“You will be poor …”

 

 

We’ve been here before: the MSM serve us our daily propaganda and our fearless ‘leaders’ pose on the world stage, projecting imagery of ‘look at how tough we are’. Meanwhile two items of immense interest and consequences for our daily lives are just shrugged away or not even mentioned. One is the coming devastation of our, the West’s economy, already damaged by two years of covid ‘measures’ and the debts the government has accrued. The other is the sleigh-of-hand in regard to the covid measures.

First then, the covid legislation. All of you who’ve signed the petition to ‘Repeal the Coronavirus Act’ will have received the reply in your email by now. For those who haven’t I’ll quote the text of that email:

On Monday 21 February 2022, the Prime Minister set out the Government’s strategy for living with covid-19, including plans to remove all remaining domestic restrictions from UK law.Read the Prime Minister’s statement and questions from MPs: https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2022-02-21/debates/982A4806-6695-4ECE-9D1C-4BD0E8798306/LivingWithCovid-19

In his statement the Prime Minister said the Government would:

– Remove domestic restrictions, and encourage people with covid-19 symptoms to exercise personal responsibility

– Protect the vulnerable with targeted vaccines and treatments

– Maintain resilience to manage and respond to the risks of future variants

– Build on the innovations from the covid-19 response

Find out more about the Government’s strategy for living with covid-19: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-minister-sets-out-plan-for-living-with-covid

Now I may be really dense and untutored in understanding properly the hifalutin’ governmental language, so I ask for help: does anyone detect even a scintilla of a hint in this text that the Coronavirus Act has been repealed? Because I don’t. 

In other words, the spectre of a repeat of lockdowns, vaccine passports, test&trace, hasn’t gone away. Just as Trudeau in Canada is keeping the means of financial destruction of ‘terrorists’ on his statute books so our government is keeping the instruments of coercion. Let me just mention in passing that it is certainly astounding to note how quickly Trudeau was able to act to destroy democracy in his country compared to the swiftness with which ‘Teh West’ is imposing those dreadful (in their words) sanctions on Russia! The Times reports:

“The decision by the UK to freeze the assets of five relatively small Russian banks is expected to have only a modest impact on Moscow. Four of the lenders have previously been sanctioned by the United States, meaning that they have already been frozen out of the American financial system.” (link, paywalled)

That’s tough, that is, isn’t it! The Germans were equally tough, stopping the NordStream2 gas pipeline from becoming operative. Thanks to EU legislation, gas hasn’t flowed through this pipeline as of yet and Biden wanted this whole thing stopped anyway, so that’s a nice result for him.

We’re now being warned that our energy prices ‘could rise’ … because of ‘that’ war. There’s no ‘could’ about it. I’m sure your domestic suppliers, whoever they are, were as quick out of the blocks as mine who emailed me yesterday with ‘important information’. According to them my domestic bill for electricity and gas will double from April onwards. Of course, they didn’t mention Russia with one word – that remained for the esteemed MSM, for example The Times:

“Energy bills and petrol prices could spike because of Russia’s “irrational” decision to invade Ukraine, the prime minister said. Germany yesterday blocked the approval of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia after President Putin ordered troops and tanks into breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine. In response Russia warned that Europe would face a “brave new world” in which gas prices could double. While Britain is not dependent on Russia for gas, the conflict could push prices to new record levels.” (link, paywalled)

Does this mean that we can expect even more price rises ‘because of war’? Who knows! I’m sure the £150 Sunak will hand out to ‘Teh Poor’ will be of great help! Westminster mandarins seem to think that we’ve never heard of inflation before, that we plebs are too thick to notice the increase in grocery prices which are already happening.

Do they think we won’t notice when suppliers and distributors of e.g. food are adding the ‘energy spike’ to their retail prices? What use the £150 then? Do they think we’ll just grin and bear it because ‘we are doing our bit to stop Putin’? And let’s not mention the rise in local council taxes coming our way, let’s not mention the rise in NI added to our bills.

Government and by extension our media ‘correspondents’ still believe we’re too stupid to understand all those financial machinations, that we don’t understand how the energy markets work. Perhaps all those green net zero Gretaists think we’ll now happily accept that ‘renewables’ are ‘Teh Future’. Sadly, there’ll be economic consequences even for all of them as well. After an apparently obligatory little introduction about the dastardly Putin invading helpless Ukraine, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard writes in the DT:

“It is already well understood that Europe is a captive of Russian gas, and dares not eject Russia from the SWIFT system of international payments because it would suffer a more immediate crisis than fortress Russia itself. […] Less understood is the technology angle. […] Putin has the means to cut off critical minerals and gases needed to sustain the West’s supply chain for semiconductor chips, upping the ante in the middle of a worldwide chip crunch.” (paywalled link)

So what price the smartphones on which “we” now must rely to prove that we’re actually alive? What about the ‘internet of things’, the chips needed to run the e-vehicles and indeed the old, fossil-fuel driven ones? There’s more:

Furthermore, [Putin] could hobble the aerospace and armaments industry in the US and Europe by restricting supply of titanium, palladium, and other metals. […] The Kremlin could unleash an inflation shock every bit as violent as the first oil crisis, with a recession to match.” (paywalled link)

Yes, well, that was all so unforeseeable, or rather, as AEP describes at length, the US and indeed our own government didn’t look at these various industrial and trade connections. His observation ought to give pause for thought to all the anti-Russian “warriors” in the Westminster swamp. Rest assured – it gets worse:

“Once you drill into the menu of western sanctions, it becomes painfully clear that the economic deterrent does not add up, either because the measures are less than they seem or because retaliation risk makes them unusable. […] Furthermore, in contrast to the sanctions imposed in 2014, China is now not going to follow the West because Xi Jinping has made it illegal for them to comply with US extraterritorial sanctions.” (paywalled link). 

Doesn’t it look as if we were presented with that shiny bauble of ‘covid measures lifted’ to stop us looking at the dire economic situation, right at the time when inflation is going to crush even the sturdiest green shoots of economic recovery. Obviously, it’s irrelevant to the Westminster cabal that we peasants out here won’t be able to buy stuff because we’ll have to eat and hopefully heat a little bit.

The WFH Audi Avenue dwellers will soon feel the pinch far more than we plebs because they are the avid consumers of things. What will they do about it? Will they accept that we’re now into ‘levelling down’ territory, all because they wanted the economy-crushing covid measures then and now are staunch supporters of ‘sanctions to crush Putin’?

I wonder what the WEF, what Messrs Schwab, Soros and Gates will think of the Brave New Levelled-Down World they created – a world where the future may well belong to Russia and China but not to them.

 

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