Summer, sand and sea – that’s a killer, according to the MSM!

 

Let’s start with the good news: there’ll be no TV ‘debate’ of the remaining Johnson replacement candidates tonight. There’s still that heatwave though. The MSM are desperate to keep the ‘omigawd, we’re all dying’ narrative going. It’s so hard to acknowledge that one’s been crying wolf again when there wasn’t one. More on that below. 

And so to the good news: Sunak and Truss pulled out of today’s SKY TV ‘show’. Littlejohn writes for the DM:

“Tonight’s televised Tory leadership debate has been called off after two of the candidates belatedly came to their senses. Scarred by twin horror shows on Channel 4 and ITV, Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss thought better of it and told Sky: thanks, but no thanks. […] Sunak and Truss opted for damage limitation and pulled out of the Sky debate yesterday. It’s the best decision either of them has made for weeks.” (link)

Ouch. Littlejohn is correct – read the whole thing. Also,  one wonders who actually set up these Kabuki Theatre shows: Tory head office? The TV bosses themselves? We’ll never know, sadly. Being a cynical old crone, I think Truss and Sunak pulled out because their campaign managers saw that they weren’t doing so well in those debates. Ms M apparently doesn’t care anyway. Also – this could be the latest ploy to derail Ms Badenoch who did rather well … rob her of another opportunity to shine. surely not!

There was the latest cull yesterday where Tugendhat was knocked out. The list now is Sunak (115 votes); Mordaunt (82); Truss (71); Badenoch (58) and Tugendhat, out with 31 votes. While Sunak is still tops, Mordaunt lost votes but both she and La Truss are now actively campaigning, all en coulisse, to get Ms B out of the race, to drag her allies over into her camp. Ms B is now ‘crowned’ as ‘kingmaker’ who could decide which one will be one of the Sunak rivals. The DT (paywalled link) and the DM (link) both speculate that Ms B could become the kingmaker, deciding which of the other two female would face Sunak if she gets knocked out today, by telling her supporters whom to vote for. 

It would be funny if it weren’t so serious: the MSM and faceless Tory grandees pulling strings to get a candidate standing against Sunak, and never mind what the Tory membership wants, never mind what so many of the voting public thinks. We’re told that Ms T and M are calling for ‘unity of the conservatives’, i.e. ‘don’t rock our campaign boats’. Another question is: will all the ‘no Rishi’ MPs have the courage of voting for Ms B, reflecting the wishes of their constituents – or if they are going for BAU, business as usual, cowardly bowing to the ‘experts’ who run polls or who promise a juicy job in a Mordaunt or Truss cabinet. Does it occur to any of them that this blatant bartering disgusts the voters? That the despised peasants may vote for a courageously elected conservative? We’ll have to see how today’s ballot ends.

And so to the ‘killer heatwave’. The print front pages show nicely how that story is crumbling. On Sunday and yesterday morning we were warned, with scare pictures, about temperatures climbing into the 40ºC. Turns out that the ‘hottest place’ was … somewhere in Sussex  with 38.1ºC. Now that is hot but it’s not the ‘killer temperature’ we were warned of. It’s no wonder then that the news editors haven’t turned this into a screaming headline.

However, we’re told that today will be ‘even hotter’ and we will see 41ºC. I’m sure we will – perhaps some plane can be parked next to the measuring device at Heathrow, engines running. To make quite certain that we’ll get the message, the ‘i’ this morning shouts “Earth sends a warning”, displaying that scare image of England covered in deep ‘heat’ red which the Mirror had already displayed, with a lone 41ºC figure placed somewhere in the middle. The rest go with a photo of a guardsman, scarlet coat and bearskin in place, being given water to drink. No, there’s no picture of a fainting one – the MSM would certainly have gone with that! 

Online we get more of the same dire warnings. Doubling down on their – already failed -predictions, some even warn that today there’ll be 43ºC … somewhere. Here’s the ominous headline in the DM:

“Heatwave to peak on Tropic-hell Tuesday with 43C predicted – forcing hospitals to cancel operations, threatening power cuts and bringing more travel chaos after UK sweated through ‘warmest night on record’” (link)

So where are the photos of ‘melted runways’ and ‘buckled railway lines’? Surely, in the days of smartphones, someone must have seen something and taken pictures, no? Instead the Met Office and NHS authorities are pushing this to a new extreme:

“Britain is expected to experience 40C heat for the first time on Tuesday, with some estimates suggesting temperatures could be as high as 43C. Ambulance services were braced for a busy night on Monday, with temperatures forecast to remain above 20C in a rare “tropical night” that can be deadly for the elderly and vulnerable.” (paywalled link)

Note that every time the government and MSM want to scare us, they wheel out the ‘elderly’. Next, here’s our caring Sacred Cow playing nanny:

“A&E departments across the country are overwhelmed and reaching full capacity due to ambulance trusts experiencing a surge in the number of emergency calls amid the soaring temperatures. Health bosses are now urging Britons to ‘regularly put on suncream’ to ease the pressure on the NHS and decrease heat-related illness admissions unless it is an emergency.” (link)

Yes, dear friends – sunscreen is the way forward to ‘save the NHS’! I hope ‘the elderly’ in their flats ate plastering this onto themselves, never mind that they’re not going out because they’ve been told to stay indoors … It’s as if no British person has ever heard of this device! One wonders how the A&E departments in holiday resorts around the Mediterranean are coping with Brits dropping like flies in such temperatures. To make quite sure that we’re on track to regulate our lives according to the needs of the NHS, see this:

“Miriam Deakin, interim deputy chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents trusts, said: ‘Hot weather spells intensify pressure on the NHS, […] ‘The NHS estate is not built to cope with extreme weather.” (link)

Far be it from me to ask if the ‘NHS estate’ is built to cope with anything! Here’s another example of how the MSM are pushing their ‘heat narrative’. The DT writes that “At least four people died over the weekend while bathing in open water, prompting police to issue warnings against swimming in lakes and rivers.” (paywalled link). Hang on though: we didn’t have the ‘killer heat’ at the weekend, did we! Sad as these deaths are, aren’t there always people dying because they get into lakes and rivers, ignorant of the dangers even for good swimmers?

Meanwhile, Met Office weather experts provide the ‘excuse’ for the MSM to keep spinning this story:

“While the weather is expected to cool significantly from Wednesday, meteorologists said the heatwave – which triggered the country’s first red extreme heat warning – could return later in the summer, brought by hot air from the Sahara desert.” (paywalled link)

Yes, well, it’s summer, innit, and we do get hot air from the Sahara, sometimes even with sand being deposited on parked cars. Such events have clearly been forgotten even by the Met Office meteorologists. I wonder if they never talk to ‘older people’, but what is experience worth when there are ‘models’:

“Luke Miall, Met Office meteorologist, said: “I’ve been a qualified meteorologist for ten years, and telling people about 41C in the UK doesn’t seem real. It’s crazy how we are talking about these sorts of values, I’ve never seen the models coming up with these values.” (link, paywalled)

This is the whole ‘killer heatwave extreme blah blah’ narrative in a nutshell: there are models and anything which happened before that Met Office male qualified has simply never occurred. The previous heat waves in this millennium – I recall at least two significant ones – are just anecdotal. What counts are the latest models, especially when they support the ‘climate emergency’ tale giving us Net Zero. 

Just as with covid we see how the unholy alliance of ‘experts’ using models supports the unholy policies of government, from lockdown to Net Zero. Is it too much to hope that people will start recognising that the reality they experience  is not the ‘reality’ as reported by the MSM, driven by vested interests?

Met Office, MSM and NHS are doing their utmost to prevent us from enjoying the heat of summer. So, in defiance, enjoy this day, heat or not – it’ll cool down tomorrow and winter will be coming.



 

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