Political Correctness...The Punishment Due

In these modern times in this modern Britain, we can look back at our former empire and think "Ah yes, we really were something back then", while others can look back at it and think "Urgh, tyrants!". Yet these days, there is one superpower that makes our empire look like an old man's garden, one that would render our empire, even if we had it in this day and age where you can buy nuclear weapons for a very reasonable price at your local Asda (buy one get one free), completely and utterly useless.

Oh no, I’m not talking about our "brothers in the west" in America, nor am I talking about the Russians, oh no. Even they would fall down to what is the biggest power of them all, political correctness.

As we all know, over in America political correctness is tailgated by its closest ally, health and safetly. It's a well believed fact that if someone in America so much as coughs on the other side of the road from you, you can sue them for everything they've got. Happily, I’m not a Yank, and our suing culture over here, while still rather large, is still a mere fad compared to the American's. What is worse over here though, is political correctness.

We live in a country where our national flag is a symbol of racial oppression; if I were to walk down the street wearing a Union Flag T-shirt, I’d be labelled as one of those nutters from the National Front. You just can't be patriotic here, and these days you can't say anything without offending someone. It's ridiculous, it's taking away one of our most basic freedoms, it's taking away our freedom of speech.

Not so long ago, a man who I’m not going to name (and who, I proudly stand against), from a certain far right party I’m not going to name, said something about Islam being a vicious and wicked faith. I'm not going to comment on that, not today anyway. What I am going to comment about though, is whether or not that statement is the case, he should still be allowed to express his own opinion, right?

Well, no, not according to PC Britain in "new Labour". This man was taken to court on charges of hate speech, merely for expressing his own opinion. What’s worse is the fact that they're trying to make such speech illegal.

Pity.