… watching today’s Coronation
Finally, ‘The Day’ has dawned upon us: King Charles III will be crowned today in Westminster Abbey. The MSM were, are and tomorrow will be full of this event which has even inspired this morning’s cartoon in The Times. It’s quite ingenious, mashing up Starmer, the ‘winner’ of yesterday’s local elections, and the Coronation. Have a look here.
The rest of the print editions are feverishly indulging in hyperbole: “Newspaper headlines: The King’s ‘day of destiny’ finally arrives” (link). What happened to British reticence and a disgust of displaying emotions in public? I have to give top marks to the Star’s front page! Their collage of coronation images includes a beautiful Irish wolfhound – the mascot of the Irish Guards. I shall look out for him later today. I mean – we will all watch the pomp and circumstance of the Coronation, won’t we?
For those of you who’d prefer to read something substantial instead, I recommend Matt Goodwin’s instant analysis of Thursday’s local elections, written before all results were in and published on his substack page: yesterday evening, headlined: “The party that never made a choice – What the local elections really tell us about the British Tories” (link).
He doesn’t mince his words, criticising the Tory Party. Of course, he doesn’t mention the role played by Labour in his general assessment of the state of the country – see the last two paragraphs – nor the role of the Remain mandarins. It seems this is something nobody in Westminster really wants to talk about, not when they prepare to ‘crown’ Starmer.
There are two other ‘news’ items, swamped by the Coronation ‘news’. They are important because they are hints for the coming campaigns for Net Zero. One is in the DT with the headline:
“Why millions of drivers are stubbornly sticking with their ageing old reliables – Motorists refuse to trade in their old bangers despite electric car push” (paywalled link)
Good question! It’s of course inconceivable that all those stupid peasants were checking their personal budgets and decided not to spend their money on EVs which are only useful as 2nd car, and that the current car will do very well until things have settled a bit. After all, energy prices are still obscenely high.
Moreover – aren’t’ all the MSM still beating their war drums, providing both war~ and fear~porn every day? Why would any sane person splash out their hard-earned money when it might well be needed for things such as food?
The other ‘news’ item is a report in Remain Central, playing on that other ‘fear item’, in tune with the climate terrorists: “Spain heatwaves ‘almost impossible’ without man-made climate change” (link, paywalled).
So there was a ‘heatwave’ in Spain and Portugal last month, with ‘unseasonably high temperatures’, was there? Strangely enough, the climate change ‘researchers’ seem to have been unaware of the fact that no such heatwave had hit the eastern Mediterranean, nor Greece, Italy or France at the same time.
I’m just asking – if it’s ‘global’ then it should be noticed everywhere, no? Yet again, we get ‘climate change’ when it’s hot because it suits that narrative, we never get ‘its only weather’ which we get slapped round our heads when we point out that it’s colder than usual.
Both these ‘news’ items are aimed at supporting the Net Zero policies in the coming days and months. Will we hear words to that effect from the new ‘Great Leader’ Starmer? Will Labour show how much it is the Tory Party Mk II by pursuing the same policies which damage their former clients, the actual workers and the poor?
Moreover, from what ‘sources’ told me, a lot of new ‘green’ local councillors were voted in, so surely it’s what people want? Will Starmer, will Labour come clear about this? Perhaps the next government will look like Germany’s, with a coalition of Lib, Lab and Green if we do end up with a hung parliament?
Will we end up like the Germans where the Greens are in a coalition government, now dismantling German industries, continuing the covid-induced destruction of their High Streets even further, stymying house building thanks to ever more insane ‘green’ regulations and increasing the tax burden?
Meanwhile, disregard the anti-monarchists given so much space in our glorious MSM: they cannot ‘redact out’ the masses on the streets who love the Royals, who love the Monarchy and who will show their delight.
Unlike those who’ve missed history lessons in school – that’s most of the current crop of ‘young influencers’ – we monarchist plebs know that the monarch isn’t ‘making the laws’ and can’t throw traitors into the Tower to have their heads chopped off (more’s the pity …).
That’s all I have for today. Enjoy the Coronation because nobody really can produce Pomp and Circumstances like we do. I shall look out for Seamus … Have a good weekend.
A couple of things.
I`ve been searching for a record of voter turnout at these 2023 local elections.
It occurred to me that if it is below 50% then we might say “The silent majority has spoken” and that wouldn`t be taking into account spoiled votes..
The other thing on my mind is I have just been reading a book by R.F.Delderfield “A horsemen riding by “, book 2 and I have just got to a section dealing with WW1 (often called the Great War)
Apparently according to this story many of those taking part or onlooking at home were so shocked that they said ” it should never happen again” and it was said to be “the war that ended all wars”
Be that as it may, it wasn`t long before we got another World War and I suppose after this last one, there was a similar spirit abroad and we ended up with the UN and security council. supposedly to settle disputes peacefully
But realistically I suppose there have been some sort of conflagrations going on all around the world ever since the end of WW2.
My thought is (bearing 2050 in mind – carbon Zero)
there must be so much expenditure of carbon in producing all the weapons used, the ammunition expended, never mind the normal manufacture of weapons (for so called peaceful use and storage purposes.
That 2050 will be an unobtainable target unless the whole world is at peace and the production of weapons cease and services are disbanded.and we all know that is unlikely to happen
Perhaps some body will tell me I am talking nonsense or if I am not then those glueing themselves to roads and interrupting normal patterns of life so grievously are either intensely ignorant or living and telling a LIE, in other words misleading a gullible public.
Or perhaps I am mistaken, maybe the two events are linked and the public are not hoodwinked (as they weren`t also at the Brexit referendum) they are the Silent Majority who just march with their feet (i.e.don`t direct them towards the polling booths)
I apologise wholeheartedly for my dumb question above regarding percentage turnout!
I hadn`t noticed Jake Bennett had already drawn our attention to the fact that “record lows” had already been commented on in an article published by The Conservative Woman (TCW)
I duly read this article and some of the comments appended, which while not mentioning my point of the “Silent Majority marching with their feet” away from the polling booths, reminded me of a further reason for voter resistance to Local Authority officials who had become” over enthusiastic” (Euphemism??) in ENFORCING the mandates and strictures imposed on the whole population during Covid lock downs.
In effect the government had required Local authorities to carry out their “dirty work” mandated and supported by a bribe of £10,000 “Expenses” on the effects of regulations “passed virtually on the nod” in a parliament truncated of attending members and all said to have been imposed on the authority of some existing dodgy “enabling motion” (i.e. the legislation for which did not even have to be examined by parliament)
I have written a few comments over the last few days about my adventures with a poster I saw in my doctor`s waiting area which asked the following question.
CONFUSED
UNHAPPY
WORRIED
SCARED
ANGRY
Could it be that many of the “stay-aways” were reacting to these dumb questions from useless, impractical unseeing uncaring and downright DANGEROUS authorities ? and peopled by Ministers who had little concept of Science and particularly Medical Science and used Nudge Units to hide their true malevolent intentions and foster CONFUSION
People treated like “sheeple” do not forget the outrageous restrictions imposed during Covid Lockdowns (since found to be largely unneccesary) whereby they couldn`t have free movement, they couldn`t visit their relatives confined to homes or visit and comfort their dying friends and relatives in hospital or even properly mourn at funerals (remember even the Queen mourning alone the death of her husband)
Yes! many question the relevance of political parties standing at local elections to those political parties who sit in Westminster perhaps the connection is now seen all too well that in circumstances where the government mandates Local Authorities to do their dirty work the local parties are an apparent funnel for passing the instructions from above “they are all tarred with the same brush”
We have every right to be UNHAPPY WORRIED SCARED and Bl**dy ANGRY, march with our feet and call “a POX on all politicians
Hail the “Silent Majority” I`m sure many have got the message – some stayed away and others , like me, did attend, but spoiled our papers and thus hopefully,spoke of our ANGER out loud.
I only wish I could detect amongst this Silent Majority a bit of “seething” and wish to unite in acts of Civil Disobedience, but staying away is a start I suppose – we are still needing a rabble rouser to get the mass moving (I`m there with CH all the way – I too like his suggestion of Ben Habib)
Roger Turner. R F Delderfield was a very good author. All his books are well worth reading. Also I agree with what you say about low turn out and spoiling the ballott paper.
I think we should look out for buried bad news as that’s what usually happens when you take your eye off the ball.
The BBC has reported that Reform UK made very little impact in the local elections this week. That is the understatement of the year. I would have said that they made no impact at all. They have said that the party won 6 council seats all of which were already held by them, so no new seats, which is a derisory amount for a party whose leader said recently that he would wipe the Conservatives away at the next general election. More telling however is that the average share of the vote where they stood candidates was 6%, whereas in 2019 where UKIP stood candidates the average share of the vote was 19%. I think one can say with a degree of certainty that Reform UK are already a busted flush and will never achieve anything electorally under the present leadership. Tice and Co should hang their heads in shame and step down, to allow a new leadership team to take over. However, the deputy leader of the UK Independence Party delivered a good speech on the party Facebook site after the election results had been completed, and I think they are best placed to lead the centre right from hereon now if the local party infrastructure can be rebuilt, unless a new party comes to light to lead the charge that is.
“Spain heatwaves ‘almost impossible’ without man-made climate change”
Having spent a good deal of time in Spain I consider that statement just another lie from the climate change nutters.
An ex UKIP crony of vaguely Irish extraction purchased from a car-boot sale, for me, and had fitted, a large carriage lamp for my front door.. It seemed a little opulent for such as myself . but ‘erm.
“The unrewarded winner on Thursday was the Abstain Party, with 68 per cent of the overall constituency in contested councils. In some places they got over 80 per cent. Truly, there is something badly wrong with our democracy.”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/empty-polling-stations-are-we-still-living-in-a-democracy/
I agree Jake. Just take a look at the new political map of the south east in particular which once formed the bedrock of the Conservative heartlands. Nearly every single borough had large Conservative majorities which they have lost through sheer negligence and complacency, which have now they gone to No Overall Control, and the Green Party and the Liberal Democrats have been the biggest benefactors of this. That old misguided fool Starmer thinks he is on course to 10 Downing Street in 2025, but I think he is in for one hell of a shock in that he will not win a majority because in my humble opinion those former Conservative voters will not vote en masse for a confirmed leftie like him or his party but will instead lend their vote to the Liberal Democrats I think we could well see in excess of 100 Liberal Democrat MP’s in the House of Commons after the next election. The Borough Council where I live has had very large majorities since the First World War, and in my ward the three councillors had always been Conservatives with large majorities, although in 2015 I came close to pinching one of their seats for UKIP. On Thursday they were thumped good and proper and now all three councilors are Green Party, and the massive majorities belong to them instead.
I went to a coronation dinner last night – black tie and with a live band to accompany patriotic singing at the end. I sang along but with a mix of rueful feelings over lines such as ‘land of the free’ and ‘Britons never, never shall be slaves’. I felt there was a lack of optimism among us in contrast to a Jubilee dinner last June. Nothing too explicit but a lurking under current of uncertainty, a sense perhaps that our fidelity to tradition could no longer be indulged with confidence in its continuation. We did our best of course and it was enjoyable but it was hard to forgo the feeling that we were an anachronism, a dwindling tribe set to be wiped out by the onslaught of modernity. On a brighter note, the ladies looked fabulous in their long dresses and probably had the most fun.
Mrs Yeoman tells me that Sunak is going to speak in Hindi at the coronation. Speaking in a foreign language is something done when visiting a country, a way of showing respect to the host as when the Queen visited Ireland and began a speech with a few sentences of Irish. To speak a language different from a host country’s is an act of colonisation. Among whom is this thought to play well?
I have moved past “raging against the dying of the light” (of the Enlightenment at least) and these days merely duck and dive in the hope that I can see out my days by avoiding room 101.
Mrs Y said she heard the hindi bit announced on the radio. A wind up it seems
Was Nigel Farage at this Coronation dinner as well? I would have liked to have got his take on the much talked about possible CDO defection to Reform UK which never materialised.
No he wasn’t. Farage and Campbell-Bannerman (co-founder of CDO) are pally – CB used to be a UKIP MEP- and they keep in touch. CB is chairman of two conservative associations and wants to reform the party from within, He would not know of or support alleged defectors and I suspect that it is wishful thinking by Tice anyway. Tory MPs disposed to change horses will only do so if they feel Reform is electorally credible enough to make keeping a seat viable. No prospect of that so no defections. Your 2.17pm comments sums things up nicely.
Stout Yeoman……this is the big problem, and also extremely depressing. All the leaders of the right of centre parties are saying they are making progress, but progress in what? I have just been onto the Heritage Party’s Facebook site in addition to David Kurten’s Facebook, and he is saying the same. The one Heritage Party candidate that stood in the Borough Council elections in my neck of the woods only got 77 votes. If that figure is deemed to be progress in his mind then the standards bar must be set extremely low. The only way it can be looked at as progress is that the candidate got 77 more votes than last time because they didn’t stand in 2019 the last time the Borough Council elections were held, because the party didn’t exist. The Heritage Party, like Reform UK etc etc are all derived from the implosion of the UK Independence Party and in essence are splinter groups. Even in 2019 our local UKIP branch association fielded seven candidates, all of which polled at least 400 votes and and in once case 1400 votes, but still didn’t get elected. That is where the bar should be set, and anything less than 400 votes should be held up as an unmitigated electoral disaster. With the exception of Reform UK who regularly have a percentage vote share of between 3 and 4% whilst the others are well below 1%. Whatever the case, they are all doing very badly in my opinion as a party needs to be breaking the 25% percentage barrier to stand any chance of being elected.
GB News showed the coronation. Farage was the main commentator.
HA………thanks for that information 24 hours after the event. I would never have guessed that GB News might have covered the King’s Coronation. However, GB News outside broadcast unit did not film the proceedings as this was done by the BBC. Just saying…….
Yuk! I was just watching Pierce Brosnan saying nice things about King Charles and a lot of other people too; it’s enough to make you throw up.
How about this article from The Mirror:
“Prince Charles wrote to pedophile Jimmy Savile for help with Royal Family image”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/prince-charles-asked-paedophile-jimmy-26644394
And of course Charles brother was a close friend of Epstein, another pedophile and child trafficker. It’s strange how all of these royals have such an affinity for pedophiles and child traffickers; no coincidence I think. What does this say about all of the ar*e licking royal fanciers queuing up to heap nauseating praise on Charles?
I think Dylan Mulvaney may be available to offer her services to the House of Windsor
Jake- I feel no shame by saying I had to look up this name. Apparently a perverted A-merican Co-meejan – B Liar (call me Tone) would no doubt, have invited him to No 10 if B Liar was still there.
OK accepted, a A-merican Co-meejan is a contradiction in terms, same as most / all GB comedians.
Re. Personal transport.
The “greenest” thing you can do is to keep your old car running as long as possible.
I’m sure that’s what lots of people will be doing anyway.
HA……….in your case that must be a very antiquated Sinclair C5 then!!!