We’re publishing an original article today by an academic economist writing under the name of John William O’Sullivan setting out the case for the defence of the Prime Minister. Inevitably, it begins with a bit of throat clearing in which the author shares his reservations about Boris.
I am as hardcore a lockdown sceptic as they come. I was early to the game, and I question quite literally everything about the Government response – from face masks to lockdowns to vaccines. Nor am I fan of Boris. I am pro-Brexit, but I suspected that Boris was probably more clown than effective leader – more Beppe Grillo than Winston Churchill.
When he was nominated, I had concerns not just about his public persona, but about his private life. I know that this is unfashionable in Britain, but it should not be. In our professional lives we all know that if someone’s private life is a car crash, this is usually reflected in their professional competencies. Based on this simple and obvious wisdom, the taboo in Britain about questioning public officials based on their private lives – which, so far as I can tell, is purely a post-Profumo phenomenon – should be re-examined. It seems to me that the refurbishment scandal hanging over Boris and his newly minted wife confirms this impression.
But having got that out of the way, he then comes to the nub of the argument.
So, why would I defend old Boris? For the simple reason that the revelations that have come from Dominic Cummings speak volumes. Prior to these revelations I bought into the predominant narrative: that Boris had been a sceptic but then he was hospitalised for COVID-19 and the experience left him lobotomised and compliant. But this view is no longer tenable.
Cummings’ accusations are credible because they come from a hostile source. Everything that he pumps into the media ecosystem is designed to harm Boris. These accusations have been confirmed by others involved. They meet, as the ancient historians say, the flipside of the ‘criteria of embarrassment’.
Yet the accusations paint a picture of a committed sceptic and social libertarian fighting against a mob of technocrats. Cummings, himself being a mediocre technocrat, cannot see that his accusations play in Boris’s favour – but they do. Boris’s Cabinet – a hot mess of career Tories, stuffed shirts, and closet authoritarians – appear to have bullied him into becoming the ‘lockdown-zealot Boris’ that we have all come to know and hate.
Worth reading in full.
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The receipts are now coming in, it seems
Trump was consistently ahead in the polls while Biden was the candidate. Now Harris is ahead. Trump needs to be way ahead before it’s possible he can win. It looks grim. For normies it’s a straight choice between your great country having a future and becoming part of the third world – seems like more than half want to be part of the third world. I suppose at least Trump is getting close to half – a lot more than most immigration restrictionist parties do in Europe.
Is she? Which polls?
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I tend to look at the swing state polls rather than the national ones – the national polls seem pretty meaningless to me.
The Fake ones that the normtards believe in.
In reality Drumpf is likely winning 2:1
But pet-eating aside, we all know why these places are getting dumped with loads of migrants.
”Those granted asylum become citizens within 5 years, which is just over one Presidential election cycle and then vote overwhelmingly Democrat.
This is why so many are being placed in large numbers in Arizona, Wisconsin, Ohio and other swing states.
To create permanent one-party rule by the “Democrats”.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1835997285425058002
Got to agree with Matt Wallace here;
”When Democrats have one party control and we are essentially a communist dictatorship with a forever shit economy, only then will many idiot white Americans who supported them realize what they have done. We will be Venezuela 2.0 and no going back.”
”There’s a whole lot of fraud going on”. Captain Obvious;
”It’s no coincidence that swing states and key states have skyrocketing amounts of people registering to vote without ID. Democrats are in the process of permanently rigging our elections with illegal migrants.”
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1836046305338220689
Trump is master at getting $millions worth of free media cover. The media folk are so dumb they can’t see it and readily oblige.
Are they dumb? If Trump gets them the clicks and the clicks is what they want…
Maybe the dumb ones are the liberals who crave and consume the anti-Trump porn they need to feed their delusional superiority complex.
” also means homeless immigrants have been squatting in random people’s gardens, forcing householders to flee”
What in the land of the 2nd amendment, what is going on there. I remember in the early 90s spending the weekend at a mates housing estate in Carterton Oxon, with all the houses looking the same, I walked into a different house. Nobody saw me and I quickly walked back out. After I remember them joking how if I was in the US I could be shot.
““I wish that my son, Aiden Clark, was killed by a 60-year-old white man”
I suspect a good dad would not want his son killed at all!
Yes, the father’s comment was disgusting.
Off T but it has to go somewhere it’s too good to miss.
https://countrysquire.co.uk/2024/09/18/a-matter-of-life-and-death/
An absolutely first class article on the disaster that is the NHS by Paul Horgan.
“Allegedly a planned service, it is now clear that no plans were ever made by overpaid and under-skilled bureaucrats for the eventuality that the UK population would endure violent inorganic increase through barely-controlled immigration, the majority of the arrivals coming from countries with staggeringly poor health outcomes and appalling health-impacting cultural practices. The NHS has failed to respond to market forces because it is impossible for the NHS to do so.”
“Had you ever heard of Springfield, Ohio, before the debate went out”
BBC yesterday afternoon. They mentioned Springfield and them played an audience laughing when Trump made that claim, making you think it was Springfield residents making the ruckus. I wonder if those old residents who had Haitians in their garden were laughing along, probably not.
Haitian Migrants Demanding to ‘Rent’ Local Chickens: “They … Dipped Under the Fence Chasing my Little Duckies” (infowars.com)
“Field reporter Tayler Hansen visited Springfield, Ohio recently to speak with locals about the alleged Haitian migrant crisis. One of them, a lady who raises chickens, confirmed that she has had multiple run-ins with Haitian migrants trying to steal or “rent” her poultry for food.
“We had a set of Haitians that showed up in the driveway, pulled in, laying on the horn,” the lady explained. “They were demanding to rent a chicken.”
After the lady told the Haitian migrants that her chickens are not for sale, they “got very angry, very agitated that we would not sell them a chicken,” the lady said. “It took my husband to run them off for them to leave.” [Luckily, Americans have the 2nd Amendment]
In another instance, a group of Haitian migrants was walking down the street when suddenly they “dipped under the fence chasing my little duckies here,” the lady further revealed. “
Pets do get eaten when times get hard you can see how quickly people do this if you look at the Great Depression. I don’t know about this town but I have seen videos of cats been eaten alive and some killed and then barbecued on the street. If you are hungry and you don’t really have the same concept of pets as we have in cushy countries then why wouldn’t you eat a cat or dog? I am not knocking it because I eat meat and I can well imagine a time when the neighbour’s cat becomes the lesser of two evils.
Stephen, great article as usual, but enough with cheesy puns already! “Ace Vancetura – Pet Detective” etc. Very inventive but getting a bit tedious.
“But did she really?”
Yes, she did – by miles. And despite the fact that she didn’t say much of substance and the moderators were one-sided (both of which Trump should very easily have exploited but his personality meant that he was incapable of that), one of the main reasons is because:
“And yet, rather than specifically mentioning all this genuine, provable, real-life human horror, Trump and his running-mate preferred to chat cat.” And: “…J.D. Vance cheerily admitted he had amplified unproven claims about pet-eating voodooist savages purely in order “to draw attention” to the unmitigated cat-astrophe of uncontrolled immigration unleashed by Biden and Harris.”
Despite many real and important issues that millions of voters would benefit from hearing debated and discussed by actual adults in a serious manner, the best Trump and Vance can do is the above. Vance, in particular, is highly intelligent. He should already be treated with scepticism for a 180 degree turn from comparing Trump to Hitler in 2016 to Trump himself stating that Vance is “in love… and kissing my ass”. But his disdain for those who don’t think like he does is both becoming more obvious the more he speaks and is approaching and on par level with the Dems disdain for those who don’t think like they do, either.
Make no mistake. God sent President Trump. God will not be cowed by Satan’s acolytes in the Democrat Party
YOU are making a grave mistake, worshipping The AntiChrist Drumpf !!!
No one gets to be leader of any country unless they are a fully paid-up member of the Illuminati Globalist Mafia Gang. Don’t be hornswoggled by the fake assassination attempts on the AntiChrist to get public sympathy.
Do not tell us what God thinks, because you do not know.
Wake up! Open your eyes and see.
I find the absolute hatred between both partys in the US fascinating, its almost as if the real facts don’t count, just how much “media” can be promoted, damn thats the UK too, and both countrys currently “run” by someone who wouldn’t be out of place in a Mental asylum!
Another great piece Steven. One small point- not even the French speak of ‘un gateaux’. If they wish to speak of a single delicious cake, they use the word ’gateau’.