Like the rest of the nation I was shocked and horrified by Wednesday’s un-Islamic killing. Not just by the act of killing an innocent off duty solider, but the savagery, butchery and hate by which it was carried out. And as if that wasn’t disturbing enough, the killer wanted to lecture the world on his views. He actually had a message for the rest of us!

In the age of social media and instance news, before the incident was confirmed the images of his blooded hands holding a blooded knife with one and a meat cleaver with the other were all over the globe.

As a Briton I felt ravaged and attacked and as a Muslim I felt let down and cheated.

Robbed by the misuse of my peaceful religion in this horrific and divisive crusade, because the Islam I know and grew with is serene, inviting, forgiving and inclusive. What happened on Wednesday was not in the name of Allah or Islamic. It was evil and the devil’s doing, it has nothing to do with Islam or the Koran.

However, as Muslims we have a responsibility to our country and our religion. We have a duty to vocally and openly condemn the barbaric and cowardly killing of Drummer Lee Rigby, but also have the responsibility it must never happen again.

Every mosque, community centre and local leader has to find a way to eradicate and stop this violence. Change the language of hate and feeling of disappear that pushes these young people into the arms of hate clerics and Islamic radicalism.

It is not the duty of the security services and the government alone, it is ours as well. It is the duty of every mother, father, sister, brother, aunt, uncle and neighbour to denounce these acts, guide, love and support these young peoples and help them see their way.

Terrorism is like all other grim. It grows best in the dark and under the shadows of wickedness.

To eradicate it we must shin a light over it, not allow it to grow and flourish in our neighbourhoods and communities. Even if it means pushing it underground. It is better to be underground scared and doomed than in the open protected with freedom of speech and some liberal claptrap.

This evil must never be allowed to freely and openly grow amongst us.

The likes of Michael Adebolajo should never again feel free to kill and publicise their murder.

Someone somewhere is bent on painting Cameron and his Downing Street operation as out of touch posh boys.

I see it and so can anyone without an agenda.

First it was \“the Shaun Bailey’s story.”:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/10050502/Shaun-Bailey-the-Prime-Ministers-only-black-aide-was-frozen-out-by-David-Camerons-clique.html Where apparently he told a friend about being pushed out of Number 10, then the nameless concerned friend told a journalist in private!!!

The story made the rounds for a few hours then died.

In my opinion, the timing of this revelation is a little suspect. According to the ‘close friend’ Bailey was demoted (salary and post) in January yet it only became news worthy months later in May! Why?

Last week conveniently Lord Feldman, described as a member of the Prime Minister’s close inner social circle, was said to have called Tory activists ‘mad swivel- eyed loons’.

Both incidents and their timings are too convenient to ignore, especially when Lord Feldman strongly denies the allegation, yet no one can prove otherwise!

All of this reminds me of Plebgate a few months ago. We all saw how the media, the police and the left pushed and pushed and pushed until Andrew Mitchell (an innocent man who later we found was wrongly and deliberately accused with fabricated evidence) gave up his post.

Someone somewhere is cooking up another stinker with Loonsgate and we should not stand by and allow them to get away with it.

This week was quite eventful. It started with Cameron and Prince Harry flying the flag and warmly welcomed in the US. Harry was even offered a marriage proposal and Cameron told reporters he was relaxed about Tories voting to amend the Queen’s Speech.

It ended with Farage showing us he is not cool with rejection and not afraid to show it. Then totally lost it when he discovered neither he nor UKIP are welcome in Scotland by nationalists.

Like sprinkles on a cupcake, some not so clever Cameron chum described Tory activists and association members AKA the backbone of the party both financially and as foot-soldiers, as “mad, swivel – eyed loons”. Just because they don’t approve or Gay Marriage and want a Referendum on the EU!

It was a busy week for me too but I managed two posts, reader and visitors rated them as follow;

• Winners and Losers ~ May 15, 2013
• Football, Cameron and Capital Punishment

How can a local authority (social services), the police and a whole community for eight years not see children are been groomed and sexually abused under their noses?

What’s wrong with our society and the care system if we can close an eye or worst not see abuse and neglect our duty of care not once or twice but six times? Six young venerable girls for eight years were groomed and sexually abused and no one knew, how come?

And before anyone blames the cuts, this all started in 2004 before the current reforms….

The Oxford case throws up two major issues. First is the neglect by the officials, the police for not acting sooner and those who were entrusted with these girls care and safety. Second is the one everyone doesn’t want to talk about. What is it with Muslim men (particularly Pakistani men) grooming young venerable girls with drugs, alcohol, violence and sexually abusing them?

First in Rochdale and now Oxford – and to think some of these monsters are actually themselves parents, shocking!

All are big losers. The authorities for neglecting their duties and letting the poor girls go through the physical and the psychological trauma this abuse caused, and don’t get me started on those animals who call themselves men.
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Brilliant news today, Theresa May calling for killers of Police to face a life sentence without parole is a very welcome decision.

It’s great news because killing a policeperson is a crime against the state, the public and the society. The police do not just exist to prevent crime and disorder; they represent a sense of justice and security to the community.

Robert Peel said: “The police are the public and the public are the police.”

Theresa May is a winner for addressing this very overdue issue.

Don’t understand football and only support Chelsea because it’s my local team and it was my father’s favourite team. But feel sorry for Roberto Mancini, the man just won Manchester City the Premier League and a year later he is sacked, why? He was let go, because with the exception of qualifying for next season’s Champions Leagues he failed to achieve any of the club’s targets.

Just imagine if the public used the same yard stick in politics!
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I keep saying it but folks keep ignoring it!

David Cameron is one smooth operator. If in doubt just look at the latest EU fiasco! The whole thing was either both carefully planned and executed, or Cameron is one sharp eagle eyed operator who never misses an opportunity. Whichever way you look at it, it worked for him and his party.

Over the weekend every news anchor and journo was salivating over the possibility of a Tory backbench rebellion. Labour, the LibDems and even the new kid on the block UKIP were all beside themselves with exhilaration over the possibility of a Tory split. But in their excitement they took their eyes of the ball. UKIP with all its latest poll successes is still a party without power. Like a chemical catalyst, it speeds up reactions and helps aid other chemicals to respond.

LibDems besides being our collation partners, they are not Labour. For any true Conservative there is one enemy. We might have squabbles and skirmishes with all opponent but the one true enemy is Labour. These last 72 hours of EU rebellion and its outcome has put the Tories main opponent in a beautiful position, between a rock and a hard place.
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I think any criminal who denies his guilt then admits it in the eleventh hour, especially when all the evidence is stacked against them, should be punished three or four times as much as those who admit their guilt early on. We know they don’t do it because they are remorseful. Most do it for a lighter sentence.

Stuart Hazell is a horrid man. I don’t believe in Capital Punishment but would have made an exception for him.

Did this week go by very fast or is it me? One minute it was Monday, next it was Thursday and before log the week was over.

This week I became elated. On Monday I wrote an open letter to David Cameron asking him to reinstate Nadine Dorries, and two days later she gets the Conservative whip back. I know one have nothing to do with the other but, nonetheless I’m proud of my timing.

Cameron featured again on Friday, this time I said what I have been thinking for a long time. He is not perfect however he is the best PM for the country and the best leader the party had since Thatcher. But can you tell men or even Theresa May that?

Politicians are a rare breed of people. They promise the public they are in it for others and making a difference yet routinely demonstrate they are in it for themselves, their personal advancement and self-ego. And have the nerve to get extremely upset when its pointed out to them!

Despite the showers, hayfever is still kicking my behind and I am still miserable (with the sneezing, itchy and runny eyes). Can do with a proper British rain to wash the pollen away.

Until next week, via visits and hits, this week readers and visitors rated posts as follow;

• Open letter to David Cameron asking him to reinstate Nadine Dorries as a Conservative MP
• Three points I feel will either make or break our party.
• Think we all need to take a minute and a long deep breath.
• What an interesting day!

After UKIP’s serge and the Conservatives less than brilliant performance in the County Council elections earlier this month, I think I now know why the Tories are in trouble.

It has nothing to do with toffs, Etonians and the rest of it. Also my concern here is not with Labour, the LibDems or even UKIP, what they did, are about to do or not do. It’s with my own party whom I see again sleep walking down the self-destruct road.

This might sound unconventional. But from where I am standing, we have three major problems that need addressing if we want to be taken seriously and win the next election.

The first one is easy. We need to talk and listen to each other, do it regularly and remember we are a broad church and that is one of our biggest assets.

I don’t know how we can quite achieve it, but our internal communication sucks and needs to change. We need to take the focus off being on message and put it on being connected and in tune with each other. The type of in tune when one begins a sentence the rest know where that message is going. Once we achieve that sense of togetherness and unity the second point will easily follow.

Next we need to get our mojo back. We need to get back that late 2005, early 2006 feeling when we first elected David Cameron. Get back that winners feeling. There is nothing wrong with winning and wanting to win. Yet we keep talking about losing and dress it up as being realistic. Realistic my foot!? Two years before the election we write ourselves off and call it realistic. No, that’s defeatist and pitiful.

We need our excitement and that sense of winning-ness we had about us back.

Dave is still the same ‘Blue is the new Green’ ‘Huskies drawn sledge’ ‘A List’ guy who will control, monitor and reduce immigration, and repatriate powers back from Europe we loved and admired so much before 2010. We need to think like a family and find a way to love him same as we did back then. Think of our relationship like a marriage we are a little bored with and even not too happy in but we badly need to work and strive at making it succeed.

The final thing we must do is to just stop wanting a new leader, period. Call it killing ambition, lack of vision whatever you like, but all this wannabe leaders are killing our party and if not careful they will soon be leading ghosts in a morgue. They are killing us with their arrogance and selfishness, and it needs to stop.

We need just this one time to accept what we have better and build it up.

Trust me, we have the best leader around, if you don’t believe me then believe the polls. He is the best leader for the country and our party. He is the best leader out of all the other parties’ leaders. Believe me when I say there is no one out there better than David Cameron for this country and the Conservative party.

Earlier this week I wrote an open letter to David Cameron asking him to reinstate Nadine Dorries. I am happy to see she was reinstated and given back the Conservative Whip. I am positive my open letter had nothing to do with it; I wish it did and I had that kind of power. Nonetheless her return to the Conservative fold is a very happy and welcome news. She is back where she belongs.
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The Queen officially opened parliament yesterday. Apparently this Queen’s Speech was the shortest in her Majesty’s 60 years reign. It was so short by the time the end of the line arrived at the Lords she was finished speaking. All in all this year’s speech was seven minutes long. Well times are austere.
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I like Chris Grayling. He was the star of the show yesterday with his Offender Rehabilitation Bill – a topic very close to my heart. Grayling proved once again that common sense politics and politicians are the best. No amount of money spent in prisons will cut crime if we don’t properly address reoffending and specially youth reoffending. Because reoffending is like garden weeds; just pulling the weeds out does not permanently sort the problem. Plus pulling them from the roots, weeds need regular treatments to keep them away. Same like crime, reducing reoffending is the only long term solutions to reducing crime. Chris you’re the man!
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The art of telling jokes is simple. You have seconds or the joke loses impact. If in two seconds after the joke is finished the audiences are still waiting for the punch line, then the joke is on you. Ed Miliband’s out – Farage, Farage joke was just that. So bad was his response to the Queen’s Speech, that the only thing Labourites were talking about last night and this morning is Miliband the rescuer. It seems he helped a cyclist who now thinks he is not such a geek but a handsome prince. Whatever!
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Sir Alex Ferguson resigning as manager of Manchester United was the biggest news yesterday; even Her Majesty the Queen with that fabulous tiara couldn’t keep him off the front pages. From hair dryers to whether he will become Lord Fergie; farewells and his resignation graced almost every front page this morning. It’s definitely an end of an era. Wonder will Man U now have the same problem with mangers like the rest of the clubs?

Since Thursday it seems politics went into overdrive. UKIP gaining more than 100 councillors although a surprise it was expected and many predicted it. So I don’t quite understand all the commotion.

Don’t get me wrong. I am not at all ignoring Thursday’s results or even belittling them, but I think we need to put things in prospective.

The UK independence party came almost from nowhere and won 139 county council seats. That by any standard is a result to be proud of because it took hard work and commitment to achieve. But back to that prospective, UKIP still does not control any council and have zero MPs. They will most probably, at the expense of the Conservatives and the LibDems, increase the number of their MEPs next year. But if they want to take the UK totally out of the EU, those MEPs will soon – by their party’s own doing – become obsolete.

UKIP’s surge although impressive is still young and volatile. Currently, the party have neither the knowhow nor the financial capacity to build and maintain this surge with the speed it was created. That in itself is a test and if they aren’t careful it could be their unmaking. In the past, we saw similar surges form the Greens, the BNP plus others that stalled and died in their infancy.

Nigel Farage talking about earthquakes, storms and waves of change is all well and good. But now that he leads 145 councillors. Voters, the media and the other parties will all be watching him and his elected team. To see what UKIP is about and how they work with each other and their opponents.

Winning election might seem like hard work but delivering to electorates is the hardest, even more so when you are the minority partners. We saw what happened to LibDems and even the Tories who are the larger partner.

The big issue for UKIP is not whether they are a protest vote, a pressure group or a real force here to stay. Their main concern should be how to deliver on what they promised and do the job they were elected to do. As the smaller member ( in some cases they have only one councillor) they need to work harder to be heard, become viable, make a difference and at the same time translate it all into public satisfaction.

Now the celebrations are over and the patting on the back is done next comes the work, the unforgiving test. The question everyone is asking, is UKIP able to deliver what they promised?

Dear Mr Cameron,

Our party is hurting. We are going through tough times, and like most families during hard times we need harmony and togetherness to keep us strong. To achieve this we must put to one side our personal differences and stand united as one.

Benjamin Disraeli said: “Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.”

Nadine Dorries is outspoken and brave. And this can sometimes go against the grain, nonetheless she is a loyal Conservative. Her passion for her believes and views, her constituents and our country though not unique, are what make her approachable and liked by many inside and outside politics.

Going on a TV show while the house is sitting was not her brightest moment, but her intention was good. And although that does not make what she did right however; six month without the Conservative whip, in my opinion is punishment enough.

I completely understand why you and others might be infuriated by her actions, but it’s Nadine. She is what I call a ‘Marmite politician’ – liked and admired by many while at the same time many find her difficult to like and a little irritating.

Her ability to cross the line and shock is as endearing as speaking her mind and saying what everybody else is thinking, even when she shouldn’t have.

Mr Cameron, Nadine might irritate you, and you probably irritate her back, but she is a genuine Tory, one that is very loyal and will stand by her party no matter what. She is a great asset for any leader to have on his side.

I therefore humbly request that you give Ms Dorries back the Conservative whip and bring her home into the Conservative family.

Thank you for your time and enjoy your Bank Holiday

Kindest regards

Walaa Idris