I doubt if the UK press has covered this, but Emmanuel Macron the “centrist” neoliberal banker is about to introduce automatic withdrawal of funds from citizens’ bank accounts for tax payments in France. Not only is he facing huge opposition to this obvious next bale-in-to-rape step, last Sunday the tabloid Aujourd’hui published leaked documents showing that software trials of the new shovel-in-your-account have revealed an unholy mess. Emmanuel is in a hurry to push this stage of Macronisation through because (a) he is under pressure from Berlin and Frankfurt to do it and (b) summer tax receipts for this year are well below target.
Europe is in deep doo-doo, but the UK Government “negotiating” Brexit seems not to care. The Slog asks why this is.
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The latest Italian numbers (and the clear bond spikes that reflect the gravity of the situation there) are clear for anyone to see and nobody to deny. One day there is EC spin about Rome’s promises to ‘respect the budgetary rules from Brussels’, and the next we see more details of overdue plans to expand the economy. It’s hard to think of a better reason for such a course of action than the news that Italy’s economy stalled over the last few months; but the monetarist idiots in Frankfurt will have their way….or in this case, not.
It’s almost three weeks now since I posted to predict rising bond yields in Italy. That has duly come to pass – as millions of others knew just as well as I that it would. Five days ago, I blogged to say that the now ‘inevitable’ watered-down Brexit will ensure we ‘remain overdependent on trade with an EU that has insoluble currency, fiscal, migration and economic problems’. And yesterday, I wrote yet another piece pointing out:
Shortly after the referendum on EU membership, I posted this piece in October 2016. May followed every word to the letter….but grossly underestimated the stubbornness of the EC and the disgust of the British People. Even before then, on the day after the referendum, this was The Slog’s headline:
A fortnight later, I led with this headline:
Enough, already. Theresa Mayniac is many things, but she is a cunning manipulator and far from stupid. Like most politicians, she grossly overestimates her abilities. She’s emotionally unintelligent perhaps, but a reasonable chess-player.
Yet she is now in a check-mate. Committed to a dead formula nobody in the UK or Brussels wants, dependent on DUP support and facing rebellion from the BoJo Moggies, she nevertheless sees the obvious situation of an EU close to collapse. She could become a hero overnight by walking away from Barnier’s busted bluff. She could reposition herself as the true soul of sovereign Brexit, force Brussels to face reality, and revel in the sight of the Junckernauts frozen in panic. There would be intervention from the Big EU beasts within days. And her position would be assured, because while the Brexit ‘rebels’ just might bring her down, there’s no way the Remainer Tories would.
But she isn’t going to do it. And it’s time we all analysed the reasons why much more closely.
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Consider some parallels.
Theresa May jumps when any sensitive electoral issue comes to the fore. 86 Windrush immigrants get deported (why is still far from proven) but within days they are promised compensation. Clearly, she’ll do and say anything to stay in power. But 3.65 million 1950s born UK women campaign for seven years and more….and neither she nor her predecessors are willing to budge an inch. Why?
Grenfell Tower burns to the ground with a shocking loss of life. Ignoring the fact that 30% of residents were illegally subletting in the tower (May gives them an immediate amnesty) most survivors are rehoused remarkably quickly (despite the fact that none of the claimant numbers make sense) and a full public enquiry is set up within weeks. Again, she is fearful of the predictable backlash from Labour and bleeds all over the carpet about how saddened she is by the (very real) tragedy. But when faced with the chance to turn a populist referendum result into political advantage, she allows an inexplicable delay in triggering Article 50 and almost a full year to pass before negotiations with Brussels begin. Two problematic opportunities, but she treats them entirely differently. Why?
Having missed the opportunity to go balls-out for Brexit and wipe the floor with the Opposition, the Prime Minister has no problem with doing a hugely expensive (and grubby) deal with the DUP which is immediately seized upon by Brussels and the border issue becomes an unlikely deal-breaker. Clearly, there’s nothing wrong with Sister Theresa’s political instincts (they are utterly base) but she’s more than happy to have her hands further tied during the Brexit process. Reversing her stance on SPA reforms and screwing the best deal possible out of a weak Brussels would have annihilated the challenge from Coybynite Labour. But she chose to look the obvious gift-horse in the eye. Why?
Not being a Leftist Remainoid – that is, existentially mad – The Mayniac knows perfectly well that she could play up the EU’s myriad problems, engage the now clear UK majority in favour of getting on with Brexit, frighten the Tory Remaindeer into silence, and have a clear run at an isolated (and probably a breakaway suffering) FootLabour2 in 2022. Instead, she comes up with the Chequers Formula to unite the entire spectrum of Brexit opinion against her. She loves power, and yet she demands obedience to an idea that causes the resignation of powerful enemies who directly threaten that power. Why?
In 2015, the then popular Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is very close to having Brussels over a barrel. ClubMed bonds are spiking all over the place, and his media-savvy finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has presented a series of requests for debt forgiveness that leave most EU leaders impressed. Varoufakis himself is convinced he has a deal that Muscovichi and Hollande will buy into. But he arrives at the crunch meeting to be surprised by the presence of former Goldman Sachs sociopath Mario Draghi, head of the European Bank. Dismissively rude throughout the session, Draghi tells the Greek to fold or be crushed.
Varoufakis leaves the conference and rings Tsipras. They’re bluffing, he says. We can call their bluff. Tsipras rejects this blindingly obvious counsel. Why?
It seems to me quite clear that these power-lovers’ fear of other forces is greater than their love of power.
Theresa May doesn’t fear Boris Johnson, because she knows that, in the final analysis, he too bows to the forces of ultimate power. Equally, she knows that Jacob Rees-Mogg is also a member of the bourse financialisers.
But she – like Tsipras – fears the influence of the CIA, MI5, Texan and Saudi oil barons, the Pentagon, bourses and NATO. Via her experience at the Home Office and her husband in the markets, Theresa May understands precisely who runs the World. She won’t volte face on the SPA embezzlement, because that would give the wrong signal to the élites.
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Viktor Orban of Hungary has been under similar pressure for several years. But he has stuck to his guns and given the polite FOAD response to the European Commission. And little by little, he has eased the malign George Soros influence out of his country. He has chosen to stick two fingers up to the Alt State élites of NATO, the Pentagon, global central banking, the financial markets, the energy power-brokers, the US State Department, Berlin migration lunacy and the ECB because first, he has more options than most; and second, he is less important than most.
By contrast, Greece is central to NATO North African strategy, and had the potential to embarrass US, German and French banks. And Great Britain is a vital ally in the fight to unite Europe against the developing Third Worlds of Russia, China and South America. The last thing the State-Pentagon-CIA-NATO axis wants is a threat to Dollar hegemony.
Brexit doesn’t mean Brexit at all. Brexit means play ball with the creators of the European Union, the financialisation of global capitalism and the Generals behind neocon US foreign policy….or else.
Brexit – as Kate Hoey so presciently pointed out in 2016 – is about The People versus The Establishment. It is about the Citizen versus Big State. It is about State accountability to the Electorate versus hidden control by speculators, diplomats, soldiers and ideologues. It is about the individual’s desire to be left alone by the snoopers, the tax collectors and the fanatics.
That’s why hegemonists based in Washington, Dallas, Tehran, Saudi Arabia, Tel Aviv, Berlin, Paris, Brussels, mosques, the socialist movements, the bourses and the neoliberal tendency legislators are all against it.
Theresa May isn’t following her instincts, she is doing as she’s told…..not what We The People want her to do.
Ultimately, Brexit about Big versus Small. And that’s why I continue to have this visual at The Slog’s home page:
If we lose this fight, then all is lost. And that amounts to far more than Brexit.
Funny how Macron is now adopting a strategy the Tsipras government introduced to reach into bank accounts and just take what the government says you owe them. Our accountant has been saying for years that Greece is the prototype for new strategies that will eventually be adopted by the rest of the EU. I think he’s right and that everything the Tsipras government is getting away with will sooner or later become policy in other EU countries, so beware all. Next thing you know, you will also have “tekmirio”, loosely translated as “having an income–the amount of which the government decides–which justifies your ownership/rental of property, cars, boats etc.”
Some friends of ours, who haven’t much income but do have a large house (the wife inherited it from her father; they didn’t build it) have just been hit with a 16,000 euro tax bill because they do not have the 30,000 euro income to “justify” living in that house. How in the name of heaven are they going to pay 16,000 euros without having such an income? They cannot sell the house (no market), the kids don’t want it (no surprise there, they can’t afford the tekmirio either) and they don’t wish to gift it to a rapacious state (why should they?). So they will scramble, and then they will divide the house up so that he can have one bit and she can have the other bit, and that will reduced the tekmirio for next year (though at some considerable cost for something they don’t want or need to do
This Alice Through the Looking Glass madness is going to take over the world unless there are loud, persistent and meaningful protests in France or wherever such mad legislation is introduced. But will anyone protest, or will they merely grumble>
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Shieldssage is correct – the next 6 months will tell us who rules the world; fortunately the drama will have to be played out in front of the whole world, there will be no hiding place, cards on the table. You are with the people or against them, better decide now.
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All I can see is that the global casino our owners are running has to burn down. No elegance at all, but I’m just one of the herd who looks up a lot.
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Brexit is what we voted for, Bricksit (add an h for flavour if you wish) is what we’re getting. This mixture of fear and constipation is likely to prove calamitous for all concerned.
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John
I watched Pirate Morgan and his wench on ITV this morning.
I channel hop when BBC are being silly.
The treated the ex mayer of London and mp, without any respect at all………….They were trying t make him change what he said in the past.
Ken Livingstone not my favorite mp or politician ! He gained my respect when he said………. he had no idea how many immigrunts were in London (a few years back this).
He said words to the effect that …They would turned up a hospital with an ailment and were then issued with health cards!
Opening the system up for them immediately.
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@Paul
This might help….
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/
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Off topic but I note that two Russian GRU agents have been identified and charged in absentia with the Skripal poisoning. Has this made any difference to your conspiracy theories which you have so elegantly and eloquently constructed?
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Elegant construction of a theory is not really my thing. My main interest is in means, motive, likelihood and evidence. As we aren’t being told anything at all about the evidence against the accused, my inclination is to ignore it until such time as there is a trial. JW
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Kieran laffan
September 4, 2018 at 2:32 pm
Excellent comment! Describes it exactly!
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Oddjob
September 4, 2018 at 4:27 pm
No it isn’t. And it’s all going to come tumbling down real soon please God.
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unfortunately our paths are well mapped out and there is little apart from the very strongest course of action that can change it. Those you refer to are too powerful, our political leaders too weak and our people too fat and lazy.
The USD replaced by the SDR. Russia and China to outsmart the US geopolitically. The UN gaining immeasurable power, its ‘peacekeepers’ maintaining order globally. Religions and cultures merging into one.
We are truly fucked, is my considered opinion. Even a ‘revolution’ would fail to unseat those in true power. Only one thing may work, but that would leave very few people left on the planet.
Bye.
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Your grasp of the situation is masterful. Have you though of youtube presentations in order to reach a wider audience?
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I think you’re asking the right questions.
“she allows an inexplicable delay in triggering Article 50 and almost a full year to pass before negotiations with Brussels begin. Why?”
My guess.
The game plan included installing Her Purpleness in the White House.
But The Donald upset the plan.
So they decided to double down.
Invoking Article 50 over here.
Unleashing Russiagate, the Dirty Dossier, the media and civil unrest over there.
But the Purple Plan is still not back on track.
Arguably, the Novachok fiascos demonstrate a degree of blind panic.
Interesting times.
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I found this interesting:
Although he’s a communist, some of what he said reminded me of your comments about making life difficult for the pen pushers and elite. He says electing people isn’t the answer, though they can push through the changes once they’ve been forced into it by protests.
Funny how we all come at this from different political directions but reach a similar conclusion about what needs to happen.
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You’ve been rubbish for weeks, since I paid you a back handed compliment whilst offending you re your cognitiive dissonance, which you failed to post, cos you knew it was true and it hit a sore spot.
But that was excellent. Some active brain cells left in the old dog yet. Good to see you are still learning. Most people 50 years younger are beyond it.
I assume I am permanently banned again, for the next 5 years, so I will wish you a happy 75th in advance.
Tony
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Well Tony, looks to me like all your assumptions were wrong. JW
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John should be in charge and Theresa should be making the alternative remarks…… perhaps I live in an opposite universe where madness and the lunatics run the asylum…. I may wake up and everything smells of tulips, dope , helal meat , African bush meat , german diesel high mileage low emission cars , and American aircraft carrier landing game changing aircraft…. I wonder what the poor are up to ?
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God bless all here. Mine s a pint of Guinness and
a Paddy s Whisky chaser please .
A combination that has kept me out of hospital for the last 50 years.
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Tutto bene! JW
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Juncker- Tusk- Trichet- Von Rompuy- Schultz all committed Federalists all Present or Past Presidents of the various branches of the EU. Merkel the most influential Political figure and touted as next President of the EU. Also all recipients of the Charlemagne Prize awarded by Coudenhove-Kalergi. Add in Barnier and a few others and you have the line up of Team Europe. Team UK May – Fox – Davis – Johnson – Raab. Civil Servants Robbins – Healey – Barrow. If this was a football cup match it would be like Chelsea v Whitehaven.
Doesn’t inspire confidence – no hard men in our team – with a good input of original Remain fighting a case which they opposed. I wouldn’t back them to fight their way out of a paper bag!!! Tied in by club rules which you should understand before you sign membership ( Rely on Heath for that have given the Fishing industry away – some hope)
No matter how you cut it you can’t play Mr Nice Guy – play to your strengths walk away if necessary and don’t let N Ireland dictate the policy. That is a future issue in which the Republic has an increasing say.
There is a distinct lack of logical thought which the population can digest and know what it is that we seek to secure. The members of Parliament are like ferrets fighting in a sack.
Has any one carried out a detailed analysis of the exact present state of the E.U. country by country – it is far from rosy. Immigration has yet to be played out and the future population crisis with the consequences for Europe and the UK not yet surfaced but gently warming up to become the major issue of this century. Uk law v Sharia Islam v Secularism Autocracy v Democracy. How are we going to fight that battle when we fail with this one.
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Great comment. Doubt about what game is being played (and by whose rules) has been the Brexit curse from Day One. My own feeling is that it’s underwater rugby tennis without the balls. JW
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This is all too depressing John, it makes me want to cut down some more trees, and clear the air of all those Dark Forces out there, that you talk about. Great article!
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You missed out the Ephraimites, but perhaps that was deliberate. I love coming here and getting things off my chest, all for less than the price of a bag of otters’ noses – which is what they cost me in the first place. Treat people fairly and they’ll come back ;)
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Brilliant piece written in plain English for all to see. This needs circulating far and wide.
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The financialising filth, after centuries of networking, eventually managed to acquire our governance lock stock and both barrels in the latter part of the 20th century. The evidence for this assertion is everywhere to be seen, it’s no secret, hidden in plain sight. Like getting dog excrement off just about anything, regaining our independence from these parasitical gobshites is not a job for anyone with a weak stomach; the alternative, however, is too unhygienic to contemplate and likely to prove fatal for our fundamental freedoms. If that means the destruction of our current political class and their shibboleths, then so be it.
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Tell you what hiero, if there’s one fing I can’t stand it’s them bloody Shibboleths. Worse than the Canaanites they are, wanderin’ abart an’ refusin’ to eat bacon an’ that and don’ get me started on them Corbynites they give me the ferkin’ pip, even worse than them Phillistines. ;-) JW
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here’s a link;
try 40 seconds in …
https://www.ukcolumn.org/ukcolumn-news/uk-column-news-4th-september-2018
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Entirely agree and there’s absolutely nobody out there arguing the case – except you and UKColumn – research the issues to do with EU military union – ‘our boys’ are already wearing the EU insignia – i’ll try to find a link
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Hi John, What happened to the paedophile enquiry? Regards, Deryk Hayward
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Fight? What fight? As far as I can see no one is fighting for the leavers, and anyone with any ability to fight (J R-M for example) has quickly retreated from any confrontation that might look like, or resemble in any fashion, a fight, because you are quite correct, they know who runs the world, and also, what their chances are after the fight is over of ever being public life again. In some cases, maybe not even taking breath ever again.
Washington will not let the EU collapse, it isn’t going anywhere, and nor is the UK.
Get over it. It’s the only way.
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I hope it’s not the only wway Odjob, because it sure as shit isn’t my way. JW
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Thank you for putting in to words what I feel but so few say. By trying to get my lost pension back ( I am a woman who has had 7 years added to my SPA as was born in 1961) I have uncovered that it is just a symptom of the dismantlement of the Welfare State. As you say, The People v The Establishment. The people of Britain want their country back.
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Well said Alison. May doesn’t care about the SPA victims, because their treatment is a sign to our ultimte masters that Britain will do whatever the nutjobs want. JW
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And so what do you want John? Absolute and immediate clean break from the EU? That there’s no need for a ‘deal’? Do you believe that there won’t be any serious economic implications for the UK or do you believe that any downturn is a price worth paying for our sovereignty?
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What I would like Andrew is for Brussels to drop its insane federalist nonsense, make the EU bureaucrats servants of the MEPs, and devolve far more UK power down to local level. Call it the EEU, and leave it at that. I do not believe that tying ourselves to an obviously sinking ship is a price worth paying for “safety” – whateverTF that means. I would happily stay in that EEU. JW
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The eu john, is like quintessential wife beater,gluttonously feeding off the fear he creates.Oblivious to the fact that each beating is driving his wife closer to a no turning back desire for complete freedom.As i see it she’s starting in the mirror touching her latest bruise,no emotion.Her bags are packed behind her, while across town a taxi ploughs its way towards her emancipation.
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My God Kieran, that was a well written and nail-hitting comment. Thank you. JW
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Marvellous Essay John. Your logic is impeccable.
The next 6 months in this Island will be of world significance in either starting the Globalist insurrection or capitulating in dispair.
Its much more than British Sovereignty at stake-its the future of western Civilisation and its citizens right to determine their own future.
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Very persuasive analysis, thank you John!
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Link screwed up here it is.
http://moneytomadness.blogspot.com/
https://www.bild.de/politik/ausland/angela-merkel/verschwoerung-gegen-merkel-und-schaeuble-42739520.bild.html
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Interesting This from an Ex Investment Banker?
at one stage Obama designated the continued presence of Greece in the Eurozone as ‘a matter of National Security’ for the USA.
The following is a translation of this article in Das Bild (27/9/2015) by Peter Tiede and Liana Spyropoulou.
The EU is a Us Hegemony tool, The EURO is not in Washingtons Plan. I can not figure out at which point the Rug will be pulled from under the EURO also At some point The Rug was planned to be pulled from under the US Dollar too. Of Course Wall Street dislike the City as Much as Frankfurt. Hard to pick a winner right now especially as BRICS stand to score a big win with recent developments with Iraq/Iranian Trade ditching the Dollar.
This is a Very Rich and Powerfull CLiques infight John got sweet FA to do with Left or Right and everything to do with very High Stakes Great Game Poker. Brexit is part of a process not an event in itself.
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If I *could* write, this is what I *would* write.
Write is a piece on probabilty of success, pinpointing who might have the balls to brexit please.
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