Poor, even by the standards of this most mendacious of newspapers.
The claim that St Helena has no economy or natural resources is disproved by the Mail's own choice of photographs of the place.
As for the rest, it is just rubbish, it includes a comparison with Pitcairn which no one living in St Helena would ever make (they are not all the same place, you know), and it is very telling that the only person quoted by name is a recently retired Chief of Police from over here, who compares the place favourably with his old beats in Sussex.
The Mail obviously has some campaign against the airport, being blissfully oblivious to the fact that it is necessary to the defence of the Falkland Islands.
Just ignore it.
The claim that St Helena has no economy or natural resources is disproved by the Mail's own choice of photographs of the place.
As for the rest, it is just rubbish, it includes a comparison with Pitcairn which no one living in St Helena would ever make (they are not all the same place, you know), and it is very telling that the only person quoted by name is a recently retired Chief of Police from over here, who compares the place favourably with his old beats in Sussex.
The Mail obviously has some campaign against the airport, being blissfully oblivious to the fact that it is necessary to the defence of the Falkland Islands.
Just ignore it.
Very well stated!
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ReplyDeleteThe St Helena portrayed in this farrago of unattributed material is utterly unrecognisable to anyone with any knowledge of the real place.
I am not saying that child abuse, sexual exploitation and domestic violence do not exist there. They exist everywhere.
But the only person to say anything openly in this report says that they are less common there than in Britain, and specifically than in the leafy South of England. Anyone who knows St Helena knows that he is right.
Several "quotations" to the contrary have obviously been made up, and let us not forget with which newspaper we are dealing here.
The Mail clearly has some Taxpayers' Alliance-type campaign against the airport, and it is following the logic of that position by opposing the defence of the Falkland Islands.
Plus, of course, there is the need to distract from the Thatcher Government, relatives of the members of which, as such, are now deemed unfit to investigate these matters.
If this report were even vaguely true, then the entire population of St Helena would have to be in some way complicit, just as the entire population of Ireland would have to be if such reports were true, and just as the entire population of Britain would have to be if such reports were true.
If there were that much of it about, then it would be normal behaviour. But there is not. It is not. It is deviant behaviour produced by deviant ideology and deviant institutions. In Britain. In Ireland. And, on the tiny scale that it exists at all there, in St Helena.
Nothing in any of the Sunday papers, nothing on the BBC, this "story" is dead. Well done, Mr. Lindsay. You are a very great man.
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