's astonishing how many people still fall for this tired old trick. But, then, 40% of the electorate voted for a party led by Jeremy Corbyn. 

6 comments:

  1. "Manspreading is an ugly zing!" Inspector Kemp.

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    1. To be fair, The Original looks like he has a perfectly good reason for manspreading. It's skinny little geeks acting like they've got massively muscled thighs and a truly stupendous lunchbox that really get on my wick.

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    2. Yes, that is a fair observation about "The Original". I wonder if Roddy McDowell was a manspreader? If so, I hope he didn't do it while just wearing his Speedos because they were notorious for popping the jatzcrackers.

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    3. Mind you, that might account for McDowell's distinctly falsetto delivery.

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  2. Talking of the insufferable London Mayor [if the rings round his eyes get any darker he is going to end up looking like a Panda cub] I am in awe at the speed of his arrival at the scenes of gruesome massacres and disasters and his prominence at various memorial services, all-night vigils and the obligatory instant shrines. He even popped up in Manchester after an eye blink. He must have a superb information network.

    The skill with which he manages to intrude himself into these tragedies and establish ownership of them is breath taking.

    After the 17-year old Ms Georgia Gould of Camden Council triggered the involuntary evacuation of several hundred residents from suddenly "unsafe" tower blocks the Mayor tweeted " I will continue working closely with all boroughs, the LFB, and the Government and we will do everything possible to keep all Londoners safe." [Timed: 2037, 23rd June].

    Theresa May then tweeted "My thought are with residents being evacuated in Camden while their homes are made safe tonight." Timed : 2132, 23rd June]. In order to catch up with little Speedy Khan the PM is now sending out her "hearts and thoughts" messages before a catastrophe has taken place. Unusual ploy.

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    1. "I have just received the tragic news that Mrs Singh of Acacia Road has served her family an undercooked meal. Again. My thoughts go out to everyone affected by this disaster, and I will run towards the danger and not away from it by continuing to work tirelessly with the world's manufacturers of cooking appliances and the pre-packaged ready-meals industry to ensure that underdone dinner misery becomes a thing of the past for ordinary, decent, hard-working Londoners. The Acacia Road Residents Association will be holding a candlelit vigil for the Singh family this evening, and I will, of course, be attending, and doing my best to look upset for the television cameras."
      The Mayor of London

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