So it’s Sunak v Truss, the ‘blue-on-blue dogfight’. The Westminster papers are already drooling over that prospect. Like a dog with a new bone, they’ve all dropped the weather issue. There’s nothing about the fires ‘created’ by that two-day heatwave, nothing about the A&E departments not coping, nothing about all the other horrors we were clobbered with. Ah well, that two-day heatwave did help support the ‘firm resolve’ of all concerned not to touch Net Zero.
And so to our future, the future of our country which is now in the hands of Tory Party members voting for Sunak or Truss. The final tally was Sunak -137; Truss -113; Mordaunt – 105. This morning the MSM have discerned that Miz T has a slight advantage (link). Well, of course she has because she’s in full-on ‘stomp on everybody’ mode. Ms PM4PM has complained repeatedly that Liz and her allies were using dirty tricks. I’ve lost the link but there was a snippet that Mr Simon Case, the Whitehall Mandarin of Mandarins, was instituting a leak enquiry into how information used to smear Ms M got into the MSM’s hands.
Now the Truss ‘allies’ are going to do the same to Sunak, as The Times reports under the elegant (not!) headline “Liz Truss the human hand grenade relies on allies to attack Rishi Sunak” (link, paywalled). Clever, isn’t it: it’s ‘allies’ who do it, La Truss has plausible deniability. The first paragraph in that report demonstrates that we’re in for something worse than a dogfight. It’s going to be a full-on ‘war on Sunak’:
“Liz Truss’s allies will launch personal attacks on Rishi Sunak for raising taxes and “betraying” Boris Johnson as part of their bid to win over Tory members. The foreign secretary will not engage in personal criticism of Sunak, instead presenting herself as a “change” candidate who will cut £30 billion worth of taxes as she “goes for growth”. ” (link, paywalled)
Promising “jam tomorrow”, e.g. tax cuts, never fails. It always works. Note also that she is going to try and look to be the Johnson Continuity Candidate. That is indeed an advantage given that BJ has threatened a comeback in yesterday’s last Prime Minister’s Questions’. Some of her allies are out in the open now and these are indeed ‘Big Beasts’. To the Truss support from Lord Frost add Iain Duncan Smith, JRM, Nadine Dorries and ‘allies’ yet remaining in the shadows. One other Big Beast who has now got off the fence is Sir John Redwood who wrote yesterday:
“I am delighted Liz Truss will be in the final with Rishi Sunak. I want a change of economic policy as readers of this site will know. Liz Truss will give us that change. Rishi has accepted Treasury and Bank advice which has given us a high inflation and if unaltered will give us a recession next year. We can do better.” (link)
Does Sir JR really believe that Liz and the Treasury will change anything once she’s in No 10? Surely he must know that she’s an economic ignoramus who is bleating about Tax reductions without telling us how she’ll pay for the inflation-driven pay rises in the public Sector, the NHS while increasing spending on the Armed Forces. Back to Miz T and her allies, strategising on how to get her into No 10. They are expected:
“[…] to directly challenge Sunak over his record in government and for bringing down the prime minister. “The guns are going to be out for Rishi now,” an ally said. “A lot of people have been holding back. While he was chancellor the Treasury became a black hole for policies that die. They don’t call Liz the human hand grenade for nothing.” The attacks from Truss’s team will focus on inflation, tax rises and disloyalty.“ (link, paywalled)
Again, that’s clever! Never mind that, since times immemorial, the Treasury has always been a ‘black hole’ for policies. It’s also clever to play up the ‘loyalty issue’ because we all know that the candidate perceived as the knife-wielder is regarded as heinous knave in the Tory Party and not worthy of their votes. This is how it’s going to be done:
“Rishi is the continuity candidate, he’s going to have to defend his record in government and his point blank refusal to reduce taxes,” an ally of Truss said. “He signed off on quantitative easing last year when lots of economists were saying it was a big mistake. “The grassroots are still very angry about his betrayal of Boris, particularly in the north.” (link, paywalled)
Did Miz T and all her supporters who were in the Johnson Cabinet say a word about the Sunak taxes at the time? I seem to have missed that … Painting Sunak as ‘continuity candidate’ diverts from the fact that it’s actually La T who is ‘it’. Team Rishi on the other hand is apparently playing a gentleman’s game, having been “ordered to refrain from personal attacks on Truss, with MPs who break the rule getting admonitory phone calls from campaign HQ.” (link, paywalled).
You can read all about the ‘Truss Programme’ in the DM’s lead article (link) where every imaginary ‘populist’ button is being pressed, from taxes to ‘values’ to ‘taking on Whitehall’ Good luck with that one, Liz! Mind you – given her track record of being a nice face for the policies the mandarins wanted to implement it’s obvious to me that this ‘Whitehall’ point in her manifesto is just hot air and won’t happen.
Speaking of Whitehall: I expect that the mandarins who’ve been using her as nice face to promote their policies will work en coulisse as her shadowy allies, providing gossip and spin to support her campaign. It’s in their interest to have her in No 10 because they know that she’ll do as she’s told. Btw, her ‘manifesto’ is published by the DM – just scroll down a bit at the link above – and yes, we read that she’ll ‘stand up to Putin’. What we don’t find in all her tax-cutting waffle is any mention at all about Net Zero and green taxes. That makes her tax-cutting siren calls implausible.
Meanwhile, Sunak is becoming the punchbag for all Trussites. There’s one piece in The Times with an intriguing headline: “‘Sunak doesn’t excite members but voters think Truss is weird’ (link, paywalled) – interesting because ‘voters’, i.e. us plebs out here in the sticks are not involved with deciding who will come out on top. I expect a ton of Sunak-supporting stuff in the next days.
We’re in for a ‘hot’ summer – not because of the weather but because of the blue-on-blue war. There will be dirty tricks and dirty linen washed in public, there will be promises which won’t be kept. After much blood on the floor we’ll either have a wannabe Mrs Thatcher without her principles or a wannabe Macron as next PM. We’ll have a shadowy government by Whitehall mandarins or one by even more shadowy globalists. What a choice!
The outlook for our country has just become worse than only grim.
Jake now I’m confused because you are confused
What I am trying to say is that because I don’t accept his contention that conspiracies are “unlikely” doesn’t mean that I don’t accept all his reasoning as to how “events” if you like have grown into apparent what the mass of us assume and call conspiracies .
I am sure he is accurate in pointing out the trails of how we get to the positions we eventually assume and there must be some common starting point maybe the UN or WEF or Bankers and their ilk, but I’m sure there must be one common thread which links into a “grand overall purpose”, who or what it is iv’e no idea, but I have my suspicions that it operates under the aegis of “COMMON PURPOSE” and thus from one Grand Conspiricy emanates a cluster of sub conspiracies.
As a by-the -by ion even was chatting to the Chief of Nigerian police we were carrying home as a passenger on one of our ships and asked him “what was the major crime in the region” he came straight back with the answering one word CONIVERY
I think that describes in stark detail “they” are always at it, it is endemic in that area ( and probably through manhood or should I say personhood?)
It doesn’t always have to be for evil purposes, how we love to get together and “conspire” to give somebody a good send off party
(Just ask our ex PM)
Best wishes to you and the article writer intended
If it’s any consolation to you I had an interview with a medical consultant yesterday afternoon, he asked me what my interests were, I said “politics”, he asked me what I thought of the two candidates, he thought Truss was too economically hesitant and I agreed,but said in effect that Rishi was too mouthy and in effect over egged thee cake and he appeared to take the point, I omitted to point out that I also thought him a bully and a WEF “plant”, but I was wanting a decent verdict for my medical condition ( and got it)
Roger. The author of the article, in my view, is suggesting that there appears to be the simplistiic view by many on the centre Right that it is SOLEY the WEF that is directing the whole agenda of political establishments of western democracies. He argues there are far more unelected organisations making up the nexus of influence on our political establishment. Those include WTO, World Bank, UN, NGOs/corporations/charities/billionaires and think tanks many of whom are funded by the British taxpayer.
The author hits the nail on the head when he says much of the problem lay with those who keep voting for establishment partiea and expect a different outcome.
Nevertheless, thankyou for reading the article and sharing your views Roger.
Sorry Jake I`m not so happy with this as you and everybody else appears to be.
I`m not disputing 90% of the contents are well argued and I am sure true.
It`s the beginning that concerns me.
He writes “it`s becoming harder to dismiss conspiracy theorists as nutjobs and cranks……………”
“it is increasingly the case that out of touch politicians are working on their own agendas”
Then in the next paragraph he has
“Some people describe this as the deep state implementing the WEF agenda, I can see why some people believe that, but I don`t find that explanation all that compelling ………… the WEF is really just a policy forum and a lobbying organisation, where all the groupthinks of the political elites begin to emerge……. take the WEF out of the equation and we still have exactly the same problem…..Technocratic rule of the blobs.”
Say we don`t take out the WEF ……….. he destroys his whole case right from the start.
I would say there is so much evidence that the WEF is a long standing conspiracy controlled by a ringmaster Swab and fully allied with fellow world organisations like the WHO and training facilities and pupils who graduate to become “Quizlings” in their own countries such as Adhern(NZ) Trudeau (Canada) Rishi Sunak (UK) Macron (France)
What`s that other than a conspiracy.
Then there`s the Remainers in Mrs May`s cabinet engaging all sorts of peripheral organisations (inc Common Purpose) and since during Johnson`s administration in working to reverse Brexit
What`s that other than a conspiracy?
Then there`s the EU itself that conspires with national leaders within it`s orbit “to fix the odds” so that the UK “will not profit from Brexit”, not only not profit but to underperform and in effect pauperise a supposedly “friendly” ally oh and also to subsume it`s defence capacity to itself and to have robbed it of it`s vital industries for over 40 years.
Wan`t me to tell you any more about the Conspiracy that set out to undermine Johnson and his government by any means so that they would be unable to complete Brexit and thus leave the ground open for rejoining later against the stated will and instruction of the grass roots.
Sorry the man who wrote the article is a temporiser and thus falls at the first hurdle
There used to be a phrase “all mouth and no trousers”
Roger. I am confused . First you say you don’t dispute 90% of the article content and truth and then you conclude by claiming the author is nothing more than a temporiser “ all mouth and no trousers”
A bit off topic but still very relevant I saw this post today and thought it should get more of an airing. Sorry it’s a bit long but it was difficult to format in a hurry.
Neil Ferguson, through
his institute at London’s Imperial College, can call the shots on a major
percentage of the global population.
He’s Mr. Genius, when it
comes to projecting computer models of epidemics.
Fellow experts puff up
his reputation.
According to the
Business Insider (4/25/2020), “Ferguson’s team warned Boris Johnson that the
quest for ‘herd immunity’ [letting people live their lives out in the open in
the UK] could cost 510,000 lives, prompting an abrupt U-turn [massive national
lockdown in the UK]…His simulations have been influential in other countries as
well, cited by authorities in the US, Germany, and France.”
Not only cited, not only
influential, but swallowed whole.
Business insider
continues: “On March 23, the UK scrapped ‘herd immunity’ in favor of a
suppression strategy, and the country made preparations for weeks of lockdown.
Ferguson’s study was responsible.”
There’s more. A lot
more.
Same BI article: “Dr
Deborah Birx, coronavirus response coordinator to the Trump administration,
told journalists at a March 16 press briefing that the Imperial paper
[Ferguson’s computer projection] prompted the CDC’s new advice to work from
home and avoid gatherings of 10 or more.”
Ferguson, instigator of
LOCKDOWN. Stripping away of basic liberties. Economic devastation.
So let’s look at
Ferguson’s track record, spelled out in the BI piece:
“Ferguson co-founded the
MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, based at Imperial, in 2008.
It is the leading body advising national governments on pathogen outbreaks.”
“It gets tens of
millions of dollars in annual funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation, and works with the UK National Health Service, the US Centres for
Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), and is tasked with supplying the World
Health Organization with ‘rapid analysis of urgent infectious disease
problems’.”
Getting the picture?
Gates money goes to
Ferguson.
Ferguson predicts dire
threat from COVID, necessitating lockdowns—thus preparing people to accept a
vaccine. The vaccine Gates wants.
Ferguson supplies a
frightening computer projection of COVID deaths—to the CDC and
WHO. Ferguson thus communicates a rationale for the Gates vaccine plan.
National governments
surrender to WHO and CDC. LOCKDOWNS.
Business Insider:
“Michael Thrusfield, a professor of veterinary epidemiology at Edinburgh
University, told the paper he had ‘déjà vu’ after reading the [Ferguson]
Imperial paper [on COVID], saying Ferguson was responsible for excessive animal
culling during the 2001 Foot and Mouth [mad cow] outbreak.”
“Ferguson warned the
government that 150,000 people could die. Six million animals were slaughtered
as a precaution, costing the country billions in farming revenue. In the end,
200 people died.”
“Similarly, he
[Ferguson] was accused of creating panic by overestimating the potential death
toll during the 2005 Bird Flu outbreak. Ferguson estimated 200 million could
die. The real number was in the low hundreds.” HELLO?
“In 2009, one of
Ferguson’s models predicted 65,000 people could die from the Swine Flu outbreak
in the UK — the final figure was below 500.”
So you have to ask
yourself, why would anyone believe what Ferguson has been predicting in this
COVID hustle?
Are his fellow experts
that stupid?
Are presidents and prime
ministers that stupid?
And the answer is: This
is a monumental covert op; some people are that stupid; some are caught up in
the op and are afraid to say the emperor has no clothes; some are aware of what
is going on, and they want to destroy national economies and lead us into, yes,
a new world order.
Gates knows he has his
man: Ferguson. As the recipient of tens of millions of dollars a year from
the Gates Foundation, Ferguson isn’t about to issue a model that states: COVID
is nothing to worry about, let people live their lives and we’ll be all
right. The chance of that happening is on a par with researchers admitting
they never properly identified a new virus as the cause of illness in 2019, in
Wuhan.
In order to justify
injecting every man, woman, and child in the world with heavy metals, synthetic
genes that alter genetic makeup, a host of germs, and who knows what else,
Gates needs A STORY ABOUT A DEADLY VIRUS THAT NECESSITATES SHUTTING DOWN AND
IMPRISONING THE PLANET, ACHIEVING A CAPTIVE AUDIENCE.
He’s got the story, all
dressed up in a computer model, composed by a man with a past record of abject
and devastating failures.
Neil Ferguson is the
ghost in the machine. The machine is the World Health Organization and the
CDC. The man behind the ghost is Bill Gates.
Yes Lisa, Tossers like pants down and all those who are behind what has gone on should be forced to face people like those in this discussion led by Mark Steyn;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwm3uTSAwsg
Imperial College should be renamed Inferior Collage (sic). Professor Danny Altmann et al can be added to that Collage of incompetents faces.
Indeed Lisa; far too many swallow the propaganda without, or are incapable of, thinking.
Within 8 weeks of the first news of thepandemic information from china. It was apparent that The disease itself was designed and planned to only affect old and infirm Virtually nobody healthy and in work was likely to die ( Just like now.). And almost no one has. NOW do you fight or cower, or blame, move the goal posts.It makes sense to many, i suppose, to seperate the vulnerable and gather them all together for ease of treatment ( Wich still does not appear to exist, only advertising and denial by Pharma and politics ), ease of disposal, IMHO very few of NHS staff were threatened. The mooted alternative of the Nightingale etc, was an equally good option and should IMHO or could later been used to take pressure off Bureaucratic NHS, and the carnage of care homes etc. The consideration of these factors could have been given to the army strategy teams, proper as opposed to old scientists outside any of their specialities and whose Medics who want tosave every single last life. And are hence stupid not wise particularly. So the blame lies totally on the political breakdown of responsibility when leadership vanishes. And has never recovered. Boris taking of praise and blame for Covid. has taken away the slaughter that should have occurred of Politicians and Sages anf Civil servants found wanting.. And we are rewarding them.
Professions, Unions, the computer trade, and nhs stand ready to capitalise to save the country.
Fergusson just likes doing models and discovered early on, that if he maximises the horrors , he gets more funding.
The single thing that emerges to me, is, Our vaunted, expensive, and arrogant Political, Civil service Democratic machine…… Failed !
And Boris has cauterised the wound.
I seem to be the only person wanting Truss to win.
Incidentally she HAS spoken out against the Carbon Neutral target. Though probably not about the whole Global Warming scam.
I am sure she is right to speak up for cutting taxes as this is not just the way to tackle the cost of living ‘crisis’ but is also necessary to avoid recession, (The old boom/bust Blair/Brown policies.)
She has declared she will tackle the N.I. protocol problem.
I think she has also said the immigration problem needs a firm hand.
Her apparent determination to smash Putin seems to me the only valid objection to her. And against that she is at least WHITE. Presumably British.
Now, whether if she gets in she will actually DO the right things. Or be allowed to do them by the civil serpents. That is another matter.
P.S. And that, of course depends on who she chooses as Cabinet Ministers and advisors.
Hopefully, she would get Frosty back for one.
I can well understand the general feeling that the Tory Party are a dead loss. But on the other hand the others are worse.
So my only hope is that she just might start returning the Cons to a truly CONSERVATIVE Party.
According to the online BBC website, a second report has confirmed that the Home Office response to the migrant influx across the English Channel has been poor. I would say pretty much non existent, and what’s more none of the leadership candidates even spoke about it. It just about Sunak and Truss up in my book, both of whom are too afraid to confront this problem head on preferring instead to stick their heads in the sand and pretend its not happening. Hopefully in two years time we can kick this utter shower into touch.
On another note, it is reported today that if Boris Johnson is found to have misled parliament over lockdown parties, he will potentially face a recall and his seat in Uxbridge will be subject to a by-election. As things stand despite some 4000 Conservative Party members wanting his name to be included in the party membership leadership ballot, he will lose his seat to the Liberal Democrats. The man who couldn’t tell the difference between fact and fiction is an utter twerp. What a fall from grace.
Dan Wootton’s marvellously succinct and eviscerating summary:
“Fishy Rishi and his merry band of delusional Conservative MPs who think their party members are going to forget his brutal, coordinated and selfish political assassination of Boris Johnson then entrust the big state/high tax ex-Chancellor with the future of this country have spent far too much time gossiping with Sly News’ BoJo hunter-in-chief Beth Rigby at Westminster. Quite frankly, they’ve lost any sense of reality.”
Indeed, but there is more than one band of delusional MPs in parliament disconnected from reality. It’s nearly all of them. To be fair, it is a Europe wide phenomenon that began, or took its most acute form since 1997, on the morning of 24th June 2016 with a further entrenching shock on 20th November 2016. The subsequent years suggest that connection with reality is not going to be possible anytime soon as exemplified by the election in France and the current Tory leadeship contest.
That leads to two options: search for a hinterland or join a fringe party and live as underground cells used to under the Soviets. Hinterlands, if one can find them at all, are risky in that the modern equivalent of ‘Goths and Vandals’ will eventually invade everywhere which leaves fringe parties. The Heritage party is structured opaquely and is in reality a source of income for the leader (as was For Britain for Anne-Marie Waters). Lawrence Fox’s party is too luvvie and also with an opaque structure centred on the leader, as is Reform UK around Tice. None of these parties have a constitution that includes member or democratic control. In any case, the only person I find likeable is David Kurten.
UKIP still exists with its former constitution (which is actually quite good even though the party’s problems were that no leader respected the constitution which mandates working with the NEC) and of all these fringe parties it has the most detailed mainfesto. The sad irony is that the party is now run as it should have been with a manifesto it should have had, but is so badly tainted with so much baggage that no-one can see it.
Jerzy Kosiński’s novel ‘The Painted Bird’ comes to mind. In one scene, a woodsman, to vent anger over his missing girlfriend, takes one of his captured birds, and paints it with several colours before releasing it. The bird tries to flock with its kin but they see it as an outsider and peck it to death. The estabishment and media painted UKIP with the help of assorted hapless and short-term leaders. It is not yet fully dead but whether it can ever revive is more than just doubtful.
There are pressure groups like ‘Big Brother Watch’, ‘The Freedom Association’, ‘The Free Speech Union’, ‘The Bruges Group’ and ‘Politeia’ and these together with the fringe parties, provide interest here in London. I am a member of all (and a few I haven’t listed). Instead of watching box sets I go to events and talks. It’s fun to meet like-minded people, at the level of having a social life, but I see no prospect of influence or change. At a deeper level then it may be no better than watching a box set for escapism.
The Northern Ireland Protocol is the litmus test for me as to whether politics may be worth engaging with. Yes, the cost of living matters and control of our borders and immigration and ….but that Protocol is the most toxic legacy of May’s betrayal of this country. I wait to see what Truss actually does. A report on her likely cabinet choices does not bode well.
Yeoman, you say about UKIP ” The sad irony is that the party is now run as it should have been with a manifesto it should have had, but is so badly tainted with so much baggage that no-one can see it.” Sadly, probably an accurate observation.
How can those who want a truly independent, self-governing country get it? Clearly a majority want this, because the referendum said so, and this was confirmed by the December 2019 election result.
How can UKIP be revived properly?
Something substantial and effective needs to be done.
George………the sad fact of the matter is that UKIP should have undergone a re-branding programme when it had the chance to back in 2017. Also there was far too much infighting going on behind the scenes by people who had their own agenda, much to the abhorrence of those like me at grassroots level who were branch chairmen and committee members who were doing our best to recruit members and increasing the activist base necessary to win elections. Far too often our good work at branch level was being undone by others further up the chain behaving irresponsibly and saying silly things that was then jumped upon by those in the media eager to portray the party as far right, which it absolutely was not. In short the party lacked discipline. In my opinion the party should have done more to have kept the likes of Douglas Carswell and Suzanne Evans onside. I would have liked to have seen Carswell who put his parliamentary career on the line by defecting to UKIP from the Conservative Party standing for the leadership. Failing that, I would have liked Suzanne Evans who was the author of at least one party manifesto standing for the leadership as well, but some ridiculous people were saying they were both closet Tories etc. If UKIP had remained under stable leadership, I believe things would have been a whole lot different to the situation that the party finds itself in now. Too many good people were lost, and as a result party has too much baggage and most people who are desperate for change, cant or wont see through it.
I can agree with most of what you say, Colin. I was a Branch officer and met Batten several times and reckon he was very sound though not canny enough nor as charismatic as Nigel.
how big, or small, is the Party now?
And he was naive to somehow believe that the likes of Tommy Robinson could be of use to UKIP. When in fact the opposite occurred and the mass resignation of UKIP MEP’s who went off and set up The Brexit Party with Nigel Farage who then went on to win the European Union elections in this country. By rights UKIP should have been victorious in that election but it got nowhere and the party has never recovered.
Sadly Stout, I feel the need to disagree about UKIP. Seen as an outsider from the sticks The core problem is I believe the two aspects you like. They are the constitution Which is iron clad and cannot be changed, and the NEC which is usually out of control, and irresponsible, prideful and undemocratic ( Unless you think all committees are democratic ).. Calling it a ” National EXECUTIVE committee ” was I believe. a serious mistake..As an outsider looking in, All the short term leaders were adequate , but sabotaged.. In the case of Braine and Batten barefaced and conservative, sabotaged as only a committee can. deliberate barefaced, prermanent, and safely by pronouncenent ( Protests were lost, ignored, and disappeared ).. I have concluded sadly that its an Augean stables job. And only suitable for destruction as a Trojan Horse. ( Wow )
Anyway I’ve seen all sorts in my time so I wait with baited breath. And if you can find a way to change its constitution, and demote a committee to Advisary , I’ll rejoin. and admit it.
And the manifesto.
TG Spokes…….seems to me that Reform UK would be right up your street. It is not democratically run, there are no local branches, no committees made up of members, and no National Executive Committee, and no local activist base. I have said to you until blue in the face that every democratic party that you care to mention has a ruling body of some kind which governs how the party is run and keeps the leader(s) in check, and the members of those ruling bodies are members who get elected by the party membership. Surely that is what democracy is all about, is it not? It seems to me that you would prefer a situation whereby a party leader cannot be elected, cannot be dismissed, and is not accountable to anybody else other than him or herself and the other shareholders. Well, it is not my idea of how things should be run. What’s more no political party has the right to preach how a country should be reformed or democratically run, if it hasn’t got its own internal house in order.
The constitution has provision for change – by EGM. Anything less would have been a recipe for even more instability. Batten, and then Braine, failed to adhere to the constitution. Appointment of a chairman is subject to approval by the NEC (elected by members) and their choice was not accepted by the NEC. (Rightly so in my opinion). Instead of choosing another candidate they embarked on a particualrly destructive course. It was largely bald men fighting over a comb by then as the destruction set in train by Farage, Crowther and Nuttal, who all resigned after the referendum with no concern for succession, the party or its members, and continued by the clowns Nuttal and Bolton, had rendered UKIP unelectable. A party is not a leader’s personal fiefdom, nor is it a monarchy or dynasty, Worse, UKIP had been a single issue party up to the referendum, but no thought was given to the transition to a party with a manifesto for domestic politics. That was Farage’s betrayal. Batten and Braine sought to turn it into a different single issue party. But, as Anne-Marie Waters found, single issue parties fail. Batten and his acolytes contemplated a new party that never got off the ground, proof they were political parasites like Anne-Marie who despite coming second in the leadership election Bolton won, flounced out, such was her committement to UKIP (i.e. none).
I meet many ex-kippers, all good people, lost to the party by the shenningans since 2016. Many have found (ineffective) niche and only one has founded a party – David Kurten – that competes with UKIP and divides the miniscule votes both now get. Even now, I encounter ex-kippers fighting old battles based on myths about who did what, who was ideologicaly pure or not, and so on.
UKIP, the painted bird, was pecked to death by parasites and media.
George. They need people like you to join and then for you to go and tell others you have joined and so on. They must aim to get a membership base of 30,000 and then possibly they can make some progress. Success breeds success.
Well Jake I was a member and also a Branch officer. I did not renew membership when a senior person at national level sent a message of eid mubarak out. More than I I could tolerate.
Any idea what the membership number is now?
George I don’t know the current membership numbers. I too was a Branch officer, last one actually.
Encouraging though to receive a message from a regional organiser that they are trying to get regional members groups together.
Regarding your point on ‘Eid Mubarak’ I agree with you that was I’ll judged.
George………it is about 3,800 or thereabouts.
Woken this morning by a newsreader on my rado/alarm telling me that, ” UK government borrowing increased in June, (figures from Office for National Statistics on Thursday). UK public sector net borrowing, excluding banks, amounted to £22.9 billion in June, up 22% year-on-year from £18.8 billion.
My mind could not grasp the number of naughts involved. So with the first cup of coffee and fag of the day I found that my pocket calculator didn’t have enough space either, so revert to “back of an envelope”
The answer is £342 per man, woman, child and scrounger per month. (As barely half contribute anything the rest of us pay a lot more)
Where does all this money go? Well some pays the interest on previous borrowings, some goes to “overseas aid” and of course some goes to that “nice Mr. Ze” somewhere in Eastern Europe.
The choice between Sunak and Truss really seems to be a choice of suicide by poison, or suicide by hanging… we end up dead either way
Time for “them” to realise that we cannot continue to support the globalist entities nor “overseas aid” of which most is probably lost to corruption or otherwise feather-bedding those in control of it.
If they don’t support native Brits then where is their future tax income to come from?
Richard Mawdsley. I may not agree with what you are saying about Truss but I like you now because like me you insist on smoking fags !!
RM,
“The choice between Sunak and Truss really seems to be a choice of suicide by poison, or suicide by hanging”?
Someone in a BTL blog described it as a
“Choice between Gonorrhea or Syphilis”
Outcome probably the same?
Mrs Thatcher she certainly is not. What does “stand up to Putin” even mean. This economic and geographical dimwit is just the puppet on a string candidate. Having said that, anybody but Sunak. Just as you think it can’t get much worse, it does.
Crikey! They don’t call Liz Truss the human hand grenade for nothing’. Good news for Mr E when the conveyor belt of guns and cash speeds up. Nothing here for red wall seats apart from more food banks, more diversity and more turbo-woke academies. Expect Sunak will promote Truss. Or Truss will appoint Sunak to summat. Vote tory avoid the nightmare of Starmer! YOu have nothing to lose but your gas boiler, car, job, nhs, and liberty. Vote hand grenade!
I think that the author of this Breitbart article has hit the nail on the head regarding Truss and Sunak.
“‘The Great Globalist’ vs ‘Theresa May 2.0’: Final Contestants For Next UK PM Will See W.E.F. Win Either Way”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/07/20/the-great-globalist-vs-theresa-may-2-0-final-contestants-for-next-uk-pm-will-see-w-e-f-win-either-way/
It won’t matter a whole lot to we hoi palloi which one of the creeps win.
Bojo did us a favour (scorched earth?) in his final peroration, by mentioning the deep state, to some gasps in the chamber: Chatham House and the hereditary bankers in the City are two manifestations. I think he was implying that if he couldn’t fight them, then good luck to anyone else who wants a go.
Good article from UKIP on the death of democracy and the involvement of the ‘deep state’.
Farage naively chose to ignore the existence of the ‘deep state’ when he declared ‘my job is done’ immediately after the referendum outcome? What folly!
Fighting for democracy is never done I fear!
https://www.ukip.org/the-quiet-death-of-british-democracy
Jake……I agree it is a good article. However who wrote it? No point writing an article such as this and not signing it.
Good point Colin. At least they are saying the right things whoever is the author.
Colin Hussey I believe it was written by the Chairman Ben Walker.