There are now so many cases of what I call ‘institutionalised foolishness’ in the West now that you would be blogging all day and all night just to keep up with the latest example of how the authorities seem to have had a common sense bypass operation in many areas. It is hard to say which nation has gone further into such ‘moonbattery’ as one commentator calls it, but the UK is right up there, together with other old stalwarts of the traditional West like Canada, the US and Australia. Then there is the outlandish stories you hear from the Nordic contingent, especially Sweden, and so it goes on.

The Daily Mail reported on its front page recently that schools have been logging incidents of ‘hate crime’ for local authorities committed by, wait for it, little children in school. Incidents of racist, homophobic, zenophobic or perhaps even islamophobic abuse on one child by another is enough to get you a record as a ‘nasty little bigot.’ Records of such ‘prejudice labelled behaviour’ can be passed on to the next school. Offences of 4000 pupils were logged in just 13 council areas. Here’s a quote from Josie Appleton of the Manifesto Club, a civil liberties group, to make a grown man choke into his cereal:

‘One primary school pupil calling another a girl suddenly becomes a sign of gender image prejudice, subjected to recording requirements more thorough than accompanying most burglaries. A reality check is urgently required.’

Institutionalised foolishness. This would be laughable if it was not so frightening. Of course this is all targeted hate crime, the type that the authorities have decided is unacceptable. All other types of ‘hate crime,’ say that committed against Roman Catholics, Christians or white Anglo Saxon men, or the hate expressed by the aggressive foul language that we hear and see every day on our TVs and in the media, or the innumerable slights and insults made between millions up and down the nation largely escapes all this as it does not fulfil the purposes of the deceived minds behind the legislation pushing such actions.

This poison originated with New Labour, the most harmful government the UK has experienced in generations, and thankfully the coalition pulled back from rolling it out further and left schools to use their own discretion (although I can imagine a few Lib Dems might have argued for it!) but recording and reporting evidently still goes on. In 2012 to 2013 4348 incidents were reported to 13 LEAs (Local Education Authorities). Nevertheless the whole state apparatus is still there to persecute dissenters on a wider scale. We have a new ‘Witchfinder General’ in the form of our paternal state that must control, what we say and how we think for our own good, a kind of soft totalitarianism, but this will eventually become hard totalitarianism. It is nothing less than part of a vicious assault on everything we hold dear, because there are forces at work to crush freedom completely in this land. Control can come from the right or the left of the political spectrum. At present it is coming from the left, but both extremes can be equally harmful to freedom.

In the papers there has also been the story of an Ofsted inspection at a Christian school in the north east where the school was found severely wanting, but only by the warped standards of political correctness. It has caused a lot of distress, including amongst parents. One child was quizzed about what lesbians did and as a result greatly upset, and another about Moslems. A reference to terrorism by the child did not go down too well with the inspectors, surprise surprise! Meanwhile other youngsters were asked if they knew any boys and girls in school who though they were in the wrong body, obviously a reference to transexuals. At the same time childrens’ behaviour and motivation was seen to be very good, and exam results above average with children achieving higher grades than expected!
I said a few years ago when speaking to a group of people that in a few years the UK would become like it was in Nazi Germany in the 1930s if things were allowed to go on as they were going on. We are now much further down that road and if you have not woken up by now then nothing will wake you.

I wonder how on earth I survived at school without all this legislation to protect me against hate crime. How on earth did we all survive into adulthood? I don’t know how many times I was abused verbally at school or how many names I was called, but mercifully I seem to have forgotten it all. To be fair I don’t think I received that much abuse, but it’s all forgiven and forgotten. I even believe in treating all people with dignity and respect regardless of creed, colour or sex, again all without the help of all this legislation, although I would not tolerate all behaviours, which might put me at odds with some of the commisars of the new order. Funnily enough these values were taught to me from a Christian background.

Part of all this rough and tumble at school is reality, a microcosm of reality. Nastiness, bullying and manipulation is part of life, sadly, and we all have to deal with it in our own way. For children at school it is part of the developing process, and it can make or break youngsters, but it is patently not the role of the State to impose its ideology on our children. Nastiness and bullying, etc. has to be dealt with. Often it is dealt with through one’s own developing box of tools for dealing with opposition, so for example I seem to remember using my fists on some occasions, and that proved quite effective. I am glad to say I have evolved beyond using that method of conflict resolution! Wise teachers and other school staff are there to help protect the sensitive egos of children when need be. At school we can learn to fend for ourselves, how to deal with different types of people, and to hone our verbal (and sometimes physical!) skills to deal with abuse and bullying.

Slowly but surely people are waking up to what is going on. The regulation of childrens’ behaviour reported in the Daily Mail shows how far the State has intruded into areas that it has no business in. At best it is highly impertinent, at the worst, manifestly evil. Another sign of the State’s relentless erosion of the responsibilities of schools and parents.
It is now time for the people of these islands to clamour for change, that these things are not acceptable in a once free society. The older generation have a special responsibility at this time as they remember how it used to be when the British people were relatively free and were not indoctrinated with state sponsored ideology about things like diversity and discrimination. The younger generation have been conditioned to the new morality of equality and diversity

It is now time for this edifice of political correctness and control to be brought crashing down as the stinking offence it is to any free society, and it is time for the Davids to rise up to defeat the Goliaths that have established themselves in high places in the media, politics and the law courts. This is a battle on all fronts, as the anti-freedom and pro control brigade want access to all areas. The whole European continent needs a bottom up revolution to sweep away the whole rotten edifice, that has risen up as a counterfeit means of control as opposed to the simple beauty of self-policing. This will require men and women of immense character and courage, who can face down absolutely anyone without fear or favour, especially those who trumpet the full set of ‘phobias’ that are supposed to blight western civilisation. Things can change a little bit at a time, but change they can!

I was listening to Moneybox on Radio 4 today and my ears pricked up when they examined the effect of the new gender equality directive on the car insurance industry. I remember reading about this a year or two ago, the EU would be imposing gender equality in driving insurance premiums, after all we can’t distinguish any differences between male and female when it comes to driving vehicles. I knew then I had discerned some profoundly dodgy logic, another one of those salami slices they keep going on about!

Now call me simple or whatever, I’m no expert on the insurance industry, certainly no actuary, but I thought that the insurance industry was based on risk. So the higher the risk, the higher the premium. If I live in the equivalent of a Mogadishu suburb I would expect to pay a higher premium on my car insurance than if I lived in Hart in Hampshire, which if you didn’t know is just about the most salubrious place you could inhabit here in the UK, you know highest life expectancy, great health , etc. The chances of having your car stolen in such an idyll are pretty slim compared with Mogadishu, so the premium is accordingly lower. Likewise, a young man who has just passed his test behind the wheel of his second hand car poses a significantly greater risk to other road users than the equivalent young lady, given the nature of young men, naturally more risk taking, prone to drive faster (I am speaking generally here) and with not quite so much care as a young lady. So logic tells you that young men should take a greater burden.

Thus the well established British insurance industry would charge higher insurance premiums as a matter of course to young men as opposed to young women, to cover the costs of the greater numbers of accidents and injuries caused by young men. Seems entirely reasonable to me, basing the insurance industry on risk.

However, along comes the European Union and imposes on the UK its own interpretation of insurance rules, based on the premise that  men and women must be treated exactly the same despite the differences in risk posed by both sexes. No doubt chaps will be rejoicing that their insurance premiums now won’t be so high, whereas ladies might feel a little aggrieved that they are paying disproportionately to cover risk. But we mustn’t let common sense get in the way of ideology, surely those EU officials have a better idea of how the world works than any Tom, Dick or Harry over here.

It might be quite interesting to look at what the the EU website has to say about these matters. Here is a quote directly from the road safety section of the Europa website:

‘Young novice drivers are heavily over-represented in single vehicle crashes (crashes that do not involve other vehicles) and loss of control crashes. Although young novice drivers are over-represented in crashes at all times of day, weekend evenings and nights present higher risks per kilometre driven, especially for male drivers.

For males, speeding is an important accident cause. This, in combination with the fact that young drivers often carry more passengers in their cars, also results in more severe injuries and a higher number of people injured.’

Under the section on risk it states that young drivers have a higher fatality rate per head of the population than any other age group. No surprises there. As far as gender is concerned, the website goes on to say that in the 18-24 age group, ‘the male young driver’s risk is considerably higher than that of the female young driver.’ No surprise there either. Even if it is the case that male drivers drive a higher mileage which would imply more accidents, making allowances for this still makes no difference to the overall pattern. So there we have it from the horses mouth.

You see the ideologues behind the EU don’t deal in reality, They deal in the world they would like to exist rather than what is obviously in front of their nose. Everything must bow to the shibboleth of equality and non-discrimination. Thus the revolution continues, little by little as we sit there like sheep until we have find ourselves sheared and sent to the abattoir without so much as a murmur. When the Soviet Union broke up, the same driver of totalitarianism thought it would have a go at reintroducing the same in Western Europe using nice language like equality and non-discrimination. So those who believe in state control, you can call them communists, socialists, the hard left, there are various words that could be used to describe them, went about their project with renewed zeal. In their world, ideology always trumps reality. Of course, if we want equality in all its forms, perhaps a lot more people want it than we think, then who am I do stop it? Just a thought.

The question is how long will it take before the tentacles of the EU really, really get up peoples’ noses? Perhaps Rumanians and ‘Uncle Bulgaria’ will help the British people to escape the befuddling fog that afflicts them at present.