From nudger to being nudged …

 

 

Yes, dear friends, our country is now a horrid mixture of ‘Animal Farm’ and ‘1984’, with a hefty dash of ‘Brave New World’.  Hence those who ought to run the country, or help running it, have been wasting time, sacrificing our international reputation and capabilities to act.

A quick stroll through this morning’s papers, dispiriting as it is, produced some fine examples, such as US diplomats bemoaning the fact that their Putin sanctions won’t work because ‘Putin has parked’ his money in London, via his oligarchs. More on that below. Meanwhile here at home the establishment masks in regard to ‘Partygate’ are dropping fast and furiously. The DT reported yesterday:

“Attendees at Downing Street parties will receive letters from the police offering them the chance to pay a fine rather than be interviewed by officers, it has emerged. Dozens of people, who police can prove were at the gatherings, are expected to be contacted in the coming weeks to be informed they are being issued with fixed penalty notices. They are unlikely to be interviewed by detectives over the matter because the infringements are regarded as minor.” (paywalled link)

And on these ‘minor infringements’ police time to the tune of £1m is being wasted! Never mind, a ‘criminal defence solicitor’ told the DT that, because of some lockdown loopholes, Johnson may not have been ‘guilty’ of an offence, but that:

“[…] there may be a case to answer as an accessory or for encouraging or assisting breaches of the regulations by others under the Serious Crime Act 2007. In those circumstances, a fine may not be available but he could still be arrested, if necessary, and prosecuted,” (paywalled link)

That’s breath-taking: fuelling the wet dreams of the Remain camp by thinking out loud that the PM ‘could be arrested ’for ‘Partygate’ – words fail me! Meanwhile, the DM reports that the wondrous Gray Report is still not published because it’s now in the hands of the Met police:

“[…] a Whitehall source suggested the Met is now reluctant for the report to be released in full to avoid bringing to light information which could be prejudicial to their investigation. ‘I know there were reports that the Met were fine for it to be published, but that proved not to be the case. Indeed, it’s the opposite,’ the source said.” (link)

Blimey – so those Whitehall moles who hoped the police would really put the hammer down on Johnson as well as those who are salivating to blame Johnson for ‘redacting’ are now caught in their own web of malice: no report, Whitehall ‘paralysed’, and Johnson being given more time to shore up his support in the Tory Party. There’s more:

“Dame Cressida said it would ‘not normally be’ a proportionate use of the force’s resources to investigate historic allegations of Covid breaches. But, in an ominous comment, she said investigations were carried out for ‘the most serious and flagrant type of breach’ where there was evidence of wrongdoing and no ‘reasonable defence’ – and where failure to act would ‘undermine the legitimacy of the law’. The Met declined to comment yesterday.” (link)

She and the MSM have now clearly lost all sense of proportion. Think of the party culture at No 10 what you will, but insinuating that this was a ‘most serious and flagrant type of breach’ which the police must investigate so as not to ‘undermine the legitimacy of the law’ is quite a few sizes too large!

This is not a spy scandal, this is not about Johnson having received payments from Putin, this is not about the PM supporting Chinese interests. Above all, insinuating that ‘breaching the covid rules’ is more heinous than knifing people in the streets of London is too sickening for words.

In addition, Fraser Nelson in RemainCentral writes about Johnson’s fate now being ‘in the hands of his backbenchers’. Oh dear. And they dare to make demands, such as:

“ […] changes to the No 10 team and [they] say that these should come straight after the publication of Sue Gray’s report into the Downing Street parties. They are adamant they will brook no delay to this. If things don’t start to move, they warn that they will conclude Johnson isn’t serious about changing.” (link, paywalled)

There is a bit of silver lining though. Nelson reports that “Johnson is working out of his Commons office more and more, which makes him accessible to MPs. It also gets him out of No 10, where the atmosphere is beyond dire.” (link, paywalled) – well, as long as his wifey can’t whatapp him every five minutes it’s surely better than being stuck in ‘dire’ No 10!

Some MSM writers meanwhile wail that the backbenchers demand, to scrap the NI rise, is just blackmail. Standing up to the Treasury used to be seen as courageous – no longer. The whole of Westminster has been poisoned by the lockdowns, the covid restrictions and above all by their spineless attitude to being nudged.

Nudging is still going on though – the green blob must be delirious by their success in making us all ‘going vegan’. Their horrible nudge has been taken up by the supermarkets top management who have gone all out for ‘plant based’ food. I’m sure any of you who had occasion to visit their local stores have noticed how more and more food items are ‘vegetarian’. So to no-one’s surprise we find The Times crowing that:

“A record number of Britons have given up meat, dairy and alcohol for January, with demand for vegan foods and non-alcoholic drinks rocketing over the month, according to data from Britain’s biggest supermarket.” (link, paywalled)

Hurrah, innit like! But what are the people to do when any meat products are not only becoming ever more expensive but also vanish from the shelves? It’s a triple nudge: green activists nudging grocery chains who nudge MSM reporters …

That’s how we’re going to be force-turned into green: get the food industry to decrease selling meat and swamp their shelves with ‘vegan’ stuff instead; rise the cost for home energy sky-high so that normal people won’t be able to afford it. Let them freeze while eating grass: success! 

I leave you with ‘news’ that US diplomats are now bemoaning the fact that their proposed sanctions for Putin won’t work because Russian oligarchs have ‘parked’ their money in the UK (link). US diplomats acknowledge that this has been going on for years:

“Putin doesn’t hold his money abroad, it is all in the kleptocrats’ names and a hell of a lot of it is sitting in houses in Knightsbridge and Belgravia right under your government’s noses.” (link paywalled)

Oh dear. How sad. That they’ve noticed this only now isn’t precisely filling one with trust in their other findings regarding Ukraine and Russia. Here’s a frightening thought: are we being nudged into a war with Russia?

After all, a Partygate-weakened PM who needs to satisfy his backbenchers, some of whom are themselves nudged by international nudgers, ahem: diplomats, is ripe for being nudged into taking the ‘correct’ decision …

 

 

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