Are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin, with the parable of the lonely ewe and our society. A parable is “a short, simple story that teaches or explains an idea, especially a moral or religious idea”. The ‘story of the loneliest ewe’ provides us with the material for such a parable.

There was a ewe in Scotland which was lonely because she was stranded at the bottom of a cliff. She was discovered by an intrepid female kayaker – in 2021, who informed the ‘authorities’ whose “experts’ said it was far too dangerous to retrieve the ewe. This lady was aghast when she saw the same ewe in the same location – two years later. 

And so, two years on, a ‘campaign’ was started, with petitions to the Scottish version of the RSPCA. There was even  a gofundme page set up to fund the rental of some hovercraft. Now this made it even into the national press now since there were photos of said ewe. And so, for the weekend, there was a report in the DT:

“Britain’s loneliest sheep has been rescued from a remote shore in the Scottish Highlands where it had been stranded for two years. The ewe, now named Fiona, had been marooned at the foot of some cliffs on the Cromarty Firth. An animal welfare charity had previously said any attempts to rescue her would be “incredibly complex”. However, a group of five men managed to haul her up a steep slope and said she remained in excellent health. They plan to shear her overgrown fleece before handing her over to a farm park. The rescue mission was organised by Cammy Wilson, a sheep shearer from Ayrshire, after seeing media coverage of the ewe’s plight.” (paywalled link)

Let that sink in: ‘experts’ said rescuing yon ewe was ‘too dangerous’ – and then five white men, ‘led by an actual sheep farmer and old’ only in the eyes of Gen Z, but definitely white, simply went and got the ewe, dangerous or not. They certainly knew what they were doing. Remarkably, there was even a piece in The Times, where we find this ‘confession’:

“All week, while the rest of us had been signing petitions and praying for hoverboats, a team of people with a special set of skills had been discussing a rescue via the cliffs. Leading the team was Wilson, a former police officer turned sheep farmer based in Ayrshire. “We needed people who were not only expert at handling sheep but also able to get down the cliffs and up again safely using all the right equipment,” the farmer explained.” (link, paywalled)

And so: is all now well ? You, as well as the readers of the Sunday papers, might certainly think so. However, yesterday evening the DT reported:

“Britain’s loneliest sheep ‘in hiding’ after animal rights protest in rehoming row – Animal rights campaigners have raised concern over plans to transport her almost 300 miles to a petting zoo in Dumfries” (paywalled link)

There are some nice photos in yon report, of the shorn ewe and of those ‘protesters’ who seem to think that the poor ewe would do better in some sanctuary in Glasgow. Funny how said protesters didn’t utter one squeal while that ewe was stranded for two years.

But never mind that – the far more important message here is the one touched upon by the Times reporter, that “we” are happy to accept decisions by experts  while also emailing petitions, perhaps even some money, when called upon. Moreover, too many of these emailing, petition-signing people have initially accepted the verdict of ‘experts’ about the impossibilities of ‘doing something’.

This is the mindset of the ‘middle classes’, the Audi Avenue dwellers. This should concern us because it is this mindset which polls generally document as ‘public opinion’ on which all politicians base their own attitudes.  It’s the mindset we’ve been so thoroughly indoctrinated in during the covid years: “experts” know best and we better do as they say.

Why this is so dangerous for our society is aptly demonstrated by Matt Goodwin in his analysis of a poll regarding the planned ‘pro palestine’ march in London on Remembrance Sunday, writing: 

“Only one in five British people think a planned ‘Million March for Palestine’ in London during Remembrance Day weekend should go ahead. That’s the finding from a new, nationally representative poll of more than 1,600 British adults, undertaken by my firm People Polling on behalf of GB News.” (paywalled link)

If that doesn’t already send shivers down your spine, then watch this video from Paul Joseph Watson, on the ‘protests’ which have already taken place where he highlights the attitude of the police.

And so we arrive at the lesson of the parable of the loneliest ewe: our ‘experts’ prefer doing nothing when it looks ‘dangerous’, for fear of producing ‘bad photos’ or ‘bad reports’ while we accept the verdict of said experts, despite the proof that they are ‘experts’ only because we accept their own say-so. Furthermore, when some actual people do something, there will always be a group of ‘activists’ moaning, screaming, holding placards, getting into the national news, but equally supine when it comes to doing something practical. 

That’s all I have for today. I leave it to you to think about one more lesson from this parable, the one about the five white men and ‘the experts’. Have a good day.



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