MPs finally put the May Withdrawal Agreement into a lead lined-coffin yesterday. Today they will reject the best way to leave the EU because of largely mythical fear created by MSM and internet IABATO. The best way forward after that will be a General Election. Just watch our legislators avoid that option for as long as possible.
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This, we kept on being told, was The Big One. It was a Big Day. They didn’t come any bigger than this. As Big Days go, it was the Bigger Wigger. So Big in fact, that it had been to Biggin Hill in order to study what being Big was all about.
The two main sources of Big Bollocks were the Tory Remainer Bigwigs, and the increasingly Big Sky News anchor Adam the Big of Boulton. The Tory Mayflies were saying it to terrify their backbenchers into voting for the PM’s new improved deal because it was a Big Deal. Adam was saying it because, working for a news medium dependent on advertising for its survival, he needed to Big up the Day into something bigger than a rat’s fart, which is normally not very big at all.
Although Adam himself needs to downsize before everyone requires in-home Cinerama to fit him onto their monitors, he is still something of a Big Cheese, and cannot afford to become small beer, otherwise his access to Big Macs might be curtailed. To keep up his calorific intake, Bolt-On needs the expense account that goes with being a Big Shot.
But by midday, it was pretty clear that the Big build-up given to Theresa May’s Strasbourg summit could not disguise the Big Fat Zero of outcome. One by one, Geoffrey Cox, Labour, the ERG group and the DUP gave the whole charade a Big Thumbs down.
The rest of the day on Sly News was thus devoted to Big Wheels telling Big Bucks cheesecake Kay Burley that the evening vote was the Big Banana, when it was patently obvious to an educationally subnormal amoeba that it was utterly predictable small time television.
So it was that the Prime Minister’s Room 101 bid to make two fingers look like four failed by a crushing 149 votes.
Did we learn anything from yesterday?
Well, nothing new as such. But what we were reminded of is that the citizen will always come last, and that to persuade said citizen that this is perfectly acceptable, the élites will always take advantage of the individual voter’s not surprising inability to remember who did what and when in the swirling mists of contemporary news overload.
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What we relearned (almost as a piece of exam revision) was that the British and global Establishments will deceive, distract and demean opponents in a never-ending bid to make everything somebody else’s fault.
There are moments even now when one realises anew just how consistently shameless Remoqnoids, MPs and Ministers are in projecting their shameful behaviour elsewhere.
Here we are, being told by the Prime Minister that MPs are wicked and ungrateful little boys and girls for not putting the country first and getting behind her deal….a deal which is (on eight grounds way beyond the Irish border issue) a flagrant mass-dilution of what the vast majority of Brexiteers want. (As The Times showed at the weekend, only three constituencies polled in the UK last week supported her deal. )
Then we see Ministers pitching up to Kay Burley’s camera and saying “it’s this deal or the chaos of extension, so Brexiteers need to make their minds up” while being themselves about to remove the obvious way out of that, a WTO No Deal exit. An exit, mind you, that two days ago, in a 3,000+ sample poll conducted on Twitter, was found to be supported (among three other options) by 83% of respondents.
We watch in amazement as Hillary Benn holds forth on the horrors awaiting us following a No Deal Brexit based solely on the already queried or disproven theories of so-called experts over the last year. Thus, he concludes triumphantly, “she is leading us into the limbo of extension”. No chum, you all are.
And finally, we sit through interviews with the Remainer vox populi, who blame Leavers “for this dreadful mess of a Brexit process they have caused” yet seem to forget that 99% of the significant negotiation of it was conducted by Remainer MPs and bureaucrats. And that the plank Cameron – another Remainer – called the Referendum in the first place because he had spent two years looking for reform in the EU and come up against nothing but patronising obduracy wherever he went.
I always think it important to remind the Asses of Assertion precisely how we got to Here, because they are all masters of denial when it comes to their own culpability in the process.
The simple truth is this. Brussels put the process on its head from Day 1 by demanding that every last screw should be tight on the last funnel and forecastle window hinge before HMS Brexit was launched. Robbins gleefully accepted this through cunning, and David Davis followed along because he is a very dull little man.
In fact, the only thing required under the Lisbon Treaty Article 50 departure process is to give two years notice and pay all outstanding bills for expenditure commitments. There is nothing in it that says “Fanny around for three months, toss ideas around, turn them all down, have a think and a leadership contest and then, under duress, issue the Article”. There is nothing about £39 billion beyond unpaid bills. There is nothing about the logistics of it all. All the May Cabinet had to do was say, “We’re off on March 29th 2019, and while we’re happy to discuss some practicalities after we agree a trading relationship, each of us has separate tasks to fufil in ensuring a smooth exit, so let’s get to it. You’re the guys that stand to lose €140 billion in trading income, so why don’t you kick things off?”
In all seriousness, we could’ve left Michel Barnier in a negotiations office all on his own for 34 months and we would not have been in breach of a single Lisbon Treaty codicil.
That, my sanctimonious little Remoaner buddies, is it: we are where we are because your guys never even tried to call the Brussels Bluff….and you lot spent over two years saying that it wasn’t fair. We are Here because of Remainer cowardice and sabotage, a de facto coup d’état by a treacherous, self-interested Civil Service, and the staggering gullibility of Left and Right ideologues inside and beyond Westminster. We are Here because your voters didn’t turn up in big enough numbers in June 2016, and the civil service did not do a single thing to prepare for a Leave result – not one, single, miserable thing. We are Here because the European Commission was prepared to stone any wall, pull any stunt, find any obstacle and prolong every process in order to waste time and undermine something they fear more than any other single thing: Brexit.
And finally – yes, it’s true, I accept it – we are Here because (despite passionate warnings from myself and many others within days of the Referendum) the Leave camp saw the job as done and sorted. Boris Johnson went off to play cricket and get pissed with his mates: as ever, he was a far from perfect role model.
The Leave campaign post-referendum has been nothing short of disorganised, underfunded, naive, media-dopey, over-trusting and, to be frank, lazy. The vast majority of opinion leaders in the Brexiteer alliance immediately peeled off and returned to their day jobs of serial incompetence (Chris Grayling), leadership plotting (Boris Johnson), putting Tory survival first (Michael Gove) and turning up in Brussels with a vacant smile (David Davis). Despite having to defend herself against Corbynista purges, Kate Hoey has been the only one insisting that we must not simply give a largely Remainer régime an easy time.
In behaving in such a manner, they lost sight of this grim reality:
- The neoliberal globalist Right businesses want to kill Brexit in order to retain access to cheap labour
- The LibLeft social Establishment want to kill Brexit because they have an idée fixe about reactionaries wanting to take their racial, gender, green and internationalist toys away from them
- The bureaucratic classes want to kill Brexit because they see the ‘global-bloc’ future as being increasingly technocratic and, at a regional level, admin rather than democratic in nature
- The Alt States along the bourse > military > neocon > energy > surveillance axis want to kill Brexit because it gets in the way of, ultimately, creating an American-led global hegemony
- The multinational, multimedia information channels want to kill Brexit because fewer buying points and bot-controlled news distribution aligns them more easily to the Superstates involved, making them (in the end) virtually indispensible in the process of dictating ‘reality narratives’
- The banking system wants to kill Brexit because it would vastly increase the chances of a superbloc currency failure, such an event being a major potential catalyst in the process of collapsing the entire value-free, debt-riddled, economically stagnant and internally self-destructive monetarist perversion of creative capitalism.
Well, all these agents of disinformation and obfuscation have played their role with admirable (albeit evil) skill. Without any evidence beyond predictive speculation, they have persuaded millions of voters that trading under WTO is The Black Death, an independent Britain would turn into a haven for neo-Nazis, the EU is a force for social democracy, Russia is hellbent on global domination, the Gilets Jaunes represent populist anarchy, and – given a chance – an illiberal, unaudited, antidemocratic, fundamentally protectionist and anti-entrepreneurial, pro-monopoly European Union is the best place for Britain to be.
All this in the light of a Britain that has a massive trade surplus with the world beyond wannabe federalist Europe, and a massive trade deficit with that same totalitarian European construct.
Somewhere in a spinning coffin, George Orwell is laughing fit to wet his pants.
Winding up for the Government last night, Stephen Barclay paid tribute to “the enormous contribution made by Whitehall to arriving at this Brexit deal”. He meant it as a compliment, whereas the evidence suggests that most British voters would see it as a clinically accurate verdict on where much of the blame for our existential pickle lies.
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Where do we go from here? Over the last fortnight, I have posted to say that Sovereign Brexit is dead and we need to think beyond it; and Brextension is inevitable, so we need to think beyond that too.
The problem for Britain is, everything is now dead: thanks to around 610 myopic sociopaths, we are all optioned out. So my position for the time being (today, but don’t hold me to that sports fans) is to go for the one longshot that might deliver us a Leaver House of Commons…..which is, of course, a General Election.
A second referendum remains the chosen route for the Labour Party. It’s an archetypal Leftlib idea, given that it would deliver precisely nothing, because (a) all the polls suggest that either way the result would still be very close and (b) we are not in a position to offer Remain versus clearer versions of Brexit in such a poll.
Neither Party will want another election, as they are both hopelessly split and lacking confidence in their respective leaders. So as per usual, what we need ain’t what we gonna get.
But if new bunfights force us in that direction, this time the armchair wing of Leave needs to get its kit together, have a plan in place for tactical voting, and pray that someone – Farage most likely, if he isn’t busy marching for things overtaken by events – can be a receptacle for positive Leave votes.
Meanwhile, it’s onwards and downwards to further predictable betrayal.
The act of betrayal is not yet over. Corbyn is rallying Remainers across the House of Commons to find a deal that the EU will accept. Corbyn will use such a deal to claim that he is the de facto PM. The EU will spaff themselves at the thought of choosing who resides at Number 10. The one thing we will not get is a general election before the betrayal is complete, because the Tories and Labour cannot pull off the same lie of standing on a manifesto and then ditching the commitment made as soon as the votes are counted. At least the Lib Dems lived up to their name by standing on what they wanted to do with Brexit.
Is Corbyn as dim as his A-level results suggest or is he settling for the quiet life? He has chosen being a hero to his Islington friends over representing the thousands in the North who came to his meetings in 2017. Does he not understand that he is sacrificing his chance to lead a reforming government? My view has long been that being a real revolutionary is too much like hard work for Jeremy. Meeting Hamas and the IRA is all the frisson that he wants. He himself would happily go down in history as the man that pleased Tory voters in Surrey by nationalising the railways.
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Someone should tell the House that 17,410,742 beats 321 into a cocked hat.
If I remember correctly Parliament was allowed to help decide HOW we would Brexit not if we SHOULD – that had already been decided by the referendum.
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sarah newton resigns as dwp minister and amazingly
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Remarkably, the Prime Minister has just walked past me to vote AGAINST her own motion and FOR a no deal Brexit. #BrexitShambles
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…. and can those responsible remove yvette cooper ballsbrain from her seat in the hoc!!
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It is with a heavy heart that I have to report of a considerable froideur which has settled about Caratacus Towers. I have learnt that to growl at the wireless or, increasingly of late, the idiot’s lantern in the corner of the sitting room, every time some bloody fool at the BBC follows what is patently The Line to parrot, is not conducive to domestic calm. Tonight, however, I made the mistake of observing that a BBC “journalist” was absolutely beyond the pale, and so patently in the pay of Brussels, that I despaired of any fool so stupid as to be taken in by it all. I went further and remarked, en passant, that the denizens of our particular close could not give a FF as long as Eastenders was on the box and there were sufficient chicken nuggets and chips with which to feed their barely sentient brood. I admit I went too far. There are times when it is wise to keep one’s counsel, take a deep breath and reflect upon the eternity of being. But FFS – I mean to say …
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the current debate on ‘no deal’ is finally flushing them out – it would be funny if it were not so serious an event – democracy well, in the words of Jess philips – “she’s not afraid of her constituents who voted to leave” she would stand up against them tralala …. owen smith currently boring everybody to tears ….
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The best way forward after that will be a General Election. Just watch our legislators avoid that option for as long as possible.
Agreed but until the local elections are over in May, and the PBI [sorry local councillors] bear the wrath of the electors. Our political masters will sit on their hands.
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I.A.B.A.T.N.i ………..It’s All Bollock AndThey No It…..And so do we , Light will always overcomes darkness, our time is coming,
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just watching the obnoxious gobshite jess philips – may she burn in hell at the next election
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taking the ‘no deal leave’ option off the table is only a temporary move.. it comes back on again after 29th march..
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Blinder of a piece John, excellent work.
DavidC
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Truly excellent again, JW.
May I email this to my MP, Michael Fallon?
Cheers,
John Doran.
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On PoliticsLive today the discussions, like for the most part, have been about ‘Soft Brexit’, “Peoples Vote’ and ‘Constituent voting’.
Was it really in 2016, that the Democratic Outcome was both decided and disgarded into oblivion in the same breadth?
What a sick country……
The Remoaners got played by the MSM, BBC, Politicians. Most are happy to Moo.
Tens of thousands of more people have died because of this Tory Government, and yet the Remainer vitriol is to those that voted OUT.
You just couldn’t make this up.
Some more friendships are about to bite the dust in 2019. That it took a Referedum to find a lot of peoples true qualities was a shock.
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It is interesting to note that the substantial immigration increase during 1997- 2010
labour dominance at the polls appears to have had a subsequent effect on the Tory vote. Cameron ruled with a liberal coalition and his pledge to give a Remain / Leave
referendum in Jan 2013 at the next election in 2016 was ill judged. Labour and Liberals plus others were not in favour of a referendum at the time of announcement. With the Tory majority at 12 after the 2015 election there was no chance of members of the H of C. changing to a leave position. This is the fatal flaw in his reasoning as he imagined the Hof C reflected the will of the people and a remain vote was effectively past the post. When this did not happen T M then proceeds to hold a general election in the full knowledge that Tory share of seats had entered a downward spiral over the last 2 decades. Given these facts and the failure to see that the EU negotiators hold all the cards we have MPs from all over the H of C procrastinating about the tweaking and supplementing of a busted flush.
I truly despair at the lack of common sense in those who are elected to rule our nation. For decades the system of government in the UK has been an example to many countries and to see it trashed by current members in such a cavalier manner does not bode well.
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Majestic John, if I may paraphrase “never in the field of democracy has so much damage been done to so many by so few” and I have to agree with a new general election when hopefully enough UKIP guys can get elected to force through no deal and no money to the buggers in the EU.
If that happens can the nation then arrest Blair for treason hang the bu****.
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I expect that soon we will be told by our MPs about how courageous they have been in voting for what they believe in and over-ruling the will of the electorate.
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I offer one thought for moving forward from this Brexitmess created by remainers. It’s a longer game….
At every given opportunity – be it Local Elections, General Elections, or even European Elections (if the proposed extension is long enough) vote for an independant candidate (none of the LibLabCon) – whichever independant person is standing in your area regardless of your or their politics vote for them. If 17 miilion odd voters do this then the main parties will be consigned to history. Once rid of them we have a chance of freedom and independence. Whilst the LibLabCon’s are still in Westmonster we have no chance at all.
It’s either that or bloody revolution !!!!
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Brilliant as ever John.
Regarding Brextension, they don’t need an extension when the no deal option is taken off the table. If Europe is not prepared to deal or comes with more unacceptable proposals we will continue in limbo unable to leave. Striking a deal require good faith of both parties something which is obviously lacking.
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The trick would be to actually GET a Leaver House of Commons, after all the majority of MPs were voted in on the basis of Brexit will be honoured. Only an MP by MP declaration of whether they would support No Deal Brexit or not would suffice and even that might not actually translate into Leave.
The May Plan, which is actually no plan at all, only a declaration of what we would hope to negotiate, would inevitably end up with us still paying billions into the EU outside of the 39 billion. Something you never hear mentioned but is inevitable just the same, as was always intended of course.
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Yesterday was the start, the HoC will now lead this Country away from any meaningful Brexit and then the 650 (or so) members will find a way of blaming anyone but themselves for the farce unfolding before us.
None of them are fit for purpose and are clearly not deserving of our support.
Several people I have spoken to this morning have said they will never vote again, democracy is dead etc, etc. I disagree and think that voting is the only way we can begin to set things back on the right track.
A general election cannot be far away and we all need to vote, but, for one term only, we need to vote for candidates, whoever they are, and for which ever party they are standing for, WHO ARE NOT SITTING IN THE HoC TODAY!
Chaos I here being cried, but to be honest, it really cannot be any worse than the situation we are facing today, and how else can we get the message across to the self serving turds that make up our parliament today?
They are taking the piss out of us and will not listen to us, they bloody well would listen to us if every single one of then secured no votes at all next time out, come on people, lets show them we’ve had enough.
Anyone any better ideas?
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Maybe Big Adam and Big Anne should get together – I’m sure there’s a story there – Big Bang maybe!!
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If democracy is to dispensed with, so too must those who purport to represent the people.
Presidente Blair, anybody?
Exceedingly dark clouds on the horizon … and drawing ever closer.
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Very well said. Brexit has certainly smoked out all those who are temperamentally anti-democratic. That’s something, I suppose.
As for Hillary Benn, what a big girl’s blouse he is.
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Well said, John sadly.
I caught a snippet of ‘Today’ on Radio 4 this am and did hear one other similar voice of reason, Sir Christopher Meyer.
He more or less said that a different PM would at this moment tell the EU we would now have to end this mess and so we are leaving on 29 March on WTO terms. If they want to come and talk to us in the meantime, that is up to them. After all the British people were brave enough to opt for out so the PM should now be brave too.
If Mrs May is not brave but instead allows NO Deal to be taken off the table, as he said before being faded out…“They’ve got us by the what-nots and they will exploit that to the maximum” .
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#MrPootersBrexit.
WE NEED A NEW CHARTIST MOVEMENT. PARLIAMENT IS NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE. BREXIT BETRAYAL OF THE BRITISH ELECTORATE
Synthesis.
Start here with your own experience. Bring here your
open mind and trust your instinctive feeling for truth.
As resolution of discord demands a return to the tonic. The Tonic for our dissonant condition is a harmonic resolution to the Chord of Nature.
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Thesis.
In a diary of a nobody, Mr Pooter,
is everyman and woman. Striving.
Petit Bourgeois, discordant with
their lot, in earnest to impress.
Anti Thesis
Life liberty and the pursuit of happiness,
inalienable rights , the laws of Nature
and of natures god.A constitution
written for a usurping class, claiming
authority, a reflection of common sense,
and pained to see. This revolution of , by and for Whom?
Synthesis.
As the victor writes history so the powerful pass laws to satisfy their own ends. Power only represents the powerful.
Moyenne Bourgeoise and Grande
Haute Bourgeoise. A Class cuisine, Escoffier
Classical Aspiration. One acquires,
A bourgeoise aesthetic, Petit Bourgeoise Sycophancy.
NOT COUNTING NIGGERS
GEORGE ORWELL
Here and there in the book, though not often, there are references to the ‘dependencies’ of the democratic states. ‘Dependencies’ means subject races. It is explained that they are to go on being dependencies, that their resources are to be pooled among the states of the Union, and that their coloured inhabitants will lack the right to vote in Union affairs. Except where the tables of statistics bring it out, one would never for a moment guess what numbers of human beings are involved. India, for instance, which contains more inhabitants than the whole of the ‘fifteen democracies’ put together, gets just a page and a half in Mr Streit’s book, and that merely to explain that as India is not yet fit for self-government the status quo must continue. And here one begins to see what would really be happening if Mr Streit’s scheme were put into operation. The British and French empires, with their six hundred million disenfranchised human beings, would simply be receiving fresh police forces; the huge strength of the USA would be behind the robbery of India and Africa. Mr Streit is letting cats out of bags, but all phrases like ‘Peace Bloc’, ‘Peace Front’, etc contain some such implication; all imply a tightening-up of the existing structure. The unspoken clause is always ‘not counting niggers’. For how can we make a ‘firm stand’ against Hitler if we are simultaneously weakening ourselves at home? In other words, how can we ‘fight Fascism’ except by bolstering up a far vaster injustice?
January 03, 2013
WE’RE ALL NIGGERS NOW.
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