vetuste - // Andy Hughes //That's a bit like saying Hitler loved dogs//
There is moral point which is missed by people who use this facile comparison, Aggie.
If the members of the virtuous class which hates the "far-right" could have put their knee-jerk reaction on hold for just five minutes and actually investigated the claims of the far-right groups that Muslim gangs were trafficking very young non-Muslim girlin Northern towns and cities, then the allegations could have been publicly revealed as a lie. Alternatively, the allegations could have been confirmed and action taken to deal with the rapists.
Either way you've dealt with the problem of the "far-right", if you're the kind of easily-influenced person who thinks that the far-right is a problem in today's Britain: either you've proved them liars, or you've taken away their main propaganda point.
Why was obvious strategy never adopted? I assume it's because the "Hitler loved doggies" crowd think there are more important issues than sex-trafficking. //
That has absolutely nothing to do with the point I made!
My point in using the Hitler example was to point out that being kind on one area of a person's life does not give them a free pass to be a horrible human being in another.
I have never for one moment ever disputed or condemned 'Tommy Robinson's actions in unearthing the dreadful covering up of abuse - but my point is, and remains, that does not give him carte blanche to be the nasty racist bigoted attention-seeking egotist that he has become, and remains.