Opposition opening...

Yes, I am still alive; yes I wish I was blogging more. And yes there will be an opening for some decent U.K. Parliament 'Opposition' soon. It is simply too boring these days to get wound up about the tsunami of shit we are being asked to swallow or at least wade it. Today we can be pretty sure of one thing, Conservatives will be in opposition. 

Anyhoo...I discovered a new website (it may NOT be new, I mean I only just found it): The New Conservative where Alastair MacMillan writes about there being more reasons not to vote for the current shite outfit. In the 'About' page is exactly what I wish 'The Conservative Party' were (who are not conservative, Conservative or even remotely 'right wing'): 

• Government’s first duty to protect the citizenry 
• Unequivocal freedom of speech 
• Border control Fiscal responsibility 
• The state as servant, not master 
• The law applied without fear or favour 
• Low taxes 
• An end to grooming gangs & their cover-ups 
• A robust response to charlatan wokery 
• Economic stability before Green virtue-signalling 

Look at that! Hoorah! I could add a few things - e.g. en end to postal votes except for the previous sensible exemptions [military, disabled...] but what a start, actually being what the blue wing of the Uniparty should be.

Obmutescent, obedible, omphaloskeptic ovines...

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Silent, docile navel-gazing sheep (OK, not sure sheep can do that easily!). We are become...nothing. 

All very depressing. The Naked Emperor's latest "A Picture is worth a Thousand Words": Or a survey result...yes, polls are notoriously more shite then ever but this definitely rings true, and in such a short time (2016-22):

Look at the wording, "definitely should...". We are lost. 

'To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.' Robert Louis Stevenson

Obama's overreaching oar...

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Blogpost title referring to Obama (all posts) infamously (IMHO :-) ) sticking his overreaching oar into purely UK matters...now Creepy Joe has done the same (in what many call Obama's third term):

Friday: White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre says:

"And, you know, we’ve been very clear — like, we won’t comment on the UK government’s — their dem- — their own domestic policies or internal decision-making... [...] 

"So, not something that we’re going to comment on.

But anything specifically that’s related to their domestic policies or domestic decisions, we’re just not going to comment on that." [LINK]

Saturday: cue Sleepy/Creepy Joe/Brandon doing exactly what she said they wouldn't do: commenting on domestic policies (reported today in UK).

You may claim it's international because err...because the mini-budget caused worldwide ructions...really? Of course part of it could be THIS,** [OECD tax database] doing what TPTB don't want you to do; that could explain the IMF's strange intervention and now Creepy Joe. "The Biden administration wants to raise the U.S. corporate tax rate to 28%, so it has proposed a global minimum of 21% – double the rate on the current GILTI tax." 

Of course none of it is anything to do with trillions in debt, derivative failures, failing banks, looming crash, years of quantative easing, lockdown lunacy etc...

**Source: 145cm.net/finance

Outrage over ominous observations...

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Repeating what I wrote a few weeks ago: "Sorry for the lack of posting but the Substack warriors (Steve Kirsch, Igor Chudov, The Naked Emporer and the bad cat amongst others) are saying everything I could possibly say: the fact that almost no politicians or the MSM are still not catching on is very sinister indeed..."

...warriors, nay, Superheroes! All have highlighted, for months, what is slowly leaking out everywhere; however, most media are still blaming it on the effect of lockdowns - admittedly this lunacy is partly to blame - as predicted in Q1 2020 - and is directly responsible for thousands of deaths - but the real killer is still not being admitted; the pandemic as such, the real bad excess deaths, was over in May 2020, was already on its way out before that. The so-called 'second wave' coincided with the usual winter rise and was augmented - no doubt - mainly lockdown 'victims' scared of the NHS and turned away by GP/medical centre Gestapo tactics - although a large chunk unfortunately coincided exactly with the vaccine rollout; with the peak of deaths around the last week of January 2021, those "aged 70 and over, and clinically extremely vulnerable individuals" began being vaccinated on 18th January 2021. Just as well those two weeks aren't counted as vaccine deaths but COVID deaths...amazing coincidence though, ahem... Anyhooo... look at this: We're at pandemic levels of death. Why is no one talking about it? "It doesn't make sense".  In the image below it is easy to see that the excess due to COVID is nicely cancelled out by the negative until mid April (that's a story in itself n'est-ce pas?) 

After that...WTF?!! And we can't just say it is the UK, or Astra Zeneca, this is happening everywhere. I've been in eight different countries this year and there are similar trends if you look. Why is hardly anyone looking? And those who know really know that the deaths in the younger age groups are diverging from any 2, 3, 5, 8, 10 year averages. More people are dying young so it can't be the oldies popping their clogs earlier as the excuse...what single thing has happened to very old, old, middle aged and young alike? What single reason could there possibly be? And I'll tell you, it ain't lockdowns; crazy totalitarian evil shit might fuck people up mentally but it doesn't kill healthy young people (apart from suicides that is, but that's a whole other story of avoidable deaths caused by government actions, not COVID).

Going back to a BOB classic (despite it being fairly new!)

Obloquy over obvious opposition of our orthodoxy...

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...or, what a disgrace the BBC continues to prove themselves to be: Surprise, surprise! Next BBC Religion Editor is yet another Muslim, so "The last three people in charge of religious broadcasting and a commissioning editor appointed by the BBC have been British Asians, three of them Muslims and one from a Muslim family."...bit of a coincidence nothing more; no conspiracy to see here, they were the best qualified for the job, honest!

"It could be seen as a deliberate expression of the scorn which those in the upper echelons of the BBC hold towards Christianity and the British values which come from it, and the promotion and normalisation of Islam."

...writes Dr Campbell Campbell-Jack on The Conservative Woman. Yes, it 'could'. 

Dr. Campbell-Jack is a retired Presbyterian minister so has a dog in the fight I would say but to be honest this should piss us all off and is just typical of the anti-British BBC whose bias is becoming legendary; they simply hate all and everything about the U.K. and especially England. Fuck 'em. 

I suppose the new guy could be a Christian, right? After all, he did walk The Road to Bethlehem, "from Nazareth to Bethlehem, retracing a journey made by Joseph and Mary in the New Testament story of Jesus' birth". More than most Christians! The diary of that journey makes for genuinely interesting reading and Aleem was mistaken as both a Jewish settler and a Palestinian "and so, perhaps, a potential attacker". 

But no, Aleem Maqbool is a very Urdu name and as a previous Pakistan Correspondent (and Gaza/West Bank Correspondent) I'm sure he is in fact...yep,  a Muslim. And reading his BLM love-in (mainly Melina Abdullah quotes) you just know he'll fit in perfectly. 

The BBC tell us  Aleem will take up the new position in Spring 2022, presumably just in time for the Census 21 results [ONS UK Gov] so we'll be able to see how the Muslim population in the UK has grown (yes, I know we won't) but it'll highlight the BBC's fuckwittery. Why not rotate the role? Why not appoint a Jew, a Hindu, a Buddhist, a Sikh a 'no stated religion' or even - God forbid - a Christian?!!

Obloquy over obvious opposition of our orthodoxy...

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...or, what a disgrace the BBC continues to prove themselves to be: Surprise, surprise! Next BBC Religion Editor is yet another Muslim, so "The last three people in charge of religious broadcasting and a commissioning editor appointed by the BBC have been British Asians, three of them Muslims and one from a Muslim family."...bit of a coincidence nothing more; no conspiracy to see here, they were the best qualified for the job, honest!

"It could be seen as a deliberate expression of the scorn which those in the upper echelons of the BBC hold towards Christianity and the British values which come from it, and the promotion and normalisation of Islam."

...writes Dr Campbell Campbell-Jack on The Conservative Woman. Yes, it 'could'. 

Dr. Campbell-Jack is a retired Presbyterian minister so has a dog in the fight I would say but to be honest this should piss us all off and is just typical of the anti-British BBC whose bias is becoming legendary; they simply hate all and everything about the U.K. and especially England. Fuck 'em. 

I suppose the new guy could be a Christian, right? After all, he did walk The Road to Bethlehem, "from Nazareth to Bethlehem, retracing a journey made by Joseph and Mary in the New Testament story of Jesus' birth". More than most Christians! The diary of that journey makes for genuinely interesting reading and Aleem was mistaken as both a Jewish settler and a Palestinian "and so, perhaps, a potential attacker". 

But no, Aleem Maqbool is a very Urdu name and as a previous Pakistan Correspondent (and Gaza/West Bank Correspondent) I'm sure he is in fact...yep,  a Muslim. And reading his BLM love-in (mainly Melina Abdullah quotes) you just know he'll fit in perfectly. 

The BBC tell us  Aleem will take up the new position in Spring 2022, presumably just in time for the Census 21 results [ONS UK Gov] so we'll be able to see how the Muslim population in the UK has grown (yes, I know we won't) but it'll highlight the BBC's fuckwittery. Why not rotate the role? Why not appoint a Jew, a Hindu, a Buddhist, a Sikh a 'no stated religion' or even - God forbid - a Christian?!!

Oblectation over one outstanding...

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Elizabeth II Dei Gratia Regina Fid Def 

From The Royalists UK [Twitter feed] "70 photographs for 70 years: As we approach Accession Day and the start of Her Majesty The Queen's Platinum Jubilee, we are publishing 70 photographs for 70 years of service. Thank you, Your Majesty." 

Queen's Jubilee Medal [Forces.net] "The Platinum Jubilee medal will be given out to members of the Armed Forces... ..."The medals will also be given out to frontline emergency service workers, prison service staff and members of the Royal Household."

Today Queen Elizabeth II marks the 70th anniversary of her reign; it is unique: no other British monarch has ever reached this milestone; she is the longest-reigning incumbent monarch and the longest-reigning female monarch in history.

Oblectation over one outstanding...

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Elizabeth II Dei Gratia Regina Fid Def 

From The Royalists UK [Twitter feed] "70 photographs for 70 years: As we approach Accession Day and the start of Her Majesty The Queen's Platinum Jubilee, we are publishing 70 photographs for 70 years of service. Thank you, Your Majesty." 

Queen's Jubilee Medal [Forces.net] "The Platinum Jubilee medal will be given out to members of the Armed Forces... ..."The medals will also be given out to frontline emergency service workers, prison service staff and members of the Royal Household."

Today Queen Elizabeth II marks the 70th anniversary of her reign; it is unique: no other British monarch has ever reached this milestone; she is the longest-reigning incumbent monarch and the longest-reigning female monarch in history.

Obiter, obedible observance...

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Time flies! One year ago today WuHan entered lockdown...and the WHO said: "Coronavirus:'An emergency in China, but not yet a global health emergency'": well we all know how that went...ahhh crap. 

Anyway, [edited midday] a few images below that you'll have seen in various forms from various outlets but the numbers don't lie: every single year in the history of this country before 2003 was worse in terms of total deaths in the UK relative to population. Plus the mild-ish and relative low-death winters of 2018/19 and 2019/20 also contributed to the tragic toll in H1 2020. 

Outwardly on our own; openly optimistic...

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Alone again although not quite: we are open for business with the world. I still am not 100 percent convinced by BoJo but by God it makes a hell of a differnece to have an overtly optimistic and patriotic Prime Minister again.



Today his written statement is promising: "The Government remains committed in all circumstances to securing all those benefits for the whole of the UK and to strengthening our Union."..."In its negotiations with the EU, the Government will be acting on behalf of the UK Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories: the whole UK family. The UK proposes to agree similar arrangements with the EFTA states."

But...today's speech is outstanding.

"And - you know where this is going - today if we get it right, if we have the courage to follow the instincts and the instructions of the British people, this can be another such moment on the launching pad."

"We are re-emerging after decades of hibernation as a campaigner for global free trade.

"And frankly it is not a moment too soon because the argument for this fundamental liberty is now not being made...

...And since these notions were born here in this country, it has been free trade that has done more than any other single economic idea to raise billions out of poverty and incredibly fast."

We do extraordinary things as I never tire of telling you.

Tea to China, cake to France, TV aerials to South Korea and so on.

Boomerangs to Australia - Nigel Farage to America. Then he came back of course. [Ows: Thank God!]

We are embarked now on a great voyage, a project that no one thought in the international community that this country would have the guts to undertake, but if we are brave and if we truly commit to the logic of our mission - open, outward-looking - generous, welcoming, engaged with the world championing global free trade now when global free trade needs a global champion,

I believe we can make a huge success of this venture, for Britain, for our European friends, and for the world.

Very well worth a read of the whole thing, or a watch and listen (speech begins @3:25, don't miss Q&A at the end, LOL).



Plus another good read: Leaving the EU is a joyous expression of national self-confidence. For that, we have Thatcher to thank. (Conservative Home):

"However, Thatcher changed everything. Her radical reforms, unapologetic patriotism, uncompromising will and remarkable character lifted the nation out of its post-war torpor and restored its self-confidence... 



"A British ‘economic miracle’ was being enviously mooted on the continent – a truly remarkable turnaround from the stagnation and misery afflicting the nation just 10 years earlier...

"Most important, though, was the national pride restored by Thatcher’s indomitable spirit and sense of moral purpose. 



"If Britain joined what was to become the EU in a moment of disorientation and self-doubt, it voted out as a confident, self-assured, optimistic, outward-looking and independent nation state.

"For this, we have Thatcher to thank. And as a delicious accompaniment, she posthumously drove a stake through the heart of her vampiric nemesis, Michael Heseltine. Victory has never been sweeter."

Outwardly on our own; openly optimistic...

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Alone again although not quite: we are open for business with the world. I still am not 100 percent convinced by BoJo but by God it makes a hell of a differnece to have an overtly optimistic and patriotic Prime Minister again.

Today his written statement is promising: "The Government remains committed in all circumstances to securing all those benefits for the whole of the UK and to strengthening our Union."..."In its negotiations with the EU, the Government will be acting on behalf of the UK Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories: the whole UK family. The UK proposes to agree similar arrangements with the EFTA states." But...today's speech is outstanding.

"And - you know where this is going - today if we get it right, if we have the courage to follow the instincts and the instructions of the British people, this can be another such moment on the launching pad."

"We are re-emerging after decades of hibernation as a campaigner for global free trade.

"And frankly it is not a moment too soon because the argument for this fundamental liberty is now not being made...

...And since these notions were born here in this country, it has been free trade that has done more than any other single economic idea to raise billions out of poverty and incredibly fast." We do extraordinary things as I never tire of telling you. Tea to China, cake to France, TV aerials to South Korea and so on. Boomerangs to Australia - Nigel Farage to America. Then he came back of course. [Ows: Thank God!]

We are embarked now on a great voyage, a project that no one thought in the international community that this country would have the guts to undertake, but if we are brave and if we truly commit to the logic of our mission - open, outward-looking - generous, welcoming, engaged with the world championing global free trade now when global free trade needs a global champion, I believe we can make a huge success of this venture, for Britain, for our European friends, and for the world.

Very well worth a read of the whole thing, or a watch and listen (speech begins @3:25, don't miss Q&A at the end, LOL).

Plus another good read: Leaving the EU is a joyous expression of national self-confidence. For that, we have Thatcher to thank. (Conservative Home): "However, Thatcher changed everything. Her radical reforms, unapologetic patriotism, uncompromising will and remarkable character lifted the nation out of its post-war torpor and restored its self-confidence... 

"A British ‘economic miracle’ was being enviously mooted on the continent – a truly remarkable turnaround from the stagnation and misery afflicting the nation just 10 years earlier...

"Most important, though, was the national pride restored by Thatcher’s indomitable spirit and sense of moral purpose. 

"If Britain joined what was to become the EU in a moment of disorientation and self-doubt, it voted out as a confident, self-assured, optimistic, outward-looking and independent nation state.

"For this, we have Thatcher to thank. And as a delicious accompaniment, she posthumously drove a stake through the heart of her vampiric nemesis, Michael Heseltine. Victory has never been sweeter."

Open on oeuvres...

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Library closed? Local youth club shut down? No money for bin collections because of "austerity"? After the last recession we found out that many councils had hundreds of millions of savings stashed away. Now, just to confirm something else we presumed but didn't know: Wasting Monet? (TaxPayer's Alliance) "Local authorities own a significant amount of artwork. Museums, galleries and libraries are part of the public sector and often under the remit of their local authority. Some authorities’ pieces of art are of significant value." [PDF]



Local authorities in the UK own at about two million pieces of art, which is worth nearly £1.9 billion.



Middlesbrough council had the most with more than 250,000 items. They didn't reveal how much it was worth. Of those that did, Manchester city council had the highest value, just over £369 million. Bassetlaw council had the most recent purchases: 201 and Wiltshire council had the least on display: zero percent from 2099 items (one of eight councils with nothing on display).

Open on oeuvres...

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Library closed? Local youth club shut down? No money for bin collections because of "austerity"? After the last recession we found out that many councils had hundreds of millions of savings stashed away. Now, just to confirm something else we presumed but didn't know: Wasting Monet? (TaxPayer's Alliance) "Local authorities own a significant amount of artwork. Museums, galleries and libraries are part of the public sector and often under the remit of their local authority. Some authorities’ pieces of art are of significant value." [PDF]

Local authorities in the UK own at about two million pieces of art, which is worth nearly £1.9 billion.

Middlesbrough council had the most with more than 250,000 items. They didn't reveal how much it was worth. Of those that did, Manchester city council had the highest value, just over £369 million. Bassetlaw council had the most recent purchases: 201 and Wiltshire council had the least on display: zero percent from 2099 items (one of eight councils with nothing on display).

Overcrowding or overreacting II...

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OK, OK, I've been wittering on about immigration for a while, and nothing changes: I'll repeat some of those words from last year:

• There is no housing crisis: there is an immigration crisis.




• There is no hospital/A&E crisis: there is an immigration crisis. 




• There is no school-place/teacher crisis: there is an immigration crisis.




• There is no doctor/nurse numbers crisis: there is an immigration crisis.




• There is no police/fire service crisis: there is an immigration crisis.




• There is no infrastructure/road crisis: there is an immigration crisis.




• There is no employment crisis: there is an immigration crisis.  
  

As Migration watch says: "What is the problem?" [LINK] "Immigration is a natural part of an open economy and society. The
problem for the UK is that the current level of immigration is much too
high."

Now, to make matters worse, the Office of National Statistics say they have been underestimating migration numbers for ages, something we really knew but nobody can prove: "Our research has clearly shown that no single source of data can fully reflect the complexity of migration."...getting their excuses in early.

Trouble is, ONS is 'official' figures and the excellent Migration Watch also work off 'official' figures; the UK population 'officially' stands at 67 million . HOWEVER, it is surely much, much higher: "...the population of the UK is presently somewhere between 77 and 80 million"...in 2007! [LINK], that report disappeared for a while and has resurfaced. That article has also had its debunkers but amusingly no proof has ever been given to really disprove it; yet with the inaccuracy of the census, hundreds of thousands of additonal National Insurance numbers every year, the plethora of crises (see list above), the unknown number of illegal immigrants etc., we can safely say the article was most likely more right than wrong...and the ONS figures are a massive UNDER estimate.

Overcrowding or overreacting II...

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OK, OK, I've been wittering on about immigration for a while, and nothing changes: I'll repeat some of those words from last year:

• There is no housing crisis: there is an immigration crisis.
• There is no hospital/A&E crisis: there is an immigration crisis. 
• There is no school-place/teacher crisis: there is an immigration crisis.
• There is no doctor/nurse numbers crisis: there is an immigration crisis.
• There is no police/fire service crisis: there is an immigration crisis.
• There is no infrastructure/road crisis: there is an immigration crisis.
• There is no employment crisis: there is an immigration crisis.  

As Migration watch says: "What is the problem?" [LINK] "Immigration is a natural part of an open economy and society. The problem for the UK is that the current level of immigration is much too high."

Now, to make matters worse, the Office of National Statistics say they have been underestimating migration numbers for ages, something we really knew but nobody can prove: "Our research has clearly shown that no single source of data can fully reflect the complexity of migration."...getting their excuses in early.

Trouble is, ONS is 'official' figures and the excellent Migration Watch also work off 'official' figures; the UK population 'officially' stands at 67 million . HOWEVER, it is surely much, much higher: "...the population of the UK is presently somewhere between 77 and 80 million"...in 2007! [LINK], that report disappeared for a while and has resurfaced. That article has also had its debunkers but amusingly no proof has ever been given to really disprove it; yet with the inaccuracy of the census, hundreds of thousands of additonal National Insurance numbers every year, the plethora of crises (see list above), the unknown number of illegal immigrants etc., we can safely say the article was most likely more right than wrong...and the ONS figures are a massive UNDER estimate.

October outrecuidance...

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Our very own Октябрьский переворот? Useful idiots. "Thirty Tory MPs led by Chancellor Philip Hammond are plotting to stop a no-deal Brexit in October in a move which would raise the chance of a second referendum" Sky News understands. Lidington, Gauke, Letwin, Grieve and other assorted weak, wet egomaniacs along with the (not for long) Chancellor Phil Hammond is being - and has been for months - "increasingly vocal about the risks to the economy and UK union."

The only thing that is a risk, the ONLY thing, is the repeated idicocy like this being spouted that creates uncertanty. Any business worth it's salt is already ready and has been for ages, the only problem is imbelcile egotist politicians, IYI's to a man. We could have and should have been riding high two years ago.

Plus, the course of the EU is becoming clearer to even the dimmest Remainer: with the crow-barring in of German Ursula von der Leyen, "the decision by leaders to reject all the candidates for European Commission president and instead pick a little-known ally of Angela Merkel in a closed meeting was “not the Europe I imagined", similar to that of German Martin Selmayr last year, "Martin Selmayr’s sudden appearance at the top of the EU pyramid via a series of shadowy manoeuvres is the exact opposite of due process", we are seeing the true EU take shape. Hammond's aim is clearly to try to stay part of it.

October outrecuidance...

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Our very own Октябрьский переворот? Useful idiots. "Thirty Tory MPs led by Chancellor Philip Hammond are plotting to stop a no-deal Brexit in October in a move which would raise the chance of a second referendum" Sky News understands. Lidington, Gauke, Letwin, Grieve and other assorted weak, wet egomaniacs along with the (not for long) Chancellor Phil Hammond is being - and has been for months - "increasingly vocal about the risks to the economy and UK union." The only thing that is a risk, the ONLY thing, is the repeated idicocy like this being spouted that creates uncertanty. Any business worth it's salt is already ready and has been for ages, the only problem is imbelcile egotist politicians, IYI's to a man. We could have and should have been riding high two years ago.

Plus, the course of the EU is becoming clearer to even the dimmest Remainer: with the crow-barring in of German Ursula von der Leyen, "the decision by leaders to reject all the candidates for European Commission president and instead pick a little-known ally of Angela Merkel in a closed meeting was “not the Europe I imagined", similar to that of German Martin Selmayr last year, "Martin Selmayr’s sudden appearance at the top of the EU pyramid via a series of shadowy manoeuvres is the exact opposite of due process", we are seeing the true EU take shape. Hammond's aim is clearly to try to stay part of it.

Our overall OUT oblectation II...

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"In voting to Leave, they voted for hope." [LINK]. Gisela Stuart, former Labour MP and Vote Leave Chair Gisela Stuart, her article at Brexit Central.

"Three years ago today we voted for Brexit – now it’s time to deliver and unite behind a common purpose of renewal"

In fact that was some people's message three and more years ago. We have lost untold progress through the unnecessary and sometimes ridiculously contrived delays of dithering politicians, pessimisitic politicians, self-centred politicians, weak politicians, some evil politicians and some treasonous (some all six!).

"This result had not been easy, we had been up against the EU, the Labour Party, the Conservative Party and Lib Dems and had the full weight of the Treasury and the CBI against us. Yet a majority had voted to Leave the EU"

Much more than that: nearly all the media both TV and radio. Most slebs, most economists, all the EU, most foreign leaders outside the EU, most charity bods, most university boffins, banks, most industry etc...the list of the juggernaut against Leave was immense, the blatant lies, the over funding of the Remain campaign, the use of the murder of Jo Cox...anything and everything was thrown against Leave. Plus the natural bias in favour of the status quo in most choices and the fact that anyone under 40 had never lived under any other regime, all this and yet...and yet...we STILL voted LEAVE. Immense. Glorious.



"In voting to Leave, they voted for hope." Indeed but most had based that hope on solid facts, bad experiences of the EU, clear indications of the future decline of the external influence of the EU coupled with the very sinister explosion of internal control of the EU.

Our overall OUT oblectation II...

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"In voting to Leave, they voted for hope." [LINK]. Gisela Stuart, former Labour MP and Vote Leave Chair Gisela Stuart, her article at Brexit Central.

"Three years ago today we voted for Brexit – now it’s time to deliver and unite behind a common purpose of renewal"

In fact that was some people's message three and more years ago. We have lost untold progress through the unnecessary and sometimes ridiculously contrived delays of dithering politicians, pessimisitic politicians, self-centred politicians, weak politicians, some evil politicians and some treasonous (some all six!).

"This result had not been easy, we had been up against the EU, the Labour Party, the Conservative Party and Lib Dems and had the full weight of the Treasury and the CBI against us. Yet a majority had voted to Leave the EU"

Much more than that: nearly all the media both TV and radio. Most slebs, most economists, all the EU, most foreign leaders outside the EU, most charity bods, most university boffins, banks, most industry etc...the list of the juggernaut against Leave was immense, the blatant lies, the over funding of the Remain campaign, the use of the murder of Jo Cox...anything and everything was thrown against Leave. Plus the natural bias in favour of the status quo in most choices and the fact that anyone under 40 had never lived under any other regime, all this and yet...and yet...we STILL voted LEAVE. Immense. Glorious.

"In voting to Leave, they voted for hope." Indeed but most had based that hope on solid facts, bad experiences of the EU, clear indications of the future decline of the external influence of the EU coupled with the very sinister explosion of internal control of the EU.

Overall optimism...

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Despite the disappointing (but very positive!) result in Peterborough The Brexit Party has every reason to be cheerful. The whole might of Labour's electoral juggernaut was brought to bear and they only squeaked the win by fewer than 700 votes. The good news is that "The Brexit Party takes the lead for the first time in our latest YouGov/Times Westminster voting intention survey, on 26% of the vote." Now that the pollsters are actually listing TBP as one of the choices, that choice is being made. The Lib Dem blip last week is history...I hope.



TBP say in a communication to supporters: "Our party is just eight weeks old. We had only two weeks to campaign after our tremendous victory in the European elections. Yet we came within 683 votes of unseating the Labour Party and we beat the Tories into third."

"Peterborough was 201st on the Brexit Party’s list of potentially winnable Westminster seats. If we can come so close there, then no Labour or Tory seat is safe any longer."

Maybe I shouldn't mix two subjects but there is a lot of background noise that the 'block postal vote' won it for Labour;  certainly wouldn't be the first time for Labour, nor in Peterborough! Last year they became part of a scheme ("Peterborough is one of eight areas in England to take part in a Voter Pilot scheme to help combat electoral fraud") [edit: ** see update below] "which aims to reduce the risk of election fraud and ensure voters have confidence in the electoral system." I wonder what they found. Apparently yesterday about 20% of the cast votes were actually postal votes...about 6000 votes. Last nights pictures of a certain ethnicity celebrating was food for thought: relevant old post about overwhelmingly one ethnicity (and ususally one community!) being involved? From that post:

“Postal voting on demand is inherently unsatisfactory. The whole system is open to abuse. Secret ballots were introduced in 1872 to stop exactly this sort of problem and we now seem to be going back to the 19th century.”

This by Michael Pinto-Duschinsky, an academic expert on elections: worth a read Electoral Omission, and in full HERE in PDF, the "dramatic decline in the quality of the electoral registers between 2006 and 2014"; voting fraud is rife and The Electoral Commission is "still a flawed institution"...we know from recent shenanigans it still is, probably worse.



**[Update 20:30] Talking of probably worse, thanks to anon who posted THIS LINK: it appears that "A scheme to stop voter fraud in Peterborough has been stopped because of city MP Fiona Onasanya’s conviction and sentence."... ..".A spokesperson for Peterborough City Council said: "We have spoken to the Cabinet Office about our pilot and it has been agreed that, for this year, we will not do a pilot as other election/democratic processes may have to be undertaken due to the conviction of our MP.”"



WTF?!! This really stinks: an election shouldn't be an excuse to stop the postal vote [fraud] pilot; it is the PERFECT time to test the scheme!