Don’t look at Labour – look at these beautiful shiny objects!
Christmas is coming, so our wonderful MSM have produced a collection of shiny baubles for us plebs to go ‘aaahhh’ and point our fingers at while horrific news are sidelined. After all, who wants to see yon former PM on the front pages when they can give us ‘The H & M Show’! It is noteworthy though that the broadsheets are again showing restraint, as if to underline that Middle England doesn’t need the ‘Royal Circus’ like we peasants do. You can check it out at the usual place (link).
The actual news the MSM are trying to play down is the ‘Report’ which Gordon Brown has been working on. Of course, “we” were all celebrating footie yesterday, or so the MSM chief editors enticed us to do. Thus, not much was reported of Brown’s plan, except that he wants to abolish the HoL. Katy Balls writes in the Speccie:
“The report – A New Britain – is written by Gordon Brown and has been over two years in the making, with the former prime minister set to present it alongside the Labour leader in Leeds later this morning. Given the party currently enjoys a 20-point lead over the Tories, it’s safe to say the plans will receive plenty of attention and scrutiny.” (paywalled link)
This ‘reform’ and the abolishment of the HoL has been something Labour has wanted to do ‘like forever’. The cartoon in The Times this morning says it all. Apparently though (my emphasis):
“Starmer has suggested he may not be able to abolish the House of Lords until Labour wins a second term in government, as he prioritises spreading power and economic growth across Britain. While he remains committed to the overhaul and replacing peers with an elected chamber, the Labour leader yesterday acknowledged that questions over timing and implementation were still to be discussed.” (link, paywalled)
Well – you’ve now been warned: Starmer and his Labourites believe they will have ten years to finally implement Blair’s plan of destroying our country. From more devolution to dismantling our constitution it’s all there:
“Speaking to The Sunday Times, Starmer said the review would build on Tony Blair’s devolution reforms after 1997 and end Britain’s status as the “most centralised country in Europe”, which he argues has held the country back both economically and politically. He will seek to give meaning to the concept of “levelling up” by putting “resource and decision-making much, much closer to communities”.” (link, paywalled)
What such ‘devolution reform’ looks like in real life can be studied in Wales where Labour has been ‘governing’ ever since devolution and where ‘decision-making much closer to communities’ is exemplified by the state of Cardiff, with a Labour council ‘in power’ for decades. Not mentioned is the effect of Blair’s ‘rub Tory noses in’ of mass invasion by illegal and semi-legal migrants on the fabric of our society.
There’s more in Gord’s plan though, now coming out in dribs and drabs. For example, the Sacred Cow is one of the top items. It has been Labour’s main theme for decades, that the Tories want to or are destroying the NHS. Firstly, there’s the report in The Times under the headline “Millions of patients turned away from NHS GP appointments, Labour finds” which provides a suitable background for Gord’s ‘Reform plan’. It is a perfect example of how to re-write history (my emphasis):
“Five million patients were unable to book a GP appointment when they tried to make one in October, analysis has suggested. […] Another two million people faced a wait of more than a month to see their doctor, the highest number since the records began, in 2017, and 4.3 million waited for more than a fortnight. […] The Labour Party, which provided the analysis, is pushing to abolish tax breaks for non-doms and use the revenue to train a new generation of doctors and nurses.” (link, paywalled)
Clearly, Blair’s ‘reform’ of GP working practices and how they’re paid, leading to mostly female GPs now mostly working half time “because: work-life-balance!” has nothing to do with this. The covid lockdown policies which Labour supported to the hilt have nothing to do with this. But that’s not sufficient. This, remember, is a report on constitutional change which Labour wants to implement. So now see this (my emphasis)
“Free access to the NHS would be made a US-style constitutional right under proposals championed by Sir Keir Starmer. The Labour leader has unveiled a new plan to outlaw reform of the service towards a European-style health insurance model. The proposals are contained in a report drawn up by Gordon Brown, the former prime minister, which calls for radical constitutional change. It says the NHS needs to be permanently protected from the “hostile” Tories who have put access to free healthcare “under threat”. “ (paywalled link)
No, don’t ask how making ‘free access to the NHS a constitutional right’ would help lower waiting lists and GP access! Don’t even mention the impact of mass migration on the infrastructure, NHS included. I’m sure scrapping non-dom tax relief would help: moar money to train doctors and nurses, to become ‘available’ in three or seven years’ time! Meanwhile, there are always more taxes, better stealth taxes, and forget strangling the economy. There’s more (my emphasis)
“The blueprint says four “basic rights” should be given a special legal status meaning they cannot be repealed by future governments.” Doing so would create a new written constitution for the UK for the first time, modelled on those used in countries like the US and France. Free and universal access to the NHS, schools and the welfare state would be protected alongside a new right to “decent” housing.”(paywalled link)
This is what Starmer, what Labour mean when they say, according to the sub-headline gracing yon report, that “Current government has been seeking to legislate to restrict civil and political rights, […]” So forget about Free Speech then – that is clearly not a ‘civil and political right’ Labour wants anchored in their fabulous constitution!
As for that proposed scrapping of the HoL – allegedly borne of the desire to prevent both Johnson and Truss to ‘flood’ the august institution with more political cronies – well, it’s always the stance of Labour and lefties to accuse opponents of what they themselves do and did, under the motto ‘it’s alright when we do it’.
I’m sure we’ve not all forgotten yet how Blair and Gord swamped the HoL with their cronies after their disastrous attempt at ‘reform’ which gave us the reduction of hereditary lords to 100 while the rest of this bloated ‘day care centre for octogenarian politicians’ swelled to over 800 ‘lords and ladies’, mostly Lib and Lab cronies.
While the MSM want us peasants to gawp exclusively at the H & M show, behind our backs Labour is aiming to dismantle our nation, root and branch, making it into lots of little Labour fiefdoms. I’m stunned that the Westminster commentariat seems so extremely relaxed about this proposal. Then again – they believe they’re part of Labour’s modern-day nomenklatura, so why should they be concerned.
Perhaps looking at shiny baubles and going ‘aaaahhh’ is a valid attitude, given that we peasants have been deprived of having our say ever since that referendum vote in 2016. It’s certainly better for one’s health and for the survival of the remaining mugs in one’s cupboard.
“The report – A New Britain ” Surely the last thing we need is another Brown disaster?
Just been looking at the House of Lords’ first report on the environment and climate change. It says the government’s current green lunacy (my paraphrase) is inadequate. “Priority behaviour changes are needed in areas of travel, heating, diet and consumption..” and that “Information is not enough to change behaviour; the government needs….sequenced measures including regulation, taxation and development of infrastructure”. (i.e only EV and heat pumps).
Oxford City Council is leading the way with a proposal of zoning for cars in which you can use your car to leave a zone only a council controlled number of times.
The Great Reset is not a conspiracy theory.
Civil disobedience will the only way to stop this.
Civil disobedience indeed Stout but too many are asleep, distracted or too ready to shout “conspiracy theory”.
Civil disobedience. Mmmm! I do agree Stout, but with 25 million households still paying a TV licence – what hope is there of the British people finding a bit of backbone for civil disobedience?
Very little it seems, Diesel which is cheaper to produce than petrol and used in most delivery vehicles as well as cars is locally now 25p a litre more, any comment anywhere , mmmmmmmmm
Going back to yesterday, the maize based dog food I remember was called Vitalin. There was another one even cheaper. Other breeds were also being subjected to it, not just working sheepdogs. Poor things.
I am just too pig sick to comment much on the state of our country and the world in general. Except to say that I am conviced there is an Agenda 21. It is planned by the United Nations to establish World Government. There will be no nation states and no elections anywhere.
PB- What will be the ‘common language’? Russian, Arabic or Chinese?
Gobbledegook probably Biscotte.
Oh no. It was called Vitapet.
Odd how, whilst accruing ever greater powers to itself and governing under the instructions of the One World Government, an even greater accrual of power, they constantly tell us they want to devolve power to the idiotically labeled ‘local people’ (we are all local to somewhere.)
And this is what you get, even before further devolution; policies lifted straight from the WEF handbook.
Haywards Heath Town Council (overwhelmingly Conservative) becomes first town council in Europe to endorse Plant Based Treaty.
Who agreed and signed the treaty and on whose behalf? I don’t think it was local people, because it is happening in 20 countries around the world so far.
Town pledges to turn vegan-only starting with its schools and hospitals
https://metro.co.uk/2022/08/17/town-pledges-to-turn-vegan-only-starting-with-its-schools-and-hospital-17201226/
Oxford (overwhelmingly socialist): The madness of the ‘15-minute city’
https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/oxford-2024-climate-lockdowns-start-you-will-be-tracked-and-trapped-in-your-suburb-and-happy-about-it/
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/10/25/the-madness-of-the-15-minute-city/
No to mention Khan driving(sic) motorists out of London. From next August I will no longer be able to visit, in my old jalopy, the outer London suburb where I grew up, without paying for the privilege. How dare they! as someone once said.
PoS- Remember **Beardless Chancellor Alistair Darling, when councillor, drove out motorists and bugg*red up Edinburgh. The police snug inside watching cameras and directing their traffic wardens all love it.
(** had to get rid of beard to be mp. Women find beardies untrustworthy – they got that right).
O/T but no less noteworthy.
I watched Alexander Mercouris Sunday night explaining in detail how all the minor counter attacks by Ukraine, so bigged-up by Western propagandists as a sea change, have been reversed; how Bakhmut was now on the way to falling; how Russia was advancing, grinding slowly but inexorably along a wide front; how they were waiting for the ground to freeze before launching a major assault; how Von De Leyen had let slip a shocking yet probably conservative figure for Ukrainian losses.
The following morning the Telegraph had an article headlined: “Fighting in Ukraine falls to ‘reduced tempo’ as soldiers bed in for a freezing winter.” You’d laugh if it wasn’t so serious. How long can they keep this up before reality breaks through?
Suppression is the name of the game.
– After shooing out the locals in Bakhmut (buzz off you lot), the Ruskies have bombed the town to rubble. They don’t have to fight house to house now.
– The prisoner 50 / 50 exchange recently got 50 Ruskie soldiers back, many of whom had been castrated and others maimed. It is just really a continuation of Ukrainium ‘standard’ of shooting prisoners in the knees. (plenty of footage of Ukrainium showing off their prowess are available). Ruskies are keeping quiet at the moment because of the backlash against the Ukrainiums as and when the real counter-offensive starts.
– Having lived in Russia, it is obvious to me the Ruskies are just waiting a bit. Winter has its advantages. You can travel / advance four-plus times faster and drink water from streams at a pinch. I would not want to be on the receiving end when it kicks off – for me probably at minus thirty degrees centigrade. At that temp – not too cold, contrast and brightness are wonderful for targeting, and that includes night when a white landscape has its seeing advantages.
– The opportunity to concede has long since passed for the drug addled, comedian, playing the piano with his penis.
The point of no return is long gone. Same for the West.
– And Pres Vladimir drove a car across the bridge to Crimea yesterday (the one that the British failed to blow up). He stopped and chatted to the guys. Can you see Ritchie the Oligark doing that?
No electric, no gas thanks to the uS, no oil, no food, no water, here’s a missile travelling eight times faster than sound coming your way. Are you feeling lucky? Well are ya punk?
– Ukrainiums shoot down eight out of ten Ruskie missiles don’t they – in your dreams! Nato et al ran out of anti missiles months ago. In your dreams!
– Lastly. It is genuinely heartbreaking to see miles of Ukrainian flags and the fresh graves of thousands of men – the pride of Ukraine. Again available on the internet. And too late to do anything about it. Poor devils.
Agree fully.
A constitutional right to a free NHS will increase taxation and borrowing for mandating government expenditure to ensure the right is realised. Potentially, breaches of a constitutional right could clog the already clogged courts. It’s not clear if that will cancel the rationing already practised by the NHS but it is clear that Labour is as economically illiterate as ever. Hybrid health systems are proven to have better outcomes for all.
The British are famous for muddling through, for getting by anyway, for simply enduring with their quaint ways and idiocies, for being a marvel in simply surviving without revolution for over 200 years when most other nations have been convulsed one way or another. But that trend appears close to its end. ID readers do not need to be told of the effect of unconstrained population growth on housing, the NHS, social cohesion, public finances etc. Nor do they need telling about the effects of cultural marxism and critical race theory on education and the civil service, or the calamitously incompetent and craven political class, or the flame fanning media, or erosion of womanhood and safe spaces. Labour will merely accelerate the trajectory we are already on with destructive additions of their own. Tony Blair and Gordon Brown never really went away and despite Brexit nor has globalism.
We could debate turning points. Was it 1997 when after four terms the Tories had become so decadent that the stench of sleaze paved the way for Blair? Or was it 2010 when Brown maxing out the country’s credit card allowed Cameron, self-styled heir to Blair, to modernise conservatism out of the Tory Party? Or was it 2019 when the snake oil salesman Johnson got in and maximising the benefits of Brexit went out the window, It is all these, but for me the symbol of it all was the Benn Act that stopped leaving the EU with no deal and removed all leverage in negotiation. Johnson may not have had the backbone to call the EU’s bluff, but that act was the greatest betrayal of the people by a venal, traitorous political class. Everything that has happened since is just detail.
Kipling’s “The Beginnings” (wrongly republished as “The Wrath of the Awakened Saxon” in which ‘Saxon’ replaces the original term ‘English’) sums it up for me and the reason why our nation is being diluted with more and more immigration:
It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the English began to hate.
They were not easily moved,
They were icy — willing to wait.
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the English began to hate.
Their voices were even and low.
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show.
When the English began to hate.
It was not preached to the crowd.
It was not taught by the state.
No man spoke it aloud.
When the English began to hate.
It was not suddenly bred.
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date.
That the English began to hate.
Kudos, always, for quoting Kipling!
Where Labour goes today the Tories will follow tomorrow – have no fear!
NB I find Labour as distastful and harmful to this country as the next commentator on this thread.
It would be nice if readers were to hand today’s ‘Betrayal’ column around, because the ‘Gordon Report’ shows the true aims of a Starmer government.
Getting upset about what globalist Sunak does is another little squirrel which we’re meant to gawp at.
Don’t do it – don’t let the true goal, the destruction of what used to be Great Britain happen just because ‘Tories = bad’! Labour will be worse, and not just because of more taxes, more inflation …
Point taken Viv. I’ll work on it.
Thanks, Mary!
I have absolutely no doubt that Labour will be a complete disaster for our country, no worse than the Conservatives but no better either. Both parties answer to the WEF, the globalists and so our country will keep on being destroyed at an exponentially increasing rate, Lib Dems are just as bad too and there are no viable good choices.
Reform UK may provide a challenge at the next election, but it’ll be too little too late, at the rate we’re being invaded our country as we know it will be long gone; always carefully planned that way I’m sure.
I hate to say this but if the indigenous British people want to keep their country, then they’re going to have to take matters into their own hands, not easy but it’s the only way.
“Free and universal access to the NHS, schools and the welfare state would be protected alongside a new right to “decent” housing…”
They don’t state the small print which will be if that CBDC’s happen God forbid, in order to get it you will need to be an obedient serf who jumps and obeys every destructive edict issued by the tyrant state, e.g, endless jabs. Otherwise you will starve or may end up in an “education camp”. This is what our hostile Government of Occupation wants for us whether Labour or Tory.
Then there is this which is more on topic and will make you gnash your teeth.
“UK: Sunak to Clear Asylum Backlog by Granting Amnesty in All But Name – Report”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/12/05/uk-sunak-to-clear-asylum-backlog-by-granting-amnesty-in-all-but-name-report/
Instead of granting amnesty we should be following Sweden’s example. They have had enough of the invaders and are doing something about it. Our politicians talk, but do nothing, while we rapidly descend to the status of a Third World country. Somehow I don’t think this will get much coverage in our MSM.
Sweden cancels residential permits of 300,000 immigrants:
https://youtu.be/eJKW9fgxnp8
‘Our politicians talk, but do nothing, while we rapidly descend to the status of a Third World country”.
With respect, the politicians are not the only ones talking and doing nothing.
As Edmund Burke said; ‘The only thing necessary for evil to triumph……… “
They dress it up as an amnesty and talk about legal versus illegal immigration, but the truth behind it is that May signed the UN Global Migration Compact which in effect makes all migration legal ,and a right.
I’m sorry to be off topic but this is interesting and possibly a silver lining too.
Things are happening in Brazil and although I commented on it a few days ago, the Gateway Pundit has been the first to report upon it, see below.
“Brazil Military Kills “Red Command” Cartel Leaders, Prepares Take Over”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/brazil-military-kills-red-command-cartel-leaders-prepares-take/
“In an unusual step for the military, the Army has invaded favelas of Rio de Janeiro and killed top leaders of the Comando Vermelho (Red Command) drug cartel, which supports the Communist criminal Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Observers take this to indicate the beginning of a federal military intervention. The drug gangs were the only ones to celebrate the alleged election victory by criminal Lula Oct. 30, firing automatic weapons in the air in the favelas. President Bolsonaro cracked down hard on the Brazilian drug gangs.
“The heads of drug trafficking of Morro do Juramento and Juramentinho, identified as Rodrigo Barbosa Marinho, known as Rolinha or Titio Rolinha, and Hevelton Nascimento Júnior, the “Bad Boy”, respectively, were killed during a Military Police operation in Vicente de Carvalho on Thursday (1st). Three other suspects died in the action and one, who was also injured, is imprisoned in custody in the hospital” O Dia reports.
The drug cartels are the armed wing of the Communists. Comando Vermelho controls parts of Rio de Janeiro and was formed 1979 as an alliance between cartels and Communists. If they are eliminated, the risk of a civil war will be significantly reduced.”
These drug cartels support Lula, the Brazilian people have implored the military to intervene after the fraudulent election, they want their country back. It looks very much as if things are starting to happen.
Sorry for the long post Viv, rare from me.
No worries, flyer – it’s within the limits and indeed, you never do extra-long posts!
Very interesting Flyer, let’s hope this spreads, there are a lot of dictators “leaders” in the West that need removing one way or another.
With reference to flyer 8.21am
I was interested to see the `gatewaypundit` – new to me and read it through, it does look like there are going to be big changes in Brazil politics.
I actually read it through to the end and apart from learning it is migrating to disqus (which I have used in the past and can now never get past indecipherable kapcha and give up )
I also read an item there which starts
“Biden`s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan will be in Brazilia today Monday 5 for a meeting with corrupt criminal Lula and members of his coup. ” The main item on the agenda is the charge for the Brazilian government to clearly condemn the war in the Ukraine and engage with the US and European partners in the supply of weapons to the Zelenski regime”
I have been reading reports in the DT that some European Nations are getting cold feet and talking about “negotiations” with Putin
Is Biden in Brazil looking for other allies to ensure the Ukrainians fight Putin to the last man standing.
This is a dirty `proxy`war where the stupid West is dancing to the US tune.
My personal view is much as I dislike the Russian `invasion`, too many sides have ¬form` and a negotiated settlement is far preferable to the useless and needless loss of Ukrainian (and Russian) lives and the continued destruction of the country
If the `end game` is to diminish Russia as a major power, then I think the West would live to regret it, Putin must be detached from China – for the good of the West.
I also think this `Save the Planet` business should be exposed as the con that it is and terminated.
Oh! I fully accept the campaign has exposed man`s sins like polluting the oceans with plastics and other injuries to the planet and clear up operations should continue, but let`s get back to providing our own power from our own resources if we are lucky enough to have them and provide ALL the necessary power at an economical price that will encourage new enterprises to succeed and foster a “real” economy that we were promised by Truss and Kwarteng .
The truth is we “Export or Die”
Oh and by the way I believe Biden is our real enemy following his master Obama
Roger, `Save the Planet` has been exposed by real scientists but apparently swallowed whole by too many of our population. As for government and the royals I have doubts that they all believe it but are simply using it to exert control in pursuit of the globalist objective.
Perhaps the worst aspect of it is the indoctrination of our kids from an early age through their “education”. I agree with flyer about taking matters into our own hands but we need to deal with a good many of the unseeing masses first…