Formerly "fahrenheit451" -Critical analysis ,commentary and idiosyncratic observations on all aspects of popular culture,news and politics- but now a lot pithier!
I'm sure some famous,infamous,oft-quoted Chinese general wrote something along the lines of, the purpose of warfare is to convince the enemy in their own minds that they cannot win. And of course it was an irascible Lutheran Prussian general whose maxim that, War is the continuation of politics by other means, strikes an all too familiar chord today.
Once Article 50 was promulgated by Parliament,the metropolitan elitist organised and led Remain campaign knew that their anti-democratic, seditionist cause was on the ropes and facing imminent collapse.Politics is war and the sinister forces of globalist-neoliberalism were never very likely to accept the verdict of the Judiciary and Parliament let alone as well as a binding referendum on the matter. Their best and only hope lies in a continuation by any and all means,however subversive and destabilising,of the conflict ensuring that the war over #brexit goes on.
Even the now lawful triggering of Article 50 that set in motion a defined two year timeframe for withdrawal negotiations- no agreements being reached after the set two years would mean the UK exiting the EU and going immediately onto WTO rules for Trade- even that has now been called into question by the very metropolitan and shadowy foreign interest groups and organisations that insisted on everyone abiding by and adhering to Article 50.
The MSM and other social media platforms are abuzz with newly engendered,fevered speculation over the synthesised concept of a " Transition Period ". And this from those supposedly leading on brexit. Cliff edges,hard brexit, labour shortages,here ,there and everywhere throughout the national economy are now the weapons of mass deception being deployed on a rapidly recurring hourly basis by Remain.
A few days ago it was Bloomberg.com sounding the trumpets of doom on a shortage of agricultural labourers ; today its the George Osborne edited London Standard on waiting and bar staff. :-
" Brexit is causing a crisis in the hiring of bar and restaurant workers, a top hospitality boss has warned.
Leslie Kwarteng, a senior general manager at three of central London's most popular restaurants, said it is becoming increasingly difficult to hire waiting on and bar staff since the Brexit vote.
The 29-year-old runs the iconic Quaglino’s restaurant in the heart of London’s Mayfair, rooftop venue Madison, which has terraces looking out onto St Paul’s Cathedral, and swanky eatery and lounge bar 100 Wardour Street in Soho. "
Clearly,the tried and trusted capitalistic method of offering higher wages and improved working conditions has yet to occur to this particular denizen of the squalid,wheedling,greedy,corrupt sector of congenitally incompetent and arrogant UK bosses and business leaders.
The shame is that no-one on the democratic populist side who actually won the Referendum has ever read,nor would be perhaps even capable of understanding the works of Macchiavelli or Clausewitz or that Chinese general.
In any given situation,the most determined wins.
The problems faced by those opposed to the UK's departure from the EU are not my concern. It is axiomatic that nothing worthwhile can ever be achieved without pain and sacrifice. The restoration of the UK's national sovereignty is precisely such a worthwhile undertaking and I am content for that necessary burden of pain and sacrifice to be shouldered exclusively by all those opposed to Brexit. It goes some way to mitigating the shame and dishonour of our now 45 years long abject subjugation to the tyrannical despotism of the Franco-German European Union.
The insidious,shrill demagoguey of the Remain campaign continues unabated. The metropolitan elitist led Remoaner rabble are still helmed by the 200+ Labour MPs who never rescinded their allegiance to the plainly seditionist #LabourIn ,who so unexpectedly lost out to the democratic will of the sovereign Electorate,something that took them and their sinister globalist corporate confederates completely by surprise on June 23 2016.
Bloomberg.com carried the black propaganda headline , " Even Immigrant Managers Fear Brexit These Days ".
Like we should even give a f***. The gist of the Remoaner stance being summed in the Bloomberg article up by :-
" The potential departure of EU migrants means tough times ahead for countless British businesses, including Traditional Norfolk Poultry, one of the companies Bloomberg is tracking through the Brexit process. Set in rolling farmland in East Anglia, the company relies heavily on migrant labor to oversee the farming and processing of more than 5 million turkeys and chickens every year. And it depends on people like Migut to recruit and manage workers who often don’t speak much, if any, English.
“It’s getting worse and worse. We just can’t find people,” said Mark Gorton, the company’s co-founder. “They’re just not there to recruit.”
Gorton says he and his staff talk about trying to hire more Brits at their weekly meetings, but they can’t even find enough east Europeans to fill vacancies. He tries to move workers off of the minimum wage—7.50 pounds ($9.80) an hour—as soon as he can to retain staff. He’s done away with the requirement that all workers speak English as he struggles to find people."
Even the dumbest Leftist, Another Europe is Possible, marxist-manque ought by this late stage acknowledge the efficacy of the iron law of economics;supply and demand. Capitalists are forced against their own ideological prejudices and personal consciences to actually increase their offer on wages in a vain attempt to attract the necessary numbers of workers.They can of course brutalise and exploit those workers later, on other terms and conditions once they've got them to swallow the bait on remuneration.
It was ever thus. 40 years of stagnant and declining levels of real wages, the rapid cancerous spread of Zero Hours precarious casualised employment are inextricably linked to ever increasing levels of globalisation. None of which is ever in the interests of the workers.
Neither is the EU pantomime of " freedom of movement of labour ". A heretofore one country's jobless becomes several other countries' problem in so far as the jobless mendicants from Latvia,Lithuania,Romania,Bulgaria, Poland's moribund dysfunctional economies have displaced those who would otherwise have been employed in ,for example,the UK.
The aggregate total of officially 30,000,000 jobless throughout the EU remains undisturbed; the Titanic continues to founder,only the deckchairs have been rearranged.
Jeremy Corbyn used his appearance on the Andrew Marr show Sunday morning to pledge that any new policy would stop the “ wholesale importation of underpaid workers from Central Europe ”. This elicited a wave of hostile reactions particularly from the anti-brexit Remoaner dim witted Leftists who actually,contrary to accepted economic science, insist and promulgate their flat earth style theory that increased labour market competition increases wages.
The usual inquisitorial litany of charges they level at anyone advocating the end of the neoliberal EU's unrestricted freedom of movement consists of but isn't limited to , xenophobia, racism, scapegoating of immigrants.
" Remoaners " - whether of the left or right -never even attempt to explain how increased labour market competition does actually drive up the general level of wages. The insidious and genuinely disturbing authoritarian rhetoric of the Remain campaign precludes dissent from their received wisdom.
A typical Trades Union constitution such as the UNITE Trade Union constitution ( 2011 ) is self-evidently in breach of the Leftoid/marxoid flat earthers' fundamental principles. After all, how can any Trade union defend let alone improve wages and working conditions under the remorseless onslaught of unfettered unlimited immigration numbers? Real wages have been eroded these past 40 years and UK GDP has lain dormant since the crash of 2007/08.
2.1 The objects of the Union shall, so far as may be lawful, be: 2.1.1 To organise, recruit and represent workers, and strengthen workplace organisation to achieve real union power for its members. 2.1.2 To defend and improve its members’ wages and working conditions... 2.1.3 To defend and improve the social and economic well-being of members and their families...
On that basis alone, Trades Unions have failed utterly and have became moribund and historically redundant since they demonstrably cannot or are unwilling to fulfill their own primary functions.
On a wider perspective, the national infrastructure of schools,hospitals and housing have all undergone unprecedented additional pressures and subsequent shortages of availability. How can the authorities either centrally or locally plan for and make adequate provision for their citizens if the authorities have absolutely no idea how many more people will keep arriving.
Acknowledgement alone of these problems has for decades now been denounced as racist scapegoating of migrants. The bien pensants of metropolitan domiciled, Oxbridge doctrinaire elites and their subservient political class hirelings have dragged Society to the very edge of an unprecedented cataclysm,one that they appear to have every intention of triggering - the annulment of the EU Referendum Result ,the betrayal of Brexit.
For the past twelve months and more, the anti-brexit,seditionist EU Remain Campaign has stressed how much better educated,intellectually superior,cultured,inclusive,progressive,informed,enlightened,socially liberal/tolerant of degenerate sexual practices they as a Tribe are compared to the 52% of the British electorate that voted to Leave in the binding EU referendum.The Social Class breakdown for those voting in the Referendum was:-
The report from the Centre for Social Justice and Legatum Institute found that people in the “AB” class – the middle and upper classes - were the only group which had a majority voting to Remain at the June 23 referendum.
The majority of people in all the other income groups - described as C1, C2, D and E - all voted to leave, the report said. While 57 per cent of voters in the more affluent AB group voted to remain, the proportion in the other four groups was 36 per cent.
It said: "At every level of earning there is a direct correlation between household income and your likelihood to vote for leaving the EU — 62 per cent of those with income of less than £20,000 voted to leave, but that percentage falls in steady increments until, by an income of £60,000, that percentage was just 35 per cent."
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Which brings me to WTF,if anything, do our social superiors really know about and can demonstrate a depth of knowledge and understanding of the most intrinsic operations of the EU? For instance, its basic bureaucratic mechanism. The comitology process :-
The comitology process is not well-known outside of Brussels, it is the way the EU adopts most legal acts. It involves a committee of member state experts or representatives, who meet outside the publiclimelight.
The comitology process was “born out of necessity” in the 1960s, in the early years of the European Economic Community.
The Council of the EU, which represents member state governments, decided to delegate powers to the commission.
“Ministers did not want to convene for all sorts of ad hoc decisions on, for example, milk prices,” said Vos.
“However, they also did not want to give the commission a carte blanche. The commission was given the authority to take decisions, but only after it consulted a committee of representatives of member states.”
That system worked fairly well, according to Ellen Vos, professor of European Union Law at the Maastricht University, but then it was overhauled with the adoption of the Lisbon treaty, which entered into force in 2009.
The Lisbon treaty introduced a division between implementing acts and delegated acts.
Implementing acts involve a committee of member state government representatives, which take the decision, with no involvement from the EU parliament.
Delegated acts are adopted by the commission, after taking advice from a committee of member state experts. The latter can be vetoed by the EU parliament.
“The irony is that the idea behind the changes adopted in the Lisbon treaty, was to simplify things,” said Vos.
“However, the situation has become more complicated. I have never really welcomed this development and think comitology should be simplified.”
During negotiations on general regulations or directives, which are adopted by parliament and council, a contentious issue is often one where detailed rules should be adopted by means of implementing act or delegated act.
“There is a lot of case law emerging about what the difference is between a delegated act and an implementing act,” said Vos.
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Thought as much. Fuck all.Which is precisely what the 48% Campaign, Remoaner seditionist EU metropolitan elitist shills will achieve.
Here's an interesting " fact " of the day from Brendan Chilton ,Director Labour Future UK :-
" 2017 Party Membership Project finds 77% of Labour's 560,000 members come from ABC1 social group and only 23% working class. Interesting."
Approximately two-thirds of Labour voters backed Remain and about the same proportion of Conservative voters backed Leave. The problem as seen by Labour, is that one third of the electorate that Labour have always haughtily assumed are " their " voters.
That's why the likes of Wakefield MP Mary Creagh along with 200 other pro-Remain Labour MPs ,even before the EU Referendum was announced early on June 24,2016, fabricated the narrative that those voting Leave are in varying degrees -racist,xenophobic,ignorant,insular,stupid,backward,unsophisticated.uneducated. Not a solitary MP among that 200+ #LabourIn seditionist detritus has ever recanted those views.Not a single one of them.
It was only the gratuitously politically inept, organisationally incompetent,hare brained delusional half witttedness of Theresa May and her barmy Tory central office acolytes that in effect saved the careers of those 200+ #LabourIn metropolitan elitist EU shills from the proverbial well deserved Guillotine by calling for an unnecessary General Election on June 8 2017.
From the son of Jack Straw callously weaponising the murder of their own colleague Jo Cox,to David Lammy inciting sedition and mob violence against the government from anti- brexit platforms; there is no murky recess of the political gutter that the Labour Party won't stoop to in order to frustrate,sabotage,postpone or annul the sovereign and inalienable Will of the British Electorate as constitutionally expressed in the EU Referendum of 23 June 2016.
And I haven't even mentioned the shill of shills Gina Miller who with the backing of International City legal shysterdom has also been instrumental in promoting the anti democratic seditionist schemes of the Labour Party.
#Brexit shall, on the balance of a very and increasingly precarious probability,succeed. Or maybe its Sans Culottes time after all.
A few days ago, The New European - the Voelkischer Beobachter of the seditionist anti-brexit Remain campaign trumpeted :-
A C Grayling has 6 reasons to prove why Brexit will be stopped
Thereby underscoring its Remoaner credentials as a metropolitan elitist led conspiracy.
A.C. Grayling is habitually feted throughout the corporate MSM as "Author" and "Philosopher". These are specious, self-aggrandising monikers pinned, like rows of medals on the uniforms of third world military dictators,to the CVs of whoever globalist metropolitan elites deem worthy of veneration. Perhaps in the future,once #brexit has been defeated, there'll be pilgrimages to Grayling's place of birth where the sick and crippled are brought on stretchers.
But I digress; the original article is both persuasive and cogent and is worth reading. And that is precisely why brexit must be brought to a swift a conclusion as is possible in what is beginning to be increasingly hostile and unfavourable public mood. Within the few short days since publication,the tone of anti- #brexit rhetoric has been further sharpened by pronouncements from yet another member of the Trade Union & Labour Party Nomenklatura, Lord Adonis, who described brexit as a disaster potentially worse than the appeasement of Hitler in the 1930's.
One recalls with horrid fascination that one year ago, the Remain campaign was busy collecting 4 million signatures in an online petition to Parliament to derail the Referendum result itself. Of course it failed,but what was equally as clear was the zealotry of the leading proponents of Remain. Add to that an overwhelming number of anti- brexit MPs in the House of Commons and a Prime Minister,with many more problems than ever before, who campaigned for Remain and well, the negotiations with the EU are not going to go to 2019.
I had fully intended to blog on the latest sanctimonious outpourings of academic ennui from AC Grayling on the pressing matter of #brexit . However, tangentially, it was a forum on the very same topic of #brexit that has ignited the latest flurry of contrived indignation and scripted pseudo moral humbuggery amongst the PC metropolitan elites and their MSM and parliamentary shills. A largely unknown Tory MP, Anne Marie Morris has had the Inquisiton set on her for uttering a throwaway remark,somewhat antedeluvian in its usage,though nevertheless a metaphorical construct relating to a problem hidden out of sight. In this case the hidden dangers of a no deal scenario on #brexit. Her chance remark was recorded by a hack from the Huffington Post, it was like gifting a latent pyromaniac a box of matches they weren't expecting to be handed to them. And that triggered the MSM and social media deluge. The "R" word has been invoked. Not that the,by now hapless and suspended MP is accused of actually being an "R" or was seeking to incite any such response.In other words,even by the PC metropolitan elitist Stasi-thought police standards she has not been accused of a " Hate Incident"-
which according to the Law, a " Hate Incident " is:- Any incident, which may or may not be a crime, that the victim or any other person perceives to be motivated by hostility or prejudice towards any aspect of a person’s identity. So it isn't any of that. What the ideological casus belli amounts to in essence is that Publicly funded Marxoid academics-manque have retrieved their undergrad essays on semiotics and reading from their jejeune notes claim that it's all about the word " Nigger"-( bloody hell i've just committed the same offence!! quick,quick call the Nee-naw,denounce this blogger ) To quote from a previous work :-
Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. ... "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean- neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." I would rather have blogged about #brexit and in one sense I have. The globalist,neoliberal metropolitan ruling elites have megalomanic ambitions beyond the dreams of a run of the mill Hitler or Napoleon Bonaparte.We are all their Niggers now.
The other day in Warsaw,as a precursor to the scheduled G-20 summit being held in Hamburg the following day, President Trump made a speech. Whilst it was heralded in some quarters with varying degrees of anticipation, the symbolism was as cumbersome and telegraphed as any denouement in third rate murder novel. Quite what Trump was trying to get across that was unique,remarkable or unexpected remains at best a mystery; then again perhaps he really wasn't trying to do any of the aforementioned at all. Heavily underlined were the rather otiose notions of western values and civilisation and the will of the people. His actual audience on the spot in the EU-subsidised satrapy were cohorts bussed in from the countryside by the ruling Law & Justice Party ( PIS being there Polish acronym). And Trump's speech writers really did seem to be taking the proverbial P,I,S. Russia was officially admonished for its support of the governments of Syria and Iran,as well as its own dealings and involvement in The Crimea and The Ukraine.None of which please the dominant NeoCons of Washington.Russia really is being most unhelpful. And that was about it, all to the sound of synchronised cheering. The allusions didn't work; the hoped for referencing of Trump in Warsaw with Kennedy in Berlin,June 26 1963 let alone Reagan in Berlin 12 June 1987- was never going to happen either. the world isn't actually holding its breath.Syria/Iraq.ISIS/Yemen/Qatar/Kurdistan/Libya/North Korea/Afghanistan will simply be allowed carry on. Anti-climax!!
Well,we're all still here and breathing. WW3 has not begun yet.And that despite the very best unrelenting efforts to instigate the global conflagration by Washington's neocon imperialist warmongers.
There's a book,I re-read recently , " Europe's Last Summer " by David Fromkin,that brought to mind some uncomfortable parallels between today's intertwined crises and those that eventually culminated in the commencement of the Great War in 1914. For instance; an ultimatum whereby a smaller nation had to comply with a series of increasingly unacceptable demands made by a much larger regional neighbour or face the consequences. Saudi Arabia and its regional lackeys have threatened the continued existence of Qatar with just such a list,one that echoes the Austro-Hungarian Empire's behaviour toward Serbia in the wake of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo.
All the much larger Powers themselves are trapped in a myriad paradoxical stand offs amongst themselves,one of which has Turkey and Russia wanting to effectively de-escalate the Saudi's belligerence,whilst Israel welcomes the KSA pointing the finger of blame at Iran whom the KSA see as an Iranian shi'ite proxy,a situation acknowledged in part by the US but one wholly dependent on which day of the week and which Washington spokesman is making the pronouncements of the day.
The Arabian Gulf imbroglio centres on but is not exclusively about the Western backed KSA driven annihilation of the Yemen.That in turn is tangentially associated with the Iraq/Syria/ISIS/Shia/Sunni hydra headed slow motion epic conflagration.Wherein the US and its NATO lackeys are in clear breach of accepted International Law by even being inside Syria let alone arming,advising and lending air support to one of the participating combatant coalition of anti-Assad groups.
Turkey is conducting its own existential narrative vis a vis the Kurds,most of whom but not all are linked to the Ottoman nemesis the PKK,and who variously ally themselves with whichever Great Power,-the US,Russia and Germany happen to have weapons and munitions on special offer at the time.
And meanwhile, the EU and the US have separately renewed both their sets of economic sanctions against Russia.Again in violation of heretofore accepted international diplomatic and legal norms.
