This government is wishing for death
This government surely has a death-wish. That’s the only explanation I can come up with for the behaviour of certain ministers. Meanwhile, our glorious MSM revel in ‘inflation’ outcries, not that these denizens of the charmed circle of Westminster are the ones actually suffering. it’s good the papers acknowledge the existence of said inflation:“Newspaper headlines: ‘Interest rate pain’ and ‘inflation warning’” (link).
I’ll do as everybody else does: scan the top headlines and shrug my shoulders, just like our ‘governing classes’. However, one death-wish Tory minister has come out with a Marie-Antoinette-like pronouncement, namely that taxes could be lowered by 2% if all those who stopped working ‘because covid’ were to go back to work (paywalled link). Words fail me …
Meanwhile, there are no reports about the actual inflation in grocery prices because, what a surprise, nobody in the MSM have investigated, following up a report from three weeks ago: “UK inflation: Supermarkets say price rises will ease soon” (link), to find out if this has actually happened.
Also, nobody asks why the bills for our home energy haven’t gone down either, even though the price for natural gas on the world market has gone down. Not even the clever Guardian ‘writers’ have followed up their report from January this year: “Why are wholesale gas prices falling and will it cut UK bills?” (link). Surely Labour politicians should be screaming about bad global capitalists sucking the blood out of us poor ‘workers’!
There has been an ‘incident’ which has delighted the Westminster sketch writers. Yesterday, Ms Kemi Badenoch, Trade and Industry minister and responsible for scrapping EU legislation, has really, truly and indelibly blotted her copybook in the HoC. She could have got away with it if she had just lambasted MPs, but nooo … she also angered the Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle and, the horror, blamed her serpents as well. And then she went on telly and doubled down:
“In a forthright attack on Eurosceptic MPs, including her predecessor Jacob Rees-Mogg, the business secretary told TalkTV that while they were good at making “a lot of noise” they were “not the ones who have to do the doing”.” (link, paywalled)
Someone explain to her that ‘doing the doing’ is what we have ministers for. Someone also explain to her that she’s just shot herself in both feet by saying 9all emphases are mine):
“[…] that she had challenged Tory Brexiteers in a private meeting to tell her which laws they wanted to be scrapped and they had not given her a convincing answer. “I asked MPs who had been in that meeting what they wanted to remove, and they couldn’t say anything,” she said. “I think that is more illustrative of the problem we have — that there are too many people who spend a lot of time talking. I need to do the thinking and the doing.” (link, paywalled)
I dunno about you, but all who peruse Sir John Redwood’s Diary are fully aware of what EU laws he believes need scrapping. I’m sure Sir Bill Cash will also have had some suggestions. Is she really unaware of those or did she just not like them? Then she poured scorn over all MPs:
“She insisted she was taking a “pragmatic middle-ground” by refusing demands to scrap all EU laws on the UK statute book by the end of the year. “It is delightful to see the Labour front bench and the ERG [European Research Group of Brexiteer MPs] on the same side,” Badenoch said. “It makes me realise that if I am upsetting people on both sides I’m probably taking the pragmatic middle ground and I’m very pleased to be doing so.” (link, paywalled)
A bit arrogant, innit! And this is how she’s ‘pragmatically’ revoking 600 EU laws instead of the thousands which need to go:
“It had been estimated that around 3,700 laws would need ditching but governmental departments have now identified around 4,829 retained laws. Ms Badenoch said around 1,000 had been scrapped or altered already, though Government data shows 906 EU laws have been dealt with so far, and only 245 of those have been repealed. A Government audit of retained EU law – to identify where Brussels’ rules should be removed, replaced or updated – has been ongoing since 2021.” (link)
Those numbers are … interesting, and it’s good to know that the poor dears in Whitehall have been ‘working’ on this since 2021. Now I don’t hold a candle for our glorious serpents, Remainers all, but surely it’s unfair to blame her ‘pragmatic’ disaster on just the: “One of the officials whose job it is to identify which laws to keep and which to get rid of has been off sick for an extended period.” while bemoaning “in an article for The Telegraph that it would be impossible to push ahead with the promise because of Whitehall intransigence.” (paywalled link).
It may well be the case that her mandarins were dragging their feet in distributing the work to other serpents, but this begs the question: did she actually deal with ‘intransigence’ or is she scared of her mandarins and a Raab-like fate? In any case, having angered even the Speaker is not the way forward. I enjoyed his outburst which is of course available as video:
I leave you with a truly hair-raising example for the decadence which is now pervading even our primary schools. The DT reported:
“Teacher sacked after refusing to use eight-year-old’s trans pronouns – Primary school tutor was told her Christian beliefs and welfare concerns could constitute ‘an act of direct discrimination’ (paywalled link)
So her Christian beliefs are an issue. Are we therefore to assume that muslim teachers are not concerned? That they allow the teaching of those decadent, ‘trans’ ideologies? Why are our MSM, so decadent themselves, not reporting outcries by muslim teachers? Aren’t there any or are they … afraid to report?
That’s all I have for today. I don’t know what is worse: an ‘intransigent civil service’, a Marie-Antoinette-like minister, a minister who blames everyone, MPs included, to deflect from her own incompetence, or the MSM for not following up or investigating properly on important issues. Have a good day.
Did anyone see Farage at Large from Bournemouth last night on GB News? I did say the other day I wasn’t going to tune in any longer but broke my promise and then regretted it. Yes he did give the Conservative leader of Bournemouth Borough Council a hard time when he interviewed him, and of course he gave the usual stock answers to the questions and it sounded as if these Conservatives are coached in giving crap answers and excuses rather than owning up to how dire they presently are
, and how they’ve let the country down on Brexit and Immigration. Then at the end of the show Nigel introduced ‘Right Said Fred’ who sang ‘I’m too sexy’ during which Farage got up took of his suit jacket off and twirled it around and threw it onto a nearby seat, then removed his tie and did likewise with that, and then unbuttoned his shirt buttons to reveal his chest. Someone did comment on his Facebook site whether he had had too much to drink, and quite a lot said he was a ‘good sport’ to do what he did, but in truthfulness is this what we expect from a political commentator who wants to be taken seriously. I would say not. And as someone said recently, the show is akin to the Daily Star of the airwaves…….
Have you thought Colin in reply to your 2.54pm comment
That the most likely event is there will be a Labour government and they will go all out for rejoining or “close association” with the EU I.e. RINO (rejoining in name only)
The ERG will need to remain to carry out the job of moaning and groaning and generally preventing a speedy/ tidy rejoining operation.
I’M sure they could make just as much a good job of it as the remoaners are doing now.
Sauce for goose etc
Roger……it is more likely than not, that the next government will be a Labour one, but I doubt Starmer will take steps to take this country back into the European Union. He may however align this country’s trading arrangements nearer to that of the Single Market however. I think the Conservative Party have resigned themselves to the fact that they will be out of power for a number of years and are getting things ready to be His Majesty’s party of opposition. The Conservatives have run out of steam and ideas and appear to be short on genuine talent insofar as potential ministers are concerned. In opposition they need to reinvent themselves as a right of centre party and deselect MP’s like Johnson, Gove and Sunak. Lets face it the policies of the modern day SDP and Liberal Party are more to the political right than the Conservative Party. That speaks volumes…..
Conservatism cannot breathe unless the Tory Party is utterly wrecked to point where the rats start eating each other and the party goes into insolvency.
Migration Watch latest:
https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/news/2022/11/29/mass-immigration-drives-all-population-growth-since-2001-an-eye-watering-8-million-increase
One can only conclude that illegal immigration has been weaponised against us. Sadly too many weak minded individuals still claim that we should take pity on the invader, even though his troops have already passed through at least one safe country so cannot legitimately be called “asylum seekers”.
Mr Speaker, are you saying a good British woman, and next leader of the Conservative party Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke has neither understanding of or respect for British culture?
No Bisc, what is the difference between Badenbroke and the previous transgressors? ( list here all of these starting with Horis). The Speaker is a waissist innit? That’s my take!
Butties- are you saying you want the previous (poisoned gnome) speaker back again?
And it is hard to find anybody in the HoC who actually holds to our Christian country beliefs – or elsewhere in GB of that matter.
Merry Christmas – season’s greetings; Easter Eggs – chocolate eggs; and the tail wags the dog – ref arch bish of canterbury.
No Bisc, no way would that ?**& be welcomed back or its ilk, but a new Betty Boothroyd type would be welcome northerner.
Badenock’s clash with some of her fellow MPs should have been private. It is an internal debate over Badenock’s view of the difference between carping and doing. That they and her continued their dispute in the media reminds us how dysfunctional the Tories still are. Her difficulties with civil servants post-Raab are no doubt genuine and for a minister to fully deal with that would need the support of the prime minister and cabinet, a coherent plan for reforming the civil service as a whole, and to have real conservative principles that he or she refuses to compromise over. In any case, it is Sunak that is behind agreeing to row back on the repeal of EU laws. Ranting at Badenock is a proxy for why aren’t Tories and their Prime Minister Brexiteers. Put another way, the real question underlying these little eruptions is why are ERG MPs still in the conservative party?
Stout Yeoman………..indeed why are the European Research Group (ERG) MP’s still in the Conservative Party. Anyone with a degree of common sense and political nous in that grouping surely must have realised some time ago that their ideas and principles do not correlate with the party leadership, ministers, central office, party policy makers and the Conservative Party per se, and probably never will do unless a change of leadership and a total change of direction comes about. The fact that there isn’t a viable alternative party for them to defect to might come into it, but perhaps they are afraid of the concept of jumping ship and potentially losing their political careers by moving to another party which is more align top their way of thinking. The sad fact of the matter is that the Conservative Party ceased to be conservative as far back as David Cameron and they have chosen to place themselves somewhere between the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party in the political landscape. I am more than a little surprised that the likes of Jacob Rees-Mogg hasn’t upped sticks and gone off to form another party , as after all he has the personal financial clout behind him to make this happen if he really wanted to, but then perhaps his ‘principles’ threshold is not set high enough for this to happen. He and others must surely realise that the Conservative Party under Rishi Sunak leadership isn’t going anywhere and if things do not change pretty rapidly they are going to be out of power for a generation or more such is the level of ineptness and incompetence that we have seen over the past few years. The Conservative Party needs a root and branch shake up and re-establish its roots, sift out the Liberal lefties like Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak and Co, and get back to traditional conservative policies. No MP in their right mind will now defect to a party like Reform UK because it doesn’t offer them anything. The UK Independence Party of old, it certainly is not, when two Conservative MP’s defected to their ranks.
Shortly after Mark Reckless defected to UKIP he was a speaker at a Bruges Group event. It was packed. I noticed Bill Cash lurking at the back. When it was Reckless’ turn to speak Cash started heckling. His face grew red then purple and the heckling was quite angry and impassioned. He may have shouted “traitor”, certainly something to that effect. The tribalism in the conservative party is deep. There is no greater sin than to abandon the tribe. It is more than party before country. I was surprised by Cash’s behaviour – at the time but no longer.
Yes, and UKIP should have done more to keep both Mark Reckless and Douglas Carswell on side in my humble opinion. And although it may have been unpopular at the time, I think Douglas Carswell should have put himself up for the leadership of the party, when Farage stepped down I sent him an email along these lines but it was never answered, but I am of the opinion that he had done so and had been successful in getting himself elected as leader, perhaps perhaps, the party would not have found itself in the position it is in now. There was always a degree of animosity between Farage and Carswell, or so it seemed to me at least, but I think Carswell could have made a good leader of UKIP in fact. I got the impression at the time that there was perhaps a hint of jealousy on the part of Farage, because both Carswell and Reckless were MP’s in the House of Commons whereas Farage was an MEP in the European Parliament. Whilst it was good that UKIP had a lot of MEP’s in the European Parliament, what the party in fact needed was a far greater presence and influence in the House of Commons.
Colin. I can’t understand why anyone with half a brain can believe the playacting of Mogg, Baker, Redwood, Patel, Braverman, Davis. It’s all political theatre to lull the credulous.
Mogg was recently railing on about the abuse of our liberties on GB News and he was the one who steered the Covid lockdowns on the British public. All the above are very devious people.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/ive-had-quite-enough-of-the-liberty-of-the-individual/.
Just two other ‘stories’ from the MSM ( DM) today. According to person working in the Ministry of Justice, convicts are now to be calle ‘persons of lived experience’ which will obviously set them apart from these people paid by the taxpayer to come up with this woke nonsense and proves that they in fact have no lived experience at all, The other story (DT) concerns Keith Allen who declares that in his generation ( he’s 69 ) ‘ the police were horrible and just wanted to beat people up’ and ‘that they were all ex serviceman and they were f—— animals. They were horrible. Nobody went into policing to make society a better place. They went in to beat people up.
“I see a dark sail on the horizon
Set under a black cloud that hides the sun.
Bring me my broadsword and clear understanding.
Bring me my cross of gold as a talisman.
Get up to the roundhouse on the cliff-top standing.
Take women and children and bed them down.
Bring me my broadsword and clear understanding.
Bring me my cross of gold as a talisman.
Bless with a hard heart those who surround me.
Bless the women and children who firm our hands.
Put our backs to the north wind. Hold fast by the river.
Sweet memories to drive us on for the motherland.
I see a dark sail on the horizon
Set under a black cloud that hides the sun.
So, bring me my broadsword and clear understanding.
Bring me my cross of gold as a talisman.
So bring me my broadsword
And a cross of gold as a talisman.”
Jethro Tull
Flyer……did he also say ‘Broadsword calling Danny Boy’…………..