Welcome to the real world

This is a suitable message to the rioting students (and others) involved in the protests in recent weeks. They are about to learn the law of cause-and-effect.

As Guido has picked up (I honestly hadn't even thought to look for this myself) yesterday's poll by Angus Reid shows that Britons are "saddened, ashamed and disgusted" by the student demonstrations, and a substantial majority of those polled would be in favour of the introduction of water cannon to deal with the violence that usually accompanies those events. They also favour the so-called "kettling" technique by police.

Whether or not introducing water cannon would necessarily be the right way to go - and there are con's as well as pro's - something certainly needs to be done to protect bystanders and others, and property. It is only the behaviour at the protests so far that has produced this poll result; and it demonstrates very clearly that the students now have little public support.

Whose fault is that? It's a no-brainer, isn't it.


Cause and effect - QED!

The easiest prediction

Yes, I have for some time predicted that 2011 will be the real battleground between the Communists (and suchlike) and the Government. The student riots were just the precursor, and now that those pulling the strings and manipulating protests into violent conflicts can move to the next phase.

With the positioning of Len McCluskey as the Unite union's new General Secretary, preparations can now begin in earnest for next year's planned (and far worse than what we have seen to date) clashes between the political left and right - for that is what this is really all about, an ideological war using the gullible and the malleable as pawns against the elected Coalition (if not elected specifically on that basis) Government and, as always with the left, putting their own agenda above the interests of the nation.

Well, at least they're consistent!

McCluskey's predictable offerings, reported in The Guardian over the past weekend, show this very clearly. Even allying with the students is included, rather giving the game away to anyone sharp-minded enough to have foreseen that connection. We saw it coming, and knew all along!

Reading through the Guardian article I linked to above, including the bullet points in the latter half, demonstrates that this is indeed a political and not a genuine Union exercise: there are several give-aways in there. It demonstrates what those of us who were around  in the 80s well recall: public sector Union leaders don't have to be very bright, merely militant lefties (preferably Communists or equivalent)!

Anyway, we're in for at least one year of really nasty stuff going on, so gird your loins (or whatever one does these days) because it could in just a few weeks from now.

Comment of the day - 13 Dec 2010

From Biased-BBC, on the student protest/riot and similar events, a comment by someone posting under the name 'London Calling':

"Every photo you look at a good proportion of the people in the pictures are photographers. At the time of G20 riots I recall there was one masked anarchist smashing a bank window surrounded by a circle of twenty or more photographers snapping away.

These are not run of the mill landscape or wedding portrait photographers doing a little diversifying. There is an industry of freelancers who specialise in urban disorder, who come from the same squat-ridden parts of East London. Pushing cameras into policemen's faces from within the rioting crowd for that 'attacked by the police' angle of view.

The media picture editors are a ready market for this, in the same way some solicitors attack the police through "lawfare", representing little Johnny who was hit on the head with a truncheon.

I'm not sure how much longer I can stomach anarchist rioters doing criminal-damage being described by lazy incompetent or malicious copy editors as 'tuition fees protestors'."

Those photographers and their buddies elsewhere in the big media are all complicit in the fraud that is this whole 'protest', which is being driven by self-confessed Communist outfits such as Workers Power and REVOLUTION Socialist Youth Movement. Those organisations' websites publicly show their true nature, which anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together will realise is society-wrecking Communist throughout. Like near-enough all the political left, it is entirely corrupt and seek to put its own agenda above the interests and well-being of anyone and everyone else.

It is high time something were done about all these subversives, decisively and permanently. They are the biggest threat to our country, which will never be safe until that is done. Freedom of speech and action is all very well, up to a point; but not when it gets in the way of others' equally-valuable freedoms!

Wanted for questioning

These are fourteen people police want to speak to in connection with the violence at the most recent tuition fees protest. They include those thought to be responsible for the attack on the Prince of Wales's car.

Inevitably the Sunday Mirror is trying to divert attention for partisan ends, blaming David Cameron for the riots we've been having - but that's standard fare for that kind of rag. If any individual is to blame for the tuition fees situation, it is Blair & Brown and their Labour cabinet colleagues at the time - no-one else is responsible for our even having tuition fees and top-ups, let alone putting the country into such a financial state that they cannot be scrapped or left as they are, and won't be for years.

Of course, all that is ignored by those using the issue as a political weapon, as had always been intended by corrupt Labour.