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Australia’s Phantom Menace

by Toby Young
28 June 2021 4:35 PM

We’re reprinting a piece that appeared in the Australian recently by the Commercial Editor Steve Waterson, who has kindly given us permission. He wrote it just before a two-week lockdown in the city was announced, following the recording of 18 new positive test results. Here is an extract:

Not much has changed in the last year. Our visionary ‘leaders’ have come up with nothing new, save a revved-up vocabulary to keep us on the edge of our toilet seats: the anthropomorphised, cunning and clever virus hides and pounces when we least expect it, for it is a “beast” that, unlike any other matter in the universe, travels “at the speed of light”.

So scary is it that everyday descriptions are inadequate. Only the language of airport thrillers and Hollywood can capture the Clear and Present Danger of Jason Bourne’s Delta Variant; that’s why borders have to be “slammed shut” and the virus “hunted down”, “crushed” and “eliminated”. “Flatten the Curve”, an early instalment of the Pandemic Wars franchise, was nowhere near sexy enough.

Sadly, instead of action heroes leading us to safety (whatever that looks like), we have premiers tootling by again in their clown cars – parp, parp! – stuffed with their supporting cast of chief chuckle officers and assorted buffoons, blindly seeking a way out of the quagmire of hypocrisy and contradiction they have created.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: AustraliaNew South WalesSydney

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StickyWicket
StickyWicket
1 year ago

It’s like the three not so wise monkeys. They couldn’t find a beer in a brewery. The Chancellor should call them in and sack the entire board of the FCA.

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
1 year ago
Reply to  StickyWicket

Why would he sack a body doing exactly what he wants. Resignation honours all round?

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

I was surprised when he was debanked when you consider, yes he is a Tory, but also a Globalist who wanted more of the fascism in Lockdown Chinese style. Also his wife has been in the CCP television channel. Wouldn’t that be like inviting Rudolf Hess into Parliament rather than putting him in Jail.

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DomH75
DomH75
1 year ago

The FCA is another crappy pseudo-New Labour organisation that needs abolition. It’s simply a way for the state to keep the risk of taking responsibility at arm’s length.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  DomH75

Tony Blair is the architect of so much of this emerging fascism!

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stewart
stewart
1 year ago

I said it when the Farage story broke and I repeat it now.

Banking discrimination isn’t a bug or a failure of the system. It is a design of the system..

All governments have very deliberately charged banks with monitoring their clients and blocking those deemed to be undesirable. And they are potentially liable for any wrong doing of their clients if they are found no to have taken “adeauate” precautions. The vagueness is also a feature not a bug. That is the system whether we like it or not.

All they were ever going to do with the Farage scandal was weather the storm and carry on as usual.

If they want to solve the problem – which they don’t – they would need to stop making banks responsible for any nefarious actions of their clients and go back to what it used to be. That would mean not treating every client as a potential criminal and the legal system, not the banking system, deal with any wrong doing.

Last edited 1 year ago by stewart
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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  stewart

Indeed a sad microcosm of the larger picture whereby the vast law abiding majority have their lives made increasingly miserable and constrained because the minority. My neighbourhood now has a 20mph speed limit, which I ignore religiously. Some parts of it I would barely get above 15 because they are narrow, with obstructed vision, parked cars etc. Other parts it’s fine to do 30-35 on. Obviously now and again there are drivers who are too stupid or lazy to work out where you can go faster and where you should go slower, so everyone now has to go slowly.

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stewart
stewart
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Even with the ‘lazy” drivers, how.much of a problem was it? My bet is that nobody died, nobody got run over, a few.people were reckless from time to time and that was it.

I’m short, there was no problem that needed solving.

This is the reality of modern state bureaucrats and officials. They put all theri energy into solving problems that don’t exist and don’t go anywhere near the real problems, like unsustainable debt, dysfunctional Soviet style healthcare, because the solutions are truly difficult and politically explosive.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  stewart

I have only lived in the area for 3 years but not aware of any serious issues – maybe the odd fender bender. And for that they spent £10,000s painted stupid signs on the road, more street furniture (in a conservation area that has a 12th century church) and speed humps to ruin your suspension, and now when I hold back to let cars through because it’s too narrow for both of us, I have to wait longer because some numpties drive at 20.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago

It is like your phone line cut off in conversation because the phone company doesn’t agree with what you just said….But you are a phone company FFS!

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JayBee
JayBee
1 year ago

Bad, but this is potentially far, far worse and the means to make us own nothing:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/macleod-unwinding-financial-system
Holders of shares in physical ETFs and shares could find them plundered through the agency of JPMorganChase and other central clearing counterparties, where their status permits them to deploy bullion and other private property as they see fit.

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Corky Ringspot
Corky Ringspot
1 year ago

Will, excuse my distracting pedantry, but…

‘Nigel Farage was dumped by Coutts due to his political views’

…should be

‘Nigel Farage was dumped by Coutts because of his political views’

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Prickly Thistle
Prickly Thistle
1 year ago

None of these regulatory outfits are fit for purpose. I had a genuine complaint about a solicitor and the SRA basically ignored what I had to say.

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