Thursday 29 October 2009

And the trees are all kept equal ... by hatchet, axe and saw*

From The BBC:

A Christmas tree in the centre of Leeds has been felled on the advice of police amid safety fears about a demonstration planned for the weekend.

The tree, which cost taxpayers £2,000, went up two weeks ago in City Square. However, West Yorkshire Police advised the council it could pose a risk to the public during a planned march by the English Defence League on Saturday. Surprised commuters looked on as workmen used a chainsaw to cut down the 30ft tree early on Thursday morning.


The Islamists must be laughing themselves silly over this - what a result!

* That's a reference to a song by reactionary Canadian hard rockers Rush.

13 comments:

DBC Reed said...

None too sure but I think the English Defence League was the outfit interviewed on the telly,all wearing ski masks,who when challenged by the interviewer with "Is n't it true that you're just a drinking club with a website?" all burst out laughing.

BTS said...

What exactly did they think the tree was going to do..?

Mark Wadsworth said...

DBC, I saw that, you recall correctly. But as many of these nutters as ther may be, don't forget that the propensity to racial violence appears to be thirty times as high among non-whites.

BTS, who knows? But better dafe than sorry, eh?

Martin said...

"That's a reference to a song by reactionary Canadian hard rockers Rush."

( ゚д゚)

Reactionary? Really? =(

Mark Wadsworth said...

Martin, yes of course. But a) their music was good, b) they were intelligent and c) they were two-thirds Jewish, so definitely not fascists or anything.

dearieme said...

Nasty German habit, Christmas trees. So doubtless the English whatever-they-are will welcome this robustly anti-teutonic gesture.

Curmudgeon said...

Rush are still going, of course, although their more recent music is much less overtly political.

I think Geddy Lee is the only one of the three who is Jewish, though.

James Higham said...

The word "procrustean" springs to mind.

BTS said...

If the Ents hear about this Leeds is really screwed..

Mark Wadsworth said...

HAS, fair point. But have you noticed that people who complain about Xmas starting earlier each year start complaining earlier each year as well?

D, nonsense, it's a pre-Christian thing. In any even I'm half-German.

Curmudgeon, nope, according to Jewish Rock Stars they were all Jewish, but I was only counting founder members.

JH (having looked up that word), yes.

BTS, I Googled 'Ents' and 'Leeds' and drew a blank, sorry.

AntiCitizenOne said...

MW, Have you not seen the film "The Lord of the Rings, Return of the King"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTFP9QQzEL4

Anonymous said...

Who is going to cart the felled tree away? The binmen have been on strike since September

Nick39 said...

The pogroms are coming. Not long now.