The modern-day Stable of Augias
There was one news item late yesterday afternoon which had me crowing with delight. It was an ‘exclusive’ in the DT. For some strange reason it’s not been picked up elsewhere in the Westminster MSM. Patience – more on this below. It demonstrates nicely my constant reminder that the mandarins run this ‘show’, not the elected government.
Firstly, the horse ‘Partygate’ seems to have been flogged to near-death by the MSM which are now focussing on Sunak and ‘energy costs’. Given the horrendously lax attitude the Treasury mandarins have shown regarding the institutionalised fraudulent waste of our money, for example in regard to the whole covid~NHS~Lockdown ‘performance’, this is not encouraging at all.
It also makes one seriously wonder if these mandarins do understand economics as well as their alleged political neutrality. It’s socialist redistributing on the one hand while at the same time letting Big Energy get away with murder.
Sunak, we’re told, will propose ‘a cut in council tax’ for the poorest, i.e. all who live in the tax bands of A – C. In other words, he’ll have to shell out more of our money to local councils to make up for this rebate: that’s redistribution. Worse, he’ll ‘unveil’ a plan which looks like a bribe before the local elections in May:
“The chancellor is also expected to confirm plans for billions of pounds in state-backed loans to give all households a one-off discount of £200 on their energy bills in April. The “rebate and clawback” scheme will mean taxpayers underwriting loans to energy providers. The companies will pass the money on to households in the form of a rebate on bills, limiting the impact of price rises. They will recoup the money from consumers in subsequent years to pay back the loans as energy prices fall.” (link, paywalled)
If this isn’t a perfect example of making oneself look good at this particular moment! As if we poor eejits don’t understand that we’ll have to pay it back later anyway. Treasury mandarins and bankers like Sunak understand balance sheets very well and are great at shuffling fabulous sums around their always patient papers or computer screens. They are well cushioned from the actual impacts their games have on ordinary lives and it’s not just those living in houses in bands A – C who will have to bear them.
If the Whitehall mandarins believe bribing us with our own money will endear Sunak to us peasants, that we’ll hail him as potential Johnson replacement, then they better think again. A Macron he isn’t, even while yon wannabe Napoleon has taken a leaf out of Sunak’s and the Treasury’s books when he pledged to ‘Teh Poor’ in Normandy
“[…] a €200 million budget to renovate homes, roads and other infrastructure in run-down former mining communities, adding that the funds would be topped up whenever needed, with no apparent ceiling on the amount he was prepared to spend.” (link, paywalled)
Oh yes – he’ll also ‘curb’ illegal immigration by strengthening the EU borders … is that why he’s letting them all cross the Channel in their dinghies? Furthermore he’ll chat with Putin again to find a way out. This is in stark contrast to Johnson who told Putin that Ukraine ‘has a right to join NATO’ and that Putin’s troops should ‘go home’ (paywalled link). Well, they are ‘home’, aren’t they, or is Russia not their home? Which of his many SpAds advised him? Since Johnson called Putin from No 10 – did his wifey give him the script? I ask because The Times tells us that:
“Johnson is struggling to implement a planned shake-up of his Downing Street operation, amid concerns among civil servants about his character and long-term survival prospects. Senior Whitehall sources said permanent secretaries were reluctant to put themselves forward for the “poisoned chalice” of a new role heading up the Office of the Prime Minister.” (link, paywalled)
It looks as if our fabulous mandarins care more about their own careers than doing their duty, to help the elected ministers and PM to run the government for this country. It’s almost as if they were surreptitiously trying to force Johnson out. Given the ‘advice’ the Treasury mandarins seem to have given Sunak, one might even think that Whitehall mandarins are socialists at heart, hoping for and working towards ‘regime change’. Don’t forget the many briefings from ‘Whitehall sources’ on which our Westminster MSM thrive!
And so to the one news item which delighted me so much yesterday evening. Sorry, it’s to do with ‘Partygate’ but it is hugely significant. You recall that head of the civil service under Ms May, the one who was instrumental in nearly scuppering Brexit, yon Martin Sedwill, don’t you. He stayed in his post until the end of June 2020, thus being the top Mandarin under whose supervision some of those parties took place. The DT reports in their ‘exclusive’:
“Lord Sedwill, the former Cabinet Secretary and National Security Adviser, was one of several senior officials to attend a gathering to mark the departure of a Downing Street private secretary on June 18, 2020. The gathering – described by one source as “raucous” – was attended by 20 people, who drank wine and celebrated in the Cabinet Office. At the time, indoor social gatherings were forbidden under lockdown laws. A relaxation of the regulations permitted gatherings of up to six to take place outside. Lord Sedwill, 57, is said to have “briefly attended” and sanctioned the event, with Whitehall insiders suggesting he had worked closely with the official, whose brief in Number 10 included security issues.” (paywalled link)
Ah – so the then mandarin of mandarins saw nothing wrong in permitting this ‘event’ to go ahead! His successor, Mr Simon Chase, attended a ‘Christmas Quiz in his office in 2020 and excused himself from investigating the whole mess. The DT observes that “both the former and current heads of the civil service under Mr Johnson have been placed at gatherings alleged to have broken Covid rules.” and that both declined to comment (paywalled link). This allows me to conclude: the two mandarins of mandarins thought that the lockdown rules clearly needn’t apply to themselves and the oh-so hardworking SpAds.
Nothing could demonstrate more clearly the culture of disdain for us, their employers, pervading Whitehall. Not just the usual suspects of the wannabe Westminster ‘elites’ but the mandarins themselves think they’re above the rules which we plebs must obey. This also makes me wonder how many other rule-breaking ‘parties’ were held in the Whitehall offices during that time. It makes me wonder how deep and detrimental the connections between those top civil serpents and the Westminster hack pack are. I for one have not forgotten their Remain ideology, the way they’ve been working against our explicit will for Leave, ever since our vote in 2016.
It makes me wonder if this Whitehall Remain swamp and its critters aren’t also working hard to get the ‘Rejoin’ Party back into government. Chances are that, as long as Johnson toes their line, as long as Sunak institutes socialist policies, they’ll surreptitiously nudge us back further and further into BRINO. ‘Net Zero’ is another of their wet dreams which they’ve successfully sold to Johnson and especially to his wifey.
The question Mrs Thatcher asked these many decades ago: “who governs this country?” applies today as well. The answer though isn’t ‘the trade unions’, it’s: ‘unelected Whitehall Mandarins’. I suggest that this Augias Stable needs cleaning out as much as No 10 and their ‘Partygate Culture’ – an urgent task for a Tory successor to the current PM.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but there appears to be a piece missing from this quite comprehensive analysis of the Covid debacle, in that nothing has been said of what I consider to be one of the main objections.
I understand under some ruling, perhaps the Nuremburg Rules that new medicines may not be introduced while remedies exist.
Why is there no reference to Ivermectin or Hydrochloroquine and Zinc.
Furthermore I understand that this rule is transgressed at pain of prosecution.
Are we in danger of forgetting something major?
From what I recall Roger, just before the covid lockdowns, the disease was downgraded to one of no significant concern and because of that, the existing medications could be dismissed as unnecessary, or something like that, before it was then announced that there was in fact a major issue after all and it was announced that it would be “three weeks to flatten the curve”. It was then announced that all these wonderful drug companies were rushing to get their jabs (they are not vaccinations) ready for use. I don’t remember all the details now although there is an article somewhere about this (I may have it stored) and it was because of this slight of hand that the anti-viral drugs that did work for most people were banned. Of course, they would have made no money out of treating people for pennies as as happened in India.
Saw this post today in TCW. Well worth circulating.
Here’s some truth for you:
1. 99%+ of the UK population will not die from Covid. Some of them may die ‘with Covid’, in other words they will die of natural causes, getting old, a freak accident, ODing on drugs, succumbing to chronic illnesses etc etc.
2. Of the small percentage of the UK population who get very ill with Covid19, the majority can be treated very successfully with off-patent, very cheap drugs with 50 years of safety data.
3. Of the minority of sick patients who can’t be treated with long-standing medical drugs, most have several comorbidities like serious heart disease, type II diabetes, serious obesity etc etc. These are the people the whole UK economy was ‘shut down for’. I leave you to decide whether that makes economic sense, moral sense etc.
4. The ‘wonder vaccines’ are the least tested medicines allowed to be used on huge populations in the history of modern medicine. They were not properly trialled, the endpoints used in the minimal clinical trials were entirely inappropriate and no useful clinical decisions could be reached as a result of them. They were pressed into ’emergency use authorisation’ for mass clinical trial testing and the truth as to the risks involved were not explained to the public. Millions of people have been vaccinated without proper informed consent having been given.
5. After a year of mass clinical trials without appropriate placebo controls, the data is absolutely clear that the risks of serious illness/death for the U35s through vaccination outstrip the risks of serious illness/death due to Covid19. The Government has therefore taken hugely inappropriate decisions in pressurising the young and healthy to become vaccinated. It should be a lifetime imprisonment offence for any Pfizer/Moderna/AZ/J&J executive or any lobbyists/lawyers acting on their behalf to be pressing for vaccination of young children.
6. The Government has been fiscally irresponsible and even criminal the past 24 months during its corrupt response to Covid19. It has issued billions of pounds worth of ‘contracts’ to friends and cronies to ‘supply PPE’ and other such nonsense, carrying out zero due diligence on the competence, honesty nor deliverability of the executives and promises made. It has then wasted billions on ‘lockdown payments’ to businesses wrongly told to shut down, much of which will never be repaid due to fraud, criminality and generalised spending on the forcibly euthanased small businesses of the country.
7. The entire heist of the economy the past 24 months has allowed digital businesses free rein to steal market share and Amazon is the biggest single beneficiary. It should therefore be paying huge amounts of taxes to say thank you to the Government for destroying huge swathes of its competition. The future operations of Amazon should be entirely dependent upon it paying suitable levels of tax. No journalist at the DT or any other MSM journal is morally capable of delineating what a suitable level might be, since they are also corrupt, bought prostitutes who sing for their supper.
8. The NHS now has an enormous backlog of treatments for ‘normal diseases’ due to the shut down of the entire NHS for 24 months for non-urgent, non-Covid cases. The private sector is gagging for them to take over from the NHS, having done nothing to deserve such actions. There is a very real likelihood that the US gangsters will impose US-style healthcare on the UK and that should lead to civil disorder, up to and including the murder of executives of US HMO businesses trying to introduce the mafia criminality so endemic throughout US healthcare. There should be a 0.0% chance of US-style healthcare ever coming to this country as it represents worst practice in allocation of funds and is quite simply organised crime. People are going to die in the UK due to lack of previous treatment and it is entirely the responsibility of Matthew Hancock, Sajiv Javid and Boris Johnson that that is going to occur. They made their choices, wrong and corrupt ones, and the consequences must land on their doorsteps.
9. Natural Immunity is proving to be more effective long-term protection than repeated vaccination. You won’t hear the WHO, Bill Gates nor other corrupt grifters telling you that, but proper clinical trials tell us that that is true. It’s not 100%, nature never is, but the improved protection for most following natural infection is impressive and longer-lasting than the vaccine protection. We will prioritise the young and healthy gaining immunity naturally, as it is cheaper, more effective.
10. To promote more widespread immune health, gut health, which are key factors in ensuring strong resistance to most diseases (and help save money spent on the health service), we will promote healthy eating, healthy lifestyles, healthy sleep patterns and healthy relationships. We can’t force anyone to be healthy, what we can do is ensure that no-one will be forced to be unhealthy through ignorance. Daily intake of fresh vegetables and fruit can be ensured through everyone having 200ml of fresh soup made from fresh vegetables every day. It’s easy to prepare, highly tasty and, particularly for the elderly, ensures a steady flow of healthy nutrients into people’s bodies. No more Coca-Cola, no more hamburgers, plenty of fresh, healthy food. US Corporations will be specifically banned from making money that way, as they have spent 40 years destroying the health of the nation.
11. All the climate change guff is precisely that: guff. The computer models are all Playstation 4 stuff, which is why there are so many of them. None of them agree with each other, which means that the $100bn spent the past 30 years on modellers has been a complete waste of money. Extreme weather events are NOT increasing in frequency, despite the liar Attenborough claiming otherwise. What has increased in frequency is the hysterical reporting of them by the MSM, the internet and other rogue actors.
12. We can’t ‘control climate’, nor will ‘reducing carbon dioxide’ have any significant impact on our weather and climate. The earth warms and cools in cycles, some of the cycles being on the 400-500 year timescale. We can do absolutely nothing to prevent such natural changes occurring. Carbon dioxide will be released from the ground each time such natural warming occurs, as will methane. The carbon dioxide released will cause many plants and algae to grow quicker, which acts as nature’s natural feedback loop. The earth has greened the past 40 years – we know that because the satellite images the past 40 years prove it. So don’t let Bill Gates or any other scammer tell you otherwise.
13. There is a real danger that Bill Gates et al will try and take global control of seed stocks. There is nothing more dangerous on earth than entrusting all life on earth to a megalomaniacal psychopath like Gates. Seeds must be stored locally, local diversity must be maintained and it is our responsibility as a nation to preserve seeds from all the varieties of plants that we know grow well here. We should enshrine in our constitution our duty to do this and never, but never, should be ever outsource such work to foreigners. They don’t live here, so they don’t get a say so. End of discussion.
14. The internet is now 100 times worse as an educational resource than it was in 2005. That is entirely due to the prostitution of search engines and, as a result, we will develop a UK-centric search engine, to be distributed to all computer users and public computing facilities, allowing searches to made based on usefulness not on the bribes paid to get to the top of the listings. No longer should we be subject to the whims of Google et al and I certainly don’t want the top 100 listings to link to MSM prostitution.
No push yet but I check in three or four times a day anyway.
Excellent Lisa.
With respect to “The Government has therefore taken hugely inappropriate decisions in pressurising the young and healthy” assumes that government is on our side instead of that of the globalists in the UN and elsewhere who want to kill most of us!
Then there is the green crappery and more…
Michael Gove…….my heart sinks whenever I hear that name. Talks a lot of fine words, fancies himself in high office lording it over the rest of us, revels in ever more beurocracy (wrong spelling I know), enjoying loads of photo opportunities, eating grand dinners and supping expensive wines at the taxpayers expense, but delivers very little apart from that is, a lot of hot air. I am wholly unimpressed with this twerp, and sincerely hope that he never gets his hands on the keys to Number 10
I couldn’t get one on my iPad yesterday, but could when I moved to my steam driven lap top,
But back to my iPad this morning —” no RINGA de bell ”
Will try my lap top later
I just have to do a bit of boasting! Way back in January 1963 I spent six weeks working at The Foreign Office in Downing Street, learning the ropes before they sent me out to Saigon, Vietnam, to work as a typist in the British Embassy there. Every day I would leave Westminster Tube station, walk up Whitehall and then, with a lump of pride in my throat, turned into Downing Street. And, guess what? At that time there were no barriers at the entrance to the road and just ordinary people were walking up and down it as they went to work in one direction or the other. What is more, there was just ONE policeman at the door of No.10.
Those were the days!
Sonya………….anyone could venture up Downing Street and walk past the prime ministerial home and office of past greats like Stanley Baldwin, Sir. Winston Churchill and dare I say it, Harold Wilson, James Callaghan Margaret Thatcher right up until the late 1980’s when the whole place became out of bounds. However, who in their right mind would want to stand in front of Number 10 and marvel at the very shiny black door and home of the present incumbent, even if they were able to. The office of Prime Minister has sunk that low these days. Great, he is most certainly not, although he did get us out of the European Union. However as we know the real person who made this happen was Nigel Farage who was pulling Johnson’s strings.
… yet we still have the NI mess to sort out.
I can “leave a reply” today but couldn’t last night.
I can’t see that replacing Johnson would improve anything, appalling globalist though he is, unless he were replaced by someonewho would stand up to the mandarins and their globalist string pullers, stop dangerous provocation of Putin and restore civil liberties etc etc. I just cant see that happening given Party machinery…
I urge everyone to join in a Consultation re the proposed Bill of Rights. The link below and the Consultation questions make it seem very complicated but the basic issue is that we have God-given inalienable rights under natural law, under the English common law that worked for centuries where we were free to do anything we wanted unless it were specifically prohibited. A Bill of Rights where we have NO rights except those granted by Government , which can be withdrawn at will, would be a big step down the totalitarian path. Government could grant or refuse our basic rights, and enforce any abomination such as mandatory jabbing “for the greater good”.
I didn’t try to answer each question, left them blank, but said all this at the end. I added, if they really cared about human rights why don’t they repeal the appalling Covid legislation for a start and also address the abomination of arbitrary arrest under the EU Arrest Warrant. Hopefully that got my views across.
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/human-rights-act-reform-a-modern-bill-of-rights/human-rights-act-reform-a-modern-bill-of-rights-consultation
M ‘I can’t see that replacing Johnson would improve anything…….” You are right! Doesn’t matter who leads the Tories they will not deliver conservatism, they will not, level up, they will not stop zero carbon, they will not halt mass immigration etc. You have been sold a pup I am afraid. All establishment parties are committed to delivering a global NGO agenda as are the Whitehall mandarins. Only the collapse of support for the Tory party can offer a flicker of hope for the revival of conservatism.
Jake……..I agree with the point you’re making, but who, and what party will supply truue conservatism. I am forever hopeful that Farage is on the brink of announcing that he is embarking upon a return to frontline politics, but it seems at the moment he prefers life behind a microphone in a nice warm studio, so talk of a possible return to frontline politics, is er….just talk for the benefit of those like me who have been urging him to return. The amount of times I have read comments on his Facebook and You Tube pages from people asking him to stand as Prime Minister is just unbelievable. Surely there aren’t people out there who think one can become prime minister without first being elected as leader of a political party, then elected to parliament as an MP, and then be the leader of the biggest party in parliament. He needs to start the ball rolling though and get involved with a party at the very highest level, namely as leader Setting aside Farage, I just cannot see anybody else or any other party of the centre right cutting through in any meaningful way. In the meantime we are lumbered with the likes of Johnson and Gove………all very depressing.
Colin If, as Viv says, we accept that the country is run by mandarins it doesn’t matter who is in power. The anxiety many small ‘c’ conservatives have in abandoing the Tory party is that they fear allowing Labour to gain power if they support a challenger centre Right party. Conservatives must rise above this fear and take a longer term view by throwing their lot behind a centre Right challenger party and making it work.
I am as grateful as the next Brexiteer for Farage leading UKIP and getting us the referendum but he blew it for me when, immediately after the referendum, he naively proclaimed ‘my job is done’ leading to the collapse of UKIP and thus no-one to hold the Tories toes to the fire. This led to four years of Tory Brexit fudge and parliamentary deadlock . Secondly, he stood his candidates down in Tory constituencies 2019 demonstrating once again he is not serious about creating a challenger party of the centre Right.
‘Mandarin(s) is a silly name for senior Civil Servants. They do not run the country, but are nevertheless the administrators They don’t form government policy, but they do put into practice the will of their political masters. I don’t buy into this argument that they somehow dictate government policy. However, they are slow to act, just like their masters, the ministers are. I mean, a point in question is this levelling up crap that Johnson and Gove continually spout on about. They were elected in 2019 on the basis of getting things done, and they have been talking about levelling up for two long years, and have only produced the ruddy 400 page report as a consequence of Johnson’s problems. I think I read somewhere before the controversy of Johnsons party antics broke in the newspapers, that the levelling up plans had been shelved for a couple of years. As Gove has now produced this five part opera in double quick time and no doubt burnt the midnight oil to ensure it got typed up, we learn that it wont be implemented until 2030, by which time neither Johnson and Gove wont be anywhere near the corridors of power. Nobody can tell me that was down to senior Civil Servants, sorry Mandarins……..
Thanks for the information M. Will take a look.
Exactly. We have every right to do as we please unless expressly prohibited by law, or where coming up against another sovereign individual’s freedom. Continental law says you have no rights except those granted by the state.
With cynical irony they claim we are now free to diverge from the EU, ECHR notwithstanding, whilst ensuring we enshrine the opposite.
In the Foreword to the consultation on the Reform document, Raab writes, with a straight face:
“The task of nurturing the UK’s tradition of liberty and rights is never finished.” Misinformation.
It should read: “The task of NEUTERING the UK’s tradition of liberty and rights is never finished.”
We see examples everyday.
The most pernicious bit of nurturing is that it slips in a derogation overriding the inalienable, God-given right of bodily autonomy – which is still international ethical convenant – for the good of the many (who defines ‘good’?) No wonder Javid backed-off; he just needs to await a bit and he’ll be able to mandate jabs for all with no fear of legal challenge; or so he thinks. They have been planning this for decades so a few months more will not bother them.
I have said this before: The Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and Derogation Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1984 were expressly written to clarify and forestall just such malignancy. And they will still apply.
Article D. Non-Derogable Rights, para. 58, spells out natural inalienable rights, and that those rights:
“even in time of emergency threatening the life of the nation … [cannot be derogated] from the Covenant’s guarantees of the right to life; freedom from … medical or scientific experimentation without consent.
“These rights are not derogable under any conditions even for the asserted purpose of preserving the life of the nation.”
Note that: “even for the asserted purpose”. The asserted purpose: writers foresaw malign intent. So whether good intentioned or malign, there are no circumstances however dire under which this is permissible.
Partygate! For me Partygate shows that the civil service needs to be made more responsible for its decisions. Why should the Prime Minister be responsible for all of the mistakes made by the civil service. I would like to see senior civil servants sacked for giving bad advice to the Prime Minister. I am primarily thinking of the Northern Ireland Agreement.
The present Prime Minister seems to be blamed for everything that goes wrong in the country. I will ignore “rounding up” as it will cost too much money to implement. Which earlier Prime Ministers have had a parliament that obstructed the PM and also ignored the wishes of the voter. Those MPs have double standards, Parliament, without the approval of the electorate voted to hand over British Sovereignty to a third party and the obstructing MPs voted to make it difficult for the UK to leave that third party organisation.
M Gove wants counties to have Mayors who can then be responsible for public transport! It would be much better spending money to enable local government to be local to the people that it should be serving. I have worked in an organisation that re-organised into bigger units. The company might have saved money. The savings, if any, were at a cost to the public it served.
One levelling decision could be to keep Accident and Emergency Hospitals open. I can remember having to collect my step daughter from a hospital 30 miles away. Covid restrictions had just started. It was either a car journey or a journey involving 2 bus and a train or a journey involving 4 buses to get to the hospital. I would also have to take a wheelchair.
Obviously the car was the first choice. At the hospital where could you park, how long would you need to park. I had to use a wheelchair to move my step daughter from the ward to the car.
I would like the existing bus service of one bus per hour to be replaced by one bus every half hour. The cost of providing this does not bear thinking about. The local hospital is on this route! The way that new housing estates are laid out does not help the routing of buses.
Recapping. Stop closing A&Es. Make remote local government local government. Make the civil service less political and ensure that out of hours perks are taxed.
A fish rots from the head down!
Who’s Stotu Yeoman? In the DT today, the government have finally admitted the cost of migrants. There are currently 37,000 in hotels costing £1.2 million a day (!) of our money. This is said to be caused by a shortage of local authority housing. No shit Sherlock. The figure of £1.2m is an average cost of £33 a day. Pull the other one.
My ‘push notification’ worked this morning which fact I announce to encourage others who were affected yesterday by its absence. Other Firefox users should use a different browser to see the invitation as the push is subsequently independent of a browser, and even whether one is open. One quirk though is that after using Safari to subscribe to the push, and returning to Firefox, I got a notification this morning which when I clicked on ‘show’ fired up both browsers! Not a problem in that closing one is a simple click thouhg Viv is worth reading twice of course.
Thanks – and as you show, nobody is perfect: not modern technology nor ‘read twice’ Viv!
😉
Tried using Chrome yesterday and today and still no ‘push’ button. Is it just me?
I must say, Butties, that I didn’t get a ‘push’ today, although I got one yesterday. Still teething troubles, I guess.
Debbie………teetjhing problems…anyone thought about taking it to the dentist, that is if you can get an appointment!!!