A Tale of Two Teens.
Johnny, the 17-year-old, is upstairs with a horrific cold. No wonder: he spent the whole of Wednesday out on the street in sub-zero temperatures, being “kettled” by the Metropolitan Police.
Not just any old cold – but an ‘horrific’ cold. Poor love – he’d spent the day out of doors, (as he’d planned), but with the added bonus of the police ensuring which street he was safest on, and providing drinking water and toilets, lest he be inconvenienced, so the implication is that they are responsible for his devastating illness…..
Elsewhere, teenagers are made of sturdier stuff:
WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Three teenagers survived 50 days adrift in a tiny boat in the South Pacific by drinking rainwater and eating raw fish and a seagull before being rescued by a passing trawler.
November 26, 2010 at 22:41
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I don’t have any sympathy with the students’ cause. But this indiscriminate
“kettling” is utterly unacceptable to me.
- November 27, 2010 at 02:31
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What is Kettling? It sounds a bit nasty to me. Is it catching?
- November
26, 2010 at 15:27
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Interestingly there is some truth hidden in the article. The writer is spot
on about Generation Scared. However, the sad truth is that this is a
generation that has deliberately been scared by the Government. They fear
ManBearPig’s AGW, eeeevil smokers, all adults (as all adults are paedos hence
the need for CRB checks)…the list goes on.
This is coupled with strong
sense of self-righteousness which the writer also touches on – “the young felt
they were actors, not props, in the global drama”. This is true, at the same
time as terrifying children, we’ve put them up as the voice of reason. Out of
the mouths of babes is now less a proverb and more a way of implementing
policy, such as the ludicrous 10:10 video.
If the writer wasn’t such a
prat, she could have written something insightful here. But she is, so she
didn’t. Such is the MSM.
- November 26, 2010 at 12:33
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I saw that article too. What struck me about it was the writer, usually a
sensible and level heded figure from the centre – righ of the political
spectrum seemed to be supporting the students in their protests against that
nice Mr. Cleggie.
In calling for the removal of the cap on tuition fees
Cleggie, by making higher education less attractive, is dissuading young
people from saddling themselves with a big debt only to emerge from full time
education into the big bad world of harsh realities armed with a degree in
“waste management with modern dance” or some such academic speciality that
will be of no use at all in the job market.
- November 26, 2010 at 11:08
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Anna… There’s a rumour going round (from a usually reliable source), that
the fire extinguisher sprayed into the crowd was loaded with — flu virus!!
Shome mishtake shurely.
Pass it on…
- November
26, 2010 at 10:49
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Someone should start spreading the rumour that that fire extinguisher a
police medic was pictured spraying into the crowd was loaded with flu virus…
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