Leftie protestors and George W Bush

Does anyone else hope that those involved in Operation Manticore get mashed up by the police?

These kind of puerile stunts, taken to new depths by that sanctimonious self-publicist George Monbiot, should have ended when these people left university - assuming they went.

The NUT - dinosaurs

Jurassic Park is alive and well: welcome to the National Union of Teachers, led by class warrior and bigot Bill Greenshields. The latest madness to come from the NUT - whose members gleefully indoctrinate our nation's children with leftist, politically correct filth - is a call for all independent schools to be brought into the state sector.  

Usually all we get from the NUT conference is a threat of strikes over pay, conditions or testing of students. This year is no different: NUT members will be balloted to strike over class sizes and inadequate pay. 

But the idea that our independent schools - which dominate league tables and offer a superior education to the overwhelming majority of state-run schools - should be run by the state is moronic. There's a reason that parents will make sacrifices to send their kids to the best schools: it's because these schools are full of teachers who care passionately about the kid they teach and they invariably find a child's talent and help him or her develop it to its full extent. All too often state-run schools fail the children they should be educating - and the blame for that lies with too many indolent teachers who are more interested in fighting the class war than in providing kids with a well-rounded education. 

London students ban the military from campus

Students at the University of London have voted to ban all military personnel - including cadets - from the students' union. Who says the spirit of 1968 isn't alive and well?

Let's put aside for the moment the fact that if it wasn't for the sacrifices of our military in generations past, students at ULU would be speaking German or Russian and wouldn't be free to express their views on anything - unless they were meekly agreeing with the Nazi or Communist ideology forced on them by their authoritarian leaders.

In fact, let's not put that aside.

The self-indulgent, morally bankrupt students who voted for the motion banning the OTC and all other military personnel from their taxpayer subsidised bars and refectories perfectly sum up the moral decay in our country today. They adopt the same logic as those who seek to argue moral equivalence between Jihadist terrorists and the US/UK military in Iraq and Afghanistan. They are the same breed as the "blame Britain first" crowd who make excuses for the 7/7 bombers and who want us to appease our enemies rather than to fight for freedom.

Childish students' union motions are, of course, nothing new. While I was at Southampton in the early 1990s, a similar motion banning the military from campus was passed but it was eventually successfully overturned thanks to the efforts of the University Conservative Association.

What better first opportunity can there be for Michael Rock, the newly elected National Chairman of Conservative Future, to unite CF behind him and to stand for freedom than to make it clear that he will lead a nationwide campaign for free speech and against the left-wing zealots who want to ban the military from our campuses? As a graduate of the training programmes of the Young Britons' Foundation and a sound Thatcherite, I have every confidence that "the Rock" will do the right thing - and that student Tories at ULU will overturn this absurd motion and strike a blow for freedom.

Hat Tip: Steve Blanford.

Hunt sabs like filming kids

A group of hunt saboteurs (or criminal-damage causing aggravated trespassers as they ought to be known) are smugly smirking at having "caught" Nicholas Soames riding a quad bike on a public road with children perched behind him on a pallet.

They filmed the "infringement" while "monitoring" the Crawley & Horsham Hunt for any offences under the Hunting Act and they have passed on their footage to the media.

The Daily Mirror - that sordid ill-reputed record of disinformation, lies and smears that makes Pravda seem trustworthy - has gleefully leapt on the bandwagon of condemnation.

And there was I thinking that broadcasting or publishing pictures of children without their parents' consent was unlawful.

Maybe it's time for those of us who support hunting, the building of bypasses, nuclear weapons and every other cause to which left-wing drop-outs object to start filming them and see how they like their law-breaking to be made widely known. Once their parents see them breaking the law, maybe they will be disinherited and lose access to the generous trust funds that sustain them through their lifestyles of self-indulgence and selfish behaviour?

My Two Cents...on climate change hysteria

And so the scare stories go on. The Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, Lady Young, has said that the battle to deal with climate change needs to be fought "like World War III".

The Environment Secretary Hilary Benn - sounding increasingly as shrill as Hillary Clinton, but without the felonous spouse - said that global warming was a challenge to security, migration, politics and economics, as well as the environment. No hyperbole there then!

Orwellian language and tactics are commonplace when climate change is discussed. Those who are sceptical that climate change is wholly man-made, undesirable or even happening at all (and certainly those who argue that a sledgehammer is being used to crack a nut) are decried not only as "climate change deniers" but, in some cases, "climate change criminals". How long until the thought police come knocking at the door, one wonders.

Robert Kennedy Jr, son of the assassinated former US Attorney General, even describes climate change sceptics as "traitors" (which given the track-record of the Kennedy family, personified by the bloated, alcoholic and shameless Ted Kennedy, is really a case of the pot calling the kettle black).

Ten years ago people were told to worry about the ozone layer. Before that it was acid rain. Before that is was over-population and global cooling. The truth is that the green lobby does not have preservation of the planet or the eradication of disease and poverty at the top of its agenda. It has the ending of capitalism and the erosion of freedom as its primary aims. They just don't have the balls to say so (or, more accurately, are cleverly packaging their message to fool people).

Preventing developing nations from industrialising is as morally reprehensible as obstructing free trade and preserving tariffs. The impact on the global economy of enacting the excessive measures advocated by environmental extremists who seek a socialist utopia will end up propelling western economies backwards. Shrinking economies will mean less money for welfare handouts, overseas aid and (God help us) the arts - have they even thought about that?

I accept that the average punter cares about the environment but not in the grandiose sense the zealots do. The average Briton worries about uncollected litter, preserving the green belt, fresh air, clean water, unsightly graffiti and overuse of landfill. It is to meet the concerns of those Britons that the political parties should be focussing. The sorry truth is that the more politicians try to appease the environmental extremists, the more extreme become their demands. This is how the left operates.

So as we were told in another advertising campaign in the 1980s, our politicians need to learn - when talking to the luddites from Greenpeace, the Green Party and Friends of the Earth - to "just say no". If we don't, watch out for an economic collapse that makes the current credit crunch look like a picnic.