And I stopped listening to R4's Any Questions about 15 years ago. I got tired of the rent-a-mob lefties packing the audiences every bleedin' week and hijacking the show with obviously choreographed cheers whenever a woke, right-on question was asked and/or answered. Even the questions on AQs are carefully curated. It's not ANY questions; it's APPROVED questions.
I was in the audience for Question Time in 1983 or 1984. Even then it was packed with the rent-a-mob (I sneaked in by dint of being a student so assumed by default to be a leftie, ha ha) and the questions rigged, sorry, curated.
They can name the danger alright - They don't want to.
They know they have opened up a Pandora's box and they have no idea how to close it, so they come down on those who point out the obvious because they really, honestly do think that if they can just make us all shut up "go away", the problem will stop.
The need for muslim votes may be a factor inhibiting politicians, but it has developed against a background of theatened violence ever since Rushdie in 1989. Clan based muslims religiously organised by immans are a group that can mobilise quicker than any other and politicians know and fear it. They are now stuck in an appeasement trap, the numbers having increased substantially since the time of the fatwa against Rushdie, and may have grown beyond the point where withdrawing appeasement could work. We are in trouble (as the Batley teacher can confirm).
Prevent should now be renamed Enable and I think we are way beyond the point where a civil response will eradicate the ideology behind these accelerating in frequency attacks. Outside our echo chamber there are still good people in ignorance of the facts , which is truly frightening !
I also witnessed the woeful response on Question Time. I have also seen the footage of the police taking the terrorist down and I have no wish to defend the man (in other coutries he would simply have been shot). However, the footage clealy shows one of the officers repeatedly kicking him in the head whilst the other officer and another man had him pinned down, having been tasered. The kicks to the head served no apparent purpose whatsoever in furthering the detention of this man, and my first instinct was that that officer will be facing charges of misconduct before long. Now, I am angry and frustrated by the way we import and then confer British Citizenship on these terrorists and I am sure Starmer would be labelling me "Far-Right" if I explained my political views. However, I cannot accept that it is right for an officer of the law to kick anyone in the head intentionally and (so it appeared) gratuitously.
I cannot find a word to disagree with here!
PS I almost wish I'd watched Question Time but thank you for taking one for the team, it is pretty much unwatchable these days.
And I stopped listening to R4's Any Questions about 15 years ago. I got tired of the rent-a-mob lefties packing the audiences every bleedin' week and hijacking the show with obviously choreographed cheers whenever a woke, right-on question was asked and/or answered. Even the questions on AQs are carefully curated. It's not ANY questions; it's APPROVED questions.
I was in the audience for Question Time in 1983 or 1984. Even then it was packed with the rent-a-mob (I sneaked in by dint of being a student so assumed by default to be a leftie, ha ha) and the questions rigged, sorry, curated.
They can name the danger alright - They don't want to.
They know they have opened up a Pandora's box and they have no idea how to close it, so they come down on those who point out the obvious because they really, honestly do think that if they can just make us all shut up "go away", the problem will stop.
They really are That Evil and Stupid.
We won't go away, and neither will the problem.
Once again Laura, you are 100% correct.
The need for muslim votes may be a factor inhibiting politicians, but it has developed against a background of theatened violence ever since Rushdie in 1989. Clan based muslims religiously organised by immans are a group that can mobilise quicker than any other and politicians know and fear it. They are now stuck in an appeasement trap, the numbers having increased substantially since the time of the fatwa against Rushdie, and may have grown beyond the point where withdrawing appeasement could work. We are in trouble (as the Batley teacher can confirm).
Prevent should now be renamed Enable and I think we are way beyond the point where a civil response will eradicate the ideology behind these accelerating in frequency attacks. Outside our echo chamber there are still good people in ignorance of the facts , which is truly frightening !
I also witnessed the woeful response on Question Time. I have also seen the footage of the police taking the terrorist down and I have no wish to defend the man (in other coutries he would simply have been shot). However, the footage clealy shows one of the officers repeatedly kicking him in the head whilst the other officer and another man had him pinned down, having been tasered. The kicks to the head served no apparent purpose whatsoever in furthering the detention of this man, and my first instinct was that that officer will be facing charges of misconduct before long. Now, I am angry and frustrated by the way we import and then confer British Citizenship on these terrorists and I am sure Starmer would be labelling me "Far-Right" if I explained my political views. However, I cannot accept that it is right for an officer of the law to kick anyone in the head intentionally and (so it appeared) gratuitously.