Remoaners must be tearing their hair out. Boris was in Germany with Merkel yesterday and the sore loser Remoaners (plus the europhiliac BBC and snarling, UK-hating idiots at C4 News) expected Merkel to give Boris a very firm “nein, nein, nein” when Boris insisted the Irish backstop must be scrapped. But, to the utter amazement of the craven, surrender-monkey EU-adorers, Merkel didn’t do her “nein, nein, nein” act. Instead, she intimated that another solution to the Northern Irish border issue could be found.
Today Boris will meet the (IMHO) arrogant, self-important, necrophiliac Macron who will, of course, say “non, non, non” much to the delight of the Remoaners, the BBC and treacherous West-loathing buffoons at C4 News. But poseur Macron is just Merkel’s French poodle:
So, despite his public heroics and well-practised intransigence, Macron will probably eventually surrender (as the French have always done throughout the ages) and do whatever his German boss tells him.
Bollox to HS2?
But Brexit isn’t the only area where our new invigorated PM is making his mark. He has also launched a review of the extraordinarily wasteful and unnecessary HS2 rail project.
I’ll make this part of my blog today simple so, were any politicians to be reading it, even they might understand.
France is a big country – about 640,000 km2. The UK is a small country – about 242,000 km2. England is an even smaller country – 130,000 km2. France has an extensive high-speed rail network – the TGV. It makes sense to have high-speed trains in a large country. It doesn’t make sense to have high-speed trains in a small country.
Now let’s go a bit deeper. The French train route from Paris to Lyon to Marseilles can probably be seen as comparable to the UK train route from London to Birmingham to Manchester in terms of how it connects major cities. But the differences in distances are huge. Paris to Lyon is 292 miles, whereas London to Birmingham is only 128 miles. And Lyon to Marseilles is 488 miles, whereas Birmingham to Manchester is just 86 miles.
The much greater distances in France justify a high-speed rail network. But squandering over £100bn on cutting just a few minutes off the train time from London to Birmingham and then even fewer minutes off the train journey from Birmingham to Manchester is utterly ludicrous.
There are many better things the Government could do with £100bn+ than the ridiculously unnecessary HS2 project.
She felt at home in Bradfordistan
And now for something completely different. Here’s a Crapistani movie star telling reporters how visiting Bradford was just like being in a “mini-Pakistan”.
Hmmmm – hooray for diversity and multi-culturalism!!!!!!
Here’s a shiny new Western-style shopping mall which opened just a couple of months ago:
It’s called the Lacasa Mall. But can you guess in which peaceful, prosperous town it has been built?
Yup, you’re right. It’s in Ramallah on the West Bank.
The lefties keep screaming and howling about how the Israelis oppress and impoverish the poor downtrodden Palestinians. But it seems that the Dubai investment company that built this brand new shopping mall knows a bit more about what is happening in the West Bank than dumb-ass, brainwashed, snowflake, Western, Israel-loathing, anti-semitic lefties. I rather doubt the investors would have built the mall if the West Bank was an impoverished, bombed-out sht*t-hole like the lefties claim.
And, while we’re on the subject of dumb-ass, brainwashed, snowflake, Western Israel-loathing, anti-semitic lefties, here’s a nice photo of the “Squad” – the four (IMHO) Jew-hating, West-hating, white-hating congresswomen Trump labeled the “four horsewomen of the Apocalypse”
Who has killed the most Palestinians?
Here’s another question for you. In the last 8 years, who has killed the most Palestinians – Israelis or other Arabs?
As lefties and the UN and all other such groups have been busy issuing one poisonous statement after another against Israel, a report released by the Action Group for Palestinians of Syria revealed that 250 Palestinian children have been killed in Syria since the beginning of the civil war in 2011.
According to the report, 128 children died under shelling; 15 were fatally shot by snipers; 11 were gunned down; two children were tortured to death; 22 drowned at sea while fleeing Syria; 22 others were killed in car explosions, and 35 died due to the blockade and medical neglect. Another 14 children died of other causes, including burns, suffocation, run-over accidents, and abduction.
The group pointed out that the total number of Palestinians killed in Syria since 2011 now stands at 3,989.
This 3,989 Palestinian deaths is slightly higher than the 3,529 Palestinians killed by Israelis over the same period. Ooops – another inconvenient truth that the lefties would rather that people didn’t know.
But there’s an important difference between the 3,529 Palestinians killed by the Israelis and the 3,989 killed in Syria. From what little I understand from the news and videos (on a website I dare not mention), the Israelis killed Palestinians while trying to defend their tiny country from total annihilation, whereas the Palestinians killed in Syria were killed because gentlemen from our favouritest religion rather enjoy killing each other.
Welcome to the Lacasa Mall
Anyway, here’s a very brief video of the opening of the Lacasa Mall. I don’t think we’ll see the BBC News or C4 mentioning the opening of the Lacasa Mall. They’re too busy hurling abuse at Israel and bleating about those poor oppressed Palestinians…….
Anyone who suggests that certain groups of people in the Third World are less civilised than we are in the West is clearly an idiot and a waacciiisssttt. Of course, many countries have different customs than us. But this is just ‘diversity’ and is something that should be celebrated.
So, today let’s visit India.
At the beginning of August this year, India banned “triple talaq,” a way men from our favourite religion divorce their wives by saying the Arabic word for divorce three times. This is apparently also banned in about 20 Religion of Peace and Progress countries including neighbouring Pakistan and Bangladesh.
That brings us to the story of 22-year-old Sayeeda. She and her husband lived in a village in Uttar Pradesh. They had been married since 2013. Her husband, 26-year-old Nafees, was working in Mumbai when he called her on the phone and divorced her using “triple talaq“. Knowing this was now illegal, Sayeeda went to report this to the police who told her to go away and stop wasting their valuable time.
When Sayeeda’s husband Nafees returned to their village from Mumbai, he told Sayeeda to go away as he now considered he had divorced her. Sayeeda refused and Nafees’s family did what any normal family in that part of the world would do – in front of their 5-year-old daughter, Nafees grabbed his wife by her hair and started beating her. Then several members of Nafees’s family joined in the fun by getting some cooking kerosene, pouring it over Sayeeda, lighting a match and shouting and laughing as Sayeeda burned to death.
Bride-burning usually occurs because the husband’s family try to extract further dowry payments – like a new fridge or TV or more money – from the wife’s family and they refuse. Then the husband’s family pour cooking kerosene over the wife and set her alight so the husband can marry again and maybe get that fridge or TV or more money or whatever the husband’s family had set their hearts on.
Bride-burning used to be one of the Indian subcontinent’s most popular sports till it was made a criminal offence in 1986. However, there are estimated to still be somewhere 2,500 and 5,000 bride-burnings a year and precious few criminal convictions. Usually the burnings are recorded as ‘kitchen accidents’. A 1997 report claimed that at least 5,000 women die each year because of dowry deaths and at least a dozen die each day in ‘kitchen fires’ thought to be intentional.
Strangely, Western feminists and libtards and progressives and Guardianistas and others of their ilk don’t seem to find this daily slaughter of Indian women something worth protesting about. And I don’t recall the BBC or C4 News ever mentioning these daily murders. I wonder why the ever-snarling Kathy Newman and the holier-than-thou Jon ‘F**k the Tories’ Snow and the small fat guy with the long name don’t consider this a story worth even a few seconds of their time.
I guess that’s because diversity is much more important than a few thousand women’s lives each year?
We’re a bit spoilt for stories this weekend. There were a few Germans stabbed and raped by members of Merkel’s migrant millions. Some gentlemen in Sweden, the USA and Germany were arrested for planning terror attacks. And, of course, we had the knife-murderer in Australia who stabbed a few people, killing one, while screaming about his “snackbar” in what the Australian police assure us was definitely not a terror attack.
Suicide or suicided?
Though one of the biggest stories of the week must be Jeffrey Epstein’s departure from the land of the living. The BBC announced this morning that the coroner had concluded that Epstein definitely committed suicide. This may be true. Nothing to see here folks. Move along.
Though hopefully some readers watched the video I posted yesterday which analysed the deaths of 46 people connected with the Clintons. Many died by apparent suicide whereas common sense would suggest they were ‘suicided’ like the man who shot himself in the head from 4 foot away and the pregnant woman (who claimed she had an affair with Cigar Bill) and shot herself in the back of the head just after packing her bags to go away somewhere.
I found a 25-minute video in which Stefan Molyneux interviews an A&E doctor with over 25 years’ experience. In the video, the doctor explains that there are two main ways of dying from hanging – slow asphyxiation from blocking the air passages and the more rapid broken neck. Most people sentenced to death by hanging die from a broken neck due to the several foot drop. When hangings go wrong, the bones in neck are not broken and the condemned person dies from the slower asphyxiation.
Robin Williams, who tied a belt round his neck and then attached it to a door, died from asphyxiation with no broken bones in the neck. However, the six-foot Jeffrey Epstein supposedly managed to replicate the effects of a judicial hanging – broken bones in the neck – using a sheet and a bunk bed.
Suicide or suicided? I guess we’ll never know.
Nobody lies like a “lying Tory Remoaner”?
But let’s move closer to home and look at the honesty or otherwise of one of the Tory MPs trying desperately to keep us in their beloved EU.
Here’s Sarah Wollaston with Jo Swinson as they both celebrate Wollaston’s defection from the Conservatives to the Change UK or the Independent Group or whatever that rabble was called and then her next defection to the LibDems:
There are two issues with Wollaston’s double defection:
Why did she join the LibDems? Explaining her decision to join the Lib Dems on Wednesday night, Dr Wollaston said: “As the strongest party for Remainers, we will lead the fight to stop Brexit.”
Why didn’t she call a by-election? Sarah Wollaston is on record as having lobbied for automatic by-elections for MPs who switch parties. But having now switched parties twice in a year, she seems curiously reluctant to face one herself possibly due to the fact that the LibDems only got 13% of the vote in her constituency in the 2017 General Election.
During a grilling by BBC presenter Victoria Derbyshire on her show, Dr Wollaston was asked whether she would describe herself as principled: “Er, well, I would describe myself as principled but…” Ms Derbyshire interrupted: “So when are you holding a by-election in your constituency?” to which Dr Wollaston replied: “That should be part of a general election.”
And now we hear that the honorable Dr Wollaston, who was elected as a Conservative, is prepared to support a Jeremy Corbyn government rather than a Conservative one. Some readers will conclude that Dr Wollaston is a strong principled woman who may be sacrificing her political career to do what’s best for our once great but now supine country. Other readers might come to a quite different conclusion?
So, let’s look at what the great Dr Wollaston promised her long-suffering constituents in a hustings before the 2017 General Election. No mention of “As the strongest party for Remainers, we will lead the fight to stop Brexit.”
In fact, in 2017 she absolutely promises to support delivering Brexit. Oooops!
I hope you’ve got something ready in case you feel sick watching this (in my humble opinion) ‘lying remoaner liar’:
I wanted to write about a story closer to home today. But then I came across the (IMHO) amazing video below. Normally I never recommend a video of more than 3 or 4 minutes. This one is about 16 minutes. It concerns the death of Jeffrey Epstein and 46 other people connected to the Clintons who died in quite unusual circumstances.
Just a couple of points before you watch the video:
Jeffrey Epstein was a fighter. He had an incredible life story. He started out as a teacher, but then the father of one of his students noticed his amazing ability with maths and encouraged him to get into banking. From there he rose from having virtually nothing to becoming one of the USA’s best-connected billionaires. He was not a quitter.
Although he faced the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison, this was by no means a done deal. He had millions to spend on lawyers. He could have claimed the new trial was invalid as he had already been granted immunity due to the plea bargain at his previous trial a decade or so earlier. Or he could have claimed ‘double jeopardy’ – that he was being tried a second time for crimes that he had already been tried for. Or he could have tried to do another plea bargain deal – hand over incriminating evidence on a bunch of important people in return for a lower sentence in a more lenient institution. There may even have been other tactics open to him and his lawyers. So there was no compelling need to kill himself
Then, of course, there were the circumstances surrounding his supposed suicide:
the prison guards were supposedly both asleep
the camera outside Epstein’s cell was not working so we don’t know if anyone went into Epstein’s cell
he was taken off suicide watch despite having supposedly tried to commit suicide just a couple of weeks earlier
Epstein was a big guy – around six foot – is it really possible for a six-foot man to hang himself from a prison bunk bed?
Anyway, let’s move on to the video. It features two news presenters discussing a list of almost 50 people who were either close associates of the Clintons or who had been involved in investigating the Clintons and who all met their maker rather earlier than they probably expected. If you were to make a list of all the gruesome methods of murdering people from your favourite detective series, you’d find most of them used with former associates of or investigators of the Clintons.
The lesson from this video is – if the Clintons give you a call and invite you over for dinner, it would probably be best to thank them but tell them that unfortunately you’re too busy.
What I really like about the video is the presenters’ total shock and disbelief as they go through the list, particularly when discussing someone who apparently shot himself from four foot away or when a woman supposedly suicided herself when she had her bags packed to go away……..
But don’t let me spoil your fun. Here’s the video. Enjoy!
With so much ghastly stuff going on the world, to lighten things up, I thought I’d bring you two stories today which prove that the Religion of Peacefulness’s God must have a sense of humour, even if many of his followers apparently don’t. I’ve also added a link at the end of today’s blog to what appears to be an instructional video on how to deal with a problematic female.
God must have been angry?
A Muslim cleric who was set to participate in qurban (animal sacrifice) during Sunday’s Idul Adha in Blitar, East Java, has died following three days of being in a coma after a cow struck his body. Sureki, 64, died on Wednesday evening at Ngudi Waluyo Hospital after being hit by the cow at Miftahul Jannah Mosque in Wlingi subdistrict, Blitar.
The incident started when one of several cows escaped from its tethers and ran for about 100 meters from its original place, said Farhan, the mosque caretaker.
Sureki — who was supposed to take part in the slaughtering of four sacrificial cattle and 17 goats as part of a ritual for the Islamic Day of Sacrifice — had arrived at the mosque where the cow was when the incident occurred. “The cow suddenly ran toward him and struck [Sureki’s] chin with its head,” Farhan told The Jakarta Post on Thursday. Sureki fell backward with the back of his head hitting the pavement of the mosque yard. The incident left him unconscious and he was immediately admitted to the hospital.
Farhan said the cow that hit the cleric was donated by Blitar Regent Rijanto. “The cow is big and fierce. Its leash was broken when it tried to escape,” he added.
Sureki, a resident of Mronjo village in Selopuro subdistrict, was the head of the Selopuro chapter of Nahdlatul Ulama, the country’s largest Islamic organization. He was known during his lifetime as a cleric who was active in social and religious events. Sureki was also a coordinator for Quran reading sessions after subuh (dawn prayer) in East Blitar and manager of an orphanage in Selopuro.
Sureki’s son Yusuf Affandi said his father had undergone a head operation, but his condition had not improved. The late cleric was laid to rest on Thursday morning.
The devil’s vinegar?
And now to our own capital city – Sadiq-Khanistan.
A Muslim man has described his shock after discovering a Pret A Manger sandwich he had been eating for 12 years is not halal. Khalid Qadeer was stunned when he realised his favourite tuna baguette sandwich contained white wine vinegar.
Mr Qadeer, who works in London, said it is “like a nut allergy” for many Muslims as they have “zero tolerance” towards it.
He told Metro.co.uk: “Being a Muslim I can’t consume anything with alcohol. And there’s probably thousandsof Muslims who buy products from Pret. As most people know, some Muslims drink alcohol and the rest, but there is a certain percentage that will have a “oh what the f***” moment here. I’ve worked in the City for the last 12 years as a tax adviser and I would have never bought the product had I known.”
Mr Qadeer complained to his local Pret store manager and his case was later raised to Pret’s CEO, Clive Schlee. The Pret CEO said his “technicians” have been “calculating the alcohol content of the white wine vinegar” in the tuna mayo baguette.
Mr Schlee wrote: “We have now established it contains much less than even a trace amount and is certainly well below the labelling threshold. By way of comparison there is much less alcohol than you would find in most orange juices.”
Mr Qadeer later met the CEO in person at one of his stores in London but maintains his concerns have been ‘dismissed’.
Incidentally, none of Pret’s products, as far as I know, are labelled as being ‘halal’. But it wouldn’t surprise me if Mr Qadeer will be consulting his lawyers to try to find some way to sue Pret and loads of mosques will be preaching hell and damnation against the company.
Dealing with an uppity woman?
Oh, and if your female partner has been in any way insolent to you as the man of the house, here’s some guidance from Algeria or Morocco or somewhere like that on how to deal with her:
As far as I could see, all the main British TV news programmes did quite extensive reports on the three men from Manchester who tackled a knife-wielding, murdering scumbag in Sydney Australia. But I also noticed that none of the mainstream TV news channels mentioned that the murderer was screaming about how much he loved his “snackbar”. Though most news reports were quick to mention that he had “mental health problems”.
Let’s just take a moment to consider this claim of “mental health problems”. From what I could see, the snackbar-loving murderer was from an Arabic background.
In the West, where the average IQ is 100, about 16% of the population have IQs of below 85. Anyone with an IQ of below 85 is unlikely to be able to function successfully in normal society. As I have previously written, the US army is not allowed to recruit anyone with an IQ below 85:
The only time recently when this rule was broken was when Defense Secretary Robert McNamara desperately needed cannon fodder for the Vietnam War. The tens of thousands of functionally-impaired men recruited were known as “McNamara’s morons” as they were mostly incapable of even the simplest of tasks. Anyone with an IQ below 75 is considered in the West as being “mentally retarded”.
If we accept the extensive but much-disputed IQ testing that has been done comparing different regions and countries of the world, then some people – racists, fascists, white supremacists and suchlike – might be tempted to point to the supposed ‘evidence’ that the average IQ in the Arab world is around 85 https://brainstats.com/average-iq-by-country.html.
(When you click on the link, it might say “page not found”. But just above that you’ll find “Average IQ by country”. Click in that and you’ll get the figures)
This could be due to many factors including consanguineous marriage, a failure to invest in education and a lack of development. (You might find it interesting to click on the link above and compare the average IQ by country with that country’s economic success or failure?)
But, if one were to accept the statistics, then this would mean that around half of people from the Middle East and North Africa had an IQ level which meant they would be unable to function in a modern advanced society and maybe 30% would be what we consider “mentally retarded”
I, of course, don’t for a moment accept the racist, fascist, white-supremacist IQ figures by country in the link above. However, anyone who did might be tempted to conclude that it’s no wonder so many of our Arabic friends appear to have “mental health problems” and that the supposed “mental health problems” might just be due to their low IQ levels.
Let’s celebrate – it’s Eid al-Adha 2019
But enough of this negativity. To cheer us all up, let’s focus on something positive. This week (11-15 August) is Eid al-Adha 2019. This is a time of great celebration for our friends from our favourite religion. But it’s not so great for millions of animals who are cruelly slaughtered.
Strangely, our money-rich RSPCA, with its income of over £140 million a year, doesn’t ever mention this ghastly mistreatment of animals. If you donate to the RSPCA, perhaps it’s time to stop? I recently donated to the British Pakistani Christian Association which tries to protect Pakistani Christians from being slaughtered by our friends from our favourite religion. I think they are a much more deserving cause than our own useless RSPCA.
Anyway, here are some animals celebrating Eid al-Adha 2019
I’ve written before how Greenies try to terrify us by never putting their claims of impending disaster into context.
For example, when Greenies howl about human activity releasing around 750 giga-tones of CO2 into the atmosphere each year it sounds pretty impressively frightening. “750 giga-tons!!!” Crikey, that’s a lot, isn’t it? And it certainly sends the tens of thousands of snowflakes, pouring out of our polys pretending to be universities with their degrees in Gender Studies and Golf Course Management, into a bit of a tizzy. And so we have the Eco-loons with their idiotic Extinction Rebellion protests and the School Strike all the other crapulous protests.
What the Greenies are doing is using and abusing an ‘absolute number’ to scare snowflakes and other scientifically-challenged members of our society. But when you put the 750 giga-tons into context, using a ‘relative number’ – that CO2 as a percentage of the atmosphere is increasing by 0.0002% a year, that really doesn’t sound quite so frightening. And so the Greenies never mention this rather inconvenient truth.
That brings me to a picture a reader sent me. Right down in your lower right-hand corner you’ll see the total amount of CO2 that human activity has contributed to the atmosphere in the last 200 years:
Ooops! Not that impressive, huh? And the Greenies would have us believe that this miniscule amount of a trace gas will lead to the extinction of mankind. And, of course, the Greenies have managed to market CO2 as some kind of deadly poison when, in fact, it is so beneficial to plant growth that many farmers cultivating using greenhouses install CO2 generators in their greenhouses to improve growth and crop yields:
Oh, did the Greenies forget to mention that too? How remiss of them.
Climate Change will lead to higher, no lower, no higher, no lower………………..
There’s no room here to write about the latest scare – the supposed melting of the Greenland glaciers. So instead, here’s Tony Heller debunking supposed scientists’ claims that Global Warming will lead to higher, no lower, no higher, no lower, no higher………….water Levels in the Great Lakes (in case any geographically-challenged snowflakes are reading this, the Great Lakes are big bits of water between the USA and Canada):
First, just a brief comment on our usual mainstream media bias.
I noticed in the TV news this morning that the newsreader announced with relish that a gang of thugs who attacked a man in Portsmouth were “white”. But when a policeman was attacked last week with a machete and another was run over with his own patrol car, I don’t think the ethnicity of the perpetrators was mentioned.
We now know that the man who attacked a policeman with a machete was called ‘Mohammed Something-or-other’ and the man who drove over the other attacked policeman was called ‘Mubashar Hussein’ (a traditional British name?). I, of course, being a brain-dead, migrant-hugging, open-borders, Izlumophiliac libtard have no idea what ethnic or religious group these two (IMHO) utter, worthless, subhuman scumbags come from.
Banned by the Times for political incorrectness?
Last week, I received the email below from the Times. In the email you’ll see their threat to ban me from commenting on Times articles because one comment I made was supposedly “in breach of our community guidelines”. The comment I made was following an article about (if I remember correctly) Zimbabwe collapsing with food shortages and power cuts due to the corruption, greed, stupidity and incompetence of Zimbabwe’s rotten rulers.
Most other Times readers commenting displayed admirable political correctness by bleating and moaning about how we needed to help Zimbabwe and how Zimbabwe’s problems were mainly due to British colonialism and how we must do more to help Africa and how Africans were suffering from Man-Made Climate Change because of us beastly industrialised Western countries and how we needed a new Marshal Plan for Africa etc etc etc.
But I dared be more than slightly contrarian by writing:
“It’s Africa. Every leader is a billionaire and 90% of the people live in poverty and misery. Not our problem. Let them sort it out.
Next to descend into chaos will be South Africa. Time to buy in some beer and crisps and watch the fun.”
I can see that the political-correctness brigade would find my comment waacccisst and offensive and triggering and all that other bollux. But while my comment may have been ‘politically-incorrect’, was it actually ‘factually-incorrect’?
Let’s just check my statement for factual correctness:
“90% of the people live in poverty and misery”
Over half of Africa’s rapidly increasing population live in extreme poverty – defined as living on less than $1.90 a day. And the number living in extreme poverty is increasing every year:
Hundreds of millions more live on more than $1.90 a day, but are still desperately poor. The best figures I found were that around 70% of Africans live on less than $5 a day and close to 90% of Africans live on less than $10 a day.
I think that sort of supports my comment that 90% of Africans live in poverty and misery.
“Every leader is a billionaire”
Maybe that was a slight exaggeration. Who knows? Transparency International has calculated that African leaders loot three times as much from their countries each year as their countries receive in foreign aid and foreign investment.
It’s estimated that Mugabe has about $4bn tucked away for a rainy day and that the small clique ruling poverty-stricken Ethiopia have around $14bn to buy life’s little luxuries. In the Gabon, Ali Bongo Ondimba has over $1bn; Mohammed VI of Morocco has almost $6bn; Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of petrol-rich hell-hole Equatorial Guinea has anywhere between $600m and $2bn (nobody really knows for fairly obvious reasons) and so it goes on. By the way, Equatorial Guinea is one of the ‘richest’ countries in Africa with a GDP per capita income of a quite impressive $34,865. But it also has (I believe) the highest percentage of the population of any African country living in absolute poverty – less than $1.90 a day.
On average, African rulers actually seem to have around $500m each. But that’s their identified wealth. Who knows how much isn’t known about? So, on this point I might have exaggerated a bit and probably should have said something like “there aren’t many African rulers with less than a few hundred million in their offshore bank accounts saved up from their relatively modest salaries“.
“Next to descend into Chaos will be South Africa”
I believe there are clear signs that South Africa is hell-bent on following Zimbabwe’s collapse from being a wealthy food producer to becoming a starving, blighted disaster area. The white farmers are being murdered or evicted, their land is being handed over to cronies from the ruling ANC Party who know nothing about farming and…… Well, we all know what happens next, don’t we?
Factually correct but politically-incorrect?
I believe that my comment was reasonably ‘factually-correct’. But clearly it was terribly ‘politically-incorrect’ and clearly triggered some idiotic snowflake reader to make a complaint against me.
Sad times, when a newspaper like the Times prioritises ‘political correctness’ over ‘factual correctness’. I thought that was the domain of the Guardian.
Anyway, here’s the threatening email the Times sent me:
To whom it may concern,
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“It’s Africa. Every leader is a billionaire and 90% of the people live in poverty and misery. Not our problem. Let them sort it out.
Next to descend into chaos will be South Africa. Time to buy in some beer and crisps and watch the fun.”
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David Craig, on August 22nd, 2019
