Comments on: Victory for free speech in UK

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 14:21:24 +0000

Great news, a fantastic day for free speech.

By: Andy A

Andy A — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 12:09:37 +0000

Some prat in Comment 10 above – oh, it was me! – said, “There’s no wonder Martin Sullivan (and, for that matter, his mate Bob Pitt) at Mediawatch-watch are not happy (see Comment 6 above)”. It should, of course, have referred not to the esteemed and excellent Mediawatch-watch but to the Islamophobia-watch blog. I’ll just go and flagellate myself with a pig’s bladder. Doh!

By: Andy Gilmour

Andy Gilmour — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 09:36:08 +0000

Sorry, just checked out the list of Labour rebels. Not a single bloody representative from Scotland! Arrrgghh!
I apologise for the failure of the labour Scots to throw off their thralldom to their religious masters. I thought it was only the Weegie/West Coast mob that were so supine. Mind you, ANYONE who dares suggest the removal of (even the tiniest bit of) state funding from faith schools up here is immediately savaged in the press by assorted Cardinals, etc, and their cronies.

We’ve got a hotly-contested by-election going on right now (in Dunfermline), and if I get a chance, I’m going to try to spring this issue on any of the candidates I can spot – especially if there’s any of the media hanging around.

That and the bishops in the house of lords.

The conservative candidate (Carrie somebody) has already played the “admire-my-moral-rectitude-through-religion” card in her election literature, so it should be interesting to have a go at her for starters.

Cheers,

Scottish Andy

By: Andy A

Andy A — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 09:34:34 +0000

There’s no wonder Martin Sullivan (and, for that matter, his mate Bob Pitt) at Mediawatch-watch are not happy (see Comment 6 above). If you so much as hint that you might hint that you might just possibly, at some indeterminate time, mention something that remotely looks as if it just could be an itsy-bitsy criticism of Islam, they’re down on you like the proverbial ton of bricks (I can think of something else it resembles a ton of). So it’s as satisfying to see that lot of PC oiks irked as it is to see this ludicrous, preposterous, absurd, silly-billy Bill stripped down to its underpants and rendered next to useless. Well done to all who fought against it!

By: Andy A

Andy A — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 09:25:59 +0000

Colin Hart of the Christian Institute says in a news release,

We give thanks to God that the Government has been defeated in the House of Commons over the Religious Hatred Bill.

Odd that they never say it was God wot done it when things don’t go there way – but it must have been. Or am I missing something?

By: Andy Gilmour

Andy Gilmour — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 09:23:46 +0000

Harharharharharharharharharharharharhar!!!

Sorry.

Just a brief moment of upsurging joy, before we all have to get beack to stemming the tide of irrational supernaturalism.

By: Monitor

Monitor — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 08:18:05 +0000

fortunately not, Steve. The Parliament Act can only be invoked to overturn Lords opposition to a bill – not Parliament itself.

By: Pickled Politics » Govt beaten over religious hatred bill

Pickled Politics » Govt beaten over religious hatred bill — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 05:12:46 +0000

[...] David over at Mediawatchwatch is clearly ecstatic. But Martin Sullivan over at IslamophobiaWatch is fuming. Anyone care to explain what this means in practice now? [...]

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:42:46 +0000

Do not ce;ebrate too soon they may be able to invoke the Parliment Act to push it through, I believe?

By: Bartholomew

Bartholomew — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:54:36 +0000

Just when you thought it was safe:

...Meanwhile pan-Arab organisations have begun efforts to reach a UN resolution, backed by possible sanctions, to protect religions from insults.