Parliament ain’t working ….
The Nation mourns as the MSM are making certain that nobody forgets. There’s not one paper without the black banner. There’s not one commercial website which hasn’t followed suite. While I understand that charities and institutions are showing their respect whose patron our late Queen was, it escapes me why for example Amazon had a black banner this weekend. As far as I understand, our cousins across the Big Pond are not precisely enamoured of monarchies, kings and queens.
Yesterday the Queen’s coffin was transported from Balmoral to Edinburgh. The whole journey was televised. I dipped in and out of the DT’s Live programme: watching the beautiful landscape through which the hearse and convoy travelled was evocative and sad.
However, according to irate comments below the DT’s Live programme the BBC and their commenters were beyond the pale, displaying a level of ignorance which showed that the babbling reporters were even incapable of using the ‘search’ function on their smartphones. If one doesn’t know what flag covered the coffin then surely a modern reporter knows how to look it up rather than blab, for all the world to hear, that they haven’t a clue?
The papers this morning have only this one theme: the journey of the hearse with our Queen’s coffin. All used the photo of the coffin, carried by soldiers of the Royal Regiment of Scotland from Balmoral castle to the hearse. Still, the BBC could not resist to put ‘Russia’s Revenge Attack’ into the headline of their usual compilation of the morning papers (link), even though two papers only – the FT and the Guardian – have a secondary report on yon issue.
Meanwhile, the BBC turned into full-on ‘auntie mode’, with a ‘helpful’ article under the title “What’s a state funeral? Will shops close? And other questions” (link). Yes, that’s how dumbed-down they think their licence payers are. Obviously, Auntie believes that everybody is too stupid to use the search function of their preferred browsers, to find out for themselves. Clearly, Auntie believes that ‘Generation Smartphone’ can only digest what scrolls down their screens. That ought not to surprise us much though, given the abysmal commentary their own reporters produced yesterday.
However, there are some national news items which ought to have raised some eyebrows. After all, if some papers are so keen to provide space for yon war in the Ukraine, then surely the news that Parliament has been adjourned – not just for the days of mourning is important? In his diary today John Redwood wrote (my emphasis):
“Parliament rightly has adjourned to pay respects to our late Queen and to allow the use of the Palace of Westminster for the solemn proceedings before the funeral around the lying in state. On current plans the House of Commons will not meet again until October 17th.“ (link)
So the ‘Cost of Living Crisis’, the looming energy disaster, apparently don’t matter. After all, it’s the season of Party junkets, a.k.a. AGMs, so our overworked MPs need to balance their duties to us with their duties to their party, don’t they!
The LibDems have cancelled their Conference – it would have taken place from the 17th to the 20th of this month. The Trades Union Congress has also postponed their AGM which would have started on Sunday. The two arms of the United LabCon Party will however go ahead with their AGMs (link).
Can someone explain to me why Parliament must be adjourned until mid October when these get-togethers are only taking a few days? Obviously our MPs are not used to working. In the entry for yesterday, Sunday 11th September, John Redwood hinted at his dissatisfaction:
“Behind the closed office doors it is important that work goes on to complete the plans for the energy package and for the promised Financial Statement later this month to follow the period of mourning. Parliament should return earlier from the planned Conference break to scrutinise and approve measures commensurate with the scale of the challenge to business and families posed by the prices of gas and electricity. Business is suffering now with no protection in place against the surges in energy prices.” (link)
Does this mean the mandarins are working? Are they preparing papers and proposals for government to present to the HoC, to be nodded through? Or is Whitehall in well-hidden turmoil because Mr Kwarteng sacked the Treasury top mandarin – on Thursday (link), a day to hide shock news? The DM published their report yesterday afternoon, after Queen Elizabeth’s coffin had arrived in Edinburgh (link), with the BBC publishing the outrage by former top mandarins a few hours later (link). Perhaps their ‘senior sources’ were unavailable as well as MPs.
What else has been taking place behind closed doors? Are our MPs being informed or are they kept in ignorance during Parliament’s adjournment? Obviously, we peasants don’t need to know, not when ministers and the PM are abusing the period of mourning, making decisions en coulisse which affect us all.
I leave you with quotes from opinion pieces written for the weekend just past because these writers have homed in on one point: History. In The Sunday Times, Matthew Syed concluded:
“She was for millions — republicans and monarchists, black and white, rich and poor — a rock amid the shifting sands of history, the mortar of our national life.” (link, paywalled).
Interesting, isn’t it, how we are seen as helplessly drifting, needing ‘a rock’. Meanwhile Brendan O’Neill, also evoking History in his weekend essay in spiked-online, concluded:
“She was arguably this country’s final thread to its past. […] Post-Elizabeth, I fear we will lose our connection with the past, and I fear people have not yet clocked just how socially destructive such a development would be.” (link)
I find it extraordinary that those writers evoke History, connecting it only to the death of Queen Elizabeth. Have these clever people not noticed that, thanks to ‘education’, at least the younger generations doesn’t have a clue about History anyway? That this foundation of our Nation has been crumbling because History is now only taught according to ‘the current thing’, be it slavery, be it ‘colonialism’? That generations have been taught to despise our history and our historical figures? Have the vile comments by ‘academics’ from across the Big Pond not demonstrated this?
The people are mourning but also showing their support to the new sovereign. It remains to be seen how soon the Westminster swamp dwellers will start trampling this national consensus into the dust, ‘educating’ us helpless peasants. Perhaps though we have understood far better than the Westminster intelligentsia that the death of our Queen means there’ll be a new monarch to support.
Is it too much to hope that the Westminster denizens stop paying lip service to our mourning and refrain from explaining to us what we should think and feel?
Well, I have to say the speech delivered by King Charles III today in Westminster Hall was delivered in an absolutely faultless manner. There is no doubt about it he is without doubt a very accomplished speaker.
On another note, why couldn’t Boris Johnson have remembered to comb his hair before setting foot in an historic hall as that, and at such an historic event. His hair was an eyesore, which did not befit the occasion.
It has been noted by online commentators that there are virtually no “minority” groups attending the various funeral events.
Watching on the TV seems to confirm it.
They have no interest in this country, only as a place to scrounge from and inflict their sh***y culture on.
Indeed Harry. All planned in my view to oppress us native Brits; one only needs to consider the ongoing failure of government to arrest and deport the illegals rather than welcoming them.
The repudiation of our past, on the ridiculous grounds that bad things happened in history, began 25 years ago with the corruption of education. Graduates and school leavers now occupy positions in the media and so ignorance is increasingly apparant and prevalent.
Our country is now a patchwork of parallel societies who bring different histories and traditions, some actually antithetical to our own, so far as what is left can still be called ours. The need to unite around something is still a majoirty position (just) – in the US it was the flag but even that is diminishing – but one senses that our majority position is waning. The fruits of left wing disdain for this country, of globalism and establishment betrayal, are becoming ever more apparant. Quite what the terminus will be is still hard to see particularly with our clueless and limp wristed politicians.
A Labour MEP, now a Brussels lobbyist, once confessed to me at a garden party that she thought they had made a mistake over Islam and immigration. No shit Sherlock.
I doubt genuine nationhood can be rescued. Muslims and Hindus are attacking each other in Leicester, Armenians and Turks in north Londom, Albanian criminal gangs welcomed by the deluded open borders brigade, and a new King who thinkgs we have 5 minutes left to save the planet. At least the BLM march down Whitehall on Saturday was poorly attended. Just a couple of hundred with the white followers …erm… segregated. Dianne Abbot was there so some things are stable.
I never thought of her as being stable, but I take your point.
“Perhaps though we have understood far better than the Westminster intelligentsia that the death of our Queen means there’ll be a new monarch to support”. Blindly? I ask that as a believer in constitutional monarchy but that cuts both ways.
PS
“…explaining to us what we should think and feel?”
I don’t need to be told that. White hot loathing towards those who are insulting and tormenting us and our Monarch in everything they say or do, trashing everything we value. I haven’t given up hope that somehow some day, they will receive back what they’ve meted out to us with compound interest. No punishment is bad enough for them.
Going off at a tangent slightly, I was looking back at the photos of the Queen at Prince Philip’s funeral. showing the enormous insult by TPTB to her and to us the people she represented: sitting alone in the pew wearing a horrible slaves’ muzzle, our Monarch muzzled like a dog.
This article may be of interest you Mary
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/09/11/the-queen-should-never-have-been-asked-to-attend-prince-philips-funeral-alone-and-in-a-mask/
JB
Thanks. Truly shocking. What an insult to Her Majesty. I wonder whether she realised it though.
“Can someone explain to me why Parliament must be adjourned ”
Because they are an idle bunch of scroats whose primary function is to sponge off the taxpayer. Most could never survive in a real job so government is a safe, and well rewarded, home for them.
Jack, harsh but fair comment.
Jack I’ve renewed my centre Right challenger party membership – have you?
I have maintained my membership of UKIP and live in hope something, anything, will break the camel’s back and some sort of sanity will return. That’s pre 1990 sanity. Nothing is perfect but anything is better than we have now.
Seriously ! Which one ?
Any at this stage. Sitting on the fence is not an option.
“Can someone explain to me why Parliament must be adjourned ”
Why not? Will anyone notice? We are governed by the City of London regardless who is elected or whether they are sitting. Didn’t you notice the presence of the City of London officers ‘hidden’ amongst the array of Privy councillors signing the proclamation; the rest are retired politicians basking in their own importance who belong down the privy of history, or the present cabinet instruction-takers.
I’m trying to find out about all the murky depths of the City of London, the seat of the UK Deep State and of the mischief currently being perpetrated, Mind Control.
I saw the video the Spiders Web about the money laundering and offshore accounts. The more information you can give, I’d be grateful. How City of London ties in with the other bad actors.
Jack Thomas….. well said, and just about sums up what our supposed elected representatives think about us. Any old excuse will do to take even more time off work at our expense. Nobody can tell me that every MP attends their party conference all day and every day, is just utter nonsense. Parliament should be sitting throughout the period of party conferences, and if the PM cannot attend the House of Commons for whatever reason, then the Deputy Prime Minister should do the honours and stand in for her/him, otherwise what earthly point is there appointing a deputy prime minister and paying them to carry out that role. And as for that meeting of the Privy Council the other day when King Charles III was proclaimed King, the front row contained the smug faces of the biggest bunch of shysters you could ever wish to meet who have done everything in their power to screw this country and deny the populace true democracy by keeping us close as possible to the European Union, and contrary to what we voted for in June 2016. These people need to swept from power on a permanent basis.