Bob Piper: bigoted fuckwit

Plugging around the blogs, as one does, I found myself at the blog of Councillor Bob Piper. Although I was aware of this man and aware of his blog, I had not really stopped to read it before. I am not as tolerant as The Longrider and I do tend to dislike people because of thier political affiliations or, rather, I do often write them off as ignorant morons.

And given that ignorant morons piss me right off, I thought that I'd do my blood pressure a favour and stay away from Bob. But, this time I found myself sampling some of the man's writing. Two things in particular caught my eye.

His comment on Councillor Clutterbuck was facile, but betraying exactly the kind of filthy jackbooted authoritarianism that makes me despise NuLabour's criminal classes adherents. [Emphasis mine.]

I suspect (on absolutely no evidence, I hasten to add) that Cllr. Clutterbuck is your standard old Tory bore who was adding his little piece of nonsense on to another piece of nonsense and that no amount of social re-programming will change him.

Ah, I do so love that phrase "social reprogramming". I'm sure that was what they did in A Clockwork Orange, wasn't it? And I'm damned sure that O'Brien was a big fan. Actually, totalitarians have always been rather keen on "social reprogramming".

Thus, I suspect (on absolutely no evidence, I hasten to add) that Cllr. Piper is a disgusting, sanctimonious, authoritarian, bigoted, ignorant old scrote and that no amount of reasonable argument about the advantages of libertarianism will ever convince him that making people think what you think is actually considered to be... well... wrong.

Because, you know, I'm pretty fucking sure that the Labour Party is also full of older people who are also not keen on homosexuals; it's pretty much a generational trait, rather than a political party one. Still, I doubt that Bob'll admit that.

Piper displays more of the pathetic bigotry (that I have absolutely no evidence for) in the post before that, which he wittily entitles Mass Debating (it's nice to know that the Councillor is young at heart. About fucking twelve, I would guess; this must be what they mean by someone enjoying their "second childhood": thinking that wank jokes are still witty). He is referring to (yet another) "the launch of the new Tory eurosceptic group, the Movement for European Reform."

Now, a quick aside here: I don't count these people as Eurosceptics. I don't really know how to badge them, frankly; they are people who don't like the European Union but for some reason think that it should exist in some form, and are deluded enough to think that the EU can be changed. Or perhaps they are Eurosceptics and everyone who thinks that we are better off out of it are... what? Me, I'm a EUnihilist: I don't think that it should exist at all and that, if it does, we should be out of it.

Anyway, the point is that there are many, many people who have misgivings about the EU (and the regular EUsceptic Roundups will continue to highlight why)—not Europe, which is a geographical place, but the EU, which is a collection of political institutions—and this bunch of Tories are a long way from being anywhere near the most extreme of them. In fact, they are still in the part of the spectrum that I would label "stupid, ignorant, deluded, unwitting traitors". They are far more EUphile than I would like.

Oh, but not for Bob Piper, oh no! What is his take on this group?

Well, you can't get much clearer than that about your objectives can you? And you thought it was just another front organisation for all those xenophobes and other crackpots to whinge on and on about straight bananas and being in Europe but not ruled by Europe. As if.

Right, Bob; anyone who expresses any doubts about the EU project is a xenophobe. Of course they are, Bob. So that would make me a xenophobe, wouldn't it, Bob? I don't travel as much as I'd like, Bob, but I have been to numerous EU countries (Greece, France, Portugal, Belgium, Italy, etc.) and liked them; plus, of course, I speak one language (French) pretty fluently and another (Spanish) passably; how about you, Bob?

Anyway, Bob, since everyone who disagrees with the EU project—all of those who wish to keep control of their own economic affairs; who object to being ruled by a Commission who are not democratically accountable; who object to the fact that, despite the French and Dutch rejecting it, the Commission is implementing the instruments of the Comstitution anyway; who object to working hard just so that French farmers don't have to; who object to the fact that the EU, as a customs union, makes us all poorer; who object to the EU's tariffs, the CAP and the censures on countries using DDT which, between them, cause hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of unnecessary deaths in the Developing World every year—is a little Ingerlunder xenophobe, perhaps you would like to tell me, precisely, why you do support this project?

Otherwise, I will have to conclude, as I am forced to from the rest of your writing, that you are an ignorant, bigoted fuckwit, a supporter of murder and an enemy of democracy. Needless to say, I shall not be visiting Bob's blog again, and he can fuck right off, with my blessing.

Fuck off, Bob. Say it aloud, chaps; it has something of a ring to it, don'cha think?