The first one out of the leadership contest starting blocks

 

Well, there we have it: BJ is ‘gone’ and it’s onto the next item in the bloodsport the MSM are engaging in, on the ‘runners and riders’ of the Tory leadership campaign. How glad all those Westminster news editors and opinion makers must be that they can fill their pages with ‘a serious narrative’ during this silly summer season! The political editors aren’t yet quite certain whom to crown, whom to support – after all, one of those ‘candidates’ might become the next PM and where would they be if he or she fixes the leaks, the gossip from ‘sources’! Here’s the link to the customary overview of those dead-tree front pages.

For the record, this is a document demonstrating that the Westminster MSM have gleefully taken on a role as players in this political theatre. They have “a narrative” to sell and are doing it ruthlessly – remember Dominic Cummings? It’s no longer about political issues like Brexit or Remain. It’s about regime change plain and simple. It’s about giving those who really run the country another chance of pulling the strings while remaining faceless and unaccountable: our wonderful mandarins and our eminent NGOs.

Remember the Lockdown~ and Covid~years? Remember the relentless campaign for tests, masks, vaccines? Remember the merciless suppression of any opinion, of any facts which opposed that “narrative”? Remember that the government paid the MSM to act as their propaganda outlet? Remember how Partygate was ‘the next big thing’? Funny how this has now sunk below the waves. Even the news that Starmer and Rayner were ‘cleared’ of their lockdown ‘beergate’ wasn’t worth more than the odd report here and there …

We noticed, just as we noticed that the ‘next big thing’ was that war in the Ukraine, plastered across our MSM, filling the TV screens ever since February. Funny how yon war provided the wonderful opportunity for certain ministers to grab the limelight from the PM and waft around the international stages. Taxes? Inflation? Not an issue, even though those of us who can remember as far back as last summer recall the huge spike in gas prices, the scandal of national gas storage being practically non-existent, the autumn budget with some pennies given to ‘the poorest’ households to help with the ever rising home fuel bills.

That, as well as inflation, was ‘before the war’. It’s surely strange how we are being kept in blissful ignorance about the energy crisis which has the Continent in its grip, with Germany’s industries already closing down, with German ministers telling their people to keep their home cold, not to have so many warm showers. Then there are the farmer’s protests in the Netherlands where police is even using live ammunition. Those protests are due to Dutch green policies’, to ‘reduce nitrogen in farming’ by 50%. This will and is driving farmers out of business, but since it’s a ‘green policy’ those farmers are of course the baddies. 

So where are the reports in our MSM about our green policies, about our fuel crisis? Unimportant, aren’t they, when the MSM, like a pack of bloodthirsty hyenas, is in hot pursuit of the next prey which they can feed on. Green crap isn’t mentioned any longer, not even in a hair-raising article in the DT on the ‘coming heatwave’. There are nice graphs about earlier ‘heatwaves’, there are weather maps showing that this heatwave seems to occur in London exclusively – but not one word is to be found about ‘climate emergency’, about ‘climate change’. 

It’s another scare story giving ‘guidance’, such as not allowing kids to play outside when temperatures go over 30ºC, with a truly patronising final ‘advice’: “Check on grandma and whether she has had her six glasses of water that day, […] That could be a phone call that saves a life.” (paywalled link). Words fail me! Wouldn’t it have been nice if the busy reporters had quizzed their ‘sources’ about this guidance? Or have their ‘sources’ dried up because of Johnson’s resignation and the ensuing Tory Party leadership circus?

Here’s another item which has at least made the front page of The Times’ online edition. It is outrageous and surely ought to have elicited a reply from the then education Minister, Mr Zahawi. Apparently, he cannot possibly be asked now because he’s become Chancellor of the EXchequer and is a leadership candidate. We’re informed that ‘sex education’ in schools has been outsourced to obscure groups, one of them teaching school kids:

“[…] that prostitution is a “rewarding job” and failed to advise a 14-year-old girl having sex with a 16-year-old boy that it was illegal. Outside organisations teaching children about sex also promote “kinks” such as being locked in a cage, flogged, caned, beaten and slapped in the face, The Times has found. One organisation encouraged pupils to demonstrate where they like to touch themselves sexually, in a practise criticised as “sex abuse” by campaigners.” (link, paywalled)

The report quotes campaigners standing up against this ‘education’ – but not one word is to be found about the education ministers responsible for this ‘outsourcing’. It looks like just another case where the actual minister is nought but a hand puppet for the mandarins. Why should the Department of Education be any different from the DHSC which gave us mask and vaccine ‘mandates’, the MoD which hands out weapons as if they’re confetti even though our own armament shelves are bare, or the Home Office whose Minister has been talking tough but has achieved nothing which even remotely stems the flood of illegal immigrants? 

Of course, now that the erstwhile Chancellor Mr Sunak is running for leadership and thus PM, we only hear about his plans and that he’s produced “a slick three-minute video with the tag-line “Ready for Rishi” (link, paywalled). More than two million viewers have already ‘consumed’ this according to The Times which reports further:

“Rishi Sunak warned Conservatives not to believe “fairytale” promises of higher spending and lower taxes from his rivals as he became the first heavyweight contender to launch his leadership campaign.” The former chancellor promised “honesty, seriousness and determination” in a social media launch in which he contrasted himself with Boris Johnson, saying: “Someone has to grip this moment and make the right decisions.” (link, paywalled)

It would have been so uncouth to write about the results of his policies which have blessed us with this inflation! It would have been even worse to wonder out loud if ‘Ready Rishi’ had worked hard on producing this slick video while still Chancellor…. More generally, we can now confidently predict that this ‘leadership campaign’ will take place in the social media, fought with ‘slick videos’. We can predict that the MSM will gleefully report on ‘gaffes’ and that their political and opinion ‘editors’ will focus on ‘likes’ given in those social media accounts.

It’s obvious to me that there won’t be any policies which can be debated. There won’t be any issues the candidates will be asked about. There will only be slogans created by PR managers, using empty words which look and sound ‘nice’. This isn’t about Brexit and Remain. It’s about which candidate is the easiest puppet for the true rulers to manipulate. For us peasants it’ll provide proof of the pernicious change in how this country is being governed.

Politicians, regardless of their rosette colour, are only prey to the bloodthirsty hyaenas that are the MSM mill. Meanwhile the true rulers, the unelected, unaccountable mandarins, govern unhindered. It doesn’t matter any longer who sits in No 10. They don’t have power. Power now rests in Whitehall and with certain NGOs who are ‘framing the narrative’ to keep us peasants entertained while pushing on with their green, ‘reset’ agenda.

Have a nice weekend and enjoy that heatwave so it occurs in your neck of the woods. Don’t play outdoors and remember to phone granny … 



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