Looking at the Westminster ‘landscape’ …
For your Friday delectation I’ve collected a few reports culled from our dearly beloved MSM. They show the now well-known habits prevailing in Westminster: when things go wrong, the mandarins and serpents are nowhere to be seen while the minister gets the blame.
First the obligatory collection of the print MSM front pages, aimed at making the punter rush and buy them: “Newspaper headlines: ‘Vindictive’ rail unions and ‘talk show king’ dies” (link). Note well that only the Red Tops call the Rail strikers ‘vindictive’.
Aren’t deep-red lefties always vindictive or am I mis-remembering all those history lessons when we had to be alert because there might have been ‘reds’, i.e. Soviets, under our beds? Funny how the nurses’ strikes aren’t deemed to be ‘vindictive’ …
Speaking of nurses and the NHS, it’s quite interesting how certain papers and the Beeb are crying about ‘NHS doctors’ stuck in Sudan. Scroll down a bit in yon front page compilation and you’ll find that ‘iNews’ is leading with this story.
However, in their subtitle even the brave ‘iNews’ editors have to admit that those stranded doctors, NHS or not, aren’t actually British citizens. Oh. well, Auntie Beeb has a wonderful sob story, with photo, of one such complainant (all emphases are mine):
“An NHS doctor trapped in Sudan after visiting family for Eid has urged the government to fly him back to the UK, saying he feels “betrayed” after being turned away from evacuation flights. […] Despite having a UK work permit, he cannot board an evacuation flight as they only accept UK passport holders. Dr Babiker, who has worked at the Manchester hospital for more than four years, told Newsnight: “To be honest I feel totally betrayed… I worked throughout Covid and I’m so disappointed.” (link)
Oh how sad! I’ve selected this sob story because there are two remarks dropped into this piece which point to a coming attack on Tory ministers:
“The Foreign Office says it is prioritising British nationals, saying people in Dr. Babikar’s situation are allowed to enter the UK, but must make their own way there. […] after 16 hours queuing at the site north of Khartoum, Dr Babikar was told he could not board. “They said ‘we are really sorry, this is the guidance from the Home Office’. […]” he said.” (link)
‘Home Office’ – that’s Ms Braverman. ‘Foreign Office’ – that’s Mr Cleverly. Clearly, we’re led to believe that they’re at fault. There’s not one remark about the serpents and mandarins not doing their duty. They never are at fault.
The whole report is a beautiful example for also shoehorning NHS ‘concerns’ – aimed at Mr Barclay – into a report about UK citizenships. There was another kerfuffle involving aeroplanes in Sudan. The Times reports:
“According to three well placed German sources, the C130-J Hercules made a “very dangerous” unannounced landing. Two German officials with knowledge of the situation said the apparent failure to co-ordinate the mission with local air traffic control led the British aircraft to almost crash into another aeroplane on the runway. Another source could not confirm this claim but said the German government had been “very unhappy” about Britain’s alleged refusal to discuss the mission beforehand, which had demonstrated a “lack of solidarity”.” (link, paywalled)
The MoD however said this was wrong, and that: “[…] those managing the runway […] had been alerted to the arrival of the RAF plane well in advance of the landing. One source said it was flat-out wrong to describe the landing as “dangerous”.” (link, paywalled).
Yeah but … ‘Brexit’, innit, so Remain Central knows that we’re wrong and the Krauts are right, ok yah? Note that yet another Tory ministry is now in the crosshairs of the Westminster MSM: the MoD.
As for Brexit, the DT has actually used the word ‘betrayal’ in their headline regarding the scrapping of EU laws: “Tories to leave thousands of EU laws intact in latest Brexit betrayal” (paywalled link)! Gasp! Tories are betraying Brexit? Obviously, another Tory minister must be bashed even though she’s only the messenger:
“In a briefing to senior Tory Eurosceptic MPs on Monday, Kemi Badenoch, the Trade Secretary, […] reportedly told the MPs that civil servants had told her that it was impossible to remove the 4,000 EU laws, the vast bulk of which sit in the environment department. […] Conservative MPs told The Telegraph they were furious at the apparent hollowing out of the legislation which they see as a surrender to civil servants who they see as being unwilling to strip away EU red tape.” (paywalled link)
Oh – these MPs have only noticed this now? Blimey. And then, just like that, further down in their report the DT inadvertently shows that Tory MPs are utterly out of touch with the reality that is Whitehell and that they still haven’t understood how the Remain civil service has stymied their Brexit efforts. One of them:
“pinned the blame on Mrs Badenoch personally, saying: “You need a tough minister but she is a lame minister who is having rings run around her by ‘Remainer’ officials. We needed a tough minister. Kemi is proving to be a huge disappointment.” (paywalled link)
Have they still not learned that ‘a tough minister’ will have their wings clipped or be ousted, one way or another? Does Mr Raab’s fate not ring a bell? Ms Patel, Ms Braverman, now Mr Barclay: shouldn’t this list not make them sit up? And what about Miz Truss, the dahlink of her mandarins? Shouldn’t she have prepared this list, but hasn’t?
These examples are like fuses being laid for Tory ministers – fuses which can be lit when necessary, i.e. when a minister ‘gets tough’. Needless to say: this is a distraction welcomed by mandarins who vanish like snow in the sun, hiding behind their ministers when their own work ought to be criticised.
That’s all I have for today. Remember: a ‘tough minister’ is a bully and will be made to go by their serpents and mandarins. I dunno why Tory MPs still haven’t noticed that. Have a good day.
Looking at WEF is like Charlie3 admitting ” I believe in balconies “.
When the financial crash of 2007 to 2010 forced retirement on me aged 80 ish.. I have sat back baffled by our country, and why. I see illogic routinely pronounced as logic, hear the ignorance of 9 out experts. Barefaced. Worst of all I see ethics taught and believed that make me shudder. The primary aim of those with power is avoidance of responsibility, a refusal to believe it exists, and acquisition. The modern adjectives seem to be :- slippery, venal, ignorance of all kinds, treacherous,
And it’s so commonplace it seems to almost being taught as part of the worlds education. To me it seems thus:-
The watershed of the second war produced much guilt in those who actively avoided actual war through cushy numbers , actual prevention etc. and thereafter attempted to better the plight of the ordinary to compensate.. And believed the socialist causes. Which is followed to this day. And in fact continues ignorantly to this day.. Punishment for bad choices is now universely and foolishly forgiven, and even rewarded.
I was preparing the ground there for discussion about WEF. But I think that’s enough for me today, but it’s a totally foolish and ill conceived. A bit like the Mirror Newspaper of politics.
I’m quite relaxed about loading the blame on Tory Ministers – this wretched party has done much to further the powers, influence and reach of unelected officials, nationally over the last 13 years. They can’t justifiably complain when they come back and bite their bum.
Beautifully put SY
To the lack of morality by the BBC, you might add their failure to mention the impossibility of the NHS’s task to cope with the “city sized ” loads of extra customers, many of which must have medical “needs”, that’s ‘legal’ immigrants, never mind those increasing loads of illegals who seem to get their own dedicated health service on the nod
“civil servants who they see as being unwilling to strip away EU red tape.”
If they are to blame then they should be sacked forthwith. However I expect they are just being used by higher-ups who opposed Brexit and won’t give up their treasonous ways.
‘Betrayal’ is the violation of a moral norm between trusting parties – e.g. thou shalt not stab in the back etc – except the BBC’s report is itself an example of moral degeneracy in that it is pure propaganda not news. No examination of the morality of employing a Sudanese national in a UK hospital, of taking a much needed skill out of a country that is ranked one of the poorest in the world to cover for the UK’s wholly inadequate planning and training of medical staff for its own population’s needs. In any case, betrayal can only occur where there is mutuality of commitment. In what sense can a muslim national of another country have any reciprocal obligation to this country? If we introduced conscription would he feel obliged to serve this country? HIs loyalties are to his family and religion in Sudan and so there can be no betrayal by the British government.
The obligations of the UK government are first to the people it sent to Sudan, then to British passport holders there voluntarily (ignoring how so many Sudanese ended up with British passports) and only then to others assuming capacity, resources and secondary considerations merited providing free transport out of the country to people seeking to abandon their families, the people actually placed to consider Babiker leaving them in a war torn country as betrayed.
Agreed SY.
If many of these punters have dual citizenship . . . why are they only putting the monkey on the back of soft touch Britain. Just asking.