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How Can the Greased Piglet Survive? Cut Taxes, Scrap the NI Protocol, Ditch ‘Net Zero’, Lean in to the Culture War and Start Fracking

by Toby Young
6 June 2022 10:25 PM

So, Boris has won tonight’s confidence vote, but the general consensus in the media is that he’s toast. In 2019, Theresa May won a confidence vote by 63% to 37% and she was gone within six months. He did worse, winning by 211 votes to 148, or 59% to 41%. When you factor in that he’s likely to lose two by-elections on June 23rd and the House of Commons Privileges Committee has yet to conclude its investigation into whether he misled Parliament over partygate, things don’t look good for the man David Cameron calls the “greased piglet”. Has the immortal cat finally ran out of lives?

Not so fast. Another way of looking at this, as Guido Fawkes points out, is that Boris has pulled off a lucky escape. After all, if the rebels had waited until after the by-election results and the Privileges Committee report – assuming they’re both terrible for Boris – it now looks as though they might have succeeded in forcing a leadership election. Did they miscalculate how little support there is for the Prime Minister in the parliamentary party? Timing in politics is everything and the rebels shot their bolt too early.

Yes, Theresa May resigned six months after winning a confidence vote by a greater margin than Boris, but his ability to brazen out these humiliations is surely greater than hers. As the rules stand, there cannot now be another confidence vote for at least 12 months, so on paper at least Boris is secure until June 2023. Changing leader with less than a year to go before the next General Election would be far riskier move than doing so now.

Another important difference between Boris and his predecessor is that he’s a much more polarising figure within the Parliamentary Party. There are at least 100 Conservative MPs who loathe and detest Boris down to their tippy toes, but, equally, there are at least 100 who will die in a ditch to defend him. That means his core support is less likely to ebb away in the wake of an unconvincing victory than Theresa May’s.

The pro- and anti-Boris factions largely skew along pro- and anti-Brexit lines, which is another reason not to write him off. If he’s deposed, can the Spartans guarantee his successor will have the same determination to ‘get Brexit done’ as him? The current favourite to win a leadership election is Jeremy Hunt, who was a staunch Remainer. While the Northern Ireland protocol remains in place, defenestrating Boris is a massive risk.

So, I think it may be premature to write off the “greased piglet”. In which case, it makes sense to ask what he can do to shore up his position. The answer is obvious: start acting like a proper conservative. It’s a safe bet the majority of the Tory MPs who voted for him tonight are on the right of the Party so if he’s going to survive he needs to throw them some red meat. That means cutting taxes, scrapping the NI protocol, ditching ‘Net Zero’, leaning into the culture war and resurrecting the U.K.’s fracking industry. If he does all that, not only will be consolidate his support in Parliament, but he might start winning back some of those Red Wall voters who ‘leant’ him their vote in 2019. What’s he got to lose? The people on the wrong side of all those issues are on the left of the Party and it’s clear from tonight’s vote that he’s never going to win them back.

Come on, Boris. Get back in touch with your inner Tory and start acting like a Conservative Prime Minister with an 80-seat majority. Put clear blue water between your party and the progressive coalition that will be ranged against you at the next election. Show some backbone. As your hero said, an appeaser is someone who feeds the crocodile in the hope that it will eat him last.

The only way for Johnson to survive now is to launch a Policy Blitzkrieg. Slash tax. Launch All Out War on cost of living. Reform institutions. Give voters & MPs what they thought they were getting 3 yrs ago & what Operation Red Meat promised 6 months ago. Last chance saloon.

— Matt Goodwin (@GoodwinMJ) June 6, 2022
Tags: Boris JohnsonClear Blue WaterConfidence VoteGreased Piglet

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Chris P
Chris P
2 years ago

It is the WEF and their puppets, such as Macron, who threaten civilisation. There’s been plenty of violence meted out by police on his orders.

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marebobowl
marebobowl
2 years ago
Reply to  Chris P

I just wrote that💕💕great minds….

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DomH75
DomH75
2 years ago

Macron is a friend of the Soros clan. He’s part of the snobbish, paternalist, technocratic elite that has caused all our problems by disenfranchising the electorate. They’re reaping the whirlwind.

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TheBasicMind
TheBasicMind
2 years ago
Reply to  DomH75

True, but we also need to be realistic and be clear if “the whirlwind” sweeps the likes of Macron and Sunak away, it is unlikely to be going the way Daily Sceptic readers would like, either in France or here in the U.K. None of the political alternatives are, IMO, any good. Richard Tice was doing reasonably well until he destroyed every ounce of support I would have placed with him through his disgraceful smears against Andew Bridgen and his statement that he would never let him join Reform U.K. Poof!, with one mindset revealing statement Reform went up in a puff of smoke and Tice has ruled himself out from all future votes from me.

We urgently need a Ron DeSantis or RFK Jr type figure in British politics. There was only one. Nigel Farage, but he is now staying out of the fray.

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DomH75
DomH75
2 years ago
Reply to  TheBasicMind

Yes. I’m afraid the UK is beyond saving. Really, Britons who are sick of what has happened to this place need to look at an escape route. I don’t think there’s any point fighting now. It’s too late.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
2 years ago
Reply to  DomH75

At least in France they actually riot. They riot so well that the police back off.

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JXB
JXB
2 years ago
Reply to  TheBasicMind

The whirlwind won’t be selective – it will blow away the whole ghastly, political elite.

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marebobowl
marebobowl
2 years ago
Reply to  DomH75

Yes, dangerous

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RTSC
RTSC
2 years ago
Reply to  DomH75

Correct. And it’s going to get worse ….. but that will just give Macron (and others) the justification they need to become even more authoritarian and ramp up State violence against the people they’ve terrorised for the past 3 years.

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RW
RW
2 years ago

Is this the same Macron who wanted to drag unvaccinated people through the shit in order to make them see the error of their ways? That was certainly a very civilized agenda and absolutely not brutal at all.

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DomH75
DomH75
2 years ago
Reply to  RW

Macron’s the typical corrupt French autocrat. France really needs to abolish the Fifth Republic and start a Sixth Republic. The Fifth Republic was created to give de Gaulle sweeping autocratic powers. Trouble is, every leader since has been a charlatan and/or a crook.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  RW

Micron is a massive hypocrite just like Turdeau and the evidence is all over the internet from the last few years. Are they deluded or just arrogant in that they think they can re-write recent history and the public is so thick we can’t come up with proof of their lies through a few clicks of our devices? What planet are these imbeciles on? Too many countries have WEF, globalist muppets in charge of them which leaves the citizenry vulnerable to further abuse. The problem many of us have is who is a viable alternative that would see us better off?

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JXB
JXB
2 years ago
Reply to  RW

Covid vaccination is compulsory for children in France along with 11 other vaccinations.

That’s civilisation.

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marebobowl
marebobowl
2 years ago
Reply to  JXB

How horrible.

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marebobowl
marebobowl
2 years ago
Reply to  RW

In the USA, a film has been made of ALL the politicians, journalists, actors, government health agency heads, Biden etc who told America it was the unvaxxed who were the danger, they should be turned away from hospitals, they were responsible for covid deaths of others etc etc. we have the receipts. It was all untrue and yet there has not been ONE apology from anyone of these, not even Joe Biden.

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FerdIII
FerdIII
2 years ago

‘Far Left’ ? WTH does that term mean? ‘Far Right’ means nothing, just a pejorative.

Macron is right but misses a few reasons, not only the violence of Communists and socialists, but open borders, the Musulman cult, endless replacement of Whites, the deconstruction of Churches and related mores and boundaries, gender mental illness, fake new$, endless wars by the criminal US deep state, the absolute corruption of $cience and technocracy, and endless government including the UN/WHO who via the criminal US control wish to rule the entire globe.

Yes Macron is right, but needs to extend his horizon of reasons, and might well find himself in the frame as part of the problem.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
2 years ago

Left, right, who cares.

I know one thing for sure, though. It’s never the little guy making problems.

Les rois du monde se battent entre eux

C’est qu’y a de la place, mais pour un pas pour deux

Et nous en bas leur guerre on la fera pas

On sait même pas pourquoi tout ça c’est jeux de rois

Last edited 2 years ago by Marcus Aurelius knew
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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago

Interesting that he chose to label his opponents as “radical left” rather than “far right” which seems more de rigeur these days. Perhaps “radical left” plays better with his intended audience in France.

Hard to take this lockdown and vaccine fanatic seriously. He seems to me part of the problem, not the solution.

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RW
RW
2 years ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

France isn’t a two-party state (like the USA or the UK) and it also isn’t one where the (more-or-less) radical left sits in so many governments that it cannot be declared the enemy anymore (like Germany). Macron has political opponents on both ends of the political spectrum. The yellow vest protestors were more of a FN crowd and hence, far right. This here goes against so-called pension reforms (make people work longer and receive less retirement money in plain English) and hence, it’s oposed by the unions and by the socialists and communists.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  RW

Thanks

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago

New 8min clip of Dr McCullough’s testimony regarding the death jabs. Thread includes more testimonies by other experts we’re all familiar with.
An absolutely damning indictment for not just these Covid products but all of the future mRNA injectables that many factories have been set up to produce across the world. They’re intention is to poison us, simple as that.

”McCullough—who’s previously said the COVID-19 injections are an “abject failure” and are causing myocarditis that’s “far more widespread than we could ever imagine”******—notes that “We now have over 3,400 papers in the peer-reviewed literature describing fatal and non-fatal vaccine injury syndromes.” The cardiologist, who has broadly published on a range of topics in medicine with more than 1,000 publications and 500-plus citations in the National Library of Medicine*******, even says that the spike protein encoded by the mRNA injections “may be the most dangerous protein in human medicine.”

“In [the] Pfizer vaccines, these DNA plasmids are found to be present in one-third of the shot material, so this is not a slight contamination in the least,” Lindsay says. She notes that “These DNA plasmids can infect the E. Coli in your gut and make your gut a perpetual spike factory.”

Lindsay also says that the COVID injections “have a human promoter from the SV40 virus**… [which] is a cancer-causing promoter that allows these plasmids to also infect our human cells.” The toxicologist adds that “the promoter also has a localization signal that allows it to go to the nucleus of cells making it more likely that there will be a genomic integration of that from these shots” and that “this most often results in cancers.”

https://twitter.com/SenseReceptor/status/1661748253434736640

Last edited 2 years ago by Mogwai
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stewart
stewart
2 years ago

Provoke people, then when they react, accuse them of being a problem.

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RTSC
RTSC
2 years ago
Reply to  stewart

That’s what they want ….. to justify even more authoritarian State action.

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JXB
JXB
2 years ago

Macron – sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.

The climate of all entities whether a company, organisation, society is determined by those at the top.

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Jabby Mcstiff
Jabby Mcstiff
2 years ago

They don’t threaten civilisation they threaten to bring civlisation hence why he is frightened as well he should be. This man is a monster when you look at how he talked about the unvaccinated. If I met him I would brook no quarter or explanation.

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lymeswold
lymeswold
2 years ago
Reply to  Jabby Mcstiff

A lexical aside: the phrase “brook no quarter” has a fine ring to it, even if it’s unlikely to be in the average person’s vocabulary, and its etymology is interesting. It’s a phrase I’m aware of, but the Word Detective (http://www.word-detective.com/090699.html … then down the page a bit) complains that the term is “idiomatically a bit off” and should really be “grant no quarter“. Not sure if that’s a difference between AE and BE, acceptance in BE by constant use, or what.

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marebobowl
marebobowl
2 years ago

Macron is the biggest threat to France. Everyone knows that. Similar to all the countries run by WEF globalist puppets.

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varmint
varmint
2 years ago

The other day I saw an article somewhere about some cretinous young goon who was tearing pages out of library books and other assorted anti social behaviours and posting the videos online. He said it isn’t his fault if UK laws are weak. ——I thought that this moron basically sums up the Liberal Progressive shambles the left have created. Discipline and Punishment have become dirty words as their absurd Social Justice Crusade has left us like a latter version of “Lord of the Flies”.

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RTSC
RTSC
2 years ago

Conspiracy theories, oh how scary.

I guess the WEF puppet Macron isn’t going to admit how many of those “conspiracy theories” are being proven right …. sometimes only a few months after they start circulating.

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