Our MSM stoke the fire and provide the fiddles for ‘players’

 

Today’s motto is: ‘Fiddling while Rome burns’. It applies to the Tory Party as well as the MSM and their esteemed columnists who are providing both the fuel for the fire and the violins for the fiddlers. The MSM – dead tree press, online papers, online TV “News” – are heaving with headlines about Truss having to U-Turn, Kwarteng having to go, plots to replace Truss with a Mordaunt & Sunak combo. Not a word about inflation or energy prices.

For some light relief the Daily Star’s front page asks the ‘most urgent political question of the year’, namely which will last longer: a head of lettuce or Truss. Mind you, that lettuce looks fresher than the unfortunate photo of Miz T they selected. Scroll down a bit in the usual place (link).

Let’s look at the fiddling first. In a nutshell, see the customary headline in the DM which provides a handy summary of the ‘news’:

“Liz Truss ‘has 17 days to save her job’: Chancellor jets back early from US trip for crunch U-turn talks with PM as mutinous Tory MPs round on her over mini-Budget debacle and ‘line up Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt as a joint ticket to replace her’.” (link)

Why 17 days, you may well ask. This is why:

“Mutinous Conservative MPs have given Liz Truss 17 days to save her job.Tory whips warned she could face a leadership challenge if Kwasi Kwarteng’s economic statement on October 31 fails to end the turbulence in the financial markets.” (link)

Let that sink in: the same Tory MPs who elected Truss as one of the Johnson-replacement candidates are not only showing a severe case of buyer’s remorse, they are also handing over a decision of who is running the country and ultimately our economy to ‘the financial markets’, i.e. the faceless globalist bankers.

It’s not only the Tory MPs who’re doing this. They are only the unfortunate current placeholders. It’s also the MSM chief editors and columnists who are the fuel-and-violins providers. See this subtitle for James Forsyth’s column in The Times:

“An economic plan that satisfies the markets without alienating the Commons or voters looks increasingly out of reach” (link, paywalled)

I didn’t need to read any further: we, the voting, taxpaying peasants are of no importance compared to ‘Teh Markets’ which need to be satisfied. The current HoC – that includes Labour – comes a pale second. Has it occurred to Mr Forsyth that ‘Teh Markets’ won’t be satisfied, ever?

Meanwhile in his column for the DT, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard huffs and puffs and dazzles with irrelevant BS but at least warns, right at the end:

“As a general principle, markets should not dictate policies to elected governments. But first you must get your house in order.” (paywalled link)

Indeed – but then, why is it that he and his ilk are doing their utmost to keep the current government from getting this house in order? Perhaps a report in The Times gives us a clue? It’s about us voting plebs, based on a YouGov poll, what a surprise:

“Almost half of Conservative supporters believe that their party chose the wrong leader this summer. In a YouGov poll for The Times not a single political group, age group, area of the country, gender or other demographic said that Liz Truss had been the right choice as prime minister.” (link, paywalled)

Excuse me – but wasn’t she the dahlink of the MSM this summer when there wasn’t a day without reports on how she wowed the country? Didn’t we observe at that time that the MSM treated this like a GE campaign, omitting the fact that only Tory Party members were going to vote for her? Wasn’t she the choice of the Westminster MSM who celebrated her in order to stuff Sunak? 

Never mind – this is all in the distant past! Now Tory MPs, the ones who elected Sunak and Truss as the two suitable PM candidates on which the Party members had to vote, those Tories, are trying to overthrow their decision:

“Senior Conservatives are holding talks about replacing Liz Truss with a joint ticket of Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt as part of a “coronation” by MPs. Party grandees are in discussions about replacing Truss with a “unity candidate” just weeks after she became the fourth Conservative leader in six years. Unlike the summer leadership contest, MPs would propose just one person to succeed the prime minister.” (link, paywalled)

In that same article, the authors also refer to yon YouGov poll, using harsher words (my emphasis):

“YouGov polling for The Times found that almost half of those who voted Conservative at the last election want the party’s MPs to oust Truss. Sixty-two per cent say grassroots members made the wrong choice in the vote for leader, with 43 per cent wanting the party to install a new prime minister compared with 29 per cent who oppose the move.” (link, paywalled)

So it’s the Tory grassroots who are to blame – make them vote again until they get it right, is it? Were those ‘conservative voters’ polled at the time, declaring they preferred Sunak? I cannot recall such poll.

Another Westminster mask has dropped: grassroots cannot be trusted to make the right decision. Therefore, we can surmise, it must be possible to run another referendum on the EU. After all, doesn’t Scotland lead the way with demanding another IndyRef because those stupid grassroots voters didn’t vote properly in 2014? Shall we perhaps ask the global markets how to vote and whom to vote for next time? 

I leave you with a little news item, showing that lovely, shiny Labour is not as nice as the current MSM chiefs want us to think:

“A former Labour frontbencher has been suspended from the party amid an investigation into bullying accusations. Christina Rees was shadow Welsh secretary under Jeremy Corbyn as party leader. The Guardian reported that her suspension came after complaints from constituency staff.” (link, paywalled)

Bullying, racism, anti-semitism: that’s Labour. Add to it blatant nepotism because Ms Rees is the wife of Ron Davies of ‘Clapham Commons’ and  ‘Welsh devolution’ fame, making the Principality into a permanent Labour fiefdom. And these are the people the Westminster cabal wants to see in No 10 …

In conclusion I note that the Westminster swamp, from No 10 and Whitehall to the HoC, have dropped their masks. Their games of who is ‘in’ or ‘out’ are more important than the welfare of our country. Promoting ‘Teh Markets’ as final arbiter of how we’re governed while dissing the grassroots is beyond belief. It may play well on the Islington Dinner Circuit – it won’t play well outside the M25. 

Meanwhile we better stock up on candles and blankets because blackouts seem to have become an acceptable feature for this winter. Sadly, the fiddling of the Westminster ‘players’ won’t entertain us in the dark days to come, no will Rome burning, the fire being stoked by the Westminster ‘fuel providers,’ keep us warm.



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