The bansturbators are out in force today.
Ban the Burqua.
Firstly we have UKIP deciding that a burqua ban will be a vote grabber. Today we had their leader, Lord Pearson, on the BBC news justifying this nonsense and making a complete arse of himself in the process. During the discussion he wheeled out the terrorist bogeyman. Jebus! How many terrorist outrages have been caused by burqua clad women, exactly? Sure, there is an argument to be made that they have nothing in themselves to do with Islam, being cultural not religious. Sure, women may be oppressed, but it is nothing to do with the government.
And UKIP were supposed to be among the good guys. Idiots.
Ban Butter.
On the same BBC programme, we had heart surgeon and fuckwit extraordinaire Shyam Kolvekar wanting to ban butter. He quotes from the ministry of made-up-statistics that banning it will save three and a half thousand lives a year. If you follow the link to the Mail (sorry, the Beeb doesn’t appear to have it on their site) the ministry of made-up-statistics says this:
Saturated fat is blamed for a third of the 200,000 premature deaths from heart disease a year.
Assuming that these figures are accurate, where is the verifiable evidence that butter and butter alone is directly responsible for 3,500 of them? Sigh… I fully intend to continue eating butter as I have done since I was a child. I am well aware of the risks and do not over indulge. And I’ll be damned if I am going to eat the unsaturated pap that is nothing like butter and tastes positively foul that Shyster insists that we be forced to eat. Oh, and heart surgeons should be concentrating on repairing hearts, not parading about on the news trying to ban things. Advise your patients by all means. I am not your patient, so fuck off!
As I said, the bansturbators are out in force. So much so, that Mrs L was heard to exclaim “what is the world coming to?”
Shyam Kolvekar is missing a trick. He should have demanded, along the lines of the anti-smking brigade, that depictions of people using butter be banned from TV shows and films.
I never liked ‘Last Tango in Paris’ much anyway… 😉
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Oh, yeah, I’d forgotten that use… 😀
Butter!?
No, I didn’t see that one coming.
I have this wonderful picture of my mind of bootleggers out in the woods with a cow and some churns, and a group of armed police officers creeping up on them ready to pounce, liberate the cow, smash the churns, and pour out the contents.
But seriously, we’re all going to die of something, aren’t we. Do these health fascists* really believe that they can stop death?
(*I don’t like to use the f word, but this gent really demands it.)
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It’s not burkas or minarets we should be bothering about, but the abject failure, because of PC multiculti bilge, to stamp out the ill-treatment and physical and psychological abuse of women and children in the UK, whether or not it’s perpetrated in the name of religion, race, or culture.
It is pie in the sky to expect conflicting ideologies with diametrically opposed values to co-exist without one seeking to dominate the others. Islam has little if anything in common with the secular values of modern European societies, and it is obvious that there are many issues over which there cannot, and should not, be any compromise. This does not mean that social disorder or bloodshed are inevitable; it does mean that our governments must quickly make a much better fist than they have done so far of asserting the superiority and priority of British traditional values. Those who do not wish to observe these should be told to go and live elsewhere.
Margarine maker Unilever’s war on real butter is not going to be well-received here in the USA.
And that’s without mentioning Alan Maryon-Davies calling for a ban on everything else!
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JuliaM – funny.
As for butter, I eat nothing but.
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Both of the broader issues (women’s rights and healthy eating) might be worth discussing, but not like these morons went about it.
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I remain convinced that people in direct contact with customers (e.g. supermarket checkout, passport control) should not have their faces covered.
Covering your face discriminates against everyone whose disability is allieviated by lip reading
Graham, given that around 70% of all communication is non verbal, it’s not just the hard of hearing that have difficulty with covered faces – so, yes, I agree. However, it is a matter for the employer, not the government and the law allows for employers to enforce dress codes.