LEADERSHIP OF TORY PARTY

22 October 2022

It's true that the Conservative Party membership have a love affair with Boris, but I don't think it goes any further than that - not into the country and certainly not into the financial and investment districts.

If it's true that investors are calling the shots these days, then it looks like Rishi. Or if it is the Tory "men in grey suits", then surely re-electing Boris with all his pranks is a further help to Kier Starmer, leader of the Labour Party, already 30% ahead in the polls. Or the public: re-elect the person who led the UK out of the European Union and who strongly supported Ukraine and flew to Kiev to warn Zelensky against  negotiations in the war.

A process for lying to parliament is pending against Johnson and if convicted then as an MP he must resign, leading to the fifth UK prime minister since Brexit.

It was always a myth to think that politicians of yore were there to serve the national interest, even if "the national interest" could be defined. No, politicians have always been out for themselves... but what of Rishi?

Because there is reason to think that his political self, his page in history, may be more interested in serving the country; rather than his financial self whose pockets are already very well lined.

Whoever, it's the last throw of the dice for the Conservative Party.

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THE MANAGEMENT OF DISSENT

23 September 2022

I don't know about you, but I find that everywhere, current affairs gets a more and more insistent pro-western gov.ts swing.

What used to be my preferred channels are dishing up gov.t slops, whereas I used to find them interesting. Even the data is just wrong!

We are being pushed into an opposition anti-Western camp, where I become cynical, but this is not at all where I want to be. I have big interests in proper order and progress in the West, where I live. I want a democratic government which is focused on its existing people - not on the next election, not on the rich, not on other global players, not on outsiders. A government with a vision and a convincing strategy for getting there and not just governments full of crisis managers going for double or bust with absurd foreign policies like integrating Ukraine into Nato and the EU, or defeating Russia if necessary with nuclear.

What's all this about Truss' "dash for growth" and Kwarteng threatening a (nominally) independent Bank of England, and at the expense of the environment and net zero too? You can reduce taxes and regulations and for a time prolong the aire of prosperity, but the only way to get authentic growth is through productivity and there's no plan I've seen for that.

To cover their policy failures and true intentions, they dice us into numerous identity camps and distract us by then setting us against each other with the politics of  division.

This all seems to ultimately to go back to the American elite and their ideas that we in Europe have adopted, perhaps forced to adopt, of attempting to postpone the end of its cycle and using antagonistic methods, from outright war to cancelling, and its war against adverseries like Trump and criticising those whom he represents, the castouts. What do you expect from such provocation if not to trigger retaliation?

End of rant. What do you think? At least we are permitted certain channels like Alexander Mercouris for example, or Jordan Peterson, or Mearsheimer or even that awful Piers Morgan

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