The Burka Battle

Michael Shrimpton chronicles the opening salvos of the Tory leadership battle.

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On Monday, August 6th former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson started the Tory leadership battle by opening up on Moslem women wearing the burka in an article in the London Daily Telegraph. He did not say what he was doing, but no politician apart from Donald Trump ever does. He knew what he was doing, however.

As I have been saying on this site for some weeks Theresa May was finished by the Chequers Plan in the same way that Neville Chamberlain, from the same pro-German, wing of the party, was finished by Munich. Of course, the Chequers Plan was touted as a successful compromise in the MSM, but so too was Munich. We can no more do business with Angela Merkel than we could with her predecessor, Adolf Hitler. If anything our community partner the Führer was more straightforward. He was certainly more charming, no offense to Chancellor Merkel intended.

The Telegraph column

Soon after Boris Johnson resigned as Foreign Secretary he resumed writing a regular column for the Daily Telegraph, where the pay is better. (Government ministers are treated as comparatively unimportant in Britain, reflected in their salaries.) Remainers complained that he hadn’t sought permission, as maybe he ought to have done, but their complaint was political. Had he been a Remainer the point would not have been thought worthy of mention.



Boris’s column in the Telegraph has always been popular and influential. In the 1990s he mocked the EU mercilessly. They richly deserved to be mocked. Arrogant and unfeeling, EU bureaucrats meddled and meddled in Britain’s internal affairs. Like the Nazis in the 1930s, they had no concept of how much resentment they were generating. I don’t think that our community partners the Nazis realized how much they were hated and despised until Dresden. The only way to deal with them was to burn them, then you could sweep them up with a dustpan and brush.

In his famous column on Monday Boris made it clear that he wasn’t actually in favor of banning the burka. However, he compared the slit to a letterbox and suggested that young Muslim women turning up at university might look like they were out to rob a bank.

The reaction

The reaction on the Tory left and in the MSM was hysterical. Seemingly unaware that we are no longer living in the Middle Ages Boris was criticized by both Theresa May and a Moslem Tory life peer, Lord Ahmed, who lodged a complaint. Lord Ahmed, a living embodiment with respect to why it was such a huge mistake to create life peers in the first place, was inaccurately called a “black bastard” for his pains. (His Lordship is actually brown, emphasizing that that observation is made after careful consideration of the Bar Standards Board’s valuable equal opportunities guidelines.)

Some Moslem Labour MPs and, inevitably, the Muslim Council of Britain, joined the bandwagon. No doubt these idiots were expecting that Boris would cave into the pressure, back down, and apologize.

Things did not go to plan. Boris, who was over in Europe on holiday, did not apologize. The Tory Party chairman, an idiot Remainer, if that is not a tautology, called Brandon Lewis, called for an inquiry. There is of course no obligation on the party to hold an inquiry – the complaints are obviously political and should have been dismissed in limine, as we lawyers say. (That’s Latin for chucked.)

As some other commentators have observed there has been a determined attempt in recent years to ring-fence Islam from criticism. Anyone who dares to be critical of Islam is deemed ‘Islamophobic’. There is no such thing as Islamophobia – it’s a left-liberal construct. A lot of anti-semites try and hide behind it.

We’re in a War on Terror and Salafist Islam is the enemy. The burka is essentially a Salafist imposition on Moslem women. Sufi women tend not to wear it. It’s perfectly fair to criticize this medieval form of dress, and the medieval thinking behind it.

Rowan Atkinson, brother of my friend Rodney Atkinson, a well-known figure in Brexit circles, made an intelligent contribution to the debate in a letter to The Times. Rowan of course is famous for playing the lead character in the hilarious Blackadder TV series and the comical Mr Bean. He made the point, fairly, that if you’re going to make a religious joke it needs to be a good one. The letterbox joke was rather good, so there was no need to apologize!

No religion is immune from criticism. We have free speech in England, although not as free as we would like. Religious nutters are fair game and Muslims need to learn not to be offended.

In fairness, of course, most Muslims were not offended. Many no doubt saw the funny side – most Moslem women in Britain do not go around wearing a burka. The market is not so large that Marks and Spencer have installed a burka section!

As for Theresa May, Lord Sheikh, and the Muslim Council of Britain, they just need to suck it up. The episode has done Boris’s campaign prospects the world of good. Theresa May’s aggressive tactics have backfired on her.

Although the MSM is expecting Boris to run, I’m not so sure that he will, however. He didn’t last time, for a reason. I think he’ll swing in behind that nice man Jacob Rees-Mogg, the smartest MP in the House of Commons, not that he’s up against the stiff competition. You would hardly call Brandon Lewis intelligent. I think he even believes in global warming!

The Ben Stokes Trial

The Learned Judge

This has turned into a predictable fiasco. A huge amount of stuff has not come out and two key witnesses – the two young gay men Ben and his England colleague Alex Hales went to assist – did not even give evidence.

It is vital that Ben plays in the Third Test Match, starting at Trent Bridge in Nottingham on Saturday. If the jury find him guilty then the Home Secretary needs to step in and recommend a Royal Pardon, having called for a briefing by MI5 on the intelligence aspects. GCHQ in turn need to make sure that all the relevant intercepts, including those of the trial judge, Judge Peter Blair QC, and the Chief Constable of Avon and Somerset Police, the notorious Andy Marsh, are made available to MI5.

I have let MI5 know via a backchannel over the weekend that the telephones of both the trial judge and the chief constable have been monitored by GCHQ. (MI5 had somebody at Lord’s.) GCHQ has also been monitoring the phones of Ben Stokes’s defense team and those of key witnesses, including Ryan Ali and Ryan Hale, together with the bank accounts of the latter. The German electronics company, S, which operates an eavesdropping center in London on behalf of GO2, has also been tapping the phones of the learned trial judge, the chief constable, and defense lawyers. The prosecution was of course ordered by GO2, although the orders to the Crown Prosecution Service were routed via the Cabinet Office.

A conviction would lead to a political and intellectual crisis. People are fed up to the back teeth with GO2 behaving as though Germany won World War II. Cricket lovers – the majority of people in England – are also fed up with the interference being run by Germany on our national game.

This included German intelligence bankrolling Kerry Packer, who tried to smash Test cricket in the late 1970s with his notorious ‘circus’. Packer was a right bastard, no offense intended, who was allowed by Frankfurt to play in the offshore high-yield market in exchange for trying to destroy cricket.

Between the wars, the Abwehr tried to assassinate England’s greatest-ever batsman, the immortal Wally Hammond, whose portrait I saw only yesterday in the pavilion at Lord’s Cricket Ground. The Abwehr also tried to split Australia off from the Empire in 1932/3 in the notorious Bodyline Tour, with a crazy plan to have an England fast bowler kill Sir Donald Bradman, Australia’s greatest-ever hero.

Thankfully that plan failed, thanks to British Intelligence and a wonderful man named Sir Gubby Allen, who was briefed in that the England manager, Sir Pelham ‘Plum’ Warner, was a German agent. London then warned Canberra and a crisis was averted. Sadly, no Germans were killed in retaliation, which was ridiculous. We should at least have bombed Dusseldorf.

The great Gubby Allen

If the Stokes trial goes badly, which it might, and the Home Secretary does not intervene immediately, the international community should be prepared for a sharp deterioration in relations between Britain and Germany. Obviously, there would have to be retaliation, which might mean deploying Special Forces against legitimate German targets. Having started the quasi-war with Britain, our community partner the Hun could not be heard to complain.

Ultimately the solution is for Britain and our gallant ally Russia to smash Germany in a two-front war. I entirely and respectfully agree with the assessment of the Russian General Staff that Britain attacking from West Germany could be brought to her knees within six months with acceptable Allied casualties.

German casualties would be massive, of course, as much of the land war would take place on the North German Plain, but the Germans have been begging for a smack since they planned the Korean War. We’ve been taking it from German client states like North Korea and German proxies like the IRA and al-Qaeda for over sixty years. It’s high time the Bad Guys started taking a few casualties. Never forget that Osama bin Laden was a German agent and that 9-11 was planned in Dachau. It will be wonderful to see the RAF bombing Germany again, although this time we mustn’t leave so many buildings standing. Germany must be punished for her crimes, which include developing the HIV virus.

My reading this week

This has included The Physics of War – From Arrows to Atoms, by Barry Parker (New York, Prometheus, 2014). Barry Parker knows his physics, if not his history, with respect. He thinks that World War I happened by accident and that World War II was caused by the Versailles Treaty!

For the record, Germany invaded Belgium, not the other way around. World War I was carefully planned. German warships were taking on stores days before the Imperial German Secret Service and its Jesuit cohort arranged for the assassination of the Archduke and the nice Archduchess in Sarajevo. RMS Titanic was sunk in order to murder the financiers on board, who were opposed to German moves to set up the Fed, under German control, which in turn was linked in to the funding of World War 1. The Germans didn’t start it until the funding was in place.

World War II was also carefully planned and was preceded by the Great Depression, organized by the Abwehr to cripple the economies of the Free World. Once again German warships started taking on stores and setting sail well before the war started, in this case by the Wehrmacht crossing the Polish frontier at 0445 local times on September 1st 1939. The Altmark (Captain Dau) sailed on August 2nd, having commenced storing on July 27th. She was the supply ship for the pocket battleship KMS Graf Spee (Kapitän zur See Langsdorff), which sailed on August 21st, i.e. 10 days before Germany started World War II.

Weak though he may be on historical analysis, Parker is strong on science. He has a particular gift for making the physics of weapons simple and easy to understand for the lay reader. As so often with authors who make things easy to understand, this gift reflects a high level of understanding of the subject matter.

Chapter 17, on the atomic bomb, is probably the most interesting. The stupidity of the Japanese government almost surpasses understanding – as Parker points out they still didn’t get the point after Hiroshima, so you guys had to nuke Nagasaki. It was only then that the power of nuclear weapons was brought home to Tokyo, which promptly folded. Talk about being slow on the uptake!

American readers will also be interested by Chapter 10, on the American Civil War. Ancient history is also well-covered. I particularly enjoyed the bit about Pharaoh Ramses II, who was a very silly Pharaoh indeed, no offense intended (I don’t want his mummy coming after me!). He did not have a grasp of intelligence. Indeed, he was almost as intelligence-illiterate as Theresa May and pretty much set the gold standard for military stupidity in the Battle of Kadesh (1274 BC).

This Week’s Movie Review: The Meg (2018, dir. Jon Turteltaub)

Before anyone asks shouldn’t I be seeing movies aimed at my intellectual level, there aren’t any. The Meg, which was released to the theaters in the UK, the USA and China on Friday, is interesting, in that it’s a Sino-American co-production. Most of the action takes place off the Chinese coast.

The Bad Guy, who gets eaten, is of course an American. There are no Chinese Bad Guys, which in real life is less likely than being eaten by a 75 ft shark. Jason Statham gets to the play The Good Guy, which he does convincingly.

There’s no point complaining that it’s Jaws meets Jurassic Park. That’s the whole point of the movie. The non-human Bad Guys are a couple of Megalodons, prehistoric monster sharks that died out at the end of the Pliocene Era. That’s over two million years ago, folks, so you would have to be very unlucky to be eaten by one.

Of course, the scriptwriters had to come up with a plausible explanation as to how a prehistoric shark that died out over two million years ago and is older than George H. W. Bush (and, some would say, just as mean) gets to eat people off the coast of China in 2018. The explanation is a thermocline at the bottom of a deep trench in the Pacific.

Yes, it’s bollocks, but it’s plausible bollocks. You have to suspend belief to enjoy the movie, but that’s hardly a criticism of a movie. You have to suspend belief listening to Nancy Pelosi or Robert ‘von’ Muller and believe me The Meg is much more fun.

You’ll enjoy it, especially the bit where the billionaire gets eaten. Just imagine that it’s Bill Gates, or the Cabinet Secretary, or von Muller, and you’ll enjoy the scene even more. The special effects are superb, with several generations of movie-making beyond Jaws. This shark makes that one look like a goldfish.

I won’t spoil the plot, but not everybody gets eaten and the monster sharks don’t make it.

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9 COMMENTS

  1. Another attempt to dysfunction the North Afrikans, like the West is, by undressing the females to the utmost degree, thereby causing daily enticements. Also the aim is getting the clothing industry to start getting their naked garments bought.

  2. The EU has lost its sense of humour if it ever had one. We should relax a bit and be able to laugh at ourselves. That Burkas look like post boxes….etc I felt it was done with an humorous tone and not to be aggravated and take it so seriously. The world needs to relax a bit and not to get offended for minor comments. We all could have reasons to take things badly and start complaining about Blacks complain about not having enough ( never enough for them so if you dont like go back to Africa)
    Muslims complain for whatever….ok go back where you come from. Jewish want by force that people believe in the holocaust, or that Jeremy Corbyn should act as the JEWS decide is good to do !!! this whole picture does not reflect democracy but people who are not happy with their lot, so there is no country who would make them happy. Lets keep our sense of freedom and lets be able to accept others opinions.

  3. “No religion is immune from criticism. We have free speech in England, although not as free as we would like. Religious nutters are fair game and Moslems need to learn not to be offended.”
    Did you know that the same kind of Burka is used by some Jews as well. Now go ahead and say same kind of things about Jews (You have free speech in England) and your ass was will look a monkey’s by evening , Its good hue of red and pink.
    Don’t jump on any thing like a fool and find out why people wear a Burka and in a free country why can’t they dress as they want to. No one ever got harmed by educating him self.

  4. Look where the yellow brick road leads you to and you know who was behind the bombings and for what purpose

  5. “I don’t think that our community partners the Nazis realised how much they were hated and despised until Dresden. The only way to deal with them was to burn them, then you could sweep them up with a dustpan and brush.”

    “I don’t think that our community partners, the Pirates, realized how much they were hated and despised until Mullaghmore. The only way to deal with them is to blow them up in pieces, then you could pick them up off the water with a fishing net.”

    There, I fixed it for ya.

    Want some more? Here: How do we know that Lord Mountbatten had dandruff? Because they found his head and shoulders on the beach.

    Shrimpton, GFYS.

  6. Like almost all primates, humans like to play with fabric. The current most repulsive fashion ideas are, 1 -(The Burka, 2) – The neck tie , 3) Black robes , 4) Those ridiculous looking wigs

    They all symbolize the same thing. Submission to authority/ownership. It is all very un-American.

    Notice the old pictures of the founding Fathers , Franklin had the right idea, and Washington wore the wig. Old habits die hard. Then again, The Catholic version of the Burka is called a habit. They are bad habits.

  7. Germany is occupied until 2099, so Mr. Shrimpton ask yourself whose selected “government” it is which is now in force as you want to bomb civilians.

    • Shrimpton wrote: “I don’t think that our community partners the Nazis realised how much they were hated and despised until Dresden. The only way to deal with them was to burn them, then you could sweep them up with a dustpan and brush.”

      As a Briton, I would like to apologise to our German readers for this most disgusting statement. As a VT editor, I would like to point out that it is not a viewpoint that the VT staff share or endorse in any way, shape or form and is purely the opinion of the author.

    • Yes, there are still some Britons who think that way about out continental cousins, but I am glad to say that number is growing smaller all the time as it is a dying mindset possessed only by a minority of mostly older, out of touch people and the younger generation simply aren’t imbued with such petty xenophobic nonsense.

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