Not that this has anything to do with politics, but in the interests of continuity I'd like to report that I managed to get the temperature in my living room in excess of 85 last night. Neither does this fact have anything to do with politics either, but I can confirm that I backed Wolves to beat Tottenham today at a very handy price indeed. Such a shame that Everton couldn't have pulled off a shock at Chelsea, as they very nearly did, as that would have been my Christmas paid for.
Now that those important facts are fed into the blogosphere and following on from my appalling expose of the kind of sick and twisted people that run the Burton Mail I can move on to the House of Lords.
You have to admire Their Lordships at times, there was me thinking that a good old fashioned entomological analogy would have done the trick. However, that obviously wasn't good enough for Lord May of Oxford when he spoke last Tuesday:
"My noble friend Lord Krebs, who I more commonly think of as John Krebs, and the noble Earl, Lord Selborne, reminded us that climate change is only part of a gestalt of problems that roil together and are made up of increasing impact per person and increasing numbers of people. It is curious that we are focused on total impact in the UK and have not talked much about numbers of people. This is a more general question globally, and there are uncertainties about that that are not as explicit in the report as I perhaps would have wished. The current population of Britain is 61 million or 62 million. We do not know; most countries do not know to within 1 or 2 per cent what their population is. Projections for 2050 range from a low of high 60 millions or low 70 millions to a high of high 80 millions, and there is even an EU projection that suggests that by 2050 we will have the highest population. This is not me wishing to set an agenda for the BNP, but it is another issue. It has more general implications for educating women in the developing world and in our own country and empowering them to make non-coerced choices about families."
Meanwhile in the Commons on December 2nd the following Early Day Motion was put forward by our old friend Keith Vaz. It is almost beyond belief that indigenous people in Leicester routinely vote for this man. Turkeys voting for Christmas festively springs to mind.
| EQUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION |
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| Keith Vaz |
| Mark Durkan |
| Andrew George |
| Lynne Jones |
| Mr Mike Hancock |
| Mr Alan Meale |
| That this House commends the work of the Equality and Human Rights Commission under the Chairmanship of Trevor Phillips; notes and applauds the efforts of the Commission in forcing the British National Party to accept that they should obey equality law; |
Meanwhile Independent Labour MP Clare Short couldn't help herself last Monday:
May I ask the Minister in passing to ask the National Asylum Support Service to review the placing of asylum seekers in Stoke? I have heard of more than one case of asylum seekers there being very badly beaten up. We know that the British National Party has considerable representation on the council there. I really think we should do something about that.I wonder how many times she has mentioned the shocking racial violence inflicted on the white population of Birmingham Ladywood during their ethnic cleansing which she has so successfully overseen.
Clare Short's anti-English agenda is of course well known, but earlier this month we had an insight into the mind of Shrewsbury's 6ft 8.5 inch Conservative MP Daniel Kawcynsk:
"I will end shortly, Mr. Benton, because you said that many hon. Members wished to speak. I will return briefly to the election of the two members of the British National Party to the European Parliament. I do not know about the hon. Member for Great Grimsby, but I had shivers going down my spine when I found out that they had been elected. I am a democrat and believe that people should be allowed to stand as representatives no matter what their views are, but I am very concerned about any system that allows a party such as the BNP to get representation."
A somewhat paradoxical statement that I shall remind Mr Kawcynski about the next time he bumps into me in a certain supermarket in the county town of Shropshire. Maybe I'll not be quite so polite and forgiving as I was the last time.