In this week’s episode of London Calling, James and I discuss Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter; the integrity of the French Presidential election and whether Marine Le Pen’s 42% share of the vote means France is more racist than Britain; the uncertain future of Boris Johnson; Douglas Murray’s apparent reference to James in his latest Joe Rogan interview; and, in Culture Corner, Slow Horses, Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?, Moon Knight and The Northman.
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“Annoying all the right people” (Neil Oliver on GB News tonight re . Twitter takeover).
For me (and I’ve never been a user of “Twitbook”), however it eventually turns out, today is a good day.
I am now even less likely to rejoin Twitter.
Is that because you hate free speech or just hate Musk?
“Would you object if your daughter married a Muslim… according to those metrics, Britain is among the least racist countries in the world”. (Toby Youmg (?), LC).
Or would you object to the conflation of race with religion? There are Muslims of various races, including white people, particularly in European areas that were formerly in the Ottoman Empire. I also seem to remember a story that there was a fair bit of racism among the supporters of Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). And likewise, there are lots of Christians in some parts of Asia. I remember a story about an Indian Christian in Middlesbrough who got abused as a terrorist by ignorant locals (not that all people in Middlesbrough are like that, there’s some great people in that area of Yorkshire).
‘Would you object if your daughter married a Muslim’
First things first was she forced into it?
Over my dead body is my stance on that matter.
“The Northman… there are no black Vikings”.
No clean shaven ones either v (probably), but that didn’t stop Kirk Douglas.
the vikings kirk douglas at DuckDuckGo
I remember a report about how there were African people manning Hadrian’s Wall who intermarried with the native population, though I don’t know if there were any Vikings in Britain at that time.
And Kirk Douglas’s Viking was also Jewish, don’t forget.
Vikings raided coastal Britain and surrounding islands before, during and after the Romans.
The Romans brought auxiliaries and slaves with them from all over the empire, so some undoubtedly would be black people.
‘whether Marine Le Pen’s 42% share of the vote means France is more racist than Britain’
Racism is simply self preservation.
If the UK was sane we would never have allowed any immigration of the followers of the religion of peace, there should be no Islamic rape gangs or Islamic mass casualty terror attacks here.
Same with mass African immigration, we would be far better off it that had never occurred.
Of course you can’t criticise the imported minority that have used their financial power to push this mass immigration because that would be to pick on the weakest people on the planet and they will have you cancelled if you dare.
I’m tempted to nod in agreement, but given the UK fertility has been below replacement rate since the 70’s, I’d like to see some numbers, has anyone attempted this analysis?
Besides my time in the RN, and my GP, almost every Dr, specialist, or consultant I’ve seen in over 50 years has been an immigrant, as has a large % of nurses and cleaning staff I’ve come across in the NHS, I could almost lump taxi drivers and railways staff into that large % too.
I guess we’d have to define “better off”, I’m thinking in economic terms rather than “the feels”.
Maybe ask your mates for a controlled opposition jingle?
” … and whether Marine Le Pen’s 42% share of the vote means France is more racist than Britain…”
I can’t believe you wrote that. I don’t think I’ll bother reading the whole thing – that alone put me off.
Quite so: I hope (probably wrongly) that it was just sarcasm. Sadly, my respect for Young is falling even more quickly than covid ‘infections’!
TY has done a lot of positive things – more than most people
I think the comment is a bit clickbaity
I think there are a few related, important questions:
1) Is mass immigration good, bad or indifferent for the existing citizens of a country?
2) Is there a moral obligation to allow immigration, or should governments act solely in the interests of their own citizens?
3) Does WHO is immigrating matter? Is it “racist” to prefer some groups over others in terms of who you let in? Is it “racist” to select who comes in on some non-race basis that turns out to have a disparate impact on some racial groups? Bear in mind certain groups are unlikely to want to come to the UK in their millions as they already have good countries they like.
4) If any of the above is “racist”, is it wrong to be “racist”? What does “racist” actually mean (not much these days as far as I can see)?
1) Bad
2) Not at all
3) Yes
4) The current cancer in UK culture is to label anything you don’t like as ‘ist’. People need to learn to compromise and accept each other’s opinions.
It is fine to dislike any person for any reason you choose.
I tend to agree. It’s impossible to have a sensible discussion on this in most forums, and with many people.
I think there is a distinction to be made between legal immigration and illegal immigration.
Tge problem arises with illegal immigration. Legal immigrants go through a vetting process which means they have the right level,of education and skills to find useful employment and contribute to society and also numbers controlled.
Illegal immigrants tend to be the dross and arrive in droves.
Indeed the two things are different. I’m not sure I would completely agree with your characterisation of the two forms though – in practice I have doubts about the overall contribution of legal immigrants to our country (though clearly many have and do contribute immensely) but it’s also a matter of culture and social cohesion, regardless of the economics. The numbers are not as controlled as many (IMO the majority) of British people would like.
It is a gross misunderstanding of Le Pen’s support. Nearly all of her support is in rural France, the large area whose population feel they have been abandoned, ignored and treated with contempt by the metropolitan elites, and where the gilets jaunes movement rose up – they hate Macron.
Immigration is not the key issue – there are few in these areas, most being in the big cities and towns – it is the lack of work, lack,of prospects for the future and lack of representation.
Le Pen’s manifesto was anything but ‘right wing’ it was old France, Dirigiste – State direction of the economy, know elsewhere as the economics of Fascism. This is why the Left don’t like ‘Right Wing’, because so-called Right-Wing Parties have Statist policies of central economic and social planning and control, and out-Left the Left.
But it’s the modus operandi of the Establishment, label anyone not ‘their sort’, not a member of their club, ‘Right-Wing’ with ‘extreme’ left unspoken but implied, then automatically that means anti-immigration and therefore racist.
However, it is the case Le Pen isn’t really charismatic, or with a vision and new policies needed for the economic restructuring that France needs, to wean its people off total State dependency, she would have brought ever more. She just had the same old failed policies so her only attraction was she wasn’t Macron
I thought it was patently meant as humour, but we all have different filters when reading…
I do not have a Twitter account, but I think it’s best to wait and see what difference Elon Musk actually makes before any Champagne corks are popped.
But the torment he is causing the Stupids is a joy to behold.
I wonder weather this could be a litmus test as to weather the globalist WEF YGL Musk actually wants free speech, or will roll out digital ID under the guise of free speech.
i.e. is there a global conspiracy, or more bumbling cock-uppery from the various governments and YGLs who all appear to be on the same page, regardless of “free speech” platitudes ^.^