1. Big state socialism has always failed and will always fail (see recent Conservative governments)
There is no possibility that Chief Tool Starmer will succeed in improving anything, because socialism only leads to ruination. Perhaps this is not the most obvious ‘reason to be cheerful’ but in fact it will inevitably lead to a swift hankering for a Right-leaning government. There is only so much uncollected litter – and Lisa Nandy – that people will be able to take.
2. The American election in November
Just think of the memes coming our way.
3. The Right has a growing control of the comms
As all fighters know, the first target to seize after invasion is the radio station. There are now hundreds of figurative radio stations and a successful and growing number are Right-leaning: Unherd, Daily Sceptic, Triggernometry, GB News and all the lads on X. Under the last Labour Government we only had theTelegraph and Spectator to half-heartedly fight the good fight. Now, we are legion.
4. Greggs sausage rolls are still available and will always be delicious
The Labour Government can’t take that away from us yet.
5. The Labour Cabinet
A crew of midwits, dimwits and out-and-out hostile actors. Like the cast of an amateur dramatic production, we can almost predict who is going to be the first to fall off the stage, flounce off in a strop or let the whole show down. “Who was that bloke,” my husband asked earlier, “You know that roly-poly one who kept putting his secretary across the desk and punching people?” John Prescott, I suggested. “That’s the fellow. Decent chap.” It was a reminder that Labour are just as capable as the Conservatives at embarrassing themselves and their country. It is unthinkable that Lammy, Rayner, Streeting or the improbable Transport Secretary (look her up and despair), etc., will be able to govern without making some catastrophic balls up.
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No’s 1 and 5 mean tolerating things being worst, before they get better. Getting worse is not a reason to be cheerful. Getting better again is not guaranteed.
No.2 relies on the left not being a bunch of ‘slippery b’stards’ and pinching the election. Plus The Don has to stay healthy. I hope he’s got his bullet proof vest on.
No 3. As much as there are now many more voices from the right, the majority of the population will still get their news from BBC, ITV and Sky, and will be convinced that its all going swimmingly.
No 4. Greggs sausage rolls are still available, but delicious is a bit optimistic. Once the WHO Global Healthy Eating plan is implemented, then the only way to get your fix will be on the pastry black market.
‘False’ confidence is just the result of fooling yourself. Better to be accepting of reality. and work from there.
Enjoy the rest of Sunday.
So time to give up? There must be something to be positive about, and something we can do.
Who said anything about giving up.? Hell no.! But kidding yourself things are better than they are, or will be better than they are without a lot of time and hard work, is just kids folly. We’re waiting for Christmas.
Realists know that we will not win the war from where we are. Nevertheless, there are battles to be won, and we will win some of them. As for the rest we will adapt and wait our chances. They may have the power, but there are always ways and means. Resist and be difficult to rule. Even small wins are worth the effort.
We can make our own sausage rolls for starters. A roll of ready made puff pastry, a pack of sausage meat and an air fryer and you have got delicious home made ones in 20 minutes. Who needs Greggs?
In the shooting season I make pheasant and black pudding sausage rolls, which are (IMHO!) even more delicious.
Now that’s my sort of food.
Me.
The first thing I do once I’m through airport security is make a beeline for the nearest Greggs at the airport. Nothing says, “Welcome home” like a sausage roll, cheese and onion pasty and Walker’s cheese and onion crisps. Where I’m from that’s a 3-course meal.
I think separation anxiety kicks in once I’m on UK soil…
It’s a Newcastle thing. A bit like Pease pudding.
Mind, those Linda McCartney frozen ones are lush if you’re veggie.
Hmm.
How many are going to die in the process?
Splendid juxtaposition to Bat’s sausage roll recipe!
Starmer’s first cabinet meeting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBh8bY-HGTc . I haven’t watched it and I am not suggesting anybody else does, but read the comments!
Rather drink my own piss !!!
Patrick Christys sums it up here, if you’ve not seen it already, as he takes a look at some of the Labour gang. In fact, I’ve read a few of the women being quoted as saying that ”a trans woman is a woman”, and that whatever they have on their gender certificate is what they are. Talk about shafting their fellow women and girls too, sticking two fingers up to female sex-based rights. I hope they don’t have daughters. They’re total treacherous imbeciles, both the men and the women;
”GB News’ @PatrickChristys
‘ opinion pieces always hit the mark.
Starmer has won a “loveless landslide”. He tears into Angela “scum” Rayner, David “Nazi” Lammy, Yvette “refugees welcome” Cooper & Rachel Reeves who does not know what a woman is.
Ed Miliband is looking to spend £1 trillion to get our CO2 levels down by 80%.
It’s a car crash, meeting a Titanic-like disaster.”
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1809895537568633262
“Talk about shafting their fellow women and girls too,”
Very witty Mogs.
I’d absolutely love to see a definition of big state socialism beyond Another political slur ‘borrowed’ from the so-called American right. Similarly, I very much wish Starmer would improve something, ie, I’m not so partisan that I would prefer a catastrophe while the wrong guy has the reigns because he’s the wrong guy. I just don’t believe he will or wants to do that.
Eg, as of yesterday, discussions about a 35% NHS pay rise “because of inflation” are underway, following the usual braindead logic of the unions that the cure for too much money circulating, courtesy of COVID policies, and too little actually valuable goods, must be much more money. I’ll be ordered to pay for this rise but my salary is not going up. And that’s the kind of highly beneficial stuff (sarcasm) I expect to be happening because of a Labour government.
I’m also not exactly a fan of Ed ‘Call me Windbag!’ Milliband disfiguring the countryside with lots of megawindbagmillis as monument to the greatness of Climate Change I.
One thing that makes me cheerful is the prospect of watching Farage wipe the floor of the HOC with Starmer & Co. I also look forward to David Lammy’s conversations with President Trump
Gregg’s sausage rolls are awesome but not as much as their steak bakes
Wealthy MP vs Wealthy MP’s, drinks in the bar afterwards. Policies implemented regardless.
I take it from the ‘thumbs down’ that some ninny doesn’t like steak bakes
Maybe that person doesn’t like the idea of an animal with a central nervous system not dissimilar to our own being killed for a steak bake.
You need to try a steak bake Pam
The biggest reason to be cheerful? Watching all the middle-class, Guardian-reading, t*ssers choke on their Almond Latte as the socialist agenda their affordable belief system allowed them to demand starts to bite their arse. Now that’s worth waiting for! Popcorn, ridicule and hilarity at the ready.
I think sadly most of them will escape being bitten – being in the top few % wealth-wise will do that for you
Categorising people into class is a divisive weapon like race and gender: divide and conquer.
No it’s not. Class can be organised into subsets which include race and gender. You can be black and female and look haughtily down your nose at the lesser people, which include other black and female people. The class system is based on wealth, and wealth buys academic and social opportunities that not only extend that wealth, but also allows an affordable belief system to be bought; you can rage about the virtue of locking everyone in their homes when you’re sat in your nice garden with laptop in lap, watching you’re nicely educated kids play nicely in front of you. Not so much when you’re locked in a high rise with no garden and wondering how much longer you can tell your kids money’s a bit tight this month while they stare longingly out the window. Class buys morals, and the assumption that morals don’t come from wealth is what has allowed the elites, who sit at the top rung of society, to believe they are better.
Class is the single biggest divider we live with. Full stop.
What’s the threshold to buy “academic and social opportunities”?
Is it only lower income people that live in high-rises without a garden?
Are wealthy parents the only ones with “nicely educated kids” and do they always “play nicely”?
Are poor people the most amoral?
I couldn’t possibly answer in just a few sentences, so I’ll try to dilute whilst still making the same points…
Wealth creates choice, which can be manipulated to direct morals. An elitist system, created from wealth, is managing the ‘correct’ moral playlist.
You conflate choice and necessity e.g. accommodation.
Your last two points are strawman arguments, which completely ignore the main thrust of the arguments.
Isn’t that exactly what the Guardian is here to do?
That’s if they survive the multiple jabs and boosters that they so readily took to show off their smug “be kind” virtue signaling.
“we only had theTelegraph and Spectator to half-heartedly fight the good fight. Now, we are legion.”
Seriously! The Speccie has not been a right wing organ for a considerable time. Fraser Nelson and his team of wets loosely support the ‘one nation’ Tories, but that does not make them right wing. I have not renewed my subscription, as I was as disappointed with them as with Sunak’s pathetic government.
That said, I agree, there are many excellent right wing outlets that give us patriots a voice.
The individual pod-casters are making a difference as well. I’m very impressed by Winston Marshall and Matt Goodwin’s substack is worth every penny of the subscription.
Point 5.
I’m hoping it’ll be Red Ed, Moribund that will be the first to go.
Choose to be happy everyone. Life’s a bitch and we’ve got to stay strong. Satire helps overcome the madness and inhumanity.
Yes Rachel, switch off the TV, get out into nature, avoid negative people and surround yourself with like minded folk, laugh at the buffoons ‘in charge’. This might not be a popular one but develop a faith in God…
The only true Right leaning media is the excellent Lotus Eaters, whose election night coverage was second to none