Plotting … again …
When you point a finger at an opponent in an argument, three fingers point back at you. That’s what my granny told me when she was teaching me manners. It’s a populist take on a psychological mechanism called ‘projection’.
The Left has weaponised “projection” as political trick to shut up opponents and the Remainers have learned from them. Looking back at this week’s events, looking at reports in today’s papers, we find examples galore. It’s not just Remainers who do it – it’s their sacred EU as well. How else can one explain M Juncker’s plaintive cry that, should there be a No Deal Brexit, it’ll be our fault (paywalled link) when we hear at the same time that the EU keeps saying ‘no’ to everything Johnson’s government is putting on the table?
We discern more projections when we look at the Remainers plotting to prevent Brexit. First, the latest ‘background’: Nicola Sturgeon for example is giving the green light to her SNP colleagues in the HoC to support a VoNC and then install Corbyn as caretaker PM (here, and paywalled here and here). The ‘prize’ Corbyn has to pay for this is giving the Scots another IndyRef. That’s democracy!
Next, the alleged ‘government plots’. John Major was dominating the MSM yesterday with his warning about Johnson possibly using a dastardly ‘ploy’ to circumvent the Surrender Act. We mentioned that yesterday (here). Now more ‘experts’ have joined the fray and are proposing other dastardly ploys which Johnson and Cumming could use, only to shoot them down, for example using
“the powers in the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, which allows Ministers to suspend Acts of Parliament in a state of emergency. These powers are very tightly restricted for obvious reasons – there is no threat of damage to national security, human welfare or environment – and nothing that would allow a state of emergency to be declared.” (link, paywalled)
And who picked up this possible ploy, took it for reality and ran with it? Step forward, Dominic Grieve! Here he is:
“Former Conservative minister Dominic Grieve said he feared the Prime Minister intended to declare a state of emergency to force through Brexit, using the threat of civil disorder as an excuse.” (link)
The background for that extraordinary claim is in this video clip of Brendan O”Neill remarking on the effects a Remain coup might have. As far as I know, Mr O’Neill is not part of Johnson’s government, Mr Grieve, but then again, Remain, just like the Left generally, assumes that nobody can think for themselves or would be allowed to – there simply must be puppet masters. A nice example of projection because that’s how Remain and The Left work: all singing from the same hymn sheet.
But Mr Grieve wasn’t done quite yet. He doubles down (here):
“I have been astonished to hear ministers talking up the possibility of civil disorder if we do not leave the EU on October 31. […] My worry is that this is part of an orchestrated script and part of a Government policy to get around the law drafted by Labour MP Hilary Benn and approved by the Commons – with my support – designed to prevent the Prime Minister taking the UK out of the EU next month without a deal. My suspicion is that they may be planning to use the 2004 Civil Contingencies Act to suspend that law on the grounds that otherwise there will be riots before and afterwards.” (link)
You can drop the ‘without a deal’ phrase, Mr Grieve – we know that you don’t want us to leave at all. Also, I wonder how Leavers would actually riot. After all, haven’t the Remainers told us for the last three years that Leave voters are old and are dying in their droves anyway?
Perhaps Mr Grieve should have read this column by Dominic Sandbrook in today’s DM before projecting his own Project Fear ‘riot scenario’ on us Leavers, or indeed arch remainer Matthew Parris’ remark in the (paywalled) Times:
“It isn’t true that Leavers are about to don gilets jaunes and start smashing windows. Leavers are as law-abiding as Remainers. ” (link, paywalled)
While it’s par for the course to blame Johnson and Cummings for everything without providing evidence, sensible Remainers might perhaps reflect on their own role in inciting ‘violence’ by talking up Project Fear scenarios leading to ‘riots’, as they did on Wednesday in the HoC!
Parris, taking swipe after swipe at Johnson and Cummings, then makes this observation:
“No EU deal is in sight and even if it were, this Commons would be unlikely to vote it through, especially after Mr Johnson’s performance on Wednesday.” (link, paywalled)
Does Parris really think that the HoC would vote down a deal simply ‘to punish’ Johnson? My conclusion was that, no matter what deal BoJo comes up with, it will be voted down because the Remainers want to Remain.
Rounding up these various ‘what-if’ ploys, plots and alarms by Remainers, here’s a final one which they have overlooked. Benedict Spence writes:
“Meanwhile, a further suggestion has been that Cummings could be planning for the Government to invoke EU law to get round the Benn Act, as Article 50, being a continental mechanism, trumps UK Law, to which the Benn Act belongs. It would be creative, to say the least, whilst also infuriating Remainers, and demonstrating to the public just how powerless UK law is in the face of the EU. Using the enemy’s strength against them? Very Sun Tzu.” (paywalled link)
That would be what is called ‘a turn up fo the books’! Would the Grieves and Benns then go to court, to have Johnson jailed? Hm.
And what about our ‘friends’ in the EU? Are they perhaps projecting their unwillingness to negotiate beyond saying ‘Non’ onto our negotiators? See this item:
“EU diplomatic sources said heads of state and government would refuse to negotiate the Brexit deal at the summit. […] Responding to the warnings, a UK Government source said: “Brussels should be focused on getting a deal, not setting the ground for a political blame game.”(paywalled link)
I can’t help thinking that EU intransigence is fed and fuelled by our own Remain politicians who have been working with Brussels, overtly before Johnson and now behind Johnson’s back. As they cry that calling them traitors is inflammatory language, someone ought to tell them that negotiating with a hostile entity behind one’s government’s back is called treason, and that those who do this are, yes, traitors.
Going back to the EU and their “negotiations”, this passage in Peter Cleppe’s article in the (paywalled) DT caught my eye:
“The EU must really consider carefully whether it wants to waste the upcoming month in the hope that Boris is deposed, opening the way for either a “softer Brexit” or the reversal of Brexit altogether. The latter is something many in the EU now realise is unsustainable, given how difficult the UK would be as a partner, not least due to the 17.4 million voters that would feel betrayed. Given that Boris Johnson may also adopt a much more radical position on Brexit in the event of an election, in order to gain votes from the Brexit party, the EU would do well to realise a deal with him now is likely to be much easier rather than one later.” (paywalled link)
Even if the EU were to follow that thought, showing some softening even unto some sort of deal, there is one obstacle which Mr Cleppe has overlooked: the Remain harlots in the HoC. It’s not fanciful to assume they will vote down whatever deal Johnson brings back.
Their aims are clear: to keep us ‘In’ through extension after extension, to install a Corbyn government, to get a 2nd referendum and finally kill Brexit stone dead.
The chuntering by Remainers of Johnson’s alleged ‘dastardly plot’, i.e. to use the Civil Contingency Act 2004, is therefore an obvious projection. It is the Remainers who fear Brexit riots once they have usurped Downing Street. It is they themselves who would use that Civil Contingency Act against us Leavers.
Remember that, since we’ll still be ‘In’, this Remain ‘government’ could then call on Eurogendfor to ‘help’ them against us “rioting Leavers”. EU boots on UK soil: Berlin and Paris would finally have achieved our subjugation.
We however will channel our inner Churchill:
“We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”
KBO!
Tried again today, still undeliverable. Sorry.
Why do you use a picture of 3 jewish men for your betrayel heading?
What makes you think these are Jewish men? Men used to wear hat like that in the olden days.
Olden days? Do you mean pre-2016?
Why not.
Re civil unrest, I’m surprised there aren’t already clandestinely organised Stop the City invasions of the Square Mile every working day, to warn the Remoaners of the potential ongoing price of their treachery. Leavers living in or near the Smoke, and who have the time, are quite entitled to tube it in, thus clogging up the network, and then innocuously stroll around. No placards
Talking of betrayal. A little bit of interesting info. here:-
https://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2019/09/28/slog-investigation-just-how-true-fair-is-gina-miller/
Play the remoaners at their own game!
Genuine Letter recently sent to D Grieve…
Dear Tory Remainer MP (traitor),
The country needs Boris Johnson to be a successful Prime Minister for a successful future, which means that he has the right to expect loyalty from every Conservative at this most critical time in our nation’s history.
You were elected because of your pledge to honour the referendum result, which you have blatantly attempeted/are attempting to sabotage with your treachery in Parliament.
By your actions you have demonstrated that loyalty to the Prime Minister is not your primary concern, and by extension, the successful future of your country is not your primary concern either.
Resign… now…make way for others who will care more about the country’s future than do you.
I eagerly await your reply.
Yours sincerely etc,
Grieves reply…
…Dear Sir or Madam
I am in receipt of your communication to which I note you seek a reply.
The first principle of communicating with a fellow human being is courtesy. Your communication deliberately sets out not to meet that criteria.
Your faithfully
Dominic Grieve…
…Says it all really…
I thought you were very courteous. He on the other hand……….
Last night, at the tenth Brexit Party conference tour in London, Farage said words to this effect – if we do not leave on 31 Oct, or Boris persuades Parliament to pass a watered down May surrender treaty, we shall not riot nor will there be violence. Now The Brexit Party is here, we have a DEMOCRATIC means to get our own back on recalctrant, remoaner parliamentarians: we have our votes in a GE that is certain to come soon.
In other words, if we can garner 18m F Off votes for The Brexit Party, that will get the people their own back
Mr Woodcock – yes indeed. But only IF the EU ”allows” us to have a GE if they have the surrender treaty in their sticky paws. No doubt they’ll find ways of preventing us voting in a Eurosceptic party.
Such nonsense. The only people preventing a GE taking place in our country are opposition parties. The EU is not involved in that debate or process. End of. To make that point even clearer, the reason Johnson wants a GE is to take advantage of Labours nonexistent brexit strategy and to try to create a mandate for his vision of brexit, (even though he has sacked 21 of his MPs to gift him that minority, even though he was guilty of that same charge under TM’s GOV). What you are seeing is a country that, even though it is still a member of the EU, has complete control of its sovereignty. This is a British issue, not a British/EU issue. It is our right to have a general election, it just so happens that the ability for a government to call a general election was altered by a BILL of Parliament: a bill that was brought by the British political establishment and voted on by all members of the house. That is democracy.
PS. I like the application of surrender onto May’s treaty. An agreement that still stands as the most credible offer, by both sides, to deliver Brexit. If anything, it is you who are surrendering as you fail to accept any outcome but the most preposterous, unachievable ones. Only you, and the people I assume you support in the commons (ERG, etc.) have failed to ratify that deal agreed between the conservatives and the EU over the course of two and a half years. Ask them why they have surrendered their ability to honour the REF, and hopefully you will get a more honest answer than the diatribe of reasons we have currently witnessed, all of which can be easily made redundant with a little bit of research, (like Eddie Mair embarrassing SB the other day).
Thanks Ken P for publishing this and your comments.
I wonder if the millions of pro European citizens they represent: ‘ On behalf of the millions of pro-Europeans we represent in the UK,’ are aware that they are being represented by these people’ I can’t remember anyone from any faction telling me or writing anywhere that they were or are anti-European, or does the Lib Dem grasp of reality not extend to the fact that millions of citizens are not anti European , just anti e.u. From what I’ve seen of what were once European countries similar sentiments are held by millions of their citizens too . Maybe older LibDems would care to remember Paddy Ashdown’s comments or were his comments buried with him
A very disturbing pattern has become endemic in liberal democracies. It is based on the notion that opinion has replaced truth.
In this ideology the oft repeated Orwellian cliche has come true: “Lies are truth. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. The Party [Liberal democracy] seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. . . . Power is not a means; it is an end . . . not power over things, but over men. . . . . . There will be no loyalty, except loyalty toward the Party [liberal democracy]. There will be no love, except the love of the Party [liberal democracy]. . . . ….
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. ”
This is the true basis of Remainer/globalist EU ideology where the true aim of Remain is never stated.
Your inability to contextualise Orwell’s words adequately within the modern context are stressed by the fact that you insert your own terminology into his quote, thus rendering his quote a bastardisation of his and your own words. It is worthwhile noting that he too had difficulties with the socialist factions when fighting in the civil war, but party in this respect is meant to refer to those monumental political entities that are unopposed by competing ideologies. Not because there aren’t any competing ideologies, but because those ideologies are simply not allowed to compete. They are censured.
The Government does not need to invoke EU law, it is done. A while ago Johnson signed the Commencement Order for the UK’s exit on October 31st; something May never had the guts, or more importantly, the will to do. It was barely covered by the MSM, other than noting it. Perhaps they didn’t want to alert folk that the inexorable doomsday machine had been activated, or perhaps they did not appreciate its significance. That order was an order under EU law, which, whilst we are still members, has supremacy over UK law. Only the European court can overturn it.
So we have double irony. Remainers demanding the sovereignty of Parliament so they can end forever the, um, sovereignty of Parliament. But also the fact that, until we leave, EU law has supremacy, the outcome of which will be to end its supremacy in this country.
So rather than having to invoke EU law, the Government merely has to point out that it is already in place and, ought to be, unstoppable.
I say ‘will be’ and ‘ought to be’, notwithstanding that the rule of law has broken down and convention and practice seem to be tossed aside regardless if it furthers the Remain cause, whilst previously legal Leave gambits are challenged and overturned in the courts. So nothing will surprise me now.
I hope you’re right!
THANK YOU PHILosophical. I’ve been trying to remember that bit – what was it again – Commencement Order. It did pass almost unnoticed. I’m glad you have said it is in EU law that Brexit happens 31/10. That was what I hoped for at the time. Perhaps we should have kept quiet about it though, in view of all the remain traitors colluding with a foreign power.
Another ‘Thank You’ Viv. This time to also thank everyone here (unlike our MP’s) for working over the weekend and providing much needed honest news. I can never understand why Guido, and now ConHome, ‘shut up shop’ on Saturdays? With ‘hot news’ every hour, you’d think they would wan’t to be in the thick of it. Perhaps ‘the kitchen’ is too hot for them!
I like that final thought and just to reinforce it here’s another broadside from Ann Widdecombe. I think she agrees with you Viv.
“Brexit Party Tour – Feisty Ann Widdecombe Attacks Enemy Territory – LONDON!”
https://youtu.be/_C5U_5FliaE
Thanks for printing that flyer – well with watching and I cannot think of a better aid to “weaponising” the Leave cause of a COMPLETE Brexit.
We used to sing a little rhyme in “community singing” at the right shaped ball club.
“That was a good little rhyme,
Sing us another one,
Just like the other one,
Sing us another one -do”
Windy really does hit the right notes.
Once we get out our law on treason and sedition needs to be restored to its proper place, if possible with retrospective effect. Let the trials begin!
As for defending ourselves does anyone know for certain if May’s 10,000 EU troops have returned to where they belong?
For those who haven’t seen it this is the grovelling letter sent by unLiberal antiDemocrat MEPs to Juncker;
https://g8fip1kplyr33r3krz5b97d1-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/LDEPP-Letter-to-Jean-Claude-Juncker_FINAL_200919.pdf
Thank you Ken for this most illuminating – and disgusting – letter. Now we have Juncker’s mail and e-mail addresses, I suggest as many readers of this site as possible write to him refuting the LibDem letter and reminding him that 17.4 million Brits voted in favour of leaving the EU. We MUST be able to muster as many letters in response as there are MPs who signed this letter – 16. I shall certainly be writing.
Good idea – done that.
🙂
AND SO WILL I !!
🙂
I’ve just tried to send Junker an email and failed. It was undeliverable. Very antiquated system here but I will try again tomorrow.
Me too !! Done.
Done that.