Goodness me – is there something in Westminster rotting Remain politicians’ brains? Two news items, funny as they are at first sight, lead me to make that assumption.
The first one (here) is again about the possibility of the new PM proroguing Parliament and what measures to take should that happen. Phil Hammond, still Chancellor of the Exchequer, has come up with this puerile proposal: stage a sit-in by MPs in the Chamber!
The mind boggles … Is Mr Hammond, are the ‘Remain Rebels’ trying to get their youth back, behaving like protesting students? Is this the final, ‘rational’ answer by the Remainers? Do they expect us to be impressed by this? Frankly, I think they’ve now truly lost the plot!
The other is about Rory Stewart – remember him? Here’s the astonishing report about ‘Rory’ – who just happens to be in Kenya to study ‘Climate Change’, lovely piccie of him and a rhino included.
His plan is to start a “Blue Momentum”, to ‘transform Tory grassroots’ and, by raising Tory Party membership to 400,000 (yes, really!) to counter “Blukip”, i.e. all those former UKIP members who have allegedly infiltrated the Tory Party.
No matter that local and national Tory Party bosses have found no evidence of that: who needs a reality check when one can get into the headlines! It looks as if he also has lost the plot.
My diagnosis is that they have become so addicted to be in the MSM that the prospect of returning to the back benches fills them with dread. They’ll do anything, even unto talking about childish projects, to stay there.
There’s more: yesterday we saw the unedifying spectacle of Ms Amber Rudd denouncing her previously held firm objections to a No Deal Brexit just so she might keep some sort of ministerial portfolio under the new PM. Now she’s come up with this ‘justification’:
“Amber Rudd, the Work and Pensions Secretary, criticised Mr Johnson’s “alpha male” approach to politics but said she would still serve under him because he would need women in the Cabinet.” (paywalled link)
I take it that she supported Hunt because he’s a ‘beta male’. God save us from this feminist swamp! These are the ‘great and good’ who think they know best and that this is the way to stop Brexit!
The Darroch affair is still making waves. There’s the question of the leaker – more on that below. More important are revelations from Tory ‘sources’ reported in the DT (paywalled). See this one for example:
“One senior Tory source pointed out: “Darroch called the White House dysfunctional, but if you really want dysfunctional then look at Number 10. You’ve got a situation where Trump is more passionate about Brexit than our own Prime Minister, and a civil service that is anti-Trump – our closest friend and ally.” (paywalled link)
Amazing, isn’t it – now they come out with these observations. Were they gagged and cowed before? Or is it that “Remain Rebels” were given leeway by May’s government to promote Remain while Brexiteers were told to keep Party discipline?
The next quotes are chilling. First, a bit of historical background to the ‘political culture’ which allowed the Darrochs in our embassies to flourish:
“According to Dr Gardiner, Mr Johnson will have to “work very hard” to repair Republican relations that began to falter under David Cameron.“When Mrs May came in, the foundations had been laid, […] Cameron spent too much time cultivating Democrats. He felt more comfortable dealing with the Obama administration than the conservatives, which has proved problematic.The leadership at the top has been lacking.” (paywalled link)
Indeed it has, but the next quote emphasises what has really been the case – something which we ignorant peasants out here had already suspected. When we voiced our suspicions we were of course brushed off as “conspiratorialists” because the Civil Service is impartial, dontcha know:
“And then you have had a civil service that seems overwhelmingly hostile to Trump. There’s a deep seated anti-conservative culture there. The current animosity between Theresa May and Donald Trump is symbolic of a bigger problem that dates back years.” (paywalled link)
It looks as if this Whitehall culture and tradition of anti-conservatism has influenced our policies to the detriment of our country for a very long time. It’s not just about the USA, we’ve seen this in regard to the EU and Brexit as well. Here is the last quote to chill you thoroughly on this hot day:
“[A] Tory source put it even more bluntly. “Boris’s three priorities when he gets into office should be his cabinet, his staff at Number 10 and the civil service. If he thinks MPs are going to be out to get him then that’s nothing compared to Whitehall mandarins. These are unprecedented times and there’s a fifth column out to completely sabotage Brexit. That’s the scale of the challenge he faces and he hasn’t got much time to solve it.” (paywalled link)
Well well well! Didn’t someone warn us about a ‘Fifth Column’ already? Hm. But let’s ask this of that source and of Tory MPs generally: ‘you’ve obviously known about the Mandarins sabotaging Brexit for some time. You have had insider knowledge. Why have you not told us voters about this?
Moreover, the gentlemanly approach by ERG members like Jacob Rees-Mogg clearly was misguided if not naive. The Remainers have been and will be playing dirty. So what are you going to do about it now? Still bring fluffy cotton balls to a knife fight?’
Finally, here’s the last chill-piece for today: the police investigation into the Darroch leak. This report has the statement of the Assistant Met commissioner investigating the leak, you can read it there. Here’s a summary in the paywalled DT:
“Counter-terrorism police began an investigation into the leak of diplomatic cables and warned newspapers and social media users that they would be committing a criminal offence by publishing further secrets. Scotland Yard said it was probing alleged “criminal breaches of the Official Secrets Act” following the leak which led to the resignation of Britain’s ambassador to Washington, Sir Kim Darroch, this week. In a highly unusual move, the Metropolitan Police warned publishers to hand over any other leaked cables in their possession or risk prosecution if they published them in print or online.” (paywalled link)
Counter-terrorism police? Is this alleged breach of the Official Secrets Act now an act of terrorism? Really? Here’s more:
“The statement from Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu came less than 36 hours before a Sunday newspaper was expected to print further revelations from diplomatic cables thought to have been leaked by a mole in Whitehall. It led to accusations by MPs that Britain risked becoming a “police state” and that any attempt to restrict the freedom of the press was “a dangerous road to go down”. (paywalled link)
The report in RemainCentral, i.e. The Times (paywalled) has another little snippet of info:
“Counterterrorism officers are investigating the leak of comments by the British ambassador about President Trump. The decision to call in the Metropolitan Police after Whitehall spent a week searching for the source suggests the government believes that the Official Secrets Act has been breached. […]” (link, paywalled)
Whitehall Mandarins couldn’t find the ‘source’, therefore it’s now time to call in – the Counterterrorism police? May I humbly ask why MI5 and GQCH have been unable to help out their Mandarin colleagues? Wouldn’t they, shouldn’t they know who leaked, and if not why not?
Doesn’t this counterterrorism sabre rattling rather look like an exercise to frighten the public – us – to behave and not quote ‘leaks’ which disturb the ‘Great and Good’ in their Remain machinations? Tell me I’m wrong!
Or is it that leaks to ‘orrible papers like the DM must of course be vigorously stamped out because us oiks who read them might learn things we shouldn’t?
I’ll leave you with further proof that we must stay vigilant. That poll which showed TBP figuring below LibLabCon? Turns out the question was manipulated, yet again, by subsuming TBP under the ‘another Party’ option (see here). Every little helps …!
Between manipulated polls and police threats to keep ‘Whitehall secrets’ secret, between proposed sit-ins by MPs and brave wimmin MPs braving work under an awful ‘alpha male’ for the good of Remain, there’s one thing we can and must do: keep our eagle eyes on the Remain establishment and
KBO!
from PMB It is appalling for a diplomat to write such things. Especially our representative to say them about our best ally. It was right to leak the memo and totally wrong to prosecute the leaker. To my mind Darroch should have been sacked long ago. It is not Trump who is inept.
Consider this, – BoJo the Clown doing a Cromwell ! – Proroguing Parliament upon the issue of a ‘No Deal Brexit’ ! ….. For the last three years we have seen our Parliament led by a woman who was utterly out of her depth, leading her split Party with the opposition only interested in Party advantage !
A vote was held upon EU membership, and with a majority of over a million, Parliament has not fulfilled the will of the People. – This Parliament is therefore of little use, once it treats Democracy as nothing to be concerned about. Therefore proroguing Parliament on this issue has become mandatory. A second vote, or a ‘Half In – Half Out’, is not fit for this old Nation. A new PM, telling the EU what we want should be done, but will only be a waste of time and effort, though it must be done, so our total withdrawal upon WTO is our future. Not only should we get used to this, we have to work to make it a success. (This awful four letter word, – ‘Work’) ! Germany did it with assistance from The Marshall Plan, so my personal view is that we too can do it, unless we believe that they really are the Master Race ! ? !
Hammond is not a believer in this Nation’s ability, and would only produce another version of Mrs May’s mess ! BoJo is certainly different to Hammond ! – Does he have what it takes ? – Would he be able to change the Civil Service into a Service fit for this task ? – Is he able to find and motivate leaders, within and without his Party, for this task ? He might be able to, and that is as firm an opinion as I can come up with. – If the answers to my three questions is YES, then it would succeed and succeed well for all of us. ….. But if NO, – ! ! !
In conjuring they use the term ‘misdirection’ when the performer cleverly gets the observers to look away from the sleight of hand, that which they don’t want you to see.
Happens all the time with leftist politics: make a big noise about and focus on a side issue, usually one that plays on our emotions, so everyone (and the media gratefully and deliberately) looks away from what is actually happening, and anyone who does keep their eye on the ball can be smeared as hard-hearted.
Boris needs to have a total clearout. They are all mad as a box of frogs [no slight on frogs intended :]]. Look at Gaukes’ and Hancocks’ latest and hopefully last insanities. Concerning prisoners and sleeping rules. Their legacies will not be remembered kindly or at all hopefully. The War games are ramping up a pace on all fronts and he will need his team to form a ring of steel to see it through. I hope they have enough metal. Thanks again for my daily bit of sanity, much appreciated.
Yes, quite true – and ‘mettle’ too.
“Not fit for purpose” I believe was MP John Reid`s comment when he was first chosen for the Home Office supremo post.
I wonder if that would have been his comment if he had been posted to this present Foreign Office.
In my opinion the FO has a long history of the dog wagging the tail of government (any government), obviously I am a bystander (peasant) and no insight into this “precious “office or the degree of their autocratic mien, but I cast my mind back to the famous occasion of the Argentinian invasion and occupation of the Falkland Islands.
Turned out there had been some sort of scheme cooked up between them of “shared Sovereignty” and the Argentinians jumped the gun, Seem to remember a pal of Lady .Thatcher Lord Carrington felt he had to resign over that one.
Just as a bye the bye, where did Boris when he was Foreign Secretary get the information from when he was talking to the Iranians about the lady they were holding hostage that, if I remember correctly “she was training journalists”. Boris couldn`t have come up with that faux pas alone (I`m not saying he wasn`t daft in not seeing the consequences).
All of which leads me to agreement with the proposition that this Ambassador , as a confirmed remainer was involved in the usual occupation of leading the government by the nose.
“… it’s now time to call in – the Counterterrorism police?”
Deflect deflect!
It’s not the problem that’s the problem! The problem is us oiks FINDING OUT there was a problem. (The ambassador). And of course they will tell everybody they’re getting the scary sounding ‘counterterrorism police’ to find out who let the cat out of the bag to scare the dickens out of anyone that even dares to think about letting any more cats out of said bag and scare us into not talking about it if they do.
But that’s not what we need to be scared of.
The really scary bit is that much of the current crop in our government apparently still think it would’ve been better for us with Hillary in the White House than Trump!
Well said and perfectly reasonable. Of course as we ‘plebs’ are aware – yet the ‘elites’ seem to fail to see it – the entire episode came about through the gross incompetence of our ‘fantastic Ambassador’ who acted like a schoolboy – No! Worse than a schoolboy, let’s not insult schoolboys – assisted by the totally corrupt ‘Uncivil Service’.
Now the creatures and vermin of the ‘press’ have decided that the whole problem lies at the feet of Boris. (No, I am not necessarily a firm supporter of Boris – yet as in the case of the USA, he is surely the lesser of many ‘evils’ within the Conservative Cowardly Party.)
And so we see the back of Theresa May – please God she doesn’t put her oar in to ANY organisation of ANY importance but disappears into the void – she in fact is the epitome of the quality of our Civil Service – pathetic. She has caused more upheaval in the country than all the invading forces throughout history.
Is that the same Hillary that used her private email account to send sensitive information which was never properly investigated or satisfactorily resolved. Double standards doesn’t come close to describing the nutjobs who think they know best.
I saw that ‘sit in’ in the H.O.C reported somewhere else two or three days ago, didn’t ‘wory ‘ suggest it, The only thing ‘spreadsheet’ has ever sat in is a well upholstered chair, as for the rest of the clowns they can hardly be bothered to sit in the H.O.C when they are being paid, let alone do it for nothing, In any case it would be illegal, perhaps we should ask the counter terrorist police to investigate! Just where are the Sgt at Arms and Black Rod when you need them!
The elephant in the political room is human rights, i.e. what version of human rights the politicians want to give us. And the globalist elite are spending enormous amounts of time and effort into promoting a version of “human rights” that are diametrically opposed to the Judaeo/Christian version that gave us a stable and secure middle class and the welfare State.
And the glaring manifestation of this is in the Remainers’ concentration on the economic “consequences” of Brexit to the absolute exclusion of the people who suffer from EU “rules” and voted for Brexit in the referendum. It is obvious that money is the new god and its high priests are investors, bankers, economic gurus etc.
Not to mention their addiction to foreign investment – not to develop new businesses but to gobble up established British businesses and not to mention their addiction to mass immigration to the detriment of the indigenous population and massive pressure on our housing stock.
Just a wild surmise!
Are they out to get us .?
You might certainly get that impression … but I couldn’t possibly comment …
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Boris doesn’t need women in the Cabinet. He needs the best people for the job some of whom may be women.
You may be literally correct MWT, but I would guess Boris would not survive outbursts from the sisterhood and the rest of the orchestrated media if he omitted their “rightful” share of the candy and responsibility that comes with high office (or at least is supposed to come) However, with her record of die hard remaindership and her apparent ability to turn on a sixpence, I would advise him not to pick that particular woman at any price.
I should have added “better we stay rudderless”