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It's OK, I won't say I told you so - part V: Now there's a sentence

But neither Labour nor the Tory wets ever really grasped why Thatcherism worked.

Their attitude to the lady’s economic legacy was like that of savage tribesmen towards an artefact bequeathed by a higher civilization – respectful but uncomprehending.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/10/09/should-classical-liberals-abandon-hope-conservative-party/

God damn it.  What a brilliant one liner that is.  And, to be honest, that article is the most important to have been written in 6 years.  Apart from those written by me that predicted exactly the same 6 years ago.

That Hannan cannot grasp that the Single Market, Four Freedoms, and State Aid Rules was Margaret Thatcher's legacy, invented, designed and implemented by her and her people precisely because she and they knew that the "savage tribesmen" would revert to type and couldn't be trusted with that legacy, is the final plot line twist that seals Blighty's fate, which is, to become the Venezuela of Europe in perpetuity.

She threw the torch of her legacy, that of classical Liberalism and Libertarianism, to Brussels, and Baby Thatcher - Guy Verhofstadt and his mates - picked it up and shone it back on Blighty for 30 years, during which time we have never been so prosperous and free.

Hannan cannot grasp that.  As though the spear tip of one savage tribesman somehow nicked his Achilles heal as he passed it by, and thereby his "higher civilisation" couldn't bear to let Johnny Foreigner uphold the torch of her legacy, his ideology, over us, and so he was instrumental in extinguishing it forever, as much as any fully fledged savage tribesman.

For classical liberals to give up on the conservative coalition would be fundamentally self-indulgent. It would mean removing the last constraints on government, and ensuring that the debt and inflation crises are needlessly exacerbated. It would mean withdrawing into electoral irrelevance.

Perhaps voters are not yet in the mood for liberty. Perhaps we small government types are still at the Keith Joseph rather than the Margaret Thatcher stage. But when we do eventually turn things around, it will be as part of a broad alliance capable of winning and exercising power. We have no right to walk away now.

As I said 6 years ago and ever since: Brexit means we will have to wait for oblivion before any possibility of Thatcherism and a restoration of prosperity and Liberty.

He cheerfully assumes it will be so as soon as we pass through oblivion's door: "But when we do eventually turn things round", he says.

Ha ha, double fool.  There's no-one left but me and him now.  All generations have been de-Thatcherised by the indoctrination of state education and the BBC and pro-state manipulated media, the peeps and pols are all statists now.  There are no Tory ears to bend, and obviously none elsewhere.

The new Dark Age is upon us.  And that Lady's not for turning.

SoD

Dear Lord

330,000 x the prophet Muhammad.  And that's just in France ...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/10/05/least-330000-children-suffered-sex-abuse-hands-french-catholic/ 

France's Catholic Church has covered up sexual abuse by clergymen and lay personnel against more than 330,000 children since 1950, according to an explosive investigation released on Tuesday.

The church for decades drew "a veil of silence" over "systemic" abuse, even sometimes knowingly putting children in touch with predators, said Jean-Marc Sauvé, head of the Independent Commission for Abuse in the Church (Ciase).

Most of the victims were boys, many of them aged between 10 and 13.

After a two-and-a-half-year investigation into alleged sex abuse of minors by priests, deacons and monks, the commission put the number of victims of paedophilia over the past 70 years at 216,000.

When lay members of the Church such as teachers at Catholic schools are included, the number of child abuse victims climbs to 330,000 over the seven-decade period.

Dear Lord, what did we do to deserve the Catholic church?

Or did it come from the other guy?

SoD

It's OK, I won't say I told you so - The Prequel

In addition to the ruinous economics of leaving the SMFFASAR, we can travel back in time to see the political blunder of leaving the EU, kindly supplied by the glorious comedy of the 1970's ...

 

It's been Blighty's time honoured duty to disrupt any hegemony that might develop in continental Europe ever since Blighty existed.

Our forefathers now pushing up the daisies in Flanders handed us a beautiful gift through their sacrifice:  That we might sustain this struggle with merely Jaw-Jaw and not War-War.  The EU came about because of the revulsion to the horrors of industrial-grade modern war in Europe and the desire to never repeat it.  We could replace cold steel with hot air as the means to settle our differences with the Euros and, most importantly, stop any one major player making an empire of continental Europe.

As Sir Humphrey says, "We had to break the whole thing up, so we had to get inside.  We tried to break it up from the outside, but that wouldn't work".

Well, as von Clausewitz said, "War is just the continuation of politics by other means".  Breaking it up from the outside eventually involves cold steel, whereas on the inside it's only hot air that's required.  Although cold steel works sometimes, it's what you might call sub-optimal compared to using hot air to the same effect.  50m dead in WW2, for example.

With Uncle Sam 50 paces right rear, and the Nordics, Baltics, Ost Bloccers, and Balkans now up and running and challenging the Franco-German hegemony with deep whingeing and whining and an infinite begging bowl, the chance for Blighty to Carpe Diem and build a coalition to neutralise the Franks and Hun forever was an absolute sitter.

But no, we threw away our chance, and to use von Clausewitz's "war is politics by other means" adage again:  We did a Dunkirk and left our friends and allies in the do-do, when instead we should have done a D-Day and helped them - and claimed the European crown for Blighty and Uncle Sam into the bargain.

The West would be more united for it, and the Franks and Jerries - "Either at your throat or at your feet" as Winnie said - relegated to eternally licking our boots while we pull the strings in Brussels.

Good call 23rd June 2016.

SoD

It's OK, I won't say I told you so - part IV: The foothills of oblivion

The Blue Socialist and Brexit pundits, wriggling and spinning to try and deflect the blame for their mess, turn to blaming each other ...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/29/brexit-hating-global-elite-watching-britains-chaos-glee/

The resounding criticism of their own Blue Socialism ...

What’s wrong with this Government? Why is it so passive, veering from crisis to crisis without a strategy, devoid of any meaningful plan? Speak to the Prime Minister’s core supporters, and you soon detect that an earlier sense of disappointment is mutating into a slow, mounting fury at the chaos and incompetence that this Government increasingly exudes.

Such people voted Brexit in 2016 and Tory in 2019 because they thought the country was on the wrong track and that it was time for a radical shake-up. They are starting to fear that they wasted their time, that this Government will let them down just as badly as previous ones did, on crime, on the economy and on cultural issues.

"Take back control" is being seen for what it really means: total loss of control!  Like a geriatric patient having just been cleaned up by the EU carers for thirty years proudly returning to his bed - only to immediately shit his pants again!  Not even able to control its own bowels and borders, the very declaration it so clearly expounded would be possible, now covered in poo ...

Why is it taking so long to send the Army in? Why can’t the DVLA be fixed? And what about the UK’s inability to control its own borders, as demonstrated by the fact that 17,085 people have arrived from the Channel on small boats so far this year – double 2020’s total already? Or to defend Jersey, which fears the French might cut off electricity supplies if Britain doesn’t surrender on fishing rights?

And the downward spiral of more and more statism and authoritarianism:  "Send in the army", "Fix the DVLA".  Do they know the state never fixed British Leyland, British Coal, British Rail, British Steel, gas, electricity, water and telecoms when under its control?  Those industries got fixed by ceasing to be controlled by the state, not by more state!

And the pathetic, pitiful exhortation to send in an army that hasn't won a war since 1982.

All this, dear friends, is just the beginning.  It is but nothing compared to what is going to happen.

This is what the foothills of oblivion look like ...

Be afraid.  Be very afraid.

SoD

Do only white men know slavery this well?

Bob, Blade runner is a film about white man's culture.

Have you ever wondered why a replicant would be called "Roy Batty?". I mean, it's not exactly the sort of exotic name sci-fi would normally associate with an advanced synthetic human, is it?  Maybe Zed Zillon, C3PO, but "Roy Batty"? Roy Batty is a working class empire soldier. He has the kind of name you see on headstones in Flanders and the Punjab.

A workmate of mine from times past is one. I spent an interesting evening in a gloomy pub in North Wales while the rain lashed down like a cat o' nine tails outside, as he told me how he'd crawled through a minefield in the dark with a torch and an acetylene bottle on his back to fix and retrieve a damaged four tonner, with Iraqi snipers and machine gunners taking pot shots at him.  And how he'd watched the MLRS send rockets like meteors through the cool Arabian night's stars, barging past the shoulder of Orion and lifting the Tannenhauer Gate off its fucking hinges.

He and our ilk have been both slave and slaver, and there's no race on earth gets it like us. Take a look at the stats if you don't believe me ...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_21st_century

As of 2018, the countries with the most slaves were: India (18.4 million), China (3.86 million), Pakistan (3.19 million), North Korea (2.64 million), Nigeria (1.39 million), Indonesia (1.22 million), Democratic Republic of the Congo (1 million), Russia (794,000) and the Philippines (784,000).

The peeps still doing slavery are all black, brown and yellow! With one exception, the last unreconstructed "Roy Batty", who else but Vlad. The proverbial in the white woodpile (Oh God, time to die ... Ed).

White culture - Vlad aside - is post-slave and post-slaver. We have had our moment of grasping the victim by the wrist and pulling him up to the ledge to join us.

Our time as slave and slaver has run its course, like a replicant. We have passed our "time to die". The rest of the world is playing catch-up.

And imagine, that was the thickest race on earth. The one that underperforms Asian and Chinese people in exam results in the classroom and in earnings in the workplace. And now that blacks have found their feet, most of Roy Batty's communities are outperformed by blacks in the classroom and the workplace, putting whites bottom of the pile.

So just imagine when the racial Albert Einsteins of the top three get a grip of it.  (Starter for one: South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, anyone?).  We'll have Funded Libertarianism on steroids to the horizons.  If you want a vision of the future, imagine a feather caressing a human face - forever.

And all those Batty moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

Yes Ed.  Time to die.

SoD

It's OK, I won't say I told you so - part III: The desolation of Brexit

Bloody plagiarism by the Independent!  Predicting post-Brexit Blighty to being like the 1970's cataclysm was all written 5 years ago by me here on D&N.  These hindsight jockeys really don't cut the mustard ...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/european-newspapers-uk-fuel-crisis-b1926226.html

The kingdom of empty shelves

Our legal reps, Messrs Sue, Grabbit & Runne, are on the case.

Brexit is the cause of fuel and food shortages because Blighty is unable to tap the EU single market for lorry drivers.  Period.

Who TF is Grant Shapps trying to kid when he tries to say otherwise? ...

https://inews.co.uk/news/hgv-driver-shortage-haulage-chief-grant-shapps-brexit-blame-lorry-crisis-1216190

There are no fuel shortages due to scarce lorry drivers in the EU.  There are no empty super-market shelves due to scarce lorry drivers in the EU.  The only place that cannot buy its way into more lorry drivers is the place that has withdrawn from the vast EU single market for those lorry drivers - the foetus-brained turnip called Blighty!

And after denying that Brexit is the cause of excessive scarcity of lorry drivers in the UK by throttling off the supply of them from the EU single market, Shapps does the very thing that proves he's wrong: he throws a squillion visas at EU single market lorry drivers to bid them back in! ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58694004

Can you believe this double-think?  Utterly illogical contradiction, spouted in plain view.  It's completely surreal.

Politicians, the most useless individuals who never worked in the market in their lives, let alone rose to the top like a Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Alan Sugar, or Richard Branson, set themselves up in place of the market and fail catastrophically!  And then they try to emulate the very system they berated - and fail again because they're no good at it - which is why they never became super-CEO's in the first place!

Politicians have "taken back control" from the successful market of half a billion people, and failure ensues as it always does.  Period.

Get over it and get over yourselves, you foetus-brained turnips.

SoD

It's OK, I won't say I told you so - part II: The Four Riders of the Apocalypse

So the supermarket shelves are empty and there's no fuel in the petrol stations.

What did you expect?  This is Blue Socialism, FFS!  Doin' the do wherever it goes, irrespective of colour, socialism empties the shelves and tank like no other system known to man ...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/23/chill-winds-signal-second-winter-discontent-coming/

The chill winds that signal a second Winter of Discontent is coming

Life about to get ugly as Britain faces perfect storm of rising fuel bills, food shortages and tax increases

Ministers fear a second Winter of Discontent – and with good reason.

A chill wind beckons, with fuel shortages and runaway inflation added to a list of woes that already included empty supermarket shelves, spiralling energy bills, a tax rise in the spring and an extraordinarily badly timed cut to Universal Credit for the poorest families. 

Economists predicted a hike in interest rates, and with it the prospect of higher mortgage repayments.

On Thursday, senior ministers, speaking on condition of anonymity, warned of the "collision of a Winter of Discontent'".

You voted for this.  You Muppets!  Not once, not twice, not three times, but four times!  Here's the list of the four riders of the apocalypse, and all four of them were your choice ...

Blue Socialism, Brexit, Climate Alarmism, Covid Tyranny

The power grab that happens next when Blighty's ludicrous half-baked democracy justifies "emergency measures" across the board off the back of the Covid Tyranny will cement her status as the "Venezuela of Europe".

There's quite literally no-one in power left alive with any knowledge of, or willingness to do, what is necessary to prevent the decline and fall.  Every pol in Blighty to the horizon is tarnished by at least one, and mostly all four, of those riders of the apocalypse.

Democracy has become worthless.  Indistinguishable from tyranny.  Re-elected tyranny.

They - you - have won.

SoD

Climate alarmism causing the UK and EU energy crisis

You can take your pick from any of climate alarmism's propaganda organs currently trying to spin their way out of the catastrophe they have brought to the energy industries of the UK and EU, and knock their blame passing attempts down one by one.  Here's one for example ...

https://www.qz.com/2059429/why-are-electricity-bills-so-high-in-the-uk-and-europe/amp/

The spike was caused by a combination of rising carbon credit prices, low output from wind farms, transmission infrastructure outages, and skyrocketing prices for natural gas.

So one by one then ...

(1) "Rising carbon credit prices".  Well that's directly attributable to climate alarmism, it's their system FFS.

(2) "Low output from wind farms".  Also directly attributable to climate alarmism, it's their system FFS.

(3) "Transmission infrastructure outages".  Follow the link from the QZ article ...

https://mobile.twitter.com/JavierBlas/status/1438054066739941376

French power, largely nuclear, provides more than all our windmills put together.  Why don't we have nuclear power to match and compete with the extra we buy from France and stand up our energy supply when the French go down?  Anti-nuclear green alarmism, sister of, and joined at the hip to, climate alarmism.

(4) "Skyrocketing prices for natural gas".  The blundering QZ article fumbles its own spin and answers that one for us ...

And surging competition for liquified natural gas (LNG) shipments with China and other Asian countries, where it is increasingly used to replace coal.

Why is LNG used to replace coal?  Climate alarmism again, LNG being perceived as cleaner than coal sees climate alarmism strong arming China and Asia into LNG, thereby forcing up the price.

And yet the QZ article spins the truth into a tub-thump for more windmills.

A global delusion being propagandised into the minds of humanity in plain view.

These people are sick.

SoD

Cheese, kiwis and carbon off the menu, and the dragon in the room

The new "AUKUS" defence pact between Blighty, Uncle Sam and Oz has ruffled some feathers ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-58592613.amp

One up: France with their loss of a multi-billion diesel subs deal.  You know it's bad when the Froggies refuse to go to a freebie cheese and wine party! ...

France's Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian called the announcement a "stab in the back".

He called it a "brutal, unilateral and unpredictable decision" that reminded him of former president Donald Trump.

French diplomats in Washington cancelled a gala to celebrate ties between the US and France in retaliation.

Ooh-la-la!

Two up: Ping-a-Ling smarting and ranting about Cold War II being on the cards ...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-58564837.amp

China has condemned the agreement as "extremely irresponsible".

Foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said it "seriously undermines regional peace and stability and intensifies the arms race".

China's embassy in Washington accused the countries of a "Cold War mentality and ideological prejudice".

Would it were so Xi me old mate, would it were so!  Keep talking it up into the bargain and let's get "Cold War mentality" circulating globally again - double quick time!

Three up: AUKUS just pissed all over COP26's fireworks because Ping-a-Ling's "Me no-likey" hissy-fit might mean he pulls the plug on toeing the zero carbon line ...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/16/aukus-pact-dash-hopes-china-emissions-deal-cop26-climate

The timing of the new defence deal between the US, UK and Australia has dismayed climate experts, who fear it could have a negative effect on hopes of a deal with China on greenhouse gas emissions ahead of vital UN climate talks.

The Anglo-sphere cooking on gas!  I say, well done Carruthers!

But there has to be one Judas doesn't there?  One for whom the filthy lucre proves just too irresistible?

Are the Kiwis going to play the Belgium part in this coming war?  Try to be neutral and reap the benefits of both teams - and thereby make itself a latter-day Flanders football to be kicked around by the two sides' players when it really kicks off? ...

https://theconversation.com/amp/anzus-without-nz-why-the-new-security-pact-between-australia-the-uk-and-us-might-not-be-all-it-seems-168071

At which point New Zealand could have expected a drum roll, too, having only just marked the 70th anniversary of the ANZUS agreement. That didn’t happen, and New Zealand was conspicuously absent from the choreographed announcement hosted by the White House.

Having remained committed to the Five Eyes security agreement and having put boots on the ground in Afghanistan for the duration, “NZ” appears to have been taken out of ANZUS and replaced with “UK”.

That is perhaps surprising. Despite problematic comments by New Zealand’s trade minister about Australia’s dealings with China, and the foreign minister’s statement that she “felt uncomfortable” with the expanding remit of the Five Eyes, reassurances by Ardern about New Zealand’s commitment should have calmed concerns.

One has to assume, therefore, that even if New Zealand had been asked to join, it might have chosen to opt out anyway.

Nonetheless, the fact that New Zealand’s supposedly extra-special relationship with Britain, Australia and America hasn’t made it part of the in-crowd will raise eyebrows. Especially while no one likes to mention the elephant – or should that be dragon? – in the room: New Zealand’s relationship with China.

Or perhaps "Plucky little New Zealand" will try to dismount the dragon? ...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/25/a-matter-of-time-new-zealands-foreign-minister-warns-china-storm-could-be-coming

It was one of the minister’s more frank discussions of the vulnerability of New Zealand’s trade dependency on China – and a clear directive to local exporters that they should be seeking to redistribute some of those eggs to baskets elsewhere.

But as the old Chinese adage goes, "Ch'i 'hu nan hsia pei".

SoD