This time, she really really means it!
What more does Johnson, what more do his government ministers have to do to demonstrate to us that they are living in cloud-cuckoo land? What more does the Ministry of Propaganda, i.e. our dearly beloved MSM have to spew out to show that they are irresponsibly regurgitators of ‘curated’ narratives, prepared for them in Whitehall? What more needs to happen before ordinary voters recognise that the whole Westminster bubble has become a total, utter scam which we are forced to pay for?
I’ll mention ‘Teh War’ only briefly because we are reliably informed by the BBC and the rest that Russia is losing, especially since there was an explosion on one ship of their Black Sea fleet (link). Since “we” don’t believe the Russian when they say it was due to an ammunition explosion, it clearly must have been caused by the brave Ukrainians who claimed they did it, with a missile attack by an anti-ship battery ‘hidden’ in Odessa. RT has this delicious little piece of ‘news’:
“They did not provide any evidence for their claims, however. One Ukrainian Telegram channel reportedly posted – then deleted – a photo of an Iranian vessel that caught fire and sank in the Gulf of Oman last year.” (link)
But let this incident not trouble us. The Ukraine is winning because the BBC strongly suggest this even when they mention the surrender of over 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers in Mariupol, something hard to conceal because it was all over the social media:
“Russia’s defence ministry says it has gained full control of Mariupol after more than 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers surrendered. Kyiv’s defence ministry says it has no information on any surrender, and Ukrainian troops insist they are holding out.” (link)
Our wonderful MSM, copying from each other, are extremely diligent in letting us hear both sides, always with the understanding that Russian official news are propaganda while Ukrainian official news are pure gold.
One would wish that they were treating our ‘home news’ with the same diligence. Instead they serve us ‘news’ about how Ms Patel is now really going to do something about the dinghy invasion from across the Channel: the ‘boat people’ will be sent to Rwanda for ‘processing’. It will really work because Johnson is supporting this venture. Oh, and the RN will now ‘patrol’ the Channel (link).
On no account should any of us peasants ask if the RN actually has vessels with which to do the patrolling. On no account should any of us peasants ask how much it’ll cost us to fly ‘some’ of those ‘boat people’ – not all, you understand, only some – to Rwanda. At the same time there might be a new ‘processing centre’ being opened in North Yorkshire: money well spent, innit!
Since the PM seems to have added this ‘exciting’ venture to his portfolio, something will really be done this time. Really. Trust him. He’s ‘won’ the covid war and he’s ‘winning’ in Ukraine. So let’s not quibble, he’s giving a wonderful circus performance of being a truly churchillian PM.
This scheme seems to’ve gained the support of Redwood who praises Ms Patel for ‘getting tough’ and trying to get to grips with this situation in his diary today (link). He’s insinuating that his government, irrespective of their majority of 80, is not really to blame. The comments so far have been utterly scathing.
Sometimes Redwood replies to a comment, so please savour his answer to one of the comment posters blaming the Tory government: “Reply The problem is the Lords!” (link). Oh dear. Of course: the Lords … but not Whitehall, not the civil serpents, not Ms Patel’s mandarins: they never are the problem.
How long will it be before this giant Westminster bubble bursts? Some papers predict that there’s ‘worse to come’ for Johnson, with more fines for those Downing Street parties. It’s remarkable that Tory bigwigs still claim that we ought to wait until the full ‘Gray Report’ is published before we can judge the PM and his Carrie Court.
I think that this report has been circulating around Whitehall already. It’s interesting that there’s been no leak, no gossip, that ‘sources’ are suddenly capable of being very tight-lipped. Perhaps the chief editors of the Westminster MSM have also seen that report and are equally tight-lipped, all for one particular reason. They are all working for ‘regime change’: to oust Johnson.
It looks to me as if they’re permitting this PM to peacock about for a few more days so his fall can look truly spectacular. There’s just one question: will the string pullers let him dangle until after the local elections which are only three weeks away – or will they remove him before that date?
I leave you with one other thought: has Johnson perhaps been preparing for his ‘life after’, by making himself palatable to an US ‘audience’ thanks to his ra-ra support for Mr ‘e and all things Ukrainian? Has he been working not for us but towards a nice, cushy and lucrative ‘landing’ in the international think-tank~ and dinner~circus? His credentials are certainly shiny enough: from ‘war supporter’ to ‘green Net Zero promoter’ and ‘lockdown tsar’ – who could be more welcome on the planet of Gates-WEF-Soros! Who could be more worthy of support from the current US President!
Meanwhile back here in Blighty we peasants better start worrying about even harder times to come. No, not because Starmer and his front benchers will make everything worse once they’re in No 10 – because the true string pullers who have got us into this mess, unelected and unaccountable, will remain and will pull the strings of Starmer as nicely as they’ve pulled the strings of this and all previous governments.
It’s Maundy Thursday today – the last chance to get chocolate eggs for Easter Sunday. Who knows if we can afford them next year.
K As I predicted, UK gas terminals being used to transit gas to Europe.
https://www.rt.com/business/553928-britain-gas-supplies-europe/
It has all been said. Our Country has been ruined and there is no hope for us from the mainstream parties. The alternatives are not much better and anyway struggling.
Interesting:- Viv’s comment that comments on J.R.’s Diary are almost all scathing of him and his party.
Mine today referred to immigration being only one aspect of how they failed to get brexit done.
Then I commented on the irony of J.R.’s slogan change. It used to be ‘Speaking for England’. Now it is for ‘Freedom and Prosperity’.
Freedom? – Covid restrictions.
Prosperity? – Carbon Neutral policies.
More and more people on there are saying how B.J. is clearly working towards the Great Reset.
One commenter on there recently advocated Rebellion as the only answer.
That commentator is probably right but the numbers are not yet in our favour; maybe never.
Away for a few days, so I may have missed something? For what are these folk being fined? All the parties we know about are well beyond the statute of limitations for such things. So unless there were parties within the last six months, about which we have not been told, I ask again: how are these fines legal?
Nigel Farage has a few words to say about deporting illegal immigrants to Rwanda and unfortunately I think he’s spot on.
“Will Rwanda work? Farage reacts.”
https://youtu.be/2akGU093mUI
As with every other issue facing this country, Nigel Farage has his eye on the ball with regard to the proposed transportation of illegal migrants to Rwanda and dealing with asylum applications there, and its likely pitfalls. Johnson as per usual beefing it up and saying things will change as of today, but as he spoke the illegal migrant influx continued unabated across the English Channel. The pitfalls Farage outlined is that a legal challenge will be made by human rights bodies very shortly, and if they lose they will appeal and appeal and use our antiquated system as they have always done for their own ends, and then all likelihood it will end up being subject to a judicial review which may take years to complete. The only winners of this fiasco will be Human Rights lawyers, and how many of those I wonder presently sit in the House of Commons and House of Lords. And another thing Farage said yesterday on his GB News programme, is that if no radical changes are made to the way in which Boris Johnson rules this country (that’s a laugh in itself) on their present trajectory the Conservative Party will lose the next general election in either 2023 or 2024. I would have thought that is a dead cert. This a party which won a landslide victory in 2019 and promised so much, but has delivered so little apart from a half baked Brexit deal. Boris Johnson is a walking disaster zone and has no eye for detail and thinks he can rule over us with bluster and buffoonery, and in my opinion represents everything that is bad about our parliamentary system. Come on Nigel, time is running out. Set up a new right of centre political party without the involvement of Richard Tice etc, and get some decent policies worked out, which we could all get behind and vote for, to get this get this utter shower shyte out of Downing Street and the House of Commons.
An absolutely stupid idea. Once they have entered our country the battle is lost. We need an Australian style policy to turn them back.
Rwanda. Every minister will be expected to put on some theatre for May 5th.
Brilliant.! Pure ” Gullivers Travellers ” ( The whole book ). ! Lit up for us all to see, and integrity maintained….
Inote thatno-one has pointed out that partygate was the final building block that proves that ‘they are better and should be above our petty concerns; should that the entire governing, wealth holding, governing apparatus, and surrounding courtiers of tax fed hangers on, actually believe they deserve their positions. ( Entitlement ). And that they should be handed TAX.
Clearly they do believe they are better.
That is money in the bank for whoever wishes to use it.
WW2 Young Officers whose fathers had the same experiences in WW1, Fought by the side of the squaddies, before moving further up the ladder. Result:- mutual respect…..My father was engineer for a squadren of spits, and every repair job started with hosing the blood off and every pilot took me up at some time for dad ( Reasons given were varied )….An Uncle in theNavy, Captained a minesweeper with 4 Norwegians as crew. and got torpaedod 3 times in bigger later boats. Another Uncle ,, Army, the same story but wounded…….In the RAF and Navy, the same, different ways…. By the time ( About 1954 ) I got in the Army, They learned or were disabused
This meant that Managers and bosses and public servants and many public employers and employeeswere for a long time ( I would say untill about 1980’s ) were mostly sympathetic. Basically Unions were viewed sympathetically particularly in small firms of less than say 3000..
That has all gone now and is replaced by Suits vs Workers. And the prime problem is computers. Idiots think computers save on paperwork, communication organisation specialities and gossip…. Just idiots Ignorant and foolish as well.And that is the mess we’re in now.
I’ll shut up now.
Indeed TG; my father was on a bomber squadron and told of similar aircraft repairs. The woke lot could use a similar experience to open their eyes and minds.
TG Spokes……..have you had too much whiskey, I’ve no idea at all what you’re talking about. My grandfather was an Army Regular in the 2nd Battalion of the Royal West Kent Regiment prior to the First World War and was transported to the continent and witnessed the very first battles of 1914 and therefore an Old Contemptible and was involved in the retreat from Mons etc etc, and fought on the Somme until gassed twice and captured by the Germans. He saw many sights during his service and of the few stories he told, not one was about a ship being torpedoed on the western front. I don’t believe the Army had any ships there or elsewhere. Nevertheless your comment was indeed amusing. It gave me a laugh, and there is not too much to laugh about these days……..
T+G+S ‘governing wealth holding etc. and surrounding courtiers’. Now that sounds exactly like the situation that led to Charles 2nd’s downfall and our Civil War.
T+G+S Not so much Gullivers Travels. Isn’t it more ‘1984’ and ‘Brave New World’.
PB. A lot of people do seem to have noticed. Thing is, it needs nailng in peoples heads. And NOT with a hackneyed speach. So it needs brilliance. And engineering. That can be done …… But, please heaven, not another talker.
Gulliver’s Travels…………..hmmm, whatever. Sorry, I just cannot for the life of me see the connection between what is going on courtesy of our loony, untrustworthy and damn right incompetent prime minister and the Gulliver’s Travels book. Perhaps I need to get totally inebriated or eat 20 Easter Eggs in one sitting to get it………