Had It in Holland Park

The lead -n headline "Women, You're Really Not Going To Like These Comments" says WHOOPEE! Here's something we can use to make some people miserable, get them angry and try to get them to fight. Is that good for society? Who cares - it helps us sell advertising.

“Oh wo, oh woe! We don't want to upset the terrorists, do we. Let's change our policy to whatever it is they want if they promise not to attack us.

“They should not have called her that - they should have used a euphemism.”

“UK Land Area = 0.16% of the world, so we should take 1,517 based on area
UK Population = 0.9% of the world, so we should take 8,286 based on population
UK GDP = 2.8% of the world, so we should take 25,833 based on wealth

Of course, your figures do not cover the illegals: those who never applied or those who apllied, were denied and ran.

PS: if Scotland flounces off on their own, we would need to cut the UK intake by 32% based on land area - or by 8.5% based on population or wealth

“True, they could, just as many countries use the US dollar: British Virgin Islands, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, the FSM and Palau.

Scotland could buy pounds from the UK, they just could not print them.

Any Scottish-printed pound would probably no longer be legal tender, at least outside of Scotland. Wthin Scotland it might survive as a kind of scrip.

So the spy and alleged rapist will finally face the law?

“So this guuy WANTS to turn this into a religious war: muslims vs christians? We have "abandonned" the christians, but the shia and sufi should fend for themselves? Who IS this so-called bishop?

“senior party figures would not support her because of her criminal record. "

Outragoeus. Just because someone has a criminal record is no reason not to make them President of your party. Divesity means including ex-criminals, doesn't it?

Hey, he's a pom, of course he is allowed to whinge.

“O geez. Now the PC crowd want to whine about ageist jokes?

There would proably be more old folks commenting here - if they could find their glasses. (I know whereof I speak: it took me 10 minutes to find mine this morning.)

“Gosh! And did you hear that Joe Blogs has left the Labour Party to join the Lib Dems because he was criticised for being too Posh?

I mean, important, news about the mainstream - but not a line about it anywhere. Why do news outlets suppress these stories and focus only on the minor parties?

“As well they should apologise! How dare they want to help patch up wonded children or feed homeless orphans? What were they thinking? Didn't they realise that these children are all semites?”

Good. It was was discriminatory without also having available on request: the Kooran, the Vedas, the Kojiki, the Tao de Ching, the Torah, Guru Granth Sahib Ji, the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, the Avesta, the Book of Mormon, the Star Wars trilogy and the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

“Quite right. It is a homicide. The people who shipped this container shoulld be held responsible and everyone who was inside the container should be considered a co-conspirator - an accessory before, during and after the fact.

Biblical downpours? We must read different bibles.
Or perhaps this article is thinking of Bill Cosby's "Noah:"
You don't need rain for 1000 days, God, you'll save water: just let it rain for 40 days and 40 nights and wait for the sewers to back up."

“I'll put this in my diary's tickle file and check it again in 2850.”

Gosh, how unexpected. A positive news story. Good for you Huffpo!

“Sensible woman - avoiding a quagmire where both sides regularly commit war crimes and come complete with rabid supporters and apologists in every western country.

PS: Bit silly of the UN to announce this before getting confirmation that she was available.

“I don't think she thought that the government shouting at their contacts in Israel would actually DO anything - she merely thought that the effort could be trumpeted to win minority votes. 

That was her job, after all: to win minority votes.

If you are hired to do a job and no-one listens or acts on your advice, then resignation seems a reasonable option. Some would stay on and keep fighting, others would move on to other things - as she has.”