THE CHEQUERS SELL-OUT
Now we know! See today’s headlines in the MSM: Theresa May and her remainer colleagues have indeed sold us out yesterday at Chequers.
You can read the actual text of the communique for example in this report. It is quite obvious that this is the BRINO (Brexit In Name Only) we all feared. It is indeed a capitulation, as this report points out. Brexiteers are angry – see the various articles in The Express today. Some prominent Tory Brexiteers are not just criticising this Cabinet Plan but threaten to vote against it (see Jacob Rees Mogg here, for example), but we ask them: what are you going to do about it? More lovely words and headlines achieving nothing much except get you into the headlines?
What baffles me is – why did the Brexiteer Cabinet members not resign? And why does Ms May and the Remoaners think we and the EU will now live happily ever after?
Let’s take the first one: why are the Goves and Johnsons, why are the Davis, Foxes et al still sitting there? Do they not know that they have now lost all credibility? That they have shown us that they prefer staying glued to their privileged seats rather than stand up for Brexit? That their supine performance now tells us that their Brexit Campaign for Leave two years ago was just a political scam to gain personal power?
Do they still not realise that all of us Brexiteers voted Leave because we did not buy the lies of the politicians from Cameron down? That we did not and do not respect those who use the vital affairs of this, our country, as political football to keep their trotters in the trough?
Obviously not!
Allegedly Ms May threatened Boris Johnson with dismissal from his post as Foreign Secretary if he didn’t submit (see here). Well, he’s still in the Foreign office, isn’t he … Mr Davis is still ‘Brexit Minister’, isn’t he … Mr Liam Fox is still … as is Mr Gove …
We can assume that Ms May told her cabinet ‘my way or the Highway’ – and they meekly submitted. But they did go home to plot: apparently the Brexiteer Cabinet members did meet and talked amongst themselves yesterday evening.
So will we see the Tory government unravel in the next few days? Will Ms May have to demand a vote of confidence? Will she lose? Or will everybody go home for the summer holidays?
Here is another and far worse aspect to this despicable sell-out document: it is always interesting and indeed significant to take note when your enemies praise what you’ve been doing. It surely should give even Ms May pause for thought when for example the CBI, one of the foremost Remoan institutions, praises her Chequers Paper. But far worse is the Barnier quote:
“Barnier tweeted that the proposals were welcome, but that they would have to be assessed “to see if they are workable & realistic in view of [European Council] guidelines.”
We’ve watched the EU as represented by M Barnier treat us, a sovereign country, and our government, as elected by us as sovereign people, like unruly school kids who are incapable of doing their homework properly. Everything Ms May’s government has propsoed has been brushed aside as ‘not good enough’. Doesn’t this bother anyone in Government, Whitehall, the metro-establishment?
We all have seen how Ms May, how our Brexit negotiators, have been humiliated again and again – all except those Whitehall Remain serpents like Ms May’s Ollie Robbins who, as unelected civil serpent, has become her Brexit negotiator, stabbing her own Brexit minister in the back – repeatedly. Doesn’t this bother the Leave Cabinet ministers one little bit?
We’ve watched how Ms May has been selling out our Fisheries, how she is now selling us out to the EU in regard to a customs border … so that ‘perishable food stuff does not get held up’ at border crossings. How caring! As for immigration – well, she’s going to be hard but soft all in one go. And she is keeping us tied to the ECJ – one of the main points why we voted Leave. We all might as well not have bothered voting for Brexit!
And now we should put our hopes in that handful of Tory Brexiteers? When their Cabinet representatives have caved in to Ms May? Really?
And what about our own Nigel Farage? He’s on record as saying he’ll come back into front-line politics should Brexit be sold out. So what will he do now? Give up his job at LBC?
But there’s worse: this sell-out will be a 24-hour-wonder, sunk without a trace in the MSM. There’s the best summer for decades to write about – a summer which most people are enjoying to the hilt – and why not! – while disregarding politics. Then there’s the World Cup which has the nation glued to their TVs – and why not! Brazil is out! Perhaps it is ‘coming home’? Politics are taking a backseat in the Nation’s consciousness. Our ‘masters’ are utilising that to drive their sell-out through and we are impotent to do anything about it.
We will not forget though, and should it indeed come to pass that there’s a confidence vote with an ensuing General Election then we can present our reckoning the only way we have: at the ballot box. I do hope all branches have followed Gerard’s “Red Alert” and have started preparations for a GE. If not – do it now!
Oh – and there’s always one silver lining to even the blackest of black clouds. It’s reported that work in Whitehall is going ahead for a no-deal hard Brexit. Let’s hope there are some patriots in those august halls who are as sickened by the humiliating way the EU has treated our sovereign country as we Brexiteers are. Perhaps the EU in their hubris do what they have done so far: thwarting even this sell-out for the sake of humiliating us, thus making clear even to the blindest of remoaners that there’s only one way left: the hardest of Brexits, the ‘No Deal’ Brexit.
The latest news on UKIP’s web site is “Poland must not tolerate EU threats over EU migrant quotas”, dated three days ago. As far as UKIP’s web site is concerned nothing important has happened this weekend.
That really is unacceptable.
An open goal for Ukip. So many saying they will never vote Tory again, and a momentum/Labour government unthinkable… until now. But if Tory voters sit on their hands, PM Corbyn here we come.
So WHERE IS THE PUBLIC VOICE OF UKIP?
WHERE ARE THE PARTY SPOKESPEOPLE TELLING THE PUBLIC THEY NOW HAVE BUT ONE CHOICE?
THAT THERE IS ONLY ONE HONEST PARTY IN THE UK THAT GENUINELY CAN GIVE THEM THEIR COUNTRY BACK? UKIP.
I obviously can’t monitor the entire media, but I have heard nothing; not a squeak.
Gerald’s tweet of quiet, reason and disgust at the betrayal is lost like a whisper in the wind;
he could at least have sounded angry and detailed a plan of attack.
Prepare for a GE is all well and good, but using a key moment to re-engage the public with Ukip is surely the prime driver.
If ever there was a diem to carpe, so to speak, this is it.
It’s brilliant that the sainted PJW, Carl Benjamin, Milo and Dankula have all signed up, but that alone ain’t gonna do it.
I deliberately stopped reading ukipdaily for a few weeks, and do you know what?
Outside this little sounding box, there is SILENCE, INVISIBILITY.
The country has forgotten Ukip exists, except for the odd columnists with their dismissive misrepresentations.
Henry Bolton said he wanted to give Ukip a constant media presence. Get it in the public eye. Exactly, I thought. But nothing came and he was criticised for weeks of silence. Much as I admire Gerald, and I am sure he will give the same reasons that did nothing for Henry (sorting out the dire state of every aspect of the party, etc), that begins to look like displacement activity. It is generally agreed that under Nigel the party was a shambles, but he was out there relentlessly pressing the message. And it worked. I’d rather have it that way around.
Please don’t take this as criticism of the party or the people, whose efforts I have never ceased to admire and applaud, but surely a change of emphasis and a rapid change of gear need to happen pretty damn quickly to capitalise on the current mood of anger and despair.
Do watch the video Gerard Batten posted earlier on his twitter account – I’ve linked to it in the comments below. He answers your questions.
Viv, I did mention that I had watched it. I know that’s his style, which I would normally applaud in a politician, but the scale and enormity of what is happening demands clear passion. And how many people did that reach, and how many of those were ‘already of our persuasion.’ I am guessing all the media are keeping him well out of sight, but that’s where he needs to be.
So what can we do about it…we can’t just sit here and let them get away with yet another betrayal.
May said Brexit means Brexit – she lied so must be held accountable.
What can we do about it is the million dollar question, Ziva. We Brits are a tolerant people; we allow an influx of people into our country and welcome them, even if they don’t adhere to our values and customs. But when we’re pushed too far, we explode.
That’s called revolution – and it may be on its way.
I’m 70 at Christmas but bring it on i say.
I sat through Heath’s betrayal and felt powerless…nothing has changed it seems. Where are the politicians with a backbone who can stand up to Treason May because i can’t see any.
NO DEAL is all i will accept now and i know i’m not alone and to be honest it’s all that will save May.
There are a lot of us who think that way too, Ziva. All we can do is work as hard as we can to get Kippers elected because that seems to be the only way we can get rid of these spineless traitors.
Watch Gerard’s video here:
https://twitter.com/GerardBattenMEP/status/1015597930433179649
He’s absolutely right, nothing will ever change while the Tory/LibDem/Labour cabal remains in power in this country. And likewise when compared to the Greens, SNP, Plaid Cymru, Sinn Fein etc, UKIP is probably the ONLY party that has the interests of ALL the peoples of the UK at heart.
On a side note, the Labour party must be kicking themselves, because the Tories now have practically the same policy on Brexit as they do.
Leave.EU’s Facebook post sums things up nicely, as I predicted, facets of EU membership just get ‘rebranded’ as something else, while staying exactly the same:
https://www.facebook.com/leaveeuofficial/photos/a.805855112846065.1073741829.794492093982367/1722443724520528/?type=3&theater
Thanks Viv – great article,
Like Flyer was awaiting your response to this crass conservative capitulation.
May Ibe given leave to add Andrea Leadsom to your list of failures
(I keep on forgetting to add L Fox to my lists.)
I think we must not blame Nigel Farage for this.
Jacob Rees-Mogg needs to go on the offensive and launch a leadership bid.
J R-M should be wary of those on your list, Boris, Davis, Fox, Gove (and Leadsom).y sta
UKIP has learnt to its cost that brought in “talent” MPs and Lib Dem imports are nothing but trouble.
Trust only the less glittery party stalwarts, give them power to run UKIP.
At least it is now out in the open for the public to see PM May’s remain activities, high visibility a bit like the sick Khan Blimp.
My current Brexit fantasies include President Donald Trump ordering the CIA to undermine
PM T May’s government and fire an accurate guided firework at the Khan Blimp whilst the BBC
are giving it their full live coverage treatment.
Long live President Donald Trump.
weasel word of the day ‘civility’.
Never has a British prime minister lied so blatantly to the public, well, apart from Blair. She must have said that she would respect the 3 red lines many times and how many times has she said, leave means leave. Under her specifically, we are getting more muslim lord mayors and people in high office in the government who have only one mission, islamify this country.
It’s like I said before, the people in power in and around London, where most are remainders, have little or no respect for the rest of the country. Put simply they have got too big for their boots and such is their contempt for us they can lie about everything.
Did we get a power house in the north, did we get electrified trains, did, we get an east west rail link, no we didn’t and did we get a Brexit! Do we get good pensions, no we don’t, why, because all our money is going to bloat germany and dictators around the world. Do we get a good NHS, no, because we have to look after another 1/2 million peole a year more each year. These limitation are all down to May and the collective London Luvvies and we need to stop it now.
I really hope JRM and his group and other MP’s with integretity walk out next week, not so easy when some MP’s haven’t got money behind them to survive out of office. If it doesn’t happen then I dont think having ukip members in parliament are going to change things at the next election.
This state of affairs needs to be addressed now with big action, if not we are doomed to being led by fascists in the EU, but it will be a two pronged effect, not only will it be a fascist EU but we will be attacked on our own shores by an rapidly increasing Islamification.
And, all the time the Germans get richer and more powerful and we become poorer. Nice one germany. Leopards don’t change their spots.
It makes me laugh when most of the press say, ”well, we will have to see what mR Barnier has to say”
That’s absolutely bollocks, of course it has been agreed. It’s just the slime ball government and press making us think we have got a good deal if Barnier says ” uhmm, I don’t like the new proposal but we will tolerate it because we want our friends in the Uk to stay”
Meanwhile our pensions, islam, hospital, infrastructure, lying politicians get worse.
Just think if May hadn’t lied to brexiteers before her recalled gen election she wouldn’t have got into power. What a snake in the grass both she and corbyn have been.
The Conservative party lied to take is into the EU ( of course lying Ted Heath told us it was just a common market, though he knew different) and now they are lying to keep us in.
As usual, vested interests and short termism are all that matter to these people, there’s not one patriot among them and very few in the HoL, Lord Pearson being a rare exception.
I knew as soon as the referendum result was announced that these parasites, chancers and carpet-baggers in the HoC, HoL and their lickspittle running dogs in the Civil Service would make it all about them.
I’d say we can no longer afford these people and the best they could do is leave our country to live in their beloved EU dictatorship.
PM liars also include Edward Heath.
Perhaps a UKIP prize quiz should be reminiscent of a former back of a Kellogs cornflake packet comepetition,
Rank in order of mendacity: May, Heath, Blair, Major, Clegg and so on.
The comments on this post-Chequers article in ‘Conservative Home’ are extremely interesting:
https://www.conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2018/07/the-governments-chequers-brexit-agreement-from-canada-plus-plus-plus-to-brexit-minus-minus-minus.html
Dear Sir
What is so special about the stateless Alien Organisation that requires all of the British Governments to treat it like a deity. Has the UK Prime Minister forgotten that the EU is a political organisation that is intent on forming the United States of Socialist Europe and that it will destroy any country that challenges it.
Mes May has stated that the UK will leave the EU in item 1 of her ‘Our Brexit Deal for Britain’
Item 5; all the UK had to do is to comply with EU regulations regarding UK to EU exports. This is normal exporting procedure.
Item 6; This should be an international pledge not a local pledge to the EU.
Item 6; As a free independent country the UK should not ‘lock on’ to new EU rules etc. Will the USA demand similar lock ons?
Item 9; This item is apart of item 1. Following a trade agreement with the USA would the UK agree to the laws of the USA being imposed on the UK. NO! What is so special about the EU.
Item 12; do you intend to abandon NATO?
You proposals will destroy democracy in the UK. UK democracy has been on the wane since the 1970s when the then Conservative Government signed the UK up to the EEC. Successive government continued this practice and undemocratically gave no consideration to the wishes British Voter. With Mrs. Mays wish list you are destroying the remains of British democracy and many voters will not bother voting.
The UK needs a Prime Minister with PRINCIPLES, a Prime Minister who believes in DEMOCRACY, a Prime Minister who believes in the UNITED KINGDOM, an Independent United Kingdom that can help to lead the world. The Prime Minister’s wish list shows that she is not leader of an independent Nation State. If the UK is tied to EU law she will have destroyed the remnants of UK influence in the World outside the EU. Why would any proud nation state want to trade with a weekly governed United Kingdom.
The EU clause 50 offers two methods of leaving the EU treaties. One method is an agreement and the second method is without an agreement. Mrs May actions show that weak and partially democratic parliament cannot be trusted to make the final decision. Let the Great British Voter decide by allowing him/her to vote on the way the UK leaves the EU.
LEAVE means LEAVE.
Yours faithfully
D.Turgoose
Johnson, Gove, Fox et al, are merely actors in this pantomime we call ‘Brexit Negotiation’, placemen to give people the impression that there are those ‘battling’ in the best interests of Brexiters.
But they are merely characters, playing the roles they have been given.
If they were genuine, both Johnson and Gove had their opportunity to deliver the Brexit they had promised as part of the Vote Leave campaign, by standing in the Tory leadership campaign after Cameron resigned. That they both meekly withdrew, which allowed May to win by default, should have been the first warning sign.
Neither, in my opinion, had any intention of becoming Tory leader and Prime Minister, because they both knew they wouldn’t be able to deliver the Brexit they promised, because it wasn’t “part of the plan” (ie the “Agenda”). So Theresa May became the ‘fall guy’, the sacrificial lamb, the “panto villain” of the piece, with Gove and Johnson positioned as ‘heroes’, with their rhetoric that warmed the hearts of Leavers and continued to give them hope that ‘true Brexit’ was going to happen.
But this is going to be a pantomime where the ‘villain’ wins. But it will be May that faces all the criticism and the angry backlash, not Gove or Johnson or any of the other Brexiters among the Tory cabinet ranks.
Exactly right. Davies is a big joke, it has been obvious from the start. The next ones to be found out or not is JRM and his group and all the chequers non attending elected brexiteer majority MPs. Will any of them show any balls
For anyone feeling as we all do here take heart.
‘ Come the three corners of the world in arms // And we shall shock them” [King John]’ W.S
**Breaking News**
Politicians are lying duplicitous self-serving parasites.
That was a message to the gullible who believed Johnson, Fox and Gove were on their side.
We had no option but to give Mrs May her chance to fufill her pledge to the British people that ‘Brexit means Brexit’ even whilst we knew that we could not trust her. Now she has shown her true colours fearing the wrath of her Remain sponsors more than the 17,410,742 million people who voted Leave. As a career civil servant she clearly considers that the fallout from her decision is politically ‘manageable’. With the Brexiteers in the Government now appearing to have gone meekly along with her charade we can only hope that those Brexiteer MPs will regroup and call her bluff. Surely they must realise that through their capitulation they have unwittingly strengthened the hand of the May and the Remainers and by default their career progression may be over anyway – their constituents making doubly sure of that.
Sowing winds and whirlwinds spring to mind.
I am extremely angry but not surprised given May’s apparent ineptitude (aka treason) over a number of years as both Home Secretary and Prime Minister. If we want to save our country then we must bring down the government using whatever means are necessary. This is a dogfight now and all possible means to defeat the enemy must be considered.
yES, Thats the only way but I can’t see how brexiteers can organise themselves to do this. WE are mostly in jobs and daren’t go on strike. Farage, should have stayed on in ukip then people may not have had to voted for May’s re election, she lied then as she always does. How can we get organised as a group and bring this government down, that is the question. Really it should be our elected MP’s who act on our behalf but they have turned turncoat as their careers are more important than the people they should represent. Anyway if they do nothing they will be out of a job at the next election which is some satisfaction.
Ahh! I was waiting for this, after reading the headlines about this sell out, I knew Viv would be on the case first thing in the morning and she hasn’t disappointed.
From the first day that Sharia May was gerrymandered into her position as Prime-Minister, I knew she was going to be even worse news than Blair, Brown, Cameron or even Heath and probably many more. I could see Sharisa as the vile, evil b*tch that she really is and now she’s proved it beyond any doubt.
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I’ve read comments elsewhere that the Tories are finished, but I don’t think Sharisa cares, her loyalties aren’t to the Tories or the British people, they are to the EU and their masters. I’ve been expecting this since day one so I’m not surprised.
As for silver linings, I’ve read many comment posts elsewhere from people that have already resigned their Tory membership and many others that have said they’re joining UKIP. Let’s keep our fingers crossed.
Your last paragraph shows the opportunity that is now open for UKIP to exploit- on many threads I have been saying that a recruitment appeal is needed- now is the time-fear made the referendum possible,fear of UKIP and now with added revenge from those that have been duped could be the clarion call to wake up the electorate
The best ‘comment’ I’ve seen today which obviously does not apply here, is, ‘I’m disappointed that you are surprised’ which apparently many Tories are. We can I suppose take heart in the fact that nothing is over until the fat ‘person’ sings! Little sign of that happening so far though.