God Help us!

It seems that Peter Mandelson may be brought back to life by necromancy from the Lords and thrust into the Commons again so that he may become Prime Minister....

Surely not? It would be like putting Old Nick in charge. In no time at all we will have horned goats in the Commons and the MPs will be ravishing virgins in the corridors of power..... Oh hang on - they already do that as well as stealing large amounts of money. Still, having Beelzebub answering Prime Minister's Questions will be a pretty awful thing.

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Also in the Daily Telegraph today, we have Bryonie Gordon complaining about research which shows women are at little risk from having drinks spiked with date rape drugs. She says that such research is useless since they are nevertheless frequently raped while drunk.

I disagree. Perhaps Ms Gordon, the revelation that drink spiking is almost unheard of and is a widespread myth used to excuse total loss of self control through common drunkenness, might actually encourage some to take responsibility for themselves, and to stay sober.

Only a savage would make light of rape, but girls who get so drunk as to be unable to stay in control, have voluntarily placed themselves in peril - a very stupid course of action. This needs to be made clear and not excused. Taking note of this would be of great benefit to them.

As for those accused of taking advantage of people in such situations, while 'No' always means exactly that, the states of being 'drunk' and 'sober' are more of a continuum than a clear line, so how are males to judge, unless a girl is almost comatose? Is the lady who is exuberant and lascivious after three glasses of Chardonnay 'drunk' and out of bounds, or does she become so only after four, or maybe five, or is it more? Is she only 'raped' when she reconsiders an unwise liaison next morning, even though the night before she was an active participant?

These are complicated matters of fine judgement and are in practice acted on by people often young and somewhat under the influence of alcohol themselves. Cases like this are worlds apart from the savage, wicked and ungodly acts traditionally described as rape, and it is no surprise that juries find it extremely hard to convict those accused when cases come to court.

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A medic was recently overheard reassuring a very confused girl in a hospital casualty department saying, 'Yes my dear, and which of the fifteen tequilas was it that you think was spiked?'

Immigration is a good thing.

In the Times this morning, David Aaronovitch complained about the failure of panellists on the recent and now notorious edition of Question Time, to extol the advantages of immigration in the face of the unattractive leader of the BNP. He said:

'...there was no one to say that it (immigration) had benefited us economically and enriched us culturally. Surely, I thought, it was this unchallenged and cowardly perception of the negative nature of migration, rather than migration itself, that was a part cause of the growth in votes for the BNP.'

No - not cowardly David; just realistic.

Mr Aaronovitch must be mad if he thinks anyone, but him and a few deluded New Labourites, believe that adding another ten million immigrants to the population of this island, would be anything but a disaster for the quality of life of all concerned - especially we already over-crowded Brits. He and I and Baroness Warzai have something in common; we are all the descendants of immigrants, though mine arrived a while ago, in 1895. What I and Baroness Warzai have in common, and Aaronvitch doesn't, is that she and I believe that immigration needs to stop right now, before England becomes one huge, dystopian, high rise city.

Eating Meat is as anti-social as drink driving!

In the stupidest climate panic statement yet made, New Labour's Lord Stern of Brentford likened the supposedly anti-social habit of eating meat to drunk driving. Warning us all of the coming conflict he thinks will be engendered by global warming, he tells us all that a vegetarian diet is 'better' and uses less water.

Is there no end to the idiocy of these proselysing busy bodies? Now that Marxism and traditional religion have become unfashionable in Europe, the rudderless mob has flocked to environmentalism and instead of demanding that we stop having sex and worship Jesus' or support the dictatorship of the proletariat, they want to create another kind of global misery, in which we all embrace poverty, veganism, lack of mobility, and power our fluorescent glow worm lights with windmills. All they have underlying the hype, is a change in global average temperature of one degree. The span of this change is a hundred years. Apart from the output of magical computer models; a sort of latter day holy book, not to be questioned, that is the evidence on which the scam is built. One degree of observed change.

Science is supposed to be founded on EMPIRICISM, actual observation and measurement, not predictive computer programmes. Never since Joseph Smith told his neighbours that angels brought him some golden plates and some magic spectacles - thus founding Mormonism, has such a con been set in motion. Global Warming is an article of faith in the new religion of Environmentalism, and like other religions, it depends on prophets to spread the word. Last week Gordon Brown set off on his own prophetic mission - going about with a worried look and telling people that we had fifty days to save the world. We already know that he is a liar - why do people listen?