Tag: tim worstall

EU parliament poised to shift right, if not downright EU-skeptic.

This week’s dose of unintentional irony comes to us via Riehl World View. The context: the way that the EU parliamentary elections seemed poised to give more say to political parties that don’t like concept of the EU parliament all that much.

“It is a paradox, really. It shows how divided the center-left forces are at the moment. Normally sitting governments are punished at European elections,” said Jackie Davis, an analyst at the European Policy Centre in Brussels.

Funny: from all the way over here in the USA that’s what it looks like the European electorate is actually doing.

Moe Lane

PS: Go Tim Worstall.

Crossposted to RedState.

Passage of the Day: Animal Rights Zealot edition.

I’ve only ever had one proper screaming argument with an animal rights activist. That was a great night. It was at a student party. She told me she believed animal lives to be worth just as much as human lives. I told her she was the most apathetically selfish person I’d ever met.

“Because if that place down the road was selling Kentucky Fried Person,” I explained, “I’d probably firebomb it. Not just sit here whingeing, with a spliff and a can of Skol.”

– Hugo Rifkind, via Tim Worstall*, who is an old-school British blogger who is currently running for the EU Parliament for the UKIP, which is a party dedicated to getting the UK out of the EU Parliament, and indeed the EU, entirely.

This is not actually ironic, although others might find it slightly rude.
Moe Lane

*Via The Corner.

Crossposted to RedState.