Our ocracy's oligophrenia over outcrop...

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The UK government has lost the plot completely. The Olly and May horror show continues: every single EU stipulation conceded, every UK red-line ignored...total surrender. Luckily, certainly with regard to the media hoo-hah over Gibraltar, the Chief Minister of Gibraltar, the Hon. Fabian Picardo QC reacted well; Mrs. may should read, understand and iterate his final paragraph:

"We will stick with Britain" press release HERE, pdf. Hat-tip Raedwald.




In a later press release, [PDF] also yesterday, Fabian Picardo gave a full statement after having talked with Treason May. He sounded reassured: "Theresa May made repeatedly clear despite clause 24 that she would negotiate to include us in the Withdrawal Agreement", but I would suggest he doesn't count his chickens: the 'Strong and stable' and 'No deal is better than a bad deal' mantras, amongst other, etc., spring to mind. Ian Duncan Smith on Sky News this morning [Guido] suggests slippery May has conceded over Gibraltar's future trading arrangements to Spain



In the same press release Picardo compared the crowing of Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez over the sovereignty of Gibraltar to 'pursuing the policy bidding of the Generalisimo [Franco] himself'. LOL.  

Our ocracy's oligophrenia over outcrop...

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The UK government has lost the plot completely. The Olly and May horror show continues: every single EU stipulation conceded, every UK red-line ignored...total surrender. Luckily, certainly with regard to the media hoo-hah over Gibraltar, the Chief Minister of Gibraltar, the Hon. Fabian Picardo QC reacted well; Mrs. may should read, understand and iterate his final paragraph:

"We will stick with Britain" press release HERE, pdf. Hat-tip Raedwald.

In a later press release, [PDF] also yesterday, Fabian Picardo gave a full statement after having talked with Treason May. He sounded reassured: "Theresa May made repeatedly clear despite clause 24 that she would negotiate to include us in the Withdrawal Agreement", but I would suggest he doesn't count his chickens: the 'Strong and stable' and 'No deal is better than a bad deal' mantras, amongst other, etc., spring to mind. Ian Duncan Smith on Sky News this morning [Guido] suggests slippery May has conceded over Gibraltar's future trading arrangements to Spain

In the same press release Picardo compared the crowing of Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez over the sovereignty of Gibraltar to 'pursuing the policy bidding of the Generalisimo [Franco] himself'. LOL.  

Ousting obdurate ordure...

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Below I have put a portrait of the future Conservative Party, maybe in 2020 or whenever the next UK general Election is (probably a lot sooner). A sad but deserved end. The proposed Withdrawal Agreement leaves the UK worse off than before. We surrender our sovereignty (nay, our FREEDOM) and become even more under the control of the EU. This is most definitely NOT in the UK’s best interests and could only - ONLY - have been devised by traitors. There IS literally no other explication and this isn't Brexit, even in name. My MP is a good, very pro-Brexit (proven by actions and words) and it will be a shame to not vote for him.

"Intellectually, psephologically and demographically, the stage is set for the eclipse of the Tory party as an election-winning force."

Indeed: The bell tolls for the hapless Tories [CW LINK], "The Westminster bubble hailed the last election as evidence that two-party politics had returned, but a betrayal of Brexit on the scale currently envisaged would surely smash the political mould for ever."



Update: further reading and listening: There are some nasty surprises in the small-print of Theresa May’s Brexit deal [BC LINK]; reiterated by MPs [e.g. Priti P]; B4B's worst horrors, Steerpike's "40 horrors" and finally this weekend, Your Right to Know: the ERG doc "The Case against Chequers and the Draft Withdrawal Agreement in plain English" [PDF] linked from Brexit Central. 

Ousting obdurate ordure...

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Below I have put a portrait of the future Conservative Party, maybe in 2020 or whenever the next UK general Election is (probably a lot sooner). A sad but deserved end. The proposed Withdrawal Agreement leaves the UK worse off than before. We surrender our sovereignty (nay, our FREEDOM) and become even more under the control of the EU. This is most definitely NOT in the UK’s best interests and could only - ONLY - have been devised by traitors. There IS literally no other explication and this isn't Brexit, even in name. My MP is a good, very pro-Brexit (proven by actions and words) and it will be a shame to not vote for him.

"Intellectually, psephologically and demographically, the stage is set for the eclipse of the Tory party as an election-winning force."

Indeed: The bell tolls for the hapless Tories [CW LINK], "The Westminster bubble hailed the last election as evidence that two-party politics had returned, but a betrayal of Brexit on the scale currently envisaged would surely smash the political mould for ever."

Update: further reading and listening: There are some nasty surprises in the small-print of Theresa May’s Brexit deal [BC LINK]; reiterated by MPs [e.g. Priti P]; B4B's worst horrors, Steerpike's "40 horrors" and finally this weekend, Your Right to Know: the ERG doc "The Case against Chequers and the Draft Withdrawal Agreement in plain English" [PDF] linked from Brexit Central. 

Obligations over open ossuary...

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Image from The Royal British Legion, 'a national champion of Remembrance'. Our obligation is to remember.  The Legion came into existence after 'The Great War', when many that had fought joined together to support to each other. "The Legion advocates a specific type of Remembrance connected to the British Armed Forces, those who were killed, those who fought with them and alongside them."



This year is the 100th Anniversary of the end of that 'war to end all wars'. "The absolute horror of the First World War, if not realised when reading details, is brought home when we look at the numbers of dead and wounded", Open ossuaries




Update: stunned by something I've just read at SteynOnline: "Exactly a century ago - on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month - the guns fell silent on Europe's battlefields. The belligerents had agreed the terms of the peace at 5am that November morning, and the news was relayed to the commanders in the field shortly thereafter that hostilities would cease at eleven o'clock. And then they all went back to firing at each other for a final six hours. On that last day, British imperial forces lost some 2,400 men, the French 1,170, the Germans 4,120, the Americans about 3,000."

"The dead in those last hours of the Great War outnumbered the toll of D Day twenty-six years later, the difference being that those who died in 1944 were fighting to win a war whose outcome they did not know. On November 11th 1918 over eleven thousand men fell in a conflict whose victors and vanquished had already been settled and agreed." [my emphasis]

Unbelievable: "Hell cannot be so terrible as this. Humanity is mad; it must be mad to do what it is doing.", anonymous French soldier, reference to the 'hell' of Verdun. 

Obligations over open ossuary...

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Image from The Royal British Legion, 'a national champion of Remembrance'. Our obligation is to remember.  The Legion came into existence after 'The Great War', when many that had fought joined together to support to each other. "The Legion advocates a specific type of Remembrance connected to the British Armed Forces, those who were killed, those who fought with them and alongside them."

This year is the 100th Anniversary of the end of that 'war to end all wars'. "The absolute horror of the First World War, if not realised when reading details, is brought home when we look at the numbers of dead and wounded", Open ossuaries

Update: stunned by something I've just read at SteynOnline: "Exactly a century ago - on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month - the guns fell silent on Europe's battlefields. The belligerents had agreed the terms of the peace at 5am that November morning, and the news was relayed to the commanders in the field shortly thereafter that hostilities would cease at eleven o'clock. And then they all went back to firing at each other for a final six hours. On that last day, British imperial forces lost some 2,400 men, the French 1,170, the Germans 4,120, the Americans about 3,000."

"The dead in those last hours of the Great War outnumbered the toll of D Day twenty-six years later, the difference being that those who died in 1944 were fighting to win a war whose outcome they did not know. On November 11th 1918 over eleven thousand men fell in a conflict whose victors and vanquished had already been settled and agreed." [my emphasis]

Unbelievable: "Hell cannot be so terrible as this. Humanity is mad; it must be mad to do what it is doing.", anonymous French soldier, reference to the 'hell' of Verdun. 

Odible ochlocracy...

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A government by mobs worthy of hatred if you need to know what I think that title means. [edit 10.11.18, 8:18 p.m.]"the Führer has decided that... demonstrations should not be prepared or organized by the party, but insofar as they erupt spontaneously, they are not to be hampered."



Last night was the 80th anniversary of the November pogrom, the Night of Broken Glass, Kristallnacht ('...viewed by historians as part of Nazi Germany's broader racial policy, and the beginning of the Final Solution and The Holocaust', Wiki). I wouldn't have known if I hadn't read Raedwald's blog today. A really nicely written blog-post:

"A pane of window glass is an odd thing. Just 4mm thick, and so fragile that a child's ball may shatter it, in our minds it is as much of a bulwark against the elements, against the chaos of the street, against the bad outside as nine inches of brick and mortar. Anyone who has had a broken front window pane will know the sudden vulnerability, the sense of unprotectedness, the anxiety and the naked exposure of that void. Until mended, we can't sleep...."

The rest is equally good, plus the comments, which I enjoyed, can be found HERE.

Odible ochlocracy...

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A government by mobs worthy of hatred if you need to know what I think that title means. [edit 10.11.18, 8:18 p.m.]"the Führer has decided that... demonstrations should not be prepared or organized by the party, but insofar as they erupt spontaneously, they are not to be hampered."

Last night was the 80th anniversary of the November pogrom, the Night of Broken Glass, Kristallnacht ('...viewed by historians as part of Nazi Germany's broader racial policy, and the beginning of the Final Solution and The Holocaust', Wiki). I wouldn't have known if I hadn't read Raedwald's blog today. A really nicely written blog-post:

"A pane of window glass is an odd thing. Just 4mm thick, and so fragile that a child's ball may shatter it, in our minds it is as much of a bulwark against the elements, against the chaos of the street, against the bad outside as nine inches of brick and mortar. Anyone who has had a broken front window pane will know the sudden vulnerability, the sense of unprotectedness, the anxiety and the naked exposure of that void. Until mended, we can't sleep...."

The rest is equally good, plus the comments, which I enjoyed, can be found HERE.