In today’s Britain, there’s a disturbing trend of unpopular policies being foisted upon the public. It’s as if the elite is turning a blind eye to public opinion, says Allister Heath in the Telegraph. It’s time for politicians to start listening to the voters before things get out of hand. Here’s an excerpt:
Britain’s deranged war on cars, our looming ban on gas boilers, the de-banking scandal, the failure to prosecute crime, the attempted cancellation of women, the sabotage of the Brexit agenda, the scale of migration: welcome to anti-democratic Britain, where the beleaguered majority is increasingly subject to the whims of an entitled, activist elite that often seems to despise the people over which it exercises so much power.
All the policies listed above share a devastating commonality: they are deeply unpopular, and would be crushed in a referendum after a fair campaign, were the politicians courageous enough to grant the public a say (in the case of Brexit, they did, of course, and continue to this day to resist implementing the revolutionary change implied by the vote).
In a truly majoritarian society, one where the demos actually exercised kratos, no form of crime would be tolerated, and certainly not burglaries or muggings. Nobody would dare to indoctrinate school children with extreme trans ideology, and the green agenda would be centred around urgent technological innovation rather than seeking to prevent working people from flying to holidays in the sun.
Yet we live in a very different political reality, one in which public opinion is flagrantly disregarded whenever it doesn’t align with the views of the ruling class. Westminster has become cartelised: the large parties are committed to an unrealistic dash to Net Zero, refuse to discuss the gargantuan cost involved, and omit to mention that Britain’s carbon emissions are about 3% of China’s. On the great subjects of our time – family policy, the size of the state, the NHS and even planning rules – there is little difference between Tory, Labour and Lib Dem MPs, disenfranchising millions.
The intellectual conformity is stultifying, and has been reinforced by the emergence of an all-powerful Blob, the nexus of mandarins, policy advisers, quangocrats and other government agents, a class of “public servants” who don’t really like the public and are increasingly convinced that they have a constitutional duty to constrain and contain elected politicians. They are experts at delay, prevarication and lawfare, and are cheered on by the Left-wing activists who have taken over the legal profession, our cultural institutions, academia, charities and even many big companies.
Thus even in the rare instances when the Tories attempt to think the unthinkable and respond to public opinion, as with the Channel crossings, the system does its best to block any change, empowered by quasi-constitutional legislation such as the Equality Act, the Climate Change Act and our membership of the ECHR.
The upshot is an extraordinary disempowerment of the electorate: is it any wonder that some voters fear we risk becoming a democracy in name only? Take the absurd war on cars: a tiny minority of activists, council planners, devolved administrations and ministers are seeking to discourage the mode of transport that the vast majority of the population relies on. Or consider immigration, which is a lot higher than the public would like: all potential solutions to reduce numbers while preserving the economy are lambasted as gimmicks, meaningless or self-evidently stupid. The Tories have promised to cut numbers in every single one of their manifestos since at least the 1990s, and yet aren’t even pretending to try any longer. How does this not disastrously undermine trust in politicians?
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Here is the beginning of a BBC News article yesterday about the menopause:
“Every woman goes through the menopause and symptoms normally start in the mid-40s.
Here’s our guide to what happens in the run-up to periods stopping.”
I wonder if this was written with awareness or lack of awareness that this simple statement may be regarded by some as ‘transphobic’.
Maybe it could be argued that Eddie Izzard went through the menopause – the male menopause – though I doubt if it occurred in the run-up to her periods stopping.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-48258910
There actually is such a thing as andropause, apparently.
To paraphrase Marianne Williamson, it seems the entire human race is going through a sort of menopause these days, where we basically need fewer babies and more wisdom. (And for the hot flashes/flushes, that would be global warming, I guess.)
Sorry, I couldn’t resist, lol.
…as a ‘woman’…I can honestly say I fervently wish my menopause experience on all trans-women…if they want an authentic experience….
I had ten years of menopause misery, at least….it was a very crap time in that respect, and I would love to share it with them….LOL!
“Life after Zero Covid: markets bet big on China” – Vast inflows are flooding the Chinese stock market — at the expense of other countries, writes Philip Pilkington in UnHerd.
Indeed, pent-up demand from finally freeing up trillions in locked-in (i.e. locked down) capital.
phantom downvoter: either have a point or don’t be childish.
Pathetic.
Surely you are expressing exactly the attitude that runs against the ethos of this website? IMO scepticism dissent and the expression thereof is welcome in all it’s forms.
Crickets on the menu today I see then….I’m getting confused because I thought it was just the one ( mealworm ) coming at us this month but no, it’s two. Scroll to ”other insects approved” and there’s two approvals there for this month. Bloody hell.
https://www.eurofins.de/food-analysis/food-news/food-testing-news/novel-food_insects-as-food-of-the-future/
I’m still struggling to get my head round all this.
EU approval – does that authorise / approve the bug-ridden foods to be made and sold within the EU only; or the bug-ridden powders / flours can be sourced from other countries and added to food made / sold within the EU only; or is it worldwide authorisation / approval to add the obscene substance to food made and sold anywhere?
The claim it is ‘safe’ to eat and ‘effective’ at abating hunger – where else have we heard the idiom ‘safe and effective’?
We’ve two companies here that make food items including the flours. From what I can gather the foods will not be a stand-alone product from these companies. Rather they provide the milled bugs and I presume send it for the manufacturers of all the regular foods to incorporate into their products before they hit the shelves. I’ve shared several links now so I can’t remember the exact deets of how things get from A to B off the top of my head. I’d have to check later when I’ve got more time.
Thank you. I’m just catching up with all the excellent posts and links you’ve provided to date on this topic. I dip into DS for short bursts during the day but try to limit myself. Reading all the new articles and information about TPTB re what they’ve done, what they are currently doing and what they’ve got planned can drain my usual good nature, so I have to take some time out to recoup.
…this is another recent one….I know Mogs has put loads on, so sorry if it’s a repeat….
https://xtalks.com/eu-approves-use-of-house-crickets-in-food-products-3347/
I think it’s all part of ‘project Davos’…the same as everything else…these supranatural, unelected quangos are just basically making this shit up…Absolutely no one wants to eat insects and bugs..but they’ve decided it’s all part of the ‘saving the planet’ nonsense, as far as I can see…another thing we will just all have to say NO to….
I think there is malevolence behind this ebg.
Thanks.
You can’t have too many bugtastic horror stories!! LOL
I think this will appeal to the climate zealot loons. I can totally see the kind of people who’d buy this shit being the type who sit in the middle of a road and block it so normal folk can’t go about their business, and definitely the sort who’d glue themselves to public buildings and tip soup over themselves. This is the market you’d want to target to eat this kack! Virtue signaling and posting selfies of themselves chowing down on bug burgers and cricket crisps. Vile!
I love the way these articles are so intent on relaying how these insects are safe to eat. As if safe=acceptable. But they’re desperately trying to normalize it aren’t they? And the reason I’m confident all of this will be put into our groceries with the bare minimum of fuss or fanfare is that, if you wanted to eat bug products you already can. They’ve been available online for years. But they want to thrust this on the general public en masse which means they must act stealthily and go under the radar in order to achieve their objective. Well there’s a reason you have to go online to buy these icky products…there’s very few people putting effort into seeking out these sellers and the sellers would never make a profit if they sold their stuff as stand-alone products on a shop shelf. So they’re trying to go from niche market to mass market by stealth. That’s what I think anyway. Time will tell..But we’re still no further forward in finding out the real reason why.
“Them’s weevils in your ship’s biscuit, lad. Nasty bitter things – tap them out. But these is maggots in my tack, and they be sweet and juicy, so I never wastes ’em. Best thing about being press-ganged, they be.”
To quote Jud from Poldark:
“T’aint right, tain’t fair, taint fit, taint proper!”
Mogs, can you tell me why the EU is proposing the addition of crickets, mealworms etc to food products? What is the reasoning behind it and who is pushing this agenda? If Finland’s experience is anything to go by, consumers won’t be queueing up any time soon to get their ‘buguette’ or ‘wholemealworm’ bread. I do get a distinct sense that the globalist’s plans are falling apart as things are just getting crazier and crazier: Ukraine, jabocracy, gender bending, climate hoohah etc etc. I smell a whiff of desperation – although maybe I’m deluded and a little bit insane due to several years of trying to remain sane in an insane world. Anyway, I can but hope and this insect drive is a particularly fascinating exercise in seeing insanity up close. It won’t work. I ain’t eating dem bugs, I’d rather eat cardboard.
Yes this is the million Euro question. They can extol the virtues of eating bugs from a saving the planet or a health perspective but I seriously doubt people would buy these items if they had their own shelf space and were promoted to the max. Possibly there’d be a novelty surge at the beginning but if there’s a choice between bug pasta, bread or cookies and ones without I’m kinda putting my money on people choosing the bug-free versions. Novelty items, like crispy, deep fried crickets, just don’t sell. Well perhaps they do online but I’ve not seen the big chain supermarkets sell these things, presumably because they realise they won’t be able to shift the stock. I can see it being a big flop. That’s why I’m thinking they’re going for the covert approach. But as you say, why would they do that in the first place? Totally unnecessary as we’re getting all of our nutritional needs via existing foods. None of it makes sense.
I also watched a video from a few months back of how they’re going round Dutch schools and teaching primary school kids about how great eating bugs is and of course they bring them to eat. Nothing at my kid’s school…yet. She’d totally tell me if they had such a visit! So the indoctrination of kids in the realm of normalizing eating this crud is happening. I think this is happening in other countries too though. Bugs belong in your tummy if you’re a bird, lizard or fish, but they’re definitely not going to be on my dinner plate!
In terms of controlling the food supply & promoting dis-ease in susceptible folk for pharma profit it makes perfect sense.
This is a long term plan.
Control the food supply, weaken & disable the populace = a populace more easily controlled.
The question to ask Aethelred is ‘why?’
Why are bugs being pulverised and allowed as permitted additives in food for humans including breads, cakes, biscuits, pasta – virtually any processed food? There are no dietary advantages and the amounts being added are small, so again why?
Acheta has been licensed to one company for the next five years and guess what, they don’t have to release any trial or safety data – sounds familiar.
Bugs are also being allowed in animal feed. We can be absolutely certain that the meat we buy in the butcher’s will not carry a warning “Fed on insects.” And doubtless there will be no warning that our cattle have received mRNA injections, for diseases they don’t get.
Why do we need a new bug industry? There is no demand in Europe and left alone Europe can feed itself.
Why?
It is very difficult given what has happened these last three years not to conclude that this hides malevolent intent. Perhaps contributing to the depopulation agenda???
Just a thought.
Re livestock receiving mRNA jabs – I looked at the current list of drugs licensed for livestock in the UK a while back and couldn’t find mRNA items on there, but no doubt in time they will be added.
https://www.vmd.defra.gov.uk/ProductInformationDatabase/
US and Australia already doing it, apparently.
https://yournews.com/2022/10/31/2443163/roughly-2-in-10-cows-injected-with-mrna-vaccines-die/
As for insects in the feed – Jeez, didn’t they learn anything from BSE?????
It seems there have been reports of issues with chicken feed in USA. Chickens stopped laying with their traditional feed. When switched over to goat feed, they started laying eggs again. Strange or what?
https://sheldonyakiwchuk.substack.com/p/why-did-the-chickens?publication_id=447842&isFreemail=true
“As for insects in the feed – Jeez, didn’t they learn anything from BSE?????”
Exactly. It’s the obvious question to ask. And the only conclusion would have to be malevolence.
1.Because they can.
2.Because they thrive on doing anything that repulses, worries or even harms the people.
3.Because they are despicable, inhumane bullies.
I agree with you, HP. Someone or some people have an agenda here and it sure ain’t for our good. It’s crept in quietly and is being trialled on the children because ultimately they are the ones who this is targeted at – you and I are just not going there and these people know that and have it all factored in – getting them to think it’s normal and healthy and to move away from meat, just as farming is increasingly held up as the bad guy polluting the land, water and air. The children are in the firing line for all of this: vaccines, bugs, gender, climate change. It is the schools we should be looking at and scrutinising more than ever. What are they teaching the kids?
“What are they teaching the kids?”
Nothing decent that’s for sure.
I think this propaganda piece might provide a possible explanation. Here in Reading we have already been trained to separate out our food waste from the rest of our rubbish.
https://www.facebook.com/Channel4/videos/kevin-mcclouds-rough-guide-to-the-future-inside-chinas-cockroach-farm/823791331474366/
Davos Man is laughing all the way to the bank.
Excess deaths in the NL finally being talked about. They’re trying to explain most away as Covid or other causes but admit not all deaths can be explained. 2/3 in elderly folk. Funeral directors rushed off their feet. 14,500 more deaths last year than expected;
https://www.ed.nl/binnenland/oversterfte-houdt-aan-weer-duizenden-mensen-meer-overleden~a4f5f307/
This news is spilling out all over the place now. Even the Daily Mail has an article about it – sorry for non-inclusion but the DM takes ages to load with all its clickbait and advert nonsense – and apparently the comments are off the scale. Anyway, it’s dropped off the front page as some minor royal has had a baby or something. The FDA is still calling for boosters though and I imagine that in Jab HQ the PR office is saying things along the lines of ‘Lie bigger’ or some other twisted, convoluted expression when their current lies are so clearly failing.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11670803/Transgender-woman-guilty-raping-two-women-man.html
The world has gone mad. I never thought I would read a newspaper article with the heading in the photo. Mad, I say, absolutely stark staring mad. Are we completely doomed?
The recent Professor Robert Clancy conversation with John Campbell is a wonderfully clear explanation of the difference between systemic and mucosal immunity and the different pressures of natural selection resulting from point mutations and recombinant mutatations.
I suggest watching the video first and then following that up by reading the Robert Clancy article (linked above in the news round-up) reproduced in The Conservative Woman
The west gets weaker, the east grows stronger!
“Where’s the fetus going to gestate? are you going to keep it in a box?”
‘Monty python 1979’
The answer to the argument of what’s a woman?
Bill Gates hinting at a new inhaled, nasal vaccine and admitting the current death shots are not working at what he expects us to believe was the intended objective. Yeah pull the other one Gatesy, we all know by now you never intended an efficacious product that benefits the elderly! ( 3rd vid down ). Also there’s a great video demonstrating all the hate that Canadians feel towards Turdeau. Excellent.
https://twitter.com/thechiefnerd
An offer not to be sniffed at.
The N95 article debunks masks by delving deeply into the ‘mosquito/chainlink fence’ analogy, assuming a 100% capture efficiency of them.
In the real world, that efficiency is reduced to 0 with leakage of only 3.2% or more. And being unshaven is already sufficient for that kind of leakage.
Masks: The uniform of the uninformed.
https://lauradodsworth.substack.com/p/is-that-a-cricket-in-my-bread
A very lightweight piece from Ms Dodsworth. She hasn’t got her head round insects in food just yet.
Yes I thought it quite sub-par considering her usual writing. Maybe if she lived in the EU and it directly affected her she’d have a keener interest.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/starmer-in-with-the-davos-in-crowd/”
AT THE World Economic Forum’s meeting in Davos, Sir Keir Starmer gave an interview to the BBC’s Emily Maitlis. It included the following exchange:
Maitlis: So, let’s just ask you quickly. You have to choose between Davos and Westminster.
Starmer: (Without hesitation) Davos.
Maitlis: Why?
Starmer: Because Westminster is too constrained, it’s closed, and we’re not having meaning . . . you actually engage with people who you can see working with in the future . . .
The rest of the interview with the Labour leader was not broadcast …”
I wonder why.
Well, a clearer announcement of Kneel’s treason we couldn’t wish for.
Very interesting, HP. He’s shown his cards at least. Hopefully that statement will come back to haunt him at the election but knowing our fickle population with its combined attention span of a single tweet (sorry, electorate but you keep showing that you’ve learned and know nothing!) they’ll think he likes skiing or Swiss cheese and vote him in! It’s as if he already knows he’ll be PM (…you actually engage with people who you can see working with in the future…) and then he can bring in his Marxist/Communist state and his dull, flabby, characterless face will be everywhere.
Women who dye their hair blonde are now racists, according to a US sociologist. https://www.tichyseinblick.de/feuilleton/glosse/blond-gefaerbte-haare-rassismus
I was wondering about these booking.com ads…. https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/climate-change-hypocrisy-of-gas-guzzler-elba/
Two interesting takes on the excess deaths/died suddenly crisis.
Vinaj Prasad &co https://www.thefp.com/p/the-epidemic-of-diedsuddenly?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Norman Fenton&co
https://wherearethenumbers.substack.com/p/weltanshauung
In relation to excess deaths, I don’t know if anyone saw this in Parliament yesterday….Andrew Brigden and Esther McVey putting questions to the Parliamentary under-Secretary of state for health, Maria Caulfield…
Esther Mcvey…
The chief medical officer recently warned that non-covid excess deaths are being driven in part by patients not getting statins or blood pressure medicines during the pandemic. However, when looking at the data on statins on OpenPrescribing.net, which is based on monthly NHS prescribing, there appears not to be a drop, so where is the evidence? If there is none, what is causing these excess deaths? Will the Minister commit to an urgent and thorough investigation on the matter?
Reply….
We are seeing an increase in excess deaths in this country, but we are also seeing that in Wales, in Scotland, in Northern Ireland and across Europe. There is a range of factors. As we saw, there was an increase in December in the number of people being admitted with flu, covid and other healthcare conditions. That was seen not just in this country, but across Europe.
???…happening everywhere, so it’s alright then….!!…the look on Esther’s face, quite rightly..was a picture….
Then Andrew Brigden asked….
The Office for National Statistics has not issued mortality data by vaccination status since 31 May last year. Will the Minister confirm that her Department has collected that data for the rest of 2022 and inform the House when it will be published?
Reply….
I am happy to write to the hon. Gentleman with that information. However, I must be clear that we planned for an increase in admissions this winter. That is why we got on and delivered on our plans for 7,000 extra beds, and why we brought forward our flu and covid vaccination programme and lowered the age of eligibility. There are a number of factors, and they are the same factors that have driven excess deaths across the United Kingdom and across Europe.
again, eh??
Later Brigden wrote, “
My question to the ‘vaccines’ minister today in parliament.
I am asking the right questions, but as you can see I’m not getting any answers….
This is ‘breaking’ news apparently…
https://news.sky.com/story/spring-and-autumn-boosters-planned-for-people-most-at-risk-from-covid-12794846
People at higher risk of severe COVID should be given a booster in the autumn, officials have said.
A smaller group of people, such as those who are older or are immunosuppressed, should get an extra booster in the spring, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) also advised.
It added that “emergency surge vaccine responses” to target more people could be needed if a new variant emerges that is different enough from Omicron.
However, uptake of an initial third dose has declined, with less than 0.1% of eligible people coming forward each week since April last year.
Similarly, the number of those opting to have their first vaccine dose, which has been widely available since 2021, has plateaued across all age groups in recent months.
“The COVID-19 vaccination programme continues to reduce severe disease across the population, while helping to protect the NHS,” said chair of COVID vaccination on the JCVI, Professor Wei Shen Lim.
LOL! This is a great story, as it appears to cover not one, but at least two items on the propaganda list…..the ‘anything, but not that thing, causing clots’…and the vegan and ‘don’t eat meat, eat bugs’ mantra……!!
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1554078/blood-clot-risks-eggs-meats-choline
BLOOD clotting is a normal response to injury. Sometimes, however, it can lead to cramps, pain and swelling, and if it enters the circulatory system, it can be fatal. In a small study, one popular breakfast food has been linked to the condition.
Blood clots typically form in the veins of the legs, arms, groin. It is when they break off and travel to other parts of the body, such as the lungs, that they pose a risk. Typically risk factors for blood clotting include surgery, cancer, and pregnancy. The findings from one small study, however, imply that a nutrient found in eggs and meat may also increase the risk of blood clotting.
NOT worth reading in full…LOL!
How did we not become extinct before we could move out of caves?? Not to mention before some clever cave person discovered fire! LOL
Ahh, Ice Ages…them were the years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elu8caWGV38
eNCA is one of South Africa’s biggest independent news agencies…so having Doctors on calling for a halt to the ‘shots’ can only be a good thing….
Only in America: https://www.gbnews.uk/news/dog-shoots-and-kills-his-owner-using-a-rifle-in-freak-accident/430668 Shot by a dog.
The perils of keeping a gun dog.
“Transgender rapist in women’s prison in Scotland raises safety fears, says Joanna Cherry MP”
Answer:- he/she must agree to be depeinised and castrated to go to a women’s prison or, go to a male prison! The choice is your sir/madam
A biological male rapist in a women’s prison???
It’s not even like leaving the fox to guard the chickens! It’s like opening the hutch gate and locking it in with them!
Which mythical planet do these snp idiots live on!
Don’t forget, when the inevitable happens – “lessons will be learned.”
Just back from the Manchester FSU Speakeasy and thoroughly enjoyed it. I will post a few more words tomorrow but for those not members – get in there. Membership now over 10,000. We are making a difference.
https://youtu.be/KhTIxPmgV8A
Scotland waking up.
https://youtu.be/x32PSidEO4c
Andrew Bridgen apologises.
Very sad. He will regret this.