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The government should lay down conditions for dealing with organisations such as the Muslim Council of Britain, a parliamentary inquiry has been told by the Board of Deputies.
In a joint submission with the Community Security Trust to the Commons’ Communities and Local Government Committee, the Board wrote:
“Any future engagement with umbrella groups such as the Muslim Council of Britain must be contingent on them representing a greater range of views than those of the Islamists, and firmly rejecting violence in all circumstances, including in overseas conflicts.”
It noted that individuals from the MCB and some British mosques had signed the Istanbul Declaration earlier this year which “contained within it implicit threats of violence against the Royal Navy or warships of UK allies, against Israel and against British Jews in the UK,” the Board declared.
“There is no long-term value in building partnerships with those whose attitude towards violent jihad is contingent upon circumstance.”
The committee launched an inquiry in the summer into the government’s anti-extremism Prevent programme, which has a scheduled £60-plus million budget over four years to 2011.
But the Board said that local authorities allocating the money “seldom have sufficient expertise to determine who is extremist and who is not”.
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with a Mercury based compound !!!
A swine flu vaccine containing an additive dropped from childhood vaccines amid fears it was linked to autism has been approved by European regulators.
The European Medicines Agency has recommended to the European Commission that Pandemrix, made by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), be granted a licence for use across Europe, including the UK.
The vaccine will contain a mercury-based compound, Thiomersal, which is used because of its preservative properties.
Thiomersal caused a health scare in America, where it was removed from vaccines as a 'precautionary measure'.
Fears were raised that Thiomersal could be linked to autism when the U.S. Public Health Service called for it to be removed from vaccines in 1999.
This led to a health scare, with parents claiming it must be harmful if it was being removed.
It has not been used in childhood innoculations in Britain since 2004.
The approval of the vaccine comes as figures released by the Government show the number of swine flu cases across the country almost doubled in a week, from an estimated 5,000 to 9,000.
At least 66 schools in England have suffered swine flu outbreaks since the start of the school term, Government figures showed today.
The Department of Health today defended the use of vaccines containing Thiomersal.
A spokesperson said: 'The European Medicines Agency has strict processes in place for licensing pandemic vaccines.
Then why have GlaxoSmithKline and anyone associated with this vaccine have been granted immunity from prosecution??? You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time! Abraham Lincoln (Ed)
'Thiomersal has been used in vaccines for over 60 years. It prevents bacterial contamination and there is no credible evidence linking it to adverse neurological affects.
'It would be extremely irresponsible to suggest the UK would use a vaccine without careful consideration of safety issues. The UK has one of the most successful immunisation programmes in the world.'
A new "jungle" has sprung up in Calais just 24 hours after police closed a large makeshift camp for asylum seekers less than a mile away in the northern French town.
The new site, next to a bridge, lies in wasteland near the city centre, just yards from the grandiose town hall.
More than 30 men gathered there yesterday to receive food from a local charity after being released from detention by the French authorities. Many said they would remain there until they could find a way into Britain.
At least five other small camps have also sprung up in the area near the port as hundreds of migrants hope to reach the UK.
Nearly 300 people, mostly young Afghan men, were rounded up on Tuesday while their "jungle" ghetto of tarpaulin and wooden houses – which had built up over the last five years - was razed to the ground.
They were taken to a detention centre in Lille where they were either offered the option to claim asylum in France or return to their home countries.
The vast majority refused both options, determined to reach the UK.
William Spindler, from the UNHCR, said 20 migrants were released on Monday, while more were freed gradually throughout the early hours of yesterday.
He said: "The conditions in the jungle were appalling, but just closing it down without providing any alternative is not going to solve the problem.
"They will just set up other camps somewhere else."
Aftar Gul was among those who lost everything when his makeshift home in the "jungle" was destroyed and he was detained. He was subsequently released at 2am on Wednesday.
The 25-year-old, who looks considerably older, jumped on a train back to Calais immediately – without a ticket – and found refuge at the bridge.
He said he would stay there and try to make his way to Britain again.
Mr Gul, who left a wife and five children in Jalalabad in Afghanistan, claimed to have tried more than 300 times to get to the UK by jumping on lorries and trains crossing the Channel.
He left Afghanistan a year ago, travelling 17 hours in a truck to reach Greece, before moving through Italy and arriving in France six months ago.
The barber said he had a cousin and nephew in the UK, currently in a detention centre themselves, and would not stop until he got there, where he hoped to find suitable accommodation and a job.
"I hope and ask God that I will succeed in getting to England. My family are waiting to help me.
"I do not want to stay in France. I will try by any means to get to England. I have to live next to this bridge because I do not have any choice.
"The French police destroyed my home in the "jungle". I lost everything."
Fellow Afghan Kamran Warakheel added, as he wrapped himself in a blanket to get some sleep: "This is the new jungle."
Those migrants detained by the police yesterday were just a small proportion of those who lived in the "jungle" as many had moved on before the authorities arrived.
It is feared that they may have moved further down the coast, to places such as Dunkirk, and set up camp anew. News Source
If you want to make something of your life and your children's, prepare to be vilified
Calling all job seekers. At a time of diminishing employment opportunities, there's a sector of the British economy that continues to expand. For the right type of applicant, it often offers above-average remuneration with attractive perks, notably an assumption of moral superiority.
You won't find it listed in the "sits vac" columns, as such. That's because this booming business embraces many organisations, across a range of activities: charities, social work, local and national politics, even journalism.
It is the Guilt Industry. No, not the gilt industry (though that too is flourishing, thanks to the Government's borrowing binge). The Guilt Industry is completely different; it provides a living for those with an eagerness to demonise fellow citizens who spurn "progressive" values.
The Guilt Industry's target market is largely, but not exclusively, Britain's middle classes, those to whom Benedict Brogan referred to in his column yesterday as "pilloried, taxed, stripped of their privileges, bound by red tape and lined up for fiscal execution".
If you have a private-sector job, pay your bills, service your mortgage, invest in your property, commit no crime, save for old age (and that of your parents) and seek the best education for your children, then you have probably experienced an onslaught from the Guilt Industry's sales force.
There was a time when the Guilt Industry focused mainly on white, heterosexual males. But, like Tesco, it has learnt to expand its customer base, moving up and down the social ladder, crossing ethnic and gender boundaries. If you are an Asian family that has moved to a grammar school's catchment area, in the hope of finding places for son and daughter, expect to be branded "pushy parents". The Guilt Industry demands that you are shamed for seeking to advance your offspring. How dare you escape the local comprehensive. Your elbows are disgustingly pointy.
If you are a gay couple, living on a sink estate, relax. There will be no cold call from the Guilt Industry. But woe betide the homosexual pair whose dual professional incomes afford them the luxury of a detached house in a leafy suburb. You have a what? A terrace? Shocking. How can you live with yourselves? You must be punished. Send round the taxman, immediately.
Then there are stay-at-home mothers, those who forgo financial reward to nurture their children, perhaps helping them master the Three Rs. You lot are as bad as the Asians. You know jolly well that your little darlings will experience faster emotional development, because you have digested that report from the National Institute for Economic and Social Research (November 2003). You're nothing but queue-jumpers, a disgrace to the sisterhood. Dump the kids in the nursery – and get back to the office.
Those aiming for a career in the Guilt Industry must be patronising and self-righteous, with an unshakeable commitment to political correctness. They need to identify offence where none was intended, especially on issues of race. A qualification in social engineering is particularly welcome, as is an ability to pin all the problems of Britain's underclass on greedy bankers, Eton College and Margaret Thatcher.
Guilt Industry trainees are expected to be anti-success and, where appropriate, anti-British. It is acceptable to describe the Union Flag as "the butcher's apron" – as did Sandra White, a member of the Scottish parliament – because it conjures up events from our colonial past, a rich reservoir of grudges. When it comes to history lessons, the Guilt Industry is particularly fond of the slave trade, penal colonies and Irish famine.
From an early stage, apprentices are taught the language of deception, which treats the noun "modernisation" as a synonym for "change". Thus anyone who opposes the Guilt Industry's demands can be labelled "old-fashioned", "out of date", or "unhelpful".
The Guilt Industry's most fertile patch is immigration. A migrant camp is demolished in Calais and guess what? Yes, we are expected to wrestle with remorse. If you show concern over the number of asylum seekers in Britain, you are "anti-poor". If you like the way your community is, and do not want it modified by multi-culturalism, you are "racist". If you prefer the Green Belt to remain intact, undamaged by estates to house a ballooning population, you are "selfish".
Routes to the top of the Guilt Industry are many and varied, including the Refugee Council, the Labour Party and the BBC (still hideously white?). Those who elect to enter the education wing of the Guilt Industry will be expected to name and shame students whose parents have degrees and accuse them of enjoying "improper advantages".
Any prospective undergraduate who knows at which university he would find Balliol College is, by definition, criminally middle class and therefore likely to hog a place that might have gone to a comprehensive pupil with half a GCSE.
On this matter, the Guilt Industry displays dazzling double-standards. President Obama is admired for having been to Harvard. David Cameron is reviled for having been to Brasenose. The Conservative leader is expected to be contrite for his private education and degree from Oxford. But what about Tony Blair, Geoff Hoon, Ed Balls? Did they not tread the same path? Never mind, Mr Cameron is a toff, so he had better start feeling guilty.
At its pinnacle, the Guilt Industry's superstars reside comfortably in Downing Street. There they develop the art of saying sorry on behalf of the whole nation for alleged wrongdoings. The trick here is to make sure that guilt is always transferred to others. Under no circumstances does the apologist concede personal guilt at any level. That would never do.
Like him or loathe him, there is no denying that Gordon Brown has mastered this technique, summa cum laude. It was the Prime Minister, you will recall, who loaded guilt on Oxford university for turning down Laura Spence, a talented state-school pupil with straight A passes at A-level. Miss Spence later rejected the idea that Magdalen College had been unfair.
And who else, in the midst of a budgetary and political shambles of his own making, would have the effrontery to publish (in this newspaper) an apology to Alan Turing, the brilliant codebreaker who was prosecuted for being gay in 1952. Mr Brown rightly described the Turing case as tragic (he committed suicide), but did the Prime Minister really think he would win our respect by saying sorry for an event over which he had no control?
Ah well, that's the Guilt Industry for you. For its leading practitioners, the game is all about burnishing their halos. They want us to feel bad, so that they can feel good. They believe it earns them a place on a higher ground. But we know the real story: it's the only industry that will give them a job. News Source
I Was neither surprised nor even shocked any more to read that in a huge poll of school- teachers, 70 per cent said they would never dream of teaching or recommending patriotism to their charges.
Some objected on the grounds that it was brainwashing, others that we should all be taught about the “universal brotherhood” of man.
Yeah so British tax payers would be taught and forced into a false sense of guilt to feel responsible for the whole world! (Ed)
It occurred to me that the mind- set that regards love of country as thoroughly distasteful does not exist in a vacuum.
It is part of an entire philosophy and culture now called political correctness and confined almost entirely to the chattering classes of the public sector holier-than-thou fraternity.
So I took a sheet of paper, turned it sideways and drew a line down the centre from top to bottom. On the left I wrote “atheism” and opposite the word “theism”. The idea is to distinguish between those who believe – whether Christian, Jew, Muslim or whatever – in a Being greater and wiser than ourselves and those who do not.
You would have to be deaf, dumb and blind not to have noted the onward march of an aggressive and bigoted atheism that fires a nurse for simply offering to pray for a patient’s cure, dismisses another for wearing a small silver crucifix and forbids public postings of notices for coming carol concerts.
Under “atheism” I wrote “republicanism” and opposite that “monarchism”. again, you would have to live inside a polythene bag not to have noticed the relentless campaign of sniping at the Queen and her family and its steady increase.
Also on the left I wrote “socialism”, “political correctness” and “EU- enthusiasm” and against them their opposites “capitalism”, “common sense” and “EU-scepticism”. staring at my two lists of characteristics I realised I had described on one side the traits of the true progressive set against the hall- marks of a simple traditionalist.
I think these are the two tribes we fall into nowadays: Progs and Trads.
It used to be just left and Right and the media still try to define us in these terms. But communism is gone, defeated after 43 years of Cold war.
The issues now are different, the battlefield is different and the old descriptions no longer fit.
The Old labour nationalisation of almost the entire economy is with the dodo. The trade unions can destroy (the Royal Mail) but not protect their membership so they waffle about high heels, over-paid dinosaurs.
On the right of my vertical line the Trads are wedded to love of country, parliamentary democracy, national sovereignty, the support of marriage, good education in disciplined schools, the armed
Forces and a head of state called HM the Queen. Those on the left of my line loathe all that, prefer to be called progressive and have been in power, in office and in influence for almost 20 years. But the real progress made by their philosophy is a minus quantity.
The good news is that every single poll ever held on progressive versus traditional, right across the regions, the classes, the income groups, even the religions, shows that 70 per cent of the Brits are unhesitatingly Trad. so why do the Progs, always smearing and sneering at those who have a different view, preaching tolerance while practising bigotry, rule the roost’?
Despite the propaganda the British are still basically OK. It is only the head of the fish that has rotted. and there is a remedy for a rotten fish-head. It is called a cleaver. Roll on the election. News Source
This is the Gulf war veteran who put his life on the line for his country but is now reduced to sleeping on the streets of Lewes. Young Private Rickey Burnham travelled to the battled fields of Iraq at the age of just 19.
In October 2006 the young soldier became so distressed and fled from his unit. But even in the safety of his home his battle scars would not heal. Diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder his marriage broke up and he moved back to his parents' home near Lewes.
Now his mother and stepfather, who were so proud of him a few years ago, are unable to cope with his anxiety, distress and depression and he has had to leave their home. Sleeping at in doorways and at Lewes train station, Rickey can not even get Lewes District Council to accept he is homeless.
Rickey's GP has written a letter to the council explaining that a single night on the streets could have a seriously detrimental effect on his mental Health. Describing his time on the front line with the 13th Air Assault regiment, Rickey said: “The living conditions got to me. We were digging a hole in the ground and that's where we stayed for three months. “We were under constant threat.
“We would go out through the villages the Americans had cleared before. “And there were bodies by the side of the road and bits of people lying there. “One of the worst things for me was the smell. You would be driving through villages where people were dead and the buildings were crumbling around them.
“We would come back from an area and that night you would hear that someone else went through that same route and was ambushed and that could have been you. “A few hours earlier you could have been laughing and joking with them and then that's it.” After a five month tour of duty Rickey returned home, wracked with guilt that he was alive.
When he was sent back out to Germany in November 2005 he said his experiences overwhelmed him. He went AWOL and returned home. He said: “Everything came to a head in Germany. “I couldn't really tell anyone. So I just kept harbouring it. “Then I just decided enough was enough, so I packed my stuff and left.”
Rickey originally went to Glasgow where his wife was living, and was diagnosed with post traumatic stress syndrome. But his mental health led to the breakdown of their marriage and he returned to his parents' home in East Chiltington, near Lewes. But last week his mother and stepfather decided they could no longer cope with him and asked him to leave.
Since then he has been sleeping rough, but he has struggled to get on Lewes District Council's homelessness list. He said: “It messes with my head and I forget to take my medication. I don't know what day of the week it is or what's going on around me.
“Things were bad with my parents as soon as I went back home. “But they had been so proud of me serving, that they really tried. But they had to force me to get out of bed and take my medication. “On Friday they said they just couldn't take it any more and kicked me out.
“I went to see the council homelessness officer but they said I didn't have grounds for saying I was homeless. “I have a letter from my mother explaining that I was living with them but can't any more. “I got a letter from my GP saying it was severely detrimental to my mental health to be made homeless. “They are saying I don't have grounds for saying I'm homeless and I'm not a priority case. “I felt like they were laughing behind my back.”
A spokesman for Lewes District Council said Rickey had failed to turn up for appointments when he had made previous homelessness applications during the time he was living with his wife, after they split up and while he was living at his parents. He said: “Over the past year we have offered him action but for various reasons he hasn't taken that action. “Each of those times greater affects his chances. Now technically he has made himself homeless.
“Rickey has two outstanding forms for the housing register and Homelink. “He hasn't returned either of those. Until he does we can't take it any further. “We are yet to see the letter from his GP in writing. And we still can't prove that he has a local link and that we are obliged to help him.
“If we don't have evidence he is a local person we don't have to help him.” A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Defence said: “The MoD takes the mental health of our personnel extremely seriously and extensive prevention and treatment measures are in place both on operations and in the UK.
“Mental health professionals provide expert assessment and treatment and the new peer-group monitoring scheme encourages personnel to talk about concerns, reducing any stigma associated with seeking help. “The MoD is also working with the NHS on community mental health pilots across the UK, tailored specifically for veterans and we have expanded the Medical Assessment Programme at St Thomas’ Hospital in London and have set up the Reservists Mental Health Programme for those who have deployed since 2003.” News Source
Tagged X Factor wannabe Curtis Moore carried a blade as he terrorised a town with a gang, the Sun has revealed.
Secret details of the 16-year-old's thuggish past came to light as disturbing photos of him emerged on the Bebo social networking website.
One shows Curtis - a strong contender in the TV talent show - staring menacingly into the camera as he appears to brandish a lock-knife.
He is standing next to an older youth who seems to be smoking a joint.
In another picture, younger-looking Curtis adopts a "gangsta" pose by pointing his hands like guns.
Curtis won over X Factor producers by telling how he turned to crime after his brother died. He admitted stealing and robbing houses. But his wielding of knives was NOT mentioned during Sunday's show.
The disclosure came from a former neighbour in Redditch, Worcs. The woman, too frightened to be named, said Curtis used to hang around the town centre with a gang of ten or so other youths.
She added: "Curtis used to cause so much trouble in the shopping centre and carried a knife.
He shoplifted mainly with lads older than him and even attempted stealing a bike the young owner was sat on in the middle of a busy bus station.
"They just sat around all day getting drunk and stoned.
I once disarmed him of a Stanley knife after he ran after another young man in a multi-storey car park. His mates are forever in and out of jail or on tag."
The knife revelations are a blow to X Factor bosses, who allowed Curtis on the show despite his crimes. But yesterday they said they would not kick him out.
The cocky lad performed Mario's R&B track Let Me Love You on telly.
Simon Cowell said: "I really like you" but warned him to "stop being such a smarta**e".
Cheryl Cole gushed: "There's something cheeky chappy about you." News Source
She added that Thiomersal was needed in the new flu jab because the nature of its delivery was different to other vaccinations.
So you could be injected with the vaccine containing Thiomersal several times thus increasing the danger each time! (Ed)
'Vaccines in the current childhood schedule are single-dose for immediate use, which means no preservative is needed. The flu jab is multi-dose, so a preservative is required,' she said.
The European Commission will probably rubber-stamp the decision on the GSK vaccine in the next few weeks. Another vaccine intended for use in the UK, made by Baxter, is still being considered by the European Medicines Agency.
GSK has not yet delivered stocks of its vaccine to the Government, a spokesman for the Department of Health said, though some stocks of the Baxter vaccine have already arrived.
It is not yet clear when the swine flu vaccine will be available to patients in the UK. Continued (Daily Mail)
Government policy should also recognise that there were differences between preventing extremism and encouraging social cohesion, the Board argued.
“Many Muslims may not be integrated, and may promote ideas that are antithetical to community cohesion, but are non-violent and are repelled by Islamism and Salafi jihadism. It is well to remember that the lead members of the 7/7 and Operation Crevice conspiracies came from well-integrated backgrounds.”
It went on:
“Neither is speaking English or wearing the veil the real issue. The issue is confronting an extremist and alien political ideology which promotes the supremacy of Islam over other faiths and democratic political systems, a core belief in antisemitism and the use of violence to achieve its ends.”
In its own submission to the inquiry, the MCB said that it had “long spoken out against terrorism and violent extremism. Ever since the atrocities of September 11 2001, the MCB has initiated statements and campaigns to speak out against the scourge of terrorism.”
It added:
“Our message ever since 9/11 has been unequivocal and focused — to call on all members of society to eschew criminality and participate positively in society.”
But it said the Prevent policy was “counter-productive” and that far from preventing extremism, it had “prevented cohesion”.
It referred to a recent letter it had sent to Communities Secretary John Denham raising concerns that the programme’s agenda views Muslims as the “suspect community”.
Arguing that Prevent should go “beyond and away from narrow security concerns”, it called for fresh thinking “on the renewal of democratic processes to make Britain a better nation by strengthening civil society.”
In its submission, the MCB also noted: “There seems to have been an expectation that community bodies, by showing ‘leadership’, can wave a magic wand and ask young people to remain oblivious to international political developments at the root of the frustration — not least the injustice in Palestine that has lasted well-nigh 60 years.” News Source
Nearly 50 potential terrorists or criminals were let into the UK after a Mitcham immigration officer doctored asylum applications and falsified computer records, a court heard.
Aliya Ali, 39, of Windemere Road, was sentenced to five years imprisonment today at Croydon Crown Court after pleading guilty to 12 counts of misconduct in a public office.
A total of 44 asylum seekers who should have been deported are thought to be unaccounted for in the UK as a result of the mum-of-two’s deception.
The court heard how Ali claimed she only broke the law to help Asian families settle in the country and earn a living.
But while handing down the sentence, Judge Ruth Downing said: “You say you only did it to assist because they wanted an honest life in this country.
“But you had no idea
whether they fitted into that category or whether, hidden
among them, were criminals, terrorists or the like.”
She added: “I am genuinely shocked. This is a most serious offence. You single-handedly decided on a course of action that enabled people to break the rules.
“Many speak of your high standing in the community and you should reflect on the disservice you have done to your community. It was a breach of trust in a senior position and you were promoted in the course of criminal activity.”
Ali, a senior Home Office case worker worked in the immigration department at Lunar House, Croydon, as an £80,00-a-year finance director.
Miss Joan Mitchell, defending, said: “She is utterly ashamed. Her family has been torn apart and her husband may have to give up his job because of the children.”
The court heard how investigators had spent two months searching for information about the asylum seekers, mostly from Sri Lanka and Afghanistan, that were helped by Ali.
Only five of the 49 have been traced. News Source
For years now, there are certain Brussels’ areas which police officers try to avoid as much as possible.
In these so-called ‘no go zones’, immigrant gangs are in charge and randomly attack police officers, firemen, paramedics and anyone who they think does not belong there.
Numerous police officers have already testified anonymously in the press about this unbearable situation.
“These youngsters think they rule the streets. Belgian people are leaving these areas, because they are being terrorised. Police officers are not welcome at all.
The youngsters become outrageous when they see someone wearing a police uniform”, an officer said in a Flemish magazine last year.
The reason why they only want to testify anonymously, is because they experience a lot of opposition from the leading political parties in Brussels, who do not want to lose their electoral public, that largely consists of immigrants.
They even prohibit police officers to patrol in certain areas, because police presence can be considered “provocative”.
In some areas of the UK , we have similar areas, seemingly ruled by immigrants, where English Law is flouted on an almost daily basis, certain Imams and Community leaders seem to think they and their followers are above the law and openly call for Sharia law to take precedence over English Law.
Islamic ghettos are known by Muslims as ‘Dar al Islam’ or ‘Abode of Islam’, literally Muslim land.
Socialists throughout Europe have in the past “courted immigrants ” for their vote, but I foresee it will come at a price they may find hard to swallow, I mean the takeover of Europe by Islam aided and abetted by those Socialist Leaders who have done the groundwork by forcing through the Treaty of Lisbon. News Source
Up to 50,000 UK students have been denied places at British universities this year while the number of non European students given places has doubled over the last ten years.
Figures published earlier this year by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) show that tens of thousands of British students have missed out on university after applications increased but places were cut because of the Government’s cash crisis.
A new study titled “The Patterns of Higher Education Institutions in the UK” by Professor Geoffrey Crossick of Universities UK has found a 48 percent increase in the number of international students between the years 2000 and 2006.
According to the report, in 2007/08 some 229,640 students came from outside the European Union, compared with 117,290 in 1998/99. Students from China remained the “most significant” number.
A total of 19,385 Chinese students enrolled on first degree courses in the UK and 21,990 took up places for post-graduate study.
In 2008, some 540,108 British students had applied by the June 30 deadline to register. This year the figure reached nearly 600,000 — but the cash-strapped Government only provided for 3,000 extra places.
There was a particularly strong rise in what is called “mature student” applications, many of whom are struggling workers aiming to escape the recession by improving their employability with a degree.
Universities have long given preference to foreign students over British applicants because they can charge higher fees.
However, is it in Britain’s interests to educate students who will make no contribution to this country’s economy upon graduation?
The British National Party is of the opinion that priority should always be given to native British people first in the educational field. If there are places left over, then, and only then, can these be allocated to foreign students. News Source
The case of Ben and Sharon Vogelenzang – the Christian couple charged with a crime for criticising Islam – was mentioned on the BBC’s flagship debate show last night.
The case was compared with that of Attorney General, Baroness Scotland, who has been allowed to stay in post despite breaking the law by employing an illegal immigrant.
The Question Time panel, which included Government equalities minister Harriet Harman, was asked why Baroness Scotland has not resigned or been dismissed.
Harriet Harman replied by saying that Baroness Scotland had made an “administrative error” and should be allowed to keep her job.
But fellow panellist Fraser Nelson opposed that viewpoint. He said: “an administrative technical error. That’s what you call it when Government ministers break the law.”
He said this attitude is what drives the readers of his Sunday newspaper column “absolutely mad, because they know if they were to do something the law would come on them like a tonne of bricks.”
He then gave the example of Ben and Sharon Vogelenzang who were arrested for offending a Muslim during a discussion about religion.
He said they wouldn’t get off the hook by saying, “sorry it was a technical error, I shouldn’t have brought up the subject we were discussing”.
He added: “I don’t think the Government realises just how heavy-handed it has become with the small people while the big guys get away with anything.”
The Vogelenzangs are facing a criminal trial in December. They are alleged to have offended a Muslim by saying Mohammed was a warlord and traditional female Islamic dress is a form of bondage.
The facts of the case are disputed and the couple have pleaded not guilty to a “religiously aggravated” public order offence.
The couple’s defence is being financed by The Christian Institute’s legal defence fund. News Source
No sooner had the French destroyed a squalid campsite of immigrants seeking entry into Britain earlier this week than several others sprang up in its wake.
Farewell the Jungle; hello the Wilderness, as one of the new settlements in Calais was immediately dubbed.
Clearly this problem isn't going away so long as the UK remains a magnet for economic migrants from all over the globe.
They will pay almost any price to people traffickers; endure filth, squalor and disease in the French camps; risk virtually any danger by clinging to the underside of lorries – all in order to gain entry to the promised land of the UK.
We are told it is because these people are poor – although many of them manage to find £9,000 to pay the traffickers to smuggle them into France.
And if you are unlucky enough to be born in a Middle Eastern slum, the prospect of living in a democratic country in the West is understandably a desirable goal.
But neither poverty nor a desire for freedom explain why the migrants elevate the UK above all our European neighbours.
This week, erudite commentators have expended thousands of words attempting to explain the attraction and most seem to have come to the conclusion that it is almost impossibly complex.
It isn't. It couldn't be simpler; so simple in fact that it can be articulated in just a few words by Afridi Kahn, a migrant quoted in newspapers this week after he was evicted from the Calais camp:
"In Britain you get a solicitor, pocket money, good accommodation, your health is taken care of. People have rights in Britain. In France you get nothing."
Got that? Get into to Britain and you'll get free housing, legal advice, food, education, health care and cash in hand – you'll never have to work again.
This concept may be far too complicated for highly-educated politicians and media commentators in the UK to grasp, but in the slums of Kabul and Baghdad it is understood perfectly well.
And let us get the terminology right. These people are not refugees.
They can't be described as asylum seekers because they have never asked for asylum.
This week those rounded up at the Jungle were given a choice – return to Afghanistan with £1,700 in your pocket (partially funded by British taxpayers), or claim asylum in France.
The vast majority refused both and instead went back onto the streets to start again their attempts to get into the UK.
If these were genuine refugees fleeing persecution they would surely claim asylum in the first free country they escaped to. But in many cases these migrants have travelled across Turkey, Greece and Italy before spending many months in France – all without asking for refugee status.
Once in Britain, of course, they will claim asylum. Among the other benefits our country offers is the fact that you are far more likely to be granted asylum in the first place, and, even if you are refused, there is virtually no chance of deportation – unlike our European neighbours.
Since 1997 Labour's "open doors" policy has made Britain a soft touch for any economic migrant, jihadi or common or garden benefits bandit from the four corners of the earth.
The chaos in Calais is just one result of this disastrous dereliction of duty. News Source
Work it out for yourselves!
The population is distributed over four parts of the UK:
How many people die
each year from 'seasonal' flu?
Around 29 people from a total of 55,000 people in the UK have died from Swine flu. That's about 0.1%. How to many people die each year from 'seasonal' flu?
The government says up to 12,000 people die every year from seasonal flu. The fatality rate is based on the same 0.1-0.35% range - but fewer people will catch flu in an average year which is why the number of deaths is lower.
By the Numbers:
As of January 1, 2009, 65,073,482 people live in the French Republic (Wikipedia)
The French Warning:
Dr Marc Girard, a specialist in the side effects of drugs and a medical expert commissioned by French courts, has said said on French TV that the “swine flu” vaccine could cause 60,000 deaths in France, especially among young people, children and pregnant women.
He also said that the people promoting the “swine flu” vaccine are doing so because they have links with the pharmaceutical company.
The problem with the “swine flu” vaccine is that it is not just “badly developed” but “not developed”, he said, adding that it is being prepared in conditions that endanger the public health.
TRANSLATION:
“A vaccine is being developed in conditions of amateurism such as I have never seen. Lets take the pessimistic hypothesis: one death among every 1000 patients. There are plans to vaccinate 60 million people, and you so you already have 60,000 deaths, and this time, young people, children, pregnant women.”
“What you are saying is serious because many people are getting ready to get the vaccine and you, you are saying: „You must not get a vaccination!”
” YES, it is a vaccine that has been developed at great speed in conditions that put in danger the public health. There is a need to return back to the obligation that politicians have right now to protect citizens against the desire of the pharmaceutical industry to make money with all these vaccines.
There is a public health code of law from 2007 which obliges all health professionals who give their opinions to reveal their interests. That law is ridiculed every day. All the people who you see saying: „the flu, its very serious, have interests, their lines interests, and that is why they say what they say.
The public health administration is an example to us of a daily violation of the law. I am a medical specialist and I am against medicines that have no purpose. This vaccine is not just badly developed: it is not developed!” News Source
Firstly If you worked your way through the numbers you can see that Swine flu deaths would be relatively low compared with deaths from seasonal flu. And if we were to apply the same logic and data as that of the French which are similar in population to the UK , this would indicate that more deaths would occur from the vaccine itself than deaths occurring from the Swine Flu in Britain! So why the vaccine for all in the UK??? (Ed)
Source: Office for National Statistics; National Assembly for Wales; General Register Office for Scotland; Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (updated Jan 2008)
An Afghan migrant sits in his makeshift shelter in woodland near Calais
The UK can't afford a Space Program, But..
Why are British taxpayers paying £825 million to feed India’s poor while their £52 million spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 has helped discover water on the moon?
For example, in August 2009, the DFID announced that it had given £11 million to the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh to provide “an up-to-date, efficient power sector. In practice this involved helping to reorganise the state electricity board, preparing the ground for key regulatory reforms and providing expert technical assistance to power distributors to reduce leakages,” said the DFID.
In addition, the DFIF State spending in social sectors increased from £108 million in 2005–06 to almost £181 million in 2008–09.
According to The Planetary Society, the Chandrayaan-1 rocket cost India $83 million (£52 million).
The Indian government has spent nearly £2 billion buying tanks and its second aircraft carrier. According to the Indian Ministry of Defence, India’s navy has ordered another two aircraft carriers, due to be completed by 2017.
The British National Party says enough is enough. The time has come to close down this foreign aid swindle. Only when there are no more budget deficits, need or want in Britain can thought be given to helping other nations — especially those such as India who are so selfish that they spend millions sending rockets to the moon instead of uplifting their own people. News Source
This is the question being asked after the US journal Science announced that scientists using detectors aboard the Chandrayaan-1 probe to analyse reflected sunlight showed that there was water on the planet.
While space scientists all over the world celebrated the discovery and its implications, politicians in Britain have remained silent over the fact that India is one of the single largest recipients of foreign aid under the Department for International Development’s (DFID) UK Aid programme.
In terms of national wealth, as measured by purchasing power parity, India’s economy is larger than Britain’s. According to the International Monetary Fund, the Indian economy is worth $3 trillion while Britain’s is worth $2.2 trillion.
Much publicity has been given to a recent announcement by Gordon Brown that £825 million is being given to India for welfare in the Bihar province, but less well known is the fact that British taxpayers had already provided India with £1,045 million in aid over the previous five years.
A teenage girl who became Britain's youngest mum when she fell pregnant at the age of just 12 has been caught growing drugs in her home.
Single parent Amy Crowhurst, now 19, today admitted in court to cultivating cannabis in the house where she lives with her two young children.
Crowhurst told Crawley Magistrates' Court she only resorted to growing the drug when she couldn't afford to pay for alcohol.
She said she needed to smoke cannabis to get away from the stress of parenthood and forget about everyday life.
Police raided Crowhurst's home on August 4 and found 5.2g of cannabis and growing equipment in the property.
Three weeks later she was again caught by officers with 1.2g of the class B drug on her.
She told the court she had been using cannabis since she was 16 and had received a caution from police for possession last year.
Crowhurst pleaded guilty to three counts of possessing the drug.
Her defence in court was that she is a single parent who can't afford alcohol, so she turned to growing cannabis instead.
She was sentenced to a community order for nine months, told to pay £40 costs and enrolled on a drug rehabilitation course.
The mother-of-two from Crawley, West Sussex, first fell pregnant in 2002 after a one night stand with a 15-year-old boy at a youth club - her first sexual experience.
She claimed she never knew his surname or even where he lived.
Just after giving birth to Alfie, now six, she said: 'I know I was stupid to get pregnant but I'm not that bothered really.
'Of course I wish it had never happened but it's too late now.'
'All I'd say to other girls like me is take more care than I did.
'I'm OK now but I don't know how I'll feel when my friends are older and going out at night and I have to stay in and look after Alfie.'
In 2005, aged 15, she conceived another boy with the same partner.
Crowhurst, who smokes and has had her nose, ears and navel pierced, already had some experience of looking after babies after helping to care for her eight brothers and sisters.
At the time of her first pregnancy, she and her family were living in two council houses knocked into a single six-bedroom property in Crawley, West Sussex.
Her mother, Rose, gave up her job as a dinner lady to look after her children.
The teenager, who admitted 'not liking' school, missed months of lessons because of her pregnancy.
The private tuition she was receiving at home stopped after a few weeks.
Following Alfie's birth, Crowhurst said: 'I never had any ambitions for a particular career. At the moment I am quite happy to concentrate on being a good mum.' News Source
Every chief constable in the country should be made to read yesterday’s evidence from the inquest of Fiona Pilkington.
This lady is thought to have killed herself and her disabled daughter after being driven to despair by years of vile taunts.
Night after night, year after year, a gang of yobs would shout abuse outside her house and throw missiles at her windows.
Ms Pilkington and her relatives made 33 calls to Leicestershire police over seven years but officers failed to act, even accusing her of “over-reacting”. So emboldened were the gang by the police’s timorousness that a ringleader shouted to Ms Pilkington and her children: “We can do anything we like and you can’t do anything about it.”
Those words encapsulate all that
has gone wrong with British policing.
The police’s surrender to political correctness,
bureaucratic inertia and the human rights culture
has all too often led to young thugs
terrorising neighbourhoods without restraint.
Several especially troubling cases have come to light recently. Neighbours of the brothers in Edlington, near Doncaster, who mounted hideous assaults on local boys, had reported being harassed by them but were told by police not to telephone after every incident.
In other cases householders who defended their property from young thugs have found it is they, rather than their tormentors, who end up facing prosecution.
Britain is crying out for a new generation of no-nonsense police chiefs to tackle this malaise. If it doesn’t get them soon many more people will be driven to take the law into their own hands. News Source
Those aiming for a career in the Guilt Industry must be patronising and self-righteous, with an unshakeable commitment to political correctness.
Motherhood: Crowhurst fell pregnant with her first child after a one-night stand in a youth club when she was 12
Guilty: Teenager Amy Crowhurst admitted growing cannabis in her home
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Six years later he is reduced to sleeping in the street - haunted by the terrors of war. Rickey had always wanted to be a soldier after his stepfather was in the TA, but the reality of seeing scores of dead and mutilated bodies, being under constant attack and living in a ditch for months at a time has left him with crippling emotional problems.