You are needed to fight the Establishment
Forget Brexit, forget BRINO, forget Leave and Remain: that’s not what this GE is about. It’s about the ‘survival of the richest’, of the Establishment. They are fighting against us, not for us. Nothing demonstrates better the huge democratic deficit, the rift between us, the electorate, and them, the Establishment, than the current state of the election campaign.
If you still believe that our Establishment parties were interested in the fate of our Nation; if you still thought that the PPCs fielded by the Establishment parties were more knowledgeable and therefore better than you; if you still hoped that the leaders and prospective ministers proposed by the Establishment parties actually know what they are doing – let me tell you: don’t! Forget it. This time it really is different. This time, the clay feet of all of them, from the Leaders downwards, have been revealed for all to see, thanks to our helpful MSM.
Those same MSM are now openly revealing their bias, their clay feet, scrambling to show how relevant they are, how well informed, how impartial. In their self-glorification they regard themselves as being above the politicians and their unsavoury fight for seats, but in their self-ascribed wisdom they’ve overlooked that we uneducated peasants out here have long recognised that they also wear no clothes.
Last evening’s Ch4 ‘debate’ on climate was just one case in point. More on that below. First there’s the complaint by the BBC that the Tories have taken a quote from one of their reporters ‘out of context’ for party political interest, and that could ‘damage their image of impartiality’! Read all about it here – the comments below that report say it all.
However, looking at the comments in the paywalled DT I was shocked to see so many blatant antisemitic ones praising Corbyn. It seems the DT moderators can’t keep up with removing them as fast as they come in. These are the ‘storm troopers’ of Corbyn. How far they’ll go is illustrated in this report, about Iain Duncan Smith being told by the police that he needs a bodyguard. It makes me wonder how many other PPCs are putting up with this sort of vandalism. If they’re men and not so prominent, I don’t think it’ll be reported.
But never mind all that – we must talk about ‘Climate whatever’ because that’s where the yoof votes are! Ch4, to make itself look relevant, had “The Leaders” debate on this issue. Johnson and Farage declined to attend so Ch4 set up two ice sculptures in their place. Sadly, they were not images of either of them, else I would have watched this useless waste of time to see them melt. The sculptures were of our planet. What elegant symbolism!
That this wasn’t really about ‘tackling’ this latest “Climate [insert horrific expression of your choice]” but about blatant electioneering by another ‘impartial’ TV channel became obvious when Ch4 denied Michael Gove taking part: this was a ‘Leaders Debate’ only! Why the Greens were allowed to field their deputy leader is a secret Ch4 can keep. You can read reports here, here and here, paywalled here and here.
In an orgy of virtue-signalling they were trying to outbid each other as to which party would ‘de-carbonise’ our country the fastest – but no word about the EU’s latest Green crap, no word about the protests of farmers in France, the Netherlands and Germany. This article looks at what planting all those trees would mean in real life. Nothing could be better to show up the inanity of those ‘green’ proposals, their lack of any common sense! Quentin Letts in The Times summed it up:
“It ended with personal eco-lifestyle intentions. Sturgeon promised to try to fly less. Swinson said she had an electric battle bus. Corbyn told us to grow lavender and boasted that he went round his house turning off the heating (poor Senora Corbyn). Price said he was going to put his baby in non-disposable nappies. Boris and Nigel, you made a wise call.” (link, paywalled)
So – what about Brexit? The latest MSM reports are about panic breaking out in both Labour and Tory High command. Labour is desperately trying to gain back Red Leave voters, even throwing Ed Miliband into the fry as ‘Brexiteer’ (no, me neither … and where is my free owl?) See here, see this about ‘a huge cash injection’ into Corbyn’s campaign, see this (paywalled) report about some Labour PPCs telling their constituents that they would vote Leave when Labour gets in and there’s a 2nd Referendum – just gimme your vote!
Tories are warned about not becoming complacent (e.g. here). It seems that some Tory writers are trying to make the Johnson BRINO more palatable by claiming that Leavers don’t care, they just want ‘Brexit done’, according to polls (paywalled here) while others warn that Labour could still rise and rise (paywalled here). Apparently, LibLabCon are taking the latest polls so seriously that they’re suddenly changing their campaign strategies:
“The Conservatives and Labour have redoubled their efforts to woo Brexit voters after a polling model for The Times indicated that they held the key to the election. Boris Johnson will rally voters for a final push to “save Brexit” and Jeremy Corbyn will attempt to shore up support in Labour’s so-called red wall, which has been revealed to be crumbling fastest in Leave areas. Jo Swinson, meanwhile, made her most personal attack yet on Mr Johnson as all three parties changed tactics in response to the YouGov research that put the Tories on course for a majority of 68.” (link, paywalled).
Only in this report did I find a veiled reference to TBP, relating to Cummings’ warnings which we mentioned yesterday. Are there ‘secret’ polls which we’re not told about? And why is it so traumatic for the Tories to lose some seats to TBP, if that is what those ‘secret polls’ indicate? Are the Tories not happy about getting help in the HoC by proper Leavers? That’s a rhetorical question – the Tories are not about Brexit, they’re about winning seats for Johnson.
What does all this tell us about the state of our democracy? It tells us that the establishment is only going through the motions, they do not give a hoot for our consent. The bribes offered in the past weeks demonstrate this: old-fashioned vote-buying with our own money, as if we cannot do simple calculations!
If this election weren’t so important for us who want Out, it would be ridiculous, especially when we see that these oh-so-clever election strategists are now taking polls ‘for real’. We dumb plebs out here know full well that they are meant to influence us, the voters, according to the old saying that one million flies can’t be wrong …!
With less than two weeks to go expect more panic electioneering, expect no reports at all on TBP, expect the sell-out of Brexit and our democracy. As the campaign intensifies some new Project Fear scenarios will surely appear – and anyway, don’t you like more trees?
Remember: they are exclusively fighting for their own livelihoods – ours, Brexit, Democracy are totally irrelevant in that fight. You know what to do: do as Cummings told you and talk to friends, colleagues, family. It’s no longer about Blue, Red, Yellow and Green. It’s our fight against the Establishment, parties and MSM rolled into one. It is a fight for our democracy, our country, Brexit, and indeed our lives. So:
KBO!
Not sure where to say this. It’s not so much about Brexit betrayal. It’s more an example of the sneaky way the EU has infiltrated our organisations, politics, our way of thinking about ourselves.
Who decided to divide England into Regions? And why? Has it served any useful purpose? We were already divided into Counties. I believe there were feelings of loyalty to our County. Now we have these huge Regions. Which are all sorts lumped together. It first Struck me as wrong when I discovered that Derbyshire, which is WEST of the pennine chain foot, is in the EAST Midlands Region.
Now I am almost sure the EU wanted this change as a move towards undermining our feeling of belonging to a local community. I believe they persuaded our political elites that it was just so they could hand out ‘Grants’ (ie a small part of our own money back).
But now these Regions are everywhere. Have you noticed? So and so is campaigning in the such and such Region. It is how the Media ‘thinks’ now. They probably don’t know Exeter is in Devon for instance.
Has anyone else looked into this?
Oh, and post codes are all wrong too. That came first. Mine, in Derbyshire is Sheffield – very large City in S.Yorks. So what happens? Half the Hospital appointments are for the other side of that, impossible to navigate, urban sprawl.
Ah well we are all good citizens of ‘Europe’ aren’t we. I should catch a bus into the centre of Sheffield then another out again. Making an early start, spending all day on an outpatients appointment. Buying breakfast and lunch at exorbitant prices etc. I suppose that way I could turn off the heating for the day.
I too find the term ‘regions more than irritating as used by the BBC and the other news channels that always used to talk about ‘our’ region or did so when last I tuned in which is getting on for ten years now. I’d always thought the term originated in world war two when 10 areas were made into regions for civil defence purposes, but in modern times it seems to have come to prominence again with ‘Major’s ‘ Government Offices in 1994 which were some sort of additional tier of government above county councils, they were later abolished but the nine regions survived. Isn’t England supposed to be just ‘regions’ now according to the e.u and from memory isn’t Cornwall included in
some political region of France?
Well said, Ms Baxter!
(Except for referring to them as ”elite”. They are NOT ”elite” by any stretch of the imagination.)
Regionalisation definitely came from the EU. Unfortunately it has become embedded but, like any other EU construct, must be removed.
Before I read anyone elses comments – Electioneering makes you/us SICK. SO THANK YOU EVERSO MUCH VIV for wading through it all on our behalf.
Confession – I read very little else, John Redwood still, Brexit Central, Briefings for Brexit when they land in my email inbox. Very ocasionally ‘todays news’ on google.
This is favourite. You keep me ‘in touch’.
Pauline: I agree wholeheartedly.
Thirded. If that’s a word!
“Why is it so traumatic for the Tories to lose some seats to TBP, if that is what those ‘secret polls’ indicate? Are the Tories not happy about getting help in the HoC by proper Leavers?”
Viv, Viv, Viv – reality is that unless the Tory vote is superstrong in each contested seat then any TBP votes could let Labour in. You know as well as I do that TBP won’t get HoC seats – that’s all based on wishful thinking by people that imagine FPTP allows miracles to happen. There are, say, around 75,000-80,000 voters in each constituency. If Tories AND Labour are competing with TBP for a seat, how many votes will TBP need to actually win the seat? I’d guess a handsome 5-figure number wouldn’t you?
Don’t mean to be a killjoy and it would be great if Widdecombe got in, or at Hartlepool – but I’m just a cold realist. I remember thinking UKIP were set to get 20 seats of their own in 2015, I had a sure fire bet with a colleague on five seats. All they got was that Tory carpetbagger in Clacton.
I have been banging on about changing the voting system to Proportional Representation for over fifteen years now and am gratified that at last commentators, pundits and TV talking heads are finally starting to factor First Past The Past into their analyses, but by God it’s taken a bloody long time. The one miracle I wish for is that all my friends and fellow posters on ID that think the voting system is some trifling technicality, start realising it is absolutely VITAL to the success or otherwise of your election strategy.
Like it or not, First Past The Post FORCES voters to choose the least obnoxious out of LabCon. You might say you could vote TBP in a “safe” Tory seat, to send a message. But do you know how many others in that seat might have the same idea??
Yes Rob Pearce. Exactly. We have to cope with the FPTP system. It ensures that ONLY Con/Lab have any chance of forming a government. There have been slight changes recently – coalitions, agreements, alliances. On the whole those have worked against Democracy. Particularly obvious in the last parliament where factions ganged up to prevent the Referendum result being honored.
It has been shown now to be a broken system. Not only is it the one we have so the one we have to work within to get Brexit. FPTP is also the one it is very difficult to get rid of. Precisely because it favours those same 2 Parties.
My hope is that Boris will get a majority, enough to get his WA as a start. Mainly I want Corbyn decimated because his party in power would be disastrous. But it would be very good if there were enough other pro Brexit MPs to remind Boris of all the LEAVE issues he has NOT tackled. To make sure that we do ‘shock horror’ ‘crash out’ because EU FTA will be something UK does not want.
”…. enough to get his WA as a start…”
But it’s not ”his” WA, is it? We all know now that it is May’s/Merkel’s WA with hardly any changes, and that it will be a treaty that binds us irrevocably to ”our EU friends”, paying money to them till they tell us we can stop, and making sure we know we are under their heel and their jurisdiction.
I don’t want Corbyn et al, but I certainly don’t want Boris/May’s surrender treaty either. We are being insulted.
Proportional Representation means permanent hung department ,you only have to look at Countries with this
Prop Rep does not necessarily CAUSE hung parliaments. Surely it is fragmentation of political ideologies that cause the break up of what used to be stable Parties. That has happened to us over Brexit. It so happened that both main parties were divided on the issue and both were out of touch with the people. The people voted leave but MPs of nearly all parties wanted Remain. (DUP were Strong Brexiteers in the referendum).
Surely what happens with many parties being elected is that like minded get together to form a government. I can understand your concern. But it seems to me that the problems experienced in the EU, particularly the eurozone. are not caused by PR but by a groundswell of resistance to the policies of the EU.
Rubbish Malcolm. If we had Proportional Representation this election, the most important for our country in DECADES, TBP needn’t have stood down ANY PPCs, every vote for a Leave-leaning party, no matter what constituency it was cast, would COUNT. Vote for TBP – UKIP – Tory – every vote would go towards an MP who could hold Boris’ feet to fire. Instead of that, we’ve got voters playing stupid guessing games!
Why don’t you people GET IT?
Those of you who are seriously concerned about the true threat to the problems currently, and in the future, to our immigration policy, and are perhaps dithering, please follow the following site in relation to the dreadful problems facing France – gatestoneinstitute.org.
Just picture the North and South Circular road bridges, and those of Birmingham Junctions, smothered by the French immigration rejects coming here – and PRAY for at least ten Brexit Party MP’s…………..(not to mention UKIP, of course!).
Secondly, look at the same site for an update on the once glorious countries of Sweden, Denmark and Norway – and REJOICE that we STILL have a slight chance here to stem the tide.
Thank your lucky stars that we were blessed with visionaries such as Farage and Batten – who have been persecuted for their daring to sound the alarm.
I have come to the conclusion that millions of people in this country are so concerned with their mobiles, Netflix, Strictly, Corrie, Get me out and the Premier League …..they have simply lost all reason – and probably don’t even deserve the great people we are blessed with in UKIP and TBP.
Don’t forget all the great people in the Tories, misterpaul. You know, the 317 that Farage stood down for.
Mister Paul,
You might like to look up a previous article on UKD, “iThingies” if still accessible.
There is only one issue in “democratic” politics is the lowest common denominator which in human terms is based on greed and selfishness.
So there is no limit to which politicians will go especially to pander to the selfishness of the minorities who control the media these days.
But occasionally there comes along politicians to see the greater good of the people as their goal and I believe the present Conservative Party as doing just that in their aim to get “Brexit done”. But that not mean the do not have to compete with the opposition.
Edward……Really? Get Brexit done eh?……….Pray tell us, WHICH kind of Brexit are we talking about here? May’s , Boris’s, the EU’s………..or might there just be the outside chance of a BREXIT which WE, the majority, voted for?
The only ones who are gonna be ‘done’ with this ‘open-ended-I’ll-defined Brexit’ under bumbling/Etonian/unreliable/bulls*itting/ Boris……will be the 17 odd million who voted leave – presumably you and I included.
Listen – when I vote for TBP I KNOW what I am voting for, know what they have contracted to deliver.
We are playing into the hands of the EU if we put our trust in Boris…….who is essentially a low-grade comedy act……and I mean LOW grade.
“We are playing into the hands of the EU if we put our trust in Boris”.
Quite right, misterpaul, so why has Farage done precisely that?
THOMAS – Farage had limited funds, limited chances in suicide seats, and needed to consolidate his ‘troops’.
His plan, as he has explained, was to get around ten or a dozen seats so as to attempt to keep Johnson to his word. I think that was a realistic strategy – which did not make him a lot of friends – but, when need must…….!
We agree again mrpaul. I hope Farage gets enough seats to keep Johnson to his word.
Probably only the Brexit Party’s directors (Farage and Tice) know whether they have limited funds or not. But I think that’s a lame excuse anyway, considering Farage had already selected 600 candidates and must have known his Party’s financial position at that time.
But if it really is the case that they could not afford to spread their resources too thinly then why on earth are they wasting those resources by standing in some of the safest Labour seats in the country such as Knowsley (42,000 and 76% majority at last election), Liverpool Riverside (36,000 and 74% majority) and Bootle (36,000 and 72% majority)?
As for getting a dozen seats, I think that’s pie in the sky now (they’re 1/4 with the bookies to get NO seats).
There‘s no getting away from it, Farage has let Leave voters down big time.
“The Establishment”, aka the Globalists:
Using every available tool in their arsenal such as the Climate Change Scam, the EU with its aspiration to the style of government first proposed by the Nazis, the UN with its outrageous Agendas 21 / 2030, the IMF and any other globalist organisation or “think tank” that one can name.
It seems that the writings of Orwell and Huxley are either being used as a basis for the plans of the globalists or is it just possible that those two had more than a great imagination?
Never mind project fear, here’s the reality and why we must leave the EU on Jan 31st, we’ll sink with it if we don’t. Bank runs and bankruptcies have been happening in China recently at an increasing rate but of course the MSM doesn’t mention it: everything is wonderful. Now India’s banks are starting to go under and this is going to spread globally.
Here are a couple of interesting videos, whatever you think of these as a source, I’ve picked them because they illustrate the situation very well and are in line with my own thoughts on the subject.
“Europe On the brink of Economic & Political Meltdown — Economic Collapse — Stock Market Crash 4K”
https://youtu.be/c9Yr2CqVbqk
And this is coming to the US too
“Bank Runs in America — The Bank is the Thief in the Night you Need to worry About the Most 4K”
https://youtu.be/YUtWpHTKF_0
We’re unfortunately about to live in interesting times and our best chance of survival is to leave the EU unconditionally on Jan 31st and not a moment later.