A Strike At Right Wing Wine

My younger daughter has a problem when drinking red wine – it stains her teeth purple. I have a suspicion this is caused by her once having used one of those chemical stain removers for whitening teeth, which has probably had the side effect of making them porous.

Here’s a tip from The Chairman’s store of folk remedies; after each sip of red wine drink a bottle of white. Not sure if it will work, but it should make your wine drinking much more enjoyable.

I’m led to believe that models overcome this problem by drinking red wine with a straw. No wonder they always carry straws with them – and here was me thinking they were for Coke.

It strikes me of late that the anti-free-speech forces of political correctness and censorship are orchestrating an ill advised witch-hunt against the British National Party. I made an effort to have a look at their website last night and was astonished that there’s very little in their policies I can vehemently disagree with. My only problem is whether, given their history as the openly Nazi National Front, I can trust them once in power; but there again I have a problem of trust with smarmy, self-serving, fat-cat politicians of every hue who, once in parliament, seem rather prone to become subverted by the temptation to feather their own nests and lie through their teeth.

The BNP’s leader, Nick Griffin, is on a TV debate tonight – the prospect of which is causing some politicians’ arses to twitch like a bunny’s nose and they are desperately trying to prevent the BBC from giving Griffin a platform. I, for one, will be very interested to see how the Conservative, Liberal and Labour luminaries on the panel react to the debate and the uncomfortable issues the BNP is airing - and the three larger parties seem to ignore at their peril.

Whatever his views (some of which I have issue with), you have to admit that Nick Griffin is a skilled and articulate operator who has single-handedly transformed a lunatic fringe activist group into something the other parties fear and want gagged. Many member of the traditional parties merely pay lip-service to the politically correct agenda in furtherance of their careers, while privately holding some pretty abhorrent views that are more extreme than even Nick Griffin’s – but that’s politics the world over.

I find it laughably ironic that while Griffin stands on a platform advocating free speech, the anti-fascist lobby wants to suppress his right to free speech.

The UK postal workers have gone on strike. Union bosses are using the excuse that the government and the management want them to go on strike so as to be able to privatise the Royal Mail. So what do the union bosses do? They go on strike. That’s either sheer lunacy or an illogical argument.

Actually, it's both.