http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8160000/8160335.stmThis is the running order of today's Today programme with my comments saying why we are a country of consisting of demented old women being governed by a bunch of demented old women whose opposition is another bunch of feeble-minded old women.
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A 22-year-old man from east London who began binge-drinking at 13 has died after being denied a life-saving liver transplant. Professor Ian Gilmore, president of the Royal College of Physicians, explains the story of Gary Reinbach, who was given only a few weeks to live after developing cirrhosis of the liver.
"Good!" is my response to the ritual hand-wringing. Does anyone in his right mind even think this alcoholic loser even deserves chicken liver pate on toast?
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Britain's professions have become more socially exclusive, a report
into social mobility suggests. Former cabinet minister Alan Milburn, the author of the report, discusses his findings.
Well, of course. Knowing what we do about Britain's state comprehensives, which 80% of children attend, why would anyone give these crap-educated children the time of day at all? Most of them can't barely read, write, spell or count. The ones that can count a little are wobbly on their time tables. Everything is being progressively dumbed-down, even as the educational establishment pretends that children must be getting cleverer because more of them are getting grades that say they have got A and A*.
That is because they think we have been dumbed-down too.
In British schools, sex education consists of teaching children the Joy of Sex,
ie telling them how to do it, instead of telling them that bringing yet another little bastard into the world is a bad thing for them and a bad thing for the society they live in.
Yet, mildly suggest that child benefit be withdrawn from these teen parents, and you get a chorus of disapproval, because it sounds
uncompassionate.
The
preponderence of the inadequately-parented illegitimate in our schools means that education must be progressively dumbed-down to accommodate their propensity for indiscipline,
underaged sex and violence, obesity, autism, violence and neurosis.
But no one mentions or acknowledges this, of course.
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The head of the army, General Sir Richard Dannatt, is said to have
infuriated ministers last week by publicly calling for more troops and better equipment in Afghanistan. Today presenter Sarah Montague reports from Afghanistan and talks to Sir Richard about his last journey to Afghanistan before he retires after 40 years of service.
Well, good on you for standing up for the cannon-fodder, General, but there is really no point throwing good money after bad, and sending more people to die in the 21st century Western equivalent of the
Peloponnesian War while you're about it. (You know, the one that Athens and Sparta waged with each other for 28 years and which ultimately destroyed Athens.)
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Despite overall crime falling by 5% in 2008/9, the fear of crime seems
to go on rising. Filmmaker Roger Graef, who has tried to answer that question in a programme for BBC One, explains why people are more fearful than they used to be.
Because even dumbed-down Britons are not so dumbed-down that they would believe any government statistic now, to give them
some credit ...
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Universities should take into account the social background of the
people who apply for courses, a report into social mobility suggests. Shaun Bailey, a youth worker and prospective Conservative party candidate for Hammersmith, and Dr Lee Elliot Major, research director at the Sutton Trust, discuss whether working class pupils should be given special consideration.
If working class people are going to be given a hand-up because they can't quite make it on their own merits - who would want someone from the
Peckham Academy in their university unless they start running a course in Degree Level Drug-Dealing, Pimping, Gun Crime and General Gangsterism - why not give a hand-up to lunatics, retards and those suffering from dementia?
Why not indeed?
What a pity there is no dementia test we can make our leaders take, to show how utterly divorced they are from reality, morality and anything that could be described as responsibility and good sense.
If we do not do anything about this, then even death by swine flu is too good for us.
The latest insane suggestion - that schools that would re-open in
autum be closed to contain the pandemic - suggests that even the demented know this and are trying to escape their fate by proposing what they think might be solutions.
Let us therefore just speak the truth to each other before the filth and madness that we have accumulated for so long falls on us and buries us alive.
It is the only way to enjoy our last days, is it not?
