Love, Labour’s Lost

Some Hackney friends don’t appear to be taking the news very well.

Tsk.

Hackney Labour Groupthink In Action: Whites Only Swim On The Cards?

Stoopid is as stoopid does: Flying in the face of common-sense and a clue, Hackney’s own swimming pool Stalinistas bring new meaning to the initials, “PC”.

And Hackney Labour wonder why people voted for Boris.

Power to the People

It appears that the Boycott Nandos people are mounting their last stand against Richard Midda. Their objective is to block Nando’s application for an alcohol licence. Given the number of pubs and licenced restaurants on Church Street already, all I have to say is, “good luck with that”.

My question is: What do you really hope to achieve? The Vortex is gone and not coming back. Richard Midda isn’t obliged to rent the premises out to your “business co-operative” or anyone of your choosing. Your victory, if any, will be pyrrhic. If not Nandos, it will be another big hitter who can afford Midda’s rent. Simple as that.

Sorry.

Spring Snow On The TS Stoke

Click on the above to see some Stoke Newington Easter snow. It also is a reminder that the TS Stoke on Church Street used to be home to the Stoke Newington Sea Cadets.

In one of their top-ten idiotic moves, the friend of children and “the people”, Jules & Co’s Hackney Labour pulled the rug out from under the cadets and tried to sell the TS Stoke to developers in 2005.

The cadets moved to Islington. And the TS Stoke? It sits abandoned and presumably still owned by Hackney Council.

Midda’s Chickens Part Deux

Click on the above and feel the pain of someone a bit late to the party.

Liberals Turning A Blind Eye

I seems like only yesterday I was getting lectured by liberals about British Muslim women’s “freedom” to choose.

In fact, just the other day, I was told that harping on about “women’s issues” was a bit like black people revisiting Selma, Alabama.

Hello, wake up call! How many more women and little girls do these “liberals” want to sell down the river with cultural relativism?

If the police and social workers had only listened to 12-year-old Ruksana when she told them her father had threatened to send her to Pakistan to be married against her will, then she says life might have been very different.

But they did not take her seriously, she says. She ended up in a foreign country and married to a violent partner who raped her and made her pregnant, aged 15.

Even the BBC cannot resist watering down the truth. Hello! “Violent partner?” 15 year old girls don’t have “partners”. Try, “violent stranger” or “owner”.

And Rowan Bloody Williams wants more sharia? Here’s a thought: how about we stop pandering to people’s “cultures” and give everyone in this country the benefit of the rule of law and equality?

And how about waking up to the fact that people don’t accede to subjugation: they are forced.

And I am sick unto death of the honour killings, the forced marriages and the veil.

As Tammy Bruce said: -

“The American feminist movement has not taken one stand to support the women of Iraq, the women of Afghanistan, the women of Iran.”

Sing it, sister.

Don’t feel too bad, Tammy: The British feminist movement hasn’t bothered to lift a finger for Muslim women on British soil either; they’re quite happy to turn a blind eye to domestic violence, rape and murder. Hey, it’s their culture.

Wot a Giraffe

Clapton’s (also part of the London Brorugh of Hackney) own cheeky chappy, Mohamed Hamid, made a cameo appearance in the BBC’s “Don’t Panic, I’m Islamic”. The Beeb described the programme thus: -

“Don’t Panic I’m Islamic meets Muslims who speak openly about what it means to be a British Muslim - at a time when the nation is fighting a ‘war on terror’…

The programme also uncovers the implications of the prejudice they encounter. Mohamed has been called ‘Osama bin London’ because he dresses in white robes and a headscarf similar to that worn by the prophet. “They all gathered around me when I went to the airport,” he says, “simply because I wear Islamic robes. I told the airport security that I wouldn’t be so stupid to dress up like this if I was carrying a bomb.”

Yes poor Mohamed… that’s absolutely terrible. People get it so wrong. It’s downright…what’s the word? I remember. “Islamphobic”. That’s the one.

Yet, our friend, our “cockney comic” from Clapton has only got himself convicted of recruiting and preparing jihadists to fight our troops.

So the “Don’t Panic” paintball scene, where a bunch of Muslim guys looked and acted like they were they were jihadis, they were merely poor misunderstood good souls who were just having a bit of good clean fun courtesy of the BBC, right?

I’d be grateful if the BBC would kindly spare me the “Islamophobic” lectures and refund my licence fee. (Yes, American friends, I am compelled to financially support the BBC on pain of criminal proceedings).

Words cannot convey just how heartwarming it is to know that my compulsory contribution helped the Beeb fund our friends’ little paintballing frolic.

You really couldn’t make this shit up.

Midda’s Chickens

Word on the street is that Pearl’s Place is going to be home of Church Street’s first chain, Nandos.

Discuss.

No Rowan, We’re Not Going To Have A Plural Legal System

 

This really is the limit. Rowan Bloody Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, sees the introduction of sharia law in the UK as a “good thing”.

Cheers Rowan, I’m sure British Muslim women are queueing up to thank you. Us “Islamophobes” need to be forgetting about the Rule of Law, the Constitution and natural justice and rolling out the triple talaqs ; why fuss with silly English divorces (or marriages)? Hey, I’ve got an idea! Why not bring in sharia-tastic rules of evidence into cases where Muslim women have been raped? Why don’t we all give a free pass to the “honour killing” of women and little girls, for the sake of “good relations”, of course?

Thanks again, Rowan, for doing your little bit to hang women out to dry.

“… All you did was weaken a country today, Rowan. That’s all you did. You put people’s lives in danger”.

NB

As per usual, my friend Dave at My Point nails it .

NBB

Dr Rowan’s now astounded by the reaction his views have provoked?! What planet is this guy on? Rowan needs to be reading Nandita Haksar’s, “The Demystification of Law” to inform himself of the realities of plural legal systems at the grassroots level. Then he can resign.

Stoke Newington Church Street: MPs Mix It With “The People”

 

From our, “oh for fucksakes” department, we give you MPs living on the edge in Stoke Newington.

You really couldn’t make this shit up folks.

Caption competition anyone?