DISAGREE with someone in an argument online and sooner or later they’ll call you a “Nazi”.
It doesn’t really matter what you’re arguing about.
Could be about Brexit.
Could be about your favourite breed of rabbit.
Whatever — you’ll get called a Nazi.
It is the first port of call for all morons when they hear something with which they disagree.
“You’re just like Hitler, you are.” Second port of call is usually “raaacccissst!”, by the way.
The Conservative MP Anna Soubry was called a “Nazi” and a “liar” by a meat-headed pro-Brexit yob while she was doing a television interview outside Parliament, on College Green.
I sometimes think the TV companies choose College Green because it’s where the nutters congregate — the perpetual protestors. The eternally furious.
Obsessives and psychos from all sides of the political divide. I can’t stand Soubry, as it happens.
I think the Remainer Tory MPs — of which she is perhaps the most prominent — have done enormous harm to the country, the Government and the party of which they are members.
In other words, I disagree very strongly with her views.
But she is not by any stretch of the imagination a Nazi.
To call her such diminishes the evil of that regime, which launched a world war and murdered six million Jewish people.
Soubry was right to be angry. And right to call for a bit more protection for MPs.
There is a lot of hatred at large.
Indeed, after this verbal attack I saw scores and scores of people on social media saying she got what she deserved. Slag, cow, etc etc.
I sometimes think this country has become utterly deranged. Lost all sense of proportion.
The same sort of abuse greets Nigel Farage wherever he goes.
And he is sometimes physically attacked too.
And the lefties are never happier than when screeching “Scum” at any Conservative who hoves into view.
Mind you, at least one politician should take some responsibility for that.
Labour’s John McDonnell, the Shadow Chancellor.
Corbyn’s number two, in all meanings of the phrase.
He called for Conservatives to be accosted in the street wherever they went.
Well, you’ve got what you asked for, McDonnell. Happy?
This is a fraught and divisive time in British politics.
Many people feel very strongly that since we voted for freedom from the European Union, we should have freedom from the European Union. I’m one of them.
By the same token, many people feel that this would be bad for Britain and we should Remain, come what may.
A lot of my friends think this. They are not Nazis.
These are simply differing points of view.
And we should all be allowed to express them without being screeched at, spat at, physically assaulted . . . or shot.
Because that’s where it leads, this hyperbolic madness — the shooting of the Labour MP Jo Cox by a fiend who disagreed with her views.
We Brexiteers are sometimes accused of being nostalgic for a lost Britain. Some of that is true.
And right now I’m nostalgic for a lost Britain where different points of view could be heard without an outpouring of blind hatred and fury.
Sometimes this country, today, feels like a banana republic.
Looking rather EU-ropey
SO how are things looking in Europe?
France is still in crisis and now the Italians are sticking two fingers up at them.
The Italians and the Poles are planning an anti-EU bloc.
That puts them in the same frame of mind as Hungary and Austria. There are grave fears of a recession in Germany.
Belgium’s government fell in December because of opposition to migration policies.
Those French riots have now spread to the Netherlands. And the European presidency has just been taken over by . . . Romania.
I just think it’s handy to remind people what we’re getting the hell out of.
The prison retreat
NEW prison being built in the UK will have no bars on the windows.
This is in order to “normalise” the prison experience for offenders.
Prisoners will also be given laptops and tea, coffee and sandwich-making facilities.
One criminologist behind the plans said: “It’s encouraging them to invest in themselves and their futures.”
No it isn’t, you dimbo – it’s making life pleasant for people who need to be taught a lesson.
The more “normalised” prison becomes, the less worry people will have of going there.
Student rage over professor’s dark past
STUDENTS at Oxford University are trying to get a professor sacked.
They’ve started a petition demanding that John Finnis be kicked out of the Law Faculty because of his past views about homosexuals.
He wrote in an essay 25 years ago that homosexual conduct was “never a valid, humanly acceptable choice and form of life”. Hmmm.
I would guess that a lot of people in this country think exactly the same thing.
Here’s the rub, you students. If you can’t abide hearing different views to your own, you shouldn’t be at university.
You should be at home with Mummy and Daddy.
Brexit-obsessed
APPARENTLY the word “Brexit” is spoken 500million times every day in the UK.
This sounds a lot but it is only about eight times for every person.
This is just a guess, but here are some phrases uttered more often:
- Where’s the remote? (600million).
- Whose round is it? (700million).
- Oh Christ, not Clare Balding again (800million).
- Shut up, Lineker, you t*t (1billion).
It’s a date, Nigella
THERE’S a lot to look forward to this year. I can’t wait for November 19, which is World Toilet Day.
And August 6 is Fresh Breath Day – by which time you’ll hopefully have recovered from celebrating World Garlic Day in April with a whiffy recipe from your old Nigella Lawson cookbook.
Every day of the year has been labelled with something. And the good news – it’s Peculiar People Day today, when you can celebrate the weird and wonderful.
Go on, hug a weirdo.
Tomorrow? It’s Step In A Puddle And Splash Your Friends Day. Nope, not kidding.
The super spoofer
HERO of the week is a bloke you have probably never heard of. Step forward, Peter Boghossian, a US professor from Oregon.
He’s about to be sacked. His crime was writing spoof academic papers full of fatuous liberal crap – and getting them published in academic journals which took them seriously.
One was called: “Our Struggle Is My Struggle: Solidarity Feminism As An Intersectional Reply To Neoliberal And Choice Feminism.” And what did his paper consist of?
It was the entirety of chapter 12 of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf with a few words altered. Published!
Another was entitled: “Human Reactions To Rape Culture And Queer Performativity At Urban Dog Parks In Portland.” Published! No wonder they’re sacking him.
Boghossian has single-handedly exposed the social science academia for the crock of fraudulent b*****ks it’s always been. Well done, that man.
Youths should matter
THE murder of dad Lee Pomeroy, on a commuter train near Guildford was chilling, grotesque and vile.
Fortunately the police were, somewhat unusually, hot on the trail of the alleged killer, who was arrested and will face justice.
The story led news bulletins for three whole days.
And yet last year more than 100 people were stabbed to death in London, or shot.
A brief mention in the papers and then we all moved on.
Is this because virtually all those victims were black kids?
MOST READ IN OPINION
And their murderers also black kids?
And so we either think they matter less?
Or we worry that by giving the story too much attention we might be seen to be victimising the black community?
Or a bit of both?
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News Pictures Blame John McDonnell for the vile abuse of Remainer Tory MP Anna Soubry after he ‘called for Conservatives to be accosted in the street’
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