No Xmas? No Way! Appeasement-Jerk Ousted Instead!

Northern League leader Matteo Salvini tried to phone Mr Parma on a radio show, warning that “cancelling traditions is a favour for terrorists”

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“Just think how Isis is taking us for fools as they listen to us,” said the head of the anti-immigrant party, using one of the acronyms for Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil). Italians outraged after headmaster scraps Christmas carol concert following Paris attacks – Telegraph

But while we can rejoice at this victory, and at other occasional fightbacks by people not disposed to crawl, note well…

The controversy comes just days after a chain of nurseries in northern Tuscany decided not to set up a nativity scene for fear of offending non-Christian pupils and parents.

Why would anyone, seriously, be OFFENDED by a Nativity Scene? It’s part and parcel of an Italian December.

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No tots in the nurseries would be required to kneel before it, or do anything, except maybe notice a scene that is pleasant to view.

Or else, like their parents, they are free to ignore it.

If any people ARE so easily offended by Italy’s cultural heritage, best the whiners sod off to somewhere else.

Vicar of Bray Fatwas Bagpipes – Another Boris U-Turn Looms?

I see that Tory mountebank who misrules London has singled out bagpipes as an undesirable instrument for buskers due to their ‘piercing’ tone.  http://www.scotsman.com/news/uk/boris-johnson-aims-to-ban-annoying-bagpipes-1-3754632

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Despite my Ulster-Scots ancestry, I never learned how to play the pipes, though my cousin in Perth County, Ontario, did, his tunes skirling bravely every 12th of July. Some folk don’t like the sound, but to me, it’s hard not to find it stirring. Many’s a good Scottish soldier gone into battle as the pipes echoed around the bloody field of combat.

But Boris Johnson could scarcely have ill-timed this news worse. Scots mostly don’t play, and many have no great interest in listening, but if the national instrument is slighted, they naturally bristle.

It’s like the kilt.

Unworn except on special occasions, it is revered, even by my old uni pal who had little Scots blood in his veins, and what there was of that was Lowland Scots, folk who last donned kilts centuries ago, in pre-Walter Scott times disdaining it as Highland garb.

 

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But woe betide any Englishman who poked mild fun at Dennis’s knobbly knees when he hosted a Burn’s Supper!

While Cameron scrabbles to retain at least a solitary toe-hold in Scotland, and people of goodwill seek to secure the Union, the last thing anti-separatists needed was some unkempt buffoon to diss the pipes.

But with Boris, it should be no problem to retract this decree, blame it on an underling, and U-turn…

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Hat-lifter among shirt-lifters

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,…, just as he did with the so-called ‘gays’ whom he once dissed delightfully…

Boris – A Worm Who’s Turned Every Which Way But Right 

…and the Islamist issue, which he once addressed forthrightly but now grovels with the best – or worst – of  left-liberal appeasement monkeys.