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Taki

Wednesday, 7th May 2008

Taki lives the High Life

Here’s my unsolicited advice to Boris. Don’t fall for the paralysing cult of victimhood. Victimhood is what bums like Livingstone rely on. But he wasn’t interested in helping those outside looking in, only in making them feel more estranged and angry. It is not your fault is the demagogue’s bottom line. It’s their fault. They being the hard-working, law-abiding people who pay taxes so that the bums can get stoned all day and mug people at night.

I’ve just received a letter from South Africa, from Dr Roger Service, a PhD. The good doctor wrote to Gordon Brown about his concerns over the fate of whites in Zimbabwe, received a ludicrous answer from some flunkey in the Home Office praising Brown’s response to Mugabe’s crimes — his decision not to attend the EU–Africa summit — and that was it. When Dr Service wrote back about how he feared for the future of whites in South Africa there was obviously no response.

The only two productive countries in that miserable continent owed it all to white initiative and ingenuity, but our politicians treat that as a problem, the whites, that is. South African whites, like the poor Rhodesians before them, are regarded as the ills of colonialism who eventually have to be driven out. The great Ian Smith’s face was disfigured fighting in the RAF, and look what Britain did for him. Look what the mother country is doing for white South Africans today. Zilch. Yet if I dare to write the tiniest rebuke against some African or Muslim outrages over here, I’m immediately labelled a racist and threatened with hate speech. It goes to show how truly sick we have become. We respect only those non-Europeans who abuse and insult us, and we have a clown as head of the Church of England who thinks we could have some kind of Sharia law in this country. What’s next? A Muslim killing his daughter in Britain and invoking Sharia law the way that scumbag did in Basra last week?

Boris has won but I still won’t be holding my breath, though it will definitely be a good sign. I only hope he doesn’t start talking like a politician and looking to cover his back. Perhaps I’ll see you later, but perhaps not.

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J.M Abreu

May 8th, 2008 1:25pm

And speaking of hypocrisy in Africa, this week Sir Bob Geldof was invited to an event in Lisbon concerning the sustained development in which he labeled the Angola's government as "criminal". He also said that he doesn't understand why are they constructing million Euro houses, more expensive than the Chelsea or Park Lane ones, while most population is starving and living in decadent conditions. BES, a portuguese bank and financial institution with high investments and interests in Angola, in which the President's Jose Eduardo dos Santos daughter is a main partner and one of the event main sponsors, immediately launched an official press release saying that they don't agree with the "insult" or any other words proffered by Sir Bob on this subject.

J.M Abreu

May 8th, 2008 1:30pm

And speaking of hypocrisy in Africa, this week Sir Bob Geldof was invited to an event in Lisbon concerning the sustained development in which he labeled the Angola's government as "criminal", and that he doesn't understand why are they building million Euro houses, more expensive than a house in Chelsea or Park Lane, while the population around is starving and living in decedent human conditions. BES, a portuguese bank and financial institution with high investments and interests in Angola, in which the President's Jose Eduardo dos Santos daughter is a main partner and one of the event main sponsors, immediately launched an official press release saying that they don't agree with the "insult" or any other words proffered by Sir Bob on this subject.

Bob Silentio

May 9th, 2008 6:34am

Boris is just another flakey tory out for free joyrides. He is swanning off to NY City on a taxpayer-funded jaunt before he has got his fat behind warm on the mayor's throne.The pretext is that he is learning how to run a major city or some tommy rot. This merely serves to highlight the absolute vacuity in the heads of our 'leaders'.None of our pols have anything to offer but lies and corruption and more of the same.

Ken

May 12th, 2008 12:00pm

.."the tiniest rebuke against some African or Muslim outrages over here, I’m immediately labelled a racist and threatened with hate speech..." exactly and that critically important point is forgotten by advanced nations at the peril of losing liberty, hard won freedoms of speech and expression and general progress since the Enlightenment... or have medieval fanatics now advanced too far in Europe?

David Lindsay

May 12th, 2008 4:57pm

The English-speaking white South Africans at least acquiesced in the creation of a Boer Republic as an explicit act of anti-British revenge in a former Dominion of the Crown.

And the white Rhodesians were willing backed up by that Boer Republic when they treasonably declared UDI, also purporting to abolish the monarchy only a very few short years later.

Why do ostensible Tories have soft spots for these people?