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February 19 2019, D-Day minus 39.

On March 29 all will change and nothing will have changed.

If only the UK's polity was not fundamentally crippled by and retarded in its potential evolution by the retention 19th Century First Past The Post mechanism.If only this ,that and if only the other.Had the Tories under Cameron not promised a referendum,and Parliament not agreed to make it  binding.

It's how History keeps moving on,not so much by heroic,noble,enlightened actions and plans but through error,miscalculation,weakness and vacillation. The strong must govern.It is better when they do.

Our present predicament is and has been for far too long, that we are encumbered by a plethora of weak, stupid, cowardly compromising liberally-inclined pasty-face spineless conformists who long ago succumbed to every globalist/ multicuturalist policy and prejudice and ideological crankery that has wrought devastation on our Society.

That seven MPs resigned from the Labour Party to sit as  "independents" in the HoC is actually monumentally insignificant.The historic political unimportance of this passing phenomena cannot be exaggerated too much.

A continuing,seemingly unabated tsunami of authentic democratic Populism is sweeping across the constituent satrapies of the EU and beating the living electoral daylights out of Britsh Labour's sister parties without let or hindrance -social democracy -has been consigned to the editor of history's reject pile.It ain't coming back ever again.Ditto any Liberal party of any heretofore significance in any numbers.

Tragedy and farce,which comes first? The UK domiciled metropolitan cultural and political elites are the kamikaze pilot who realises that they really don't have a parachute after March 29.

 Labour can't save them. Of the present assemblage of parliamentary pygmies sat as Labour Party MPs. numerically around 230 - 50% of them have at one time or another resigned from Corbyn's shadow cabinet.And that's without having any serious disagreements about Labour Councils continuing to enforce central government pro-Bankers' EU neoliberal Austerity on the rest of the population.

Seven resignations? yawn..pass the Schadenfreude!

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The 650, mostly idle, careerist benchwarming mendicants sojourning at the Palace of Westminster will soon be voting on,as we are led to believe, a vote on the vote of the vote on Anglican Tea Lady of the Year( Theresa May ) brexit " deal ".

But then again perhaps not.This,however is how all badly produced ,acted and directed pantomimes end.

Our largely Oxbridge educated,metropolitan domiciled elites as a whole never wanted a referendum on the UK's continuing vassalage to the EU.None of them.Even those who went to great lengths to persuade the public that they somehow had taken a sudden and passionate interest in restoring our country's sovereignty by exiting the EU
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We have essentially arrived at the present imbroglio as a result of Cameron going missing after the spectacular mis-fire of his cunning referendum plan to head off UKIP in the 2015 polls which led to a committed Remoaner being stage-managed into the Tory leadership and thereby the premiership.

Which is all basically third rate political persiflage that passes for deep,meaningful political and philosophical debate in contemporary Britain.

Across la Manche, Gilets Jaunes are causing increasing consternation among France's europhile globalist ruling elites with astounding alacrity.So much so in fact that Chief Petainist Petomane Macron has given the nod  to his Riot Police goon squads to go around beating the crap out of anyone they feel like,usually at odds of 6 to 1 in favour of the duffers-up versus those getting duffed up.

Does any of this have any lingering or potential significance for the all too laid back,nay sanguine British electorate? probably not,then again we'll find out after 29 March,won't we?

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Widespread consternation and alarm were reported as erupting yesterday amid scenes of unprecedented rudeness and lack of civility shown toward our social betters as groups of  " Yellow Vest " protestors  subjected Anna Soubry MP to verbal abuse on College Green outside the Houses of Parliament...
Several other MPs made an official complaint to the Kommissar of the Metropolitan Nee-naw Plod regarding the unacceptable and potentially terroristic threat to security posed by such protestors...

Radical dissent goes back centuries and the emerging Yellow Vests UK - a sort of British Gilets Jaunes manque are continuing a tradition that takes in the Peasants Revolt ( Wat Tyler 1381 and all that ) ,Ketts Rebellion (1545 ) ,The Levellers,The Chartists etc. Not that any of it matters or is even regarded as historically significant by the amoeboid non-entities of which the entire Left/Socialist spectrum of UK domestic politics is composed of.

Actual Brexit aka Leaving the EU as voted for legally,constitutionally and with the prior and solemn endorsement of and promulgated by Parliament, has been utterly betrayed. And in any event,sworn oaths not withstanding,the metropolitan domiciled ruling elites and their political class hirelings posing as elected representatives of the sovereign British electorate,never intended nor wanted a referendum on the UKs EU vassalage.

Hence the avalanche of toys from their prams and tantrums par excellence from the leading Petainist /Quisling Remoaner trash MPs who have been ruthlessly subjected to  " rudeness " in a public place.

Come March 30th this year it won't be a solitary snowflake getting earache on College Green; oh no, the EU funded seditionist metropolitan elitist snowflake trash #PeoplesVote MPs ain't seen nothing yet.

For them,Winter is coming

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Usually I post a blog every 3 to 4 days throughout the month. In a typical year I make about 100 annual posts.

December just ended was a pretty low aggregated total; why? because there was naff all to post anything new about.

Syria  - The Balkan Wars I & II for our Age continues to sink ever deeper into an already unfathomable sociopolitical /  geopolitical strategic imbroglio,even with Trump's announcement of a US withdrawal and Erdogan -led Turkey's continuing ceaseless impatient pawing of the ground like some slavering,psychotic dog of war raring to get at the Kurds.

In calmer climes, Brexit or rather what's left of it, is being slowly slowly shoved into a coffin that obviously is just a little too tight for comfort but nevertheless the metropolitan domiciled elites are wearying ever so slightly of their ludicrous pretend-antagonisms over a matter they all agree should never have been put before the People in a binding plebiscite in the first place.

Whether the Gilets jaunes  phenomenon effectively crosses La Manche and takes on uniquely british characteristics in response,partially, to the grand brexit betrayal is a matter of some considerable doubt and uncertainty at this point.Even though March 29 2019 is enshrined by an Act of Parliament and is therefore the Law.

But the Law,in most circumstances is there only for show ;just like International Law when it comes to the integrity of the territory of a sovereign nation state with whom another country isn't at war.

My prediction for 2019 ? Schadenfreude will probably be epic this year..

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Contemporary politics is so exciting right now ; Gilets Jaunes are setting the agenda in France; Germany has a burgeoning populist movement/Party in the AfD . Italy has an activist Coalition government  Lega /M5S that's seemingly prepared to mix it with the EU over national budget and debt issues. And so on and so forth.

Belgium has a minority government that's falling apart,as governments invariably do in Belgium, Hungary and Poland are both somewhat at loggerheads with the overbearing and tyrannical EU over domestic laws and the exercise of sovereignty.

And in the UK? Theresa May -former Anglican Tea Lady of the Year - has "won" a vote of confidence among her own party's parliamentary representatives by 200  to 117.Which resolved let alone solved absolutely nothing regarding the on going post-modern performance installation art work known as Brexit.

The 19th Century FPTP,single member constituency form of parliamentary representation ossified into the straitjacket of two major political parties-both historically in decline-merely exacerbates the hiatus of political legitimacy and democratic governance within the UK.

As Marxist-Leninists might say, were they still in the Realpolitik business and of some conceivable relevance ,the requisite necessary preconditions favourable to the advance of revolutionary politics has been attained ( or very nearly so ).

There is a nascent #YellowVestsUK that might,though I personally doubt it, take on the scope of and have the impact of the French #GiletsJaunes. There hasn't been a genuine extra-parliamentary mass political movement in the UK of any heft since the Chartists back in the 1840s.

 Too badly led for far too many decades by regressive,blinkered Lefts of many shades,extra-parliamentary protest has too often been neutered and rendered inert by those very forces that were supposedly aiming for a revolutionary overthrow.It has fallen to the non-Left aka the Right to provide any potential bedrock on which alternate structures can be built.

Still,all in all the tsunami;tidal wave upon tidal wave,is picking up intensity and it doesn't take a weatherman to tell you once the weather changes.

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In May 2017 ,avowed "modernising" technocrat, fanatical devotee of alrger European Union and admirer of Tony Blair -Macron became President of France after defeating Marine LePen in the run off 66-34%. And 19 months later his Presidency has reached its apogee.

Herewith the following gleaned verbatim, from The Spectator on December 3 , the first part of a a scintillating article from Brendan O'Neill;

" At last, a people’s revolt against the tyranny of environmentalism. Paris is burning. Not since 1968 has there been such heat and fury in the streets.Thousands of ‘gilets jaunes’ stormed the capital at the weekend to rage against Emmanuel Macron and his treatment of them with aloof, technocratic disdain. And yet leftists in Britain and the US have been largely silent, or at least antsy, about this people’s revolt. The same people who got so excited about the staid, static Occupy movement a few years ago — which couldn’t even been arsed to march, never mind riot — seem struck dumb by the sight of tens of thousands of French people taking to the barricades against Macronism.

It isn’t hard to see why. It’s because this revolt is as much against their political orthodoxies as it is against Macron’s out-of-touch and monarchical style. Most strikingly this is a people’s rebellion against the onerous consequences of climate-change policy, against the politics of environmentalism and its tendency to punish the little people for daring to live relatively modern, fossil-fuelled lives. This is new. This is unprecedented. We are witnessing perhaps the first mass uprising against eco-elitism and we should welcome it with open arms to the broader populist revolt that has been sweeping Europe for a few years now.

The ‘gilet jaunes’ — or yellow-vests, after the hi-vis vests they wear — are in rebellion against Macron’s hikes in fuel tax. As part of his and the EU’s commitment to cutting carbon emissions, Macron is punishing the drivers of diesel vehicles in particular, raising the tax by 7.6 cents for every litre of diesel fuel. This will badly hit the pockets of those in rural France, who need to drive, and who can’t just hop on buses as deluded Macronists living in one of the fancy arrondissements of Paris have suggested they should. These people on the periphery of French society — truck drivers, provincial plumbers, builders, deliverymen, teachers, parents — have rocked up to the centre of French society in their tens of thousands three times in recent weeks, their message the same every time: ‘Enough is enough. Stop making our lives harder.’

It is a perfect snapshot of the most important divide in 21st-century Europe: that between a blinkered elite and ordinary people who’ve had as much bossing about, tax rises, paternalism and disdain as they can take. So from his presidential palace in Paris, Macron decrees that the little people of the nation must pay a kind of penance for the eco-crime of driving diesel-fuelled cars, like a modern-day Marie Antoinette deciding with a wave of the hand what is good for the plebs. It’s little wonder that the graffiti left behind following the latest uprising in Paris at the weekend compared Macron to Louis XVI and demanded that he resign.

 

This leaderless, diverse revolt, packed with all sorts of people, including both leftists and right-wingers, is important for many reasons. First because it beautifully, fatally shatters the delusional faith that certain Europhiles and piners for the maintenance of the status quo have placed in Macron since his election in May 2017.

And the second reason this revolt is important is because it suggests that no modern orthodoxy is safe from the populist fightback. Not even the environmentalist one.

For years we have lived in a climate of ‘You can’t say that’. You can’t criticise mass immigration — that’s xenophobia. You can’t oppose the EU — that’s Europhobia. You can’t raise concerns about radical Islam — that’s Islamophobia. You can’t agitate against climate-change policy — that’s climate-change denialism, on a par with Holocaust denialism, and anyone who dares to bristle against eco-orthodoxy deserves to be cast out of polite society. And yet now, in this populist moment, people are daring to say precisely these unsayable things. They’re standing up to the EU. They’re demanding that immigration become a democratic concern rather than something worked out for us by unaccountable bureaucrats in Brussels. And now they’re even grating against the hitherto unquestionable religious-style diktat that we must all drive less, shop less and do less in order to ‘save the planet’. "

And there you have it.

The anti -metropolitan PC multicultural elitist tidal wave across the Continent continues and is swelling by the day.

Fraser Myers writing in Spiked  concluded his article on the Gilets Jaunes thus:-

" But there is a deeper disconnect, too. Across the West, the left has struggled to know how to respond to the populist uprisings of recent years. There is a tendency on the left to denounce any shock to the status quo as driven by reactionary forces. The revolting masses are often written off as fascists.
That the yellow vests – a mass, largely working-class movement, defying the government and standing up for its interests – makes many on the left, at best, wary and, at worst, scornful is a damning indictment indeed. "

Both O'Neill and Myers analyses accord fully with my own views.

My only regret is that I'm not in a realistic position to simply pop over the Channel and taste some of the very live action for myself.

But at least Paris is burning once more and we'll always have Paris.

" Gilets Jaunes Avant! "