Sorry about the weather warning …

 

I think we can all agree: yesterday was a beautiful day. The weather was glorious and just right for the official celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. It was too lovely to be glued to the telly and, just as in days 70 years past, the images in our papers, online or ‘for real’, printed on paper., are sufficient. Even the usual suspects – Guardian, FT and the Star – had the photo of the balcony scene, Prince Louis included, on the top of their front page (link).

Something to be profoundly grateful for: the war in the Ukraine was relegated to the bottom of the ‘news’, albeit the DT was not only scraping the bottom of the barrel but digging through it, ‘reporting’ that a Ukrainian soldier kept ‘working’ even after having been hit in the arm by shrapnel (paywalled link). Such ‘heroism’! Words simply fail me!

The various opinion piece writers in the MSM however had their proverbial field day. Amidst their more or less jubilant and saccharine outpurings there was one paragraph which showed how far our country has fallen. Allison Pearson wrote: in the DT

“Above all, perhaps, there was the simple pleasure of being allowed to express admiration for the Royal family and patriotism without fear of being ridiculed. For one happy (and glorious) day, Britons were the good-natured, inclusive, Union Jack-tastic, one-tenth slightly bonkers people – that is our true national identity.” (paywalled link)

Note the choice of words: “we were being allowed” … I find it beyond sad that on this one special day only the ‘cultural’ elite, the Westminster opinion makers in the MSM, permitted us peasants to show patriotism. I find it beyond sad that even the redoubtable Ms Pearson doesn’t seem to notice how shaming it is that we’ve become so cowed that we need ‘permission’ to show our true identity, to express ourselves, without fear of being ridiculed or worse. 

Can we expect to be shooed back into our cages because of ‘issues’, to feel shame again because of our history? I’m afraid so because even while we enjoy ourselves over these Platinum Jubilee holidays the dark clouds are looming over the horizon. Yes, ‘it’s the economy, stupid’, and when the boss of JP Morgan warns, perhaps it’s time to listen:

“Jamie Dimon, the head of JPMorgan Chase, said the investment bank is preparing for a storm and urged investors to do the same, escalating his stark forecast for the world’s largest economy. […] Dimon, 66, suggested that the outlook had worsened further as policymakers move aggressively to curtail price growth and the fallout from the war in Ukraine continues to escalate.” (link, paywalled)

The difference between a proper hurricane and the coming economic disaster is that the first one is not ‘manmade’, regardless of what the ‘climate catastrophe’ acolytes try to tell us. Of course, “we” don’t mention the sanctions which the western governments have been and are still imposing. It’s so much easier to blame Putin for everything, as if he were a god against whom we are powerless. 

Here in the UK we have one other problem which will exacerbate the situation further. Under the headline “Benefits Britain is back – and it’s condemning millions to dependency. […] The UK has a hidden crisis of mass joblessness” (paywalled link), Fraser Nelson writes in the DT that ‘immigration has bounced back’ and that immigrants make up one fifth of the workforce. 

He is of course talking about those coming from EU countries. He does not mention, with one word, the tsunami of illegals. Take a look at Paul Joseph Watson’s latest video on this issue. All these people are not working, they are living happily in ‘Benefits Britain’. The more of them there are, the more the social benefits budget has to rise.

Would our government dare to do what Poland does, cutting certain social benefits for Ukrainian refugees because there are too many of them? Would Ms Patel do as the Bulgarians do who are now trying to send those multitudes of Ukrainian refugees to centres inland because the seafront hotels will be needed for the tourist season? Of course not – that would be racist, innit like! Instead, Nelson blames ‘Brits’:

“The low unemployment claim is a mirage. Britain has, in fact, been suffering a period of mass joblessness as big as any in our recent history. The proportion of people who are neither in work or looking for it is higher now than it was in the mid-1970s. More than five million people were claiming out-of-work benefits at the last count – a figure as big as the population of Scotland. But many of them don’t count as unemployed, because they’re not looking for jobs. So – presto! – they vanish from the national debate.” (paywalled link)

After quoting hair-rising numbers of people ‘out of work’ while thousands of jobs are available, Nelson argues that the reason for this mass joblessness is the Universal Credit System:

“[… it] was created with strings of conditionality on welfare payments, with sanctions imposed if people turned down jobs or missed face-to-face meetings. During lockdown, the conditions were abandoned – and never properly restored.” (paywalled link)

Of course it wasn’t ‘properly restored’ – how could it when WFH mania is still with us. Why should people scrabble to find work when they see that their ‘betters’ aren’t properly working either, living on salaries paid by the taxpayer – just as they live on bennies paid by the taxpayer. No difference, really, is there!

While Nelson hopes that the Cabinet might address this point, I reiterate the point I made above: neither he nor the Cabinet is addressing the point about illegal immigrants also benefitting from ‘Benefits Britain’. I shudder to think of what might happen if benefits will be cut, to Brits as well as all those young, male “refugees”, now being ‘dispersed’ across the country. I shudder especially when I see this warning by Interpol:

“Weaponry that Washington and its allies in Europe and beyond send to Kiev are likely to end up in the global black market, Interpol Secretary General Juergen Stock said on Wednesday. Various criminal groups already have their eye on these weapons, the official told the Anglo-American Press Association in Paris.” (link)

Do any of our intrepid investigative reporters dare to look at Russian news sources on ‘propaganda sites’ such as ‘Intel Slava Z’? There it is alleged that “the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine resells equipment and weapons supplied by Western countries to the Middle East and North Africa” on the Dark Web.

Since La Truss is pushing for the Royal Navy to face up to the Russians in the Black Sea – do watch this video! – we can surmise that such weapons will find their way into our country because the RN isn’t even ruling our own inshore waves any longer, and never mind Ms Patel’s Border Farce which is incapable of stopping illegal immigrants.

I hope that we plebs, ‘allowed’ to show our Britishness and patriotism during these Jubilee Days, will be able to collect many happy memories of all the celebrations. Perhaps we might even rediscover our strength, making us able to stand up to the naysayers and to those who are so blatantly disinterested in doing their duty by us – in stark contrast to the Queen, God bless her.



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