Tony Blair says he does not intend to join the official Remain campaign, as any contribution he might make could be ‘negative’. Depends what you mean by negative.
Hostility to the EU went through the roof during the Labour years, not least because of his cynical policy of encouraging mass immigration.
And Blair realises that migration will be the biggest single determining factor when Britain decides in June. So he thinks he should make himself scarce.
Not that he’s apologetic. Quite the opposite. As far as Blair is concerned, he’s never been wrong on anything...
Please back Remain, Blair. Then we can all Leave: If Tony bangs the drum for his beloved EU then it could be the greatest service he has ever done for Britain, writes RICHARD LITTLEJOHN
By Richard Littlejohn for the Daily Mail
15 March 2016
Daily Mail
Tony Blair says he does not intend to join the official Remain campaign, as any contribution he might make could be ‘negative’. Depends what you mean by negative
Tony Blair says he does not intend to join the official Remain campaign, as any contribution he might make could be ‘negative’. Depends what you mean by negative.
Hostility to the EU went through the roof during the Labour years, not least because of his cynical policy of encouraging mass immigration.
And Blair realises that migration will be the biggest single determining factor when Britain decides in June. So he thinks he should make himself scarce.
Not that he’s apologetic. Quite the opposite. As far as Blair is concerned, he’s never been wrong on anything.
It’s not his fault if millions of jobs in this country have been filled by migrants. Instead of moaning about it, jobless British workers should pull themselves together and get a better education.
Naturally, he was making this valuable contribution not from a platform at a trades union conference in some rundown British seaside resort, but at a glitzy global education summit in oil-rich Dubai.
After disembarking from his private jet and freshening up in his six-star hotel suite, Blair laid the blame for unemployment in Britain at the feet of the unemployed themselves.
‘The answer . . . is not to blame migrants for taking your job. It’s to get the education and skills necessary in order to operate in the modern world.’
I wonder how this sermon was received by all those who were condemned to fester in Labour’s ‘bog-standard’ comprehensives during the Blair years. You wouldn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
He became Prime Minister boasting that his priority was ‘education, education, education’ but presided over a decade of falling standards and dumbing down.
Blair left behind a shameful legacy of failure and a betrayed generation. Employers regularly complained that school-leavers who applied to them for jobs lacked even basic numeracy and literacy skills.
As a result of the huge increase in the immigrant population, classrooms are overcrowded, parents are regularly denied their first choice of school and native British children are condemned to be educated in schools where a mere handful of pupils have English as their first language.
Only yesterday it was revealed that education authorities across the country are having to hire more and more interpreters to translate lessons for children recently arrived from Romania, Lithuania, Slovakia and Poland.
Often these newcomers have secured school places ahead of locally born boys and girls whose families have lived in the area for generations.
How are teachers supposed to impart vital knowledge to a class in which half the pupils speak several different languages? More to the point, how are kids supposed to learn anything in a Tower of Babel?
All of this madness is a direct consequence of Blair’s disastrous decision to open the floodgates to immigrants in order to ‘rub the Right’s face in diversity’.
To call his latest intervention disingenuous would be a serious understatement. And to pretend that unemployment is all the fault of those who have failed to get proper qualifications is insulting.
If we have a problem with bone-idle British citizens content to sit at home all day instead of doing an honest day’s work, it’s because Labour made welfare dependency a lifestyle choice, and massaged the jobless figures by classifying perfectly able-bodied people as ‘incapacitated’. (The latest numbers show that more than 100,000 are receiving benefits simply because they’re obese or addicted to drugs.)
Instead of compelling scroungers and shirkers to look for gainful employment and take jobs which they might consider beneath them, Labour imported foreign workers to fill the gap.
Even those upstanding citizens who studied hard at night school, college and via apprenticeships to become, for instance, plumbers and electricians, have seen themselves undercut by migrants prepared to live six-to-a-room in rental accommodation and accept lower wages.
How are British tradesmen, with mortgages and other bills to pay, expected to compete? This is not to traduce the hard-working migrants who have come to Britain and transformed the labour market.
Nobody can blame them for wanting a better life. But if we’d had a properly functioning education and welfare system after 1997, we wouldn’t have needed to import millions of workers from overseas.
For Blair now to turn round and blame the unemployed for their own plight is monstrous. We are still living with the consequences of his folly.
Blair was cheerleader-in-chief for the whole EU project. His thwarted ambition was to become President of Europe. If he’d had his way, we’d have joined the euro on day one.
He called the Yuman Rites Act his proudest moment in politics.
Now he declines to take a leading role in the campaign to persuade us to Remain because his influence might be ‘negative’. Why so reticent, Tony? Go for it, my son.
If Blair bangs the drum for his beloved European project, millions of undecided voters will almost certainly decide to vote Leave. It could be the greatest service he has ever done for us.
Come on, Tony. Your Country Needs You.
Ding, dong the Witch is history
Primary school pupils are being taught to hate Margaret Thatcher. So no surprise there, then. In the state sector, despite six years of Call Me Dave and the Tories, the Left-wing ‘Blob’ still holds sway.
A lesson plan, published by the Times Educational Supplement, which depicts the former Tory PM as a bloodthirsty sadist, has been downloaded 5,000 times.
Although not officially endorsed by the Department for Education, it is described as a ‘great tool’ for learning. It features Mrs Thatcher’s Spitting Image puppet and says she was an ‘abrupt and mean’ woman, who put ‘profits before workers’ and set out to destroy the miners.
Children are also told she wanted to abolish the NHS and are shown a cartoon of a smiling, blood-soaked Thatch ripping the heart out of a body. Subtle, eh?
Primary school pupils are being taught to hate Margaret Thatcher. So no surprise there, then. In the state sector, despite six years of Call Me Dave and the Tories, the Left-wing ‘Blob’ still holds sway
One section for seven-year-olds says: ‘While Margaret was the Minister of Education she had to make cuts and abolished free milk in schools which children had enjoyed for many years.’
Yes, Mrs Thatcher did withdraw free milk from seven to 11-year-olds, but she was only continuing a policy introduced by Labour’s Harold Wilson, whose government ended free milk for all secondary school pupils in 1968.
And although she took on the miners, Labour closed far more coal mines than she ever did.
But this is what passes for history teaching — a constant drip of Leftist bile and propaganda about diversity and global warming.
There’s also a link to Ding, Dong, The Witch Is Dead — presumably so the kiddies can sing it at morning assembly, after the Red Flag.
I’ve just worked out where I’ve seen Donald Trump’s hairdo before. It was on The Syrup, a character from Minder
I’ve just worked out where I’ve seen Donald Trump’s hairdo before. It was on The Syrup, a character from Minder, who used some counterfeit cash to buy a Roger Moore toupee from a camp coiffeur called Mr Henry, played by Robbie Coltrane.
The model he traded in (pictured) was an early Englebert Humperdinck, circa 1972 — although it could quite easily be The Donald, before he went blond.
A row has erupted between councillors in Labour-run Crawley, West Sussex, over plans to build a boules court in the town's Memorial Gardens (pictured)
Crawley Council (Labour-run, needless to say) has obviously decided that Britain is going to vote to stay in the EU and has drawn up plans to spend £2,500 on a boules court in an attempt to make the town more communautaire.
The rationale behind this decision is that it will bring a ‘bit of French life’ to West Sussex. Onion sellers and accordion players can’t be far behind.
Needless to say this has not gone down well, at a time of so-called austerity.
Maybe they could throw in a couple of cut-price pissoirs to offset the public conveniences they have closed in Crawley because of the ‘savage cuts’. Some think it’s a load of old boules. Tory councillor Bob Burgess said: ‘I’ve lived in Crawley for 45 years and not once has someone come to me saying there are a lack of petanque pitches in the town.’
But others are more enthusiastic. Jane Gorman, 47, said: ‘Bringing a bit of France to West Sussex is no bad idea, although in reality it’s just a game of grown-up marbles.’
Still, if this catches on, we could see other European sports coming to Crawley — ski-jumping, for instance; bullfighting, perhaps; or a Pamplona-style run down the High Street.
Viva Espana! Vive la France! Vive, er, Crawley?
Hostility to the EU went through the roof during the Labour years, not least because of his cynical policy of encouraging mass immigration.
And Blair realises that migration will be the biggest single determining factor when Britain decides in June. So he thinks he should make himself scarce.
Not that he’s apologetic. Quite the opposite. As far as Blair is concerned, he’s never been wrong on anything...
Please back Remain, Blair. Then we can all Leave: If Tony bangs the drum for his beloved EU then it could be the greatest service he has ever done for Britain, writes RICHARD LITTLEJOHN
By Richard Littlejohn for the Daily Mail
15 March 2016
Daily Mail
Tony Blair says he does not intend to join the official Remain campaign, as any contribution he might make could be ‘negative’. Depends what you mean by negative
Tony Blair says he does not intend to join the official Remain campaign, as any contribution he might make could be ‘negative’. Depends what you mean by negative.
Hostility to the EU went through the roof during the Labour years, not least because of his cynical policy of encouraging mass immigration.
And Blair realises that migration will be the biggest single determining factor when Britain decides in June. So he thinks he should make himself scarce.
Not that he’s apologetic. Quite the opposite. As far as Blair is concerned, he’s never been wrong on anything.
It’s not his fault if millions of jobs in this country have been filled by migrants. Instead of moaning about it, jobless British workers should pull themselves together and get a better education.
Naturally, he was making this valuable contribution not from a platform at a trades union conference in some rundown British seaside resort, but at a glitzy global education summit in oil-rich Dubai.
After disembarking from his private jet and freshening up in his six-star hotel suite, Blair laid the blame for unemployment in Britain at the feet of the unemployed themselves.
‘The answer . . . is not to blame migrants for taking your job. It’s to get the education and skills necessary in order to operate in the modern world.’
I wonder how this sermon was received by all those who were condemned to fester in Labour’s ‘bog-standard’ comprehensives during the Blair years. You wouldn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
He became Prime Minister boasting that his priority was ‘education, education, education’ but presided over a decade of falling standards and dumbing down.
Blair left behind a shameful legacy of failure and a betrayed generation. Employers regularly complained that school-leavers who applied to them for jobs lacked even basic numeracy and literacy skills.
As a result of the huge increase in the immigrant population, classrooms are overcrowded, parents are regularly denied their first choice of school and native British children are condemned to be educated in schools where a mere handful of pupils have English as their first language.
Only yesterday it was revealed that education authorities across the country are having to hire more and more interpreters to translate lessons for children recently arrived from Romania, Lithuania, Slovakia and Poland.
Often these newcomers have secured school places ahead of locally born boys and girls whose families have lived in the area for generations.
How are teachers supposed to impart vital knowledge to a class in which half the pupils speak several different languages? More to the point, how are kids supposed to learn anything in a Tower of Babel?
All of this madness is a direct consequence of Blair’s disastrous decision to open the floodgates to immigrants in order to ‘rub the Right’s face in diversity’.
To call his latest intervention disingenuous would be a serious understatement. And to pretend that unemployment is all the fault of those who have failed to get proper qualifications is insulting.
If we have a problem with bone-idle British citizens content to sit at home all day instead of doing an honest day’s work, it’s because Labour made welfare dependency a lifestyle choice, and massaged the jobless figures by classifying perfectly able-bodied people as ‘incapacitated’. (The latest numbers show that more than 100,000 are receiving benefits simply because they’re obese or addicted to drugs.)
Instead of compelling scroungers and shirkers to look for gainful employment and take jobs which they might consider beneath them, Labour imported foreign workers to fill the gap.
Even those upstanding citizens who studied hard at night school, college and via apprenticeships to become, for instance, plumbers and electricians, have seen themselves undercut by migrants prepared to live six-to-a-room in rental accommodation and accept lower wages.
How are British tradesmen, with mortgages and other bills to pay, expected to compete? This is not to traduce the hard-working migrants who have come to Britain and transformed the labour market.
Nobody can blame them for wanting a better life. But if we’d had a properly functioning education and welfare system after 1997, we wouldn’t have needed to import millions of workers from overseas.
For Blair now to turn round and blame the unemployed for their own plight is monstrous. We are still living with the consequences of his folly.
Blair was cheerleader-in-chief for the whole EU project. His thwarted ambition was to become President of Europe. If he’d had his way, we’d have joined the euro on day one.
He called the Yuman Rites Act his proudest moment in politics.
Now he declines to take a leading role in the campaign to persuade us to Remain because his influence might be ‘negative’. Why so reticent, Tony? Go for it, my son.
If Blair bangs the drum for his beloved European project, millions of undecided voters will almost certainly decide to vote Leave. It could be the greatest service he has ever done for us.
Come on, Tony. Your Country Needs You.
Ding, dong the Witch is history
Primary school pupils are being taught to hate Margaret Thatcher. So no surprise there, then. In the state sector, despite six years of Call Me Dave and the Tories, the Left-wing ‘Blob’ still holds sway.
A lesson plan, published by the Times Educational Supplement, which depicts the former Tory PM as a bloodthirsty sadist, has been downloaded 5,000 times.
Although not officially endorsed by the Department for Education, it is described as a ‘great tool’ for learning. It features Mrs Thatcher’s Spitting Image puppet and says she was an ‘abrupt and mean’ woman, who put ‘profits before workers’ and set out to destroy the miners.
Children are also told she wanted to abolish the NHS and are shown a cartoon of a smiling, blood-soaked Thatch ripping the heart out of a body. Subtle, eh?
Primary school pupils are being taught to hate Margaret Thatcher. So no surprise there, then. In the state sector, despite six years of Call Me Dave and the Tories, the Left-wing ‘Blob’ still holds sway
One section for seven-year-olds says: ‘While Margaret was the Minister of Education she had to make cuts and abolished free milk in schools which children had enjoyed for many years.’
Yes, Mrs Thatcher did withdraw free milk from seven to 11-year-olds, but she was only continuing a policy introduced by Labour’s Harold Wilson, whose government ended free milk for all secondary school pupils in 1968.
And although she took on the miners, Labour closed far more coal mines than she ever did.
But this is what passes for history teaching — a constant drip of Leftist bile and propaganda about diversity and global warming.
There’s also a link to Ding, Dong, The Witch Is Dead — presumably so the kiddies can sing it at morning assembly, after the Red Flag.
I’ve just worked out where I’ve seen Donald Trump’s hairdo before. It was on The Syrup, a character from Minder
I’ve just worked out where I’ve seen Donald Trump’s hairdo before. It was on The Syrup, a character from Minder, who used some counterfeit cash to buy a Roger Moore toupee from a camp coiffeur called Mr Henry, played by Robbie Coltrane.
The model he traded in (pictured) was an early Englebert Humperdinck, circa 1972 — although it could quite easily be The Donald, before he went blond.
A row has erupted between councillors in Labour-run Crawley, West Sussex, over plans to build a boules court in the town's Memorial Gardens (pictured)
Crawley Council (Labour-run, needless to say) has obviously decided that Britain is going to vote to stay in the EU and has drawn up plans to spend £2,500 on a boules court in an attempt to make the town more communautaire.
The rationale behind this decision is that it will bring a ‘bit of French life’ to West Sussex. Onion sellers and accordion players can’t be far behind.
Needless to say this has not gone down well, at a time of so-called austerity.
Maybe they could throw in a couple of cut-price pissoirs to offset the public conveniences they have closed in Crawley because of the ‘savage cuts’. Some think it’s a load of old boules. Tory councillor Bob Burgess said: ‘I’ve lived in Crawley for 45 years and not once has someone come to me saying there are a lack of petanque pitches in the town.’
But others are more enthusiastic. Jane Gorman, 47, said: ‘Bringing a bit of France to West Sussex is no bad idea, although in reality it’s just a game of grown-up marbles.’
Still, if this catches on, we could see other European sports coming to Crawley — ski-jumping, for instance; bullfighting, perhaps; or a Pamplona-style run down the High Street.
Viva Espana! Vive la France! Vive, er, Crawley?