Last week on the Daily Sceptic, I wrote about the attempts of Government and campaigners to effectively make being female into a form of officially recognised disability as regards the menopause. Yet, as such a move would apply to only half the population, would it not be potentially discriminatory in nature? Why should only women be able to claim they’re disabled when they’re not? Can’t transgender males get in on the act too? And if not, why not?
An equally valid path towards a potential life on disability benefits would be simply to begin self-identifying as being disabled in a general sense, even though in actual fact you are completely able-bodied. Once, such ideas were considered fit only for poor-taste comedy-skits like those of Lou and Andy on Little Britain. Now, there is a whole social movement devoted to the idea out there. It is called ‘transableism’, and it makes mere transgenderism sound positively sane by comparison.
No Legs Good, Two Legs Bad
There has always been the occasional individual who has posed falsely as being disabled: to wrongly claim disability benefits, to avoid military service, to elicit undeserved sympathy or charity from others, or even to gain easy sporting success, as with the completely healthy Spanish basketball team who fraudulently (but quite amusingly) won gold at the 2000 Paralympics.
Transableists are fundamentally different. Not simply out for personal gain, they really seem to believe what they are saying. An excellent example would be Jørund Viktoria Alme, a 53-year-old able-bodied male senior credit analyst from Oslo, who self-IDs as a disabled woman confined to a wheelchair. Whilst still a five-year-old schoolboy, Alme saw a classmate using a splint and crutches, causing him to feel intense jealousy: “As I understand it in retrospect… it was I who should have been there.”
As waves of trans-mania swept the West during the late 2010s, the demonstrably male, demonstrably able-bodied, Alme suddenly came to understand his ‘true’ identity – not only as a woman, but as a woman who had been born paralysed from the waist down. So, he bought a wheelchair and a wig and went around acting like one. And then, in 2022, he appeared on Good Morning Norway to brag about his situation, arguing he wasn’t really doing anything wrong because – his genuine example – he never made use of a Disabled Parking space.
A Farewell to Arms (and Legs)
The technical clinical label for transableism is Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID), a term coined in 2005. But the apparent goal of more recently relabelling BIID as transableism is to link it directly back to the wider phenomenon of transgenderism, thus to lend the condition spurious but fashionable social acceptability by association. After all, if someone with a penis can now be a woman, why can’t someone with fully working eyes be blind too?
There are now actual academics – or people who self-identify as such – who make these arguments. Clive Baldwin is a Canada Research Chair in Narrative Studies at St. Thomas University in Newfoundland: the fact he teaches a specious Critical Theory sub-discipline specifically called ‘Narrative Studies’ indicates how, for many such people, the very ideas of being ‘disabled’ or ‘able-bodied’ in the first place are simply fake, time-honoured social stories, not objective physical facts at all.
Baldwin has interviewed transableists from across the world, finding many who take matters into their own hands and arrange handy ‘accidents’ to cripple themselves for real. One man dropped a heavy concrete block onto his leg, hoping it would necessitate amputation. Tragically, unsympathetic doctors cruelly saved his leg in the operating theatre: “He limps, but it’s not the disability he wanted.” Another such individual, known only as ‘One Hand Jason’, deliberately lopped off his right arm with a “very sharp power-tool”, like in Evil Dead 2, but only after responsibly practising on “animal parts sourced from a butcher” first.
The most horrific such self-mutilator is Jewel Shuping, who arranged a sympathetic psychologist to pour drain-cleaner into her eyes back in 2006 in order to finally become blind, something she had dreamed of ever since a little girl. As a four-year-old, Jewel’s mother continually wandered her home in the pitch-dark at night, and soon progressed on to deliberately staring at the sun after being told it would destroy her eyes. Once into her teens, Jewel started wearing dark glasses like Roy Orbison, using a white stick, and learned braille, a process she dubbed “blind-simming”.
In 2006, the drain-cleaner did the trick, Jewel’s left eye becoming so damaged it had to be removed entirely after collapsing in on itself like a rotten oyster, whilst the other became an unusable mess of glaucoma, scars, webbing and cataracts. Although her family disowned her as a freak, Jewel herself just felt misunderstood: “I really feel this is the way I was supposed to be born, that I should have been blind from birth.” Just as we have long had women born trapped inside men’s bodies, so we now too have blind women born trapped inside sighted women’s bodies.
Total Wannabes
Those who aspire to become physically disabled by their own efforts are, within the realms of their own little deviant subculture, called ‘wannabes’. Slightly less devoted are the ‘pretenders’, who simply method-act as being disabled, like Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot, but slightly less Oscar-worthy.
Such 24/7 thespians, interviewed semi-anonymously by the press down recent years, would include persons like ‘Elisabeth’, “a U.S. resident with two healthy legs but… the body-image of a double above-knee amputee” who goes to parks, supermarkets and even church in a wholly unnecessary wheelchair, but would not be willing to deliberately tie her legs down on a railway-line and await the inevitable for real. However, “If it [a leg-severing accident] happened to me, it would be great to end up as a double-knee amputee… [But] I wouldn’t want to be paraplegic. My image is definitely in the amputee category.”
It would be heart-breaking indeed for such a ‘wannabe’ to actually be involved in a serious accident, and yet crawl away with the wrong disability altogether – imagine going blind when what you really want is to be deaf! This actually happened to ‘Anthony’, inaccurately described as “a pretty average uni student”. Yes, “pretty average” apart from the fact that, “in the back of his mind, almost constantly, a part of him longs to be a high level quadriplegic… [with] a lack of corporeal control and mobility, incontinence and even the need for a ventilator to assist with respiration”.
Imagine Anthony’s displeasure, then, at subsequently being involved in a serious accident – but not nearly serious enough! – which ‘only’ left him confined to a wheelchair with severely limited use of his legs. Not only did the accident disappointingly fail to render him completely immobile with an inability to prevent himself from shitting and pissing himself for nursey on a daily basis, he always preferred to “see myself [becoming quadriplegic] not [by] getting injured, but more… as a result of some condition such as ALS or transverse myelitis”. When interviewed, Anthony was a trainee medical student. Did his first patient end up being himself?
The sacred lived experiences of people like Elisabeth and Anthony, their Narrative Studies-style academic defenders have sympathetically suggested, are (as Canadian newspaper the National Post reported such sentiments a few years back), “just another form of body diversity – like transgenderism”. As if to ram this interpretation home to readers, the Post illustrated its piece with a large photo of what appears to be an unconvincing transvestite in a wheelchair with his legs placed in callipers. This, it would seem, is the next aspirational avatar that ‘diversity’ is slated to take within our increasingly sick society: Stephen Hawking with moobs and some bright red lipstick smeared across his gob.
Doctor’s Disorders
In some more reasonable clinical interpretations, BIID – not ‘transableism’ here, do please note – may actually have some genuine underlying neurological basis. In very rare cases, some doctors and researchers guess, the internal ‘map’ of our body we all carry around with us inside an area of our brains called the right superior parietal lobule, can become distorted, removing the cerebral ‘representation’ of one or more limbs from our grey-matter. When this occurs, our internal body-map, and our actual external physical body, do not match, making the limbs in question appear alien to sufferers. Hence, statements from BIID-sufferers like the following: “I can feel exactly the line where my leg should end and my stump should begin. Sometimes this line hurts or feels numb” or “I feel myself complete without my left leg… I’m over-complete with it.”
In this way, certain forms of BIID may be considered the reverse-equivalent of ‘phantom limb syndrome’, a genuine condition in which amputees, due to their way their internal brain body-map still contains a relic representation of the old, but now-missing, limb, continue to feel genuine pain in their amputated legs and suchlike, even though they no longer have them. The difference with sane doctors who think about such conditions in this way, however, is that they consider them purely as regrettable brain disorders, not wonderful examples of diversity in action which should be embraced and celebrated by all.
Contrariwise, philosophers Tim Bayne and Neil Levy – the latter of Oxford University, sad to say – argue in their 2005 paper ‘Amputees By Choice’ that transabled people who desire amputations should be able to seek them from “reputable surgeons” on freedom of choice grounds (in 2000, Scottish surgeon Dr. Robert Smith caused controversy by actually doing so). If people can have plastic surgery to make their external body conform to their inner idealised image of themselves, by having larger breasts implanted, or getting their penis snipped off and replaced with a pseudo-vagina, then why not allow those who self-ID as Abu Hamza get their hands sawn off and replaced with miniature coat-hangers?
Moral Paralysis
Canada seems to be the current hub of pseudo-academic transableist activism. Such folk’s most persistent champion is perhaps Alexandre Baril, a transgenderist herself. Who she? According to Baril’s own proud online academic blurb:
Alexandre Baril (PhD, Feminist and Gender Studies) is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Ottawa. [Her] work, carried out from an intersectional perspective, is situated at the crossroads of gender, queer, trans, disability/crip/Mad studies, critical gerontology and critical suicidology.
“Critical suicidology”? That’s a new one. Baril hasn’t successfully managed to kill herself yet, but appears to be doing her best to push the West as a whole into throwing itself over the civilisational cliff nonetheless, as can be seen from his many exceedingly niche papers – shamefully published by major academic presses like Routledge – such as 2015’s ‘How Dare You Pretend to be Disabled?: The Discounting of Transabled People and their Claims in Disability Movements and Studies’.
Baril uses her paper to help dispel “negative discourses” around such highly discriminated-against persons by “helping to expand the category of ‘disabled people’ [note the inverted commas] and make it more inclusive” – i.e., by including non-disabled people in that category too. But there is a problem. Baril censoriously notes that many truly disabled people strongly disapprove of their transabled peers as being parasites or perverts, competing for scarce welfare state resources.
Baril views this simply as disabled people, brainwashed into false-consciousness by evil capitalism, “conform[ing] to neoliberal concerns for cost and productivity”. Instead, it would be far more desirable, from a Far Left perspective, for the disabled and transabled to come together as one and “fight against political and economic austerity” of the penny-pinching kind which wickedly seeks to limit disability benefits only to the genuinely physically disabled.
To this end, Baril pushes a new conceptual category, the ‘cisdisabled’, i.e., people ‘privileged’ enough to have been born already blind, for example, rather than needing to seek out some drain-cleaner to become artificially so. One brainwashed capitalist cisdisabled bigot is quoted complaining as follows:
Do you know how hard it is for many of us [genuinely disabled people] to get state benefits? I do not think it is fair to a person born with a disability to be denied a wheelchair while someone with BIID is able to have the state purchase a chair for him or her.
How sickeningly selfish. Such uncaring cisdisabled scum possess an unjustifiable “sense of entitlement to define disability”, Baril argues. In 1996, it turns out the Amputee Coalition of America proposed a rule to exclude people who were not actually amputees from attending its meetings. Most persons may think this restriction quite reasonable, but of course these days we have men in dresses being allowed to attend women’s refuges or rape-therapy sessions, so why not non-amputees attending amputee support-groups too?
Crippled Logic
Any arguments to the contrary are histrionically decreed to be a form of “violence”. You may not have previously considered bed-ridden quadriplegics to be terribly capable of acts of “violence”, but for many a 2020s Leftist, conceptual violence is today considered far worse than its mere physical counterpart, in terms of its wider systemic effects upon society as a whole.
In the words of one activist Baril cites, it would be far better for everyone to quickly cave in and admit that “you are disabled if you say you are”. Just as the gender-binary between men and women must henceforth be dismantled, so too must the corresponding “disability essentialism” binary of hierarchies between the disabled and the non-disabled. We can no longer afford to think of “good disabled people”, disabled from birth or via accident, and “bad disabled people”, who just pretend to be so, or else go around lopping their feet off with lawnmowers in pursuit of life, liberty and happiness.
One excellent way to facilitate this utopian social transformation would be to officially decree that, as most people might initially presume, the transabled are profoundly mentally ill. If so, then mental illness is generally accepted as being a form of disability in itself, is it not? Therefore, argues Baril, mentally ill people claiming they have no limbs when they clearly do, because you can see them, is just yet further proof that they really are disabled after all… or something.
The “involuntary/voluntary disability binary is rooted in a simplified conception of ‘volition’”, Baril explains, i.e., these loonies just can’t help themselves. Maybe, being loonies, they really can’t help themselves – but surely that doesn’t mean they should be actively encouraged to engage in such delusions, does it? Ah, but then, we are forgetting: Professor Baril is a transgenderist, and encouraging such demonstrably mentally unwell persons in their delusions is the whole basis of transgender ideology in the first place.
When we allow identitarian lunatics to take over the asylum, this is what happens – pure madness is arbitrarily redefined as being pure sanity, and our entire civilisation becomes truly crippled to the point of absolute infirmity.
Steven Tucker is a journalist and the author of over 10 books, the latest being Hitler’s & Stalin’s Misuse of Science: When Science Fiction Was Turned Into Science Fact by the Nazis and the Soviets (Pen & Sword/Frontline), which is out now.
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We’re screwed either way. I don’t think the situation is retrievable. At this point whatever outcome results in the Tory part being utterly destroyed and replaced by actual conservatives is the one I would choose.
Yes, you may have a point.
It’s really Peter Hitchen’s point, one he has been making for many years.
He wasn’t completely wrong when he said the Conservatives should rename themselves the “Socialist Workers Party”.
Looking back at what he has been writing for a long time, he was right about a lot of things. He may have his faults but he’s articulate and doesn’t apologise or back down just to placate people. Unfortunately he has that vaguely RP accent and fusty manner that people immediately associate with rich Tory grandees and the like, which is very much not what he is about at all. It’s quite sad how superficial the level of political debate is.
Peter Hitchens is the modern day ‘Cassandra’, doomed to be right about everything and doomed to be ignored. On YouTube, I recently watched an old episode of Question Time he appeared on from about 15 years ago, along with Boris Johnson, Shirley Williams and Christopher Hitchens. Even the person who put the programme on YouTube (it was in nine-minute chunks, they way things used to be on YT) slagged off Peter’s contributions when was writing the description on each part. Fifteen years later, Peter is the one proven right on every count.
I never tire of watching this tirade on Question Time against Cameron: https://youtu.be/DT5tzzWhRAA?t=350
“He hates his own party members”
True of him, true of most/all senior Tories since
Justine Greening’s face is a picture
Whichever way we view our situation and as I have posted many times on here –
Our salvation will not arrive via the ballot box.
That’s the point that is utterly lost on so many. We are playing nicely within a system that provides only the illusion of democracy. Even many (most?) sceptics don’t appear to really understand this.
Quite right FL as many posts on this thread confirm.
Be anarchic. This does not mean violence and arson. It means you are without leader. Find your own way. And move quietly with your fellow anarchists, speaking softly, carrying big guns.
“Come in peace, or leave in pieces.”
We do not recognise their authority over us.
And another one has just resigned. What was his/her/their name, again?
Or, “The revolution is never televised.”
I doubt our salvation will arrive at all, except for personal salvation in whatever form works for you.
In Australia 3 state conservative governments and the Federal one, with 2 more about to be, have been eviscerated at elections.
Their response?
Let’s head further to the far left.
The fools who have taken over worldwide conservative parties, with a few notable exceptions, seem to be merely keeping the opposition benches warm, or more probably, positioning themselves for lucrative gigs with the WEF.
I voted Conservative for 39 years, I will never vote for them again. What is the actual difference between Labour and Conservative anyway?
If Labour were to regain power and take the blame for the inevitable economic problems – what then? Vote the Tories in next time around and let them continue destroying our country?
In some ways, at least with Labour you know what you’re getting.
The Conservatives mess with you. They sell you the green, fresh pastures of Brexit and deliver the same rancid turd pile that Labour was offering.
You are 100% right.
For a second, I thought you were seriously arguing for this so that she could win it and get a mandate.
Indeed, your logic is the only sound one for this to happen.
But it would necessitate that Truss saw it the same way and would put party above career, like May always vowed to do and then did.
It would also necessitate a similar attitude by Tory MPs, deliberately committing to go into an already lost battle, and I just cannot see that happening at all.
I am also more doubtful that voters will forget and forgive so quickly, that Labour won’t become totalitarian and prevent being sent packing and, above all, that this lot, whether from the right or from the centre left, could then take over and successfully fix it or anything.
Reading the background story in the DT, Truss seems fully on board with the Lefties now and my hunch is that a new party is in the offing, and that that party might for the first time in a while stand a real chance, if given some more time.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/10/19/how-almighty-migration-row-led-suella-braverman-turn-against/
Reminded me of the formation of the SDP, and look what happened to that, with it’s remains merging into the Liberal Party. Maybe it could end up in a Conservative Liberal (CLIP) one! As ever, it’s the first past the post system that would be a major barrier for anything novel.
I remember my father saying this – about PR – in the 80s.
nothing has changed except the speed at which we have declined & diminished ourselves.
The only long-term solution I see is for politicians of all parties to ditch the agendas of the global organisations (IMF, WHO, WEF, UN, etc) and act in the interests of the nation instead. Net Zero needs to be accepted for what it is – delusion, and should be scrapped. General election or not, the current shower of anti-democratic, back-stabbing traitors that infest parliament, regardless of party, need to go. I have no problem with a general election since we are currently stuffed either way. Let the other lot make total clowns of themselves for a change. Maybe it will result in their annihilation too. Maybe, just maybe, out of the mess and chaos of a totally failed elected dictatorship, we might eventually see some sanity return.
Maybe, but to be honest, I would place much bigger odds on the global woke train heading for depopulation central to continue chugging along nicely with ever more brainwashed masses gleefully jumping on.
Yup.
The Tories should absolutely not hold another general pissing contest right now. Considering developments in other countries, we’re nowhere out of the woods wrt COVID. Additionally, they’re responsible for causing their present situation and its their **** (insert expletive of choice) duty to get the country again out of the mess they’ve steered it into. If all they can manage is to have five different, abortive premierships in six years, they deserve to join the liberals on the benches of the No longer fit for any purpose has-beens.
I think the last thing we need is any more government response to COVID given that it’s response so far has already been a disaster to the economy, health, education, and social stability.
I think RW meant we’re not out of the woods WRT covid in terms of we may see more restrictions being introduced, and it’s much more likely these would come from Labour. I think he’s right and probably marginally prefer the Tories to hobble on for another couple of years just to bury the fake pandemic rubbish for good before we get the other lot in.
Since the spineless amoeba has meanwhile resigned, there’s unfortunately a good chance that we’ll get much more of a government response to the entirely fictional threat of COVID.
The point not being addressed is that the collapse of Western financial systems in order to provide the excuse for CBDC’s is an integral part of the Reset / Agenda 2030.
Looking back it is clear that our current turmoil was ramped up when Bliar got his hands on the levers and principally via a massive increase in the state and unrestricted immigration. As usual ALL our current problems have their origins with Bliar and his muppet Brown.
All Western governments, US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, most of the EU went on enormous spending exercises that were unfunded and un-fundable. The end result was baked in and just what the Davos Deviants ordered. We are facing total economic collapse and it is now a question of when, not if, the money markets pull the plug but probably before year end.
At that point the country and its assets will be mortgaged to the IMF and the process of “you will own nothing and be firkin unhappy” will really kick in, as will CBDC’s which of course are intended and indeed guaranteed to produce a slave system.
There are occasions when we overthink the situation but this is not one of them. Looking at our position from the perspective of political screw ups, bickering and mismanagement is simply naiive. Surely, at least those on DS can now see, if they couldn’t previously, that our nominal political leaders and politicians are just that – nominal. I dare say we will never have the names of those orchestrating the destruction of our country, probably just a WEF committee in Switzerland, but destruction is certainly looking assured now.
Our abject failure to produce any politicians who could reasonably be said to be fit to fill Churchill’s boots, for it is a Churchill now required, will be our undoing.
Neil Oliver:
“It’s not always about what they say it’s about.”
I agree.
my despondency is turning towards a sad realism , thinking – how do we best cope with what now seems inevitable?
we need to keep avenues open for connecting with one another (like the DS); we need to fight to retain cash & bartering, etc.
we need to connect up & share ideas, & not waste energy in the equivalent of moaning.(not saying you or anyone here is).
It pre-dates Bliar Hux. Goes all the way back to joining the Common Market – that is when the monarch was deposed & our institutions taken over. The banking control goes back even further.
All of the politicos actions have been designed to be a slow drip drip towards enabling international control & total serfdom of the populace. With each step being so small & seemingly insignificant that we haven’t been aware that a control prison was being erected around us in plain sight. Bliar was where the accelerator was pressed harder.
I know this pre-dates Bliar BB but I used him as my start point because 1. all our current problems can be pinned on him without the slightest risk of being proved wrong and 2. he is such a disgusting example of our species.
The reality is that our current problems commenced as rationing ended in the ’50’s and large scale immigration commenced. Sir Enoch Powell warned where we were headed and was howled down. Maggie put the blocks on briefly but after she was ousted by the globalists Clarke and Heseltine the destruction of our country kicked up apace until Bliar arrived when he really floored the accelerator.
I might just as well have written a full post.
There are 3 key problems:
Inevitably inflation will increase due to a weakening £ so we’ll have imported inflation as the price of commodities, priced in $ go up. Classic stagflation.
What will happen? Labour will win the next election. We won’t rejoin the EU (in the short-term) but we’ll enter into a series of agreements with the EU that will bind us ever closer, trading agreements, regulatory agreements etc. We won’t get a vote but then who does?
Labour will effectively continue with the Hunt policies, we’ve outsourced macroeconomic policy to global institutions & so won’t be able to move beyond economic authodoxy without there being a £ crisis.
Having got rid of the necessity of deciding on economic policy we’ll all be distracted by ‘culture war issues’ which Labour will heat up while the unelected get on with running the country, no doubt, bringing in CBDCs, health passports, the whole panoply of global control, while we all look the other way.
Noah Carl has inadvertently made the point that it makes no difference who is in charge – the outcome is basically going to be the same.
And because of that, politics is just a game of taking credit for good stuff and blaming someone else for the bad stuff.
I realise that Carl isn’t saying that this is the case all the time. It’s clear he’s implying that it’s just the case now, in these especially difficult circumstances where there is little room to manoeuvre, supposedly.
But actually, if it’s the case now, it’s the case always. Nobody really believes that when things are absolutely terrible, it doesn’t really matter who calls the shots and makes decisions.
We certainly didn’t believe that in 1940 when Churchill was appointed PM. The sense at the time was that Britain was in a terrible spot with very few options. And whether by his decisions or his ability to rally the country, he made a difference. Or so we have been taught to believe.
It is precisely in the most difficult moments that good decision making and great leadership can make a big difference.
As it happens, I agree with Carl that it really doesn’t matter who is supposedly in charge now. But I don’t think it makes any difference anymore at any time.
Elections are pointless, voting is pointless. The game is completely rigged. The people who get elected don’t work for us or represent us. And if by some miracle they so much as try to, they’re quickly removed.
The only point I would see to elections is if the population abstained en masse and showed the psychos trying to control us that the game was up.
Sadly too many are brainwashed into believing that voting makes a difference & that this country is a democracy for voting abstention to have an impact.
A mass campaign for spoiling ballots with one single simple message, i.e. None! or Not in my name! instead of abstaining could do the trick.
If the largest vote share goes to such a ‘party/candidate’ they must calculate and publish it, and there will be a debate about the elected peoples than all too obvious lack of a real mandate.
As George Carlin said…’Its a big club, and you ain’t in it’…
Spot on.
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows
Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died
Everybody talking to their pockets
Everybody wants a box of chocolates
And a long-stem rose
Everybody knows
Leonard Cohen, who knew a thing or two decades ago. Except – Everbody doesn’t know, sadly.
Leonard Cohen, indeed a poet.
Truss’ support for fracking and ultra hawkishness over Ukraine looks to have done for her as much as her lack of planning. Any policy not in line with the WEF-inspired NetZero was inevitably going to invite hostilities from the Davos crowd, and now it looks like the battle for Kherson could get very expensive for NATO allies. With the US midterms looking ominous for Biden and Zelensky, a way out is needed. Rishi/Mordaunt looks nailed on as a stop gap, and then Boris in to the rescue. Either that, or it is the end for the Tories.
In most of the western world now, you’re no longer voting for a representative political party anymore, you’re voting for the Political Class. And the trouble with this is it breeds and feeds a lethal apathy in democracy that cements tyranny.
I often wonder, has this been the ultra long game of our globalist cartel?
Yes, the UK avoided a political class until Blair got into power. Now we have a European-style political class of WEF graduates, ordered around by the investment banks.
To be blunt, if there isn’t an election called shortly, King Charles will have to dissolve Parliament himself. That’s one of the many checks and balances in our system. I hope the Tory Party dies and we can see the start of new conservative and libertarian movements. The UK is in a stranglehold of two dead political parties, both of which need to go.
I’ll tell you what, that “check and balance” didn’t work very well when the population was placed under mass house arrest, muzzled (literally) and bullied into participating in a global gene therapy experiment.
So I doubt it’s going to jump in now.
And that’s assuming the monarchy is on our side in the first place, which, let’s face it, is a pretty reckless assumption.
Charlie on our side?
That’s bloody fantasy land.
Sadly true. In an ideal world, we wouldn’t have a leftist utopian as King.
Too right! And lockdown is the reason I will never vote for any standing MP who voted in favour of it. It was an abject disgrace and a stain on the entire history of this country.
He’s a fully signed up member to the cabal. He was the face for promoting Agenda 30. We have no functioning checks & balances. The whole system has been violated & undermined by globalist self appointed scum to further their own enrichment & implementation of democide & taking ownership of all the assets.
Agreed. I’m saying would should happen, not what will. The 20th-21st century has been a bloody history of the elitists apparently willingly giving power to the people only quietly to suck it all back, piecemeal, until we’re back under the elitist thumb again.
The days of a Government made up of former grammar school kids made up of the best and brightest of different social classes are long gone, replaced by the usual bunch of privately-educated and wealthy-area comprehensive-educated charlatans.
And she’s gone ……..
The whole saga reminds me of Merkel a few years ago when an AfD chap was elected state PM.
‘This is the wrong result, it has to be corrected.’
I wonder how many Conservative party members who voted for her will now do the honourable thing and cancel their membership.
How can you still look into the mirror, if you don’t?!
Thing is, many of them voted for Truss, because she was preferable to Sunak, not because she was the candidate they wanted. They had a choice of two, selected by the MPs, who had voted as a majority for Sunak.
… and who cares….
Bookies’ favourite to replace her, Sunak – a globalist from the world of high finance. Definitely not a conspiracy though – impossible to imagine that no-one in the world of international markets could have been nudged to attack the pound to destabilise a government. Who would do such a dastardly thing? Senior politicians and big business bosses never lie, cheat, steal, spy on their enemies, spread false rumours. They just mean well and make mistakes sometimes.
Can you blame them? The British electorate keep getting it wrong. We”re just going to have to keep going and do this as many times as is needed until we “chose” the right person.
Well it’s natural human behaviour of course, though morally reprehensible. I do blame people, especially supposedly intelligent or educated people, for believing these people are not capable of terrible wrongs.
I disagree with the premise that the electorate would blame the incoming Labour government for what is coming. The Tories dined out for most of this 12 year term by blaming Labour mismanagement whilst doing precious little to fix it themselves. Factor in the biased BBC and the MSM and it will be even worse.
Having said that, the Tory party needs to be ended, pure and simple. They are a waste of oxygen.
All of the current political mainstream parties need to ended. They are all corrupted & the leadership is fully aligned with the globalist agenda. All a vote will do is put a bought & sold donkey wearing a different coloured rosette into power to implement the will of the globalists.
Nice and tidy BB.
All politicians are a waste of oxygen but unless you are an eco wazzock we can afford that. We cannot afford to leave their fingers in the till though.
I think the Conservatives are finished. No matter who they elect, they won’t win an election now. The globalists back stabbers have taken over the party and I simply don’t trust them. There should be an election even if it means that Labour wins. This is from someone who has voted Conservative for over 40 years and was also a member. Never again.
It would be nice if the actual centre right parties out there (obviously doesn’t include Conservatives) could work together. Even better if some of the true conservatives left in the party jumped ship or setup a new party although unlikely but I live in hope.
“There should be an election”
Why?
Agree with all your other points.
Let me describe where we are with our “democracy”.
Or we can have an election and get Keir Starmer.
And by all accounts, either of those two is going to do exactly the same thing.
As a matter of fact, Boris Johson was not elected to run the government. A general election resulted in a so-called Tory landslide victory and the resulting majority of Tory MPs in parliament initially selected Johnson as the prime minister candidate they’d ask the queen to appoint. They could as well have nominated Nicola Sturgeon for the post. The UK parliament is elected by a subset of the population of the UK (British subjects plus citizens of Commonwealth countries who are legally in the UK during the election). Anything beyond that happens at the discretion of parliament.
Yes formally that’s how it works.
In practice people are selecting the leader implicitly.
In any case, however you describe it, it’s all for show. The people are given the illusion of choice but in reality chose nothing.
That’s not how it formally works, that’s how it works. Parliament has been elected by the people entitled to vote in general elections. And that’s all these people are entitled to elect.
As the initial excitement dies down some initial thoughts after my mid-day sarnie.
How does this serve the globalist / Davos Deviants agenda?
Initially of course this is a vicious reminder to those seeking to follow Truss that the agenda is set for them and deviation from their script is not permitted.
The turmoil created by the Scamdemic is maintained although I readily admit 50% of the population will be none the wiser next week. Still it maintains the tension. Quite possibly some freedom damping measures will need to be introduced in anticipation of unrest, or a false flag event could be raised in order to substantiate them.
The next incumbent will get a severe talking to and probably the schedule of events leading up to Christmas. And a warning not to deviate.
The economy will continue to collapse and further borrowings arranged in order to facilitate same.
Further problems will be arranged with regard to food, fuel and domestic power supplies so the anticipated power cuts are inevitable.
Interest rates will rise allegedly to protect the pound but this will “inadvertently” collapse the housing market in line with general economic collapse as above.
Further false flag events around Russia / Ukraine for tension maintenance purposes.
Increased civil unrest in Europe possibly in Holland, France or Germany and some even reported in our MSM, again for tension maintenance purposes.
As ridiculous as it seems Bozo might decide to throw his hat in to the ring in the expectation that he will win a resounding vote of confidence from the Tory grass roots. This will be followed by a GE so long as he is guaranteed to win and which would allow for his victorious return to Downing St as an all-conquering Ceasar. I always thought he slunk away rather quietly.
Oh, and not forgetting a new ‘wave’ of some mysterious ‘virus’ which devastates parts of Scotland(
), thereby crippling rNHS.
Everything working nicely for a tension fuelled run up to Christmas.
Apologies for the omissions of which assuredly there are many.
Red or Blue, you can guarantee that it will the dead hands of Blackrock, State Street and Vanguard on the tiller of HMS Great Britain.
Expect more managed decline, more woke shit and less freedom.
Spot on. https://dossier.substack.com/p/the-free-world-isnt-looking-so-free?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
I’m not sure you really understand what’s at stake here.
If you want to see actual gulags in this country, then let the current Labour party take the helm.
They will not have the qualms the Conservatives have had about sending this country back to Pol Pot’s vision of a pre-capitalist society (but this time run by armed trannies) that crushes any opposition and uses political violence against its opponents.
I’m thinking it’s time to bail and I suggest that anyone that doesn’t want to live in hell think about doing the same.
They are now influenced by the communist oligarchs. For them to fulfill their aim requires the destruction of the economy and the elimination of the private sector.
Good article and interesting comments but why do we always have to find someone/thing to blame other than ourselves. We’re all soft, out of touch, beholden to the big state we’ve created, unwilling to question everything or challenge groupthink at every level and on all sides. Only chaos and human ingenuity will bring us back to our senses. Focus on resilience and personal integrity. Stop looking for a saviour.
Politics is utterly broken. If you still believe in a thing called democracy then you have either been travelling out in the further reaches of the galaxy for a while or you are in Cloud Cuckoo Land. General Election, Party B gets in, can’t fix anything, can’t get anything done, spends a lot of time making grand pronouncements, soothing words about sharing the pain and we’re all in this together and whatever other words are necessary from the Snake Oil salesman’s handbook. The trouble is that politics sold their souls a long time ago. The people who are really pulling the strings, the real shadow government, are an agglomeration of think-tanks, establishment figures, corporations, investment funds, bankers et al. They are either working in cahoots with each other or not. What is blindingly obvious though is that the interests of the people are not first and foremost in a politicians mind. They might be when they take their first baby steps on the road to Westminster but by the time they arrive and have served, say as a lowly minister, they come to find that they do not really hold power at all. They are beholden to power. What we’ve seen playing out with the exits in quick succession of three of the great offices of state tells us everything we need to know. These people were still, figuratively, wet behind the ears and hadn’t had time to even get their feet under the table before their feet were heading for the door. Why? Who is the real power here? And so, if we have a GE, what will change? Nothing. Our system is broken. It needs a fresh, new brave approach – brave because if you take on these powers at their own game, you may end up hosting an assassin’s bullet or two. So we need more than one, we need many, the whole tribe in fact and we need a new type of Magna Carta – certainly not the dreadful Terra Carta that is being proposed which is nothing more than a charter for globalists – but a charter to take lobbyists and money out of politics, to have a vetting system for those who seek power, to have a maximum term for MPs…basically take the rot out. And certainly remove anyone with affiliations to organisations such as Chatham House, the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, the WEF etc etc.
“Yes, combining tax cuts for high-earners with a massive energy bailout was never going to work..” Painfully simplistic but it begs the question, what will work?
Carrying on as we are isn’t sustainable.
Austerity without a growth plan, i.e. without tax cuts and reductions in regulation, won’t work, that just leads to a downward spiral.
While Truss was obviously incompetent that doesn’t mean that she and Kwarteng were wrong, it means that they were too gutless to provide the balancing act by reducing public expenditures now.
Put all Net Zero targets on hold for 10 years and you solve a big chunk of the energy problem while simuntaneously reducing government expenditures. Reduce the size and scope of Government, now, not three years from now.
That pays for the very modest tax cuts Truss offered, we would still be higher than during Blair’s time as PM, but we would have a chance.
As Truss had no convictions of her own, she was attempting to develop policy by polling, she obviously lacked courage.
I know we have had large cost increases in food products, But if we compared our current food prices with America and France in most cases most people would be surprised how much cheaper food is in the the UK. On our recent vist to our place in Brittany we were quite surprised by the food prices there which were substantially more than we pay in the UK and I’ve recently seen an online comparison between UK and American food prices and some are multiples of what we pay as my son and his wife who live in Carolina USA have told me, so perhaps we should recognise that things could we worse.