It's baffling.
"Diane Abbott urges PM to block Julian Assange extradition."
Is there some lefty university course that drums into you the mantra, "When examining an issue always seek the immoral course of action."
It's baffling.
"Diane Abbott urges PM to block Julian Assange extradition."
Is there some lefty university course that drums into you the mantra, "When examining an issue always seek the immoral course of action."
She's right about this, but I'm not going to argue about it because I can't be bothered.
You think I'm immoral - so be it.
I don't for a second think you're immoral. We happen to disagree on this issue but I know you to be a thinking, cogent human being.
The Abbotts and Corbyns of our benighted land neither think nor feel. They will always choose the anti-establishment, or anti_West, or anti-Amerika, or anti-Israel view, whether right or wrong. That's what's immoral.
OK. Putting aside the fact that her reason for not allowing him to be extradited in order to face trial is that the charges against him have not been tested in a court of law (which you have to agree is monstrously fúcking stupid given that he avoided that happening by hiding in the Embassy), can we just take a look at the rank hypocrisy of saying 'We believe all rape victims - unless the accused is someone we see as an ally'?
Or perhaps we ought to consider for one moment the sheer horror of having a putative Home Secretary (in other words the person who would hold ultimate responsibility for our security services and police) who refuses to accept the necessity of states keeping certain information secret or accept that individuals do not have the right to divulge state secrets without regard for the consequences?
I'm sorry, a, but this is not acceptable on any level.
Last edited by Burney; 04-12-2019 at 01:37 PM.
I do get sick of this notion that where somebody went to school or university is proof of intelligence. It is - apart from anything else - fantastically reductive.
The other day I was thinking about it and realised that many of the people whose intelligence I most respect have never been near a university. Equally, I know a number of people with PhDs I wouldn't leave alone with a box of matches.
Much of what we laughingly call education consists of box-ticking exercises and is in and of itself no proof of intelligence whatsoever.