Shock! Not Saint Stephen!

A wannabe Tory councillor has defended “offensive” social media comments where she called murdered Stephen Lawrence a violent drug dealer.

'Wannabe'...? What's up, Newsshopper? Can't spell 'prospective'?

“All this Stephen Lawrence stuff gets on my tits,” Ms Sillick wrote in the comments of a Facebook group thread. She added: “He was a drug dealer who used violence to get what he wanted. My own father witnessed him going into a shop and demanding cigarettes he used a knife to threaten the member of staff behind the counter and ordered her to hand over hundred or pounds worth of cigarettes.”

The potential councillor claims Stephen also threatened a young girl with a knife at the shop where her dad worked.

Oh dear! Predictably, the media & opposition party is now whipping up a storm.

Ms Sillick defended the comments when approached by News Shopper.

She said: “I stand by them. Not that anyone deserved to be killed. My dad was working at the Co-op in Eltham when this happened.”

I suspect that won't last. How long before she apologises, withdraws & deletes her social media account, I wonder?

That Long March Through The Institutions Again...

Concluding the reply was this rather odd remark that while article polls were “good for engagement” they were not regarded as a “scientific barometer as evidence of how our audience feels about any particular topic.”

That's from Kipper Central, who wondered why 'Farmer's Weekly' didn't publish the results of a reader poll about non-stun slaughter. And so enquired about it.

But we all know why, don't we?

On the 27th September, 7,829 votes had been cast and 79% of those voted were against the practice.

If 'Farmer's Weekly' has fallen, what hope is there?

H/T: ProActivePatriots via Twitter

What Evidence Would Suit You, Then?

Essex coroner Caroline Beasley-Murray (Ed: Oh, hai!) recorded an open verdict at the inquest hearing at Chelmsford Coroner’s Court.

She said: “We really can’t be quite sure what was going on in his mind.

“Obviously he was troubled, there was a lot of things on the go and he was upset, but the evidence isn’t sufficient enough to record suicide.”

It was enough for the headline writer:

And it was enough for his chums:

He was a drummer with the band Counties which has organised a memorial show for male suicide awareness charity CALM on July 28 at Chinnerys in Southend.

So why wasn't it enough for you?

Why Does No-One Dress for Anything Any More...

You know, like weddings, funerals, dinner, appearing before the UN as a country's ambassador....

WTAF...?

And it turns out her rather eccentric dress style is the least of our problems: 

Ummm... 

You know, I'm suddenly reminded of...someone else.

Oo-er!

There's No Time, It Seems....

...too disrespectfully inappropriate for the Open Borders mob to push their poisonous beliefs. This is the widower of MP Jo Cox:

Brendan Cox has let it be known that he is determined to continue with the work in memory of his wife, who was killed on Thursday, but believes this will only succeed if lessons can be learned from why the right has so far taken the initiative on the migration issue.

In a paper he wrote a few weeks before his wife was killed which he has circulated – and asked the Guardian to quote from – Cox argues that one of the problems is that those hostile to refugees are better organised, more focused on galvanising public opinion, and better at tapping into human emotions, including over wider economic insecurities.

 But don't worry! They have figured out that time is on their side, and they can just wait until there's a new electorate:

...he claims that the core of support for refugees is highly motivated and probably has demography on its side. “In the US, UK and France, young people (18-34) are between three and four times more supportive than older people. In addition, people who know refugees and immigrants are much more likely to be supportive of them and of migration as a whole.

“As our societies become more diverse and immigration reaches more communities, more communities are likely to become less prejudiced and more supportive. Like the battle for LGBT rights, there could be a tipping point when debates stop being abstract and start to be based on personal experience.”

Mmm, that's worked so well in places like Brick Lane, hasn't it? And Ilford.

In conclusion, Cox writes: “There is no reason we can’t quickly shift the debate back to the mainstream and in doing so not only help refugees and migrants, but also help marginalise the resurgent populist right. To do so we need to readjust our efforts to reflect that power on this issue is with the people.”

They really think only of 'helping refugees and migrants'. There is is, for all to see. The British public? They can go to hell.

And this is why I'm not joining in the eulogising of this MP.

Doesn't Sound Like A 'Win' For The Native Finnish Youth Though...

Problem one: Finland’s otherwise flourishing startup scene has a chronic shortage of developers. Problem two: the 32,000-plus asylum seekers who arrived in the Nordic country last year – many young, highly educated and computer literate – face waiting for years before they land a job.

“Essentially, we just thought: there is a way to at least start addressing these issues,” said Niklas Lahti, the chief executive of Helsinki-based web services company Nord Software.

“We can teach refugees coding so they can become software engineers.”

 Well, I suppose if you've no home-grown unemployed, it makes a sort of sense, doesn't it?

Oh. Hang on.

Statistics Finland reports that the unemployment rate in Finland reached ten percent in June 2015, up from 9.2 percent one year earlier. Youth unemployment is over 22 percent already, with no signs of improvement in sight because there are no jobs or internships to be had.

Seems there are. But you don't qualify, Mikko or Venla. Come on down, Mahmud and Shazia!

The project, Rahman said, is “making integration happen. It’s win-win for everyone. For society, because these jobs need doing, and because the faster asylum seekers integrate and contribute, the better for everyone. And for refugees, because they can actually start building the new lives they crossed Europe to make for themselves.”

At the expense of the native Finns. Oh, well, it's not like that's a recipe for disaster, is it? Something to remember when you enter the polling booth on Thursday...