fahrenheit451:191

Late last night on 11 September the House of Commons voted to continue with the EU Withdrawal Bill ( aka Repeal Bill aka The Great Repeal Bill ).

Essentially this will be an Act of Parliament that by and large will incorporate into domestic UK law all so-called EU laws that have been accepted and entered into the UK body politic these past four decades.
The Repeal Bill once passed will give government Ministers, what its detractors and opponents misrepresent and wilfully misconstrue ,as " Henry VIII " powers.

In practice such  " powers " are the necessary bureaucratic discretion whereby Parliament does not have to be consulted over minor and peripheral adjustments and tidying up of the preceding EU Laws that perhaps translate maladroitly into UK legal understanding and practice.

In the broader context of the UK's departure from the EU at the end of March 2019, this Bill has been " sexed up " by the reactionary anti - brexit metropolitan Labour Party.

Corbyn,Starmer et al have  misrepresented the actual facts of the Bill in the same sensationalist and hyperbolic manner adopted by Blair and the now notorious Iraqi WMD dossier. That dossier was predicated on lies, equally Labour's assertion of a governmental power grab from this Bill are also predicated on lies.

This what is what can be  gleaned from  Labour List  had to say on the late night Commons vote :-

Seven Labour MPs defied a three line party whip announced byJeremy Corbyn last night to back the Brexit bill.

Ronnie Campbell, Frank Field, Kelvin Hopkins, John Mann, Dennis Skinner, Graham Stringer and Kate Hoey. defied party orders and supported the Tories in voting for the EU Withdrawal Bill – which overturns the European Communities Act 1972 – by 326 votes to 290.

The so called Repeal bill, which had the adjective “Great” until it was dropped by the Tories, shifts the entirety of EU law on to the British statute books.

Shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer described it as a “deeply disappointing” night.

Immediately after the vote Starmer published a statement in which he repeated Labour’s claim that the Tories were trying to sideline parliament to seize greater powers for themselves.

“This is a deeply disappointing result. This Bill is an affront to parliamentary democracy and a naked power grab by government ministers. It leaves rights unprotected, it silences parliament on key decisions and undermines the devolution settlement,” he said.

“It will make the Brexit process more uncertain, and lead to division and chaos when we need unity and clarity.

“Labour will seek to amend and remove the worst aspects from the bill as it passes through parliament. But the flaws are so fundamental it’s hard to see how this Bill could ever be made fit for purpose”.

And so it goes. Corbyn and his erstwhile allies  have fully assimilated the #LabourIn position and rhetoric that hasn't changed one iota following the EU Referndum result in favour of Leave.

Metropolitan Labour Remoaner EU shills, of whom there are 200+MPs such as Wakefield's Mary Creagh, regurgitate the same otiose cant and utter the same vacuous platitudes that they've done all along.

According to Creagh , Labour " Recognises and respects the referendum result ". Note the ongoing absence of  the two most important signifiers, " accept " and " implement ".

This is Humpty Dumpty on a  heretofore megalomaniacal scale that even most Tories wouldn't dare to attempt.
Words mean precisely what the likes of Creagh say they mean,no more and no less. Recognise clearly means accept and respect means implement,obviously!

And that is why Corbyn,Starmer et al and their hobnailed acolytes and lackeys throughout the  broader labour and trades Union movement are officially calling for the UK to remain inside the Single market and The Customs Union after March 2019.

Because according to them that will recognise and respect the result of the EU Referendum when 52% voted to  "Leave " which of course also means stay.

And now you know why I do genuinely and most fervently hate loathe and despise the EU,  all of its works and everything it stands for and the same now goes for the Labour Party.

fahrenheit451:188

It's always gratifying, albeit in a mostly superficial kind of way, to see the Guardian washing the Labour Party's dirty laundry in public.

The United Kingdom's metropolitan ruling elites' discredited irrational ideology of politically correct multiculturalism has spawned more categories of fiction than the Annual Costa Book Awards.

We've got in the major fiction categories, #HateCrime #islamophobia #racism and #homophobia ; alongside of which there's such a plethora of subsidiary categories of proscribed errant thought ,speech and behaviour that would have been the envy of Stalin's Cheka.

On Saturday 2 September  Guardian aka Islington Pravda published their comments on the following Times piece :-

The Rotherham MP has used an interview with the Times to highlight differences in attitudes between the capital and Labour’s northern heartlands.

Labour MP Sarah Champion has declared the “floppy left” is afraid of speaking out on issues such as sex grooming gangs for fear of being branded racist.

Champion last month quit as shadow equalities minister after a backlash for saying “Britain has a problem with British Pakistani men raping and exploiting white girls”.

She told the Times: “If I’m on the floppy left, to be accused of racism is probably the worst thing you can call me. That fear will motivate me to step away from a lot of topics I’d maybe tackle head on if I didn’t have that phobia.”

Her constituency was the scene of a grooming scandal and she said many Labour members and politicians based in London had “never been challenged by a reality that’s different” from their largely “tolerant, multicultural world”

Even a prominent worn out old hacks such as Trevor Phillips - whose entire career was built on the smoke and mirrors of multiculturalism and the promulgation of the cult of equality - has come to the end of his tether with all the decades long spouting of bullshit on this issue by the Labour Party in particular and you can add to that the Liberals,Greens and virtually the entire non-parliamentary Left.

And so it goes. Schadenfreude is in order,don't you think?

fahrenheit451:177

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.

fahrenheit451:171

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.