Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

its not funny walking in public places with these people wearing clothes that you
can not tell who they are women men terrorists . which is now used to commit crime
they must be banned from all public places .if they want to wear burkas then go back home

Kenya news women and men walking the streets of the uk wearing burkas
the uk is a target and they allow people to cover their faces
madness

will the uk act before the uk is targeted by people in wearing burkas

No...human rights innit

the best thing to do is wait till they kill a few hundred then we will take action

goad [transitive]

1 to make someone do something by annoying or encouraging them until they do it [↪ provoke]

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I have just phoned the MET POLICE about my concerns about these faceless people
wearing burkas . their reply we totally agree with your views and will be seeking action . now that I have made it public and asked the question . if it happens
the government and police have failed in their duties to protect the public .

You need sensitivity training.

This story cracks me up - Biteback Publishing now to be renamed Bitebum Publishing!! --------------

Verbal battles over Damian McBride's memoirs at the Labour conference escalated into actual fisticuffs today, as the ex-spin doctor's publisher stepped in to stop a protester disrupting the publicity drive for his controversial memoirs.


Iain Dale, of Biteback Publishing, was involved in a scuffle with the man on the Brighton seafront in an effort to stop him appearing on screen behind McBride during a series of media interviews.

The protester - a familiar face outside party conferences, where he regularly appears with banners opposing smoking or nuclear energy - managed to get himself into shot as Mr McBride spoke to ITV1's Daybreak.

But Mr Dale decided to take action, grabbing the man's rucksack and physically hauling him out of the way of the cameras, and the pair grappled on the pavement as Mr McBride's interview continued.

The barking of the protester's dog - which eagerly joined in the commotion - could be heard by TV viewers as the struggle continued.

But the terrier - carrying placards reading "No Nukes" on its back - failed to live up to the loyalty expected from dogs, jumping up and biting its owner on the rear.

The protester doggedly attempted to make the best of the situation, holding up his banner reading "No Nukes - Radio Active Dust Cancer Epidemic" to photographers who were busy recording the scrap.

After a few moments, the pair separated and dusted themselves down, and the protester went back to trying to edge his way into view of the cameras.

Writing on his blog, Mr Dale - also a broadcaster on LBC 97.3 radio - joked: "I knew I shouldn't have had three Weetabix this morning."

He said he had seen the man holding his placard behind Mr McBride and distracting from his live TV interview.

"I did what any self-respecting publisher would do - got out of the car, ran across, got him in an armlock and pulled him out of the shot," he said.

"He started resisting and we ended up in an unseemly tumble on the ground. I was conscious of the photographers and other cameramen who were present filming the whole thing, but I was determined this idiot shouldn't disrupt what was an important interview for my author.

"I am someone who runs a mile from any form of physical confrontation normally, but I never understand why broadcasters seem to accept without question that someone with a placard or a loud voice should disrupt this sort of interview.

"Anyone who has seen the pictures and video can see that there was no real violence. I certainly didn't hurt the guy. He threw a punch at me but missed, and the only injury was when the man's dog bit him on the bum."
He added: "In some ways I have committed the cardinal sin of becoming the story myself, rather than my author, and I regret that. But do I regret that I stepped in to protect my author? No, I do not.

"One of the snappers afterwards said to me that I did what they had all been dying to do for years, as he regularly interferes with their professional work.

"Everyone has an inalienable right to protest, but no one has a right to make a continual nuisance of themselves and interrupt interviews like that."

Have a Watch :-)

I think the Burka could be useful.



There are one or two on this thread I would like to see in it.

Preferably, with 2-3 turns of gaffer tape underneath the veil.

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One of daughters suggested the Cruella and Gove appearances would be enhanced by such wear.

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Another silly non funny post by Freda

weren't the ira great exponents of the gentle art of niqabing?

on a less facetious note .....
set aside the link of wearing a niqab and islam and you are left with the conundrum of whether or not you should be allowed to wear what you choose wherever you like

you might get some very odd looks walking down the high street wearing a gorilla mask or similar, but it would not be illegal.
however, if you walked into a bank in such garb, it is certain that your collar would be felt .... why? ..... because it is a potential security risk

what would be the result of someone going into their local bank wearing a niqab?
i don't know

what happens at uk airports?
i don't know, but it must be an aspect that secruity there deal with every day

NHS
a favourite topic here is the deterioration of NHS over recent years
you guys love to get on your political soap-boxes about this, but i'm not pointing any fingers but merely asking

a) what % of NHS staff are "clipboard carriers" as opposed to genuine and productive operatives of some kind?

b) why are many NHS surgeons fearful of carrying out complicated surgery?

c) why are many NHS surgeons "unhappy" to operate on the very terminally ill?

d) how much time, money and effort is wasted on unproductive procedural checks which do little more than create a lot of paper and prove little more than there is a good paper trail to follow to "prove" efficiency?

e) when it is mooted that costs need to be trimmed in NHS, how many administrative posts and managerial levels are targeted?


merely asking; true answers and solutions not especially expected

cynic what good post and full of true facts .but alas you will get no answers

Plenty of people do go into banks wearing the burka. I say people as you cannot be sure they are women. There is an area quite near where I live that has a large population of Muslim women from Algeria and Somalia. The Somalis are easily spotted as they wear longer and fuller clothes, but rarely wear the veil.

i assume you mean a full burqa rather than a chador
if the former, do these women go into ordinary high street banks and have no trouble being served?

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tanker - i don't really expect answers as the questions are almost rhetorical ..... however, i have a pretty good idea as to why (c) and an inkling as to (b)