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At long last, Tony has spoken the minds of the average British citizen! I was beginning to lose faith in the guy, but he he now at the top of my Christmas card list!!
His message was loud and clear with absolutely no pandering to the PC brigade who are largely responsible for creating ethnic and cultural division in the first place by positively discriminating.
Perhaps now, ordinary British citizens (All those that tolerate eachother) will have the courage to slap down those that want to ruin this great country of ours by their divisive hate mongering.
It's time that the people of UK joined in this patriotic chorus and welcome those that want to make a positive difference and throw out those that want to destroy us.
Well done T Blair for having the courage to finally speak on behalf of the nation.
Absolutely! I just hope he sticks to it. No other country in the world has the pathetic 'politically correct' brigade like we do.
One small example, at our hospital a memo has been sent round regarding birthday cards with jokes about age on them. It says we must be careful in case someone is offended! How ridiculous we have become.
I think that the expression is 'The tail's wagging the dog'.
Although I live in Northern Ireland, I sense a real change in the attitudes of the public at large. Everyone is fed up at the minority PC'ers making us all feel guilty about our culture and our country.
Their over-correctness has compressed us to a point where, even my mother who is non-political and in her seventies, spits feathers when she hears about plans to ban 'Christmas' and replace our tradition with a 'festive celebration'.
It surprises me when the PC'ers crow about cultural diversity and then, in the same breath, try to diminish the indigenous culture of Britain.
Quote: Perhaps now, ordinary British citizens (All those that tolerate eachother) will have the courage to slap down those that want to ruin this great country of ours by their divisive hate mongering
As long as that includes slapping down our native hate mongers, like the BNP and NF.
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As long as that includes slapping down our native hate mongers, like the BNP and NF.
Absolutely - and particularly those thugs.
The absence of the ability for normal British people to express an honest balanced opinion has created the platform for extremists to spout their hatred.
A population is like a boiler. If you allow the steam (opinions) to escape, it will be fine but once you jam the safety valve (PC'ness and stifled opinion) it will eventually blow and destroy itself.
A population with a stifled voice will give rise to extreme individuals who pretend to speak out on behalf of the strangled opinions. On the other hand if everyone can express a view, they don't need the extremists to speak on their behalf. The extremists become irrelevent.
Unjam the safety valve now!!!!!
Quote: Tony tells it as it is!!!!
Tum-di-tum-di-tum
Re-arrange these words - "some, learn, people, never"
Quote: It's time that the people of UK joined in this patriotic chorus and welcome those that want to make a positive difference and throw out those that want to destroy us.
Well done T Blair for having the courage to finally speak on behalf of the nation.
Whats that stuff that baffles brains ?
I thought the OP would be about Blair finally admitting it was wrong and illegal to invade Iraq, that it was counterproductive, wasteful, hideously expensive, miltarily stupid, had killed hundreds of thousands of people, and he ought to be on trial for it.
But no, just another red herring.
We Brits, were beginng to sag under the weight of the PC brigade. Time to realise that we have rights too.
I think the expression required is "lip service"
the country is ruined, end of story
Quote: I thought the OP would be about Blair finally admitting it was wrong and illegal to invade Iraq, that it was counterproductive, wasteful, hideously expensive, miltarily stupid, had killed hundreds of thousands of people, and he ought to be on trial for it.
But no, just another red herring.
This thread is not about Tony Blair in particular so let's leave that one aside for another day shall we?
This thread is about the people of Britain being able to voice an opinion that preserves the fundamental character of our nation and that is freedom of speech. This is about the our ability to express a concern about the security of Britain without being branded racist or xenaphobic. This is about giving both citizens and immigrants the right of security and a peaceful existence without radicals stirring things up.
Tony Blair hasn't the monopoly on common sense he is merely one of the first heavyweights to turn the tide against the noisy minority.
Let's stick to the thread and discuss our rights to our own culture and wellbeing. This really nothing to do with individual politicians it has been more to do with misguided academics and troublemakers.
Well I think its one of the best things to come from Tony Blair's mouth in many years. I just hope the commitment is there to back up the words in practice.
The hand-wringing pc brigade have succeeded only in driving wedges deeper between cultures and religions.
Quote: Tony Blair hasn't the monopoly on common sense he is merely one of the first heavyweights to turn the tide against the noisy minority.
Let's stick to the thread and discuss our rights to our own culture and wellbeing. This really nothing to do with individual politicians it has been more to do with misguided academics and troublemakers.
Well as long as you have someone to blame. For a member of the 'quiet majority' you've not half been banging on about this all week.
Ceri
Blair is a politician. He will bang the drum for anything that he thinks will make him look good.
By all means let us get rid of PC, we can then denigrate the blacks, Asians, women, old people, the French, Irish, Welsh, in fact everyone else. Just like the good old days.
My view would be to temper things with a little informed common sense and perhaps limit the rights of some to speak in public, especially those who phone the Jeremy Vine show.
As for Christmas, what's in a name. It is the old 'pagan' mid winter festival and nothing to do with Christ.
Actually the thread is very much about 'Tony' telling it as it is.
Unfortunately there is no indication of what he actually said.
Otherwise the thread seems to revolve around baseless codswallop stirred up by the gutter press.
The Guardian story above is not a bad reference for this.
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