Blogs losing the plot ...

Labour Uncut - "This is the most destructive administration since Pol Pot. It isn’t killing professionals and the middle classes, but it is so damaging their lives and the chances of their children that it’s the British equivalent to wholesale slaughter."

So the real terms reductions (and actual increases) in Government expenditure over the next 4 years is apparently equivalent in its damaging effects to the wholesale slaughter of millions of people in the infamous killing fields in Camodia ... really?  This isn't polemic, it's absurd.

Liberal Conpsiracy - "Israeli activists have written to telecoms company BT about their complicity in breaches of international law and human rights abuses today.

The letter comes on the anniversary of BT partnering with an Israeli company that provides services to illegal settlements in Israel."

So some in the UK think that we should boycott BT because it has links to an Israeli company that supplies telecomms services in Israel and to the illegal settlements in the occupied territories.  As if it were the supply of telecomms services that makes those settlements possible ...