There have been many different reactions to the news of the planned referendum for Scottish independence, from both sides of the border. There are many Scottish Unionists (even though few vote for the Scottish Conservative & Unionist Party) and fancy there being so many English people who are pro-Scottish independence. Not because they think we can find success alone and they wish us all the best and ‘let’s stay friends’, but because they perceive that they subsidise the Scots and they are driven by spite over the issues of free prescriptions and tuition fees and they see Scotland as an albatross around their sassenecks!

But the whole world should appreciate us and lavish us with gifts for making life better over centuries. Everyone knows about the great inventions of the telephone, television, and deep-fried Mars bar, but did you know that?….

We scored the best ever World Cup goal? (Yes, in football!).

Invented chicken tikka massala (at least Glasgow chef Ali Ahmed Aslam lays claim to it).

James Simpson knocked the world out when he invented chloroform.

James Maxwell’s ‘three-colour method’ led him to present the world’s first colour photograph in 1861.

Golf was invented in Scotland. Everyone knows that, but did you know that James II banned it as an unwelcome distraction from learning archery?

Without Glaswegian engineer James Watt, “the Industrial Revolution might never have happened. He developed a way of making steam engines efficient, to speed trains along.”

Lord Kelvin discovered and named ‘absolute zero’.

Scotland can also boast of these:

Driving on the left (1772)

Peter Pan (J M Barrie).

‘Fax machine’ (1846)

Sir Thomas Lipton (of Lipton’s Tea fame) organised the first World Cup in 1909 (the first FIFA tourney was in 1930 of course, as every schoolboy should be able to tell you). West Auckland who represented England won. I say this to remind ourselves that England sometimes do well at things too.

First patent for a flush toilet by Alexander Cummings (1775).

Gin and tonic (don’t know who invented ice and a slice).

First hypodermic syringe by Alexander Wood (1853).

King James authorising his Bible.

Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson).

Paraffin.

Penicillin.

Pneumatic tyres.

Postage stamp adhesive.

Radar.

William Cullen demonstrated the first method of artificial refrigeration in 1748.

Elvis was Scottish?? “Yes, even the father of rock was a Jock, as a fan discovered when he traced his idol’s ancestors back to Lonmay in Aberdeenshire in the 1700s.”

Tarmac.

Criminal fingerprinting.

Umpteen football managers who have led English clubs to victory.

Davy Crockett (apparently).

The Thirty-Nine Steps (John Buchan).

US Navy (founded by John Paul Jones).

US Presidents – “An astonishing 23 presidents of the United States have Scots or Scots-Irish heritage, including many of the most distinguished: Theodore Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton. The George Bushes, senior and junior, also originate from Scotland, though obviously it was Texas that made them that way.” 

Vacuum Flask (Sir James Dewar “made the invention in 1892 but failed to get a patent and so did not profit from his ingenuity”).

David Livingstone.

Burns Night.

You get the picture.

There is ample consolation in all the above successes to counter the blow of finding out that the haggis, bagpipes and tartan were not Scottish inventions.

Unfortunately, we also gave the world bad things. The article lists some of them:

‘Scottish Mafia’ – “The advent of New Labour brought to the frontline rather a lot of old Scots, from Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling to John Reid, Derry Irvine and Charlie Falconer.” New Labour, of course, was responsible for immoral wars for corporate empire; dumbing down education so much that McDonald’s needed to give school-leavers lessons in basic arithmetic before they could serve up a burger in a bap; did away with Section 28 so that children could have homosexuality promoted to them ad nauseam (no wonder they didn’t have time to learn how to count) and of course, the traitor with a face like a bag of spanners, Gordon Brown, sneaked off to sign the Lisbon Treaty, despite his party promising us a referendum.

David Cameron – another traitor and liar (EU referendum?) - is of Scottish stock.

Billy Connolly – used to be funny.

What happened to us?

Savour Archie Gemmill’s goal from 1978 when he helped defeat the Dutch 3-2.

It is believed that much of the disorder during three nights of violence in London was orchestrated on sites such as Twitter, which was monitored by the police.

BlackBerry Messenger was also used by youths planning riots. The instant text messaging system cannot easily be monitored by police.

Essex Police apparently had no problem the other day, as they reassure residents they are working to keep county safe.

A 20-year-old man from Colchester who allegedly sent messages from a Blackberry encouraging people to join in a water fight has been charged with encouraging or assisting in the commission of an indictable only offence under the Serious Crime Act 2007. He has been conditionally bailed to appear at Colchester Magistrates’ Court on September 1.

Essex Police officers,

have vowed to take a robust approach to anyone who uses social networking sites to stimulate fictitious rumours.

It reminds me of the jokes on Twitter that landed people in court. Paul Chambers very obviously just pretended that he was going to blow Robin Hood airport “sky high” and Tory Birmingham councillor Gareth Compton requested that someone stone Yasmin Alibhai-Brown to death after her discussion about human rights on Radio 5 Live. They were arrested.

There had been calls from politicians for a Twitter and Facebook blackout during riots. I suppose this seemed easier for MPs than dealing effectively with the problem, having created it in the first place.

So who or what can we pin the blame on for these riots? Most commentators agree that genuine poverty is not the reason. People who are genuinely poor need food, shelter, clothing and fuel, not huge big tellies, designer trainers and even more bling.

Melanie Phillips blames the liberals,

So now the chickens have well and truly come home terrifyingly to roost. The violent anarchy that has taken hold of British cities is the all-too-predictable outcome of a three-decade liberal experiment which tore up virtually every basic social value.

She writes about the liberal intelligentsia’s attack on the family, welfare dependency, the victim culture and human rights, multiculturalism and the shattering of “any attachment to a shared and over-arching culture”

Ms Phillips has a special mention for the Hideous Harman,

One of these ultra-feminist wreckers was Harriet Harman. The other night, she was on TV preposterously suggesting that cuts in educational allowances or youth workers had something to do with young people torching and looting shops, robbing and leaving people for dead in the streets.

But Harman was one of the principal forces in the Labour government behind the promotion of lone parenthood and the marginalisation of fathers. If anyone should be blamed for bringing about the conditions which have led to these appalling scenes in our cities, it is surely Ms Harman.

Historian David Starkey caused shockwaves by suggesting that whites were becoming black. It was a dangerous thing to say in this day and age, but was he being “racist” as so many were quick to claim? Barrister and former Tory MP, Jerry Hayes, wrote,

So the cool analysis that David Starkey was trying to explain, despite the wailings, squeals of outrage and shocked indignation, is this. Many young people have adopted a way of speech and a way of life that is alien to the tolerance and decency that is Britain. It glorifies the workshy, feckless fatherhood, gun crime and drugs. It worships greed and self gratification no matter whom it hurts. If you want further evidence just look at the subliminal messages and popularity of Gangsta Rap.

He makes it sound like another form of liberal ideology: selfish self-indulgence with no real connection or commitment to the community as a whole.

Another Tory MP, Robert Halfon, wrote on his blog,

…moral relativism, moral equivalence, family breakdown and absent fathers, the weakening of social capital (the glue that binds community together), the failure of our education system over decades (a huge proportion of children leave school illiterate) and the glorIfication of the drugs/gang culture have all contributed to this disaster.

In other words, the liberal agenda of the past few governments and that of the controlled “entertainment” industry.

However, Mohammed Abbas and Kate Holton believe that London rioters point to poverty and prejudice.

“It’s us versus them, the police, the system,” said an unemployed man of Kurdish origin in his early 20s, sitting at the entrance to a Hackney housing estate with four Afro-Caribbean friends who nodded in agreement.

“They call it looting and criminality. It’s not that. There’s a real hatred against the system,” he added, listing what he saw as the police prejudice, discrimination and lack of opportunity that led him and his friends to loot shops, torch bins and hurl missiles at police Monday.

Is this what multiculturalism and political correctness have delivered? Well, I don’t think it ever was about equality, but divide and conquer.

“There’s two worlds in this borough. More and more middle classes are coming and we’re being pushed out. The shops are pricing stuff like it’s the West End, we can’t afford the rents. We’re the outcasts, we’re not wanted any more.

“There’s nothing for us.”

Are these genuine reasons for complaint or unacceptable excuses for those exaggerated tantrums in the streets?

Is this bad feeling between the “poor” and the middle classes yet another front in the divide and conquer war?

One of the knee-jerk reactions has been the serving of eviction notices to rioters who live in council houses. The first was in Wandsworth, but it was the son who was charged with breaking the law, not the tenant. This sounds as unjust to me as the looters ruining a man’s business. But when natural justice has been compromised to such an extent to accommodate the beliefs of others, political and religious, confusion was bound to reign.

What is the answer? If the problems we face as a society stem from the postwar liberal agenda and the socialists’ anti-family agenda and the divisive multicultural and political correct agendas then clearly these things must be rejected forthwith, because they have not brought the promised freedom or peace – that was just an illusion to get as all on board, but the reality is what we see today – a country in crisis – people without direction and little hope; broken families and fragmented communities; desperation dealt with through alcohol misuse and prescrption and illicit drug use.

Being tough on crime is important, but so is grabbing these failed, highly destructive ideologies by the scruff of the neck and throwing them into the depths of the ocean.

When English taxes are being used to subsidise services we apparently can’t afford for ourselves, I don’t discriminate between Scottish student paying nothing for uni or having their council taxes frozen and Greeks civil servants retiring at 53.

In another comment, Jim Morgan mentions the fact that we no longer have prescription charges in Scotland (as of this Spring).

Now, I think it is wrong that the devolved parts of the United Kingdom get these benefits and England doesn’t when we all pay the same rates of tax. It isn’t fair, but I think it is counterproductive to blame Scottish, Welsh or Northern Irish people, especially as of the 650 Westminster parliamentary constituencies in the UK, 59 are in Scotland, 40 in Wales and 18 in Northern Ireland. England has a whopping 533 MPs, allegedly representing their interests, so why not blame them when they clearly do not care about the “equality” most of them always bang on about?

Why blame a couple of million Labour voters in Scotland and Wales for the UK’s problems, while ignoring the larger number of Labour voters in England? This has bemused me for some time. I guess it is easier to blame others than to accept any responsibility for your own lack of action. Why hold your own elected representative to account when you can rant at the telly as News At Ten announce free prescriptions north of the Border?

The really stupid thing is that, while people get upset about tuition fees and prescription charges, the far weightier matter of treason has gone largely unnoticed and completely undealt with. Labour’s admitted re-engineering of society should have millions demanding trials for a number of anti-British villains who have skulked among us and slither through the corridors of power still.

Jim Morgan also writes,

England is governed by anti English British establishment.

Yes it is, but it is not a case of the rest of the UK ganging up on the English, giving them Chinese burns and stealing their pocket money so that we don’t have to pay for our prescriptions. The anti-British establishment hates us all equally, but the English are the dominant party and so they are the ones who have been earmarked for cultural genocide first. Likewise, our Judeo-Christian laws and customs are attacked because they are mainstream and have made us strong. The traditional family is undermined because it is the building block of a stable society. What is normal is being denormalised. Right becomes wrong and vice versa.

It is all to divide and conquer to bring this country to its knees. This is why I believe we should fight our common enemies together and not allow ourselves to be divided by all these crude, yet highly effective, social re-engineering tricks.

A comment from Paul Kevin Wiffen sums it up,

This is why the EU will always win! You people fall out with each other just like the Judean People’s Front verses the People’s Front of Judea. It’s the way the EU works, Divide and Conquer (they got it from Caesar’s Gallic Wars) they promote devolution, the Scots then hate the English and the English hate the Scots and hey presto, no-one attacks the EU any more! Get wise, stop having a go at each other and face the common enemy Brussels/Strasbourg. Otherwise we’ll be in EU chains forever!

So where are we going in this country? Will we carry on being paranoid and continue to whinge about being “offended” at every turn and demand “rights” designed to get one over our fellow man before he gets one over on us?

Will we ever learn to grow up and stop fiddling while Britain burns?

As usual, I have dozens of tabs open on Firefox with news stories I was going to write about, but in a way, they don’t merit individual posts. The headlines are enough to make you sick. There is sometimes nothing more that needs to be said, because we all know the score by now. We know that the police don’t care much about catching criminals anymore and the judges don’t consider it their duty to deliver justice.

Moral relativism brings confusion (obviously) and very bad judgments are the natural result. Add to this “Human Rights” legislation and police targets and criminals have never had it so good.

Devon and Cornwall Police didn’t even bother to investigate 30,000 crimes last year.

Up the road in Bristol, Marie Wastlund beat off three thugs who were throttling and kicking a woman, while two policemen sat in their vehicle twenty-five yards away. The Mail reminds us of some of the other pathetic inactions of the boys in blue (or should that be yellow?). Remember the two PCSOs who let a ten year-old boy drown in a pond because they were “not trained” to deal with such an incident? Their (in)action was defended by police chiefs.

Then there are the usual reports of people with decades of unblemished service in their jobs who are sacked after of a non-event. Ronnie Lane was head of the art department in Liverpool’s West Derby School, but the testimony of one unscrupulous individual ended it. He restrained a 15 year-old boy who repeatedly tried to scrunch up another pupil’s work and alleged that the teacher had left nail marks in his arm. The boy told him, “get off or I will stab your eye out.”

It seems that all some children learn at school is their “rights”. It’s bizarre when you consider that by honouring his alleged rights, the teacher has no rights to maintain discipline in his classes and the other pupils have no rights not to have their work ripped to shreds or to learn in a civilised, safe environment.

Meanwhile, another 15 year-old, Tom Clarke from Oxfordshire, was playing with a football in his garden when he accidentally lobbed it over the fence and through a pane of glass in next door’s greenhouse. A patrol car was on the scene half an hour later and the police helicopter was diverted to search for the culprit with thermal imaging. “Officers said the incident was not a formal caution or criminal conviction but would be ‘recorded for future reference’ and could be seen by future employers carrying out an enhanced Criminal Record Bureau check.”

Imagine falling into a coma in 1970 and waking up today, oblivious of how society has changed, then reading the newspapers. What would you make of the burglar who was freed from prison because being locked up breached his family’s human rights or another prisoner who demanded to be a dad and a Justice Secretary so out of touch with reality that he approved the decision to allow him to artificially inseminate his “partner”?

It is now clear that David Cameron’s socialist party is just as determined to give everything away that our forebears worked and fought for as the traitors in the Labour Governments did. The agenda is the same. The behaviour of this new wave of Quislings is only a surprise to those who were naive enough to fall for Cameron’s lies before the election – and they were lies. Blatant and deliberate lies and for that alone he should be stripped of office.

Why do people keep voting for these liars? Do they think that lying is part and parcel of politics and is acceptable? I think they must. Or maybe they are delusional. Perhaps they think that he is going to stop lying any day now and everything will be just dandy when that happens.

This treasonous government is giving away more money to bail out other countries, plans to “drastically” cut carbon emissions which will cut jobs and increasing military union with other countries.

The Daily Mail never disappoints with its scare stories. The latest “research” suggests that drinking too much coffee can produce hallucinations of Bing Crosby. The volunteers were made to listen to “white noise” and told that “there may be parts of the White Christmas song and if you hear it, press the button.”

There wasn’t any Bing, but regardless, the power of suggestion apparently made them hear him crooning. A bit like people think they have heard a “cast-iron” guarantee from David Cameron when it is really just white noise (propelled by hot air).

But how long, I wonder, until coffee addiction is used as an excuse to avoid being punished for a serious crime?

“M’lud, after drinking five cups of coffee and playing with the dial on his radio, my client heard Bing Crosby telling him to kill the victim…”

“Case dismissed.”

And as always, we are to be afraid of the terrorists – this time, poisoning our food. The warning comes from the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure [CPNI].

That’s a new one on me. But the terrorists are already poisoning us with aspartame and GMO, it’s just that they are known as manufacturers and scientists.

But let’s all be scared of al-CIAda while we eat our delicious cancer-causing food.

If I do give up blogging, just read this post every day. The current news will just be the same, or even more unsettling and bizarre.

But I will soldier on. I believe that more and more people are waking up to how the world really works, and this awakening is something I want to be part of, so expect continued blogging, God willing.

Cry freedom!

AV defeated. Next: EU kicked out.

Colin Atkinson is a 64 year-old former soldier who works for Wakefield and District Housing (WDH) and has kept a palm cross on his company van’s dashboard.

WDH said he failed to comply with company policy which prohibits employees from displaying personal items in vehicles.

The company said it had started an investigation into the incident which could result in disciplinary action.

So, if someone puts, say, a cuddly toy beside the windscreen or displays a small plastic Homer Simpson on the dashboard, or for that matter, hangs up a novelty air freshener then they will be subject to an investigation?

Can you imagine the news story?: “A Yorkshire housing association has suspended one of its employees after a Homer Simpson toy was found in his van. A spokesman for the company said that they didn’t want to give anyone the impression that they had a sense of humour.”

It doesn’t happen, does it? It happens when it’s a cross, whether worn by a BA employee or an NHS nurse.

Mr Atkinson said of his case:

“I’m really shocked and surprised by all of this. I have always had that cross in my van. It’s a symbol of my personal faith. It’s not offensive. It’s in a discreet place and I am acting lawfully.”

Sounds reasonable in a fair and free society, yes? But…

WDH, where Mr Atkinson has worked for 15 years, asked him to remove the 8ins (23cm) cross and started an investigation after a tenant complained about it.

I never know whether to believe this excuse. Did a tenant really complain, or does someone want Mr Atkinson out? Maybe at 64 he isn’t as quick as he once was and they can’t sack him because of his age.

Or maybe someone really did complain. What was the person’s problem? I know that a few people out there have as serious a reaction to seeing a cross as Dracula in the noonday sun.

I knew a man who delivered those teensy Bible tracts round this area. You’ve probably seen the type. Maybe even benefited from them. These ones were A7 size, so an eighth of A4. He was telling me that he was popping these through the letterboxes in a village up the road when a man he had just delivered to chased after him, shouting all sorts of obscenities and warning him to stay away.

A short time later, this old friend of mine was enjoying a well-earned cuppa in the village cafe when the other fella walked in. My friend asked him if he could buy him a cup of tea, to which the reply was, “[Bleep] off!”

Maybe this was the sort who complained about the cross in the van. Maybe staff were scared of him and thought they better “comply” with his demands. Or maybe the complainer was of a different faith and the staff felt that the easy option was to stick the knife into their colleague. Or maybe it was one of the army of the professionally offended, who on spotting the cross, nearly fainted at such an obvious display of homophobic and Islamophobic hatred!

Here is some more dramatic overreacting with Birmingham Cathedral’s decision to ban the public from taking pictures of the choir.

Birmingham Cathedral has erected a notice near its entrance saying that ‘for child protection purposes photography and videoing is not permitted during services and rehearsals’.

But a child protection charity called the ban ‘ludicrous and unenforceable’ and anti-censorship campaigners have accused the cathedral of ‘hysteria’.

But if you want to see overreaction at first hand, you could always burn a Koran and have someone video it. A BNP candidate for next month’s Welsh assembly elections, Sion Owens, was charged with a public order offence, after police were passed a video appearing to show him burning a copy of the Koran.

The case was withdrawn last week, but the inquiry continues.

Why? If religious things are so offensive, surely it’s good to get rid of them? You would think that the “authorities” would praise Mr Owens for disposing of something horrible and in a way that it couldn’t be used again.

Or is it just cross-shaped items which are offensive and must be got rid of?

It makes me wonder if I should carry a garlic bulb with me anytime I have contact with the local council or police. Vampirism seems to be on the increase among the powers that be.

The really ironic part is that the things people should be getting angry and upset about, like the loss of freedoms and soveriegnty and the re-engineering of our society are seen as mostly irrelevant to the majority. If they think about them at all.

I guess that’s the idea. To fill our minds with utter tosh to deflect our attention away from the important things. The things that really matter.

Everyone is now supposed to live in fear of terrorists and perverts and that means that the likes of Islamists and paedophiles are setting the agenda.

Not by their actions, but by our overreaction.

I wondered what the dynamic duo had been up to now to revive an interest in them.

It seems that they believed that the Cornwall B&B owners Peter and Hazelmary Bull were let off lightly and had called for their £3,600 damages to be increased.

Taxpayer-funded lawyers for the gay couple then submitted documents to the Court of Appeal claiming the religious beliefs of Mr and Mrs Bull should have been disregarded, calling for the damages to be increased.

But today the Equality and Human Rights Commission, which is representing Mr Preddy and Mr Hall said the cross appeal was an ‘error of judgment’ by its legal team and was being withdrawn.

I wonder when this error of judgment was noticed. After the negative publicity of the first case, no doubt.

Practically all of the 900 comments under the Mail’s article are scathing of the greedy Stonewall members. Jon from Torquay writes,

Amazing how a gentle and sincere Christian couple are able to be bullied by a couple of PC spiteful intolerant thugs who are using the law as a weapon. And……. for financial gain…. how spiteful and hateful.

It’s no longer amazing. Tragically.

I was wondering what B&B owners – all B&B owners – would do if this person asked for a room. Would a man who looks like a decomposing corpse – a walking Iron Maiden cover – be a welcome sight at breakfast? Could he sue for being turned away? Would he bother? He must have a thick skin to go around looking like that.

This bizarre story turned up yesterday: Squabbling gay lovers ’sparked Heathrow terror alert with hoax bomb call’

Two squabbling gay lovers sparked a terror alert in Heathrow Airport’s Terminal Five when one of them rang police and said the other was going to ‘blow something up’, it was revealed today.

Officers swooped on the 72-year-old man as he walked into the building – before realising the call was a hoax.

Today a man in his 30s was being questioned by Thames Valley Police officers on suspicion of dialling 999 yesterday and saying the pensioner was equipped with explosives. The pair are believed to be in a civil partnership.

It doesn’t sound like a very civil partnership to me (boom, boom!).

I wonder if the punishment will be anything like that handed to Paul Chambers, who last winter tweeted a blatantly obvious (attempted) joke: “Crap! Robin Hood airport is closed. You’ve got a week and a bit to get your sh** together otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high!!”

He was fined £3,000 in total.

How should this young “gay lover” be punished, considering that,

Officers had rushed to Oxford railway station as they launched a massive security operation to trace the ‘bomber’.

Officers from Thames Valley first responded to a 999 call saying the older man was on his way to Oxford railway station armed with a bomb.

Passengers and staff were evacuated from a section of the building and the terminal was closed for more than an hour at about 1pm yesterday while police searched the man’s bags.

The man was arrested before he had gone through security at Terminal 5 but some planes were delayed by the scare.

Heathrow luggage shop worker Sanju Ghale said stores were ordered to close and staff told to leave the building.

She added: ‘We didn’t know what was going on. We were so worried.’

If Paul Chambers’ joke was worth £3,000, what should this crazy charade cost the perpetrator?

Officers said the younger man faces prosecution for wasting police time and making false claims about a bomb.

Yes, a lot of police time and a lot of passengers’ time and producing fear in a lot of people, including the poor old sod he is in an uncivil partnership with.

Surely a spell in jail is the only option, as he is unlikely ever to be able to pay back the money that his nastiness cost.

I await the case with interest.

Eunice and Owen Johns, the experienced foster parents from Derby, who had applied to the local council to offer respite care for children aged five to eight, were turned down because they refused to compromise their beliefs that homosexual behaviour is sinful.

Last week’s Question Time was from Derby and the question of the Johns was raised. I have imbedded the video below, as the discussion is quite interesting.

Margaret Beckett admits that the couple has done a lot of good for a lot of people in the past, BUT their attitude towards homosexual relationships should rule them out in the future. And like the experienced politician she is, compares apple and oranges by stating that racists shouldn’t be foster parents either.

So basically, Mrs Beckett thinks that Christians are as bad as racists. I guess that’s standard Labour issue. Next up is the homosexual historian David Starkey, who perhaps surprisingly says that,

Penalising Christians for their beliefs about homosexual behaviour is intolerant, oppressive and tyrannical.

He also mentions the Cornish B&B, suggesting that they should be allowed to put up “what seems to me a quite proper notice… that says, ‘We are Christians and this is what we believe’.”

Being a historian, he no doubt knows very well where such tyranny inevitably leads if it is not nipped in the bud.

A young lady in the audience is given her chance to opine. She says that “there are far worse parents out there than just Christians who don’t believe there should be gay people.” She also agrees with Mr Dimbleby that some parents hold the same views as the Johns, so why shouldn’t foster parents?

Of course, the more control that the State succeeds in taking from us, the likelier it will be that a couple won’t be permitted to take their own baby away from the maternity ward unless they sign an agreement promising to be politically correct in front of the child at all times.

Iain Duncan Smith is next to speak. He is a conservative who cares about family values. Or does he? He claims that foster parents should not be allowed to push their views on children in their care.

Everyone has “views”. Children will be exposed to all sorts of “views” whoever they are placed with. Perhaps the Johns should have promised not to utter a word and let the children get their morals from the telly instead. I’m sure that would have been an acceptable arrangement.

And another thing, a great many youngsters have homosexual feelings at some time – but they are not homosexual!

The Johns were expected to nurture these hormonal imbalances, or whatever causes temporary same-sex attraction, to become a full-time, full-blown homosexual lifestyle.

Now that is the real child abuse.

And the children they applied to foster were five to eight years old. I hope that even the biggest stickler for political correctness can see the sickness in this.

Liam Halligan of the Daily Telegraph, said the Johns should be the kind of people we are celebrating and giving MBEs and OBEs to. He added

I’m a tolerant guy, but sometimes if you absolutely push tolerant people they become intolerant because you go past the point of no return.

And this is a situation where the absolute letter of the law, which may have been drafted with good intentions, has completely blown away any proportion of common sense.

The final panellist to speak was Lord Malloch Brown, former UN Deputy Secretary General, who hummed and hawed a bit before coming down on the side of Messrs Starkey and Halligan.  He said,

We just have to be so careful to not let the state become the decider of morality and choice and freedoms.

The only two panellists who thought the council’s decision was the right one just happen to be the two members of parliament – ostensibly from different parties, but they follow the same agenda. It doesn’t seem to matter to Duncan Smith that this decision will increase the number of children who stay in care homes which “ultimately don’t do them any good at all,” because following this totalitarian PC agenda is more important to him.

When I read this headline: Cameron wades into Christian foster row, I thought, thank goodness; he is going to show there is still some sanity among politicians. What a fool I was to credit him with the measliest morsel of sense. He came out with:

Christians should be “tolerant, welcoming and broadminded”.

The Christian Institute’s Mike Judge responded:

The Prime Minister has waded in on one side of a deeply controversial case, and suggested that Christians who share the Johns’ beliefs are automatically intolerant, unwelcoming and narrow-minded.

It would seem that many parents these days are far too tolerant and broadminded which has had the direct result of making the lives of young folk more problematic.

We can get an idea why it’s happening with this slip up.

The taxpayer-funded Equality and Human Rights Commission had warned that children could be “infected” by the moral views of Christian foster parents who oppose homosexual behaviour.

Black is the new white.

These people want us to move Beyond Tolerance. I expect that they realise that some of us will never renounce our faith and beliefs for thirty pieces of politically correct legislation or 3,000 pieces, therefore we need to have wholly inappropriate and discriminatory barriers put in our way, so for example, if you refuse to promote homosexuality to very young children, you don’t get to adopt or foster them.

Beyond tolerance? It’s beyond belief.

I see on the Pink News website that the Johns are looking for political intervention rather than take their case to the High Court because judges are having to interpret “bad law”.

Instead, they and Mr Diamond [their lawyer] are seeking a review of equality laws and will begin lobbying MPs and ministers to support their cause.

Last month, High Court judges Lord Justice Munby and Mr Justice Beeston upheld the council’s decision and ruled that that the Johns’ views could harm foster children.

They also dismissed Mr Diamond’s claims as “a travesty of reality”.

Mr Diamond said in a Christian Legal Centre statement: “The courts are so set against religious freedom for Christians that an appeal is likely to only make matters worse.

“In recent years, there has been a combination of bad laws and a number of poor judicial appointments by the previous government.

“Where there are excellent judges they are restricted by bad laws. Unfortunately, there are also judges making law based on personal predilections. Parliament must remedy this situation as a matter of urgency.”

He added: “The British people have reversed silly laws in the past; the time is ripe for a review of the equality laws. It is time for the ‘Big Society’ to become a reality and to re-strengthen the communitarian institutions such as the church and other such bodies that can build this.

“Finally, the absurd ‘human rights’ agenda needs to be re-visited including the Human Rights Act.”

Mr Diamond and the Johns are to ask MPs to sign an ‘Equalities and Conscience Petition’ which calls on prime minister David Cameron to ensure that laws allow Christians to act on their consciences.

Getting the law changed is something we can all engage in. They have come for the smokers; they are coming for the Christians; they will come for us all. They are against us all, even the homosexuals, who they are just using to change society to break us down in order to sell us off.

They are destroying the moral order and trying to force everyone to comply with their new version of what they say is right and wrong.

How much worse can it get? Much worse still, because when a government decides on morality, it can make up any new laws it chooses.

And don’t think it is just Christians who will be affected. Everyone has lines which they won’t cross and those lines are getting closer and closer to us all.

Muslims in Britain…

“Protestors” breaking the Armistice Day silence in central London on Thursday.

Muslims circumventing our animal welfare laws because it is for “religious” reasons. Lamb, beef and poultry slaughtered according to halal procedures are now standard in some schools and hospitals. The 97% of non-Muslims must submit or go hungry!

Abu Hamza is wanted by the Americans and Yemenis on terrorism charges, but cannot be extradited because of his “human rights”.

The leader of the established church backs sharia law for British muslims.

Christians in Pakistan…

Asia Bibi, a Christian mother of four, was sentenced to death for ‘blasphemy’ against the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

Asia Bibi, 45, is a married mother of three girls and a boy. Her son is Imran, 19, and her daughters are: Sidra, 15, Isha, 11, and Isham, 9. They live in a small Pakistani village called Ittan Wali Chack. Since their family is very poor, Asia worked as a labourer on a farm. Her son, Imran, works at a brick kiln and her daughter, Sidra, does embroidery work at home.

On June 14, 2009, Asia Bibi was working on a farm with her Muslim colleagues when a discussion about Christianity and Islam arose. During the conversation, the Muslims accused Asia of insulting the prophet Muhammad and beat her. Her Muslim colleagues then spread the rumor that Asia ‘insulted’ their prophet around the village. Five days later, a group of Muslim villagers, incited by her colleagues, severely assaulted Asia. When the police arrived, they arrested Asia and registered a case of blasphemy against her. According to Article 295-C of Pakistan’s criminal law, it is a crime punishable by death to blaspheme the Muslim prophet Muhammad.

On November 7, 2010, after more than a year of trial, a court in Pakistan sentenced Asia to death and fined her 100,000 Pakistani Rupees ($1163.) She has seven days to appeal the decision to the higher court.

Major Ken Dodd - he's got tickling sticks and he's not afraid to use them.

Army cadets in Plymouth have been banned from carrying rifles on their Remembrance Day parade because it ‘glamorises’ weapons. How did we win all those wars? Did our soldiers tickle the enemy into submission?

“What a beautiful day – what a beautiful day, missus, for going up to the Taliban and saying, “Hands up, beardie, I want to tickle your oxsters”.”

John Reid famously said that he hoped British forces would leave Afghanistan “without firing a single shot”. He obviously never had a history lesson in his life.

Even the British Olympic pistol shooters must train abroad because they aren’t allowed to use their weapons in Britain.

We have to be the biggest joke on the planet. Here was me thinking that the armed forces, the police and criminals were the only ones who were allowed guns. Perhaps the cops could swap their tasers for tickling sticks and truncheons for feather dusters? Wouldn’t want armed robbers to get hurt, ‘cos it’s against their rights, innit?

Or maybe we should just get the French to do the tickling for us? Fluffy polyester isn’t cheap.