The Last Ditch by Tom Paine

THE LAST DITCH

Three cheers for the fighting Irish

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Link: How three robbers fled after victim fought back – Telegraph.

This self-made, self-reliant gentleman (God bless him) is the human material for a great nation. Starting with £30 in his pocket, he has created wealth and jobs and kept his spirit, despite every depredation of the parasitical idlers and their political sponsors. I particularly enjoyed his observation (describing a life and death fight with three thugs that left him appallingly injured) that;

I have never used a weapon in my life and it was a
great feeling.

All of us who fear the underclass criminal scum whose health and safety is guaranteed by the government’s forced disarming of honest citizens can imagine that feeling very well. Good on him.

This whingeing loser complaining about a little political cut and thrust (after his own side has lied through its collective teeth and indulged in every conceivable dirty trick for a decade) is the precise opposite. He works in a newsagent’s kiosk, once "helped run a coffee shop" and has manufactured nothing in his life but the envy which motivates him politically.

Which of them is more representative of modern England?

2 responses to “Three cheers for the fighting Irish”

  1. Kevyn Bodman Avatar
    Kevyn Bodman

    It’s certainly a positive story about the man who beat off the thieves.
    Then I opened the link to the ‘whingeing loser’ and read that item.
    I can’t see anything in it at all that justifies your objection.It’s calm, provides links in support of his claim and expresses a desire that more principled political debate take the place of orchestrated smears.
    ‘He works in a newsagent’s kiosk’ , and you put that in as a put-down? Why?
    He’s earning an honest living.
    It’s low status but so what. I’ve got more respect for the low-status gate guards who provide security where I live than for many of my high-status colleagues who creep and crawl and suck-up instead of producing effective work.
    The ‘whingeing loser’ once ‘helped run a coffeee shop.’
    Again, so what? He was involved in a service industry trading in the market place.
    Wouldn’t you normally applaud that?
    He ‘has manufactured nothing in his life.’ Many people don’t have talents in those areas. How much manufacturing experience have Brown, Cameron and Clegg got between the 3 of them?
    Although the ‘whingeing loser’ hasn’t manufactured anything we can reliably infer that he’s not lazy because he’s written and is editing a book.
    Respect, please, for people who earn an honest living and use the talents they’ve got.
    So, you got that part of your post wrong.
    You got the bit about New Labour lying for years right.
    And Clegg has already ditched the LibDem commitment to a referendum on the ‘reform treaty’ and he’s only been in place a few weeks. So he’s a lying politician too.
    I don’t know yet if Cameron is telling active lies or just perpetrating deceit by keeping his ideas secret so that we can’t make an informed choice when voting. But deliberately allowing someone to form a mistaken impression is not too different from lying and I’m confident in saying that Cameron is a lying politician too.
    But this ‘whingeing loser’ looks to me to be a decent bloke with different politics from me.

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  2. Rob Avatar
    Rob

    Agreed, that second guy is an utter goon!

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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.

Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.

He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that

“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”

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