Wobbly-bottom-lip time …

 

 

After the “what a day” (h/t: Speaker Lindsay Doyle) shenanigans yesterday in Westminster the vultures in the MSM have been so hard at work that the imaginary battle lines have become a total muddle. The really funny thing is that even the scrapping of covid restrictions has been relegated to the ‘also ran’ places. 

Thus we got ‘poor, misunderstood Johnson’ who was ‘a broken man’ when he met the so-called Red Wall intake, the ‘pork pie rebels’, to plead with them for their support. Btw – what is it with these Westminster spin doctors who come up with those childish labels, from squealing rats to pork pie rebels? Do they think this is a sign of great good humour? Do they think we peasants can only understand such childishness?

Back to our MSM and Westminster hackeries: we learned that poor Romy, the Johnson’s baby, ‘had covid’ and that’s why Johnson vanished from the public gaze last weekend (link, paywalled). Oh dear. Isn’t he double-jabbed and boostered? Didn’t he test himself ‘clear’? Or did he not understand the rules yet again – the rules he made? After all, he tearfully did say that nobody told him that the BYOB party was ‘against the rules’!

Far more interesting are the news about the Tory turncoat who crossed the floor yesterday. Turns out that he’s been cultivated by Labour bigwigs for months. He was apparently one of those ‘p-p-rebels’, allegedly having submitted a letter to the 1922 committee, but:

“He didn’t say a thing,” a colleague said.There was a reason for Wakeford’s reticence. He had been on the phone to a Labour whip until 1am, and within hours would be a Labour MP, paraded by Sir Keir Starmer at the most difficult prime minister’s questions of Johnson’s premiership.” (link, paywalled)

His turncoatery was very much instigated and supported by Labour grandees. How very principled! Clearly, the MPs in the legacy parties are an unprincipled , dishonourable bunch who want their seat any which way, refraining from asking their electorate by shunning a by-election. It also shows that Labour is more interested in getting Starmer into No 10 by any means, be they ever so dirty and underhand, rather than by presenting proper, opposition politics. See this:

“Mr Wakeford’s defection is the culmination of months of work by Labour figures, codenamed “Operation Domino”, to entice him to Sir Keir Starmer’s benches. On Wednesday night, friends said his decision had “not come as a surprise” because he was politically “closer to Keir than to Boris”. […] Mr Wakeford is understood to have been “coached” by Chris Elmore, the Labour MP for Ogmore, for around six months over the decision.” (paywalled link)

‘Coached for six months’! That gets us into summer 2021, to the run-up to ‘Freedom Day’. Was the turncoat perhaps unhappy with the easing of the covid empire’s stranglehold? Did he think that Labour’s covid policies, i.e. ‘moar rulz’, would’ve been better? If he was ‘closer to Keir’, why did he stand as Tory MP in 2019 in the first place? Was it because he thought he’d get more opportunities for troughing as Tory rather than as Labour MP?

And what does it say about the ‘Loyal Opposition’ when they spend months on that dishonourable scheme, “Operation Domino”, rather than on creating proper opposition policies, such as standing against the covid ‘rulz’? It gets worse:

“Labour sources said other Tory MPs from the 2019 intake could follow Mr Wakeford out of the door, with one MP suggesting that as many as five were considering leaving their party. “I have been speaking to other friends across the floor who are incredibly disillusioned and are feeling more and more like their future would be under a Keir Starmer government than a Boris Johnson one,” the MP said. Another Labour source said they had personally spoken to three Conservative MPs who had expressed doubts about their future in the party.” (paywalled link)

Need we say more about those troughers, in it for themselves, happy to sell the fate of the country for a bowl of potage? Meanwhile, Johnson stamped his Peppa-Pig trotters, saying he won’t resign even if there’s a 1922 ‘no confidence’ vote (paywalled link). The more refined RemainCentral is warning of more Tory ‘rebels’ who’d want to get rid of Johnson. This paragraph wonderfully demonstrates The Times’ bias:

“And while some Tory MPs are genuinely concerned and angry about parties in Downing Street, many more will make their decision on whether to back or desert Johnson for more base political reasons.” (link, paywalled)

Getting rid of Johnson “because: parties!” is fine, getting rid of him for his disastrous policies is ‘base’! These ‘base political reasons’, according to the Times, are those of ‘disgruntled big beasts’ like David Davis or MPs wanting cabinet posts. Funny how the turncoat MP and his prospective turncoat colleagues are of course not accused of ‘base political reasons’! Note also that being ‘angry’ or not about the No 10 parties, declared by the MSM to be the ‘hate case of the day’, is the touchstone for base or lofty political reasons. Yes, one really couldn’t make it up. 

While our esteemed MSM are now stirring the political pot, clearly aiming to heave Starmer into No 10, some significant news get left by the wayside. For example, we find that Priti’s Home Office will no longer publish daily figures of dinghy drivers landing on our shores – 1,000 already this month (link, paywalled). That would be a proper, ‘base’ political reason to attack the Johnson government, but since Labour would do precisely the same, let’s just mention it by-the-by, shall we?

Also let’s politely overlook that Mr Biden opened the doors to Putin. At a press conference where he waffled about what Putin might or might not do, he said:

“It’s one thing if it’s a minor incursion, and we [in Nato] end up fighting about what we should do, not do.” Asked if he was giving Mr Putin “permission” for a “minor incursion,” Mr Biden said: “It did sound like that didn’t it.” (paywalled link)

Indeed it did. The White House spin doctors were desperate to ‘explain’ what Biden really meant:

“They said what Mr Biden had been talking about was the divisions in Nato over how to respond to Russian aggression. It was also suggested that by “minor incursion” he had meant Russian cyber attacks, rather than a small military invasion.” (paywalled link)

Phew, that’s alright then! Never mind that NATO had declared ‘cyber attacks’ as a possible reason for military intervention … The Ukrainians are clearly not capable of understanding the niceties of presidential words which must always be properly spun:

“In Kyiv, there were accusations Mr Biden was giving a “green light” to the Kremlin, and anger that he would publicly make a distinction between different levels of Russian attack. According to the Ukrainians, that was a particularly dangerous thing to do as Mr Putin’s preferred option is believed to be a limited incursion. It led to suspicions a deal was being done behind Ukraine’s back. Indeed, the fear in Kyiv was that Mr Biden had not so much been wrong, but that he had inadvertently told the truth.” (paywalled link)

Just so, and as on the world stage so on our national stage: the truth is inadvertently slipping out, such as the incontrovertible truth that our HoC peacocks, of whatever rosette colour, are mostly a bunch of self-aggrandising, dishonourable spivs who are in it for themselves.

We plebs knew that already. So why do we still vote for them?

 

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