According to Caroline Lucas‘ speech at the Green Party Conference, you can expect the Government to start building intifada-style walls real soon now:

The people who took part in the riots are from our society.

They are our neighbours and our work colleagues. We sit next to them on the bus and visit the same shops.

Casting them into outer darkness is exactly what you would expect from a ruling cabal who will not accept that the divisions in society are largely of their making.

And where are they to go, these enemies of our society, when the fight-back has been won?

Prison? Internment camps?

I fear Cameron already has the answer in his mind – though he will not speak it clearly.

It’s the idea of ghettoes, where the undeserving poor can be kept and contained through heavy policing, CCTV surveillance, and the use of benefits as a stick to intimidate, without the need to use the courts, with their inconvenient interest in evidence and justice.

That is Cameron’s vision.

Hmmm. Penny Red on stilts.

I’d predict that eventually Caroline Lucas will find out that using apocalyptic language about non-apocalyptic situations doesn’t help anyone – especially the person using it.

But by then it will probably be too late for her to benefit, and she will be declaring her own eulogy from her political grave.

 

Ed P
September 12, 2011 at 09:43

Chief Watermelon is bonkers shock!

backwoodsman
September 12, 2011 at 10:05

Ah yes ! A little left wing revisionist rhetoric. Always goes down well with the faithful and gives the copywriters at the graun and the bbc something to report as fact.
Without wishing to hijack the thread, did anyone else notice how the beeboids on R4 are cranking up their level of support for industrial action by our poor hard pressed civil servants. ‘Toady’ was pretty much given over to inspiring , uninterupted speaches by the comrades.

Engineer
September 12, 2011 at 10:13

“Cameron wants to create ghettos.” (Paraphrasing slightly).

No he doesn’t. We all know that the ghettos already exist, and have done for years – they are often called ‘sink estates’. We all agree that it’s a Bad Thing. The problem is how to unghetto them. To give the present government some credit, they are trying things, especially reform of the Welfare system. It might not work, but at least they are genuinely trying, not just hand-wringing and whipping up anarchy.

GildasTheMonk
September 12, 2011 at 10:24

Good observation

John Leon
September 12, 2011 at 10:35

Is this the Ms. Lucas who passionately believes in CAGW? her rants on that subject are deluded to say the least especially now that authentic scientists from other disciplines are applying the proper scientific method, whose results are well on the way to completely debunking the supposed settled science. Typical political thinking, when one subject is exposed as a farce, in true Orwelian 1984 fashion, she slides from one subject mid rant to another and hi-jacks a vehicle of potential political mileage and turns it into the next bandwagon.

Matt Wardman
September 12, 2011 at 10:58

It’s the Ms Lucas who tries to appear fluffy but is very keen on micromanagement from the Centre and telling everyone what to do, as the citizens of Brighton are discovering.

Leaving aside the “Give them an opportunity” meat-free Mondays which turned out to be compulsory, the funniest pettiness I’ve seen have so far is the ‘fruit and nut planning tree’ audit required when apply for Planning Permission :

http://www.building.co.uk/news/council-calls-for-fruit-and-nut-tree-audit-as-condition-of-planning/5021139.article

There are a lot of reasons why the far left are happier with the Greenies than they are with Labour.

My hope is that when they start to run things, they’ll find out that it doesn’t work; and I’m glad that the experiments are 250 miles away.

John Leon
September 12, 2011 at 11:55

Thanks for the link, these people live in a world decoupled from pragmatism, fruit and nut trees need to be cultured and nurtured and then harvested and this requires a good knowlege of agriculture, I am sure people who lived or worked in these developments would spend more time complaining about the fruit rotting on the ground and/or the so called pests they attracted than ever form a coherent stratergy to harvest the crops; quite apart from who would benefit financially if the produce ever got to any sort of market. Typical peurile fantasy from woefully un-educated people in the realities of life outside of their narrow existance.

Matt Wardman
September 12, 2011 at 12:01

I started drafting a piece about it some time ago, but the online planning permission questionaire for your architect is so complicated that I gave up.

John Leon
September 12, 2011 at 12:41

My father was a chartered surveyor and a good one too if being a Fellow of the Institute of Builders is a title worth having ( amongst others ). The building industry has never really been my passion although as a landlord of 2 apartments his counsel was very useful and I have a working knowlege of buildings, I clearly remember his lack of compliments or enthusiasm for local authority planning back when he was alive, he must be spinning in his grave now! However I now live outside of the U.K. and local planning here can be very, very frustrating………

David C
September 12, 2011 at 16:00

Roll on 7 May 2015 when the burghers of Brighton can acknowledge their mistake and sack the bat.

Cascadian
September 12, 2011 at 16:45

A red star pinned onto that cap would complete the watermelon look.

“when the fight-back has been won”……….Da, tovarischch.

John Pickworth
September 12, 2011 at 21:35

Oooooh she has her collar up…. very Marxist!