A call for fascism?

This letter is a call for fascism and it makes my skin crawl. What really worries me is that comes from youth leader in a parish church.

Sir - I strongly agree with the views put forward by Shaun Bailey (Commentary, February 16), based on his experience as a youth worker in west London. I am a youth leader in a parish church youth club which serves a village community in an affluent white area - very different environments with different problems, but the underlying principles of cause and effect are the same.

I have worked with 11- to 14-year-olds over many years and the young people who come to our group now are more streetwise and “pseudo-adult", exposed to sex and violence in the media and violence, in particular, through electronic games; their conversations show this.

They are aware of their rights but not their responsibilities - behaviour is often challenging. Firm boundaries, together with the knowledge that adults care for them, help break through to the children they really are. Britain puts in place stringent child protection policies and yet provides a social environment that makes our young adolescents vulnerable.

Until action is taken to censor what our young people watch, read and listen to, and until it becomes less cool to behave in a way that models these inputs, the lot of our children will not improve.

Sue Stephens, Windlesham, Surrey

Notice this brown shirt volunteer thinks its the job of the state not the parent to control their children. Is it really a wise idea to have someone with such ideas as leader of a youth group?

Vomit bags at the ready?

No I am not talking a bumpy airplace flight but in fact the bumpy ride taxpapers are getting from the sink-hole known as the Olympics. If this is the sort of defence one can expect of it, things could get interesting.

If they can find the money to finance their — and many would argue unjustified — involvement in Iraq, then surely they can finance the extra costs of holding the Olympics, whose principal aim is to promote world peace through uniting the peoples of the world in healthy sporting endeavours.

Ian Blackshaw, Visiting Professor, Centre for International Sports Studies

Considering how badly the cost is spiralling out of control war may actually be cheaper than holding the sporting wank-fest that is the Olympics.

The above defence is almost more inane that the idiotic defence meeted out by Jason Donovan with his “whingeing Poms” rant.

BBC who needs it?

Rather interesting piece by Charles Moore in the today’s Daily Telegraph on the BBC and its tax on all TV owners. What is most interesting is the comments below the piece that seem to agree strongly with the article. I most enjoy the fact Moore is pointing out an odd quirk of the taxation scheme. Those who are most keen on the BBC are the really old, who consequently don’t pay the tax at all. The BBC tax is not long for this world its just a question of how it will last.

I see…

Civilised countries

Sir – Another sign of a civilised country (Letters, December 16) is one that does not have half the population wandering around with guns.

Jeremy Lloyd, Tadworth, Surrey

So he seems to believe it is a good thing for only criminals and the police to be armed. It still shocks me to hear of anyone who still believe the claims of gun-grabbing zealots when they have been proven so wrong so often.

Fascistic West Lancashire

They deny rights to a minority of their employees because they don’t like their habit. I wonder if they refuse any government funding that comes from taxes put on cigarettes. I am sure Mr A. Hitler, who hated smoking, would be in full agreement.

White working class…defended…

In the Telegraph no less; and about time too. The way to counter the BNP and its ilk is not give it publicity by taking it to court every five minutes but to engage those who know they are being forgotten about by the cultural elite in the UK. There are a lot of white British working class people who do not want to vote BNP but find that no other party in the UK gives a damn about thier plight. I suspect there will be a backlash to this this piece, writing it was a rather brave thing to do methinks.

Tories hold a discussion

And does not bother to invite all the Conservative Candidates. Please send your queries about why Dr Lee Rotherham has been left out to Lois Robertson events@conservatives.com Good to see that the Tory Party is living up to its “inclusive” party tag. The event happens this Thursday so I would encourage you to get after CCHQ on this as soon as possible. The control frequery of Cameron’s Party is quite amazing; except when take into account they incompentence involved in the last Tory Party Conference.

Environmental fascism…

Care of Richmond Liberal Democrats who are going to treble the tax on gas guzzlers and anyone who has more than one cars. Its basically another excuse to tax the denizens of their area. I hope all the twits behind this get thrown out on their ear next time round.

I wonder if Richmond’s own vehicles are all enviromentally sound. Do they run all electric or hybrid vehicles in the council? I rather doubt it. This is socialist nannying and its wrong.

There is a nice collection of letters in the Telegraph about this new tax enviromental policy.

Hitch on Cameron

Peter took a chainsaw to the new Conservative Party. Cameron’s Tories are turning the UK into “effectively a one party state’. He claimed they should be “flushed down the plug-hole.” It was a brutal assesment of the joke that was Cameron’s Conference. I hope that someone recorded The Weekly Politics tonight.

Creeping Europinisation

And guess what Blair & Co are doing nowt about it reports Simon Heffer who has obliously been closely reading his Bruges Group publications unlike many politicians, including Cameron it seems, who are merely doing the head in sand act over the state of British law viz Europe.