The Western world’s élite media set are not obsessed with Brexit: they are hell-bent on the destruction of everything Brexit is about. Cast adrift by the very politicians who claim to represent them, the People of Britain have one remaining weapon – electoral blackmail to threaten the political class with extinction.
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I confess to feeling a little sorry at the moment for all those hungry cats chased up trees in which they are now stuck. All over Britain, the trees are full of felines starving to death because there’s no room on news bulletins or in tabloids for those little snippets that make us go “Aaaah!”
Although such items are always referred to as “human interest” stories, it is amazing how often they feature animals.
But for now, I see no octopus about to predict the result of the Grand National, no kittens whose best friend is a python. There is a dearth of stories about Pandas addicted to Coca-Cola, Seagulls that turned orange after falling into a vat of curry, and cheetahs with their heads stuck in the railings.
There is only Theresa May seeing green lights where there aren’t any, and no red lines where there are several.
Talking of animals, what are the media going to talk about once Brexit is settled one way or another? Granted, that could take anything from two years to a millennium to happen – by which time, no doubt, abdications, alien invasions, new black holes and a fair amount of continental drift will have gone unreported.
Yet despite the quantity of Brexitation in the media, it long ago became the triumph of impenetrable events and pointless speculation over insightful analysis and investigation by the media. It would be good, for example, if at least one major title or news channel took a long, hard look at the following.
- Several Brexit Ministry MPs have given evidence of a damning nature to the European Scrutiny Committee, primarily on the subject of Whitehall behaviour in ignoring political orders, and then dropping the authors of said commands from internal e-memos. The following clip involves Bill Cash questioning Steve Baker. If you don’t believe my coup d’état claims, you will after watching this:
https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/81a76aba-1e5f-4a02-92c7-248f2a072f42?in=14:30:48
Lurching briefly into serious mode, I think this is worth turning into a major media cause. I wonder what Sloggers feel about such an idea.
- Commons MPs took a full winter recess this year, during which the PM got nowhere with Stonehenge aka Brussels, and absolutely nothing happened for eighteen days until Parliament returned again on 8th January. Prior to that, she had postponed the Withdrawal vote for a whole month, purely because she looked likely to lose it. If that isn’t putting fun, your career and your Party before country, then I’m at a loss to know what would be.
- Checking the coming sessions two nights ago, I was alarmed to discover that our poor dears the MPs we elect to work so tirelessly on our behalf have a half term recess beginning on February 8th for 12 days. However, House Leader Leadsome then cancelled it (citing the Brexit crisis) so the updated recess calendar today shows there’ll be no break until 4th April. This is in fact incorrect, because an MP backlash immediately forced a Government U-turn: backbenchers will now be able to skive off until the 20th if they have ‘family commitments’ aka holidays booked. Labour MP Ian Murray (a Remain activist) was especially scathing on the issue: how dare Angela Leadsome ask him – a Best for Britain pro-EU and Soros admirer – to use those days to actually do something that oor Ian dizznee wornt ti dooo? This means that after May’s key speech scheduled for February 6th, nothing – meaningful or otherwise – will happen for 14 days.
- Several MPs have told various media off-the-record that they have been offered funds (to help solve burning issues in their constituencies) in return for supporting the withdrawal Bill at the next attempt. I loved Tom Watson’s reaction to this today on the BBC – “I don’t think any MPs would accept such a thing” – but it only lowers him further in my estimation: he is protecting a privileged class which (as he calls himself a Socialist) really is the height of hypocrisy. The debate about this later excused MP behaviour on the basis of “it was a bribe to help their constituents, not them” – which is absolute tosh: it was a bribe to ensure their reelection to a privileged class.
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Having read the points above, no doubt many among you are thinking and muttering along the lines of “treasonous bastards”. Sadly, I am here to tell you that going for treason charges in relation to any of this would be a big mistake, representing as it would a classic case of tilting at windmills. These are the realities of prosecution for Offences Against the State, and they stem from one simple, undeniable fact: apart from the thoughts of Walter Bagehot towards the end of the 19th century, the UK doesn’t have a written constitution.
- Almost all treason-related offences introduced since the Treason Act 1351 was passed have been abolished or relegated to lesser offences.
- In Autumn 2001, the British government threatened British citizens who fought for the Taliban with prosecution for treason. Nobody was tried or even accused.
- On 8 August 2005, it was reported that the UK Government was considering bringing prosecutions for treason against a number of British Islamic clerics who had publicly spoken positively about acts of terrorism against civilians in Britain, or attacks on British soldiers abroad. Nobody was tried or even accused.
- The Government considered charging hate-preacher Abu Hamzza al-Masri with treason in 2005. But in the end they went for, and got, a conviction in February 2006 for incitement to murder.
The overall drift of all this is that going for a treason charge brings in every Human Rights lawyer on the planet. I’m told by a senior chum in the Law Society that “most of us now feel the charge of treason has been shoved into a siding, with the sincere hope that no Thomas the Tank engine will ever pull it out again”.
The problem with treason as a charge is that it is rarely brought against anyone that isn’t either personally very powerful, or has powerful people behind him….for example, the Saudis in the case of Islamic atrocities.
Although the original Treason Act of 1351 has not been significantly amended, it doesn’t help us much. It was last used in 1946 to convict the radio propaganda traitor William Joyce (‘Lord Haw-Haw’) who delivered regular broadcasts from Nazi Berlin in an attempt to weaken British resistance to Hitler. The UK is not, however at war with anyone at the minute, and so this leaves (largely) archaic crimes to go for: plotting to kill the Queen, raping Prince Philip, or killing Philip Hammond. I would judge these respectively to be highly unlikely, probably impossible, and not terribly helpful, albeit likely to please many law abiding citizens across the spectrum of British opinion.
Nor is there much to be gained from going for the lower crime of petty rather than high treason, as this regulates little beyond the prescribed punishment: the Act tells us that ‘for a high treason, the penalty shall be death by being hanged, drawn and quartered [whereas] in the case of a petty treason, the penalty shall be drawing and hanging without quartering’. Why anyone in the 14th century thought not being quartered after death to be of any importance is a tricky one to divine.
There is but one treasonable offence offering hope to those in search of realistic justice: the phrase ‘adhering to the Sovereign’s enemies in his Realm, giving them aid and comfort in his Realm or elsewhere’.
The good news here is that Olly Robbins and his merry band have very obviously been doing that if one can establish that the European Union is an enemy. The bad news is that, on that basis, Jeremy Corbyn would be climbing the scaffold before the year is out on the grounds of his IRA connections.
Trust me people, no move to charge on that basis would succeed. Forget should: in the real world, what we’re after is will.
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As so often in contemporary Britain, only a focused attempt employing the media, concerned citizens at all levels and electoral blackmail stands even the remotest chance of success. And do bear in mind when considering that option, pretty much every bit of inclusive reform since 1215 has been achieved by threats later codified as usage and precedent. The Clean Air Act of 1957 is the only exception I can think of in my lifetime.
So what do we all think? All I can do as usual is offer my two pennorth and gauge the reaction. If it is an enthusiastic one on a viable scale, then I think it is something worth trying. Here’s my suggestion…
It is crystal clear that a conspiracy of elected representatives, influential media gargoyles, unelected bureaucrats & various globalist slush funds are being both separately and severally employed to disobey an order given by the Sovereign power in charge of the United Kingdom.
That Sovereign power is the legislature whose majority allowed and approved the political Executive running Britain up until June 2016. The Prime Minister of that Executive David Cameron said this on calling the Referendum on EU Membership:
“My responsibility is to speak directly to the British People about staying in a reformed European Union….I think that leaving the European Union represents a leap in the dark at a time of great uncertainty….but you must decide”
Cameron could not have made more clear how much he wanted us to stay in the EU, and what a risk leaving would be.
But despite that obvious bias, a majority voted to leave.
Anyone and everyone thereafter involved in carrying through what the electorate wanted has an inherent – in some ways fiduciary – duty to honour that majority decision.
Anyone in public office deliberately opposing, blocking, slowing down or diluting that duty is guilty of dereliction.
Either our sovereign body has the right to dismiss such people from public office, or it is nothing but an onanistic talking shop.
The People were given a Right by the Sovereign power. Their will must now be obeyed.
I propose that a Movement be created with the following objectives:
- To demand SOVEREIGN exit from the European Union reducing EU control over British policy to 0%
- To fire all those who attempt while in public to dilute that
- To demand that a written Constitution be enacted and binding on all UK citizens in full within twelve months via a cross-Party committee subject to final approval by Referendum
- To use targeted and disciplined electoral tactics to scare the political class into action on our behalf
- To crowd-fund all and any funds dedicated to that outcome.
Thanks for the link to the video. Not unexpected, but interesting to have our worst fears confirmed.
And of course, nothing from the normal news channels…..
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Misprision of Treason is still available and so is Lawful Rebellion Both are powerful laws, designed to take down those such as Oily and Treasonmay by Common Law. Our Courts and incumbents have been instructed to ignore Common Law, our Plod is not taught Common Law until well up the greasy Masonic pole, Inspector. God help us, the threadbare blue line is in need of TLC, our Navy has Aircraft carriers and Subs built with dodgy Chinese steel, the F35 is a turkey (update, just refused by the Luftwaffe) and can our Mincer of Defence, Gav the Chav give us any assurance whatsoever that the EU army based in St Mawgan, will not be instructed to live- fire on UK Citizens under any circumstances? In the event of UK civilian revolt, Mrs Queen does not keep calm and take tea at Buck House, They bale out asap down the Buck House escalator to their private Underground station whilst all tube and railway services are cancelled. Thence Westward Ho and disembark at a turning to the left….. RAF jets and helicopter gunships fan out to cover the above- ground rail trip ….. Vivid imagination? Get real!
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“Why anyone in the 14th century thought not being quartered after death to be of any importance is a tricky one to divine.” Because the quartering was started whilst the victim was still alive.
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a change made that if it wasn’t you and
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Cash questioning Steve Baker. If you don’t believe my coup d’état claims, you will after watching this:
https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/81a76aba-1e5f-4a02-92c7-248f2a072f42?in=14:30:48
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Top level Brexit stitch up isn’t tin foil stuff as, the the Beeb would have us believe.
Below is a direct link to the videoed European Scrutiny Committee interview of Steve Baker MP on 30th Jan 2019.
Mr Baker provides a firsthand account of continual, orchestrated incidents that strongly implicate the No 10 Cabinet & Theresa May not just in attempted thwarting, but of sustained sabotage of Brexit.
Criminal charges to follow or will it go quietly into the night?
It’s a long interview however it is downloadable do can be listened to in portions. And let’s face it, these tjings have a tendency to mysteriously become unavailable to view once the public domain starts sniffing around.
https://t.co/0RSF26gsZS
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thank you JW.. I noted a judge of the ‘international criminal court’ resigned this last week. he said it was because the judiciary are being over ruled by ‘diplomats’. I think he meant spies.. so at least one honest judge.. the rest prepared to toe the line no doubt.. so no point in the law, treason or otherwise nowadays..
Which leaves Guy Fawkes looking like heroic and lampposts attractive.. also Nigel has a new party ready and waiting..
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Cracking piece, yet again John.
Are there no other instruments within Parliament to challenge these politicians, like to challenge the Parlimentary Commissioner for Standards and the MPs on the grounds of gross misconduct?
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Having read your, as ever, most erudite post, and the comments that followed, I agree with what you say, and, for the most part, with the views expressed by my fellow readers, The result is a somewhat dismal picture and we have to admit the country is in an unenviable position because of the ineptitude of our politicians.
I cannot remember viewing a more pathetic gallery of chattering gasbags on both sides of the chamber.
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Thank you John for another brilliant article. I think this Brexit fiasco will badly harm both main parties. I agree with Anthony Mann in that parties like the Democrats & Veterans will pick up many votes. It will be a case of ABC, Anybody But Conservatives or Anybody But Corbyn. Pat Condell makes a valid point in a recent Youtube posting when he says that now we understand the contempt with which our politicians hold us, we will turn from being mildly interested in General Eletions to full blooded ACTIVISTS, determined to keep these people out of office forever.
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Misprision of Treason is still available for those working against the State (roughly speaking!).
Suppose an OILY Civil Servant has been given instructions to form a team to work in secret to undermine and prevent Brexit which in effect is like giving support to those who oppose UK. TreasonMay has been widely criticised for obsessive secrecy. Oily even had secret meetings with EU negotiators whilst our supposed team (Davis et al) were not told.
Oily and TreasonMay to the Tower. Bang to rights, innit. Maximum is Life.
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Mucho impressed with Steve Baker MP in your Parliament clip, JW.
Had to notice how extremely wary he was of the slightest criticism of our totally worthy, hardworking & non-treasonous civil servants, while neatly side-stepping any comment on the oily creature Robbins.
He obviously knows which non-sleeping dogs to leave lying.
I also read that he understands the money out of thin air con.
A man for the future?
John Doran.
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Another fantastic piece John, superb.
As others have commented, many thanks for the Stve Baker link. Wow. Succinct, precise and thoughly professional, this is what MPS should be.
I do agree with Peter’s comment below about ‘Sir William’ though! A couple of the others asking questions made me think along those lines (Richard ‘very ‘umble’ Drax for example!).
DavidC
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I think any MP thinking of hiving off Northern Ireland would be guilty of depriving the crown of it’s title and possessions. I believe this still ranks as treason. I wonder if the same applies to Gibralter?
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I never knew that there were so many Panda Coke addicts out there John. Why hasn’t this been made public? Bloody MSM hiding things they don’t want us to know perhaps? Or is it the subject of a Govt. Pan-Da notice? ;o)
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I’m in.
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I actually think the British people are better at their jobs than the media and the politicians who purport to serve them.
I switched on ITV News the other night because I am (unfortunately) intetersed in what is going on in the world. The lead story was that it had been snowing and featured a hapless reporter standing in front of a clear, snow-free road on which there had been a traffic jam on it earlier. If only they had gone to her at 9.45pm! She could have interviewed an unfortunate/stupid driver.
I am no expert but I would call that lazy journalism. If I had edited that programme, I wouldn’t have been proud of my day’s work.
As for the politicians, they arrogantly ignore all lobbying that doesn’t suit them and plough on with privatising Britain, building on every green field, removing police from our streets and chucking a few quid at unfortunates who can’t get a proper job (after a punishing 5 weeks) whilst supporting every Tom, Dick and Hassan who paddles across the channel in a dinghy.
They will get their comeuppance come the General Election. Both major parties I suspect, as both have proved to be divided, self serving and led by hapless incompetents who have let down their country big time. They will get a good kicking which is street parlance for what a HR manager would call Incompetence or Poor Performance ( Just Cause for Dismissal) or we all would call, Treason.
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A movement is very easily sidelined when organised around a set theme. Decentralised and coordinated action in both deed and word is much harder to stop.
Gandhi was correct, “be the change you want to see in the world”.
With the internet Be the Change and just let others know too.
The reason the Internet terrifies the establishment so much and the Yellow vests in France and why Occupy made the progress it did was based upon the informality of its associations and not having structures per se.
There is a Thing Called the 99% declaration something in the order of Thomas Paine’s common sense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99_Percent_Declaration
William Blake said of Paines Common Sense.
Blake believed that Paine’s “Energetic Genius” led him to perform miracles: “Is it a greater miracle to feed five thousand men with five loaves than to overthrow all the armies of Europe with a small pamphlet?”
https://longhairedmusings.wordpress.com/2016/11/06/notes-on-occupy-the-election-2016-the-revolution-will-be-live-thomas-paine-common-sense-maga/
The pen is indeed mightier than the sword.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99_Percent_Declaration
The 99% declaration has been comprehensively memory holed, Brexit and emancipation is a process and not a destination, The EU will collapse, remember it’s always the Hammer that breaks and never the Anvil. Deadlines and Red Lines and so forth,
From Hunting the Snark.
“What’s the good of Mercator’s North Poles and Equators,
Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines?”
So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply
“They are merely conventional signs!
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Sounds good to me
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A good start would be to ban, through legislation, lobbying of individual MPs. Any lobbying to be done directly through open Select Committees, not individuals.
Next, I would like to see the complete banning of monetary contributions by businesses or individuals to political parties – if they want to make a contribution, do it by paying their fair share of taxes. General Election campaigns should be paid for by Parliament, with each party getting a fixed amount determined by the Electoral Commission.
If parties feel they need more funds then they can carry out the normal fund-raising activities in the open. Any donations over a certain amount to be made public. If large donors hope to gain some advantage, then see paragraph 1.
These measures could be taken quickly and would expose all those who are opposed to open democracy. What price democracy? Not that much I would imagine and it would be worth it.
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Dear John
I shall be forever grateful that you posted the link to Steve Bakers interview, this confirms what some of us have been thinking – “That there’s something rotten in the state of Denmark” (to misquote Shakespeare?) It’s of little consolation that May will become more reviled than Blair and Campbell (not an easy feat!) along with the Tory and Labour MP’s who support her.
On a seperate point it would seem that Microsoft are bringing in a red flag/green flag system for their news content, where the green flag says that Microsoft have veried that the stories have been checked for accuracy, already they have been shown to be liars, so from now on I will only pay attention to their red flagged content!
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Just watched the parliamentlive video. I agree with you – total and utter disgrace and one which should be broadcast from the roof-tops. Unfortunately, the MSM are only reporting Project Fear (insert whatever number) and anything and everything against Brexit.
In terms of doing something about it. Where does one start ?????
In terms of The Movement – I think the “movements” are already out there. There are any number of Brexit organisations who would definitely take up this story (some of whom have quite large audiences). This may help get this story out into a more public sphere.
In terms of Firing and Written Constitution…. – I think only this would come from a new political party. There are a number of new parties that will inevitably pick up votes from this Brexit fiasco, namely: UKIP, Democrats and Veterans Party, the Brexit Party (Catherine Blaiklock & Nigel Farage) and maybe others
in terms of Targeted/Disciplined Electoral Tactics – I believe this is going on at the moment. I write constantly to my MP and many hundreds of thousands do the same. Every Brexit site I know ecncourages their readers to write/email their MPs and many provide templates and valuable information on what to write about.
In terms of Crowd Funding – there are Crowd fundings sites out there which have sucessfully got funds for political purposes. Some further research needed on this one.
Hope that helps a little. Let me know if you need any further information or help. I have a few hours spare everyday to put some effort into this.
As ever, keep up the good work.
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John,that link with Bill Cash is extremely damming,thank you, mro.
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Battle on John, you are greatly admired.
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While it is nice to have my previous conclusions as expressed here and elsewhere corroborated, as I have commented several times, one only has to sit down and actually think about the progression of events in order to see exactly what Steve Baker reported. And isn’t Bill Cash a long-winded old fart, comes with being a politician I suppose, asking a question in six different ways, I expect that is meant to somehow elicit precision, well officially anyway.
Treason depends on perspective, as you say John, in our view what the government is doing is treasonous, however the government is, unless the Monarch says not, acting as the representative of the Crown which brings the question, can the Crown commit treason? Personally I would argue that it did in approving Maastricht, but that’s just me. And since Lizzy ain’t said nothing, no treason. Since Blair reduced the tariff from hanging to life imprisonment it matters little anyway, who cares if we can’t hang the b*stards?
I certainly agree with your proposals plan but could it generate sufficient public backing? Once again we could only rely on 10% of the electorate at most to show real support. Even if, as I believe, the electoral split of Remain v WTO is 40:60 most of that 60% wouldn’t go any further than voting in a referendum, and an in-out ref. is not going to be allowed to happen.
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Brexit has exposed the corruption at the heart of the establishment, even more blatant now than it was at the time of the expenses scandal of a few years back.
The worst thing that can happen now, and the thing that is most likely to happen based on past experience, is that the people go back to sleep and the “elite” carry on with business as usual.
The reason; only in the dairy does cream rise to the top. In the world of business and politics sociopaths rise to the top. And the majority of us are either politically ignorant (and ignored) or are too busy “living libes of quiet desperation ” to counter it.
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