How I wish I hadn’t read this morning’s papers but had restricted myself to this morning’s anodyne print editions: “Newspaper review: Sunak’s ‘bad degree crackdown’ and ‘King Carlos’” (link), but nooo – I had to go and take a quick glance at our ‘quality’ paper! I’m still speechless with fury.
Let me explain: the editors and authors of yon august paper, the ‘Thunderer’, the ‘paper of record’, have lost the plot utterly and thoroughly. It used to be the case that readers knew that the Mirror was a Labour paper, the DM more ‘conservative’, the Guardian was like the Mirror for the Westminster chatterati while the DT was ‘the Tory paper’. The Times however hovered above them all, being sniffily impartial.
No longer. Today’s collection of articles demonstrates that they are more Labour than the Guardian, with the twist that they still sail under the flag of impartiality, only ‘reporting’ the swing in the Nation’s mood – as if!
Let me present you the items which prove my point, starting with a weepy: “Ukrainian refugees: I’d love to stay in Britain but renting is impossible – Families are returning to the war zone they fled due to a lack of government support” (link, paywalled). This piece is garnished with beautiful photos of a beautiful woman, standing with her kids in various places, such as Stonehenge, or on a sandy beach, bewailing the fact that she has had no help from ‘council’.
How many of our downtrodden, inner-city, poverty-stricken natives have been able to afford a trip to Stonehenge? Never mind that – it’s our fault ,and forget about ‘cost-of-living crisis’ because we’re rich. Labour will certainly help. I wonder if the ever so well-paid BBC ‘presenters’ and stars are willing to hand out a bit more of their riches to help ‘teh poor’ … nah, forget it.
Next we have a report which made me rub my eyes: “Committee says phase out hereditary peers in House of Lords” (link, paywalled). It’s a cross-party committee, innit, only acting because there was this poll which found people didn’t support the HoL any longer. It’s the fault of a) the hereditary peeps – the ‘nobility, for you and me – and b) of Johnson:
“The survey by Opinium for Labour Together suggested that only 20 per cent of the public trust the second chamber to act in the interests of the people, compared to 40 per cent who trust MPs, and 43 per cent councillors.” (link, paywalled)
Oh dear! The fact that most ‘peers’ are former MPs has of course nothing to do with that. We read next that the poll showed that people think the HoL should be abolished by an elected 2nd Chamber. Moreover, the report said “attempts by peers to reduce the size of the second chamber had been stymied by government moves to increase its majority there.” (link, paywalled) – aww, we do believe that, don’t we: turkeys voting for Christmas! And then it becomes truly macabre. The report said that: “in the past year the Tories had appointed 88 new peers but only 57 Conservative peers had died or retired.”(link, paywalled). Oh the shame – Tory peers not dying to make room for Labour!
It gets worse. The report also called “for hereditary peers to be phased out because of the 90 in place 51 sit on the Conservative benches and four on the Labour side.” (link, paywalled) – yes really: scrap the nobility because they don’t vote Labour. It seems the commission needs remedial lessons in why we have the HoL as well as historical classes on who created the current HoL – a certain Mr T.B. – and in simple arithmetic. Subtract the bad 90 hereditary peers from the 824 and the HoL is miraculously cleansed of Tories.
Surely Labour ‘peers’ will be more trustworthy, correct? This is how far left our institutions have swung: a parliamentary commission wastes time on proposals based on a Labour poll, insinuating that everything should be scrapped because Tory peers don’t die fast enough. That’s not all. In the ‘Comments’ pages Trevor Phillips is in full, ‘red in tooth and claw’ Labour flow: “End inheritance tax and risk a class revolt – The Tories’ mooted pre-election giveaway would upset the social compact in which wealth comes with obligations” (link, paywalled).
What ‘social compact’? The one where suddenly the middle classes are deemed to be ‘rich’, thanks to house price inflation, and have to be made to pay their fair wack? Because the local council taxes they all have to pay simply don’t count? Never mind that those on low income are exempt of this daylight robbery: they have nothing to leave their children and that’s just so unfair!
Funny how this fabulous ‘social contract’ only works in one direction, namely to support Labour policies which are based on taking but not on getting people to work and perhaps manage to accumulate enough to leave to their kids. Mr Phillips doesn’t seem to know about the actualité of who pays this tax. See this:
“The tax is paid on only 4 per cent of estates, mostly by the very wealthy, and raises £7 billion a year the country needs. Getting rid of it will largely benefit only those rich enough to keep a Coutts account. There is more than money at stake here. Inheritance tax is a signal that Britain believes in encouraging social mobility …” (link, paywalled)
What is this ‘social mobility’ of which he speaks? The one exhibited by all those young people having been taught nothing at all in schools and unis, to prepare them for work? Or those who have a nice life on bennies, some now in their third generation? Or is it the downward ‘social mobility’ where small business owners go bankrupt because they can no longer pay the business rates which are needed to keep our ‘new guests’ in hotels?
I leave you with a final report which illuminates the society we’ve become, where privacy is only accorded to certain ‘celebrities’ (naming no names …):
“A third-party intelligence firm used by high-street banks in the UK gathers data on “adverse media” coverage of customers and social media posts. World-Check Risk Intelligence, which is owned by Refinitiv, a member of the London Stock Exchange Group, helps institutions vet clients in line with finance laws. Its website says it gathers information on “adverse media”, as well as politically exposed persons (PEPs). It also explains it can hold “postings on website, blogs or social media”.” (link, paywalled)
Why are they even allowed to collect such data from websites, blogs and social media? Because of “anti-money laundering regulations’? Really? It includes “customers deemed a reputational risk, […]” (link, paywalled). Blimey – I had no idea that customers would put banks ‘at reputational risk’ by holding certain opinions which those banks wouldn’t even know about if such ‘watchdogs’ didn’t go digging for them!
The thought of these ‘data’, at the moment only being collected and used by banks, becoming accessible to a Labour government, bent on creating a Chinese ‘social score’ for all is sufficient to make me want to scream. And the august Times blithely reports this without one opinion piece denouncing this blatant attempt at social engineering! Do their editors and readers believe they will be exempt?
That’s all I have for today. Frankly, I wish I’d stayed in bed. Blame my collie for having had to get up … Have a good day.
Reply to Stout Yeoman on 17/07/2023 at 11:16 am:
Councils almost everywhere have been infiltrated by Muslims to the detriment of native Brits. I can only conclude that this has been a deliberate plan but sadly too many native Brits have been, and continue to be, either blind to it or simply not interested.
UKIP have emailed a statement from their Spokesman for Young People on the marking boycott by academics. It contains this:
“Collaboration among all stakeholders is crucial to achieving sustainable improvements in the education system.
Instead of resorting to disruptive tactics, it is imperative that all stakeholders engage in constructive dialogue to address the systemic issues plaguing the education system. By working together, meaningful and sustainable reforms can be implemented, creating an environment that fosters the holistic development and success of both students and academic staff.”
Earlier in the piece the author laments the damage to young people’s education. I don’t know how old he is but he unwittingly illustrates his point by producing this word salad without any hint of irony. Perhaps the author secretly wants a job in an HR department in the BBC or NHS. I won’t mention the expletives that came to mind when I read this UKIP statement. ID readers can supply their own.
SY UKIP Education: deliberate sabotage, or they’re ‘avin a larf?
A Golden Bull award winner?
My sentiments too SY. UKIP need to bury this and rewrite it.
Reply to Mary: The Abolition of Britain was first published in 1999 and updated in 2018. It’s a remarkable book and very well written. Authors like Douglas Murray, David Goodhart, and Matthew Goodwin get all the attention these days, but the Abolition of Britain remains one of my favourites along with the Abolition of Liberty, Hitchen’s second book, which also recommend. Of course, these are read it and weep books, so be prepared.
PS Correction
re Peter Hitchens book I should have said “The Abolition of Liberty” not Abolition of Britan (also very good but more about changes in attitudes not constitutional vandalism)
13 Lab + 13 Con = 0
Twenty Six Wasted Years
Just another slogan. ?
TG Spokes………..and your point is……………? What slogan?
Westminster Council is run by Labour who have just approved a mosque in the Trocadero, Piccadilly. Planning approval for a mosque in the Trocadero had previously been turned down (when Westminster was conservative). That the council’s leader is now a muslim, and Westminster’s chaplain an immam, are just coincidences of course. The need for a mosque to serve the non-existent islamic community of the West End is not obvious; it just fills a gap in the overall penetration of London. Perhaps the mosques at Regent’s Park, Euston and Paddington are not convenient when you are carrying shopping.
Meanwhile, the EU is not being outdone in the take over of the UK. The Postal Packets (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023, unnoticed by most of the media (discussed here https://t.co/LdZBtP7CC2) continues the re-subjugation of the UK.
SY Trocadero: What a nasty gesture, intended as such. Right in the middle of the hub for London’s nightlife and tourism, a fun place where you always felt a buzz, home of the familiar Eros in the middle of Piccadilly Circus, sought after by tourists bringing money into the country. Well that’s the end of that then.
Why don’t they put another one next to Buckingham Palace just to complete the effect.
Next to? A conversion surely fits the cultural erasure agenda better.
PS comment sloppily and hastily produced as screen playing up and I keep losing what I’ve said. thought I’d knock it out before it disappeared again
How very apt are the graphic and headline.
MSM are determined to bring in a Labour government, the other rotten cheek of the rotten backside, and opinions vary as to whether they’d be any worse. But they never mention this:
The decline of Britain has been ongoing for a very long time, but IMHO it really took off big time with New Labour’s Blair Creature getting very pally with Soros just before its election in 1997. subsequent PM’s have just followed suit. Hence net Zero , gender madness, mass invasion etc etc. a
Also I’m about to re read Peter Hitchens book the abolition of britain, re Blair’s constitutional vandalism.
PS Going back further in time , Soros I understand did very well out of the ERM fiasco too. That creature has really sucked Britain dry, with the help of our treacherous politicians .
Mary…there was a time when people on the early morning commute into work whether it be by train or bus would have a newspaper delivered to their home or would buy a newspaper at a newspaper/confectionery shop in the High Street or indeed on the station platform, or would just walk around with a newspaper under their arm, but you just don’t see it these days. I retired 11 years ago and stopped travelling to work by train etc, but on the odd occasion I travel by train or on a bus people are not reading newspapers or reading news from an online site, but instead are playing computer games on their Smartphone, looking at films on a tablet, or just scrolling down their list of emails etc. So I just don’t understand where people get their news from these days and indeed perhaps they are just not interested in what passes for news these days in papers or on news sites like that of the BBC. I bought a daily newspaper (Daily Express) on Saturday last, really to pass the time of day for an hour and a half waiting for a political function to start in Central London. There were masses of papers in the rack that hadn’t been purchased whereas not so long ago one might expect them to be sold out by early evening. It was a bloody awful read with hardly any news worthy of reading between the front and back page and the accompanying magazine if one could call it that was half the size it used to be and was absolute garbage, and the £1.85 spent was a complete waste of money. If that is the standard of newspapers these days it is no wonder the majority are not buying them and looking instead at their Smartphones or tablets. I really don’t know how newspapers these days on the strength of what I see are able to make a profit.
CH I guess people still get a lot of news-or rather propaganda- from their smartphones, and from the BBC of course, instead of from hard- print newspapers. I understand people prefer to get news etc by videos and prefer pictures, videos, visual stuff, and no longer like to read the printed word anymore. Visual manipulation and propaganda is very powerful.
Here’s an article on this topic :https://dailysceptic.org/author/laura-dodsworth-and-patrick-fagan/
I remember in the old days the tabloids had fun stuff, good cartoons and fun articles. many of which I’ve still kept: but I get the impression that there’s no fun anymore in MSM.
And on top of all that the 4-day skivers in councils moaning that they don’t have enough time to do the job.
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