The SNP

[mids]

52% to 48% in his favour. Familiar numbers.

[moggyonspeed]

Strength and Honour?

You've been watching too much "Gladiator", old son. Wasn't the Roman Empire doomed? Just sayin'.

[mids]

SaH, SiD. All applies to the Tories.

[perrykneeham]

Mar 27, 2023 13:52:13 GMT moggyonspeed said:

Strength and Honour?

You've been watching too much "Gladiator", old son. Wasn't the Roman Empire doomed? Just sayin'.

Hardly, municipal property in Rome bears the inscription SPQR to this day, from drain covers to lifeguards.

[perrykneeham]

I see that young Humza's never had a proper job, since he left his private school.

[mids]

At the risk of appearing a tad racist, he does have that look consanguineous look about him.

[happyhammerhead]

Surely it could only appear racist if you were implying all those filthy Asians are inbred?

[flatandy]

Mar 27, 2023 13:50:43 GMT mids said:

52% to 48% in his favour. Familiar numbers.

It's an interesting question of how Brexit votes would have turned out if we'd had a transferable vote system.

[perrykneeham]

Even more sun-dappling, fo sho.

[moggyonspeed]

"At the risk of appearing a tad racist ..."

... in the same sense that your heroine, Liz Truss, is a tad f*ckw*tted and almost trashed the economy a tad, you mean?

A lesser mortal than I would observe that you sound almost proud of being a racist.

[perrykneeham]

"Risk", "tad", and "appearing".

And still they can't resist an ism.

[perrykneeham]

Viking Stormfront (formerly the Manchester Evening Guardian) has run some hatespeak on this tired racist trope:

www.theguardian.com/society/2019/feb/15/cousin-marriages-cited-as-significant-factor-bradford-child-deaths

[mids]

Mar 27, 2023 14:52:59 GMT happyhammerhead said:

Surely it could only appear racist if you were implying all those filthy Asians are inbred?

Mostly Pakistanis in this country. It's a problem.

"A recent report on child deaths in the English city of Bradford highlighted that having parents in consanguineous relationships—that is, between second cousins or closer relatives—remains a key factor.12



Bradford has a high immigrant population, and many families have their origins in South Asia, where consanguineous relationships are common. A fifth of Bradford’s population is of Pakistani ethnic origin, the highest rate in England and Wales.13



The report reviewed 69 child deaths from 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018. Over two thirds of deaths involved children under 1 year old. Children of South Asian heritage were over-represented, and 30 of the 69 deaths were attributable to chromosomal, genetic, and congenital anomalies—conditions that are more common among children of consanguineous couples."


www.bmj.com/content/365/bmj.l1851

[moggyonspeed]

Mar 27, 2023 15:05:25 GMT perrykneeham said:

Viking Stormfront (formerly the Manchester Evening Guardian) has run some hatespeak on this tired racist trope:

www.theguardian.com/society/2019/feb/15/cousin-marriages-cited-as-significant-factor-bradford-child-deaths

The fact that (four years ago) the Guardian reported on science is "hatespeak", is it?

Every day that passes, I find it increasingly easy to believe that you vote Nazi Tory.

[mids]

It's a problem. Of course the extreme far left don't care about it because they can't blame it on whitey (although they probably could if they put in a bit of effort).

"The Pakistani/Kashmiri community1 is one of the largest ethnic groups in the UK (ONS 2011) and is highly consanguineous (Shaw 2009). Autosomal recessive disorders are also higher amongst this group (Taylor 2013b), with Pakistani babies accounting for 30 % of autosomal recessive disorders among all babies born in the UK, while accounting for only 4 % of total births (Modell and Darr 2002)."

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4567984/

[moggyonspeed]

Is that fact? Or "hatespeak"?

[perrykneeham]

Why do the left hate science and facts so much?

It's like they're afraid of the truth.

[mids]

I find these numbers astonishing.

"Pakistani babies accounting for 30 % of autosomal recessive disorders among all babies born in the UK, while accounting for only 4 % of total births"

[moggyonspeed]

Mar 27, 2023 15:17:22 GMT perrykneeham said:

Why do the left hate science and facts so much?

It's like they're afraid of the truth.

What - like the Tories you mean? : Tories ignore COVID science ...

No - don't tell me - that's different. Why? Errr ... because you tell us it is.

[perrykneeham]

You had to go to Scotland for that, did you?