August 12, 2005
THAT'S ENOUGH WOOL:
Muslims 'right about decadent UK' (BBC, 8/12/05)
In a letter to The Spectator, the six newly-elected MPs support criticism of the UK's "lawlessness, family breakdown ... binge drinking" and "brutishness".Brian Binley, Peter Bone, David Burrows, Philip Davies, Robert Goodwill and Mark Harper represent a "new generation" of Tory MPs, they say.
They blame "woolly-minded" liberal thinking for society's sliding values.
In the article, the MPs endorse the views of John Hayes, who wrote previously in the magazine that many moderate Muslims believe much of Britain is decadent.
The six say liberal thinking among MPs "including some who curiously wear the badge of Conservatism" snubs traditional values.
"Some liberals remain in denial, unwilling to face the decadent consequences of years of their ideas being put into practice, " they write.
"But whether it is lawlessness, family breakdown, the menace of drugs, binge-drinking, teenage pregnancies or merely the coarse brutishness which, as Mr Hayes suggests, has infested popular culture, the results of years of woolly-minded liberal thinking (with the licentiousness it has created) are plain to see."
Interesting to watch the late-closing law run into trouble at just this moment, a seeming recognition of such growing decadence.
The revamped licensing laws were designed to combat binge-drinking: to create a more European atmosphere of relaxed supping, rather than the traditional British "neck it quick before they call time" style.
Fat chance.
I suppose you begin the decline of the USA with the end of prohibiton.
Posted by: Robert Schwartz at August 12, 2005 12:12 PMWhat decline of the U.S.?
Posted by: erp at August 12, 2005 7:29 PMMany non-Muslims also think Britain is decadent. Many Americans think America is decadent. But they don't react by blowing people up.
Posted by: elly at August 12, 2005 8:50 PM