Off to a good start …
This week is off to a good start! My blood pressure kicked into high gear thanks to the Westminster press. Take a look at the offerings of the print edition: ”Newspaper headlines: ‘Britain’s mortgage crisis’ and ‘guilty party’.“(link)! The silly season is indeed upon us …
Before I get to my ‘pick of the day’, let me indulge in a happy meow, claws out! Scroll down on yon link to the DT’s print front page where you’ll find a photo of the Sturgeon, vowing that she’ll be back. She’s sans makeup, sans ‘power suit’, and looks like an extra from ‘Last of the Summer Wine’. Meow!
Staying with pictures, there’s one in the Independent from that infamous Tory Party members ‘Partygate’ video – have a look here. The partygoers are all hideously white – so off with their heads. I shall say this only once: the Party is becoming unelectable, not least thanks to the help from the Westminster MSM who do their utmost to carry Starmer into No 10.
Not only are they ‘celebrating’ his utterances, they promote him with photos where he is made to look suitably heroic. For example, the DT’s leading article at the time of writing is headlined (all emphases are mine):
“Keir Starmer: I’ll scrap ban on new onshore wind farms – Labour leader fires starting gun on ‘race’ to build more turbines as he vows to ‘throw everything’ at net zero” (paywalled link)
Just look at the ‘heroic ‘photo accompanying that report! Get Labour and get ‘moar Net Zero’! I’m sure the vaguely lefty Audi Avenue denizens will be delirious with this: moar electricity for them, for moar EVs and heatpumps!
Let’s not rain on his and his voters’ parade by asking where the material for all those bird shredders is going to come from and who is going to build them … our ‘new people’, perhaps? We all know who will pay: us tax payers.
I am however mildly upset that Starmer and cohorts are doing nothing nor proposing to do anything about the exorbitant prices households have to pay for their home energy consumption.
Funny dat, innit: one would’ve thought that Labour is meant to stand up for the poor and the ‘hard working families’, but apparently Starmer is happy to make them pay huge sums to energy concerns which can be ‘windfall taxed’ or yon profits used to build bird shredders for which the already oppressed workers will pay on top of what they are already shelling out.
But that’s not all of the horror looming over the horizon. The Times has set up their own ‘Health Commission’. Either they don’t trust the Whitehall mandarins to run things properly, or they believe that they must provide as much support for Starmer as possible. After all, what else is a proper ‘quality paper’ good for but to point the way to socialism! Firstly, see this headline:
“Ditch triple lock and give pension cash to health, urges Hague – Peer seers says system is unsustainable as more money will be needed to treat older people” (link, paywalled)
The other peer to which the ‘seers’ in the title refers is Lord Blunkett who quite agrees, naturally:
“Speaking at a hearing of The Times Health Commission, Hague also said that the health of the population was in such a serious condition that a food strategy, including new taxes on salt and sugar, was vital. The former Labour minister Lord Blunkett told the commission the older generation would need to pay its “fair share” but said it was important it did not seem like a “punishment”. Hague […] said the increasing size of the pensioner population represented a generational issue that “we will have to confront”, risking a slow drift into higher levels of spending “with steadily higher taxes to cope with [the resulting] surge in demand for healthcare”.” (link, paywalled)
Yes, dear friends: old people simply cost too much: their pensions, their health care, it’s all too expensive. Blunkett then suggested
“[…] “a double lock” on pensions that avoided the pitfalls of a simple link with inflation. “But you don’t need a formula that rewards you for being what you are,” […] Given that the poorest in retirement have housing costs met, we could be a lot, lot more sensible.” (link, paywalled)
Nice: getting a pension is ‘rewarding’ people for what they are, i.e. ‘old’. Are benefits for being disabled not also ‘a reward for being what one is’? Nice slippery slope here, Lord B.!
Moreover, a ‘simple link with inflation’ has to be avoided … Do pensioners get an ‘age bonus’ when paying for their groceries or for their heating? It’s apparently ok to bewail ‘Teh Poor’ who had to decide between eating and heating when it afflicts the bennie generation, crying that ‘something must be done’.
Interesting isn’t it, that setting up things so that ever more pensioners are having to make the same choice is acceptable. Anyway, “the poorest” have their housing costs met, sez Blunkett, so they’re fine, they don’t need to worry about rising mortgages, do they! Meanwhile Hague came up with a truly chilling, futuristic outlook, saying:
“[…] that he saw a national food strategy and better use of technology, including artificial intelligence, as two keys to breaking out of the [health] problem. Action on obesity “needs to go faster”, […] “Look at how many people are on various forms of incapacity benefits, unable to work,” […] “I actually think this is so serious that it’s not possible to have a health strategy or an economic growth strategy or a low-tax strategy or a levelling-up strategy without having a food strategy.” (link, paywalled)
Blimey: a ‘food strategy’ means ‘more taxation’ to keep down obesity! It doesn’t mean supporting our UK agriculture – no, farm land must be re-wilded. If any of you also sniff incipient Chinese ‘social accounts’, run by AI, to tell us plebs what to eat or else, let me know!
I find it disquieting indeed that the opinion makers and the Westminster denizens are incapable of noticing how under Labour we’ll slide into a coercive system, rationing the necessities of life either through taxation or ever higher prices thanks to Net Zero. And Tory “thinkers” seem to applaud and prepare the way …
That’s all I have for today. ‘Tis a good start to the week because we independent peasants can see the cloven hooves of socialism officially being revealed, and prepare accordingly. Have a good day.
So, the inhabitants of the House of Commons who are supposedly our representatives spent the the whole day debating a complete and utter waste of space called Boris Johnson who was found out big time disobeying laws that he himself championed without so much of a debate to trash our civil liberties and freedoms in the name of a respiratory infection. Was it right that he should be so heavily criticised by the Parliamentary Privileges Committee that he misled the House of Commons over gatherings at 10 Downing Street (his home and office at the time) and other government buildings where attendees danced the the day and night away over alcohol, party food. Of course it was right, and any fool with a just a smidgen of common sense would have realised that he had us all over and had zilch respect for the people who lent him their vote in December 2019. The man was an absolute walking disaster zone who wasted an 80 seat majority and his only achievement was getting us a half baked withdrawal from the European Union, which wasn’t what I and 17.4 millions voted for in June 2016. In my mind that debate should not have lasted any longer than 20 seconds and even that would have been pushing it. This wasted day of meaningless waffle could have been better spent on making the lot of British citizens so much better, but as per usual our worse than useless parliamentary representatives have found it fit to spend so much time over one of their own, a wannabe circus clown. Those seven MP’s who thought he was the best thing since sliced bread should hang their heads in shame. I will not be shedding any tears over the resignation of that man. Good riddance I say, and do not darken these shores ever again. Tada fool…….
I agree with the comments below which reflect my opinions too. This “useless eater” was probably the first generation, born in the fifties, to mostly work all their lives taking short breaks to give birth but always returning and paying tax. I can count at least 40 years and have bl***y earned my pension. These wasters who inhabit what used to be known as Parliament are not fit for anything. They can take their useless degrees and put them where the sun don’t shine.
Doesn’t matter a jot what Starmer, Sunak, Greens, Lib Dem say in public. Whichever establishment party wins the next election they will do exactly what agenda has been set out for them by Blackrock/Vanguard/JP Morgan/ Goldman Sachs etc, UN, WHO, WEF.
As Tice say’s they are all the same side of the socialist coin.
Ooops! wrong vid. Try this from about 5 mins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsJ3urc4cKc
Jake…Agreed, but I wouldn’t trust Tice either. He is a closet Tory at best, and I am not sure at all what he believes in, if anything. He talks of the importance of reform etc, but when it comes down to it he is not that interested. Someone I know who has formulated a new form of proportional representation and has written a long paper on it wrote a letter to Tice to find out whether he was interested in the proposal, and didn’t even receive a reply. He also wrote to Nigel Farage, but he stated he wasn’t interested. This someone has now formed a new political party which will be a ‘one issue party’ and that is to campaign for PR, and is presently registering this party with the Electoral Commission. The UK Independence Party is the only party worth considering on the centre right in my opinion, and certainly seems to be upping its game. Hopefully in time, it can kick Reform UK into touch.
Yhere was a better form of proportional representation. Better than the one we were offered. It was a Ukip member who devised it and it was about putting 2 constituencies together and returning 1 by FPTP and 1 by prop rep. If I remember correctly.
Colin. I do share your deep concern regarding the trustworthiness of Tice and Farage. Tice is a wet rag and Farage is a flanneler and both have media careers that they seem to put before getting stuck in preparing for a GE.
There is an active Reform UK group in my constituency but no UKIP, Heritage Party or SDP and since I have been tramping the streets since 1990 I don’t feel I have sufficient energy to start a branch for any of the latter. And like you I consider UKIP to be my first preference but I think there are only two or three members left in our constituency, and all knocking on a bit.
I will throw my lot in with this youthful local Reform UK group as they have already got a candidate and I think he will give 100%. If Farage and Tice do the dirty a second time around they will damned from here to eternity. One other good thing about this local Reform group is that they too are scratching their heads about Tice and Farage and are seeking to shape the group more like ReformDerby so that if Farage and Tice do do the dirty then they can carry on as an independent grouping.
Another example of the madness taking over our country:
https://www.gbnews.com/news/sussex-news-rye-college-student-questioned-classmate-identifying-cat
Such corruption of education is quite possibly the worst threat we face.
We used to joke about Pravda and Izvestia but given the state of our MSM these days the joke is clearly on us. We are not quite at the Pravda level of narrative control as occasional news breaks through about the sexualisation of children in our schools for example. Yet, the reaction, so far as there is any at all, is muted unlike what happened with Glenn Youngkin in Virginia.
National scandals pile up from Rotherham to the hundreds of Post Masters whose lives were ruined. Somehow Anglo-Saxons are particularly placid. Does nothing rouse us? Protest at a national level is expressed by voting only and when, as happened with the referendum vote, we are betrayed we simply succumb to a mood of fatalism. When Starmer gets in and throws everything at net zero, when we are impoverished even more, we will still put up with it. Protests will probably remain small scale and ignorable. We will end up with Drakeford, Yousef, Starmer, and O’Neil (or clones thereof) and still we will just take it.
The legacy of Cromwell and the civil war is that an anti-revolution temperament became embedded in Englishness (for it is the English that have led on this). It is something that was admired by most other nations that went through all manner of upheavals during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Kipling knew Englishness when he wrote “There was neither sign nor show, When the English began to hate.”
Even so, we felt secure through a feeling that we cannot be pushed too far and that the establishment would never try. That is being diluted through immigration and multiculturalism, of our country becoming a hotel of people who were not brought up in our culture and traditions, rather than a common home. Foreign nationals increasingly occupy public services from education to the health service to the judiciary, police and civil service. Those that were born here are the younger indoctrinated variety. Studies record the decline in social cohesion and trust. What this means is that there is no scope now for solidarity, no scope for push back in any meaningful sense. We may win the occasional skirmish but the broader war is already lost.
I am looking forward to the 2024 London and General elections. I shall be intrigued to see what the turnout is and what the voting behaviour will be. Can it really be more of the same? Probably.
SY- Betting London elections
Sadiq Khan 2/7; Paul Scully 9/2
Daniel Korski 8
(I doubt there shall ever be another white Christian mayor of London).
Next UK General Election Most Seats
Labour 1/5; Conservative 17/4
Reclaim Party 100/1; Liberal Democrat 150/1
British Politics Prime Minister after Next General Election
Keir Starmer 1/5; Rishi Sunak 10/3
Boris Johnson 22/1; Jeremy Hunt 28/1
Biscotte………what are the odds for a Reform UK government. Silly question I know, but surely their odds would be better than Reclaim which like Reform isn’t really a proper party at all.
So sorry Colin! But he did b’uger up the Royal Ulster Constabulary an honourable service that protected the population during the republican terrorism. Surely a knighthood appropriate for the protection of republican terrorists in Britain! I would not call him sir either- cur is more like it!
The BBC online site reports that a Labour government under his leadership would end North Sea exploration for oil and gas. So, disregarding the energy needs of the country, and instead more concerned about pleasing the ‘Just Stop Oil’ extremists, just about sums Kier Starmer up. Utter plonker, and I refuse to address him as Sir, as he has done bugger all to deserve that title, like so many other people with knighthoods and the like. I think he may live to regret that decision to be honest. Labour and the Conservatives are like two peas from the same pod. Essentially two socialist parties intent on ruining this country in every conceivable way. They will never get my vote, that’s for sure. This country needs the UK Independence Party more than ever now.
Re Cur Keir Starmer : I’ll never forget that scene outside a pub about 2 years ago where he showed his true extremely nasty totalitarian nature, refusing to let a man (who turned out to be the landlord?) into the pub because he was not muzzled. This is what life will be like if that thing gets to power, Britain an open field for bullies, even more so than it already is, String- pulled by Soros and Blair and the WHO with its newly -grabbed ( IHR amendments and treaty) powers. God help us.
And what’s the odds of China or someone coming along and restarting North Sea Oil exploration, after we’ve so kindly left the field open to them !!!!!!
I feel ill just thinking about the whole prospect of a Starmer Government. Voted in by brainwashed youngsters and the imported vote. Plus by people (some of whom I know, and can’t get through to) who still think Labour works for the interests of those on low income.
I like ‘Cur Keith Starmer’ – very nice. I shall nick it …!
Viv I can’t take credit for that: I got it from Michael Durrand comment above !
The only objection is, it’s an insult to curs and other canines that are clepped as dogs !! (Macbeth).
In addition to what mary has rightly said, I would like to point out that those of us who have decided to continue smoking despite all the brainwashhing for many years, also should have ‘freedom of choice’, ‘freedom of the individual’. We are NOT harming others. Nor are we a ‘burden on the state’.
This elderly person needs the triple lock restored for other reasons. Nothing to do with whether or not I smoke.
Viv I have called him that for a long time?
You are very welcome to adopt it, he is totally untrustworthy.
Thanks, the both of you – this is the first time I’ve come across it, consciously, and something just clicked …
Oh – and no disrespect to the furry, four-legged curs!