"But I didn't mean to offend anyone by calling them a paki!", Prince Harry bleats in a pathetic attempt to hide his racist tendencies. Come on now! You didn't think it would be offensive? I have never seen anybody who has half a nucleolus call somebody a racially prejudiced name and not expect a negative response. Not even a inbred redneck who was a signed up member of the Klu Klux Klan would call a black man a 'Nigga' and not expect it to cause offense.
As for his justification for using the phrase 'rag head', being used in reference to the Taliban, well thats just as laughable as his claim of ignorance. It is equally as abhorrent as calling someone a Paki, and just because they are at war does not justify its use. I have been in fights with white people, but does that mean I should go around referring to them as a 'cracker' or a 'honky'?
Still, can you really blame Prince Harry? You have to look at who his family is - wasn't his grandfather Prince Philip guilty of telling a racist joke about Asians a few years back? And there has always been accusations and stories of racial discrimination surrounding Buckingham Palace and the royals and the various departments that surround them for years. There is a cliche, 'There is no smoke without fire'... well there is certainly a fire going on.
Perhaps more worrying than Prince Harry's use of racist language is the refusal of anybody to issue an sincere apology, and by anybody, I do mean Prince Harry himself. The Scarsfield report branded the Metropolitan Police 'institutionally racist', but I believe it extends much further than the Met. Police. It pervades nearly every level of historical institution within Britain and until we stop denying it and trying to hide behind spin doctors and PR representatives, we will never deal with the problems.
Of course, it is a massive assumption that Britain wishes to deal with the problem.
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Friday 9 January 2009
How to get out of recession...
Recession! Recession! Recession!
Thats all I ever hear now, and it is really starting to grind on my nerves. I know how hard things are. I can see it when I go to the grocery store, and everything has gone up 10% on last week, I really don't need the news readers rubbing it in with every broadcast.
What really irritates me is the government though. As much as I feel its wrong to blame them for the economic down turn, I do feel that their steps to rectify the situation only made things worse. They thought it would be a smart idea to bail out the dodgy banks by giving them billions of the tax payers money, but did not seek to secure and ensure that we tax payers got anything out of this deal. The result... the suspect banks are still suspect, and continue to rob the poor tax payer.
A better solution would have been to give the money back to the average joe blogs, and we would have bought our way out of recession. Banks don't spend money. The tax payer does.
All over the Christmas period we here that sales figures are down for retail, and as such stores are going out of business. If the government had not wasted time with the laughable 2.5% vat cut, and instead have given some of those billions to every individual in the country, I can promise you that not one single company would have reported a fall in figures over the Christmas period. We consumers would have consumed, which would have meant that manufacturers would have had to supply. Is that not one of the principles of business - supply and demand?
I sure wish I could meet some of these so called 'economic experts'. I would love to give them a piece of my mind, as am pretty sure that I could do a better job at suggesting ideas to bring us out of this economic downturn than anything they have implemented so far.
Maybe I am being big headed in saying this, but I don't care. In this current economic climate, it is all I have left.
Thats all I ever hear now, and it is really starting to grind on my nerves. I know how hard things are. I can see it when I go to the grocery store, and everything has gone up 10% on last week, I really don't need the news readers rubbing it in with every broadcast.
What really irritates me is the government though. As much as I feel its wrong to blame them for the economic down turn, I do feel that their steps to rectify the situation only made things worse. They thought it would be a smart idea to bail out the dodgy banks by giving them billions of the tax payers money, but did not seek to secure and ensure that we tax payers got anything out of this deal. The result... the suspect banks are still suspect, and continue to rob the poor tax payer.
A better solution would have been to give the money back to the average joe blogs, and we would have bought our way out of recession. Banks don't spend money. The tax payer does.
All over the Christmas period we here that sales figures are down for retail, and as such stores are going out of business. If the government had not wasted time with the laughable 2.5% vat cut, and instead have given some of those billions to every individual in the country, I can promise you that not one single company would have reported a fall in figures over the Christmas period. We consumers would have consumed, which would have meant that manufacturers would have had to supply. Is that not one of the principles of business - supply and demand?
I sure wish I could meet some of these so called 'economic experts'. I would love to give them a piece of my mind, as am pretty sure that I could do a better job at suggesting ideas to bring us out of this economic downturn than anything they have implemented so far.
Maybe I am being big headed in saying this, but I don't care. In this current economic climate, it is all I have left.
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