Health Warning! Be prepared – he’s coming back , one way or another
“Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war” is a suitable quote on which to start the day when summarising the political situation in Westminster. The papers are in full ‘havoc crying mode’, with ‘Truss in trouble’ and ‘Tories in open revolt’ being some of the headlines this morning (link).
Firstly, to set the background, let’s take a look at Starmer’s ‘restructuring’ Labour. It didn’t receive top billing in the MSM, albeit the Guardian published a report late afternoon on Tuesday (!), headlined: “Keir Starmer axes chief of staff to put Labour on ‘election footing’ (link). This was picked up later by some more London-centric papers like ‘iNews’, this announcement didn’t make the headlines yesterday.
Clearly the Westminster MSM decided to turn a blind eye and act as if nothing much had happened. Perhaps it was already ‘not really hot news’ yesterday morning? Perhaps the chief editors didn’t want to disturb us peasants any more than usual, given the daily fear porn they provide us with? Perhaps they though the report on Tuesday evening in the DT was sufficient?
However, I think we need to be disturbed, very disturbed, so first see this quote from that DT article:
“Sir Keir Starmer has brought in a Blair-era campaign boss and streamlined his office to put Labour on an “election footing”. The Labour leader on Tuesday announced he was sacking his chief of staff, moving Labour headquarters to a new office building and changing the structure of the party, as he told staff they had a “huge chance” to win the next election. The reshuffle had been planned “for a while” but was brought forward in light of the party’s poll lead of up to 33 points, he said.” (paywalled link)
Don’t worry – this sacking was ‘only’ due to Starmer merging his office as ‘Leader of the Opposition’ (don’t snigger – he really believes he led ‘Teh Opposition’!) with Labour HQ to prepare for the GE. Next, see this (my emphasis):
“Party officials believe that if the markets do not recover, the Conservatives could face electoral wipeout at the next election. Sir Keir has appointed Marianna McFadden, a former New Labour official, as his deputy campaign director. She joins the party from the Tony Blair Institute, where she worked for Sir Keir’s predecessor as “head of insight”. Matthew Doyle, Labour’s director of communications, is also a former Blair-era official, while Sir Keir is reportedly receiving informal advice from Lord Mandelson.” (paywalled link)
This ought to have sent shivers down the collective backs of chief editors and columnists in the former conservative papers like The Times and the DT. It didn’t. I wonder if they’re looking forward to a repeat of the landslide Labour victory in 1997, triumphant Blair photos and jubilant lefty masses included?
Well, the saying that those who don’t learn from history are condemned to repeat it surely applies as the Westminster cabal seems to look forward to the Blair years: wars, foot-and-mouth disaster, ‘immigration’ included. At least the NHS will finally ‘be safe’ and ‘Teh Rich’ will have to pay …
Labour is getting a massive helping hand from The Times where we find three reports focussing on ‘Truss in Trouble’. One is based on a lovely leak:
“Liz Truss has been told by her most senior advisers that she needs to rip up last month’s mini-budget and raise corporation tax as the price of restoring market confidence in her government. Officials have warned the prime minister that it is “no longer credible” to press ahead with big tax cuts without risking a financial crisis that would further drive up the cost of government borrowing and mortgages.” (link, paywalled)
Why they warn of ‘risking a financial crisis’ when we’ve been told already that there is one, thanks to yon mini-budget and thanks to the intervention of the BoE these past weeks I dunno. Here’s a thought: could those ‘senior advisers’ be some mandarins who are trying to create their own credentials for the time when Labour gets into No 10? The Times certainly looks as if they’re fuelling said crisis, e.g. with this report:
“Markets endured another volatile day as investors sold off UK government bonds, pushing yields to their highest level since the aftermath of the mini-budget and piling pressure on the Bank of England to keep propping up the debt market.” (link, paywalled)
It’s as if they are hoping that ‘Teh Markets’ won’t recover because that is what Labour is hoping for. It gets worse. A nameless Tory MP leaked what was said at the 1922 Committee meeting to The Times. Their headline: “You have trashed the past ten years, Robert Halfon warns Liz Truss” certainly comes under ‘cry havoc’! See this:
“Liz Truss was accused by a senior MP of trashing “the last ten years” of Conservative government as her party turned on its new leader over the mini-budget. Robert Halfon, a former minister who chairs the education select committee, unleashed a furious attack on her financial measures, saying they disproportionately benefited the wealthy and meant she had abandoned “workers’ conservatism”. According to an MP present, Halfon told Truss in a meeting of the 1922 Committee of backbenchers — her first as prime minister — that “in the last ten years we had the living wage, a focus on apprenticeships and skills”, contrasting that with “bankers’ bonuses, benefits cuts and now cuts to affordable housing targets”.” (link, paywalled)
Blimey! Strong words – but none about those Tory policies which got us where we are: Lockdowns, Net Zero, Sanctions, ‘undying’ support for that war in the Ukraine, illegal immigrants … Does anyone in Westminster really believe these things will go away under Starmer, with the likes of Blair and Mandelson pulling his strings? There’s more:
“[A] Tory MP who has been in the Commons for more than a decade said: “It was the worst 1922 I’ve ever been to.” They added: “With each tough question she looked like she’d had the wind knocked out of her — the 31st of October could finish her off on the basis of the reception she got in that room.” […] A former minister told The Times: “It’s pretty grim. I’m very depressed. Everything they’re doing is everything that I don’t believe in.” (link, paywalled)
Were all those Tory MPs oblivious to Starmer putting Labour on a ‘restructured’ election footing? Do they think getting rid of Truss will prevent a Labour government? Meanwhile, this is how the fierce supporter of Truss, Allister Heath, concludes his column in the DT:
“If Truss is destroyed, the alternative won’t even be social democracy: it will be Labour, the hard Left, the full gamut of punitive taxation, including of wealth and housing, and even more spending, culminating rapidly in economic oblivion. Those Tories plotting to depose Truss need to work out on whose side they really are.” (paywalled link)
We know whose side they’re on: their own. They want to save their own skins in the coming GE and seem to hope that getting rid of Truss a.s.a.p. would help. They’re serious though – check out the rather woolly thoughts by Paul Goodman in his articles for ConHome yesterday (link).
Too late now because the Tory MPs disregarded the opinion of Tory party members who were enthused about Kemi Badenoch. They ‘knew better’ and voted her our, leaving the party members with a choice between Sunak and Truss. Is it even conceivable that those MPs didn’t know how Truss operated, that she was a puppet only?
The Tories deserve everything that’s coming to them. It’s only a pity that we’ll all get to suffer in a rerun of the Blair years, this time on the basis of an economy in deep crisis. What fun times to look forward to!
The reaction of the media is forgone as is everything else that we are told is happening.
It will not change without a new political organised and polarised will.
Look at Immigration. Top concern of the average thicko. This protest got there by one person and repetition.
In the run up to the referendum one man in UKIP , by pure dogged relentless targeting of Fish and fishing which in opposition to the remain and French and processors put that at the top of our brexit agenda. He seems to have left UKIP
Even Tommy Robinson was a potential . misused instead of channelled, into other valid and important protests
of primary importance to voters such as feminine rights and One law for all. etc .have been left to fester just to protect some half assed Westminster idea of diversity and cause harm.
There are many questions to be asked of all ex UKIP leaders and particularly NEC members. Why do all our leaders really leave ? UKIP just exhausts them and spits them out to br useful elsewhere I have NEVER heard an NEC member of either UKIP or the Labour nec accept responsibility.
Anyway the point I was going to make is that.
There is so much wrong with our country that the Media can dodge from one problem to another with multiple ideas and blame of their choice, that the punters are confused and unrepresented
Now that there is GBNews there are many open opportunities for better people. Although there’s not much evidence of it yet. Organisation is the only answer.
Organisation….. Even the Roman Army worked out that was the Key.
That says something they worked out more than 2.000 years ago.
It seems people have very short memories. Welcome to communism, they can’t day they were not warned.
We are all socialists now – thanks to the Tories. Yes, I hear you! Labour would be worse socialists than Tories. Yawn, yawn, yawn!
Well said. I find it strange that no one has pointed out that the markets are reacting that after the recent Labour Party conference many now believe a Labour government is inevitable and the markets know they will be a disaster
Good point John.
Even Labour would struggle to leave the debt mountain the Tories have created. The debt Labour left in 2010 was as nought compared to what they have created.
The problem is this. The Conservatives deserve to be wiped out, but we do not deserve a Labour government with a Prime MInister funded by trades unions who does not know what a woman is and who is capable of considering a pact, if necessary, with the SNP. Higher taxes would be the least of our problems.
Stout Y : The time to wipe the Tories out really was at least 10 years ago when we might have hoped a true conservative party could replace it. God help us now.
The only ray of hope : huge global financial meltdown is inevitable, but there’s just a chance that the outcome will not be CBDC and the tyranny desired by TPTB. But this won’t be thanks to Labour or Tory; it will be thanks to the determination of individuals plus I hope the inspiration of people like Heritage Party or English Democrats.
Virtually no media comment on the creep back into the e.u begun by ‘we call it the short straits’ Ex-Minister Shaps
( remainer) and his e.u compliant vehicle registration plates and regularions and now P.S.CO is back as P.M Truss that well known economic military and defense expert has apparently signed us up to it. Don’t ask why or exactly what though as she’s keeping it secret. Take a look at Farage he’s at least doing his best to raise this latest creep back measure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZLGrG_CbQE
When I heard this a few days ago, not via the press, I wrote to our friends at FACTS4EU. Their reply:
“To reassure you, the UK has NOT signed up to PESCO. It has only applied to one of around 50 ‘strands’ – ‘military mobility’, ie transporting troops and equipment across the EU.”
But that’s how the EU works of course, salami slice by slice.
To un-reassure you, Norman, the government and EU have been covertly, that is without debate or fanfare and hoping no one will notice, doing this since Treason May and Alan Duncan toddled off to Brussels and made an agreement whilst everyone else was focussed on Brexit warfare.
Hence a year ago the establishment of the German-British Amphibious Engineer Battalion 130.
https://www.bundeswehr.de/en/organization/army/news/german-and-british-engineers-become-one-5218618
https://www.army.mod.uk/news-and-events/news/2021/10/bridging-nations/
There are Bills of Lading showing Covid-19 test kits that were manufactured and shipped two years before ‘the virus’ appeared and before it was renamed Covid-19 by the WHO. A Canadian site, now removed, mentioned it in 2015!! Nothing happens that hasn’t been meticulously planned.
Similarly we had British and German mobility Engineers amalgamating a year before an agreement has been signed. Where was the Parliamentary debate allowing the PM to place some of the King’s forces (well they were the Queen’s forces when it happened) permanently under foreign command?
“ But that is how the EU works of course, salami slice by slice”. That’s how the British establishment works too!
How do you intend to make that general knowledge ? We need a channel. GBN.now exists, but UKIP blocks and Mrs has already done it.
Norman- the std reply is get rid, by vote for someone independent or similar at the next election.
At the last election there were five or six candidates to vote for here, all of whom were either extreme left or remainers / rejoiners. Many were both lefties and remainers.
Makes life tricky to kick them out by democratic means.
With the upcoming economic collapse, likely civil insurrection on the streets, past suppressed racial tension, and out of touch oligarchs . . . will there be ‘regime change’ maybe, and directed by whom? Thoughts??