Guerrilla warfare in the Peninsular War
If we needed more proof that Brexit has now become the playball of party politicians as described in my article yesterday, then today’s headlines provide it.
On the one hand there are the shock-horror lines about yet more ‘Tory Rebels’ ready to resign if Ms May doesn’t take ‘No Deal’ off the table and/or asks Brussels for an extension (here and here, and paywalled here and here), on the other we read that Corbyn is now going to demand a 2nd Referendum (here and here, and paywalled here and here).
If we needed more proof of the utter contempt that the MPs and the Party leaders have for us, the voters, then those headlines provide it. Their contempt for us is blatant – contempt not just for us who voted for Leave in the EU Referendum but for all who voted for the current crop in the HoC in the 2017 GE.
Taking a closer look, there’s a difference between the Tory Remain ‘Rebels’ and the Labour ‘2nd Referendum Rebels’. One can, being charitable, just about understand the Tories because for them it’s about inner-party power pure and simple, their hope and desire to replace Ms May, preferably with one of them. These Remainers have never made a secret of their Remain dreams. Their blackmail is solely due to Ms May’s disastrous negotiations culminating in the WA. The unbelievable strategic error of the ERG and the eurosceptic Tories to trigger the ‘vote of confidence’ in Ms May at that 1922 Committee meeting weeks ago meant that Ms May is secure in her position, as far as the Tory Party is concerned, for another year. The only way out for both Leave and Remain Tories would be triggering a GE.
Corbyn and Labour however have just one cynical reason to turn coats: fear of losing more members to the TIGs and thus of losing in a coming GE:
“Jeremy Corbyn declared last night that he will support a second referendum if he cannot get the Brexit deal he wants, in an attempt to stem the exodus of MPs from Labour. Mr Corbyn’s surprise announcement, which triggered an instant backlash from Labour MPs who oppose a referendum, is the first time that his party has supported moves in parliament to hold a new vote. The decision came as a YouGov poll for The Times revealed a further surge in support for the breakaway Independent Group. The poll put Labour on 23 per cent, down 3 points in a week, while the new group went up 4 points to 18 per cent. Last week’s Labour split appears to have unnerved the leadership, with John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, understood to have demanded that Mr Corbyn, who has previously signalled his reluctance for a new EU referendum, to back another vote.” (paywalled link, my bold).
Yes, it’s about inner-party politicking and jockeying for positions – you can read a balanced report here in the DM – and about getting Corbyn into 10 Downing Street, Brexit principles be damned. You only have to look at this article by ‘a young person’ in The Times (paywalled) to see that the constant, ageist bashing of us Leave voters is the basis for the Corbyn turncoatery:
“Young people will remember these crucial weeks when they cast their next vote. A poll commissioned by the TSSA union, which is affiliated to Labour, found that the party could lose 45 seats if it were seen not to oppose Brexit. The support of under-35s is hit the hardest, as my generation signals its dismay at an opposition who could have stopped a Brexit that damages our future but failed.” (my bold)
There’s more, and, as usual for Lefties and Labourites, it’s about ‘Bad Tories’. Note that there are Tory compromises (bad), and there are Labour compromises (good because ‘genuine’);
“In the Brexit endgame, it seems self-evident that nobody is going to get everything they want. Any solution will require a compromise: everybody must be prepared to give something if Britain is to emerge from this crisis in one piece. Nonetheless, there are two kinds of compromise. There are fake compromises, such as the “Malthouse compromise”, whose architects sought to bypass the national crisis in favour of preserving Conservative unity. It failed upon arrival — its proposals were immediately and firmly rejected by the EU — and yet it lingers on in some circles, a fantasy route to a transient parliamentary majority. In reality, it makes any genuinely inclusive compromise much harder, wasting time for one last-ditch attempt to bring the Conservative Party together.” (my bold)
That compromise is bad, if you’re a ‘young person’ on the Left, because Tory unity is bad. Not so when it’s about Labour:
“There are also genuine compromises, which have the potential to bring parliament and the country together around a workable solution. The amendment by the Labour MPs Peter Kyle and Phil Wilson, in which parliament would approve May’s deal subject to it being put to the people in a confirmatory referendum, is just that. MPs opposed to May’s deal must allow it to pass through parliament. MPs in favour of Brexit must accept returning to the public and allowing them to make the final decision — even if they can campaign for Leave in doing so.”
Yes indeed – let’s unite the country ‘behind Labour’ and for Remain, and those nasty Leave MPs have the permission of that ‘young person’ to campaign for Leave … how generous! If this immature, condescending twaddle doesn’t enrage you, nothing will – except perhaps this piece of news – quoted at length because it’s paywalled (link):
“The government is making plans to pay billions of euros to Brussels to settle large parts of the £39bn Brexit divorce bill even in the event of a ‘no deal’, the Telegraph can reveal. Ministers signed off the in-principle decision on Monday at a meeting of the Brexit ‘no deal’ preparedness cabinet committee, according to senior Whitehall sources. Under a plan agreed on Monday, the Government will table an executive order, or Statutory Instrument, in the final days of the Brexit negotiations to create the legal foundations for future payments to Brussels. The move flies in the face of expectations of leading Brexiteers that a ‘no deal’ Brexit will save the country from paying the £39 billion EU divorce settlement. Last month the European Union put the UK on notice that it still expected the British government to “honour the obligations” from its EU membership in the event of a ‘no deal’, starting with payments for the remainder of 2019, estimated at €7.1bn (£6.1bn). It added that it wanted written confirmation of Britain’s intention to pay by April 18 2019, with monies transferred to the EU’s account by April 30.” (my bold).
Don’t despair – instead get really angry. Use your social media accounts and ask the Remainers to tell you what is so good about the EU that they want to remain, and shoot down their arguments.
Be relentless! Remember: it’s up to us alone. We’re not an army needing ‘generals’. We’re Brexit Guerrilleros. Guerrilleros beat armies.
Britain has been – internally- at peace for so long that it no longer sees existential external threats for what they are, that is existential and threatening, but simply blunders on in the vain hope that there will be some guardian angel in the form of a great leader that will rescue us from political and economic disaster at the end of the day. We have our heads in the sand.
I’m afraid that in these final, vitally important days before 29th March, no guardian angels are going to materialise.
There is no Messiah.
We are in deep trouble. We are heading for disaster. We are on the verge of losing our democratic power, through the ballot box, to impose our will.
And then we will soon after be – de facto- in the clutches of dictators.
Our trust in political leaders is dead. We have seen nothing from the right, including the amusing but ultimately futile Wodehousian rhetoric from Jacob Rees -Mogg and BoJo, that convinces us that there will not be a political fudge. Right now, UKIP and other fringe ‘hard Brexit’ actors are still playing silly games with silly issues and are out of the game. Harsh, but true. The lesson was not learned and now it’s too far gone to matter.
On the left, we have the extremely intelligent and able axis powers of Keir Starmer, James O’Brien and multi-national businesses holding up today’s patsy, the reluctant Remainer but ambitious wannabe PM Jeremy Corbyn, as their front man. But old-fashioned Labour types (not the London Momentum gang) remain skeptical. I expect the hard-left to win that fight, as money+media trumps conviction. Corbyn will remain. A Trot is a real possibility in Downing Street.
Somewhere in the middle there are the Lib/Dems, TIG and Tory wets, hanging on for their jobs and status, totally indifferent to their constituents’ wishes and eying their revolving-door jobs or peerages. They don’t care about much else.
It all stinks. Politicians from all sides are now looking to keep their Westminster / AM / MEP seats.. For themselves, not for us. I’ve already decided not to help any of them or fund any of them.
So what can WE do?
I agree with Viv’s ‘guerilla’ quote and Flyer’s ‘we must prepare for the worst’ plea. We have to fight in our own way and on our own ground.
Time will tell if it’s ultimately the pen or the sword that prevails.
Prepare for both.
‘Right now, UKIP and other fringe ‘hard Brexit’ actors are still playing silly games with silly issues and are out of the game. Harsh, but true.’
I wonder, Mr Bav, whether you have been to a UKIP meeting lately? I have – 3 in fact -10 days ago. I have to say that I didn’t see any resemblance between your description and the well attended, enthusiastic, organised, businesslike and focused gatherings that I witnessed.
Thank you Howard, very pleased to hear that. Unfortunately, good people are buying into Nigel Farage’s own ‘project fear,’ against both UKIP and Tommy Robinson. There is no doubt about Nigel’s ability and popularity. He is a spell-binding figure. Would there have been a referendum without him? Would we have got the ‘leave’ result without him? Both are very doubtful.
Also, I don’t blame him for being a one-issue campaigner. Someone needs to do that, and who better?
However, the Brexit problem goes a lot deeper that getting out of the EU. If and when that happens, the battle still needs to be won. How was Ted Heath allowed to get away with his 1972 EEC act? How as Gordon Brown allowed to get away with signing the Lisbon Treaty and selling all our gold at a knock-down price? If both of those men had done those things in the 17th century, I know what would have happened to them. And, that forgets all the quislings in between.
I am all for Nigel’s Brexit party seeking seats in the EU parliament, and I don’t really care if they take seats off UKIP. That is more of a ‘protest’ position.
But, what the country needs is a true ‘populist’ party that upholds the freedom of the individual. Preferably, this party needs a proper manifesto of policies, a firm and fair leader who is good in debate, and, a good brand that has been established. UKIP is that party, and Gerard Batten is that leader.
I think Farage is now a tory wolf in sheeps clothing. And Tories are very good at getting people’s hopes up and stringing them along the road to nowhere, while wasting valuable time. I wish you best of british luck with him and hope II’m proved wrong. I’m not holding my breath though.I didnt see the point of trying to destroy UKIP and start another party,
I totally agree with your reasonable words. I would add that the MSM are such an important obstacle to waking people up. It really is about getting sensible and simple messages out to warn people of what will happen if we stay any longer under the control of this fascist entity. The EU ship is sinking but by staying in we will keep it afloat a little longer which will inevitably cause greater suffering when it does go down.
“some guardian angel in the form of a great leader that will rescue us …messiah….
Sarcasm alert Fear not, the great Nigel Farage has come back to save us, so all will be well !!!!!!!!!
“UKIP are still playing silly games with silly issues.” What silly issues would those be? Last I heard was that Gerard Batten and Tommy Robinson are trying to expose, big time, the mendacity of MSM. The fact that voters believe MSM’s lies is THE biggest obstacle to us getting out of this mess. So this is hardly a silly issue. Maybe you didnt get to know about this since TR’s Facebook account was taken down, along with Reece Coombs’ and others.
Hello Everyone
Please can we all email our MPs and share the following video? Particularly, I am keen that those with remainer MPs should do so. It does seem that there is gross ignorance about the full implications of EU membership. Revoking the 1972 EEC act is the most important outcome. Economic concerns are secondary. So, why so much emphasis on the economic aspect? Surely, that shows there is no concept of what it really means to be part of the EU.
So, may I suggest a short and sweet email asking your MP to watch this video. The video concerned is quite old (before the Lisbon Treaty), but, that in itself, has some credence: that people were seeing the issues back then. Another benefit is that the video is introduced by Patrick Moore, who will be recognisable to many.
Here is my template email (please be polite however vexed you are by your own MPs behaviour):
“The Honourable [name of MP], MP
Please could you spare me 30+ minutes to watch the enclosed video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EokwQi15pO0
This explains my position and concerns better than anything I could write.
Thank you in advance for sparing me enough time to at least watch it.
Yours sincerely,
[Your name]”
I will forward this video to my MP. I will also forward it to everyone I can. I had recently rejoined UKIP and the local Branch members can have one too. Some may have seen this I hadn’t. It is a remarkable video and very lucid. Also it can be verified with events over the last five or so years. Thank you.
I have recently come to the conclusion that the EU has all the signs of a Fascist organisation and must say I am slow off the blocks. Just working my way through ‘ Fascist Europe Rising: The Repression and Resurgence of Democratic Nationhood’ by Rodney Atkinson.
The penny has dropped for me like a galvanised dustbin being dropped from a height onto granite. We must stop this evil entity.
I hope you look in on this article again and see my thanks.
Thank you so much, Kim
I am sure there are many like you. I am on YouTube a lot, and some of the comments just beggar belief. There is a lot of work to do, so thank you for doing your bit.
Joining / re-joining UKIP is a great first step. Gerard Batten is superb. Sharing things, like you re doing, is a great second step. Please do get as involved as you can.
As well as the MSM / media issues (hinted at above) there is also proportional representation (PR). This is vital to getting good government. I was at a meeting with died-in-the-wool UKIPers and this very immaculate Green party activist who is pushing PR. It was a water-shed for me. Government is about debate. One side arguing against their opponent. I realised I can live with the greens, as proper debate persuades and informs. The problem is, debate is being stifled.
A very appropriate picture to illustrate this article Viv. I was just reading this article on Zerohedge.
“Former Federal Prosecutor: “We Are In A Civil War… I Buy Guns””
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-25/former-federal-prosecutor-we-are-civil-war-buy-guns
“Former federal prosecutor Joe diGenova says civil discourse is over in America, and recommends voting and buying guns because “we are in a civil war.” ”
We have the same problem in Britain, nobody respects democracy anymore and the country is so divided that I think that fighting for our country is the only way now. The only difference between the US and us is that we’ll be fighting our own government, although the US government is very divided and may end up collapsing or something along those lines.
I’m not very hopeful about a civilised outcome to our plight, things have gone too far and theere are now far too many uncivilised people in our country. We must prepare for the worst, I know that we don’t have guns but this is going to happen anyway, prepared or not.
I think it is clear that demoracy in a ‘meaningful’ sense , and how I now hate that word for the deceit presently contained in it, is now over and the coup de grace is about to be delivered (just about the only thing about Brexit that will be).
I cannot agree with this statement however
‘The only difference between the US and us is that we’ll be fighting our own government’.
We will also be fighting the, perhaps, 16m or so remainers, and I would suggest many or most of them will not recognise that democracy has indeed been killed, that only the narrative of winning matters and this may seem to them to be democracy in action. After all denial of democracy and freedom of speech etc may go entirely without concern if you are not directly affected or indeed if things are going the way you agree with.
Civil disobediance yes, guns and weapons no, To me the best and only effective way is for ALL patriots and believers in democracy to coalesce into one co-ordinating group or coalition, and that includes setting aside egos and relatively petty differences. I can’t see this happening any time soon, the egos are too strong.
If we were just fighting the government it would be relatively easy.
Not quite what I meant but I agree with you, in the US society is equally as divided and when it turns to civil war, they do have guns, it’ll be a bloodbath.
I actually think it’s a good thing that we don’t have guns for the time being for a number of reasons. Firstly, there’s more to using firearms than being able to shoot, you have to stay alive to shoot the enemy and that is a skill that comes with military training, most of you would get slaughtered.
You need planning and organisation to use firearms effectively, little is to be gained from spraying bullets around randomly.
I also think that our government and we may as well call them the European Union or globalist mafia are looking for an excuse to impose martial law or at least totally subdue us by force and we risk playing into their hands.
However, with proper training, planning and leadership, then get tooled up and show no mercy. What we now call a government has been unfit for purpose and lost the democratic right to govern us a long time ago, they’ll deserve everything they get.
I’ve often wondered how I’d feel about shooting one of my own countrymen, but after listening for so long to the Liberal / Lefty garbage that has been coming out of their mouths, I feel sure I could get over my reluctance.
We must however avoid falling into the Government’s Divide and Rule trap, ie we must avoid fighting different factions among ourselves whereas we should be focusing the spotlight and our aggression on the vile politicians and also the common purpose police academics etc, who prop up their vile system and also their puppetteers over the pond (eg Soros).
Sometimes, maybe many times, agreements are only accepted by government when there is a credible threat of violence from the other side if they don’t. Eg. the Good Friday Agreement.
Ultimately it might be the only option, but there is much else we can do to bring down the government.
Jack – the trouble is the government has just about brought itself down and so have the opposition. The problem is just who is going to replace them?
As I’ve said before, when you get a power vacuum, it seems someone even worse is waiting in the wings to seize power. Will this be the EU, Islam or a combination of both.
There’s no substitute for strong leadership but it’s been a very long time since we Brits had that. As for our current government, we talk about unseating them, hanging or shooting them but I’m beginning to wonder if they’re just too pathetic to be worth the effort.
We are living in very frightening and dangerous times. I’ve just popped out a bought a Chinese version of the Russian SKS assault rifle, very cheap (about 200 quid) but very reliable. I wouldn’t get it into Blighty so it’s more of a symbolic gesture and to keep in practice.
I would suggest an interim military government to keep things ticking over, which has worked well elsewhere, but Cameron saw to it that they no longer have the necessary manpower.
I read somewhere early today (Breitbart?) that Labour had decided that their future referendum would have 2 questions:
– Accept May’s deal or
– Remain in the EU
Maybe that would suit May too; I would not be surprised
Yes, that’s the idea – and yes, it would suit both May and Corbyn.
… And the majority of MPs, Viv. We’re fighting a very tough battle here and I’m not sure of victory. Won’t stop me fighting though!
Yes, that is the view of the Labour Party, Jack, and of course the LibDems as well. There is speculation that Mrs May is ‘running down the clock’ to the days/hours before March 29 when she will offer MPs the choice between accepting her deal or the long delay being planned by the EU. But see the news review today where Labour admits its aim is to keep us in the EU.