In the run-up to the fabled Cameron-Referendum, a.k.a. OUT-IN EU Referendum, there will be more and more subtle mindgames played by our ‘elites’ in Westminster: politicians, civil servants, hacks.
It’s not that they will simply be using blatant lies – they will, but these lies are easily refuted, and even repeating such lies å la Dr Goebbels, who said that a lie repeated again and again will eventually be believed, may not work.
No, they will use more subtle approaches, such as those we’ve seen this week across the MSM.
First exhibit: “Cecil the Lion”. Yes, that was horrible, but was it really worthy of days of headlines to the exclusion of other news? One anonymous commenter made the important point that it was the height of hypocrisy to mourn that lion when no such grief was pouring out over the wrecked lives of those girls who have been sexually abused by certain groups in our towns and cities over the years.
Second exhibit: suddenly there were news about a certain naughty ‘Lord’ who has resigned now. I hope you noticed that it took some time for the MSM to inform us that this ‘Lord’ was actually a former Labour politician. While it is always useful for TPTB (“The Powers That Be”) to smear the House of Lords, so horribly “reformed” by Tony Blair, again note that a naughty ‘Lord’ is more newsworthy than reports on what certain groups in our towns and cities get up to in regard to actual sex crimes.
Third exhibit: “Swarms of migrants”. Yes, the MSM do report on Calais, but Cameron’s choice of words got more vituperative comments by hacks than the actual events. While we now do get reports about what is happening at Calais, these reports are more concerned about the disruption to our traffic while the truly important question never gets asked. We get bleeding-heart opinion pieces about the poor ‘refugees’, we get reports on Ms May, the COBRA committee meetings, the money being spent, but not one hack dares ask how come that the government doesn’t even speak to the French government about dismantling that jungle which is the ‘migrant’ camp, how come the ‘Dublin Agreement’ is so blatantly disregarded, not just in France but across the EU?
The Westminster ‘elite’ seems to be quite content to let this situation in Calais go on while making token gestures, because thus nobody has time or space to talk about the EU or the Dublin Agreement.
The MSM, on the side of that ‘elite’ who are all bent on getting the “IN”-vote, are also content not to have to report on certain developments and reports about the EU which are written about on the Continent. It’s as if statements and proposals by such an eminent Europaean as the German Finance Minister, Mr Schaeuble, are of no import.
Thus, thanks to “Cecil the Lion”, thanks to a naughty ‘Lord’, thanks to “swarms of migrants” we haven’t been told that there are now serious thoughts on creating a EU-Tax. The first step would be a tax in the Euro-Zone, as proposed by Mr Schaeuble. Of course, already there are voices that this would be unfair, and that there ought to be a general EU tax. Of course this proposal hasn’t made headlines over here, because it might upset us (who likes more taxes?) and might make more people vote for ‘OUT’. Whitehall is always keen on more taxes, and after all, it’s ’only’ proposed for the Euro-Zone. So don’t even think about this tax having been something Mr Juncker has been pondering publicly, a tax we’d have to pay if we stayed in! No – let’s not mention that tax …!
The latest proposal by Mr Schaeuble is based on a valid critique of the EU Commission, namely that it is not right that the EU Commission is actually both handing out EU money and scrutinising how that money is spent. He said that extra agencies are needed to undertake such scrutiny and that the EU Commission must be restrained to control adherence to the Lisbon treaty only. At first glance, it sounds reasonable, doesn’t it! Never mind that this would be another step towards ‘ever closer Union’, one reason for that proposal given by Mr Schaeuble is that this might make it more palatable for us in the UK to stay ‘IN’.
No – these EU ‘proposals’ are of no interest over here. We will get more headlines and reports about other “Cecil the Lion” events, naughty ‘Lords’ and bleeding-heart concerns about a choice of expression unpalatable to the Westminster luvvies.
This is how the mindgames are being played, with the aim of keeping us engaged emotionally with ‘safe’ sob stories about animals and poor ‘refugees’ so that we don’t ask inconvenient questions, so that we don’t ever learn about EU proposals which would turn us all into “OUT” voters.
We must stay extra vigilant, because our “OUT” campaign relies on us, the foot soldiers and it’s for us not only to counter the ‘IN’ arguments, but to talk about events not even being reported here which will inevitably affect us should we stay ‘IN’.
We must be aware of the mindgames being played with us, because TPTB want us to feel as if we’re tilting at windmills and finally give up.
Whether it is true or not that there are attempts to distract us, the death of the lion is NOT about one lion dying, sad and awful as that was when he was cruelly shot with a bow and arrow while guarding the family’s cubs.
No, the issue for the Zimbabweans is that he was a tremendous tourist attraction that earned money for their economy, and many of them may wish that the bow and arrow was deployed against a certain disgusting old dictator who has led them a dog’s life for decades.
The really massive global MORAL issue is that a so-called educated, professional, middle-class American dentist with thousands of dollars to spare, chose to spend it, not on doing good in this world, but on satisfying his sickening blood lust to kill living creatures already endangered by humankind. This person isn’t a man, isn’t a dentist, isn’t worthy of the term ‘human’: he’s the lowest of the low, someone who kills for his own perverted pleasure. If it were humans he killed for pleasure, he’d be a serial killer – those non-human entities the Americans lock up for life or put to death. But it is ‘only’ animals he and the others like him kill, so who cares? Fortunately, millions of people care and they want to see this despicable type of ‘great white hunter’ who never risks his own life in the commission of his crimes, banned forever from their cowardly pursuits. Roll on that day.
Meanwhile, I hope that no one ever permits the dentist to put his blood-stained hands in their mouths again, and that he faces utter ruin and disgrace.
Great article.
I’ve noticed it myself as well about lord Sewel, what party is he from? I asked. Afteral the Lords has been turned into a second House of Commons with the same party whip system and full of party cronies. This is the reason the Lords doesn’t work anymore. It’s been “reformed” to death. The Lords is now just as partizan as the Commons and turned into a rubber stamp for anything the government wants to pass into law. EU laws notwithstanding as they go through without any debate. Gone are the safeguards and balances that used to exist. A dictatorship is emerging in Westminster by stealth.
In the end I looked him up on wiki and found out he was one of Tony Blairs cronies. Not mentioning what party he was from was so low key and obvious that I had to check him out. If he had been a UKIP lord, they would have put bells on the fact and for weeks we would hear nothing else; the other 2 stories would have been dropped.
I’ve often wondered why the French do nothing, absolutely blatently do nothing, but suspect we all know why they do it; they don’t want them either, why not direct them all to Calais, let the UK have them is of top priority. I can almost imagine the French people (police included) putting up signs in the multitude of languages directing migrants to the camps. The migrants know the game too and want to claim assylum in Britain as they know we are less likely to deport them and English is probably their second language.
The Cecil the lion story is just such a non-story I actually switched the news off.
So in a way TPTB succeed in playing their mind games at shutting us out from the real new as I had no idea of this EU tax being proposed. Like any new tax, it is brought in as a minor thing where they say it won’t effect many or it won’t effect you; which eventually spreads out and encompasses all areas, then it is raised gradually until the public start to sit up and complain.
There are other stories in the UK as well we are being kept blind to by the MSM, like COMMON PURPOSE and how this “charity” has infiltrated the establishment with its pro EU leadership agenda. The UK Column think they use NLP programming on its graduates in the public sector, but I think its more of a selection process to identify proEU candidates for top jobs in the public sector. When Nigel talks about 5th columnists, he’s kind of right, but he’s pointing his finger at the wrong people. This 5th columnist movement has got into the power centres and are destroying the country from within.
Then what about the rise in secret courts that surround children and any reporting of the cases involved? Secret courts without juries are the new star chambers, where they now steal your children for money and it’s all kept hidden under threats of contempt of court orders. Secret courts that politicians want to spread to other issues, in the guise of saving money, but it is attack on the very constitution of the UK, protected since Magna Carta, the right to an open fair trial by your peers.
I’ve now taken to watching UK Column news (internet based), as it highlights those stories you mentioned above and looks between the lines and the spin and many of the other news items not covered in the mainstream. UK Column was out front over 2+ years ago mentioning the paedophile scandals in Westminster and in Rotherham and many other areas all over the country, only just coming out now. The massive abuse of children in care homes by politicians using them for grooming and state sponsored child trafficking by social services and the fostering agencies, some of them infiltrated by paedophile rings. Putting children into care is now not about caring for children, it’s about money and s e x. A £2 billion industry where social workers are used as agents for fostering and adoption agencies. 68,000 children in care tells you something doesn’t it?
When was the last time a newsreader from the MSM said what the government and various politicians are doing is treason? Never. UK Column is not shy at pointing this out when it happens.
There is absolutely no chance of me being swayed by this nonsense…..
This comment is ambiguous – whose nonsense?