Lord Rennard's apology fails to placate the implacable

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2643106/Lib-Dem-peer-Lord-Rennard-FINALLY-apologises-encroaching-personal-space-four-women-months-defied-Nick-Cleggs-demands-say-sorry.html

It is disturbing how irrational and idiotic how may of these supposedly experienced party men are.

If I were Lord Rennard desperate to get back the party whip, here is how I would have played it.

This is how I would have put it to Clegg:

"If I apologised do I have your word as a gentleman that you will call off the bitches and tell them you will expel them for bringing the party into disrepute if they carry on asking for my head on a platter after I apologise?  No? Then I won't apologise. Yes? Then I will.  I think my apologising and their gracious acceptance of my apology would be the best result all round for the sake of the party, don't you, Nick, if you are prepared to put your foot down on this one? Do let me know after you have had a word with Miriam, eh?"

If he received no answer then he should take no action and await the results of the third "investigation" into his conduct, whose "conclusions" will only published after the next LibDem leadership election, I imagine, which will be after GE 2015, probably.

Why he wants to get back into that party when they are so obviously on their way out is a mystery to me, but perhaps the House of Lords is a lonely place if your fellow LibDem peers shun you and turn their backs on you.  It is rather like a rat apologising for being a rat begging to go back on board a sinking ship and makes no sense to me at all.

If these experienced party men don't even know how to manage their own affairs and negotiations, how well do you think the are managing the affairs of the nation?

"Racism", "bullying", "harassment" and our liberties valued at zero

These are such subjective words, are they not?

Being a racist means you may have expressed dislike of someone on grounds of race, or said something that could be considered offensive by a hypothetical person of another race.

The same principles now appear to apply on bullying and harassment.

If we think we are being bullied and harassed then we are being bullied and harassed.

If we are offended, then the person who offended us must have been offensive.

If the other person was offensive, then they will have to pay!

This means there is no free speech, no freedom of association and no freedom of contract.

Soon there will be no right to property either and we will have become a communist country without even realising it! Financial socialism in the form of Quantitative Easing even now proceeds apace.

British getting stupider and stupider (women to blame)

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There has been a slight fall in the proportion of 11-year-olds in England reaching the standard expected of them in English national curriculum tests. Reporter Sanchia Berg asked one 11-year-old boy to sit part of a writing paper and an experienced Sats marker, Roberta Bowen, to assess it. Former children's laureate Michael Morpurgo, who was once a primary school teacher, discusses ways to make children more enthusiastic about books.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8184000/8184842.stm

So, stupider and more illiterate is what we are becoming, especially the male of the species, until even foreigners speak English better than the native English-speaker.

Mistakes are not penalised, it seems. "We look to credit, not penalise", said the female educationalist, Roberta Bowen, prissily. Girls are doing better than boys, probably because girls are more biddable and boys need to be engaged, which of course female teachers, who constitute the majority in the educational establishment, are clueless about. No red-blooded male would want to join the educational establishment because, apart from the very low pay, they would be accused of sexual harassment or paedophilia the moment they get on the wrong side of their female colleagues, or question the wisdom of not penalising children when they make basic spelling and grammatical errors.

At the rate we are going, the BNP will be asking a foreigner to write their manifesto for them next, you mark my words ...