The Euston Manifesto group recently organised a discussion on the future of getting these uppity towelheads to understand it’s OUR OIL humanitarian intervention, [too stuffy. put in some reference to MySpace or other social media bollocks] which is now posted at YouTube. The second such event took place yesterday, on the theme of weedinng out the enemy within liberalism and terrorism. It will go up on YouTube by the end of the week. It was a fascinating discussion, which produced a set of conclusions through a civilised [like it - separates the Jemimas and Simons we want, from the Dave Sparts, and also reminds them of the Bigger Picture ; )] debate centred on light rather than heat. While we did not all agree on anything everything by any means, we ended the discussion with these interconnected points:
1. [Tony doesn't want Gordon/Daveybloke gettting any funny ideas] The government should not give any form of platform to any individuals or organisations who support or condone the actions of extremists.
2. [Put in some touchy-feely bollocks that makes the clampdown look like a last resort] The extremists needs to be understood as a social movement and a political movement and responded to as such.
3. [Put in some copy from that old CCF stuff Nick Cohen got at the car boot sale, see if anyone notices!] The social movement needs to be engaged with at every level through education, propaganda and influence. The heart of this message should be that democracy and British values of tolerance are entirely compatible with Islam and extremism is entirely opposed to that teaching.
4. The moderate Muslim groups that MI5 have developed since 7/7 need full and generous support from the government and society generally.
5. There needs to be a much better PR communication from the government about the Iraq war and the motivations for our involvement in middle eastern politics to counter to prevailing view that is a war on Islam.
6. There needs to be much more exciting media-friendly stringent policing powers near marginal constituencies in certain key areas.
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“The social movement” sounds like something that might happen in an excessively public toilet.
Nothing about solidarity with Iraqi trade unionists?
For shame! Only the heartfelt love of the decent left has kept Iraqi trade unionists hopeful while being terrorised by insurgents, death squads and fighter pilots.
What a pack of self-regarding, righteous bumlicking fuckholes the Eustonites truly are, and how I’d like a few Iraqis to attend one of their furious circle-jerks.
I know I normally make sarky remarks and crack gags at their expense, but really, I’ve never beheld such a pack of wanking jizzbuckets in my days.
Philip: Comment is free – an excessively public toilet. Yes, has a bit of a ring to it, so to speak.
FR: The Eustonoids’ power to irritate is in inverse proportion to their influence, fortunately.
What a crock of fucking shit. I got 1 minute into the first youtube film, before destroying my computer by trying to bite Pat McFaddon’s* nose off. There it was, 1 minute in, the decent left in all its nauseating, smug, smearing glory:
Anyone who thinks that the disastrous War in Iraq has worsened the problem of terrorism – i.e anyone who isn’t Harry’s-Place-reading fuckwad with his head in his colon – is guilty of believing that terrorists aren’t responsible for their own actions, and is a self-hating moral determinist, an Al-Qaeda-apologist, and all the rest.
Jesus fucking Christ on a fucking pogo-stick I hate those cunts.
*Or whatever that tedious fuck-ugly arse-hole MP is called.
They’re all wankers! Selfrighteous cunts. On 2nd thought they don’t even deserve such an appellation as “cunt” coz that’s a place of awestriking beauty that I like to visit on th e slightestes of an opportunity.