Let nobody say that the Westminster denizens don’t love a good piece of theatre! It beats politics, i.e. actually making far-reaching decisions which will affect the Nation for decades. That’s why this morning’s print editions have only one ‘news’ item on their front pages: BJ.
Al Beeb’s ‘staff’ must have been delighted to produce today’s headline “Newspaper headlines: ‘Johnson in peril’ as he ‘fights for his future’” (link). Any bets that some champagne bottles are still rolling around on the floors of the Westminster newsrooms?
That piffling vote on the piffling Windsor thingie? Boring. Who cares. Who cares that some Tories ‘rebelled’. They’re only the Johnson-Truss relics, life goes on, innit like. For the record:
“The prime minister won a Commons endorsement for the Windsor framework after MPs voted by 515 to 29 to endorse a key element of the plan with the support of Labour. The 22 Tory MPs who defied a three-line whip to vote against the government included Johnson, Truss and the former home secretary Priti Patel. Jacob Rees-Mogg, Simon Clarke and Jake Berry, who all served in the cabinet under Truss, voted against the deal, as did the former Conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith.” (link, paywalled)
For the record: Steve Baker didn’t rebel. Also for the record: Labour voted for this thing. The commentariat in the Westminster MSM gave a collective sigh of relief. There were two opinion pieces on this vote. One shows what these pundits really think of us peasants. It is of course in Remain Central, under the headline:
“Rejoice, the Brexit wars are finally over – The usual suspects failed to scupper Rishi Sunak’s compromise — now we can develop an adult relationship with the EU” (link, paywalled)
See – the Leave-voting part of the Nation were only unruly kids who’ve now finally been shown the error of their ways by ‘the adults’. There’s more, of course, demonstrating again how divorced from real life the Westminster press is:
“[…] this is finally the end, or the beginning of the end, of a truly terrible period of politics. Johnson’s appearance, the retro rebellion, the strutting, being held hostage by acronyms, the whole ridiculous circus, all of it looks dated and doomed. A weary country with more to worry about is moving on. Wednesday was the death rattle of Brexit impossibilism.” (link, paywalled)
This country is weary indeed – of the incessant ‘wars’ and ‘fights’, the hot air and propaganda our elected representatives produce, in concert with Whitehall and their ‘sources’ whispering into the ears of ‘authors’. Weary because all this hot air doesn’t address, never mind alleviate, the problems we face. These problems won’t go away because the alleged ‘Brexit wars’ are now over.
The author rejoices because the ‘adults’ Sunak and Starmer – stop laughing, you uncouth lot! – are allegedly in charge. He does however raise a spectre should Sunak’s policies fail, leaving:
“[…] a vacuum for an insurgent force by offering too little choice, on economics or reform. A fringe party may be reactivated by Nigel Farage before the general election. Or if Sunak’s policy on stopping small boats is judged a failure, Farage may run candidates in English coastal seats and complicate the election. Farage is one of the most consequential politicians in the post-Thatcher era. He so terrified the then Tory leadership that it offered and lost a referendum on leaving the EU.” (link, paywalled)
It’s Farage ante portas again, producing a shiver down the spines of all Remainers. It’s the spectre of Farage daring to ‘complicate’ the election. It’s as if Westminster cannot conceive of us plebs actually thinking for ourselves, as if we only follow ‘a leader’. And then there’s the final paragraph, meant to scare the ‘adults’:
“There is also the dreadful thought of another hung parliament at the next general election. If the polls narrow, as some flickers suggest, the next election could yet be close. An official raised the prospect with me this week: what an irony if the Tories end up as the largest party and for confidence and supply have to call for support from the disgruntled DUP. That can wait. Until then, let’s enjoy the new dispensation and the blessed end of the Brexit wars.” (link, paywalled)
Would that be because a Farage would ‘complicate’ the election? How extraordinary! in an unsurprising contrast, Allister Heath in the DT tries to give a positive spin to this vote. The headline reads more like someone trying to convince themselves and us that things aren’t as bad as they really are:
“The Brexit revolt against the Remain establishment has only just begun – A failed rebellion won’t reverse the Tory party’s inevitable shift towards anti-elite politics” (paywalled link)
What ‘revolt’? What ‘Tory Party’? Who has Mr Heath been talking with? He apparently discerns “vital forces” in yon Party into which BJ tapped and which are “bubbling as strongly as ever, desperate for a new hero to empower the disgruntled majority.” Looking at the current crop of Tory MPs I beg to differ, especially since it’s alleged that most of them hadn’t even read the NI thingie which they voted for.
Mr Heath next writes an ‘analysis’ which is straight from a socio-political lecture. He describes two camps in British politics, one being the ‘experts’, i.e. ‘adults’ who believe in their own superiority, giving them the right to ‘rule. The second camp:
“[…] believes that power flows upwards, that we should listen to and respect the values, voices and opinions of ordinary people of all ethnicities and creeds who play by the rules, work hard, love their country and seek to improve their families’ lives. The Tories must once again be the voice of this second group, or they are finished.” (paywalled link)
Does Mr Heath not see that this ‘second camp’ is done, trussed up and oven-ready? That we peasants have learned that there are no ‘leaders’ leading us into the golden future? We’ve learned instead that those we vote for forget their commitments as soon as their trotters are in the trough.
Most of us are indeed weary – weary of battering our heads against the wall of vested interests, strengthened by the self-proclaimed ‘adults’ in Whitehall and Westminster. We’re weary because we, the tax-paying plebs, are fighting for our individual survival in the face of inflation and ever higher taxes.
We’re weary because we know we’re not heard. Our letters – how quaint! – to MPs are disregarded or, at best, answered by what looks like parliamentary ChatBots. We’re weary of the continuous contempt and disdain with which the ruling classes disregard us.
Welcome in the new, ‘post-Brexit-wars’ paradise where Westminster looks more like the court at Versailles before the revolution, where some ‘intellectuals’ preach ‘revolt’ while the rest agrees with the modern-day equivalent of yon queen, asking why we can’t do as they do and go on spiffing holidays. Will the sans-culottes turn out to be the guests we’re receiving on a daily basis?
That’s all I have for today. No mugs were thrown against the wall: I can’t afford to buy new ones. Like so many of us, I’m also weary: weary of being an ‘Auntie Toldja’. Have a good day.
Quite frankly my dear, I don’t give a damnn about parties in number 10!!
PB- I bet you would if you had been fined ten grand for having a party.
On their salaries? Would they notice?
Pauline…….I care that Johnson held those parties at Number 10 Downing Street in contravention of the rules that he himself railroaded through the House of Commons without so much as a debate. I didn’t agree with the restrictions that were placed on our lives at all as they were totally unnecessary, but they were made law and he (Johnson) expected the rest of the population to comply with them. Basic common sense should have told him that he should not have tolerated those parties at Number 10 (his office and home at the time) and what’s more should not have attended them. As we now know politics and common sense do not seem to go hand in hand with each other, but seeing that he broke the rules whether he knew so or not, Johnson needs to carry the can and accept the possibilities that he might be ousted from the House of Commons as an MP. In this age of the Smartphone where any situation can be filmed and recorded did he not stop to consider that someone might actually do that. Obviously not, which brings me back to the simple fact that he is devoid of basic common sense and as such should not be allowed to have got anywhere near to the keys of Number 10.
With elections drawing near and mildly encouraging signs of activity within the centre Right challenger parties, the treachery of Steve Baker may wake up some starry eyed, closet Toriy Brexiteers to the true colours of the likes of Baker and throw their lot in with a centre Right challenger. He too, though, will be thrown to the dogs when his usefulness to the Party managers ends.
Jake, he has betrayed his principles in order to promote his political career now that he is a minister, and wants to keep on the right side of the boss. Money, power and position talks…..
Flyer- yesterday you posted about the banks. I also saw a post about banks elsewhere, saying
‘A maximum suckage event is heading our way’.
First I smiled. Then I frowned at the truth.
“Weary”. It’s such a small word, yet it conveys so much! Even enunciating the word sounds as it feels! For sure, weariness is an accurate way to describe our state of mind. Three years of constant reminders of the ways our lives have been changed beyond recognition. The slowly dawning realisation that ‘smart technology’ is intended to complete our enslavement to an authoritarian and dictatorial system that will know no mercy or cessation.
The ‘convenience’ of that same technology has lured us into the pit of sullen conformability into which the so-called ‘philanthropist pied pipers’ lured us all. Their siren song of “look how easy this is” and “it will change your life” has been successful to a degree that now is almost impossible to overturn. It is rather akin to playing the tables at the Casino and watching the house win over and over again until ‘they’ hold all the cards and all the money!
So now, here we are, scratching our heads in anger and disbelief that we have all been so ‘suckered’. Some, are giving up and ‘going with the flow’ because it is too painful to admit that they should have been more aware, more inquisitive and way more assertive in their own defence! A few, more enlightened, are turning and making a stand. Unless we are able to pull back from the brink very soon, we shall all find ourselves, just like the gamblers stumbling, shell shocked, out of the Casino scratching through our pockets and down the back of the sofa for a few pennies with which to buy a crust!
Johnson Derangement Syndrome is a variation of Brexit Derangement Syndrome. It causes the afflicted to lose all self-awareness.
The MPs in the show trial imagine themselves to be doing something very important, namely protecting the integrity of parliament. There was a time when that might have been important, but that time ended in 2017 when MPs became obsessed with overturning or frustrating Brexit. The 2017 to 2019 parliament is one of the most shameful in British history. Johnson’s relationship to cake is trivial compared to the constitutional vandalism of the NI Protocol. Governing, true governing, is too difficult for the current shower.
In the sixties in Britain, as it shed colonies, the debate was whether they were ready or capable of self-government. More than a few proved they were not. How ironic that it is now Britain showing it is not capable of self-government.
I doubt whether many people believe that there is any ‘integrity’ left in Parliament to be defended! The only way I can think of to describe it is……politicians are like our pet Guinea pig that believed that if she hid behind the merest wisp of hay, we could not see her! The electorate has been pretty ‘blind’ for a long time about the doings of ‘parliamentarians’. But the last three years has opened the eyes of many to the absolute truth that ‘democracy’ is no longer extant in Britain (or most of the Western World)!
They all turned out in 2016 to have their say on Brexit. Despite the remoaners scowls, the leavers knew they had won! The constant onslaught of the destructive forces tearing this Country apart ever since has achieved only one thing. The people now know beyond all doubt that Parliament is rotten!
Stout Yeoman at 11.15am. Yes I agree. As I understand it the NI Protocol could have been abolished by a HoC vote. The Windsor Agreement can not be because it is International Law. I agree with your final paragraph too.
As far as Nigel Farage is concerned, we have a lot to thank him for, he achieved something that seemed almost impossible, he was instrumental in getting us a referendum and some kind of Brexit. Unfortunately though, Nigel while still useful has had his day, we must thank him for what he has achieved and allow him to move on.
We’re beyond party politics now, the mainstream parties all sing to the same globalist hymn sheet and by the time any newer parties gain sufficient support and momentum, it’ll be too late, our country will be irrevocably consumed by globalisation.
We the people must take matters into our own hands. I don’t like rioting because it rarely – Pole Tax riots excluded – achieves much. What we need is a leader skilled in guerilla warfare, able to focus on strategic objectives, identify high value targets, organise and train people: Nigel is too much of an old woman in that respect.
It has been a long time since any of our politicians have represented the British people as required by a true democracy, they represent supranational globalist criminals and so they are an enemy that we are entitled to and must remove. Perhaps a dose of rope and lamposts will make them see the error of their ways. Forget reform UK or even UKIP, they are all too little, too late.
Now we know why Blair promoted the two Firearms (Amendment) Acts in 1997. The plans of the globalists go far back; probably before most of the population were born.
JT- as mentioned before – between the Wars, the govmt tried to disarm the population. Tommies (now Mohummads) knew how to shoot and did not always returns their weapons.
Second World War put a spanner in the disarmament works until after 1950. Disarmmt has been retcheted up to today.
For info – 50 lb pull compound bow is resonably priced, plus broadhead arrowheads. Good for over 100 yds.
And of course yew trees . . .
Interesting about the bow; I tried archery at university but gave it up for other interests. Virtually silent too.
– Large companies bring in hatchet-men when the they decide they need to downsize or whatever.
– Hatchet man comes in from no-where, rumour mill says 80 pct workers to be fired and two thirds of the assets sold off. No pay rise this year.
– Hatchet man sells off huge chunks of the company, but only 60 pct of the workers and only half the assets. Everyone breaths a sigh of relief it was only xx pct, and hates the hatchet man, who promptly clears off with a pocket full of money.
Company employees now fearful and impotent, get on with their reduced lives, best they can.
Now think
– Head of money printing Bank of England (with five valid passports); Prime ministers re-May-ner (who she) and rules based pathological liar JoBoy (at scamdemic death’s door – another lie). ‘And now right before your very eyes ladies and gentlemen’ – oilygark and Maharaja, our Ritchie. In the wings as a reserve we have Sainte Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke of, of . . from . . don’t prompt me . . from, er . . just outside Inverness (or who knows where?).
– And on it goes.
Rope and lamposts, flyer. Sounds like a good plan. Isn’t that how Mussolini was dealt with?
Pauline……. were you there in Milan when he was strung up? Sitting astride on your horse with Pumpkin behind with her paws around your waist.
Flyer……..talking in terms of guerilla warfare or action is dangerous talk, and one which has no place in this country. Change needs to be effected through the ballot box, and the ballot box only. And no ifs or buts. Nigel Farage has indeed moved on and is more interested in promoting his media career despite the phoney nonsense he came out with the other day at the so called ‘Big Announcement’ on Monday with Reform aaaaaauk. This big announcement by Farage and the inept Richard Tice was delivered to a room of empty seats, and went unreported in the national newspapers, BBC, ITV and even GB News. The impact was that of a feather falling to the ground. Since I rejoined UKIP on Monday largely out of disgust of what Farage and Tice came out with at that meeting, I have received three updates on various matters from UKIP head office. That is 100% more updates than I received the whole time I was a member of The Brexit Party and a Constituency Campaign Organiser. I agree with you insofar as Reform UK is concerned they should be forgotten as they are nothing short of a damp squib. However, this is the time that UKIP, the original party of Brexit should reassert itself and become the main right of centre challenger and ultimate replacement to the soon to be defunct Conservative Party.
“Flyer……..talking in terms of guerilla warfare or action is dangerous talk, and one which has no place in this country.”
That was all well and good when we had a country and I would have agreed. We won’t get out country back via the ballot box, it is a rigged game. Guerilla warfare was something associated with third world countries; well we’ve become a third world country and we’re still in rapid decline.
Good luck with your politics, I suppose somebody has to do it.
Flyer and Colin H: I sort of agree with both of you. As things stand here it is probably too late to remedy things through the ballot box.
But miracles do happen and there is a small chance that after a few very very very nasty years the globalists could be routed, and in that event we don’t want the same rotten old parties taking over again. Those trying to keep challenger parties going against all the odds, in case they have to pick up the pieces one day, have very stout hearts and deserve credit for that.
In Holland however there is a chance that the Dutch Farmers party could win on Sunday which would make a huge difference. What will probably scupper this is the large proportion of voters with their heads in the sand who will probably return slimeball Rutte to power, plus probably the “imported” vote.
Plus this: below is a you tube 45 minutes; if like me you’re suffering from video fatigue you would prefer a short paragraph summarising it. In short the main lessons that need to be learnt are that in dealing with criminals like our governments and their string pullers, you don’t negotiate or ask nicely for their permission. You just seize the rights that are yours.This could apply to Dutch tractors wanting to descend on the Hague on Sunday, or us flouting their rules and regulations, or in future when the Govt bans cash, to use it anyway.
Flyer………I think you’ve told us several times that you don’t live here in the UK and live in France maybe or New Zealand. So how does the Sunak inspired muppetry over the NI protocol affect you? If you live in France are you involved in the present insurrection there? Talk of civil uprisings and guerilla warfare is silly talk. As much as I despise our political situation at the moment and the fact that the Conservatives have not delivered the Brexit we voted for in 2016 in any meaningful way and have done their level best to hijack the biggest democratic vote there has ever been, action through the ballot box is the only way to resolve it. The apathetic attitude of people of this country deserve the shower of shyte which passes for a government at the moment. And this shower of shyte are on the last legs and will be annihilated at the local elections in May and at the next general election. I have heard rumblings from some supposed Conservatives that should the Conservatives lose 900 plus council seats in May, Sunak will face a vote of no confidence. I reckon that is odds on to occur. So maybe we will go into the next general election with yet another new prime minister…….
Almost 95% of MPs are traitors! Our future is not looking good and probably worse if Labour were to take over at the next GE. I’d like to see a military coup but our military has been trashed; perhaps for that very reason.
Not just the military, every pillar of our society has been trashed; infiltrated, captured neutered by the Left using wokism and lying so large and so often people cannot disbelieve it.
The Royal Family mostly trashed itself, from mad Green King Charles down.
The Church enfeebled and irrelevant through woke diversity and equity insanity.
The Police misdirected into policing the people instead of crime.
The Civil Service, saboteurs of the state, ready to pounce and stifle, if by accident a rare conservative policy arises.
The Judiciary captured by Remoaners.
Our Armed forces reduced, hollowed out and lead by people putting political correctness above operational efficiency.
Our Culture suppressed or obliterated in the name of diversity and equity.
Parliament irrelevant. After 45 years of EU rule they forgot how to do it. And now there is only one party and it takes its orders from the WEF and Billionaires with deep pockets.
The Media utterly captured and corrupted (see Parliament.)
The people have become supine and the irony is the Left uses the law to codify their own opinions, prejudices and agendas into state requirements for all, and the Not-The-Conservatives go along with it.
Ed Miliband’s 2008 Climate Change Act; Harman’s 2010 Equalities Act; Theresa May’s 2021 Net Zero amendment to the Milband Act, despite not having the legally required information on how carbon budgets would be met, and all based on agenda-driven junk science.
Once passed these are apparently sacrosanct, immutable, however obvious it becomes that they are malign. We must meet net zero targets (unscientific nonsense) whatever the financial and social costs; pointing out universal truths can now be hate speech; because, well, because it’s the law. Well grow a spine and change the f***ing law!! (Excuse my French.) They can do it fast enough when they want to further restrict our freedoms.
Very well put.
Here here Phil O.
Finally picking up a nearly new car after travelling to Enfield from deepest darkest Wales, to get what we need. It’s another world and don’t get me started about the M25 madness. Hopefully normal service will soon be resumed.
Today’s diatribe is a masterclass Viv.
Jack….and those that are not traitors, just waffle on rather than perhaps doing something like defecting to another party more in line with their of thinking. Jacob Rees-Mogg is an example. He is not a traitor but will stick by the Conservative Party and mainly support their other not so good policies and beat around the bush forever and a day because that is where his long term political career lies. A few years back I might have said that he should have defected to the UK Independence Party along with Douglas Carswell and Mark Reckless, especially since he was the only MP who used to come out of the House of Commons and speak to those UKIP activists who were engaged in protests outside Parliament. Then I thought maybe he would defect to The Brexit Party, but now that it is Reform UK and led by Richard Tice who is about as effective as leader is about as effective as a chocolate teapot, who leads a party that has no local party infrastructure to support any candidate standing for them as an election candidate. That now is obviously out of the question, but perhaps it wouldn’t have been had Farage taken over the reigns of leadership which will not happen now. Perhaps Rees-Mogg should start a party of his own because he is after all a multi millionaire and has the necessary financial clout to do this, and if he did this some other principled Conservative MP’s might join him in that venture.
Referring back to previous article, your smartphone IS listening in.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11892567/Cybersecurity-specialists-say-microphones-constantly-picking-clues-someone.html
We certainly DO need Farage or someone like him to “complicate” the next general election. What a bunch of traitors are running the country.
HA……oh yeah, and how do you think he is go about doing that? From talking from behind a microphone in a warm and comfortable GB news studio? I don’t think so. By going to places like Newcastle as he was this evening with his ‘Farage at Large’ programme and interviewing the likes of non entities like Scotty T of Geordie Shore, a reality tv show? Again I don’t think so. And judging by the looks of the faces of those sitting behind in the meagre audience who were probably thinking something along the lines of ‘boring’ like I was listening to the utter tripe, he is no longer interested in serious politics at the sharp end, that is all to plain to see. Its the Daily Star of the airwaves. As somebody has said today on this site already, Farage has had his day and we need somebody else to take up the mantle. And Reform UK is not the answer to our woes either. That is abundantly clear…