AS WE, the battered, bemused and bewildered individuals, watch our Prime Minister go away workplace, what are we to make of his three years as Our Chief?
He leaves the nation in utter chaos, each side of presidency a shambles and with no prospect of enchancment. But the Guardian laments his going – in spite of everything, he has ruled, along with his neo-Marxist civil service, as an enormous state, excessive tax and spend socialist, indulging the elite technocrats and stamping on the odd individuals and small enterprise, an East German mannequin of governance, together with the communist use of mass media to instil worry and obedience whereas crushing dissent.
He loves bestriding the world stage, on the Ukraine and COP26, whereas ignoring the chaos he creates for his personal individuals; certainly his international actions convey solely ache to the plebs. His embrace of the faith of Web Zero has sacrificed us on the altar of St Greta Thunberg, shutting coal-burning energy stations, stopping fracking and fuel storage, and taking pictures vitality costs into the stratosphere.
He quits workplace telling us to soak up the ache and the poverty he has triggered, quite as Jim Jones’s group was informed to commit mass suicide as he left the stage in bloody havoc. Jones was a extremely expert propagandist and groomer of his followers, most of whom drank their cyanide cordial in passive acceptance. Johnson’s specialism, his solely ability, is rhetoric. His parting message is willingly to endure the financial suicide he has engineered, for the divine reason for internet zero and for the sake of Ukraine.
If we’re in a warfare scenario, we have to invoke wartime emergency powers without delay to override the Web Zero laws and guarantee vitality provides into the winter, together with holding our coal-fired energy stations. We should pause this mad and arbitrary date of 2030 as the top of fossil gasoline energy era. We’re in a extreme emergency and should resist this invitation by our cult chief to endure his auto-da-fé.
Transport is one other dimension of nationwide life left in ashes by our ex-Chief. One of many first worrying indicators of his lack of guts to face down Whitehall was his acceptance of the continuation of that huge monster of waste and ecological destruction, HS2. He ought to have halted this already outdated and pointless rail system, however selected to indulge his civil servants and the huge overseas engineering companies who will revenue from it. In his personal constituency, Ruislip has been become a scene from the Somme – the size of destruction is horrible – and for what? Enterprise is now carried out on-line by Zoom, as Whitehall tells us with out drawing the logical conclusion that HS2 is a useless vainness undertaking. We’re within the grip of rail strikes, a pre-Thatcher world of union dominance and blackmail. Why did the federal government fail to impose computerised driverless trains on the rail community and London’s Tube as a strict situation of the billions paid to them in furlough funds? Our ex-Chief was too busy imbibing pink wine with Carrie and her pals throughout the Covid disaster to know any alternatives it’d current.
Then now we have the continuing indulgence by Whitehall of the development firms turning motorways into killer ‘sensible’ motorways with no laborious shoulder – once more, the sample is to sacrifice the general public and indulge huge enterprise. The promised electrification of the railway between Leeds and Manchester is not going to occur: the obscene prices of HS2 ought to have gone to such upgrades, very clearly. The rhetoric of ‘levelling up’ rings hole within the North. And the place did these ‘free ports’ get to, with the mandatory transport hyperlinks? Air journey is in chaos for the general public, however not for our elite after all, as within the East German system of socialism. The loopy drive to electrical automobiles is hammering the non-wealthy and ‘white van man’ tradesmen. Electrical diggers run out of energy after 4 hours and should be recharged by, sure, diesel mills.
1000’s of unlawful migrants are welcomed to our shores by our authorities machine, an entire inversion of our ex-Chief’s empty guarantees. Priti Patel will turn into the stuff of political jest: she has been stitched up by her globalist civil servants. The nation wants agricultural employees, baggage handlers and builders: younger male migrants are absolutely splendid employees to do such jobs quite than be despatched to Rwanda? The rising variety of migrants means extra and extra stress on utilities, a key space mired in crass inefficiency and avarice. This text has a robust critique of presidency indulgence of greed and dangerous regulation.
A Telegraph article highlights the water firms’ cosy relationship with ‘regulators’. It notes that ‘almost all main water firms in England make use of former Ofwat regulators’. Professor Dieter Helm, a former authorities adviser, warns that if guidelines round appointments are usually not ‘cleaned up’, it’s going to strengthen arguments to nationalise the business, which has been criticised in latest months for its failure to sort out sewage air pollution and leaks, and for the size of its earnings and dividends. But once more we see authorities in mattress with huge companies and hedge funds and degrading the standard of lifetime of most people. Sleaze, inertia and autocracy: such is the legacy of our ex-Chief.
Whether or not he was ever a real believer in Brexit is a query historians will increase; many suppose he used the problem for purely private development and I think they’re proper. Like Theresa Could, for whose Brino he voted at its third presentation to the Commons, he has solely ‘bought Brexit performed’ in essentially the most formal of the way, leaving the substance of a lot EU regulation in place. Liz Truss’s commerce offers have been hindered and compromised by Remainer civil servants and ministers, as Catherine McBride has proven in her Briefings for Brexit articles. DEFRA has sought to stay to EU laws agriculturally and any trace of a post-Brexit farming renaissance has been firmly suppressed, because it has in schooling and coaching; no reset has occurred. Because the commentators stated on the time of the formal quitting, the UK was left on a fence, betwixt and between, and needing a agency Brexit momentum to implement self-sufficiency and sovereignty. The explanation for Caroline Bell’s rejection in Briefings for Brexit of the ultimate ‘deal’ was exactly as a result of it gave an excessive amount of room for Remainer political and bureaucratic sabotage and resistance, and that’s what has occurred: our ex-Chief has sat on his fingers indulging the Remainer forces and permitting the case for Brexit to be swamped in Remainer propaganda. He has betrayed Northern Eire by adamantly refusing to set off Article 16 of the Northern Eire Protocol, regardless of its being there exactly for the scenario attributable to the NIP. He allowed Lord Frost to be undermined and eliminated because the UK lead negotiator. Liz Truss, alas, is very unlikely to have the heart to do the mandatory and set off Article 16 – the entire weight of Whitehall is in opposition to this in addition to almost all of the media. If not, Northern Eire will proceed to be levered away from the UK by our ‘pals and allies’. She has been too lengthy subservient to the mandarins of Whitehall to upset our pals in Brussels and their Sinn Fein patsy Joe Biden. She is unlikely to behave to guard UK fisheries or to ditch the EU-based monetary regulation holding again the Metropolis.
Lastly, an remark on the mindset of globalisation so highly effective in our politics. Our vitality disaster has deep roots in our civil service allegiance to seeing the UK as sovereign solely in a proper sense however in actuality a part of an financial and bureaucratic matrix, the EU. Final summer time the federal government was decided to not go for vitality self-sufficiency however depend on interconnectors sending energy to and from EU nations. The UK shut down Tough, the large fuel storage facility off the Yorkshire coast, arguing that it was not wanted given the connections to France, our pal and ally – although the French Senate had brazenly declared it might use vitality blackmail to make sure the UK handed over all its fisheries on the subsequent EU-UK talks in 2026. The UK was additionally within the grip of the inexperienced virus, shutting down its coal energy stations, making the Drax energy station run on wooden pellets imported from the US in diesel-powered tankers quite the coal a number of miles away This was reckless folly, globalism at its most harmful, and little question being watched, if not fostered, with rising curiosity by the Kremlin. We’re left uncovered, however our institution will not be being held to account for this Walter Mitty policy-making.
This globalism bizarrely applies even to our NHS disaster and the collapse of house recruitment and retention of nurses. Our Division of Well being doesn’t search to resolve the thriller of why recruitment to this well-paid and important occupation has plunged, and as an alternative is plundering the world for skilled nurses as a predominant coverage. Japan, India, Kenya, the Philippines and now Nepal are all targets. Is that this not a type of fashionable ‘colonialist’ indentured labour inflicted by a wealthy nation on much less rich states? To the globalist mentality, it’s effective, and avoids dealing with the reality of issues at house, that girls have been alienated from the noble job of nursing, regardless of good pay, below the management of the icily technocratic Blob.
Our ex-Chief, passing to us our poisonous cordial of financial, cultural, and social pauperisation, walks away from the mud and ashes, providing no concepts for nationwide restoration and reset, a legacy of chaotic decline and degeneration. However the govt pay will proceed to stream – just like the sewage.
