The rattled left

Ukip appear to have the left (including the watermelons) very rattled in their current rise in popularity in the polls, so much so that they have tried to disrupt a Ukip meeting in Hove.
The problem with this sort of thing which the left have never learned is that it becomes self defeating, as they usually turn up and cause all the trouble and those whom they protest about come out smelling of roses, just ask the EDL...
The Argus.

Protesters attempted to hijack an appearance by Nigel Farage last night as he tried to spread his political message to hundreds of willing listeners.
Trouble erupted inside Hove Town Hall where more than 400 people had packed in to hear the UKIP leader speak yesterday.
About 100 protesters waving European flags and carrying placards with anti-racist messages had set up outside the town hall to confront Mr Farage as he arrived at the venue, but he was able to dodge them by entering the building through a different entrance.
The scenes weren’t a carbon copy of those a month ago when crowds of protesters barricaded Mr Farage inside a pub in Edinburgh when on a campaign trip.
But his presence fuelled tension and fierce opposition outside the building, which was evident when police had to be called to help the UKIP leader leave.

Ah, definitely the left, they hate the idea that someone might just have ideas which are a) successful and b) not of their own, though successful left wing ideas are pretty sparse on the ground, a bit like rocking horse poo.
This is classic leftism, scream and point method of debate. Where they dare not get into any form of civilised debate or people would realise just who is to blame for mass uncontrolled immigration and just who backs the EU to the hilt (not just the Lib Dems and watermelons) It's much easier to try and close down a debate by screaming racist/bigot/fascist at someone than actually get involved in a debate you know you'll lose.
Farage made the mistake at the end of trying to distance himself from the EDL, he needn't have bothered, the EDL will never tell its members who to vote for, never have, never will. That some EDL members will vote for Ukip is not because they see Ukip as of their own, it's just they are the only party to say they will deal with immigration and the EU and who aren't the BNP whom most of the EDL want nothing to do with owing to their views on Israel.
Still I suppose it's a political necessity for Farage to distance himself from the EDL, but I expect he'd still like them to vote for his party really.

The lowest of the low

What else would you call a group of people who at a war memorial jeered at people and squashed and badly damaged floral tributes? I guess you could call them the left wing UAF if you wanted, though terms like scum also spring to mind.
Oxford Mail.

THE Deputy Lord Mayor of Oxford has criticised anti-fascist campaigners for an “unruly” protest against a far right group at the city’s war memorial.
Liberal Democrat Tony Brett said the Unite Against Fascism demo in St Giles showed “hate” to a planned event by the English Defence League (EDL).
The EDL planned a wreath laying at 1pm on Saturday for “fallen hero” Drummer Lee Rigby, killed in an alleged terror attack in Woolwich on May 22.
The Oxford Mail attended from 12.45pm to 1.15pm and no wreaths were layed. There was no apparent EDL presence except for about 30 protesters. Oxford City Council member Mr Brett said the protesters “jeered” at people and "floral tributes were squashed and badly damaged".
There was “no sign” of EDL banners, clothing or “behaviour” he said, adding: “What I saw was a loud and unruly bunch who were showing hate towards what seemed to me to be a peaceful and lawful act of remembrance.”

There's a reason no EDL banners or or clothing were on display, the EDL requested its members where possible to simply lay flowers in tribute to Lee Rigby in deference to his family's wishes. That meant in a lot of places the EDL turned up and simply laid flowers as it wasn't a demo, wasn't a march and wasn't a protest. I did the same at Chatham memorial, I wasn't the only one either, flowers were laid from all walks of the public, not the EDL, but i really shouldn't have expected the likes of the UAF to respect this. After all we're talking about the same people who had 58 people arrested in London for attacking a BNP march which was passing peacefully and preparing to lay a wreath at the Cenotaph.
About the only good thing to come out of this is the UAF showing themselves up as the barbarians they are.
But that's scant comfort really as they'll keep on doing things like this until they are locked up for a long time pour encourager les autres.

I don't think that word means what you think it means...

That word is counter-protest and is used by the BBC as well as the rest of the MSM to describe the events which unfolded yesterday when peaceful marches to lay wreaths for drummer lee Rigby were attacked violently by the leftist UAF. Note that these were intended to be peaceful, all violence that ensued came from the UAF and all arrests made were of UAF supporters.
Counter-protest would appear to imply that a protest was happening and that people had turned up to oppose said protest. Except... except that these weren't protests, these were tributes, but I suppose counter-tribute wouldn't feed the narrative that somehow or other the people laying wreaths weren't the cause of the problem in the first place.
BBC.

Fifty-eight people have been arrested at a counter-protest sparked by a British National Party demonstration in Westminster.
The BNP demonstration was held in Whitehall Gardens following the death of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich last month.
Police had asked that it be moved from Woolwich.
The counter-protest in Westminster was staged by members of Unite Against Fascism (UAF).
BNP leader Nick Griffin arrived at the demonstration during the afternoon and told the BBC it was intended to be peaceful.
He said his party agreed with Drummer Rigby's family that his death should not be used as an excuse for attacks on others.
But he said his followers were there to "draw attention to a political problem" adding "...because if people stick their heads in the sand... then more lads will die like Lee Rigby."

This was the only political statement going on yesterday, all other events were tributes to Lee Rigby, whilst many (but not all) contained some EDL members, none of them were 'official EDL events.
Whilst the UAF's modus operandi appears to be to oppose the BNP and EDL wherever and whenever, it appears that they have lost the argument because their first and only action appears to be violent confrontation, it does appear that the UAF and extreme islam were made for each other.

The BNP group had planned to march to the Cenotaph in nearby Whitehall, but UAF supporters blocked their path for most of the day.

Sounds about right, block people from paying their respects, violently too.
The left in the UK in their support of violent attempts to close down any form of tribute to a fallen soldier have proven that they are utterly morally bankrupt, they and the islamists make quite the couple don't they?

What I did on my holidays (By QM Twoflower) #2

The second day after an evenings entertainment with a Whirling Dervish, complete with a light up robe or two (has to be seen to be believed) and a belly dancer our agenda took us to the eastern side of the Nile and the temples of Luxor and Karnak.
Our guide one of the many interchangeable Mohammed's we got to know (definitely a muslim, not an islamist) explained that the western side was the necropolis or land of the dead, ancient Egyptians believed in reincarnation and as the sun set in the west and rose again in the east so that's where the dead went. The east though was where they put their temples for the living...
Luxor was the ancient city of Thebes, the great capital of Egypt during the New Kingdom, and the home of the great god Amon Ra

Part of the temple at Luxor

One of the first things you notice at Luxor is the new excavations they are making, they've discovered a 3km straight road between Luxor and Karnak temples complete with a sphinx every couple of metres or so.

More sphinx's than you can shake a hat at.

The excavations aren't finished yet, but what they had done was bloody impressive.
The other thing you notice about the temple are the number of columns forming a hypostyle hall, which essentially meant it had a roof but no walls.

Doing it in (hypo) style

All I can say is that the ancient Egyptians must have had a lot of time on their hands, or were seriously into their gods.
If we thought Luxor was impressive, well Karnak washed that impression away. The place is huge and superbly well preserved even though the actual building work was abandoned at one stage in the past.

This is just the entrance.

The complex is a vast open-air museum and the largest ancient religious site in the world. It is believed to be the second most visited historical site in Egypt; only the Giza Pyramids near Cairo receive more visits. It consists of four main parts, of which only the largest is currently open to the general public.

A Pharaoh and his wife, note her importance ;-)

Twin obelisks, oddly enough they are different sizes, one 36 metres, the other 28 metres tall

 One of the things we discovered was that if a statue had both feet together then it was made when the Pharaoh was dead, if he had a foot forward then it was made when he was alive.

Sacred lake, for priestly ablutions

Also on the site was a sacred lake where the pries after shaving all his hair off (daily) had to clean himself off before beginning his daily duties which mostly appear to comprise of dusting.

Scarab

There's a statue of a scarab near the lake and there's a legend says that single women who circle the scarab statue seven times will find their true love. A few of our participants fell for it and took the walk, with no visible (so far) results.
This is but a taster of what can be seen at Luxor and Karnak, I'd really suggest you go and look for yourselves if it interests you that much, words simply aren't enough.
After that we visited a perfumery and bought some of the oils on sale there, just mix with water and you have what appears to be some of the better perfumes and aftershaves on sale at a huge mark up in the West.
After that back on the boat we discovered that one of our table friends had managed to acquire a litre of gin from one of the returning to England tourists. A friendly barman (also called Mohammed) supplied us with tonic for the 'special water' and G and T's became the apperitif of choice for the hot afternoons...

Making it up as you go along...

The pro EUphiles must be getting desperate, they are peddling the 'leaving will cost jobs' myth and stamping their feet because no-one really believes them anymore.
Express.

TALK of leaving the European Union is damaging job prospects and is economically "irresponsible", according to the Chief Secretary to the Treasury.

And islam is a religion of peace, saying it doesn't make it so...

Liberal Democrat Danny Alexander believes Britain is in the perfect position to lead changes to the EU as large eurozone countries are politically and economically too weak to oppose reform.
Speaking to Manchester's Chamber of Commerce, Mr Alexander also vowed the Government would not be changing the course of its economic police, despite calls from a leading think-tank to increase investment in infrastructure/
He said: "Half of our trade is with Europe. In fact, EU countries trade twice as much with each other than they would without the single market - activity which is worth £3,300 per British household. Over 3.5 million British jobs are linked to that trade.

And this trade will stop if we leave? Is mr Alexander so stupid as to believe the EU will not want to trade with us even if we leave? They'll certainly want to carry on selling us stuff, after all, they sell us more than we sell them.
So, the pro EU Lib Dems continue to make things up whilst expecting us to believe them. Well I have some news for mr Alexander, more and more people are coming to the view that the fourth largest party in terms of voter support has it completely wrong on the EU and hence you are losing votes left right and centre.
Perhaps you should re-evaluate just why Ukip is doing so well...

Not the EDL...

A few days ago someone sprayed the Bomber Command Memorial with the word islam and attempted to blot out some of the names. In the aftermath of the Lee Rigby barbarism the weird and wonderful people who inhabit the left of the political spectrum immediately denounced it as a put up job by the EDLto discredit the downtrodden and victimised muslim communities of the UK who clearly had nothing to do with the barbarism other than being muslims who follow the tenets in the quran that the killers did, same book, same rules...
Well seems that there has been a video released of the perpetrator and sadly he doesn't fit the profile of the average EDL member... despite the hopes and dreams of many on the left and the MSM.
Mail.

Working alone in the dark and covering his face with a balaclava, this is the vile thug responsible for scrawling the word 'Islam' across Britain's celebrated Bomber Command Memorial.
The vandal was caught on camera desecrating the Central London monument to the 55,573 RAF crew who lost their lives in the Second World War.
The suspect is seen moving in and out of the shadows to spray it with red paint early on Monday morning, in a shameless attempt to stir up hatred.

Hatred for whom, the Mail does not say though considering their past form they appear to think it was to stir up hatred against muslims... because astonishingly the Mail misses out one vital detail in their article...
Express.

The man, of African appearance, is captured moving in and out of the shadows to spray the monument in London in the early hours on Monday.

Now the EDL does have African members, it's not normally mentioned by the left or the MSM because it rather makes their arguments that the EDL are somehow racist look a tad weak...
However the EDL do not target monuments, do not target mosques and would like as not string up any member they found doing such a thing. However the left and the MSM are desperate to move the narrative along from the fact that the killers of Lee Rigby were muslims onto anyone else and the EDL because it opposes islam is the target of choice and is often held up as the opposite coin to islamic extremism despite never having flown planes into buildings, blown up tube trains and buses, blown up disco's, set off nail bombs in cafés or groomed underage girls to name but a few islamic 'habits'
Despite the media claims, the EDL are very law abiding ordinary folk who want the government to deal with islamic extremism, it's a naive hope perhaps, but it's a start. People are getting angrier and angrier with the governments inability to deal with the issue, this is self evident in the articles attacking the EDL. It's much easier to blame the reaction rather than the real culprits after all.

Gosh, what a surprise... NOT!

Tim Yeo who has made an absolute fortune from his business dealings in the green sector in selling bird mincers to be subsidised by the likes of you and me now appears to be moving on to the next scam. Well he must be if he's coming out with statements like this...
Telegraph.

Humans may not be responsible for global warming, according to Tim Yeo, the MP who oversees government policy on climate change.
The chairman of the Commons Energy and Climate Change committee said he accepts the earth’s temperature is increasing but said “natural phases” may be to blame. Such a suggestion sits at odds with the scientific consensus. One recent survey of 12,000 academic papers on climate change found 97 per cent agree human activities are causing the planet to warm. Mr Yeo, an environment minister under John Major, is one of the Conservative Party’s strongest advocates of radical action to cut carbon emissions. His comments are significant as he was one of the first senior figures to urge the party to take the issue of environmental change seriously. He insisted such action is “prudent” given the threat climate change poses to living standards worldwide. But, he said, human action is merely a “possible cause”.

The saying involving rats and sinking ships springs to mind a little here does it not?
Thing is, good scientists have been saying for years that the whole climate change scam methodology is deeply flawed and that the earth rather than warming up was actually heading towards another cooling phase. The very fact that Yeo is now alluding to the admission that anthropomorphic driven climate change may not be the case after all suggests that he's about to bail out of the scam and use this statement as proof of his 'denier' credentials when the entire green cash machine comes off the rails later this year (I hope)
I expect we'll get a lot of this sort of thing from the politicians over the next few months as they quietly seek to distance themselves from the scam.

Bet this wasn't related to islam either...

No sooner has the dust settled over the bank holiday and the powers that be breathed a collective sigh of relief in the hope that things would go back to normal and those beastly EDL types would just stop pointing out the obvious about the states islamic pets when up pops another example of islam in action...
Express.

COUNTER-terror police are investigating an attack on a prison guard who was left beaten and bloody after three fanatics launched a vicious assault when they were asked to pray for soldier Lee Rigby.

So much for the religion of peace meme that has been forced down our throats since the barbarians did for Lee Rigby.

The terrified officer, in his 30s, was lucky to escape with his life after five hours of being battered by the Islamic convicts who told him they would kill him at the British maximum security jail.
He was freed by a specialist riot squad who stormed the cleaning room where he had been held at Full Sutton jail, near York.
A female officer was also injured as she tried to stop the three male prisoners, two aged 25, one 26, dragging her colleague away.
The North East counter terrorism unit has now taken over the investigation at the prison amid the reports that the attack was Muslim inspired.

But, but, muslims are peaceful people* I have it on the authority of several imams, politicians, media experts and the UAF!
The UK's prisons are very sadly a hotbed for islamic extremism, mostly because instead of deporting them to an islamic shithole where they'd be happy we keep them well fed and privileged and allow them to practice their barbarism without fear or censure. The muslim prisoner percentage is 12% and the general populace percentage is about 5% but apparently we aren't allowed to extrapolate from those figures as that would of course be racist despite muslim not being a race...
The more the state denies there is a problem, the bigger that problem will grow.
There is no place for islam in a civilised society.


* Apart from the ones who very obviously aren't

Must!

Two articles caught my eye today, both in the Daily Mail along with the usual hysterical headlines and justification for yet another government intrusion into our lives.
Both are calling for the banning of something and demand legislation from the government to 'do something' rather than accept that people ought to run their own lives to suit themselves...
Mail 1.

Hate preachers will be banned from British television, Theresa May signalled last night.
The Home Secretary condemned the BBC and other broadcasters for interviewing ‘disgusting’ extremist cleric Anjem Choudary after the murder of soldier Lee Rigby.
A Mail probe revealed that hundreds of videos encouraging extremism can be found on YouTube using Google searches, and Mrs May threatened internet giants with legislation unless they removed them; 

Anyone remember the Gerry Adams fiasco when instead of his words on the screen, an actor read them out instead?
 Mail 2.

Charities have demanded urgent action to prevent access to illegal and ‘disgusting’ child pornography via Google and other web browsers.
A coalition of organisations is arguing for the introduction of blocking software and on-screen warnings to deny internet users access to the material.
The group includes the NSPCC, Barnado’s, Action for Children, BAAF, Beat Bullying, Children England, Children’s Society, ECPAT UK, Kidscape, and Stop It Now.

Ah yes, the infamous 'for the cheeldren' meme in action.
Now despite the claims of these charities, the vast majority of people who look at porn do not turn into child molesting perverts. Nor do I suspect that Google could prevent people from accessing child porn via other means, it's only one search engine amongst countless others (if the most famous) and I'm pretty sure that the real perverts out there have their own network and don't use any sort of mainstream search engines, well the smart ones anyway.
Yet both articles are calling for the same thing, that people should be banned/prevented from making their own minds up and sorting out their own lives, whilst forgetting that there's already legislation in place to deal with such things anyway, it's just that law enforcement for one reason or another fail to use it. In the case of hate preachers it's fear of accusations of racism, with child porn it's because the real problem is the authorities themselves appear to be up to their necks in it. Just check out John Ward in the Slog if you have any doubts on this.
Don't get me wrong, I believe hate preachers and child molesters should be strung up by the gonads until they drop off pour encourager les autres, but I do not like government or anyone else telling me or preventing me from viewing what I want for my own good, mostly because once they start, they never seem to stop.
The legislation is already in place, the government do not need encouraging to take more of our freedoms away.

No you won't

Cameron was blowing hot air yesterday by making promises that he simply can't keep, but look good on the pages of the newspapers.
Mail. (usual caveats)

David Cameron is planning new powers to muzzle Islamic hate preachers accused of provoking terrorist outrages such as the killing of soldier Lee Rigby.
The Prime Minister wants to stop extremist clerics using schools, colleges, prisons and mosques to spread their ‘poison’ and is to head a new Tackling Extremism and Radicalisation Task Force (TERFOR) made up of senior Ministers, MI5, police and moderate religious leaders.
The high-powered group will study a number of measures, including banning extremist clerics from being given public platforms to incite students, prisoners and other followers – and forcing mosque leaders to answer for ‘hate preachers’.

What's a definition of insanity? Oh yes, trying the same thing over and over in the exact same way and expecting a different outcome...
Appeasement doesn't work, you are not going to be able to get the muslim communities to rat out their fellow muslims when truth be told they are fare more afraid of the extremists than they are of the government.
Also the EU and the European Court of Human Rights have time and time again rapped the governments knuckles for attempting any such actions via our courts. Hell we can't even deport the scum, never mind get them silenced (Thank you Tony Blair)
Also, anyone want to take bets on any legislation suffering from mission creep? After all, if they somehow can pass it, you can bet that somehow or other it will be used to silence anyone the government don't like, though I suspect somehow or other the real extremists will get away with it.
It's the same time and time again, some atrocity happens and all we get are mealy mouthed phrases and legislation that takes away ever more of our civil liberties and nothing ever changes.

Sounds about right...

What I did on my holidays (By QM Twoflower) #1

Now normally QM would have nothing to do with a Muslim country, I avoid islam as I would avoid bubonic plague. That said... QM is a history buff and Egypt is the largest archaeological site in the world and I really wanted to see with my own eyes just what was there.
So, QM and Lady QM set off for Egypt and a Nile cruise...
We arrived late at Luxor airport, nearly midnight Egyptian time and the first thing you notice when you get off the plane is the heat, at 24 degrees, it was much hotter in the middle of the night than it was in the height of summer last year. It's also a dry heat too, none of that muggy heat that means a mega sweat in the UK just before a thunder storm.

MS Royal Viking our ship for a week

The first thing we found was that we had been upgraded to a five star ship which because it was much bigger did not seem that much of an upgrade, however passenger numbers were low at 22 rather than the normal 60, so it worked out pretty fine for us.

Our first full day took us to the Valley of the kings and this was where we discovered the delights of Egyptians desperate to sell us stuff, fortunately they don't mind being completely blanked, although I did pick up a few good (to me) deals. I didn't mind paying a little over the odds, this is a third world country after all and they had suffered due to their so called revolution and a bunch of religious yahoos bollixing it up totally for the population by driving off the tourist trade.

Dry and hot

 The tombs themselves were impressive, the dry atmosphere having preserved most of the original artwork, though taking pictures inside was forbidden.
We then visited the temple of Hapshetsup or hot chicken soup as some seemed to call it. This had been carved out of the solid rock of the mountains and was seriously impressive.

Hapshetsup temple

We then visited the Valley of the Queens (and nobles) and headed back to the boat to view the Colossus of Memnon en route.

The certainly did them big.

Back at the boat we discovered that Egypt was famous for something other than Pharaohs, seems the Egyptians invented beer...

And bloody good it was too, bar prices were roughly that of the UK too and yes we drank loads. Egypt also produces some wine too, I can't recommend the white too much, though the rosé and the red were reasonably palatable.
One of the things you do notice about Egypt is the poverty, though the people seem happy enough and the ones we met not terribly religious at all, though the mosques were certainly giving it some five times a day. Turned out Luxor though was 50/50 muslim/Christian and the usual extremists were petty much all in Cairo making a mess of running the country. Everyone we met believed the ex president Hosni Mubarak to be a corrupt old man and were glad to be shot of him, but, they also though the muslim brotherhood were a disgusting bunch of cretins as since they took over power cuts were a regular thing and there were fuel shortages throughout the land too.
Seems they exchanged one crook for a whole new set of crooks and our guide expected another revolution within a year to drive them out.

Hypocrisy

Some 1200 extra officers were on the streets to apparently protect the command and control centres of the islamic barbarians today. Makes you wonder where they can get these from and yet have to wait 20 mins before coming to get the said islamic barbarians who behead an innocent man on the streets.
Mail.

More than 1,200 additional police officers took to the streets last night amid heightened fears of further violence targeted at the Muslim community by far-Right groups.
Officers were guarding 'key locations' in London, including religious venues and transport hubs, Metropolitan Police assistant commissioner Mark Rowley said.
Leave for officers has been cancelled following ugly scenes in Woolwich involving the English Defence League and a spate of attacks on mosques elsewhere in England on Wednesday night.
English Defence League supporters clashed with police near Woolwich Arsenal railway station just hours after the bloody attack on Lee Rigby. A group of around 250 men gathered at The Queen's Arms pub in Burrage Road, where they sang nationalist songs.
The mob then began throwing missiles at police officers, who responded with baton charges, witnesses said.
Elsewhere, a 43-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of attempted arson and possession of an offensive weapon after walking into a mosque with a knife and an explosive device in Braintree, Essex.
The secretary of the mosque, Sikander Saleemy, said it was 'some sort of revenge attack'. He added: 'We absolutely condemn what happened in Woolwich, but it had nothing to do with us.
'It was an appalling act of terror – but it wasn't Islamic in any way. I wish it wasn't described like that, because sadly people will now start to blame Muslims.'

Ok, point 1) The EDL do not target mosques, never have, never will despite a lot of claims to the contrary, the only people convicted of targeting a mosque at an EDL demo were actually members of the UAF.
Point 2) Beheading and slitting the throat of a victim is an islamic method, despite the denial from the mosque secretary, people are blaming muslims because IT WAS MUSLIMS THAT DID IT!
Point 3) The Mail is a bit coy (downright lying) about what happened in Woolwich with the EDL, the police attempted to physically move on a peaceful demo with their batons and were then attacked because of this, not the other way round despite the weird witness claim.
You'd almost think the police and government were more scared of the EDL and ordinary people wanting to show their revulsion at the crime than they are of those who behead soldiers on our streets.
Julia's article below this one is worth reading about the government and the powers that be using the act to try and control us even more rather than actually deal with the real issue of the barbarians amongst us, who despite the claims of the government, police and the Daily Mail are not the EDL.