The beginning of the end for Political Correctness: the counter-revolution has begun in Doncaster
You do not have to go all the way in supporting the English Democrats party, whose silly proposal for an English parliament would add another superfluous layer to already excessive government, to raise a glass to Peter Davies, the party’s elected Mayor of Doncaster.
Davies, the father of Tory MP Philip Davies, is one of just 11 directly elected mayors and he is enjoying increasing media exposure because of his outrageous agenda which, against all the tenets of consensual British politics, consists of doing what the public wants.
In his first week in office he cut his own salary from £73,000 to £30,000, which is putting one’s money where one’s mouth is. He also scrapped the mayoral limousine. He is ending Doncaster’s twinning with five towns around the world, an arrangement which he describes as “just for people to fly off and have a binge at the council’s expense”. He intends now to reduce (that’s right, reduce) council tax by 3 per cent this year.
The “diversity” portfolio has been abolished from the council’s cabinet. From next year no more funding will be given to the town’s “Gay Pride” event, on the grounds that people do not need to parade their sexuality, whatever it may be, at taxpayers’ expense. Black History Month, International Women’s Day and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History Month are similarly destined to become history.
Council funding of translation services for immigrants has been scrapped because he believes incomers should take the trouble to learn English. Officials have been ordered to abandon bureaucratic gobbledegook language.
Davies is saving the taxpayers £80,000 by disaffiliating from the pointless Local Government Association and the Local Government Information Unit. He aims to abolish all non-jobs on the council, as epitomised by “community cohesion officers”. He is taking advice from the Taxpayers’ Alliance and the Campaign Against Political Correctness.
Davies’s views are calculated to put Harriet Harridan into intensive care for six months. He disregards all “green claptrap”, is creating more parking spaces to encourage traffic in the town for the benefit of business (”I’m not green and I’m not conned by global warming”). He has asked the Electoral Commission to reduce the number of Doncaster’s councillors from 63 to 21 (”If Pittsburgh can manage with nine councillors, why do we need 63?”).
You may be feeling disorientated, overcome by a surreal sensation, on hearing such extraordinary, unprecedented views. They are the almost forgotten, forcibly extinguished voice of sanity which most people had thought forever excised from British politics. These policies are common sense, which is something we have not experienced in any council chamber, still less the House of Commons, in decades.
The establishment is moving heaven and earth to discredit and obstruct Davies. He is that ultimate embarrassment: the boy who reveals that the Emperor has no clothes.
If it is good enough for Doncaster, it is good enough for Britain. Our effete, corrupt, politically correct politicians must be compelled to follow suit. Once upon a time, such policies would have been axiomatic in the Tory Party. In the Cameron-occupied Conservative Party of today they are regarded as anathema.
There has to be an inflexible public will to enforce the country’s wishes on the political class under pain of ejection from public life. That is the sole agenda for the next general election. The mainstream parties, as currently constituted, are no longer electable.
The exact same can be said about our political parties here in the United States.
13 comments:
Clone Davies and his policies - and distribute to every council and western democracy STAT!
Bravo!!!
"There has to be an inflexible public will to force the country's wishes on the political class under pain of ejection from public life," sweetest words I've heard all day.
Couple of questions, what does that first couple of sentences mean, I thought England already had a parliament. And is that Pittsburgh over there or here?
Pastorius,
Let's hope this is the beginning of the end for all this political correctness. It will probably never go away entirely, but if people don't just accept it, it will be much less harmful.
Revere Rides Again,
I'm not sure what the statement, "You do not have to go all the way in supporting the English Democrats party, whose silly proposal for an English parliament would add another superfluous layer to already excessive government, to raise a glass to Peter Davies, the party’s elected Mayor of Doncaster," means. I think it might be that he wants to set up a second parliament. Which would be kind of redundant, but than again, it sounds like it might be a mistake.
Pastorius, is this what you meant to say?
"You do not have to go all the way in supporting the English Democrats party, whose silly proposal for the English parliament would add another superfluous layer to already excessive government, to raise a glass to Peter Davies, the party’s elected Mayor of Doncaster."
Pastorius,
If you made a mistake, its no big deal, but you should try to fix it, ASAP, so it won't continue to confuse people.
Britain, Scotland and Wales all have parliaments, but England doesn't
Anonymous,
Isn't England another word for Britain? Tell me if I'm wrong.
Damien,
First, I did not write the article. The article is from a major English newspaper called the Telegraph. However, it is not a print article. It is an online article from their "blogs" section.
So, I didn't write that sentence. However, what I think the man means to say is that support of the English Democrats is support of yet another political party, and he believes they already have enough political parties in the UK.
As I understand it, England is the name of the country. Britain and the United Kingdom (UK) are synonymous.
Perhaps our British readers could clarify.
Anonymous,
Are not Scotland and Wales represented in British Parliament?
What about Belfast, was that given back to the Irish? It used to be a part of Britain, right?
My friend from Belfast tells me he is a British citizen.
The UK consists of England, Scotland, Wales (making up Great Britain) and Northern Ireland.
They are all represented in the British Parliament at Westminster (in London), and Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland each have their own mini-parliaments.
The English Democrats apparently want a mini-parliament for England too, but the author thinks that this would be just another wasteful, superfluous level of government.
Thanks for the clarification, Jeppo.
My pleasure, Pasto. Thank you for the hat tip.
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