Bye Bye Britain

[Nightshade]

Gordon Brown has banned ministers from using the word “Muslim” in connection with the terrorism crisis.

The Prime Minister has also instructed his team – including new Home Secretary Jacqui Smith – that the phrase “war on terror” is to be dropped.

The shake-up is part of a fresh attempt to improve community relations and avoid offending Muslims, adopting a more “consensual” tone than existed under Tony Blair. ...

Mr Brown’s spokesman acknowledged yesterday that ministers had been given specific guidelines to avoid inflammatory language. “There is clearly a need to strike a consensual tone in relation to all communities across the UK,” the spokesman said. “It is important that the country remains united.”

He confirmed that the phrase “war on terror” – strongly associated with Mr Blair and US President George Bush – has been dropped.

Officials insist that no direct links with Muslim extremists have been publicly confirmed by police investigating the latest attempted terror attacks. Mr Brown himself did not refer to Muslims or Islam once in a BBC TV interview on Sunday.

Ms Smith also avoided any such reference in her statement to MPs yesterday.

She said: “Let us be clear – terrorists are criminals, whose victims come from all walks of life, communities and religions. Terrorists attack the values shared by all law-abiding citizens. As a Government, as communities, as individuals, we need to ensure that the message of the terrorists is rejected.”

Tory backbencher Philip Davies said: “I don’t know what purpose is served by this. I don’t think we need pussyfoot around when talking about terrorism.”

But former Tory homeland security spokesman Patrick Mercer said: “This is quite a smart idea. We know that the vast majority of Muslims are not involved in terrorism and we have to accept there are sensitivities about these matters.”

[Duper]

source please.

[Flabby Chick]

Lol. Your posts become more and more pointless as the summer days go rolling by.

[Lothar]

Original source:

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/121 ... n:-Don.com

[Dakatsu]

And the drive by poster on DBB,
Goes la-di-da-di-da-didi-didi-da
La-di-da-di-da-didi-didi-da!

(Have 16 military wives stuck in my head, and couldn't resist )

[Ford Prefect]

I thought that was Walk on the Wild Side. You know
And the coloured girls go
Doot doot..doot de doot de doot.

[Neo]

heh Is this another Thunderbunny thread? ^_~

[DCrazy]

I thought that was Walk on the Wild Side.

Do you know that whenever he sings that song now, it's changed to "and all the girls go..."?

*sigh*

[Ford Prefect]

Yeah but they still have the line
\"Valium would have helped that Gash\"
And if anyone really heard that clearly it would be gone in an instant.