DUMB INSOLENCE #26

    DUMB INSOLENCE #26

William Pitt the Younger,Britain's Prime Minister at the time of Napoleon, is quoted -

" Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom It is the argument of tyrants,it is the creed of slaves."

Mark Harper MP posted this on twitter.

✍️ Read the full letter signed by me and my Conservative colleagues, 70 of us, calling on the Government to demonstrate the necessity and proportionality of any new restrictions from 2 December 👇 https://t.co/kRcMCFW7B1

Britons never,never,never shall be slaves.

Well, we'll find out one way or the other pretty soon,won't we?

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DUMB INSOLENCE #14

 DUMB INSOLENCE #14

The EU funded antidemocratic seditionist "Remain" campaign wreaked absolute havoc on the UK's constitutional parliamentary system and as a consequence of their nefarious actions manged to effectively delay the implementation of Brexit by 3 years.Their primary aim of a second reversible referendum was never attained,but the sum of all their foreign power influenced wrecking tactics in the end achieved almost quite as much.

With the largely over-rated and hyperbolised Covid-19,the same mood music is being played,only this time there are no malevolent alien powers at work behind the scenes; virtually every sovereign national state is managing to swing its own wrecking ball aimed squarely at its own economic and social well being.

And if the gears of this auto-nemesis are under the nominal command of the government and the metropolitan elites' political class, then it is only the ineluctable fact that "scientists" and "experts" are manufacturing and supplying the necessary intellectual grease that keeps those gears operable.And to compound matters, opinions and endemic turf - wars among the scientific/academic elites are the major propellant of the entire WHO designated "crisis".

Whilst purely on an aesthetic and philosophical level I am more than sanguine in wishing the global corporate capitalist order all the ill in the world; do they have to make such a racket as they slip toward their historically inevitable demise? It's keeping the neighbours up when they should be asleep dreaming the dreams of a bright new dawn -one that's capitalist free.

DUMB INSOLENCE #13

                                              DUMB INSOLENCE #13

BBC Radio 4 's flagship "Today" program gave airtime to Health Secretary Hancock's pronouncements on the current state of the mythological "pandemic" that seems to have been affecting this country for quite a few months now.

He announced a new Autumn wardrobe range for the Emperor.These new garments will replace the previous ones that a lot of people claimed they couldn't catch of the Emperor actually wearing any of.

The previous day, the Whitehall Regime's appointee to run the Test & Trace operation, a Baroness Harding,claimed under oath before a parliamentary committee,not to know too much about anything in particular and what she knew didn't amount to a proverbial hill of beans in this crazy world.

The current post-holder of the First Lord of the Treasurey also continues..which is a matter of increasing concern if not despondency amongst the growing numbers of sceptics among the human populace.

Lardarse's verbal tic of umming and ahhing and appearing to stumble badly when attempting to construct a seamless uttered sentence that can be readily understood is now out of control.

And such is the state of our beloved and once great nation and polity.Others have it worse of course,and some even far worse than us; for one,THEY are not British just imagine if it were say,a German Chancellor uttering drivel and telling citizens that carrying out some dumb incomprehensible act was their patriotic and moral duty...

Time to count blessings,don't you think?

DUMB INSOLENCE #12

 DUMB INSOLENCE #12

Boko Haram is still on the rampage across Nigeria,their fellow jihadists likewise throughout the Sahel region,Libya is burning and the Horn of Africa is riven with violence and imminent all out warfare between nation states...

Meanwhile, the "world" remains preoccupied and obsessed with Covid19 and staring economic armageddon in the face as the days draw ever nearer to the end of mitigation policies such as the UK's Furlough scheme.

So,the troupe of clowns of Whitehall and Westminster continue to implement ever more illegal and irrational policies,decrees and diktats -which they without irony - call " the law " as their magic-realist way of confronting what they called a pandemic.

The world,including our Britain,on the way to hell in a handcart,but mind that bump in the road..

The  " Rule of Six " signed into " law " by way of Ministerial statutory instrument by the teacher's pet of the year - Health Secretary Hancock using the Public Health Act 1984 as a convenient ,superficial fig leaf imposes yet another layer of Alice-in-Wonderland non-sequiturs on the already wearied folk of these islands.

And the estimable former Supreme Court Judge,Lord Sumption has rightly sounded the alarm on this and all that the despotic Westminster regime has attempted to get away with without challenge since March.

Then again,Lemmings will do what they are ineluctably programmed by their DNA to do and the cliff  edge is broad and wide and getting nearer.

I await the outcome with passing interest,,,

DUMB INSOLENCE #11

 DUMB INSOLENCE #11

When "Lockdown" was first decreed by the bumbling,half-witted coterie of cretins  ( aka HMG ) back in March 2020 ,the likes of Canterbury zealously and without question followed immediately in the footsteps of Rome and complied without the slightest scintilla of dissent to Caesars' diktat. 

For the first time in 800 years,it was noted by the atheist/anti-Christian MSM,Church services in England were shut down and church congregations laid silent.And after a little while,by the issuing of various statutory instruments,Ministers further decreed that Churches ( they meant building used for Christian worship since time immemorial ) would be granted certain concessions as to numbers, social distancing,and the absence of choirs and playing of musical instruments and singing by the congregation.

And,again without hesitation - the church bodies of Canterbury ( following Rome ) metaphorically doffed their sunday best hats and curtsied before Caesar.You see,on-line,digital ,virtual church was their get-out clause,their collective "ah,yes,well,but.." way of evading let alone confronting the proverbial elephant which they had let into their room.

2,000 terrestrial years ( give or take ) and the scriptural guidance on not forsaking the gathering together of believers - Hebrews 10:25 had somehow,theologically become optional.A clause in the contract that miraculously was kind of negotiable, an aspirational issue and not one of fundamental requirement among the body.

Some Churches, such as pentecostal / charismatic ones in South Korea had long since told their local Caesar to go take a walk and chose to gather together.For the non-resisting ones it is more than just a stretch of  what possible,granular  versions of " gather together " can be derived from the words as written.

1 Corinthians 3:13 tells the Church what it needs to know.Tested by fire that reveals their value.Negotiable? I don't think so.

The church universal ( with exceptions ) has done what Rome and its kow-towing acolytes has always done when push comes to shove. It invokes - falsely , an a priori requirement for obedience to Caesar and then insists that the collective body does precisely that.Pleasing Man before God.

Human rights, civil rights,democratic rights are continuously violated,pro-rogued and abused all across our world every single hour of the day.It is,ineluctably a measure of the integrity and sincerity of the church universal whether it speaks out and seeks to oppose and counter such egregious barbarism perpetrated against the People by Authorities.

An unscrupulous,venal,bullying authoritarian government ,lying,duplicitous Ministers,proven falsehood after proven falsehood presented as policy and strategy.

And what followed? the Silence of a Compliant Church.

DUMB INSOLENCE #10

                                            DUMB INSOLENCE #10

Pre- hypothetical Covid-19 pandemic,I would on occasion simply copy & paste and lovingly acknowledge that Peter Hitchens had said all that I was going to say on a particular topic or issue on a given date or during a specific week.And so much more pithily then I ever could at short notice.I need a fair old run -up to do pith,especially of the withering acerbic kind.

We're back to school all across the non-Scottish governed parts of the declining and moribund dis-united Kingdom.

And of course it's all state  sponsored bollox.

29 August 2020 11:50 PM 

This is Peter Hitchens’s Mail on Sunday column

Is this advert masking a simple truth? 

In the continuing struggle of truth against falsehood, I have complained to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) about an advertisement plastered over bus shelters all over the country.

You may have seen it. An attractive young woman is shown with half her face obscured by a piece of cloth, which may well have been made from an item of clothing.

'I wear this to protect you,' she is supposed to be saying. 'Please wear yours to protect me.' I said to the ASA that she may believe this is so, but there is no hard experimental evidence to support the claim that people who wear such loose cloth masks protect me at all.

The poster could claim 'I wear this because I believe it protects you'. But it is wrong to say that it does.

I am pleased to say that the ASA has agreed to investigate the complaint – and has now referred it to its council. I will let you know what happens.

Covid? You may as well fear falling tortoises  

Is anyone still fooled by these figures for 'cases' of Covid-19? The more you look, the more you will find, but deaths and hospitalisations keep going down. It's increasingly clear that the virus rarely affects healthy people.

In fact, I'd guess that the chance of a healthy young person dying from Covid is about as great as the chance of an eagle dropping a tortoise on your head and killing you.

This actually happened to the Greek playwright Aeschlyus about 2,500 years ago, so it must be about due to happen again, especially with the growing eagle population in the country, and the huge number of pet tortoises on which they might swoop if hungry. Be afraid.

Using the panic-stricken logic applied to Covid by Health Commissar Matt Hancock, we should surely be taking serious precautions against this menace. Perhaps the enforced wearing of tortoise-proof helmets might be necessary, or anti-eagle netting installed over the back gardens of tortoise-owners, who should from now on be strictly licensed.

But my favourite Hancock-style solution is the compulsory greasing of all tortoises, so that eagles cannot pick them up in the first place.

I think this meets the precautionary principle quite well, and I'm sure our domestic grease industry can cope with the demand. Save Lives. Control the Tortoise.

Amen to all the aforegoing.

DUMB INSOLENCE #9

 DUMB INSOLENCE #9

Set aside world changing events such as the on-going military imbroglios and various bellicose standoffs in Libya,Syria,Yemen,oh and let's not forget Afghanistan.

Schools are set to re-open across England in a few weeks time.You know,those institutions which at the behest of this govt. cancelled their exams the last academic year.The schools re-opening are reckoned to be a bellwether for the national situation as a whole.More like the proverbial canary down the coalmine.

All kinds of partial and peripheral economic indicators are getting trotted out stage front and centre as indicators of some kind of nascent resurgence in the general economy. In psychology it's called being delusional.

More online home shopping? more use of local convenience stores? or the govt's own subsidised pig out at the taxpayers' expense ,Mon-Wed during August.scheme to rejuvenate the comatose hospitality sector.

I think that other great exponent of fiction,Raymond Chandler had it down pat with this snippet of dialogue from "The Big Sleep". "The blind don't get to see,the lame don't get to walk and the dead stay that way." With lines like that,Chandler was probably a latent Calvinist.

Okay,so let's take another random,peripheral metric of consumption,of disposable income.

Last week's official UK Cinema takings were published as follows:- The Top Ten grossing films amassed £800k. usually at this time of year,Cinemas expect around £24m.in the week for the top ten grossing films across the UK.

Christopher Nolan's "Tenet" has been heralded as the coming "saviour" of mass cinema going when it's long delayed and much postponed is finally released in another week or so.

No chance.Cinema is one dead canary.

DUMB INSOLENCE #7

 DUMB INSOLENCE #7

It's official,as if anything "Official" these days means anything at all, the UK is into its worst recession ever and its relative position vis a vis other OECD countries is the worst of all.As is its Covid-19 fatalities by whatever broad measure is used to determine such an ndeterminable figure.

The good news is that the global capitalist economic system has suffered and is ineluctably going to suffer further significant damage.Those sovereign nation states that have kept their nerves and a modicum of discipline are being impacted to a less egregious developments than those such as the UK,US etc. who went full on mental breakdown and ended up wetting their own beds over,more or less nothing at all.

20 weeks in to the Lockdown, the UK govt by "Statutory Instrument" silently introduced this edict:-

From today, Monday 10th August, it is now mandatory to wear a face covering when visiting theatres, museums and our public libraries.  For details please go to the Libraries page here.

Statutory Instrument No. 296 of 2020

The edict was signed by Hancock -Health Gauleiter. But he omitted the customary "Heil Hitler".

DUMB INSOLENCE #1

here beginneth my  new blog

                                             DUMB INSOLENCE

The Uk's "lockdown" commenced om March 23 ;June 30th marked DAY 100,today,July 21st is DAY 121.Civil rights,human rights have been under sustained tyrannical suppression for one-third of an entire year.

On Friday 24th. pertaining to England, the wearing of face coverings when entering a shop will become mandatory.Many countries already operate such an egregious human rights violating ordinance and have done so since the WHO screamed "Pandemic,ahoy!"

On a purely technical basis, I personally might typically visit a local supermarket up to 3 or 4 times in any 7 day period. I generally spend on average 15 to 20 minutes per visit. I would therefore be forced to comply with the Edict on Face coverings aka facemasks between 60-80 minutes per week.

Facemasks, on a very broad relevant-discipline scientific consensus,are actually seen to be almost wholly ineffectual or otherwise superfluous.

I am opposed to all falsely imposed decrees,edicts,laws and regulations which the UK government has contrived to foist on law abiding British subjects.

That's all for now folks!