Join the party

I see that Comedian and tax dodger Julius "You Racist and what a tool” Malema has formed his own political party called the Economic Freedom Fighters that advocates amongst other words of wisdom? or  doctrines that when “not if” …………….. “very positive is our boy Malema”  - he comes to power the first thing he will do (after having awarded himself and a few of his flunkies a number of lucrative tenders) will be to seize all land, “without compensation” as it belongs to the government  so I am assuming that  when he is President his logic will be “it’s all mine”.

In the last few days  EFF supporters have ripped up ANC T –shirts  and driven over them with cars at the University of  Doornfontein campus  and  Hundreds of Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) members marched to the Hector Pieterson Memorial in Soweto on Saturday to draw "energy" for the organisation. JM said "We came here to collect the fighting energy...it's going to sustain EFF for a hundred years," The large group sang and danced (this obviously being an important part of electioneering in African politics, even Helen Zille has learned to dance)   before he addressed them, After visiting the memorial, they marched through the streets of Soweto, disrupting traffic as they made their way back to the Uncle Tom Hall where their national assembly is taking place.

As you can see from the photo the party like the colours red and yellow , that put together are seen as very aggressive as well was the use of “berets” that make them look like “ Economic Freedom Fighters”…………………..I personally feel that they will take a number of votes away from the ANC as they will get the vote of the lazy, stupid, as well as  those that feel that they have a sense of entitlement. The fact that more and more Urban black South Africans are realizing that the present ANC government is not living up to its promises or  expectations and that 2 new parties are being created I believe that we will see the ANC battle in the next elections……especially in the cities. 

The Southern Kings played the MTN Lions in PE on Friday night in the first of their 2 game relegation playoff, that will see either the Kings staying in the Super 15 competition or the MTN lions getting back into it after having been “relegated” for the Southern Kings. The Kings lost 19/26 to a 16 man team that included the Referee, yes I know what you’re thinking “it’s always the refs fault”, the excuse all supporters use when their team do not perform as they had expected.

Truth is though that the Kings this year have been at the receiving end of some harsh decisions (all SA refs) and Friday was no exception with the ref awarding 2 penalties (6 points) and a try (7 points) that when watching the TV you will see that the penalties should not have been awarded and that the last pass that led to te try was in fact forward. The Kings just 7 behind were also on attack (5 ms from the Lions line) and after an infringement in a loose maul what should have been a 5 m scrum to the Kings turned out to be a 22 m drop

out………………….So thanks Ref you where the Lions best player of the evening. .

Peypers. I really don’t see the Kings winning the second leg at Ellis park next Friday, especially with the news that star fly half Demetri Catrakillis, has a shoulder injury and with a few other key players out it looks like the next time we see Super 15 rugger in PE will be 2016. But as they say it isn’t over till the fat lady sings, let’s just hope that she has laryngitis in Joburg/Gauteng next Friday.

I was also very disappointed at the crowd support on Friday as I thought the stadium would be full or close to it, a mere 21 000 people turned up (yes I know it’s more than the Lions had come and support them  the whole of their last Super season 2012) but I felt that this was really important for us to get behind the team for this game. I also have to question those local Lions supporters that were so jubilant at the win………….you going to be driving or flying up to Gauteng to watch your team and Super 15 games for the next 3 seasons ??. Even if you are not a Kings fan to have the privilege to watch Super 15 teams with their  international players at one of the best stadiums in SA is going to be lost………………”Sad when you think of it that way”, as I don’t think some people realise what a big deal it is to have this calibre of rugby in the Bay, the work opportunities that it creates, from the cheerleaders to security staff as well as the development of Rugby in the local communities. If the Lions do win next week and regain their place in the Super 15, I for one (like their fans did to us) will be keeping a close eye on their progress and will support any team that plays against them in the competition.

 

The Bulls playing in the semi-final against the Jake White (SA  World cup winning coach 2007) Brumbies at Loftus managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of Victory by not taking points when on offer, the game that to and fro’d however reached farcical levels as the Blue Bulls Captain, Dewald Potgieter  decided on 3 occasions to go for the sideline instead of 3 points (penalties where in kickable positions). All 3 times the Bulls lost possession lof the ball (twice they Fkd up their lineout’s)

These decisions came back to haunt Potgieter and the Bulls fans as Brumbies Outside centre Tevita Kuridrani crossed the line with seconds of the second half to go, to beat the Bulls 26/23. The Brumbies will face the Chiefs in Hamilton next Saturday for the Super 15 Final.

This is the 3^rd time a SA Franchise Captain has not taken points on offer, decided to go for the line and lost, Schalk Burger and Victor Matfield did the same thing for Province and Bulls a few years back.  

Well that’s it for this week, not really an exciting Blog this week I know, but hey they can’t all be good.

Ciao

SPAD

Dressed for success or “mirror mirror on the wall”.

“The things you see when you don’t have a gun”, was and still is a favourite saying of my mom and the trip to London brought that saying to mind. I am not saying that there are not “strange”  people in South Africa, but London, like I am sure most Major cities in Europe, seems to attract the  vibrant and different  people.

I have to say that in general South African women are much better looking than their Pommie counterparts and if anything those ladies that were walking around where usually speaking a foreign language. In fact the way you can tell if a lady is a Pom is usually because she is wearing a tight fitting outfit or a short skirt and usually with Blonde hair (and extensions) and has an orange hue from the overdose of self tan lotion or spray on tans that are so popular in the UK, probably due to the lack of sun. Gabby also commented on how many of the girls or  women showed their stomach (and clearly many should not have)

So while you get to see some odd sights while you walk around central London and surrounds , it’s probably Cambden and the market (especially on a Sunday) that attracts the “out there”  and more “unusual” residents that the island has to offer and has the shops to cater for those “varied” tastes. Cambden is a little like “what not to wear” meets Mad Max “beyond the Thunderdome” 

   

We took the drive on a overcast (how strange) Sunday morning, with two cars, as the police are very strict as well as active in the UK and amber (4) is not allowed to be in a vehicle unless strapped into a European Union approved car seat, in fact up until the age of 12 a child may not be in a vehicle (unless it’s a bus, train, boat, ferry, ) and not be strapped into their own car seats, Hell in SA kids at 12 are already driving the car. While they care about the safety in a car a child can ride a bicycle on a busy street with double decker buses hurtling down the narrow roads without a helmet, but I digress.

We arrived in Cambden after a 10 minute drive but a 30 minute search for parking that is not going to cost an arm and a leg or have the vehicle/s on bricks when you get back from the market . it’s a pretty vibrant and cosmopolitan community and with a multitude of  foreign gawkers (much like us) the place was busy. We saw a cast off from the punk rock era that was looking to get people tattooed and pieced I suppose, he (as you can see a pretty good advert). as you can see he looks like a rooster. 

Doug had told us about a lady that worked at a place called Cyberdog at Cambden market itself  that had surgically enhanced her ears to look like a pixie or elf, but on previous trips he had never seen her, so it was perhaps just a local legend. On the way out of the market we passed Cyberdog, that is a double story shop that sells “alternate” clothing and rave clothing, the music is deafening and they obviously don’t believe in aircons, I think most of the people in their where like us and looking for the pixie girl or to gawp at the customers or other weird staff. We found her on the way out at the door, greeting customers and while we didn't really want to stare it was a bit difficult with her blue and yellow dreads, wearing pink hot pants with her ass hanging out (which seems to be one of the “cool” ways to dress for the people that should not this season in the UK), as well as what looked like ears that had been operated on to look like a pixie or elf, here is the photo, (not great but perhaps you can make your own mind up)   

  

     

The tube manages to attract some strange people as well, however you can’t take photos on the train, cause if your caught the “crazies” with throw you off. in Soho/Piccadilly circus there where a few unusual people, mostly like this guy at the "Cool Britania" store trying to attract foreign tourists into the store to buy buy buy, unless your SOUTH AFRICAN OF COURSE (exchange rate was 15,75 to 1) AND WE JUST LOOKED LOOKED LOOKED.

One day in a local supermarkets parking area a lady got out of a BMW 5 series and was setting up the pram for the kid when I realized that I could see her knickers thru her stockings of ski pants that are all the rage at the moment, at first I thought that perhaps she had Alzheimer’s and had forgotten to put  on a skirt or a very long top. Nope according to Doug this is a normal occurrence with Pommie women and according to Doug, I was lucky she had been wearing underwear at all, as Doug had seen a lady who was wearing the stockings but no underwear………………… "The sights you see when u don’t have a gun”. I mean don’t people look in the mirror before they go out in public ?

In London at a Tesco’s while grabbing a sandwich, Gabby pointed out to me a lady that had on the  power suit of an executive but obviously lived or at the very least spent a lot of time in Cambden as not only did she have funky hair and a number or face piercings that looked she had been the target for a pellet gun competition, she also had hoops in her ears (let me re-phrase that - her ears where the hoops) that you could have driven a new "Boris Bus" through. and while we saw  of strange characters, on a walk along the Chelsea Embankment, we got to see this gent (well it was a close vote ,but 3 or us said it was a guy and 2 said a woman and their was one abstention), make up your own mind.

   

I Have to say the Poms seem to be having a great run the last couple of weeks, the weather is hot, Andrew Murray won Wimbledon (although I still think he is Scottish), the British and Irish Lions beat Australia to win their 3 test match series, the Poms are giving the Aussies a cricket lesson (albeit with a number of South African assisting) and a Kenyan born, South African raised who left SA at 19 “he is now one of our own” cyclist called Chris Froome is winning the Tour de France…………………So they must be feeling invincible at the moment, “hope they don’t declare war on the Germans again” J .

Had training in Uitenhage from Monday to Wednesday at Transnet rail engineering and took the Harley for a little run, on the way back on Monday afternoon I must have ridden over a grandmother as by the time I got back to PE, the bike was rattling and shaking  like a MOFO? ( ask your teenager) and I realized that I had a flat tyre. To cut a long story short when I eventually got home I pulled what I thought was a small nail out only to fine it was the size of a Knitting needle (see picture), that’s why I think there may be a really pissed off Granny in the Uitenhage/Despatch area. Had the tube replaced on Saturday, so that was a job for NOSA that actually cost me  money……… …… “Suck”s.

       

Ex president Mandela celebrated his 95^th birthday on Thursday (18^th) and it would seem that he is much better with  a good chance (according to Dr’s Zuma or Mbeki) that he could be going home soon. 

The Protea’s got a comprehensive Snotklap (hiding) from the Sri Lankans on Saturday in a one day international, the Sri Lankans scored 320/5 in their 50 over’s and the Proteas managed  140 all out in 31.5 over’s …………one word “KAK”.  The Cheetahs played the Brumbies this morning (Sunday 19^th) for a place in the Super 15 semi –finals and came up short losing 13/15 with the conversion of the try they scored glancing off the bar. It’s the best season the Cheetahs have had in Super Rugby so at least they have that I suppose...................All in all though a not so great weekend for SA sport.  

Well that’s about it for this week, I am presenting SAMTRAC for the next two weeks, so gonna be busy.

Ciao

SPAD. 

Trains, Planes and Automobiles.

Add boat, bicycle, bus, feet, go carts and Supercar’s to that list and that will pretty much tell you how we got around London on our recent trip. The trip started here in PE with a midday flight to Oliver Tambo airport. Here we met my mom and Niece Christine as well as Doug’s dad who popped in quickly to drop off a couple of things for Doug, but ended up having coffee and keeping us amused as only Gavin can.

The trip was “LONG” and it was with a grateful but numb ass that we landed at Heathrow, collected our luggage, packed it onto a minute luggage trolley with two front wheels that had a mind of their own and looked like I had really overstayed my welcome at the complimentary on board bar. We then breezed through the passport control  (having a Pommie passport does have its benefits) and the “nothing to declare” line of customs, where we saw no one (apparently they check u out from behind one way glass and pounce on those they feel are lying about not having anything to declare)

We walked thru a nondescript  double door and where thrust into a throng of a waiting crowd who had assembled to meet and greet loved ones, after a quick round of hugs and how was the flight it was time to battle the trolley to the cars for the 30 mile trip to Barnet (where Doug and Nicole and Amber reside).

On the Friday we headed for London and this meant a car ride to the Totteridge and Whetsone station and then a train trip to Leicester square station and a quick walk to the tourism office just off Trafalgar square to book  a trip on a open topped bus and Thames cruise. The weather was a tad cold but not altogether kak. The trip was great and we saw many things that we would come back later during our stay to see close up. The Thames cruise in particular was really lekker as the guide was both funny and informative.

We used the train/tube on a number of occasions and I have to say there is something weird about voluntary placing oneself in the bowels of London to catch a train. The trains are clean (or the ones we used where), they are on time and you don’t have to wait long to catch one. The underground map is fairly easy to follow and after a couple of trips you think of yourself as a bit of an expert

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I looked up as to who designed the map and was surprised to read that it had been designed and created by a one Harry Beck in 1931 (yes 1931). Harry was a out of work draughtsman who realized that underground  it actually does not matter where you are and as long as the stations were presented in a their correct sequence you can distort the scale and it would not matter. That’s why the map of the London underground has the look of a electrical wiring system and in designing this map he created a whole new imaginary London that had little to do with what was actually above ground.

In fact you can ask someone who has not used the tube before to take the bank station tube to find their way to mansion house. They would take the central line to Liverpool street, change to a circle line heading east, travel 5 more stops and when they walk up to street level they will find that the have arrived at a location a mere 200 feet from where they had started the journey.   

The last Tuesday we where I the UK  Gabby, Doug and I decided to do a bicycle tour of London and we hired what the call “Boris Bicycles” (Boris Johnson is the current mayor of London). There are numerous “docking stations” dotted around London and for 2 pounds a day you can rent the bikes and you pay for the time you use them, it was great fun and to ride down Oxford street with a few busses behind you is a strange feeling considering in SA you would probably end up a “speed hump” we rode in Hyde park, past

Buckingham palace and back into the Piccadilly circus area.  All in all a great day.  

Doug had won a couple of tickets to a indoor karting track and he offered them to Gabby and I. so the day after having ridden bicycles we had a great 50 laps in fast moving go carts, Gabby drove really well and came 4^th out of 9 racers. Having crashed a couple of times I managed a credible 2^nd place , but I have to say my forearms where stiff after having to battle the tight steering  circle.  

It’s not very often that you get to visit Silverstone, especially when you live 9795 kms or 6121 miles away on another continent, Silverstone for those that may have been in a coma since 1874 is the home of British Motorsport and hosts the British GP, that took place on the 30th June this year. The F1 track is 3.660 miles (5.86kms) long and iconic names such as Hangar straight, Stowes corner or  Abbey may jog your memory as to having heard of Silverstone.

Not only did I get to visit Silverstone a mere 4 days after this year’s GP, but I did what even fewer people have done and that was drive round it, not just drive round it in a basic change the gear and do 20 miles per hour down the straight type of vehicle but in 2 iconic cars, 1 from Italy and the other from England. I drove 3 laps in a Ferrari “blow your mind 1,9 million South African Rand” F430 and another 3 laps in a Aston Martin  V8 Vantage. I have done some exciting things in my time but this has to rank up there with the most fun I have had while wearing clothes.

I drove on the International circuit (that forms part of the F1 circuit) and is 1.851 miles  (2.96kms ) in length. You have a 30 minute briefing, where they scare the living shit out of you and have you fill in a form with next of kin, coffin size etc etc. they got a tad miffed when I answered the question – emergency contact - police or ambulance, it seems most people put their spouse or a parents contact details. After the briefing we then got issued a throw away helmet liner and a really dorky open faced helmet, ( The helmet and fire retardant suit at the go carting was sexier).

Your issued with the vehicles you will drive, and then you wait for your instructor, (that’s the person you hope is going to guide you round then circuit without causing too much harm), so comfortably ensconced in the Ferrari my heart sank when a 18 year old lady popped her head in the car and said hi I am your instructor, Tania was almost peeing her pants with laughter as she said the look on my face was priceless. It’s really hard to put to words what the experience was like but after the second lap I felt like Fernando Alonso and got a couple of compliments on my driving skills from the instructor………..I have to tell you that those 3 laps went faster than a KFC family buckets at a ANC election rally. The Aston was great as well but after the Ferrari it was a little like eating hake after you have just had a plate of Tiger prawns……………………………

    

All in all the means of transport to get us to and back from the UK as well as those we used while there (apart for numb ass and sore legs on the plans) was fun and having the bragging rights to say I have not only been to Silverstone but driven 2 iconic cars  on the track that so many racing greats (cars and bikes) have used is a memory that will last for a long long long long long (you get the picture) time.          

Have a great week

Ciao.

S.P.A.D    

A village IDIOT ABROAD

So I have just got back from Londonium………………..London to you troglodytes that have no clue as to what I am talking about. Gotta to admit that for not “really wanting to go and giving Tania grief about it for a while” it was pretty amazing, does it mean I would go and live there?................. “mmmmmm”,  No not at the moment, but I can see why Doug and Nicky prefer it to SA, not that they don’t love SA , cause they do, but they have a pretty good life there and have no reason to come back to SA, other than to see the family more often as well as the sun.

I can hear a few of you going, “you getting soft in your old age”? - - - -  - “Nah just mellower”. So we did so much I actually don’t know where to start to be honest, so perhaps the best is to break up the trip into a few Blogs that concentrate on certain aspects or observations from the trip.

I have to say that we walked till Tania’s Shoes had a “blowout” , used the tube,  took bus rides, a cab ride,, we cruised the Thames, rode Boris bicycles down Oxford street, took car  trips,  drove go carts, Ferrari’s and an Aston Martin Vantage 8 thrown in just for good measure,  we saw soldiers with huge black hats, with polished breast plates, some on foot others riding horses and even some playing instruments. Met Madiba, I got some culture, saw how not to dress for success, was perplexed as to why I can buy a London pie in SA, but could not find a pie in London, rekindled memories of my childhood with a trip to Wembley Stadium, know where to purchase the best Wors in North London, had a pint or two in a pub or two, saw the ruins of Verulamium with a Cathedral (with the longest nave in England) named after the man that converted a few Romans to Christianity and was executed for his trouble, came face to face with a dinosaur, visited the oldest Harley Shop in Europe, wondered was the UK really in recession ?, got to drive 2 Super cars at one of the best racetracks in Europe……………… “well certainly England”, saw hundreds of café racers at one of the worlds “iconic” breakfast run venues, realized that an ass was not meant to sit on an aircraft seat for hours at a time, now know why it’s vital you have more than 1 toilet in your home, spent some awesome time with family, had a BBQ in the back garden and got to understand why the Poms are so obsessed with Wimbledon and the weather.  

  

So stay tuned and all will be revealed over the next few weeks.

Ciao

SPAD 

Kiss and tell

 Well as normal SA has a problem  and the SA government as normal decides to do something about it, this time its kids having sex, so instead of just educating and having programmes in place to show kids that it’s not a clever thing to be bonking each other at 12, we legislate………… they want to arrest kids between 12-16 who are caught kissing I public, cause this causes them to have sex, that’s like saying driving a car causes people to crash into pedestrians.

You cannot legislate without education, especially in Africa and SA in particular. In Europe, especially Scandinavian countries if you told them it’s against the law to use toilets between 6 – 8 am they would not use a toilet, in SA we would be saying what a dof rule while reading the newspaper with  information about the new law while sitting on the can…………………we have so many laws in South Africa that are not policed, that we as citizens break on a daily basis. If you don’t have the capacity or the will to police laws then don’t make them.

So Oscar “shoot to kill” Pistorius was in court for 15 minutes this week to be told that he will be back in court in August. On News 24 they had the headline that  Oscar would be back in court on the day the Reeva (that’s the lady he “mistakenly shot through a toilet door) turned 30. So it would seem that all is well in SA since all they could come up with for the day was that very headline……………..So Zuma is not talking kak again or making false statements like “All south Africans life’s have improved since the ANC took power in 1994”, The Gupta’s are cool again, Crime in SA is on the way down, The DA have said the ANC are doing a good job, Schools are running smoothly, Hospitals are fully staffed and actually have sheets, ……………………Welcome to Sunny South Africa………………I can see it now Oscar is becoming SA ‘s OJ Simpson case.   

I see that Nelson Mandela is not well again (3 rd time this year) and that foreign journalists are  waiting like Vultures for him to die so they can feed on this news event that will be as big as any other news story that you can think of over the last 20 years. I have a feeling that when we are in the UK that he is going to die, there are many rumour as to what will happen when he does from all the whites will be attacked to the world will end……………….So let’s see what happens.   

In Turkey there have been running battles between citizens and the police over the prime minister of that country trying to make it a total Islamic country, “and they say that Islam is not a threat”…………..mmmmm I know kak when I see it.

Erdogan (the Prime Minister) has dismissed the protests as the work of secular enemies never reconciled to the election success of his AK party, which has roots in Islamist parties banned in the past but which also embraces centre - right and nationalist elements. The party has won three straight elections and overseen an economic boom, increasing Turkey's influence in the region. Apparently the riots are so violent even war torn Syria is advising its citizens not to go there, “Wow” it must be bad. 

 

My Harley arrived on Saturday, so that’s pretty cool.

We have 10 more days before we fly out to the UK, the weather this weekend in PE has been chilly, so we have been getting some acclimatization to what we can expect on the island.

The Springboks played Italy over the weekend in Durban, and beat them 44/10. Samoa played Scotland at the same venue and Samoa won that game, it’s the first time that they have beaten Scotland in a test match.

Ok well that’s it for the week

Ciao

SPAD

        

Britain's Islamic Future, May 31, 2013

A very interesting read.

The moment that the white British become a minority will symbolize a huge transfer of power -- cultural political, economic and religious -- an "irreversible change in British Society, unprecedented for at least a millennium." — David Coleman, Professor of Demography, University of Oxford.Islam is on track to become the dominant religion in Britain within the next generation, according to new Census Data published by the British Government. The numbers show that although Christianity is still the main religion in Britain -- over 50% of the population describe themselves as such -- nearly half of all Christians in Britain are over the age of 50, and, for the first time ever, fewer than half under the age of 25 describe themselves as Christian.

By contrast, the number of people under 25 who describe themselves as Muslim has doubled over the past ten years: one in ten under the age of 25 are Muslim, up from one in 20 in 2001.

If current trends continue -- a Muslim population boom, combined with an aging Christian demographic and the increasing secularization of British natives -- Islam is set to overtake Christianity in Britain within the next 20 years, according to demographers. A new Report published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on May 16 offers additional analyses of the 2011 Census Data previously published in December 2012.In the 2011 Census, Christianity was still the largest religious group in England and Wales with 33.2 million people (59% of the population). The second largest religious group was Islam with 2.7 million people (5% of the population). The proportion of people who reported that they did not have a religion reached 14.1 million people, a quarter of the population (25%).

Although the overall population of England and Wales grew by 3.7 million between 2001 and 2011 to reach 56.1 million, in 2011, there were 4.1 million fewer people who reported being Christian (from 72% to 59% of the population). By contrast, 1.2 million more people reported being Muslim (from 3% to 5%), and 6.4 million more people reported no religion (from 15% to 25%). The new Report, however, shows that the number of British Christians is actually falling at a far faster rate than previously thought. The earlier analysis of the statistics showed a roughly 15% decline in the number of Christians over the past decade, but the ONS found that this figure had been artificially influenced by the recent arrival of Christian immigrants from countries such as Nigeria and Poland.

According to the new Report, the number of white British Christians actually fell by 5.8 million people between 2001 and 2011; this decline was masked by an increase in the number of Christians not born in Britain during that same period, but who were there due to immigration. In the 2011 Census, Christians had the oldest age profile of the main religious groups. Over one in five Christians (22%) were aged 65 and over, and nearly one in two (43%) were aged 50 and over; only one quarter (25.5%) were under the age of 25.

By contrast, Muslims had the youngest age profile of the main religious groups. Nearly half of Muslims (48%) were aged under 25 (1.3 million) and nine in ten (88%) were aged under 50 (2.4 million).

Muslims were also more ethnically diverse than Christians. Two-thirds of Muslims (68%) were from an Asian background, including Pakistani (38%) and Bangladeshi (15%). The proportion of Muslims reporting as Black/African/Caribbean/Black British (10%) was similar to those reporting as "other" ethnic group (11%). 93% of people (13.1 million) with no religion were from a white background. The number of Muslims increased in all ethnic groups, but there was a particular jump among Asian Muslims. Pakistani Muslims increased by 371,000 (from 658,000 to over a million) and Bangladeshi Muslims have grown by 142,000 (from 260,000 to 402,000).

Just over half of all Muslims (53%) in 2011 were born outside Britain. The numbers have almost doubled in a decade with a rise of over half a million (599,000) from 828,000 to 1.4 million in 2011. A similar pattern can be seen for the number of Muslims born in Britain, where there was also a rise of over a half a million (560,000) from 718,000 to 1.2 million in 2011. Muslims also had the lowest levels of economic activity (55%), compared to Christians (60%). The numbers are somewhat deceiving, however, as age is a major factor in economic activity. As most Christians in Britain are from an older demographic, this means that a large proportion of Christians not participating in the labour force are "retired" (69%).

By contrast, Muslims had the youngest age profile and were the most often economically inactive because they were "looking after home or family" (31%) or because they were "students" (30%). According to the Census Data, only 13% of Muslims in Britain were "retired."In an interview with The Telegraph newspaper, Fraser Watts, a Professor of Theology at Cambridge University, said it was "entirely possible" that Christians could become a minority within the next decade. "It is still pretty striking," he said, "and it is a worrying trend and confirms what anyone can observe -- that in many churches the majority of the congregation are over 60."

David Coleman, a Professor of Demography at the University of Oxford, said the findings showed that Christianity is declining with each generation. "Each large age group," he said, "as time progresses, receives less inculcation into Christianity than its predecessor ten years earlier." Coleman contrasts the decline of Christianity through the generations to what happens among Muslims. "We have a Muslim faith where most studies suggest adherence to Islam is not only transmitted through the generations but appears to get stronger," he said. "Indeed, there seems to be some evidence that the second generation Muslims in Britain are more Muslim than their parents." 

In a recently published study, Coleman predicted that up to 40% of the population of Britain will be foreign or from a minority ethnic group within 50 years if current trends continue. By that time the white British population will be on the verge of becoming a minority. According to Coleman, the combined population of ethnic minorities will exceed white Britons in about 2070; the non-white population could increase to 24 million and other whites to seven million by 2050. The moment that the white British become a minority will symbolize a huge transfer of power. Coleman says it will underline a changed national identity -- cultural, political, economic and religious. "An older white population would need to co-exist with a younger ethnic population, arguably required for its support," he said.

Coleman has warned of the consequences of the ethnic transformation taking place in Britain and other parts of Europe. "History is not sanguine about the capacity of ethnic groups or religions to overcome their differences. The ethnic transformation implicit in current trends would be a major, unlooked-for, and irreversible change in British society, unprecedented for at least a millennium," Coleman said.Separately, it recently emerged that nearly one-third of all children born in England and Wales now have at least one foreign-born parent. In 2011, 224,943 babies had either one or both parents born outside of the United Kingdom -- 31% of the total. This is a substantial rise on the figure in 2000, when 21.2% of babies had at least one non-British-born parent.

As Mohammed was by far the most popular name for baby boys born in England and Wales in 2011, many of these foreign-born parents would appear to be Muslim. The politically correct ONS declared that Harry was the most popular boy's name, with 7,523 baby boys receiving that name in 2011. But if one adds up the 22 different spellings of Mohammed (Mohammed, Muhammad, Mohammad, Muhammed, Mahammad, Mohamed, Mohamud, etc.), a total of 8,146 baby boys born in Britain were named after the Muslim prophet in 2011.

Sir Andrew Green, the director of Migration Watch, a think tank that focuses on immigration, summed it up this way: "This is the clear result of the Labour Party's mass immigration policy which is changing the nature of our society at a speed which is unacceptable to the public who of course were never consulted."

Peaceful religion my ass

With a off duty British soldier having been killed and decapitated in London this week, The "Peaceful" religion of Islam has again come under the spotlight, with many people saying you cannot tar every Muslim with the same brush. Mmmmmmm I don't know about this and perhaps this explanation may change your mind. I personally feel that the West is to soft on this "invasion" and they are now sowing the seeds of not being tougher on a religion that wants to take over the world, so far they are winning. 

  

The author of this piece is Dr. Emanuel Tanya, a well-known and well-respected psychiatrist.

A man, whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II, owned a

number of large industries and estates.    When asked how many German people

were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward

fanaticism. 'Very few people were true Nazis,' he said, 'but many enjoyed the return

of German pride, and many more were too busy to care.   I was one of those

who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools.    So, the majority just

sat back and let it all happen.   Then, before we knew it, they owned us,

and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come.   My family lost

everything.   I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my

factories.'

 We are told again and again by 'experts' and 'talking heads' that Islam is

the religion of peace and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to

live in peace.   Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is

entirely irrelevant.    It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel

better, and meant to somehow diminish the spectre of fanatics rampaging

across the globe in the name of Islam.

 The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history.   It

is the fanatics who march.    It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50

shooting wars worldwide.    It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter

Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over

the entire continent in an Islamic wave.   It is the fanatics who bomb,

behead, murder, or honour-kill.   It is the fanatics who take over mosque

after mosque.   It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and

hanging of rape victims and homosexuals.   It is the fanatics who teach

their young to kill and to become suicide bombers.

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> The hard, quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the 'silent

majority,' is cowed and extraneous. > Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about

20 million people.    The peaceful majority were irrelevant.. China 's huge

population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a

staggering 70 million people.

 The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a

warmongering sadist.    Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across

South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of

12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet.

And who can forget Rwanda , which collapsed into butchery.   Could it not

be said that the majority of Rwandans were 'peace loving'? History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason, we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points:

Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence. > Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don't speak up, because like my friend from Germany , they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun..

 Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs,

Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many

others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was

too late. As for us who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group

that counts--the fanatics who threaten our way of life.

 Lastly, anyone who doubts that the issue is serious and just deletes this

email without sending it on, is contributing to the passiveness that allows

the problems to expand.   So, extend yourself a bit and send this on and on

and on!  Let us hope that thousands, world-wide, read this and think about it, and

send it on - before it's too late.

 Now Islamic prayers have been introduced into Toronto and other public

schools in Ontario , and, yes, in Ottawa too while the Lord's Prayer was

removed (due to being so offensive?).   The Islamic way may be peaceful for

the time being in our country until the fanatics step forward to take

control...then it will be too late.