A common theme on teh blogosphere is the poor quality of journalism and commentary in the press. If we sink to logical fallacies like this – a mixture of questionable cause and association fallacy – we rapidly become the Sun et al.

Now, it may be that Browne is not a good person to have any sort of political power. That doesn’t mean all methods are justified in attacking him.

Why, I do believe he just has:

Common Sense Starting To Break Out In London

This is true, if the object of the questions is to find out about the BNP. But it is not an intelligent way to find out anything about Anthony Browne.

Dunno, but it sounds counter-revolutionary.

Indeed.

The BNP is jumping on those things with which they agree. Surprise surprise.

I doubt whether they allow black people the agency to which Browne refers when he refers to personal responsibility, for example. They probably believe that they are “naturally” criminal, or some such BS.

Which is kind of what some on the left believe of course, though they express it differently!

They may well be serious question, but it is smear by association.

If you look at the BNP manifesto their bizarre motherhood and apple pie view of the world makes them fans of many things.

Browne’s work needs to stand and/or fall on its own merits. Not who agrees with him.

Not really, its a fact. One has to wonder what endears him to the BNP so much. Is it because he perpetuates bullshit that they also believe in? Is it because they have common enemies? Is it because they believe in his view of society??

This isn’t smear by association – there are serious questions to ask.

I would hazard a guess that one reason for this omission would be the interview of Frank Ellis by Matt Kennard, which I believe appeared in a Leeds University student publication.

Indeed, that’s why you read the quoran.

Our time soon.

Er, it’s an analogy? There’s no Democrat or Republican way to run a bus service, either, but that’s a far more important part of the Mayor’s job than running festivals or employing intellectual pygmies who like wanking on about the evils of multiculturalism.

Boris watching at present has two main strands – chronicaling what he’s doing and who he’s appointing, and attempting to predict the results – how London will change and whether it’ll be better or worse for various parts of the community.

The garbage is of course the responsibility of the individual boroughs…

But you are right. Let’s see how things have changed in a year or so.

I think the anti-Boris camp is so stung by Ken’s loss that they are piling in so far on relatively trivial issues, eg Rise.

If he’s as incompetent as they think, that should be manifest more widely soon enough and there’ll be plenty to pile in on!

People should stop doing it.

Agreed. I just can’t for the life of me see why – sooner or later there’ll be a clash between the entirely fantasy world created by Browne and co. and the reality of London, probably over policing. Frothing over imaginary multicultural insults is no substitute for proper public administration, and, when you get down to it, Boris and co. are just running a municipal administration, albeit a big one.

As Alex Harrowell pointed out a few weeks back – ‘there is famously no Republican or Democratic way to pick up the garbage’. The same goes for PC-hating fantasy ideologues, too. We’ll just have to keep an eye out for the carnage and make sure blame is duly apportioned.

I hear Nick Griffin likes cheese and pickle sandwiches too.

Islamists and the BNP are also against the Iraq War, so is that a legit attack against people like us who are also against it?

Focus on the issues, not on third-party groups, specially those in the fringe.

Absolutely right. Very many of the ‘PC gone mad’ stories withstand absolutely no kind of scrutiny of any sort. Indeed, if hacks and the chatterati spent their time on real horror stories like the Council ban on athiest websites (on here a couple of days ago) then they may actually do some good instead of whipping up hate.

But the stark reality Sunny is that if one says something often enough, people will start to believe it – both you and they know it.

QED!!

the comparatively powerless Islamic Dutch-Moroccan killer

Poor baby.