Does Anyone Believe This Shit?

Ridiculous simpering twat site Keeping the Faith has publicised what it believes (no it can’t actually believe this shit can it?) to be Tony Blair’s 50 top achievements since 1997.

Shall we have a look?

Tony Blair's Achievements
Tony Blair's top 50 achievements since being elected in 1997:

1. Lowest inflation since the 60s
Well unsurprising given that we’ve stopped using the Retail Prices Index... if you have a look at the Retail Prices Index since the 60s (which you can do here) you’ll see that this isn’t really the case.

2. Low interest rates
Even an old Tory like your good Gutternsipe here can’t fault the decision to let the Bank of England set the interest rates. What fecks me off is that Blair and Brown keep claiming credit for the low interest rates when it wasn’t their decision. Would they take the blame if the BOE put interest rates up to 25%? I doubt it.

3. Introduced the National Minimum Wage
Great.... what we have now is a shit load of illegal immigrants who work below minimum wage and don’t comlplain about it since its more money than they’ve seen in their life. Meanwhile the low end of the pay scale workers in Britain faced redundancy rather than the glittering pay rise that the minimum wage offered. Twat!

4. Record police numbers in England and Wales
No record numbers of Community Support Officers in England and Wales. No powers, cheaper alternative but nice uniform. Record crime levels as well – figures.

5. Cut overall crime by 35 per cent
No you fecking haven’t. It’s well established that the only person to have cut crime on his watch was Michael Howard. However much you may dislike him the stats back him up.

6. Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools
Then how come record numbers of school leavers can’t read and write? It wasn’t like this under Major.

7. Best-ever primary school results
Only ever primary school results since it was Blair that started all the tests and league tables.

8. Funding for every pupil in England to double (since 1997) by 2007-08
Just a shame it hasn’t been done yet.

9. Lowest unemployment for 29 years
But the jobless total has risen given that most people who were ‘unemployed’ before are now on disability. Those that have got jobs are doing jobs we don’t need doing in the public sector. Nice figures massage if you can get it.

10. Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries
While getting the UK into the most debt it has ever seen without a low tax level to bail it out when the payments get too much.

11. 78,700 more nurses
More nursing graduates maybe but 1 in 4 can’t find a vacancy.

12. 27,400 more doctors
All Indian since all our universiy entrants are studying diversity theory

13. Brought back matrons to hospital wards
But the nurses aren’t nursing, they’re off being Nurse Practitioners and pretending to be doctors.

14. Devolved power to the Scottish Parliament
Yes... the power to vote on English Tuition fees without allowing the reciprocal courtesy.

15. Devolved power to Welsh Assembly
To do what exactly?

16. Banned anti-personnel mines
Did we use anti-personnel mines under the Tories?

17. NHS Direct offering free convenient patient advice at any time
Which you may remember is stopping because nobody uses it, it’s crap and is going to become a digital TV station instead. How about opening a few hospitals? Oh sorry.. you don’t have the money do you?

18. New Deal - helped over a million people into work
Nope.... kept a million people dependent on the state for a reasonable income.

19. Local government funding has increased by a third in real terms
OK we all know the use of the words ‘in real terms’ means ‘we’re talking absolute knackers’. Funding may be up but its spent on press officers and diversity advisers when what we want is clean streets and good community facilities.

20. Equalised the age of consent for gay men
OK

21. Free entry to all national museums and galleries
Let’s rewrite that shall we? “21. Banned national museums from charging entry” – no further investment and now national treasures such as the Royal Armouries, British Museum and Imperial War Museum are resorting to begging bowls in the foyer.

22. Overseas aid budget more than doubled
Nice to know our hard earned money is propping up Somalian Islamism eh?

23. Restored city-wide government to London
So far we’ve had 3 devolution arguments which is basically claiming “Tony delegated 3 areas of his responsibility to someone else” hardly an achievement. That’s like me saying one of my great achievements is getting Lady Guttersnipe to sit my Driving Test.

24. Child benefit up 25 per cent since 1997
In line with Retail Price Index Inflation so not really an achievement is it?

25. Created Sure Start to help children from low income households
Yet all the surveys show Sure Start to be a complete failure. The only people who think otherwise are Blair sycophants and Polly Toynbee.

26. Introduced the Disability Rights Commission
Because the Disabled didn’t have rights before?

27. £200 winter fuel payment to pensioners & extra £100 for over-80s
Yeah... but only in election year wasn’t it?

28. The biggest rolling stock replacement programme ever seen on our railways
Done by the private companies that run the train services. Why don’t we focus on fleecing Railtrack’s shareholders? Whether you like RailTrack or not those people have a right to their investment being returned.

29. Negotiated the historic Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland
Yeah... how’s that going along now...

30. Over 30,000 more teachers in England schools
No... 30,000 more classroom assistants in schools. See Community Support Officers above.

31. Implemented the Freedom of Information Act
But only after you shredded anything we wanted to read.

32. All workers now have a right to 4 weeks’ paid holiday
And bosses who couldn't afford to meet that commitment laid their staff off - how's that good for the worker?

33. Record rises in the state pension
And record amounts of taxation on private pension funds so they’re going to need it now.

34. 700,000 children lifted out of relative poverty
By redefining poverty.

35. Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents
Oh yes... more money to parents. How can I possibly be grateful that people seem to deserve my hard earned money simply because they have had a child? And then you go and overpay by £2m quid.

36. Banned handguns
Banned our Olympic Pistol Shooting Team (for which we go Gold, you’ll need that come 2012). The criminals on the other hand have more handguns than ever before.

37. Cut long-term youth unemployment by 75 per cent
By getting them all on media degrees and aromatherapy courses, in fact anything other than a fucking job!

38. Free nursery places for three and four-year-olds in England, Scotland and Wales
Er.... we had state nurseries before... Guttersnipe went to one, the last time I checked it still wasn’t charging.

39. Free fruit for all four to six-year-olds at school
No doubt to supplement that diet of Turkey Twizzlers and shite that the state feeds our already fat fecktard children.

40. Free school milk for five, six and seven-year-olds in Wales
Given that it’s Wales only I’d put this down as a Welsh Assembly achievement which I believe Bliar isn’t a member of.

41. Record police numbers in Scotland
See above but substitute Scottish Parliament for Welsh Assembly

42. Implemented the Human Rights Act
And made sure his Human Rights Barrister wife was never out of work while the rest of us are now surrounded by Islamist goons waiting to explode at a moment’s notice.

43. Cleanest rivers, beaches, drinking water and air since the industrial revolution
So let me get this straight.... during the Industrial Revolution our rivers were cleaner?

44. Free TV licences for over-75s
However the licence fee went through the roof for the rest of us

45. Banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals
er... we didn’t have these things in the UK before 1997.

46. Halved maximum waiting times for NHS operations
No... you declared that the maximum allowed waiting time would be halved, the hospitals still miss these targets and the patients still wait for the operations.

47. Free local bus travel for over-60s
No.... free National Express bus travel for the over 60s.

48. Record number of students in higher education
Because the A levels are easier and the courses are shite. How many media degrees do we need?

49. Extended the Race Relations Act so that all public bodies and functions now have a duty to promote race equality
And as such allowed a culture of political correctness to such an extent that the straight white working male feels like a minority.

50. Five, six and seven-year-olds in class sizes of 30 or less
Mentored by a classroom assistant and still unable to read.

There you have it Guttersnipes... makes you proud to be British doesn’t it?

That Brown - Blair Unity For You.

Given that Our Cheshire Cat Chancellor harped on yesterday about his unity with Tony Blair, who finds it surprising that he’s been writing in The Sun today setting out his foreign policy issues?

.... Anyone?

In a few days, I will visit New York, and reaffirm to the American people that Britain — under the courageous leadership of Tony Blair — stands now as then, shoulder to shoulder with them.

Given that America currently considers Britain to be the source of its major threats I doubt Dubya’s going to find that comforting. Standing shoulder to shoulder is all well and good but while we’re doing all this standing we’re letting every crazy jihadi into our country and onto planes to the States.

In al-Qaeda, we face an enemy driven by hatred of our very existence.

Yet we still let them in and give them social security. Please explain Gordon, please.

Between justice and evil, humanity and barbarism, democracy and tyranny, no one can afford to be neutral or disengaged.
That is why — even as we mourn the losses from a dark week in Iraq and Afghanistan — Britain can take pride that our heroic armed forces are leading in the global fight we must wage against terrorism.

Hang on a minute... aren’t you currently the Chancellor? Is Foreign Policy and international diplomacy your thing? Let me think...

No it fecking isn’t... I might not like the Margaret “Pig Eyed Horse Frightener” Beckett but let the woman do her job. Get back to your fucking desk you bean counting extortionist and stay out of what doesn’t concern you.

I have already doubled the money we spend on security since 9/11 to £2billion per year, and I guarantee we will continue to spend whatever it takes to meet the new security demands we face, and our military commitments abroad.

So how come our forces are having to beg body armour, getting killed because they’re in a Land Rover rather than an APC, running out of ammunition and having the protective crash foam for aircraft denied because of money issues?

Why are our armed forces constantly complaining that the complex infantry operations they are required to undertake cannot be done due to lack of helicopters?

Is it because you’ve spent a fucking fortune on the Joint Strike Fighter which has zero use in any of the theatres of operation we are currently involved in?

YOU ARE A TWAT!

So — as well as money — we must ensure our police have the powers they need.

Yes we should, and since 1997 you’ve ensured that they have neither.

So, alongside the national ID card scheme, our next step must be the introduction of biometrics in new passports and visas, and the screening of all passengers.

I’ve said this before and I’m going to say it again.

Enough with the ID Cards... they are only going to protect us from terrorism if they are 7 feet tall and made of kevlar.

And this is Labour's Great White Hope? Jesus...

Someone Apparently Gives a Shit About Anti-Semitism

I welcome this.... a lot.

BBC:

“Labour backbencher Denis McShane said abuse took "classic forms" such as synagogues being vandalised and school children being spat at and insulted.

The former Conservative leader, Iain Duncan Smith, who was one of the members of the panel, said the situation regarding anti-Semitic attacks was worse than he had previously believed.”

It makes me sick that Anti-Semitism seems to be acceptable in the UK whereas the merest hint of ‘islamophobia’ results in a flag burning parade requesting beheadings.

The panel's report has been welcomed by Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks, who said the Jewish community would "fight prejudice in whatever form it takes".

Let’s start the ball rolling by getting rid of these two shall we?

It would go a long way don't you think?

Dead Man Walking.... We Got a Dead Man Walking Here!

The PM's soul begins to rip into two.

That snivelling Blair speech in full.... did you see it? You can almost see the moment that his heart truly breaks and he sets out on revenge.

But would Guttersnipe indulge in childish schadenfreude? Of course he would. Here’s hoping the catfight continues...

The first thing I'd like to do is to apologise actually, on behalf of the Labour party for the last week, which, with everything that's been going on back here and in the world, has not been our finest hour, to be frank.

Note... not apologise to the Labour Party since, much as the party are a bunch of machiavellian fecktards they would have been quite happy to leave him in power we he not a power crazed ratshit twat. But no... all this is the entire fault of the Labour Party and those nasty people who write letters.

But I think what is important now is that we understand that it's the interests of the country that come first and we move on.

Translate – what I think is important is we sweep this off the front pages as soon as we can.

Now, as for my timing and date of departure, I would have preferred to do this in my own way, but it has been pretty obvious from what many of my Cabinet colleagues have said earlier in the week.

Finish the sentence Tone.... what is pretty obvious? I’ll fucking tell you what’s obvious you pretend plastic premier, We do not want you or your junket hugging tax and spend twat of a party. We don't want you... your party doesn't want you... even Polly Fecking Toynbee doesn't want you. Just fecking go will you.

Oh and we don't fecking want Brown either!

The next party conference in a couple of weeks will be my last party conference as party leader. The next TUC conference next week will be my last TUC, probably to the relief of both of us.

Translate – Just fuck off too I never liked you any way. It’s just so unfair!

But I am not going to set a precise date now. I don't think that's right.

Translate – once it’s off the front pages I can get back to clinging to power.

Now, I'll also say one other thing after the last week.

I quit? I'm off? It's all yours Gordon shove it up your arse? Sorry? Any of these?

I think it's important for the Labour party to understand, and I think the majority of people in the party do understand, that it's the public that comes first and it's the country that matters, and we can't treat the public as irrelevant bystanders in a subject as important as who is their prime minister.

Since when in this adminsistration have the public come first? When? Labour’s progress can simply be measured in how many things they can ban and how much of their money can be given to people who are likely to vote Labour. When have the public had anything to do with this?

So we should just bear that in mind in the way we conduct ourselves in the time to come.

I bear that in mind.... hence why I say

FECK OFF! CAN’T YOU HEAR THE FAT LADY SINGING?

And in the meantime, I think it's important that we get on with the business.
I mean, I was at a primary school earlier.
Fantastic new buildings. Great new IT suite. School results improving.

Notice he doesn’t say anything about the warm and friendly reception that he received from the pupils? He doesn’t say anything about Labour’s input making a real difference to these kids’ lives and the fact that they are grateful for it.

But Labour has made a difference for these kids... so much so they spent their ART lessons creating these to honour their guest:

I'm here at this school that just in the last few years has come on leaps and bounds, doing fantastically well.

and the BBC’s coverage of this event said:

“Tony Blair was booed and faced chants of "out, out, out" by pupils at the school at which he made a statement about his future.”

Yup Tone... fantastic. But let’s look at the plusses here. The kids can spell Time To Go... no wonder they’re heading for Trust status.

We've got the blockade on the Lebanon lifted, today.

Did we? I don’t think WE did. You had nothing to do with that at all.

You know, there are important things going on in the world. And I think I speak for all my Cabinet colleagues when I say that we would prefer to get on with those things because those are the things that really matter and really matter to the country.
So it's, as I say, it's been a somewhat difficult week but I think it's time now to move on and I think we will.

But just to keep things going the fecking Safety Elephant waded in today along with John McDonnell starting his leadership bid.

Well moved on there guys. HaHaHaHa.

And I know you've got reams of questions but I don't think it's very sensible for me to go into them now.

Because none of my press officers have written down what I have to say.

The comedy continues.... Don’t you just love it?

WTF???

When AK toting jihadi Iranian fruitbats start saying the following:

Tehran, Iran, Sep. 06 – The Supreme Commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps accused the Bush Administration and the Israeli security service Mossad of ordering the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington, DC.“The events of September 11 were ordered by U.S. [officials] and Mossad so that they could carry out their strategy of pre-emption and warmongering and unipolarisation in order to dominate the Middle East”, Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi told military commanders on Tuesday. His comments were reported by the state-run news agency ISNA.

You would be forgiven for not being remotely surprised...

... so let’s hand over to those wise folk the Americans for their comments shall we? [emphasis mine - RG]

Source:

The former head of the Star Wars missile defense program under Presidents Ford and Carter has gone public to say that the official version of 9/11 is a conspiracy theory and his main suspect for the architect of the attack is Vice President Dick Cheney.

"The exercises that went on that morning simulating the exact kind of thing that was happening so confused the people in the FAA and NORAD....that they didn't they didn't know what was real and what was part of the exercise," said Bowman

"I think the people who planned and carried out those exercises, they're the ones that should be the object of investigation."

Asked if he could name a prime suspect who was the likely architect behind the attacks, Bowman stated, "If I had to narrow it down to one person....I think my prime suspect would be Dick Cheney."

Bowman said that privately his military fighter pilot peers and colleagues did not disagree with his sentiments about the real story behind 9/11

That Gentleman is the Democrat Candidate in Florida. Are the Americans even more off the wall batshit mad than we thought?

Read It And Weep Real Tears of Joy!!!

Hat Tip to ConservativeHome for the press collage.

Just how much internal damage to we think that photo of our Cheshire Cat Chancellor is going to cause eh? Now all the Blairites can openly blame the Brownites and vice versa.

Socialism at its best Guttersnipes.

Puppy On the Night Of The Long Letters

Long time blogger but newcomer to Guttersnipe’s Daily Reads, Rottweiler Puppy has a worthwhile analysis on why Labour is tearing itself apart.

I would have summed it up with Blair is a seven headed cocktard who should be shoved up John Prescott’s arse but the Puppy goes for the more intelligent explanation:

“See, back when they swept to power, the entire cess-pool of British leftism thought that they’d bagged a Clinton of their very own; that is, a charismatic, morally-bankrupt socialist who could con the general public into voting the left into power. As things turned out, Blair was pretty much everything he claimed to be — A genuine centrist who had no intention of endorsing every crackpot scheme for Britain that leftists cooked up.

… So that should have been a good thing, right? Well, no. See, there are a couple of problems with the Blair premiership, and they’re big ones:”

Go read the whole thing.

Blair's Farewell Footlights Parade... Stop It You're Killing Me!

OK ... This happened yesterday when I was away from the desk... so I catch up with the Mirror's startling revelations.

His genuine legacy is not the delivery, important though that is, but the dominance of new Labour ideas - the triumph of Blairism

Yup... at their hearts they’re still socialists. They may not openly behave like it but the eternal quest for ‘dominance’ clearly shows that they’re all still the children of Stalin and in true Stalinist style the propaganda machine is in overdrive.

A SENSATIONAL memo leaked to the Mirror reveals how Labour experts are planning Tony Blair's exit from No10.

Yes... The Mirror, Britain’s answer to fucking Pravda gets the exclusive. Really, if you’re going to make headlines surely the respected option would be The Times. The mass market option would be The Sun. No... we’re going to use The Mirror since that’s the only rag that’s happy to print Labour spin unedited and without dissenting comment.

The retirement blueprint aims to promote the "triumph of Blairism" and allow the PM to quit on a wave of euphoria after 10 years in office. The secret strategy - drawn up by a small group of loyalists - is well under way.Mr Blair's "farewell tour" includes plans to appear on Blue Peter, Songs of Praise and Chris Evans' radio show.

Let’s read that last bit again...

Mr Blair's "farewell tour" includes plans to appear on Blue Peter

So to promote the triumph of Blairism he’s going on Blue Peter? BLUE PETER? He doesn’t even have enough credibility to get on Newsround? Jesus fucking Christ!

Still given that most of Labour’s NHS reforms have been knocked together out of washing up bottles and blu-tac it’s kind of apt don’t you think?

"He needs to go with the crowds wanting more. He should be the star who won't even play that last encore. In moving towards the end he must focus on the future."

Yes he needs to go with people wanting more but sadly they don’t. The cheering crowds that line the streets for his farewell will be Tories, Lib Dems and it will probably be the only time that Tories and George Galloway will be in agreement. He should be the star who won’t even play that last encore, but he won’t be. He’ll hang on to every last glimmer of limelight regardless of consequences to the country because it’s all about Blair. The triumph of Blairism has been to get the Blairs’ lifestyle funded for 10 years from our hard work.

Other items in his planned farewell itinerary apparently include:

SPENDING a day then an overnight stay in half a dozen cities across the country.
VISITING the 20 most striking buildings opened or redeveloped since 1997.

The Dome perhaps? Wembley Stadium? Holyrood? One dreads to think.

Mr Blair's final weeks in office will be particularly carefully choreographed to ensure cheers rather than jeers. Under the heading "Last month" the memo suggests: "Needs a daily grid, planned to the last detail. As much as possible a farewell tour, looking to the future, making sure the party is in the right place and the public remember him as he should be."

Rather than remember him as he was .... a limelight hugging statist control freak fucking camera whore with delusions of putting the rest of world to rights while shafting Britain up the ass with a pineapple?

The strategy is already under way as the PM embarks on a reputation-enhancing series of lectures.

Because reputation enhancing policy decisions and behaviour is right outside his abilities.

The memo says: "He needs to embrace open spaces, the arts and businesses, he needs to be seen to be travelling on different forms of transport. He needs to be seen with people who will raise eyebrows.

Couldn’t agree more.... let’s see him as a hostage in the Middle East.

Great Article about Terrorism ...

Don Feder writes what most of us are thinking... I reprint this in full.

Top 10 Reasons Islam Might Not Be a Religion of Peace
Written by Don Feder

A passenger revolt occurred on a Malaga-Manchester flight. Vacationing Brits refused to fly with two Arabic-speaking men. This came in the wake of arrests of 21 British-born Muslims who were plotting to blow up as many as 11 trans-Atlantic flights.
A spokesman for Britain’s opposition Tory party said the passengers panicked into “behaving irrationally.” Fancy that, not wanting to fly with members of a faith whose adherents keep trying to blow things up. Oh, how irrational!
Within days of this incident, a Lebanese student was arrested for trying to plant bombs on German trains. In India, meanwhile, a group with alleged ties to al-Qaeda threatened to blow up the 17th century Taj Mahal.

If Muslims make travelers nervous, it’s not without cause.

Would you be more likely to have an anxiety attack at 20,000 feet if the passenger seated next to you was: A) An Irish nun saying the Rosary? B) A Mormon missionary in regulation white shirt and narrow, black tie? C) A Hari Krishna in a standard-issue saffron robe? or D) A bearded bloke of Middle Eastern complexion holding a well-thumbed Koran?

When you hear of a terrorist incident, is the first thought that pops into your head: Probably some crazy Muslim? Guess what? It probably was some crazy Muslim!

Guessing the religion of those who plant bombs, highjack planes, fire into crowds of civilians, take hostages, and murder hostages is the world’s ultimate no-brainer.
And yet our leaders, the media, and many of us pretend there’s absolutely no connection between psychopathic, ideological killers and the religion which exalts the slaughter of unbelievers.

To counter confusion here, a la Letterman, I humbly offer The Top 10 Reasons Why It’s Quite Possible That Islam Isn’t Exactly a Religion of Peace.

#1 While it’s certainly true that not all Muslims are terrorists, it’s equally true that most terrorists are Muslims.

Think about the really ghastly terrorist incidents over the past two decades: the 1983 Beirut Marine barracks bombing (242 dead), the 1988 Pam Am 103 bombing (259 dead), the 1993 World Trade Center attack (6 dead, more than 1,000 injured), the 1994 bombing of the Buenos Aires Jewish Center (86 dead), the 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam (291 dead, 5,000 wounded), the 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole (17 dead), September 11, 2001 (over 3,000 killed), the 2002 Moscow theater hostage-taking (94 dead), the 2004 Beslan school hostage crisis (344 dead), the 2004 Madrid train bombings (192 dead), the 2005 London underground bombings (56 dead) and the 2006 commuter train bombings in Mumbai--formerly Bombay--(at least 200 dead).

In each and every case, the killers were …? That is correct, sir: Muslims! What other religion condones savagery committed in its name? Jesus said turn the other cheek. Muhammed said cut off the other guy’s cheek. The Torah says show kindness to strangers. The Koran says: If you can’t convert them, kill them.

#2 Muslims don’t play well with other children. Wherever there’s religious bloodshed anywhere in the world, it’s invariably Muslims versus someone else. Could this be a coincidence?

Israel, Gaza and Lebanon – Muslims verses Jews. Kashmir – Muslims vs. Hindus. Kosovo/Bosnia – Muslims vs. Serbian Orthodox. Nigeria, the Sudan – Muslims versus Christians. Indonesia – Muslims vs. Christians. Myanmar – Muslims vs. Buddhists. The Northern Caucuses– Chechen Muslims against Russia Orthodox, and so on.

Inquiring minds want to know why the “religion of peace” can’t behave peaceably with any other religion.

Answer: Islam remains what it was at its beginning 1,300 years ago: a violent, expansionist faith that will tolerate no competitors. What other religion has the concept of jihad (holy war) – the notion that if you die fighting for Allah you get 72 virgins (exhausting as that must be) in Paradise? Muhammed started by eliminating the competition – annihilating Jewish tribes in the Arabian Peninsula. More than a millennium latter, it’s still business as usual for his successors.

3. For Muslims, violence and threats of violence are always the first resort to any perceived insult or injury.

Recall the Muslim response to Danish cartoons of their beloved prophet. The Danish embassy in Beirut was burned to the ground. There were death threats against the cartoonists and the editors of papers that published the cartoons. (In London, protestors held signs proclaiming “Those who insult Islam should die” and “Europe is a disease. Islam is the cure.”)

In rioting in Nigeria, Libya, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, 139 died. Protestors were particularly offended by the implication of the cartoons – that Muhammed and his religion encourage murder and mayhem. The irony of “They say Islam promotes violence? For that they should die!” was lost on demonstrators.

4. Islam is virulently anti-Semitic.

Jews have been described as the miner’s canary of the world. Those who start with the Jews never stop there. The 20th century’s mass murderers--the Nazis and communists--saw Jews as a special threat. Hitler killed 6 million Jews--as well as millions of non-Jews.

The Koran connects genocide to the end times: “The last hour will not come before the Muslims fight the Jews and the Muslims kill them, so Jews will hide behind stones and trees and the Stone and the tree will say ‘O Muslim, ‘O servant of God! There is a Jew behind me; come and kill him.’” Muhammed called Jews “the descendants of apes and pigs.”

Every anti-Semitic canard in history has currency in the Muslim world, including the Blood Libel (that Jews murder non-Jewish children and use their blood to bake Passover matzo) and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (“exposing” a Jewish conspiracy to subdue humanity).

Jew-hatred is a staple of Muslim rhetoric.

In a recent interview with the Egyptian weekly Al-Ahram, Gen. Hamid Gul (former head of Pakistani Intelligence) said Mel Gibson was right, “Jews cause all the wars.” Egyptian Mufti Sheikh Ali Gum’a says the war in Lebanon once again exposed the “Hebrew entity” (Israel) as “the bloodsuckers… who prepare matzos from human blood.” In Britain, popular Islamic cleric Sheikh Abdullah el-Faisal (a Jamaican convert) tells audiences “Jews should be killed… as by Hitler.”

When he met John Paul II in 2001, Syrian President-for-Life Bashar Assad told the pontiff that the Jews "try to kill all the principles of divine faith with the same mentality of betraying Jesus and torturing him."

And Adb al-Rahman al-Sudais, sheikh of Mecca’s Grand Mosque, in Islam’s holiest city, calls Jews “the scum of the earth,” and calls for the genocide of a people who are, in the sheikh’s words, “an ongoing continuum of deceit, obstinacy, licentiousness, evil and corruption.”

Muslims really have a hard time deciding whether the Holocaust: 1) Never happened 2) Is grossly exaggerated or 3) Didn’t go far enough.

#5 – Public Opinion in the Muslim World Is Scary.

Muslim public opinion can be summarized as acid hatred, chauvinism and revenge fantasies--leavened with paranoia. In the five years since 9/11, polls consistently show that, irrefutable evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, worldwide, a majority of Muslims believe the World Trade Center attack couldn’t possibly have been committed by Arab Muslims.

Naturally, they attribute the crime to “Zionists.” If someone wrote a book titled “How to Fly a Plane Into a Skyscraper Whilst Using Human Blood to Bake Matzos: A Zionist Training Manual,” it would top the Tehran Bestsellers List.

#6 –Generally, the more Muslim a nation, the more lunatic and dangerous it is.

Think Iran. Think Saudi Arabia. Think Afghanistan while the Taliban was in power.

Think of the fate of women in these regimes--consigned to the status of breeding stock. Think of their attitudes toward democracy, civil liberties and minority rights: No way, Jamal.

As a rule, the more a nation is governed by Islamic law and customs, the more it hates the West, supports terrorism (Iran’s support for Hezbollah, Syria's support for Hamas, Al Qaeda training camps in Taliban Afghanistan. Radical mosques in the United States financed by the Saudis), and covets weapons of mass jihad (witness Iran’s nuclear program).

If Islam is the religion of peace, where is its St. Francis of Assisi, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Mother Teresa? Where are the Islamic equivalents of the Quakers and Jehovah’s Witnesses?

Far from making rulers more enlightened, Islam specializes in the mass production of Ayatollah Khomeinis, Osama bin Ladens, Mullah Omars, Hafez Assads, and Saddam Husseins.

#7 – When a young Muslim becomes more involved with his religion, his thoughts often stray to suicide bombing.

I was in London when the latest terrorist conspiracy went down. On the evening news, I heard a BBC reporter interviewing a neighbor of one of the suspects. “He was a good lad,” the neighbor opined. “Played football” (British soccer). “Recently, he became very involved with his religion” (hint: not the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints).

How often have we heard those fatal words? Born-again Christians witness and do good works. Born-again Muslims work with liquid explosives.

Converts to a cause are usually the most enthusiastic. Paul became Christianity’s first missionary and foremost proselytizer.

Converts to Islam frequently end up shooting total strangers (John Muhammad and Lee Malvo), try to detonate planes with explosives in their shoes (Richard Reid), fight against their country (American Taliban John Walker Lindh), and frag fellow GIs (Hassan Akbar ). When was the last time you heard of a Jewish convert going after civilians with a high-powered rifle, or a Catholic convert waging jihad to avenge Thomas Moore?

Religion usually makes people better (kinder, more compassionate, and more tolerant). The religion of peace is the exception to the rule. You might say that Islam is to religion as rap is to music.

#8 – Islam isn’t minority friendly.

In Freedom House’s 2006 Global Survey, of the eight countries with the worst human rights records, five are Muslim: Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Libya, Syria and Sudan. The other three--Cuba, North Korea and Burma--are communist dictatorships. Cuba and North Korea are frequently aligned with radical Muslim regimes.

Which would you rather be: a Muslim living in Tel Aviv or a Jew living in Tehran? A Coptic Christian in Egypt or an Egyptian Muslim in Rome? An Orthodox Serb in Muslim Kosovo or a Turk in Germany?

Islam has the concept of the dhimmi (non-Moslem living under Islam), which is several steps below blacks in the Jim Crow South--though slightly better than Jews in Nazi Germany.

#9 – Where Have All the Moderate Muslims Gone--Long Time Passing?

If suicide bombers are radical Muslims, apologists for suicide bombers must be moderate Muslims. (In a letter to Tony Blair following the unraveling of the latest plot, 40 Muslim community leaders--including six members of Parliament--claimed Britain’s foreign policy gave “ammunition to extremists.”)

If someone slaughtered hundreds of innocents in the name of Christianity, everyone from the Pope and Billy Graham to your parish priest or local pastor would denounce the crime as an obscenity--without reference to the fall of Constantinople.

Hardly a day goes by that evil isn’t perpetrated in the name of Islam somewhere in the world. When it comes to denouncing same, moderate Muslims are mostly AWOL.

Occasionally, we’ll hear from a Muslim not mired in the Dark Ages. Usually, they’re wondering where all of the other moderate Muslims are. One is Irshad Manji, a fellow at Yale University and the author of “The Trouble With Islam Today: A Muslim’s Call for Reform in Her Faith.”

Ms Manji can author such a book while safely ensconced in New Haven. If she wrote a book suggesting--or even hinting--that Islam is less than perfection, while residing anywhere in the Muslim world, she’d be dead. In fact, in many parts of the Islamic world, a woman can get in serious trouble for reading a book.

# 10 – Islam is bent on global conquest.

“Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faiths, but to become dominant. The Koran … should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth.” – Omar Ahmad, founder of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR).

“Islam will return to Europe. The conquest need not necessarily be by the sword. Perhaps we will conquer these lands without armies. We want an army of preachers and teachers who will present Islam in all languages and all dialects.” Dr. Al-Qaradawi, Egyptian-born, Qatar-based spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.

“The Muslims are required to raise the banner of jihad in order to make the Word of Allah supreme in the world.” -posting on the website of the Islamic Affairs Department of the Saudi government. (These oil-rich fascists control roughly 80% of U.S. mosques.)

“Islam is advancing according to a steady plan, to the point that tens of thousands of Muslims have joined the American army and Islam is the second largest religion in America. America will be destroyed. But we must be patient.” -Saudi Professor Nassar bin Suleiman al-Omar on al-Majd TV.

Within 100 years of Muhammed’s death, Islam had conquered the Middle East and spread across North Africa before it was finally stopped in southern France. Today, due to immigration, one in every 10 Frenchmen is a Muslim and an estimated 50,000 convert to Islam each year.

In Britain, with 1.5 million Muslims, attendance at mosques is higher than at services for the Church of England. Islam is spreading down both coasts of Africa--in Nigeria, Kenya, the Sudan, and Ethiopia--as well as in the Balkans, former Soviet republics, Asia, and the Philippines.

Whether they bury us with swords, explosives, or immigration and procreation, the fate Islam has in store for us is the same.

If you don’t get it, you’re not paying attention. Or, perhaps your religion (liberalism) blinds you to the truth.

Islam is: A) A religion of peace B) A religion of rest in peace C) A religion that leaves you in pieces or D) A religion that wants a piece of what you have now--the rest later?

About the Writer: Don Feder is a former Boston Herald writer and syndicated columnist, currently making a modest living as a political/media consultant and free-lance writer. He's the author of "Who's Afraid of The Religious Right" and "A Jewish Conservative Looks at Pagan America." His writings can be found at http://www.donfeder.com.

Are The Purges Beginning?

According to Iain Dale, Labour have taken steps to make sure that there will be no more unfortunate incidents of throwing out people with a legitimate protest at this year’s conference..

So damaged was Labour by the expulsion of Walter Wolfgang from last year's conference that they have determined never to let it happen again. Party staff have been instructed to draw up a blacklist of all the potential future Walter Wolfgangs and have banned them from the Conference.

Yup.... They’ve apparently identified a list of all the potential hecklers and banned them from the conference.

OK, the more pissed off socialists there are in the world the happier your good Guttersnipe usually is, but hang on... aren’t these people Labour Party members? Haven’t they paid their fees and have the right to attend?

Nice to see democracy alive and well in our governing party don’t you think?

Shocked But Not Entirely Surprised

I'll miss him

The late Steve Irwin was one of the world’s great characters. True we all thought he was insane (although were he British he would have been eccentric) but mad as biscuits as he may have been his crowning achievement was that he made conservation and learning about wildlife interesting. He spent his life and gave his life in pursuit of the environment.

I’ll confess I was shocked when I saw the news this morning, but not entirely surprised. As DK has put it this morning ... live by the sword, die by a stingray barb in the chest.

I for one will miss him. Many people have satirised Steve Irwin’s exploits, I think those done by Irregular Webcomic provide both humour and fitting tribute. Read the whole series.

Time's Up Rambo!!

I'm a useless fecking moron!

You may recall I blogged some time ago that John Reid had declared he had 100 days to fix the Home Office.

Can't think that far back? Well look here at the post I made the day after his stupid outburst.

Day 100 is today...

As of tomorrow fellow Guttersnipes I want to hear every bollocks up the Home Office fails to hide. Civil Servants... you know your duty.

and to celebrate John Reid's sterling achievements in this field the BBC has the following headline:

Government Clueless Over Crime

Keep up the good work Reidy!

Polly On The Edge

Polly's on the Edge now that the wheels are falling off the Labour Party. It stands to reason that nobody is going to have a nice word to say about Blair and that Cameron would have to be Hitler to make anything worse... what will she write about when the Conservatives are making things better?

In the mean time she's feeling sorry for old socialists..

Pity Labour's wretched foot soldiers, looking ahead gloomily to the party conference.

Nope… I don’t pity them. These wretched foot soldiers are all part of that sickeningly power crazed corrupt that is New Labour. Pity them? They ought to be hanged. No doubt they’ll bleat that tired old bollocks of “we are Old Labour”, well that’s just horseshit as they have willingly participated in having their ideals pissed up the wall in exchange for power and tax payer’s money. Pity them? Don’t make me fecking laugh!

They are doggedly loyal, the few activists left after last May's massacre of local councillors, facing next May's near-certain slaughter in more councils and heavy losses in the Welsh assembly and Scottish parliament. With Labour now between seven and nine points behind in the polls, who do they blame for the state of their party?

Anybody but themselves I’ll bet. Blair’s bad of course, really bad but let’s be honest. If Old Labour got their way we would have been looking at a decent Tory majority by now. Blame yourselves! Take responsibility for what you unleashed on the world. As a party you are viewed as an unpopular, unprincipled group of power cravers frankly because you are an unpopular, unprincipled group of power cravers. Or is it just the voting public that are wrong?

Is it the boat-rockers pressing too impatiently for the quick departure of a leader whose third victory was a mere 15 months ago? Or is the ship sinking through refusal to drop the pilot still steering them on to the rocks, shipping more water every day he stays?

OK Polly we’ve kinda got the message that you want Blair out. We understand. But really, who is going to replace him to secure that fourth term victory you’re so desperately looking for. Would it be your One-eyed “further behind Cameron in the polls than Blair is” Norse fucking Gobblin King? Eh? Would it? WAKE THE FUCK UP WOMAN!!!

Tipping the boat on one side, Stephen Byers' latest assault in the Times from the Blairite extreme is outrageously provocative, demanding to cement the future long after the leader has gone.

Blairite extremism? That sounds worrying.

On the other side, the remnants of the old left, led by Derek Simpson of Amicus, flirt with the dear dead days of "classic Labour", while the leftist Peter Wilby, in his Guardian article yesterday, writes "I'm almost looking forward to a Labour defeat".

He’s not the only one either…

That yearning for New Labour's demise in order to "renew" on the opposition benches is urged in certain leftist gatherings. Do they really want at least two terms out of office amid renewed ideological warfare, while Tory tax and spending cuts reverse the gains for poor families and pensioners?

Reverse the gains? Reverse? Oh for fuck’s sake Polly. Pensioners have lost out because the Cyclops who Johnson you’d so long to gobble has fucking taxed their pension funds. So pensioners had tax free investment before and now don’t. How in the name of everything sacred is that a gain? Poor families are hamstrung into dependency on the welfare state, it leeches away self-respect, it leeches away responsibility. How is that a gain? Jesus… Polly try spending a few months living off the state then you might not have such a rosy idea of the benefits.

Despite radar silence all summer from Gordon Brown on paternity leave, Tony Blair bounced back from holiday to launch a noisy pre-emptive strike on him.

Actually I think he bounced back from holiday to get Byers to launch an attack on him. But really.. if you’re going to launch an attack on the Chancellor to create this idea of doom after Blair are you really going to use one of the people who personifies doom under Blair? I doubt it.

Every word Byers wrote implied that Brown is some kind of old Labour warhorse waiting to hoist the red flag in Downing Street

Which merely confirmed what I had thought before. So Blair is staying which naturally Pol thinks is a bad idea for her getting her love nest in Downing Street… she has to respond.

Let's deal with the key delusions first. Talk to Middle East experts and no one thinks Blair's role in Lebanon significant.

Does anyone in the Middle East think Brown is important either?

Bush won't talk to Syria, so there will be no breakthrough until Bush goes.

And I imagine we will continue to not talk to Syria until they stop state-sponsoring the detonation of our public transport systems.

As for Palestine, whatever Blair's role, the Israelis won't talk to Hamas, so nothing will happen in one year.

So let them get on with it. Maybe if the UN hadn’t stuck their anti-semitic nose in we would be a step closer to peace in the Middle East since Israel would have killed all the jihadists in Lebanon. But since the left won’t allow that to happen instead we’re a step closer to Sharia Law in the West. Thanks Guys!

Energy? No nuclear power station contracts will be signed within a year (or ever) unless Blair plans gigantic subsidies, so far denied.

Why not let the private sector work it out? Markets work. If someone were to start selling pandas as food there would be no hint of extinction. Do we really think that when the oil runs out that Shell, Esso, BP etc are going to go our of business? Are they bollocks! They will diversify just as IBM have done. IBM started out making Bacon Slicers until there was no more market for them so they moved into typewriters and computers. The rest as they say is history.

The NHS? The IT system may eventually work and hospital closures are necessary - but one year from now will still see turmoil as the internal market bites.

The IT system will never work because it is public sector, and anyone with an ounce of talent in the IT industry gets a decent job in the private sector because the money is better. So.. the most ambitious project we’ve seen is being run by the most clueless people in the industry. We cannot seem to network the medical records etc of surgeries, hospitals and clinics in the UK yet walk into HSBC in Thailand and they will be able to pull your account up on the screen straight away, why? Good quality, well paid, private sector IT staff.

The Blair camp admits the party can't take another year of this debilitating internal row while the Tories surge ahead.

The party will survive this just fine… it just won’t be in power which I think is the root problem in these people.

Remember this: when Thatcher fell she still had a 48% satisfaction rating, yet her time was up and most of her party knew it; Blair's satisfaction rating is 23%. There is a time and tide in politics, and his people say Blair well knows his time is up too. Yet still he can't let go.

No…. he just won’t let go… power-crazed dictatorial fecktard that he is.

Fellow Guttersnipes I Give You Prodicus...

It would appear that my good man Prodicus has gone postal....

"A 'Lebanese civilian' was interviewed on the BBC yesterday. I forget which programme, not that it matters. He said: 'Yes, I want the Israelis out of our region completely. We don't want them here. They are not like us.'"

"No, they are not like you. They have the military power to wipe you out, yet refrain from turning it on you even in their own defence, when you kill them with powerful rockets supplied to you by your region's superpower."

He continues in real style...

Go read the whole thing.

BBC Goes the Extra Mile in Lebanon

Read Those Words.... [Emphasis mine - RG]

"When Um Ali Mihdi returned to her home in the southern Lebanese city of Bint Jbeil two days ago, she found a 1,000lb (450kg) Israeli bomb lying unexploded in her living room.

The shell is huge, bigger than the young boy pushed forward to stand reluctantly next to it while we get our cameras out and record the scene for posterity. "

And all this can be done because of the unique way the BBC is funded.

Jesus Fucking Christ!!!! I'm lost for words... I really am.

Meme Of 3

Like Mr. Cleverley (who passed this to me) I am not usually in the habit of doing this sort of thing. However as James’ evil twin I should do as my twin does (although more evil). Have a read and see if you can get any closer to Guttersnip'es secret identity.

1... Things that scare me

- Corpses
- Dentists
- ID Cards

2.…People who make me laugh

- Billy Connolly
- Jeremy Hardy
- The Late Linda Smith

3...Things I hate the most

- Marmite
- “Historian” Alison Weir
- Cheese

4...Things I don't understand

- Why, after over 2,000 years of death, we still have religions
- How Prescott pulled a woman 20 years younger than him
- Vegans

5...Things I'm doing right now

- Working like the work junkie I am
- Reading another Dirk Pitt adventure
- Aching

6...Things I want to do before I die

- Parachute Jump into Arnhem
- Sail a Tall Ship
- Visit Auschwitz

7... Things I can do

- Juggle fire
- Shoot 16 arrows a minute from my l0ngbow
- Obtain a Sherman Tank at short notice

8... Ways to describe my personality

- Loud
- Fun
- Direct

9. Things I can't do

- Sew
- Get a comment on BBC Have Your Say
- Any form of DIY

10...Things I think you should listen to

- History
- Your Father
- Terry Wogan

11...Things you should never listen to

- Radio 1
- George Galloway
- Hazel “Squirrel faced Shite Talker” Blears

12...Things I'd like to learn

- Jousting
- What really happened to the Princes in the Tower
- Latin

13...Favorite foods

- Chocolate Buttons
- Steaks
- KFC Chicken

14...Beverages I drink regularly

- Tea
- Real Ale
- Port

15...Shows I watched as a kid

- Chorlton & The Wheelies
- Trap Door
- Swap Shop

16...People I'm tagging (to do this meme)

- DK of Devil’s Kitchen
- Prodicus
- Ellee Seymour

"Sitting on a Mine On The Maginot Line"

Reuters:

The United Nations hopes to begin deploying the first 3,500 troops in a new UN force in Lebanon within two weeks to monitor a fragile truce, providing France provides the backbone for the contingent.

Right… let’s have a lok at the big picture here.

As we all know, Hezbollah is backed by Iran. So we have a tyrannical anti-semitic leader of a country dedicated to the removal of the Jewish people amongst their nearby territory.

We have a leader who is apparently rearming his country against the wishes of the international community and against the terms of certain treaties.

The French have such a stunning track record in this area don’t they?

France is considered the likely leader of the force because it has a strong army, can deploy troops quickly and has relative credibility in the Arab world, in part because of its opposition to the US-British invasion of Iraq.

Leader of the force? I can just see them frantically building the Maginot Line again. Jesus fecking Christ what are these people thinking?

Strong Army? Let me refer you to the “Complete Military History of France”.

Once the Lebanese army controls most of the south, the aim it to implement a September 2004 resolution, which calls for the disarmament of all militia, such as Hizbollah. This is to be done by the Lebanese army, assisted by UN troops. But Lebanon's defence minister Elias al-Murr said the army would not disarm Hizbollah. France's foreign minister, Philippe Douste-Blazy said his troops would not do it either.

As the song says, it’s all just a little bit of history repeating itself. Guttersnipe is buying a bunker.

Not Quite the Day to Bury Bad News Was It?

BBC:

MP sorry for 'inbreeding' remarks

A Labour MP has apologised after saying inbreeding may be partly to blame for a rise in cases of diabetes in his Norfolk constituency.

I’ll bet he has…. What a moron!

Inter-family relationships could have led to a sharing of a gene linked to the condition, said former science lecturer Ian Gibson.
A consultant at a local hospital said the remarks were "disgraceful".
That prompted an apology from Mr Gibson, who said he had never meant to cause any offence.

Now that’s a fine sentiment Mr. Gibson but let’s look at it this way. He was a former science lecturer, responsible for teaching some of our brightest and best as they tentatively make their way out into the hostile world.

Guttersnipe would like to remind Mr. Gibson of a couple of basic scientific issues:

1. Every action has a reaction
2. Cause leads to effect.

Did the man really not think that telling his constituents that their diabetes is the result of their daughter, sister and wife being the same girl would lead to offence? Really? What the feck were you thinking Gibbo?

The comments angered Dr Ketan Dhatariya, a diabetologist at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital.

Do we think he was angered by the fact that after years of research he’d completely missed the blindingly obvious inbreeding point? Nope I didn’t think so.

He told the Eastern Daily Press newspaper: "It's an insult to people with type-1 diabetes and their families and it's an insult to people in Norfolk.

Quite… I’ll bet former parliamentary candidate for North Norfolk and current A-lister Iain Dale wouldn’t have said anything like that.

On Friday, Mr Gibson told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he wished he had never made his original comments.

No shit twatknackers… most of the people in Norfolk wish you’d never been let near a journalist. I’ll bet you can see your majority just surfing away can’t you.

"It's obviously caused a lot of offence and for that I unreservedly apologise," he said.
Words like inbreeding and outbreeding were professional genetic terms he said but for the public they had different connotations, he said.

But let’s not forget that they mean exactly the same thing in genetics as they do to the public…

So… Labour MP thinks that the people of Norfolk are inbreds and inbreeders, Tony Blair hates the Welsh and Tony Banks hates his constituents.

Oh and Prescott punches the electorate… don’t ya just love em.

28 Days left and Reid Still Useless

"I haven't got a fecking clue me"

Daily Mail:

“Home Secretary John Reid today lost his Court of Appeal battle over the legal power to take away the right of nine Afghan hijackers to work and enjoy other freedoms in the UK.”

So in addition to Reid being unable to deport any old Tom, Dick or Abdul that hijacks a plane he now can’t make life difficult for them living in the UK either.

I’d like to feel sorry for him I would. But it’s his laws that he put down that have caused this bollocks simply because he was wanting to clothe himself in human rights legislation to appease every liberal mind on the planet, until it backfired on him.

This has been the signature of this Labour government and similar to all Labour governments before is that they come in with leftie ideals and a dream of what should go on but they just fuck everything up because they have no appreciation of how anything works.

The only difference with this government is that they’re actually still around when the shit hits the fan.

Naturally Blair and Reid blaming the justice system and the judges. So the judges have had the following to say

BBC:

“In Friday's appeal court ruling, Lord Justice Brooke said: "Judges and adjudicators have to apply the law as they find it, and not as they might wish it to be.
"So far as the powers of the Home Secretary are concerned, the challenges created by the respondents' presence in this country have been apparent ever since they landed here over six years ago.
"There has been ample time for the Home Secretary to obtain appropriate Parliamentary authority, if he wished to be clothed with the powers he gave to himself without parliamentary sanction."

Translate that as “Fuck off boys we’re not carrying the can”

Remember Guttersnipes when Reid sailed into the Home Office he said “No More Cock-Ups” and that he would fix it in 100 days.

He has 28 days left.

Labour's Conference Is Going to be Fun This Year

BBC:

“Walter Wolfgang, the heckler ejected from last year's Labour conference, has been elected to the party's ruling National Executive Committee (NEC).”

Frankly I am surprised he is still paying up his membership after the way they treated him before. But it takes all sorts I suppose. Now with Mr. Wolfgang being elected to the NEC he has a hand in Labour’s policy objectives.

So what does he have in mind?

"If this Lebanon war is still going on in October - and there needs to be a ceasefire before that - we need to do something about that and stop the fighting.
"The second thing is we have to get our troops out of Iraq. We have to get the Americans out too but getting our troops out will encourage that.
"I am also very much opposed to Britain having nuclear weapons and want to get discussion going on that."

I think him and Blair are not seeing eye to eye are they?

“He also called on the prime minister to quit immediately and said Chancellor Gordon Brown was not the right man to replace him.”

Oh I can't wait to hear his speech. Who does he have in mind? Sounds like Clare Short would be just his cup of tea.

So it would appear that this year’s Labour conference will be featuring some openly anti-Blair speeches from the very ruling body. I can’t wait!