Why not ask Truss and Sunak about gun-running illegal immigrants

 

 

You know it’s summer and definitely the silly season where nothing really happens when the papers are suddenly having a ‘Princess Di’ moment. The gleeful headlines are about the BBC’s confession that they let her down with ‘that’ interview (link). Because of this ever so earth-shattering admission, several other reports were relegated to the insides of the beasts. 

It is worth mentioning that only the ‘i’ has a Mordaunt piece on their front page. It shows the dire straits of the Tory Party. Their MPs, who’ve’ already shown their cowardice by going for the ‘continuity’ candidates Truss and Sunak and dumping Ms Badenoch, are only interested in keeping their trotters in the HoC trough:

“Penny Mordaunt’s supporters are orchestrating a “stop Liz Truss” campaign to ensure the bookies’ favourite does not win the race to become Prime Minister, i understands. The move is partly in response to anger over hostile media briefings against Ms Mordaunt, which her supporters blame on allies of Ms Truss. Moderate Tory MPs are plotting to return to their constituencies to lobby their members to back Rishi Sunak as leader amid concerns that a government run by Ms Truss will lose them their seats.” (link)

I expect more of the same, more reports about MPs and Tory grandees trying to coerce their constituency party members into voting as they tell them to. All of this just goes to show how much they despise us peasants, even those who’ve pledged support by becoming Party members. It’s as if authority over the voting plebs has accrued automatically to those who can now stick ‘MP’ after their name.

Let’s look at other news, for example the rather important report in the DM about Channel crossers now also smuggling arms into the country. The DM has understood that people prefer reading the headlines only, so theirs are always crammed with information:

“Channel migrants landed in Britain with GUNS: Asylum-seekers triggered alerts on security databases and later vanished… and others were ARMED, scathing official report by borders watchdog reveals” (link).

This is precisely what some reporters have warned would happen, ever since they wrote that many of the weapons so kindly donated by NATO countries to the Ukraine have vanished, i.e. sold on the black arms market. So now they’re here … but let’s not ask what our authorities are doing to  protect us from possible violence should these ‘guests’ become dissatisfied when the energy crisis means blackouts and cold rooms even in their cushy hotel rooms.

The dirty little secret is that the Home Office and the police will prosecute all who ask such questions, for ‘racially aggravated hate rime’. They simply don’t have the time to go after those gun runners, so die already. You might also like to read the report on the ‘charity’ which is plainly nought but the friendly face of people traffickers (link). 

I somehow doubt that the two wannabe PMs will address this issue, never mind even being asked about it. “We” must talk about that blue-on-blue dogfight instead. I wonder if other ‘economic’ issues will enter this debate, for example the report that Tata is threatening to close their Porthcawl steel works unless government – i.e. us – is giving them £1.5bn. This isn’t about production this is a direct consequence of BJ’s green, Net Zero policies:

“Indian conglomerate Tata Group has threatened to shut Port Talbot steel works unless it is given a £1.5bn government lifeline to help reduce carbon emissions. The company’s Tata Steel UK business, which owns the plant in South Wales, has been in talks with the Government about decarbonisation plans over the past two years, but those have now stalled. As one of Britain’s largest industrial groups, Tata Steel UK is a huge emitter of carbon dioxide.” (paywalled link)

Oh, we can’t have that – Princess NutNuts would be so upset! Why not close the whole thing down and outsource steel production to India or China! Let them pollute the planet with CO2 – we wash our hands in innocence. Better be ‘green’ and throw 8,000 workers on the slag heap so “we” can proudly proclaim that we’ll achieve Net Zero!

I wonder how many other industrial plants are struggling with Net Zero policies and are going to demand ‘help’ from government. It’s only coming out of our taxes, after all, and “we” can and will pay, won’t we! How will La Truss balance the books when she promises to slash taxes while having to shell out financial support to Net-Zero-stricken industries? We should be told, shouldn’t we, especially since her colleague, Mr Sharma, has already threatened to resign should Net Zero be ‘dumped’ (link). Moreover, a Tory donor has waded in, denouncing Sunak for his ’ridiculous’  tax plans:

“Conservative donor Sir Rocco Forte […]  who donated £100,000 to Boris Johnson’s election campaign in 2019, said the former Chancellor had been “captured by the Treasury orthodoxy” over his pledge to balance the public finances in the short-term despite the cost of living crisis. Increases to corporation tax and national insurance, announced by Mr Sunak in the wake of the Covid crisis, were “ridiculous”, “crazy” and “not a Conservative approach to doing things”, Sir Rocco said.” (paywalled link)

Perhaps someone might ask Sir Rocco and by extension La Truss how they will pay for ‘moar NHS’, for ‘inflation-cushioning pay rises’ for the public sector, on top of support for Net Zero industrial policies. Labour will gobble up gleefully this ‘tax fight’, where ‘teh rich’ want to keep theirs while the rest of us peasants pays and keeps paying.

Of course, the Westminster MSM are gleefully fuelling this ‘tax’ debate: it shows how much their hearts bleed for us unfortunate tax payers! We might as well all vote for Labour next. Not that they’ll reduce taxes, but at least they’ll take money from ‘teh rich’ as well as from us.  that Labour will also be ‘captured by the Treasury orthodoxy’ in record time is neither here nor there.

I leave you with the news that Italian’s Draghi has indeed resigned now and the President has to call for a snap election (link). He’s done a runner and leaves the covid~ and war~mess to his successor. Perhaps the wannabe PM candidates ought to ponder about doing a runner as well. Why not call a snap election and let Labour deal with the mess created by Johnson so they don’t have to.

And finally, The Times, by placing this backslapping ‘report’ on their front page, documents that they’re great at producing click-bait while overlooking that they’ve contributed to the Nation’s peak idiocy. Under the headline “@sohoplace: West End’s new landmark is a relief for female theatregoers” we read:

“It is the first new-build West End theatre to open in 50 years and, in another first, there will be more lavatories for women than for men.” (link, paywalled)

Oh dear! More ‘lavatories’ for women? That’s so transphobic, that is! At the very least the reporters ought to have written about ‘more loos for people peeing sitting-down’. Wouldn’t have made for a good, click-baity headline though.

That’s all for today. No new killer heatwave in sight, so the bloodsport that is theTory PM race must provide the thrills. If all else fails there’s always Princess Di. After all, what are the MSM for if not to present us with inane and irrelevant reports while shying away from touching on matters of real concern, such as Net Zero destroying industries or vanishing illegal immigrants possessing guns.



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