This May Not Be The Winning Issue The Left Thinks It Is

Looks like the left have found their latest batch of baby seals!

Will no one think of the poor senior civil servants? 

It's practically a modern day gulag:

Sir Philip is also reportedly writing to all senior members of the civil service in the department to highlight the dangers of work place stress. 

It is also claimed he told team members that they should not be expected to do 'unrealistic' work outside of contracted working hours.

Modern Britain, you guys! People on six figure salaries complaining about having to work late.

This, THIS, is the issue that will win back the North for Labour: making sure Sir Julian D'Arcy-Snootlington doesn't miss any dinner parties.

Reminder: the people the left is getting all misty-eyed about are the same ones behind the Windrush fiasco, aka the Greatest Scandal Evah!

But that was then, and this is now, and for no apparent reason whatsoever the left has decided to target the Home Secretary.

It's a mystery alright.

Britain's biggest party is not the Conservatives nor Labour, it's the Snoot Party. They don't actually stand for election but they think they should be in power anyway. Hence why we now have the lovely 'Sir Phil' who is apparently guaranteed a job for life even though he's the equivalent of an arsonist fireman.

The left isn't against elections, it just doesn't think they should have any consequences.  You can elect whoever you want, but it's Sir Phil, Sir Keir and the rest who run the country...

Say, why does that sound familiar?

No wonder these guys were so desperate to stay in. The EU has always been their idea of perfection: a eunuch parliament and an unaccountable snoot class actually running things.

They lost that round, but that's just encouraged them to fight harder to create Brussels-On-Thames.

Personally, I'm not convinced 'all the stuff you hated about the EU, but in English' is necessarily a winning slogan for Labour. 

As with most things in politics, all that the right needs to do to win is to force the left to state their worldview openly.

The Leavers Vs The LARPers

Can't say I'm the biggest fan of Unherd - it always seems too pleased with itself and pretentious (starting with the name) but this post  hits on an important point.

It's true that the core of the Remoaner tendency is smug, well-off gits who quite like the idea of living in a country where 48 is bigger than 52, providing that it's the right 48 if you know what I mean and I think you do but their yoof wing is full of folks with more debt, less job security and lower wages than most of the people they sneer at as losers.

It's not just that they slavishly follow the attitudes of the elite, it's that their attitudes are the only elite thing about them.  It's politics as part-LARPing, part cargo cult.

Back in the day, I heard a cinema manager say that Star Wars fans and Sex And The City fans both came to their respective movies dressed as their favourite characters, but only the Star Wars fans realised they were watching a fantasy world.

Now it's worse than ever. We have a whole demographic of Nathan Barleys trying to convince everyone - most of all themselves - that they're just one retweet away from stardom.

(No one tell them that all those breakout stars who suddenly come from nowhere, you guys, all somehow seem to always be from a very specific demographic.)

They'd be mortally offended if you told them they'd be better off teaching geography in Norwich - but, if they did, they be richer and with better prospects. Instead they stay in a dream world, trying desperately to fend off the cognitive dissonance. Hence the key point:

But millions of young Everywheres are on their way to realising they are not counted among the elite any more. That, in fact, they never were, except on a subscription basis — and even the cost of those subscriptions is slipping from their grasp. We can expect a political reckoning to follow.

Yep, it's a £1,000 note lying on the ground ready for any conservative politician who can get these people to look clearly at their lives and what liberalism have actually done to them. 

The Peasants Are Revolting

Staying on my favorite topic, namely: how I'm right about everything, I can't help feeling deja vu all over again:

[Joker director] Todd Phillips has come out swinging in defense of his new film Joker, amid fears its depiction of a depraved murderer could incite real-life violence...

Phillips told The Wrap that he believes such critiques are coming from the 'far-left' who are starting to sound the same as conservatives when they complain about 'immoral' films made by Hollywood. 

'What's outstanding to me in this discourse... is how easily the far left can sound like the far right when it suits their agenda. It's really been eye opening for me,' he stated.

Yes, we've noticed.

Back in the day, it was the left that wanted shows to be challenging and push boundaries. Now, they want to shovel pablum on the public. I wonder what's changed?

All of which brings me onto the open sewer on the Thames. All week midwit drones have been on TV claiming to be outrageously outraged that the public is using indelicate language to describe our worthless political class. Apparently, we should all follow the example set by our betters.

And he's supposed to be the moderate. Then again, his boss hangs out with guys who actually kill MPs, so you know... grade on the curve.

This is no longer just about the EU. We're being asked to accept that there are different grades of citizenship, so that when David Lammy is spreading insane, racist, conspiracy theories that just proves how 'passionate' he is. Meanwhile, the rest of us are apparently meant to tug our forelock and speak only when spoken to.

The left spent years sneering at the monarchy, but now they want us to treat them like royalty.

The only answer to that is not only no, but hell no!

You May Not Be Interested In Culture War...

As bad as the Supreme Court's Screw Brexit decision is - pretty bad considering it appears to be based on the well known legal doctrine of 'because we say so' - it's almost as bad listening to Professional Conservatives claiming to be shocked, shocked, to find that the courts are a lawless, politicised mess. Yes, indeed, who could have seen that coming?

Just a thought, but if you keep demonstrating a proven inability to predict outbreaks of heavy drinking on December 31st, you might want to rethink your claim to be super smart. As it is, real conservatives have spent years calling the shot and the pocket, while the genius set have called them crazed conspiracy nuts. Now Brenda Hale has done the legal equivalent of gobbling down a live mouse on TV while addressing the public as 'you warm bloods' then ripping the flesh off her face to reveal the scales underneath, I think we may have to look again at what definition of genius we're using here.

Not all Professional Conservatives couldn't see it coming. Some of them are just pain gutless. Others genuinely believe dealing with our lawless courts is too much of a hot potato and so they may as well go along to get along....

And that's how the Tories have romped to three landslide victories in a row!

Meanwhile back in the real  world, the Tory Party's refusal to take on these nut cases doesn't make them look moderate, it makes them look weak and out of touch. Say what you like about Labour, but they have an actual agenda - creating Hell on Earth - and the Tories? What do they really stand for?

Oh yeah: muh tax cuts.  

Here's the thing though: the whole reason why the left needs to use politicised judges like Brenda Hale to push their nutty agenda is precisely because they know it's electoral poison. If they thought the public would support it, they'd push it themselves. Instead we have the insanity of the courts ruling that Parliament must stay open even while they make politics entirely irrelevant.

Hey, who needs that 'citizenship class' stuff on how a bill works its way through Parliament, when Brenda Hale and the rest of the freaks can simply pull new laws out of their penumbra.

Still, now that Queen Brenda is our Decider In Chief, at least we can get a definitive answer to those questions that have been hangin round for years:

Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?

Pineapple on pizza or not?

Who would win in a fight between Iron Man and Batman?

True, there aren't any actual laws covering these issues, but who needs laws anyway these days?

It's The End Of Their World

Hey, look everyone! It's another one of those super smart Remoaners making a not at all insane point.

As Dominic Frisby would say, who the Huq's she anyway?

Apparently, she was once a presenter on Children's TV and therefore way more qualified than the likes of us to talk about politics.

Like I keep saying: Wile E Coyote rule. She wanted to prove we were morons but she dropped the anvil on her own head. More to the point, she's exposed what it's really about. They're not worried about tariffs or trade agreements, they recognize that all this is the beginning of the end for a demented system where nothingburgers like Konnie Huq can be hailed as certified members of the genius class, even as they babble absolute rubbish. 

Still Not Getting It!

Uh oh.... looks like the Remoaners are Remoaning again.

Their Parliamentary maneuvering was democracy in action, but Brexiteer maneuvers? 

Outrageously outrageous, you guys!

Apparently, 'democracy' doesn't necessarily mean 52% beats 48% but it does lay out exactly when Parliament should be open. Who knew, right?

In a similar vein, it turns out that calling someone who believes that only certain people's votes should count a 'Nazi' is appallingly appalling, but talking about lynching Brexiteers and committing Regicide?

Not a problem.

Perfectly OK.

Completely normal, my dudes!

Forget all the moralising, what these people want is a de facto caste system. They'll support muh democracy as long as they win, but if they lose? All bets are off.

It shows how deep these people are in the bubble that they actually think normal people will buy this deal.

Oops! I Guess It Wasn't All About The Economy After All

Like I keep saying, the Remoaners make Wile E Coyote look like a strategic genius. Every single time they end up dropping the anvil on themselves. Today's candidate: Guto Bebb. 

A Tory backbench critic of Boris Johnson sensationally claimed that a short-term Jeremy Corbyn-led government would be 'less damaging' for Britain than a No Deal Brexit today.

Consider this: remoaners have been rending their garments for three years about the dangers to muh economy...  Suddenly, it turns out that going Full Venezuela is a small price to pay for keeping Greedy Guto and his pals at the top table, even if all that means is they get first dibs on the dog meat.

And then there's the deeper issue. The whole remoaner position is, hey, let's face it, you guys, we're just plain better than you Leaver scum - not only smarter, but more moral too - and that's how they came up with a cunning plan to put a gang of lawless thugs obsessed with deranged conspiracy theories about Jews into power, in the hope of being able to turf them out once they've done their dirty work....

Yep, I see absolutely no historical precedent for that sort of thing going horribly wrong.

Besides, I'm sure Guto and his pals still think they can control them. 

Meanwhile...

I'm guessing muh parliamentary sovereignty has gone the way of muh economy and muh tolerance.

Yes, indeed, ladies and gentlemen, our moral and ethical superiors, the Remoaners.

This is why the Remoaners have done us a favour. If they'd just taken the 'L' three years ago, not much would have changed, but instead they chose to out themselves as the selfish, entitled scumweasels that they are. Now whatever happens, we know who they really are.

Vacuous Viceroy of Victimhood Vacates Office

In amongst all the other resignations, I almost missed our girl in the news! House of Dumb heroine Margo James, who is a lesbian, has resigned from the government to vote against Brexit.

Truly, Fat Dave Cameron is the gift who keeps on giving. Look at the track record of his 'A-list' candidates. There's Louise Mensch, the Queen of Trump Derangement Syndrome, Sarah Wollaston and Heidi Allen, both rising stars in the sinking ship of WTF UK and now Margo James, who is a lesbian, the member for Brussels Central.

Apparently, 'A-list' was short for 'Absolutely Not Conservative At All List'.

Here's the thing though. The point isn't that Margo James, who is a lesbian, is a grifter and a fraud. That could describe most of the House. It's that right from the off, Margo James, who is a lesbian, has shamelessly, and solely,  traded on her supposed victimhood.

Don't be shocked but apparently she's actually a lesbian.

I know, right? Who knew?

Yep, she stuck it to The Man by being parachuted into a safe seat amidst eight bazillon glowing profiles in the MSM.

Take that you almost entirely mythical bunch of right-wing reactionaries - finally bubble-headed Metropolitan snoots will have a voice in this country!

Anyone who pointed out that a stoned parrot with a stutter could give a more coherent explanation of conservative values than this hag was denounced by her fellow snoots as an evily evil homophobe!

And no point asking why it had to be specifically Margo James, who is a lesbian, who was appointed as the Member for Lesbos. Aren't there plenty of other lesbians out there with no idea about conservative values?

It's worth revisiting because it gives the lie to the cucks' Myth of a Golden Age of Political Civility pre-2016. They mean 'civility' in the sense that they could run unhinged editorials denouncing actual conservatives and no one was allowed to answer back. If you happened to, say, object to them putting an empty-headed Metro-luvvie into Parliament then all bets were off: no civility for you.

Here's Ace on a similar phenomenon in the US:

They're cowards and weaklings as warriors, but they are bold and fierce as traitors.

"Republicans" who have been sluggish, conciliatory, and soft when allegedly on the conservative side will suddenly become hard-charging death-or-glory hack-and-slashers when they scent the blood of their true enemies -- actual conservatives.

They're traitors. Not by circumstance, but by conviction. 

Yep.

This is normally the point where I remind everyone that these people keep telling us  that they can't bring in any actual conservative policies for reason of muh electability, even while they fiercely defend horrendously unpopular leftist nonsense. Well, this time they went one better. This time they didn't even hide behind an actual issue: it was a blatant exercise in class privilege and entitlement. Margo James, who is a lesbian, might lack any actual qualifications for political office, but she sure is a paid up member of the snootocracy.

Yes, not everyone who claimed Fraudella McWorthless was qualified for a seat in Parliament was a liar - I'm sure there were also some idiots in  there as well, but most of the people pushing this useless cow knew exactly what they were doing, and they're out there right now, claiming that 'we need to bring the country together post-Brexit'.
 
Nope, they're lying again. They don't want to bring the country back together. On the contrary, they want to go back to the good old days pre-2016 when the country was split in two. The snoots got to run the country like a private members club, and everyone else just got the bill. 

What's happened post-2016 isn't a breakdown in civility, it's a breakdown in gullibility. The public finally understand who exactly these people are.

The Wizard of Washington

It must have taken awhile to coordinate the whole network, but it looks like the NPCs have finally settled on their talking points re: their fellow snoot, Sir Kim Darroch. Apparently, he's super smart and it's all the fault of whoever let the public know the quality of analysis they were getting for their money from 'our man in Washington'.

You can always tell the savvy political operators - they're the ones caught out by the revelation that the government leaks like a sieve. Leaving that aside though, the most striking thing about his memos was that they are so very, very dull.

Like James D says:

But that’s exactly what’s wrong with Darroch’s memos. They are not – contrary to what we’re now being assured by his Establishment defenders – the trenchant and fearless insights of a Washington insider with his finger on the pulse. They’re the achingly predictable whinings of yet another victim of Trump Derangement Syndrome that could have been cut and pasted from any number of wearisomely samey anti-Trump articles in the British press.

His reports read like something you'd get from a Guardian hack who woke up with a murderous hangover at 10:30 and suddenly released his column had to be in by 2:00. Kids doing their maths homework on the bus to school put more effort in than this guy.

In fact, it's not just that he lacks any worthwhile insights, it's that he's actively wrong about his supposed area of expertise, being taken in by the Russia hoax. The guy paid to keep his finger on the pulse failed to notice it was a Russian conspiracy without any actual Russians (but a surprisingly high number of people from the UK).

Apparently, Sir Snoot not only doesn't know anything about the country he's deployed to, he doesn't know about his own country either. As ever the question arises: what definition of 'genius' are we using here?

Hence why there the snoots have once again dropped an anvil on their own heads. They keep telling us that mere voters don't understand the very special complexity of international affairs,  now we've had the chance to peek behind the curtain and we've found out that the genius class have about the same level of smarts as some late night comedian mugging to the camera while churning out the Trump = Hitler clapper humour.

Leave it to the professionals? Half the country could offer more insight than this tedious prat.

Empty Dress Quits Job

Don't be shocked, but the same cucks who landed us with an empty dress in No 10 are now busy trying to rewrite history to cast Terrible Theresa as some kind of tragic figure. Doesn't martyrdom require that you actually sacrifice yourself for something?

The defining feature of May's premiership has been the sheer vacuousness of it all, even to the very end. Consider this: in a speech of 948 words, the Useless One didn't mention any of the following:

Border Security

Law & Order

Defense

Legal Reform

Education

Infrastructure

In fact, what's worse is that she apparently couldn't even bring herself to say the word 'Britain' - all we got was a weaselly reference to the 'the country I love' (whatever that means).

Speaking personally, I can't help thinking that if you truly believe the British people are a bunch of bigots who need to be constantly harried by racial witchhunters, you don't actually love this country in any meaningful way.

For all the talk of muh ekwality the underlying assumption of Mayism was that us drones are too stupid to survive without an enlightened ruling class (hence: remainer). But where's this genius parked anyway?

Consider these lines:

For many years the great humanitarian Sir Nicholas Winton – who saved the lives of hundreds of children by arranging their evacuation from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia through the Kindertransport – was my constituent in Maidenhead.

At another time of political controversy, a few years before his death, he took me to one side at a local event and gave me a piece of advice.

He said, ‘Never forget that compromise is not a dirty word. Life depends on compromise.’

He was right.

Seriously?

This is what happens when everyone in politics treats everything before 1997 as ancient history.

Meanwhile, the rest of us drooling masses can recall that when it comes to the Nazis and Czechoslovakia there was, in fact, quite a famous compromise made. 

Even Chamberlain got the right answer eventually. Meanwhile, Theresa May still doesn't get it. To borrow Len Deighton's line about Chamberlain at Munich, she was determined to treat the EU as though it was a respectable organisation with good intentions, as she simply had no idea how to deal with it if it not.

This WIll Not Work Out The Way They Think It Will

For proof of how deluded the snoot class is, consider that they really think the Andrew Marr interview with Nigel Farage was a win for them. 

That's problem number one right there. Captain Softball sights someone outside the bubble and suddenly he tries to go all Andrew Neil. It's gotcha! questions for the outsider and 'how do you feel' for the actual PM. Crap like this is why people voted Brexit in the first place. Folks might not have ever been on TV themselves, but millions face this kind of thing on a smaller scale every day.

The bigger issue is that this sort of thing rarely works anyway. We've been this way before in the 1990s. The British right went half mad trying to work out how a slippery conman like Tony Blair could get away with it. Couldn't people see that he and his entourage were the biggest collection of dysfunctional freaks outside of Arkham Asylum?

Actually, people could see it just fine, they just didn't care. Blair was at least prepared to pretend to address public concerns about things like the NHS and schools, while a Tory government full of smug, entitled prats acted like they thought these issues were kind of a drag, and all they really needed to do was come up with a few soundbites to bamboozle the ignorant masses, then they could get back to screwing over the country....

Say, why does that sound familiar?

Blair didn't hide his true nature from voters, they just didn't care. Blair convinced people he cared about the things they did while the Tories all but wore surgical masks and gloves every time they came within a country mile of actual voters. So it is now. The MSM can keep digging for 'The Truth About Farage' but people already know who he is and they also know he's their best bet of getting what they voted for. The snoots can dig up a tape of Farage snorting coke off a hooker's backside in Tijuana but the public only care that on the central issue of the day, he's right and the snoots are wrong.

Remoaners: The Wile E Coyotes Of Politics

Remoaners keep coming up with cunning plans to nail those pesky leavers, but every time they end up dropping the anvil on themselves. Take this latest example.

Yep, a supposed public servant stopping by to warn his employers 'nice leave campaign you got 'ere... be a shame if something were to 'appen to it'. 

Who knows?  Maybe he's reading his constitution upside down and he really does think the public are accountable to the police. Meanwhile, for the rest of us, some jumped up prat goose-stepping round  like the mutant hell child of Mary Whitehouse and Torquemada is pretty much the perfect example of why we need to drain the swamp.

Wile E Coyote, Remoaner Super Genius

Uh oh...looks like the Remoaners have come up with another brilliant, totally guaranteed not to boomerang on them, plan. They're going to try and gin up a wave of public sympathy for damsel in distress Anna Soubry.

To say it is to debunk it. 

Even if you do buy this screeching harpy as some kind of victim, the plan requires the public to be completely unable to remember the numerous attacks on leave supporters. Hey, if calling people Nazis was a criminal offense, half the remoaners in the country would be on Death Row. Instead, Remoaners have spent years giving nodding and winking endorsements to the violent loons in their ranks. 

Apparently, not everyone deserves the same level of protection under the law, just like only some votes should count. Only those who the Remoaners judge worthy deserve the full benefits of citizenship.

See? Not like Nazi ideology at all.

Meanwhile, the rest of us have been given a reminder of just why we voted 'leave' in the first place. 

Quote of the Day: Strange Sense of Familiarity Edition

Ace of Spades is talking about US Republicans, but I can't help feeling a strange sense of deja screw:

Are we going to keep pretending that obvious urban, socially-liberal, economically-moderate establishment types who are always calling the actual conservative base "crazies" and "Hobbits" are the most conservative of all of us?

Or are we going to be grown up and start admitting that our alleged NeverTrump Super-Conservatives are just urban/suburban liberals looking out for the preferences of their fellow urban/suburban liberals?

Hmmmm.......that sounds hauntingly familiar. Professional Conservatives in the UK have spent most of this century selling out the conservative base and justifying it all with patronising lectures about muh electability and how the base needs to stop obsessing about wacky side issues. Suddenly, Brexit comes along and all bets are off.

Call it a wild shot in the dark, but I'm thinking leaving the EU might be a winning issue politically, what with it actually winning the referendum and all, but finally the Professional Conservatives have decided that there are some hills worth dying on after all. They've finally decided to stand and fall on their principles, such as.....

What exactly? How exactly do you get from conservative principles to defending the right of seemingly every member of the Kinnock family to a well-paid sinecure in Brussels?

Hey, this ought not to be a tough one for any actual conservatives: where does sovereignty lie? With the citizenry or with the snoot class? This should be like asking your local vicar who the dude was who did that trick with the loaves and fishes but apparently it's a tough one for members of the party of small government, free markets and liberty.

If the only thing voting changes is which particular members of the snoot class get to run the country into the ground, what is the actual difference between left and right anyway? True, Labour is a party of dim thugs, but the Tories are a bunch of corrupt perverts. Who really cares one way or the other if it all turns out like Monty Python's cafe, where you can have whatever you want, but it all comes with globalism.

The New Aristocary

Mark Steyn writes about an earlier referendum, with a point that's still relevant today:

This was an important victory for western society's real silent majority: those people who dissent from the notion that career politicians should carve up all the most visible offices of state for themselves. Some of this silent majority are monarchists; some believe in a directly elected president; a large proportion are just average contented folks who aren't obsessed about politics. But they have far more to bind them to each other than they do to the establishment republicans who believe that the presidency should be just one more gift in the ruling party's box of baubles. If Australian voters tell us anything, it's that a political state isn't enough. At heart, most of us are romantic enough to demand more — either the mystique of monarchy or the rawer form of democratic politics in which a man must embark on his campaign to win the presidency by pressing the flesh in the Elks Lodge. Constitutional monarchy and a US-style presidency don't have much in common — except insofar as, either way, you find yourself sitting next to me come early November — but both speak to something larger in a nation's sense of itself.

Exactly. All this talk of a 'United States of Europe' is giving them too much credit. No self-respecting Eurocrat would ever stoop to pressing the flesh with the common rabble. The whole ethos of the EU is that everything is the gift of the political class.

This is the one big advantage the Remoaners have over Leave campaigners. Leave voters in 2016 were happy that they won, then they went back to real life. Remoaners recognised their defeat as the beginning of the end. Look at who the lead Remoaners are: people like Alistair Campbell, Lord Adonis, Gary Lineker.... aka the Great Unelected, people who have never gone within a country mile of a ballot paper, but nevertheless made out like bandits.

To the point: some people favour small government, some support big government but - as evidenced by the Remoaners reliance on Project Fear atrocity stories - there's no constituency for government as a combined ATM and full employment service for members of the snoot class.

Certified Super Geniuses Search For Vegan Lion

The worst thing about Britain's professional right isn't so much their monumental arrogance, so much as the fact they have so little to back it up. They act like they're the Albert Einsteins of politics when it's blindingly obvious they're not even Albert Steptoe.

Hence why we end up with fiascoes like this.

Yes, indeed: the type of people who approve of an unaccountable, elitist, micro-managing super state tend not to vote conservative anyway, and vice versa. You may think that's kind of obvious but clearly these guys didn't. Then again, these chumps managed to blow an election against Evil Santa (he's got a beard, likes the colour red and comes into your house with his sack to seize your prezzies for redistribution to the workers).

I'm thinking their claims to genius status might be looking a little tenuous...

To the point: professional conservatives keep giving the base patronising lectures about the importance of 'electability', even while continually screwing up actual elections. No wonder they're Remainers, what else could they be?

Remoaners Are The Wile E Coyote Of Politics

These guys seriously don't get why they lost. Hence, why every time they unleash some supposedly brilliant plan to destroy Brexit, they instead end up dropping a huge anvil on themselves.

Take this garbage.

A bunch of Julians and Cressidas carried out an investigation into the Leave campaign, then presented it to themselves, carefully considered their own evidence and announced that Leave campaigners were all witches. 

Honestly, at this rate the International Guild of Banana Republics is going to be writing to the Remoaners telling them to take it down a notch: seriously, guys, you're embarrassing hard working Presidents for Life...at least try and set up some kind of kangaroo court for plausible deniability

Yes, they've achieved their ambition of allowing the BBC to use the phrase 'fined by the Electoral Commission' every single time Leave is mentioned but they've also summed up perfectly what's objectionable about Remoaners. 

Like I've said before, the Remoaners are telling us what they really want for Britain. They're telling us they quite like the idea that anyone who falls foul of the Snootocracy gets dragged before some Committte for Public Safety and denounced as an enemy of the people. 

Meanwhile, the rest of us prefer our quaint British traditions like free trials, the right to confront your accuser and a jury of our peers.

This is not a small thing. In fact, it's the whole debate in microcosm. Either the citizen is free and the state has to make a case to intrude on that liberty, or the state is free and the best the citizen can hope for is to avoid catching its eye.

Ultimately, the point is that one side supports meaningful liberty, the other is arguing about what figure goes in which column.

The Greatest Living Englishwomen Speaks....

....and her PR team collapses to the floor sobbing:

I come from South America and it’s part of our culture to speak out.

'Our culture'?

But...

But...

I thought Gina was as British as Elizabeth I flying a spitfire over Stonehenge and so anyone who pointed out she was a Plastic Brit who sounds about as convincing talking about Britain as Prince Charles sounds gangsta rapping was therefore a really huge racisss....

This is just further evidence for my theory that the Remoaner fanatics are almost entirely drawn from one of two groups:

• People who don't understand Britain
• People who don't like Britain.

Hey, Remoaners: quite a few of us rather like the idea that British political culture is not some deranged mix of a supermarket trolley dash and the Roman coliseum. 

Meanwhile, how's that 'healthier' culture working out for people in South America? 

That's the flip side of it: globalists keep telling us we need to embrace other cultures, but we're not supposed to point out that said cultures frequently produce hellholes, objectively worse by every possible metric.

Apparently, we're not supposed to 'speak out' about that. In fact, we're even expected to swallow stuff like this:

People know me for the Brexit case, but I’ve been a transparency activist in the City of London in the charity sector for years.

She's a 'transparency activist' but we're not allowed to ask how someone with zero public profile previously suddenly gets David Beckham levels of coverage in the media or who's funding her campaign. How about we get some immigrants from a culture where they practice journalism?

Quote of the Day

Janet Daly gets it mostly right:

George Osborne – who was once a proud Eurosceptic himself – has rounded on the sceptic tendency within his own party. “I told you so,” he says sulkily, “is not an economic policy.”

Well, no but it’s a start. It is, in the present crisis, a necessary precondition for any realistic economic policy: we need some brutal honesty here about the staggering mendacity and utter stupidity of those who concocted this conspiracy against the peoples of Europe, this folie de grandeur which appeared to be based on ideological wishful thinking and economic illiteracy. Those of us who were pilloried and ridiculed by the political establishment of the day and its camp followers at the BBC are demanding apologies, not because we enjoy the sight of people on their knees (well, maybe we do in this case) but because we want definitive proof that the lessons have been learnt.

The thing is, if the Certified Super Geniuses keep screwing up, in what sense are they actually, y'know, smart?

The fabulousness of the Euro wasn't some side issue these guys occasionally referred to in passing. Until five minutes ago you couldn't shut these guys up about the single currency. More to the point, the whole Euro thing was a litmus test: there were the smart people who supported the Euro and then there were the knuckle-dragging morons too thick to get it.

Anyone who claimed the Emperor was 100% deficient in the drapery department was told in no uncertain terms that he was, in fact, clad in a very finely-woven cloth. Now it turns out that there really was no there there, we're still morons for being crude enough to point it out. Win , lose or draw, it turns out these people are better than us.

Life, Liberty And The Pursuit Of A Nice Tan

While we're knee deep in the latest round of Toss Idol, our real government is dealing with the important stuff.

All of which is by way of saying our Designated Messiah Cam Il Sung can produce whatever carefully focused grouped and triangulated nods to the right he wants, but Big Society Localism (huh?) or not, as long as the body that generates 70% of our laws is hell bent on giving us a chicken in every pot and a stamp in every passport, the clever money is on the future size of the state only going one way.