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Happy Birthday, Councillor, your blog serves the useful purpose of reminding me what inherent nonsense socialism is without the necessity of picking up the very many heavy books which spell it out in detail!
We need to crack down on those who commit assault and criminal damage.
Bullingdon Club thug?
A birthday present for you: Dominic Grieve’s head on a silver platter
Two names to spoil your birthday, Councillor, Wayne Rooney and Orlando Zapata.
Have a nice day!
Many happy returns Bob. your blog is always a good read but some of your commenters are a little off any message.
A little off the planet, some of them. Cheers Bob!
Well, Orlando Zapata is certainly off the planet now!
Booked your holiday yet, Councillor?
Did you feel the same way about Bobby Sands MP, Duffers?
Nice of you to ask about my holidays itinerary. I’m off to Portugal shortly, and Krakow in June (should suit you, lots of fascistic friends of the Tories out that way) but nothing definite after that. I’m toying with Beijing or Cambodia later in the year and possibly Sydney for the Ashes for New Year… and Goa looks good….
How about you? Eastbourne or Torquay with a warm blanket and a flask of hot tea again?
Do put down your holiday brochures, Councillor, and try and concentrate.
Orlando Zapata was a working-class man who protested peacefully against Castro’s police state and died in prison whilst on a hunger strike.
Bobby Sands was an IRA terrorist scrote convicted twice of possession of guns. ‘That woman’ summed it up best:
“Mr. Sands was a convicted criminal. He chose to take his own life. It was a choice that his organisation did not allow to many of its victims”.
Finally, and I advise you to have your sick-bag handy, in 2001 that splendid Christian gentleman and man of peace, Mr. Gerry Adams, unveiled a plaque in Havana in memory of Sands and other hunger strikers.
Did you pay your respects there last year, Councillor? Next time you go, you must check to see if Zapata’s name has been added!
Ever helpful, might I suggest Pyongyang for your bucket and spade hols this year, it’s your sort of place!
A belated happy birthday, Bob
. Ignore that Duff bloke. I wonder if he gives a monkeys about the people on hunger strike at Yarl’s Wood detention centre…
“I’m off to Portugal shortly”.
Do keep an eye out for Madeleine…
John, I’m staying just down the road actually.
Claude, Yarl’s Wood is a disgrace and something we should be ashamed of. People like Duff want a free market in everything but labour.
Duffy, personally I would have done what Castro did several years ago… if people in prison wanted to go to the US… let them go. As I recall, the State Department weren’t too happy about that. Personally I think the treatment handed down to Zapata was repugnant… but so is the way the detainees are dealt with in Yarl’s Wood by a Labour Government, and the prisoners in the ‘H’ Blocks by that vindictive and nasty woman’s regime.
I didn’t know there was a memorial to Bobby in Cuba, or I would have visited it. Perhaps next time. But then again, as there are memorials in places as differing as France (at least seven different ones) your beloved United States through Iran to China, I suppose I could do a world tour of the sites remembering him. Sounds good to me.