NOW here’s an interesting question. Will the House of Lords be able to halt the march of the self-named Great Ginger Growler? Can she possibly be stopped?
The Deputy Prime Minister, (the GGG to the rest of us), is hoping her Rights Bill will escape the second chamber unscathed.
There’s some good stuff in the bill. On zero-hours contracts and the like.
But one part of it is very disturbing. — the law which says that staff must never have to hear anything which might offend them.
Once again, it’s an assault on .
It might mean, for example, that people might be banned from talking about contentious subjects down the pub. In case it offends the bar staff.
Stuff like , or .
According to Lord Young, it might also mean stewards kicking people out of matches if they say something like: “Ref, are you blind?”; Or indeed: “Ref, are you transitioning?”;
Pubs are where we go to talk about contentious subjects, after all.
And you can’t really enjoy a football match unless you have had a go at the ref. The truth is there’s almost nothing we’re allowed to shout at a football match any longer.
We have to behave as if we’re at the bloody Royal House. This will be the final nail in the coffin.
Games will be played in near silence. Just like they are at already.
But that’s not the only implication.
It means that chippy employees might be very quick to take offence and complain that they heard something rude and so the customer should be thrown out.
Bridge too far
To see what I mean, read the following from some bloke on a site commenting on the Banter Ban. It was posted yesterday.
“Having worked , this sounds like it’ll finally kill off the ‘customer’s always right’ nonsense that means middle management will give freebies to arseholes.
“This wording sounds like they have a duty to tell them to f*** off now, and companies will have to back their staff rather than twatty customers.”; Charming, no? But you see what I mean.
And here’s the thing. Nobody has a right to never be offended.
My own view is that everybody should be greatly offended at least once each day. But maybe that’s just me.
We shouldn’t have laws that protect people from hearing things they don’t want to hear.
First, because it is a .
Second, because we are all made of sterner stuff than that, surely?
Are we really the sort of people who would go sobbing to the Old Bill because we heard someone suggest that maybe there are a few in the country?
says it won’t be banning banter. It will instead be banning “harassment”;.
But I’m not sure there’s a clear distinction between the two.
And if there is, I’m fairly certain the won’t understand it.
We have lost so much freedom of expression this century. This is a bridge too far.
Let’s hope their lordships tell the GGG to about-march.
TIME TO SHOW METTLE
SOME good news – the Government has effectively , in .
That will protect . And allow us to make our own steel.
As said, this is also a national security issue.
It was always a madness to let a company run such a vital part of British manufacturing.
Just as it was madness to let the Chinese have an involvement in our nuclear plants.
But those decisions were all taken when we had an incredibly naive view of globalisation.
We thought national security didn’t matter.
And we also didn’t mind that we were no longer manufacturing ANYTHING by ourselves.
Luckily, this view is diminishing among even the dimmest politicians.
Oh, and while we’re talking about dim politicians, let’s remember that the Scunthorpe steel plant has been forced to import costly foreign coking coal because the likes of loon won’t let us dig our own here.
RUBLE’S ON ROLL
NOW here’s a poser for you. What, right now, is the world’s best-performing currency.
I’ll give you a clue. It’s not the . And it certainly isn’t the , still less the .
Were you tempted to answer the yuan? Well, it’s not that either.
Rather worryingly, the strongest currency in the world right now is the
Yes, after all those sanctions. And three years of war.
The sad fact is that being at war can actually grow an – despite the country’s sky-high interest rates.
And is laughing his head off.
WOMAN SENSE, AT LAST
THANK the Lord! Our Supreme has , male and female.
And that a . Not a bloke with a pair of breasts stapled on the front.
It is almost beyond belief that such an obvious scientific fact should be debated in the law .
But that is the consequence of the deranged trans-activists and their sponsors, such as the odious Stonewall, of course, demanding ever more flights from reality.
The next thing to do is get rid of recognition certificates.
These allow trans men and women to live under a delusion that they actually ARE the sex they want to be.
They are bits of paper that lie to the world.
And lie to the people who hold them.
At long last some of our institutions are beginning to live in the real world.
Even some of the judges.
SO, the Stone Age is back in the news.
He’s the brother of the and was jailed for a minimum 55 years after being convicted of after helping to plan the attack.
Last week, he , including over them and using homemade knives.
The question is why this moronic thug was given so many special privileges while banged up.
A stove to cook on and cutlery? Nah. Give him cold food only and make him eat with his hands.
For the next 50 years. He deserves no better.
ISLE BE DAMNED
I HOPE you weren’t thinking of going to the this .
Paradise, my arse. Just sand and tepid water and the occasional palm tree.
I’d rather take a holiday in .
Anyway, I think we should boycott the place.
This Muslim nation is now banning anyone from from visiting.
Ok, you do that. And hopefully your trade in the West will dry up.
KATY’S BACK DOWN TO EARTH WITH A GRUMP
CAN you imagine anything worse than being with ? Especially if she started singing.
Which she did during that jaunt with its .
for taking the flight.
“We thought you cared about the environment!”; came the massed bleating.
Of course she doesn’t care about the bloody environment, you deluded saps.
She just says she does because that is what you’re meant to say when you’re a sleb. She doesn’t mean it – none of them do.
