Gary Monro’s blog

Ken Clarke is articulate and well-presented and his attractiveness to the floating voter is undeniable. He’ll make a great Party leader - for Labour.

For conservatives he’s totally unsuitable. He seems to have little sympathy with freedom from the state and, of course, is a strong advocate for Britain’s absorption into the EU Superstate. Don’t believe him when he says Europe is a non-issue. Each and every second of every minute of every hour we live our lives in the shadow of that foreign institution’s power. It makes many of our laws and will continue to make many more of them. Where British law - the law made by us for us - contradicts the EU State’s laws then one has to go - and it’s always ours.

So whoever wins the Conservative Party leadership contest we do not want it to be Ken Clarke. To emphasise the point, EU Serf has set up a blog called Anyone But Ken.

Visit regularly….

Fascist wannabe Princess Tony Blair got his police buddies to arrest a 20 year old lady for wearing a t-shirt bearing a vulgar - but heartfelt - summation of her attitude to Our Glorious Leader.

If this was a crackdown on bad language in public I’d be all for it - but as the masses are still wearing their chav-art t-shirts advertising that they’re ‘too tired to FCUK’ and that they’re oh so ‘cool as FCUK’ that theory is out of the window. Instead, I think Blair just can’t take the criticism.

Seems Bush is similarly protected.

A Washington state woman intends to press a civil-rights case against Southwest Airlines for booting her off a flight in Reno after fellow passengers complained about a message on her T-shirt.

Lorrie Heasley, of Woodland, Wash., was halfway home on a flight Tuesday that began in Los Angeles, wearing a T-shirt with the pictures of President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and a phrase similar to the popular film, Meet the Fockers.

Now, I must admit: if the t-shirt says what I think it says then, frankly, I would complain too. There are standards of decency to be maintained (however old fashioned that sounds) and such language in a public place is unacceptable. The American example is far worse than the British one (because ‘bollocks’ - the word used in the English lady’s case - whilst generally used as a slang term for testicles, can be shown to have Anglo-Saxon origins - and you wouldn’t want to be dissin’ my culture now, would you?)

I hope these incidents are coincidence rather than the start of a trend. Josef Blair has already used anti-terrorism law to ban from a party conference a man who has been in the Labour Party longer than Bliar has been alive. Blair’s victim’s crime was a one-word heckle. Bliar has also banned demonstrations near Parliament - using anti-terrorism reasoning once more. Coupled with his highly-developed methods of manipulating access to his speeches and public appearances (party workers and their families only) you wouldn’t be paranoid for thinking the communist revolution is happening, in slow motion, before our very eyes.