Thank f**k i forgot my bro's birthday card for saturday, hopped into tescos tonight and happened past the paper stand where a couple copies of the Telegraph* were left, and caught my eye
prepare to be disgusted
* yes i know it's AKA the Torygraph, but if he said it, he f**king well said it regardless of any spin they can put on.
EDIT: Now with 50% less screen-shaggingness and electronic highlighter pen for added zesty flavour. Make your own opinions on the highlighted bits ... but consider that the "possible" attack WILL happen, at a curiously PR-boosting moment...
Anyone get a feeling that all our grandparents laid their lives down for 60 thru 66 years ago has suddenly become null and void? The great antithesis to this? The great noble belief that we shall stand up proud in the face of evildoers and not allow our freedoms to be compromised, even if it should cost us our lives?? We shall fight them on the beaches, in the fields, the streets of the towns and villages - we shall never surrender, Britain will never surrender. Nazis? Terrorists? Come and have a go, if indeed you think you are hard enough. Your arse, it will be kicked. No... not this time... instead we're going to be cotton wool balled against them and anyone who even looks like they're thinking of stepping out of line will be investigated and probably punished.
Several million people DID give up their lives, by the way, in order to repel a very real and tangible threat, not the paltry couple thousand which is the absolute maximum any real-life terrorist could even dream of affecting. WTC was an enormous statistical blip.
Unless they really have got hold of a highly virulent infection or a nuclear device, in which case I suspect they won't be thick enough simply to get on a plane and try entering the country without a serious amount of cover and organisation - and we shall probably be powerless to stop them.
Surely measures such as all the things Labour govt has rushed though - nay, rocket boosted past most of those who would decry them and block them - in the last few months (or was it weeks?), are just the sort of thing that would only promote terrorism - not the unrealistic and frankly ludicrous spectre of international suicide bombers and mysterious arabs with dirty-bomb-and-ebola briefcases, but the Vive La Resistance style of desperate people -desperate British men and women - wanting their country back, with butter knifes if it comes down to it...... (i dare not say IRA - yet ... as they took a valid situation, but then carried it way too far)
So which way are we all voting come May the 5th, if it does? A coherent effort needs to be put behind some party that isn't quite so obviously blindly stumbling after an ever-egotistical figurehead premier who is increasingly so far off the rails you can't even see the embankment any more. Cons and Libs are the obvious choices of course.... hmmm.. but will either of them stick to the big talk they have going now, once in the seat of office, or keep on Labour's policies as it's always a hassle getting laws changed?
In either case, if we are granted the privelege - go vote. Do not squander it. It was hard fought for, and who knows - that may well be the next civil liberty to go if the rot is not halted (obviously the govt doesnt trust people to drive or make any number of decisions regarding their own futures, so they definately can't trust such people to vote!). The phrase "may the 4th be with you" may take more chilling undertones, by the way, if some uncannily convenient national emergency wells up on that day. Or "Mayday!" (911 and Mayday, they fit together so nicely. I hope to high heaven i am so wrong and heading for big embarrassment as the alternative is so nauseatingly horrific it doesnt bear contemplation)
I'm suddenly aware of the £2500 cash advance i can get on my credit card, £1500 overdraft and quite a bit of credit in my bank, and the couple grand i can get out of selling my cars .... some of my far flung relatives... my good experience in working behind bars.... and the proximity of birmingham airport.
Let the thinking and the frightened into the lifeboats first!
Pol Pot's cambodian government were hot on house arrests by the way, when not killing people outright. It's even better than imprisoning someone, as they don't get the social interaction or visits... or, i'm thinking, geneva convention prisoner's rights...
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