{"id":256,"date":"2007-01-28T11:31:47","date_gmt":"2007-01-28T10:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2007\/01\/28\/cameron_on_british_values"},"modified":"2025-10-10T11:29:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T10:29:02","slug":"cameron_on_british_values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2007\/01\/28\/cameron_on_british_values","title":{"rendered":"Cameron on &#8220;British values&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Conservative Party leader David Cameron wrote in today&#39;s <em>Observer<\/em> about <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/comment\/story\/0,,2000321,00.html\">the &quot;British values&quot; issues<\/a> which were under much discussion this past week.  Of merit is his debunking of stupid suggestions like having a Veterans&#39; Day (when we already have Remembrance Sunday and have done for decades) and putting flags out on the lawn. <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/story\/0,,2000512,00.html\">On the other hand<\/a>, he and his party&#39;s vice-chairwoman, Sayeeda Warsi, are on the offensive regarding Muslim girls being forced into marriages and being denied education by their families.  I wonder how they intend to tackle this &#8211; perhaps they might do away with tuition fees and re-institute grants for promising students whose parents just don&#39;t want to pay?  Or perhaps he just prefers to lecture.<\/p>\n<p>And the <em>Observer<\/em> can think of no better way of illustrating this than &#8230; a picture of a woman in <em>niqab<\/em> on the front page of <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/\">their website<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/snapshot2.html\" onclick=\"window.open('https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/snapshot2.html','popup','width=522,height=159,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\">view image<\/a>).  It&#39;s not really illustrative of women being denied education, though, because you&#39;ll find plenty of women in <em>niqab<\/em> in many British universities.  I intend to complain to their readers&#39; editor (reader@observer.co.uk) and suggest you do as well.  Besides the fact that a lot of white Brits aren&#39;t all that patriotic anyway, the Muslims who most offend &quot;British values&quot; are the idiotic <em>men<\/em> with their offensive placards and slogans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Conservative Party leader David Cameron wrote in today&#39;s Observer about the &quot;British values&quot; issues which were under much discussion this past week. Of merit is his debunking of stupid suggestions like having a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,4,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-media","category-niqab_face_covering"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-48","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42145,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/42145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}