The Sunday Rumble: 7.8.16

The return of the Grammar Schools:   I never thought to see it but if it happens then two cheers for 'St. Theresa'.  I only offer two cheers because much will depend on the practicalities and on how the opposition to it will be overcome - and boy, will there be opposition, not least from the mostly useless 'education blob'.  What a pity Michael Gove blotted his copy book and was 'given a detention' because he would have driven it through with enthusiasm.

 

Dan Hodges stomps Shami Chackrabati:   That sounds a bit cruel given that Dan Hodges is a hefty, fit-looking guy and Shami is a female midget.  But having just read Mr. Hodges' piece in The Mail, which confirms my own suspicions concerning this wretched little woman, I am inclined to shout, "Give 'er a stomp from me, Dan, wiv both boots and when you've finished give that Jezza a good kicking, too!"  Honestly, the anti-Semitic Labour party has sunk to sewage levels.

 

Gotta lurve lagoons!   According, that is, to Martin Vander Weyer over at The Coffee House.  These are man-made tidal lagoons which cost a mere £1 billion each - cheap compared to that Sino-French nuclear horror at Hinkley Point - and according to Mr. Vander Weyer they will produce "electricity on the ebb and flood of every tide, 14 hours a day for a project lifetime of 120 years".  Worth a look, I'd say!

 

The Labour party - you couldn't make it up:   A despairing howl of anguish from Nick Cohen at The Coffee Shop.  Cohen is a Labour man through and through but above all he is an Englishman - oh alright then, a Jewish Englishman!  He is quite literally 'shocked, I tell you, shocked' by what has happened to his beloved Labour party since the 'Corbynistas' took over.  He describes it thus:

Thoughtful writing about the Corbyn phenomenon is not just impossible to find, it is impossible to imagine. Admirers live in a land of make believe as closed to the rest of the world as North Korea. They barely know how to explain themselves to outsiders because they cannot imagine any honourable reason for outsiders disagreeing with them. Disputes with ‘Jeremy’  must be the result of ideological contamination – you have become or, perhaps secretly always have been, a ‘Tory’ or ‘Blairite’ – financial corruption  – you have sold out – or racial corruption – you are a ‘Zionist’.

You can sense the heartbreak.

 

Little 'Georgie Moonbat' is back:   I must confess, dear reader, that my interest in so-called AGW has waned more than somewhat and not only because having just put up with another wet and miserable so-called Summer I would give my right arm for a really good dose of warming so that I could dust the cobwebs off my BBQ and burn some sausages and steaks.  Anyway, twice in the past few days little 'Georgie Moonbat' has intruded on my peace and quiet, first on the radio and then today he is mentioned over at WUWT.  Need I say it?  Yes, you're right, we're all doomed but according to 'Moonbat' the evil mass media are not telling us - it's a conspiracy, I tell you, a conspiracy!  Oh God, give us all a break, Georgie!

 

Despite it all, we won:   Over at one of my favourite American Leftie-blogs, I was rather careless with my words - I know, I know, hard to believe! - and was slightly unfair to FDR.  Anyway, the exchange made me reread the last chapter of Masters and Commanders by Andrew Roberts, an excellent overview of the Allied High Command.  I suppose you could sum up WWII by saying that we made fewer mistakes than the Germans and Japs!

 

No more rumbles 

Comments

[Whitewall]

It seems like Antisemitism is making a comeback within the global Left. They can hide it, they just can't help it.

[jimmy glesga]

Whitewall, do believe this the Labour Party has been well and truly taken over by the far left. I am a Labour member for many years and now do not get any correspondence.
I will not resign but just let them get rid of me. Getting on a bit and have heard all the leftie crap for decades. The left thinking they could take over by letting far lefties from other parties join and vote by paying £3 have done it and won. The Party will have to split as no decent person can stand by and watch the left fascists have their way.

[Uncle Mort]

Georgie Moonbat is fun though, even his name is a gift.

[JK]

Just a brief (this time) from ol' JK for now as, it would appear (mebbe) we've developed a sort of fondness for one of our newer arrivals - Bob. (Dare I even type it? Mebbe even [oh okay in this case somewhat TheBigHenry!)

(TBH? You would agree would you not - Bob's of a whole 'nother universe as it goes to having an opponent to argue points with than, another example that might occur to at least three of us? 'Monocularly-challenged' ring any bells?)

Anyway y'all - the subject of JK's comment is NOT AGW-Direct rather harnessing the tides for renewables:

https://havechanged.blogspot.com/2016/07/renewable-energy-increases-greenhouse.html

[jimmy glesga]

David, the oldies in the Lords will be vaulting over the sacks and trying to shagrabarti. Then she will get old and grey heided and superceded by a new bit of totty.

[TheBigHenry]

JK,

"TBH? You would agree would you not - ...?"

My short answer is yes, I would agree. But your question also gives me the opportunity to clarify for my co-commentators at D & N what my personal code of conduct is online (one that has evolved over the years):

• I will be civil, unless ad hominem is hurled at me preemptively, in which case I may turn sarcastic (if the mood strikes me).


• I will engage in debate if I feel I can add something of value to the conversation.


• I will remain silent if I am convinced that whatever I may have to say will be dismissed out-of-hand.


• I will welcome reasonably formulated counterarguments if presented civilly.


• I will happily accept compliments, and respond gratefully, if time permits.

[Andra]

JK - I thought you went fishing!
So, go already.

[David Duff]

Henry, you win the D&N accolade for appearing to understand JK's original comment!

Jimmy, you are a very naughty Jock boy!

[TheBigHenry]

Thank you, David. I like to win things, especially accolades.

[David Duff]

Well, off you go to bed, Henry, with a smile on your face!

[Loz]

Here's the the thin end of the post-Brexit wedge that will broaden inexorably back to the future of 1975: -

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/08/southern-rail-strike-travel-misery-for-commuters-as-five-day-wal/

Without the EU single market rules and regs, Blighty has no constitutional constraint on subsidisation, nationalisation, clientalism and patronage of large corporate monopolies by the executive, and all manner of anti-competition, anti-free market policy. The unions are already testing the water.

Any sign of weakness by May and the judiciary will be met with further union action, driving the wedge deeper.

Even if May and the judiciary hold the barricades for now, it won't be long before someone gets elected who either routs or willingly surrenders. Remember, Corbyn still polls 38%, in spite of all he stands for and the labour party chaos.

Basket-case Britain, the consequence of Brexit, is just around the corner.

SoD

[Loz]

Oops, typo, should be 28%, not 38%.

SoD

[Loz]

Nothing like a bit a gerrymandering slow up the rot ...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/08/boundary-changes-could-see-conservatives-win-a-comfortable-90-se/

Just get me through to the grave, and then you Brexit socialists can do what you effing well want.

SoD

[David Duff]

For goodness sake, SoD, your country (which zillions would kill for a chance to be a part) has muddled and mangled its way through a thousand years without a bunch of corrupt, anti-British crooks and idiots telling us what to do. Man up and be proud to be English!

[JK]

David.

As you've linked to this site before I'm certain we're both as aware as the other the larger number (likely 80%+) of commentors have been all along, in the tank For WhatserName

Still the opening paragraph JK figures, puts the entire matter pretty much plainest:

"Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton share a common attribute: their inability to control in a healthy way the highly public aspect of their lives over four decades. Owing to their mishandling of the visible part of their spectacular lives, neither would be electable were it not for the other. Trump vs. Clinton puts a burden on voters they have never faced so starkly before."

http://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/clinton-trump-and-the-public/Content?oid=4520537

[David Duff]

JK, see my latest post up above.