Blogging by edict

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I’m up way too late, but it’s the weekend, so here’s a wonderful bit of amusement, courtesy of
Anna Raccoon – a dissection of why the left aren’t generally terribly good at blogging. Though I do find it odd that they can’t get their heads round all the free blog providers as they’re normally quite good at taking handouts.

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UKIP losing the plot

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The news is currently full of reports that Lord Pearson head of UKIP has announced that they’d like to ban the burqa. Oddly there’s nothing about this on the UKIP site, which makes me wonder how well thought out it is. Equally puzzling is why UKIP feel the need to announce such a policy, I don’t believe that “white working” class votes actually care that much about women dressing as daleks, and as Archbishop Cranmer expounds so well this policy really has nothing to do with UKIPs stated aim of getting us out of the EU. It’s got the Furries worried as well.

Unfortunately what it does do is add one more party to the list of authoritarian shits that want to restrict our freedoms and to control us by banning things. So no point in voting Lib/Lab/Con, the greens and BNP are no better so had been thinking I could vote UKIP to get out of Europe. But no. now it looks like the getting out of Europe comes with the same authoritarian, dog whistle package as all the rest. Best hope that LPUK and independents/jury team make a good showing as we’re running out of options for people actually in favour of freedom.

Does anyone have any idea what UKIP were thinking other than to grab some cheap headlines by shooting themselves in the foot?

update Leg Iron wonders if they’re not all trying to lose, there’s also a rather interesting take on the whole “ban the burqa” fashion over at Feminazery observing that banning it is as restrictive as enforcing it, and that given that fantasies of sex or revealing clothing can be seen as an excuse for rape that perhaps wearing a niquib or burqa might not actually be a very rational choice.

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Withers LLP twinned with Carter Fuck

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It would seem that the new fashion amongst lawyers is to try to silence Parliament, following on from Carter Fuck trying to stop Trafigura we now have Withers LLP trying their hand at preventing MPs talking about things in Parliament. This time though it’s not about dumping toxic waste in the third world but local planning issues, the full story is over at The Guardian. The key par of the e-mail sent by Withers LLP though is this gem:

“”In order to settle this matter we, therefore, require an apology in respect of both the serious allegations plus payment of our client’s costs, a substantial payment to a charity of his choice and an undertaking not to repeat the allegations or any similar allegations, particularly in parliament.

“Your threat to make a statement in the House of Commons referring to our client’s alleged ‘spoiling tactics’ in this and other situations and that our client’s threatened proceedings amount to ‘bullying and an attempt to gag opponents’ is tantamount to blackmail.

“These allegations are untrue as our client is only trying to put right a serious wrong to his reputation. We note that you would only make these allegations under the cover of parliamentary privilege. My client objects very strongly to you doing this and would ensure, via other sources, that the House of Commons were fully appraised of the true situation and not misled.”

Which Withers LLP claim is not in any way an attempt to limit John Hemming MP’s parliamentary privilege. I guess he could say what he liked as long as he didn’t mention their client. On the bright side our glorious parliamentarians are actually at least thinking about doing something about it – if we’re really lucky they might accidentally become concerned about our freedoms whilst they’re at it. Maybe reform the odd bit of libel law (though at least the offence of criminal libel has gone.)

update Forgot to link to this first time round sorry.

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