Heal Britain
IT had to be said. We just wish a PM had delivered Rishi Sunak’s dramatic and powerful attack on extremism 20 years ago.
The hate on our streets, and now the chilling election of George Galloway, are partly the result of idiotically allowing diverse communities to fester in isolation.
Too many people have grown up feeling no love for, or connection to, Britain or our liberal values — and hold our precious democracy in contempt.
All are fundamental to our way of life. We somehow thought it was “illiberal” to pass that on.
Of course this is not true of a huge proportion of our minority communities.
But it is indisputably so for a substantial Islamist hardcore who support Hamas, call for bloody jihad and like to see Jews and MPs terrorised.
Turning that round is a monumental task and not one Labour would dream of continuing. It may simply be too late. This PM can only do what he still can.
But when he demands police seize terrorism or genocide supporters and that universities crush extremism he must back it up.
Fire top cops who do not comply. Axe funding to unis which fail.
As for keeping out migrants who aim “to undermine our values” . . . how, when our borders are wide open?
For now the mobs have their toxic tribune in Parliament: Galloway, who backs Putin and Iran, despises Nato and Israel and is endorsed by the Jew-haters of both the hard-Left and hard-Right.
We can only hope it is a turning point.
And that, as the PM says, it galvanises us all “to stand together to combat the forces of division and beat this poison”.
Rayner riddle
ANGELA Rayner is desperately hoping to wait out the tax storm. It won’t work.
Labour’s deputy leader and her husband owned two houses and sold both.
Married couples can only claim capital gains tax relief on the profit from one.
Labour insists NO tax was due. Why?
Rayner says a tax expert confirms her position. Who? What was the advice?
How exactly did they avoid this bill?
This is not a “smear”. It is called holding politicians to account.
Answer the questions. Show your workings.
Trans folly
TRANS women are male by definition. If they were female they would be women, not trans women.
How insane, then, for the BBC to rule against Radio 4’s Justin Webb for mentioning that trans women are “in other words, males” in a discussion about whether their biology made them inherently better than women at chess.
Their maleness was the point. A listener complained that Webb was not being “impartial” on trans matters.
The corporation’s woke fools buckled.
At today’s BBC, feelings trump facts.
