"My position however, is that Lying Don's rhetoric on Sweden is grossly exaggerated, agenda-driver and almost certainly an uncritical and unchecked relaying of a doctored and dishonest report he saw on Faux News."

Nothing to see here move on.

Or here .

Definitely not here .

Or even here .

So in Phil''s world Sweden is all quiet and peaceful and Donald and Faux News are just making it up? If anyone's making things up it has to be Phil who started by announcing that the rapes in 2015 were the same as 215 when they had all but doubled.

I hold no brief to Trump, except that I hope he will be a good president for the USA, as I did for Obama, who it turned out wasn't, but Phil's knee jerk reaction to what he said without checking first if there was anything to it, and the his ignoring, what 10? different newspaper stories showing rape and mayhem in Sweden smacks of cognotive dissonance.

C'mon Phil you're better than that mate.

Infowars?

Geronimo, you're better than that mate. When will this 'carnage' show up in the crime stats?

Yep- Those car fires in Sweden are horrific.

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-news/97012/arson-blamed-for-a-third-of-all-vehicle-fires

Narrators gotta narrate; deviation from the script is verboten.
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More than a third of the 54,445 vehicle fires in Britain in the last three years were started deliberately, an exclusive investigation by Auto Express has found.

The 51 fire and rescue services attended an average of 18,148 car fires a year, putting out nearly 50 torched vehicles a day with 35.8 per cent deliberately started since 2013.

Tim's interlocutor had footage of what? Three fires in a month? 'Problems like they never thought possible'.

You messed up RR, with a bit more Googling you could have located Youtube videos demonstrating that Sweden has suffered a 900% increase in violent crime, and that Muslim criminal gangs now control 53 no go areas …

C'mon Phil you're better than that mate.

Mar 1, 2017 at 10:23 AM | geronimo

Actually, he has done well to divert attention away from Trump, and his forthcoming budget announcements on March 13th, which do not bode well for fraudsters in Climate Science. Hopefully the 3% of honest Climate Scientists won't suffer as innocent victims of other people's crimes.

It is amazing how few leaks about US Policy the Green Blob have access to, now that John Holdren doesn't have a desk in the White House.

Lying Phil Clarke will always have something in common with Lying Climate Scientists.

Martin A, in the UK cases of car fires caused by spontaneous combustion are remarkably rare, unless criminal low life has had recent contact. Under-bonnet engine-bay car fires do tend to involve leaking fuel, but hot exhaust pipes are not hot enough to cause ignition of petrol or petrol vapour. An electrical spark is, even momentarily, hot enough to ignite petrol vapour.

A lit cigarette can be extinguished by dropping it into petrol.

Radical Rodent, Climate Science has been saying the world will burn, if we don't pay them lots of money.

I think the Kray Twins and Mafia operated similar protection rackets.

Things have been bubbling in the banlieue of Paris for 10 days without any mention on mainstream BBC. While working in Amsterdam in the 2000s,I met many Swedish folk who were apprehensive about immigration from countries that do not have Scandinavian weather. They talked about no-go areas even then. And official stats are always massaged when there is no objective measure. You cannot go by arrests if the police do not make arrests for various social reasons.... Keep it among the community. Just like the Sicilian Mafia, it is not a crime unless it is prosecuted. But that does not mean that crime is absent.

Mar 1, 2017 at 10:00 PM | Diogenes

Changing the "rules" about recording crime, is the easiest way to declare particular crimes in particular areas are decreasing/increasing, as required, by whoever gets to decide how the rules are changed.

Gosh! meeting with the Russian Ambassador is now not considered to be having contact with the Russians. Attorneys General are not what they used to be.

"Personally I expect good business people and politicians to lie."

So sad.
How low we have sunk.
How low our expectations.

Mar 2, 2017 at 9:30 AM | Supertroll

I share your disappointment, but Politicians, whatever the colour of the Flag they fly, have always specialised in lying. This seems to be where Climate Scientists went wrong, when they politicised science for personal gain.

Bremoaners and anti Trumpers seem to lack cognitive skills. Even the rabidly stupid Guardian reported

“I never met with any Russian officials to discuss issues of the campaign,” Sessions’ statement said.

As a Senator on the Armed Services Committee, Jeff Sessions has met with 25 foreign ambassadors. Diogenes has it right, and Alan has been stampeded into error by biased news.
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Diogenes. I did note the careful praising of Sesson's statement, but people seeking positions of power should not only be clean, but should be seen to be clean. When asked by the committee about contacts with the Russians he should have volunteered the information that he had meet with the ambassador for other purposes. Nobody else with the same role felt it necessary to meet with the ambassador. It might be innocent but it smells bad.
It only impacts Trump in terms of him potentially appointing yet another dubious person.

Find the question and the context, Alan.
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