The place from which Whitehall Mandarins are finally and officially going to rule us

 

 

There are two home news item which are of interest to us, and one from overseas. One is that there won’t be any more fines for the PM for Partygate, one is that deckchairs on the sinking ship that is our country are re-arranged, and the other is about more warmongering from the USA. As for the rest, you can find the usual compilation here.

Partygate demonstarted to us tax-paying neo-serfs that some animals are indeed more equal. The Met police won’t issue any more fines but neither will they release the names of any of the partying No 10 denizens and visitors. The Speccie emailed their comment last evening:

“[It] is a stroke of good luck for the Prime Minister. It means that he and his allies can continue to dissemble over his leadership failures and the extent of lawbreaking in Downing Street more generally. Even more helpful is the fact that Durham Police are still investigating Keir Starmer for beergate, which means the Labour leader cannot prosecute the line about a cavalier attitude to the rules with as much force as previously.”

Indeed. But let’s not shed a tear over Starmer’s still uncertain fate. Let’s ask instead why so much money – nearly half a million quid – was wasted on this investigation, instigated by the holier-than-thou MSM and opposition parties who supported lockdown and the rest of the unspeakable covid policies even though there won’t be any answer.

Interestingly, there still seem to be those in the MSM who hope for some more scandal to come out. Ms Sue Gray’s report will be published sometime next week, finally, as the Times reports:

“[Johnson]  faces uncertainty, however, over a separate inquiry carried out by Gray, a senior civil servant. Her report, which will be published next week, is said to be highly critical of him.” (link, paywalled)

The following quote from the ‘analyst’ for the Speccie-email yesterday illustrates this attitude as well, showing that the Westminster swamp dwellers are still hoping for blood on the carpet:

“Indeed, even though we still have the long-awaited Sue Gray report and then the privileges committee inquiry on whether Johnson misled parliament to come, it is striking how quickly the conversation within the Tory party has switched back to the cost of living.”

How dare Tories talk about ‘cost-of-living’! Has ‘Partygate’ really become the be-all and end-all of political discourse as permitted by the MSM? Do those living in that charmed circle not realise what inflation means for the rest of us? 

We might wonder if the Westminster MSM which made such a huge mountain of Partygate simply miscalculated when, against their expectations, the PM wasn’t toppled. Meanwhile, there’s a new development which looks like more of rearranging deckchairs while the ship sinks:

“Boris Johnson is to assume direct control of large parts of the machinery of government in a Whitehall power-grab that will effectively create a department for the prime minister. In an unprecedented upheaval, the Cabinet Office is to be split so that officials responsible for implementing domestic policy across the civil service will answer directly to Downing Street for the first time. It is also an attempt to silence internal critics of his government’s patchy record on delivery now the Metropolitan Police inquiry into lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street has concluded.” (link, paywalled)

Given Johnson’s performances so far, rushing from one ‘dressing-up as [insert latest occasion]’ to the next, the question isn’t about the PM becoming more of an elected dictator but rather one of Whitehall’s top Mandarin in No 10 running the country, unelected and unaccountable. To me, this is beginning to look more like Johnson-the-puppet, his strings being pulled by Cabinet Office mandarins. Also note that oddly enough none of this was leaked by the usual ‘sources’:

“The move, announced to civil servants yesterday, fulfils the prime minister’s ambition to centralise responsibility for driving through economic, domestic and security policy in No 10. Cabinet Office units responsible for economic, domestic, national security and intelligence policy — as well as staff who report at present to Simon Case, the cabinet secretary — will now answer directly to Samantha Jones, the new permanent secretary for No 10.” (link, paywalled)

Ah well, perhaps a dictatorship by mandarins is just what we need. After all, “we” love to be told what to do, what the rules are, and over the decades of teh 21st century we’ve learned to live and obey all and any rules, even before covid.

And so to the warmongering. By now we all know, do we not, that there’ll be food shortages to come and that this is only the fault of Putin and his ‘war’ in the Ukraine. And so the USA, in order to ‘feed the world’, especially ‘Teh Poor Countries’, magnanimously and from the goodness of their hearts, is considering to do something about that. The DT writes:

“The United States is considering sending Ukraine advanced anti-ship missiles to sink Russian war vessels in the Black Sea and end the Kremlin’s naval food blockade. US officials said sea-skimming Harpoon and Naval Strike Missiles [NSMs] could be dispatched, either directly, or by European allies equipped with them. A handful of nations were said to be open to sending Harpoons, which have a range of up to almost 300km, but there was hesitation over being the first to do so amid concerns over escalation.” (paywalled link)

Interesting, isn’t it, that suddenly, after most of the ‘brave neo-naughties’ have surrendered, sorry: ‘evacuated’ their Thermopylae where they had vowed to die, ‘escalation’ fo this war is no longer a concern. Also interesting is how the DT, this week’s Ukrainian propaganda outlet, declares that Putin blockades those ports simply because he wants to starve the world:

“Vladimir Putin has been blocking Ukrainian ports to stop grain and other produce leaving the so-called “breadbasket of Europe”, triggering a global food crisis. The UN urged Russia to end the blockade and warned rising global food prices could lead to “mass hunger and famine”. Officials in the key Ukrainian port of Odesa told The Telegraph Putin was trying to starve the world’s poorest people.” (paywalled link)

Please don’t mention that the Ukraine has mined the Black Sea, endangering ships even of non-belligerent nations. Don’t mention other items which influenced this food crisis, especially not the sanctions imposed on Russia since February. Don’t mention that Russia is exporting her grain harvest to all those countries rather than to the West: how dare they!

Is it rude to ask how come that the West and the Ukraine are perfectly capable of transporting all those ‘donated’ armaments into the Ukraine despite the difference in railway gauges but are incapable of transporting grain to the West on said railways? 

And finally, here’s proof for the brilliant journalism our MSM provide us with. This headline and subtitle in the DT shows how outstandingly excellent especially that lot at the DT are (my emphasis):

“Chernobyl manager who fled nuclear plant arrested for colluding with Russians – Seizing Chernobyl was one of the Soviet army’s key objectives when it invaded Ukraine in February” (paywalled link)

Yes – they really printed that! I’ve got the screenshot, just in case. Aren’t we lucky to have such excellent press … undermining their own, assumed authority every single day.

 

 

 



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