New Alternative News Channel "GB News" chaired by Andrew Neil launching - read OP before posting

It's not the show. You said Farage is going to "smash Jacinda Ardern"

What do you have against her?

Oh my God, you have no idea what thought process Jacinda Ardern or her government have in relation to Covid or Covid restrictions.

Yet you still think you know their real motivations.

This is all just a fantasy narrative that exists almost exclusively in your head. There is no evidence that anything the NZ Government is doing is so as to have Ardern appear in a particular way or that they are over-reacting.

They've had success with Covid precisely because of the pre-emptive action instead of reactive like in so many other locations. And their country has seen the benefit of this.

Ah, now it's clear you're trolling...

I'm not surprised that you're excited to see that odious little shìt talking shìte with the other odious little shìt.

Arrogance personified.

Dominic Grieve and Rory Stewart in the UK would be a start

Have you dug out that study you keep quoting yet? Or are we to just take your 3rd hand repetition of the Guardian's headline summary?

I do assume that considering you have placed such faith in it as a pillar of your anti-immigration tirade?

That you have read and assessed the original source? Only this is my 3rd time asking for it and you seem to be ignoring the very simple request.

So if you're not anti immigrant, but pro controlled immigration you must be happy with the situation in Ireland since that is exactly what we have.

As do the UK.

There is no uncontrolled immigration.

Interestingly, the breakdown of the data versus it's headline presentation presents quite a different picture to the headline grabbing 52% of Muslims are against homosexuality. The headline figure is correct but the breakdown of the figure itself is very much generational. This is particularly important given that the interviews for many of the poll subjects were carried out in person.

Many Muslims live in multi-generational households and indeed the bias this may induce is acknowledged.

A majority (52%) of

Muslims disagree that homosexuality should be legal in Britain, although attitudes among young Muslims are somewhat more liberal (18% of all Muslims but 28% of those aged 18-24 think that it should).

Now, let's look at the questions that highlight British Muslim integration and assimilation with British society.

Most Muslims participate in traditional British cultural practices, even those with explicitly Christian origins. At Christmas,

three-quarters (73%) send cards and three in five give presents, and many also send Mother’s Day or Father’s Day cards, and wear a poppy on Remembrance Day. But most do not put up a Christmas tree.

Even more interesting is the Muslim community's attitudes regarding terrorism and it's reporting.

Across numerous surveys, only a tiny percentage of Muslims have expressed support or sympathy for terrorism. A recent

2016 survey found that on any act relating to violence, there were notably higher levels of condemnation among Muslim communities than for the population as a whole. Indeed, if anything sympathy for terrorist violence in the general population (4%) was higher than among Muslims (2%).

One thing I find very interesting is the relatively high percentage of Muslims who feel a responsibility to condemn terrorist acts carried out in the name of Islam.

I find it interesting because it perpetuates the belief that Muslims are a homogeneous group, when nothing could be further from the truth. It's akin to expecting me as a lapsed Catholic to apologize for Christian fundamentalists bombing abortion clinics.

Now where the question of Muslim identity and belonging becomes quite interesting is in what nationality do British Muslims feel they belong to. Compare and contrast with the British Christian community.

Muslim, Hindu and Sikhs all see themselves as "British" to a far higher extent than Christians who identify as "English".

This sense of Britishness is borne out even for immigrants who have a high sense of attachment to the UK.

Picking the headline figure of 52% anti-homosexual does the efforts of the Muslim community to integrate a huge disservice.

It is a paragraph, from an 84 page report that in the main is quite positive. It highlights why statistical cherry picking to lay a foundation for the argument of backward/homophobic and non-integtated Muslims is a dangerous tack.

Reports such as the one that EH cherry picked, are a lot of work and effort and rarely paint the picture presented in headlines.

Was Farage interviewing 52% of the British Muslim population on his tawdry show, or was he interviewing Anne Widdicombe? And were you or were you not bigging up Anne Widdicombe as a good guest?

That is the only relevance to Widdicombe here. You apparently wouldn't want to let her in the country but still puffed her appearance with Farage.

If you puff up Widdicombe you puff up the lot. She is indivisible from her views - just like your "thought experiment" fictional immigrants were indivisible from theirs for you.

You puffed Widdicombe, and you can't actually defend it.

You've spent pages pushing a ridiculous thought experiment trying to make people agree to stop immigration based on peoples beliefs on one thing.

You, of all people, cannot try to claim you can disconnect people from their beliefs after that.

But, of course, you will.

As often occurs, you can try restate your views as often as you want but we can see what you meant. You wrote the words, after all.

Did he actually deny the science behind climate change or just the futility of efforts to tackle it.