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Study finds Godwin's Law actually a Nazi invention



It has long been accepted wisdom that the first person in a debate or argument to resort to accusing someone of acting like a Nazi has lost the argument, and the concept is generally attributed to Mike Godwin in 1990. New research has discovered that the so-called Godwin's Law actually goes back a lot further.


'In 1939 the generals governing Poland are recorded as calling Adolf Hitler a Nazi, and they certainly lost that argument,' said an expert today. ' Apparently the French and Belgium leaderships called him a Nazi about that time, too. Holland, well, they could have used more circumspect language,' he suggested. 'Perhaps if these leaders of countries had moderated their language, perhaps like Gary Lineker, World War Two might have been avoided,' he added.


The expert view regarding the debate about the UK migrant deportation process that has resulted in the likes of Priti Patel and Suella Braverman being likened to Nazis is that Godwin's Law doesn't apply. 'If it walks like a duck,' suggested the expert.





First published 20 Mar 2023


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Government shows how unlike Nazis they are by swiftly and ruthlessly silencing dissent



The non-Nazi credentials of the Conservative Government were unmistakeable when they forced someone off air for not blindly towing the Government line.


“This quelling of free-speech is so unlike anything Nazis would do that I’m insulted you’d make that comparison” said Suella Braverman, Minister for Propaganda and Public Enlightenment.


Some people have said that any TV presenter who implied the Government was in any way like Nazis was not impartial and that they should be replaced with an unquestioning Government mouthpiece. These were exactly the same people who loudly boast that they’d have bravely spoken up in the face of Nazi censorship.


Preparations are currently in full-swing at Whitehall for Not Act Like A Nazi Day, on April 30th - Hitler’s Birthday. The celebration has been introduced by the Government to prove they’re not like Nazis by brutally persecuting anyone who says they are, then saying “see”.


Asked if the Tory Government was efficiently evil like the Nazis, a leading Historian of 20th century Germany said “not really…the Nazis were efficient.”




First published 13 Mar 2023


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Only fourteen right-wing parties until May elections

With right-wing parties popping up like nobody's business, pollsters are struggling to keep up with the likelihood of any given party garnering enough votes to win a constituency.


'Some of these parties don't have a proper structure in place, for example to depose the leader,' said a leading pollster without indicating whether he thought that was good or bad.  'Most do seem to have secured a decent funding line - from Russia, from Musk - before restricting themselves to donation rules that only fully apply to political parties registered with the electoral commission,' he noted, agreeing that time was running short for them to get registered, recruit sufficient party faithful, vet candidates and print leaflets.


'May isn't that far away,' he noted, speculating that the vetting could be done after the event, 'it seems to work for Reform', he said, adding, 'if it all goes wrong they can just trouser the money they've siphoned from Russia and Musk,' pointing out, 'that also seems to work for Reform.'



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