Watching the hypocrites …
There’s a bit of brain-fog going around, so for today I’m forced to keep things short but not very sweet. My review of a new Matt Goodwin essay is postponed to next week. Let’s start with the reference to the Westminster ‘News’: “Newspaper headlines: ‘We three kings’ and ‘Phil fights for job’.” (link). In case you wondered: yon ‘Phil’ is someone on telly.
And so to the infuriating ‘news’. In case you’re unaware, there’s this telly thingie called ‘Eurovision Song Contest’ tonight. The BBC had graciously offered to host the event because the ‘winner’ last year was the Ukraine, and as we all know, they now need more weapons and thus can’t ‘do’ an international telly event.
Yesterday we read that the president of yon country, a former TV ‘personality’ who has taken to the airwaves to ‘appear’ practically everywhere and any ‘event’, wanted to address the international watchers of the song contest. The BBC declined, saying that this contest was ‘unpolitical’ and such an address could not be permitted. Now we read that:
“The BBC [is] urged to overrule decision by Eurovision organisers and let Zelensky speak – Prime Minister says it would be fitting for the Ukrainian president to make an address as the ‘values’ he is fighting for are ‘fundamental’” (paywalled link).
What the fluff? What sort of ‘values’ are those where an international lot of ‘music-loving’ masses who generally can’t be bovvered with politics, must be lectured to about yon war, never mind if they want to hear pop music?
Well, let them do it, why not: ‘tis the best way of showing that even a pop song contest is now politics and propaganda pure. Why not place loudspeakers on ever lamp-post and force people to listen to propaganda? Tha would at least be honest!
The other news item is a lovely puff piece in The Times, about Ms Rachel Reeves, the Labour Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. The headline had me clutching my coffee mug, ready to throw at the wall – but I just remembered I’d have to buy a new one now, an unnecessary expense in these times of ‘cost-of-living crisis’: “Rachel Reeves: ‘I wouldn’t send my children to private school. I want them to see the world as it is’” (link, paywalled).
Oh really? She wants her kids taught not much at all, in classes with ever more pupils unable to speak English, in schools where drag queens and trans ideology are thrust down their throats rather than English literature because that’s now irrelevant and damaging because ‘white privilege, slavery, colonialism, racism, sexism’, and all that jazz? Sure she does!
She herself was educated at a School for Girls, so not the Labour gold standard of an inner-city comprehensive. There’s more:
“[She] studied philosophy, politics and economics at New College, Oxford; MSc in economics from the London School of Economics. She joined the Bank of England as an economist after graduating. Left in 2006 to join HBOS in Leeds after turning down a job at Goldman Sachs.” (link, paywalled)
You decide if being ‘a banker’ is ok for a Labour politician or if it’s a piece of blatant hypocrisy. Also, having worked at the BoE should actually be a stain on a lefty’s escutcheon. Wait – her not ‘joining ‘Goldman Sachs’ probably absolved her …
I leave you with a stomach-turning piece in The Times. This refers to the “Three Kings”, the official photo of King Charles III flanked by Princes William and George. For reference, there’s a non-paywalled article in the DM, with the photo. Now though, the piece in The Times, headlined
“Trussing up George as a pageboy doesn’t sit well with a modern monarchy – Official portraits show how the nine-year-old prince’s destiny is fixed, but they’ll look odd by the time he is king” (link, paywalled)
To be fair: this thing comes in two parts. In the first part the reporter gives a cool, factual description which doesn’t fit the headline. The second part, written by a self-proclaimed ‘republican’, is an opinion piece which makes me wonder what ‘future’ yon writer and all the other republicans envisage (my emphasis):
“[..] not only people of my persuasion will feel uncomfortable at the sight of a nine-year-old boy exposed so glaringly to the public gaze in such a formal setting. Fair enough, we see pictures of Prince George all the time, but this one feels different. It places the boy starkly in the context of his role as a future king. Trussed up in Page of Honour kit, his dad and grandpa in even more opulent, ostentatious (not to say priceless) gear, the image says “this boy was born to be king” – and by the time he becomes one, maybe 50 years from now, the idea of a destiny fixed at the moment of birth is going to look seriously weird.” (link, paywalled)
It’s the ‘destiny fixed at birth’ I take issue with, because Western oligarchs – we call them ‘entrepreneurs’ – are and haven been doing this for their offspring for decades. The sons of a certain Mr S., multi-billionaire, are ensconced in his various ‘charities’ which aim to overthrow regimes from inside. You’ve heard of ‘Open Society’ …
We’ve also heard of ‘Labour Princes’, offspring of certain Labour politicians, haven’t we. Moreover, why is there a new word, ‘nepo-babies’, in use if not because their ‘destiny’, to climb the greasy pole regardless, is also fixed at birth? Surely, what’s sauce for the non-royal goose should be sauce for the royal gander, no?
That’s all I have for today. It’s not only the blatant hypocrisy which makes me furious, it’s the surreptitious one which has truly become the ‘unconscious bias’ of the Left. Have a good weekend.
If Tricky Summat wants to suckseed (sic) in his quest to get EElenskie on the Euro Song Contest slot, shurely ( sic), it must be on the basis that
1. EE plays musak on a piano with No Hands before making any speeches.
2. Tricksie explains afterwards why he supports the Ukie Naziz (sic) and explains why their bombing of their own civilians since 2015 is acceptable and why he has authorised the GIFT of more weapons, that were used yesterday, to attack civilian infrastructure.
3. And further explains why his policy of keeping the killing on both sides is the way forward and not that of The Trump, ( for whom I have no bugle), who on CNN, stated the aim should be to STOP IT NOW.
If only we had HoC Peacocks who could raise these issues and a Speaker of the House who could give vent to such discussions, eh Biscotte? (following on from yesterday).
Butteries (sic)- for the sake of Col. Aitch, I presume you mean Maharaja Ritchie.
No one in HoC will put their head above that wall. They are all too busy looking for board of directors sinecures, before the results of the 2024 election are given.
Isn’t it great that we chucked all five of our (millions of quid each) missiles over to the guy with the stolen tramp’s clothes. And he has used them to great effect against the civilian population. As they say – Bizniz!
What would happen do you think, if Poccia lobbed a kinsal missile at Wembly stadium pitch one night at say 2.30 a.m.? Perhaps Maharaja Richie’s elephants may have to be housed elsewhere. All that elephant poo scared out of them could go on the ‘green’ No 10 veggy patch.
When my youngest started school in the nineties pre-school and juniors, (I managed to get him into the only Catholic school in the area as they were very disciplined). The system worked well and he went on to the local Comp in the top stream. Within a few months he was practically suicidal with the bullying and poor education which was never great but I thought he would cope. His reaction was to appease the bullies which just encouraged them. The school did nothing.
When my husband and I made an appointment with the headmistress we arrived to be told by a friend in the reception desk that we would be seeing a head of year as confidentially the headmistress wouldn’t speak to us as we were not Welsh speakers even though my son was in an English stream. At that point steam started coming out of my head and I exploded. I did not want to see the head of year. I made my feelings known (without getting the receptionist into trouble) and left.
After much soul searching we found him a place at the only independent school in the County and I did 120 miles a day, mostly country roads, during term time for four years. He achieved 12 good GCSE’s and went to tertiary college for A levels where he did well in maths and science and went on to university eventually receiving a doctorate in space physics.
I am disgusted with the education system which is indoctrination on a grand scale.. It is clear frontal talking to a great niece recently that they have been completely brainwashed. The only schools that do not spout all this garbage are unaffordable to most (we made a lot of sacrifices), or in exclusive areas. The school system is designed to keep education dumbed down for the masses.
Tony Blair said “Education, education, education”. He failed to complete the sentence with “… is how we will ruin a once great country and turn it into a mere low ranked region in the globalised world along with open borders”.
Whilst enriching himself and his family!
You are a hero Lisa Good luck and all the best. for all your children’s futures.
Sunak out, and the sooner the better. He has failed on just about everything that matters, and we cant have another 15 months of pure muppetry…
If Diane Abbot was still the party luvvy Rachel Reeves could get advice on how to promote state education for others whilst surreptitiously sending their own children to private school. Again, any sucker who believes one word that comes from the mouth of any establishment politician needs help (private or state).
The UK’s public schools and Russell Group universities are already dependent on foreign students with wealthy parents of whom there are many from the Middle East to China. If Labour remove the charitable status of public schools, and so their exemption from charging VAT, fees will have to increase. This will reduce the number of British parents who can afford to buy an education for their children (as Dianne Abbott did) and the number of bursaries public schools give may fall. This will level down education in this country as more are forced into state schooling and turn public schools, sought after for their worldwide reputation, into resources for wealthy foreigners only.
This politics of envy will not remove ‘unfairness’ as the wealthy who might have sent their children to a public school have the means to purchase property and so play the postcode game to advantage their children. The Labour elite will be among them while masquerading as champions of fairness and equality.
In Texas, the state legislature only meets in odd numbered years and so every other year. And when it does meet it is limited to a maximum of 140 days. By this means the constitution of Texas restricts how much its government can interfere in the lives of its citizens. Marvellous.
If only we had a similar system. Tony Blair introduced about 3000 new laws, Under a Texas style system he would not have been able to meddle in our lives to the extent that he did nor would Cameron et al. An incoming Labour government would also be restricted. We just do not need government passing new laws and regulations more or less continuously. Most people want to be left alone. It is the one thing we never get.
Sorry to be off topic but this you need to see. Neil McCoy-Ward analyses the UK consultation paper about the Central Bank Digital Currency, but it shouldn’t be called a consultation, it should be called a declaration because they’re going to do it anyway.
You won’t like this, it’s very dystopian control freakery that will ruin your lives but it’s coming. This is a great analysis, at 45 minutes long you should still watch it, even if it is frightening and depressing, at least you’ll be forewarned and thus forearmed.
“It’s Worse Than We Thought! (THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING!)”
Yes Flyer I have seen this as I follow Neil McCoy-Ward too. I just don’t know how we can put a stop to it.
Revolution would seem to be the only solution; no wonder Bliar removed the right for most to bear arms. However we would surely be opposed by generation snowflake.
With the same pyschopaths’ inability not to secretly (they think) advertise their supremacy and cleverness, and inwardly smirk – it’s their only emotion – as those who chose to test the ‘national alert’, fear-and-control-by-phone system, on St George’s Day, the U.S. Federal Reserve (which contrary to its name is a privately owned company) has I just heard chosen to launch the new Digital Dollar on July the 4th; Independence Day. No one voted for it. Talk about rubbing the plebs’ noses in it.
CBDCs; another globalist plank they openly forecast and puffed, that was still branded a conspiracy theory only months back, and right on cue as per their own plan. Observations and truths labelled conspiracy theories on all fronts (climate, health, finance, social engineering, that ‘far way’ war) are emerging as fact at an accelerating rate, as their implementation nears or their disastrous consequences can no longer be hidden. 2023 is beginning to feel like a hinge-point in world history where hindsight will show paradigms changed. But as always it will be the winners who write the history and declare whether for good or bad.