(0759) Morning all … sunny out there, birds chirping, wasps about to come out. (0815)

 

11. From Kathy’s comments thread

BB2: “It’s only disappointing if you believed in Reform to start with. If you know their name, they’re in the game (Miri AF).

Please do not ignore the evidence.  As people became disillusioned with the main parties, various alternative ones sprang up. Two of them (Reform, and Fox’s outfit) mysteriously got acres of free publicity in the mainstream media. The others did not.

Fox is an actor, funded by powerful backers. Reform – well, we have just seen what it is. They are both controlled opposition at the top and always were. Rupert Lowe was getting out of hand and dropping too many truth bombs which would have led to Reform developing as a genuine political party and maybe becoming real opposition.

There is genuine opposition to Agenda 2030 across the political spectrum. UKIP, the Social Democrats, the Heritage Party (which is my personal favourite), Britain First. But you never hear about them, and Reform would not have got any further if it hadn’t had so much free publicity.”

HMS Lion: “Indeed, in one absurd self-inflicted episode, Reform have revealed themselves as part of the problem, and not part of the solution. Sad, after promising so much, that it should unravel like this, though in fact there have been previous warnings too such as Ben Habib quitting the party, Andrew Bridgen opting not to come on board, and the jettisoning of numerous candidates for the last General Election at the behest of Hate Not Hope and with barely the semblance even of a kangaroo court. There is simply not the time however to start all over again now, and no party will ever be perfectly aligned with every viewpoint, that being impossible except in a party composed of sheep. How the Tories, Liebour and the Establishment must be laughing. Old acquaintances who’ve been quiet about politics for some time suddenly finding their voices and keyboards again. Thoroughly depressing all round at how easy it was to halt the Reform bandwagon. Time perhaps for that B2 USA visa. There’s not much hope left here, just plenty more hate coming for us.”

That comment of Steve’s: “The Reform debacle – endless bloviating on TV/Radio over what Rupert did, or didn’t say, or do. Interest I have none. Take immigration, listening to Lowe and reading the articles he’s written before this row, leaves me to believe he understands we’re in serious trouble, and what Reform say they going to do about it he says won’t fix it. So are Reform UK ‘controlled opposition’ under Nigel Farage? My opinion is politics will not allow us to regain what we have lost. I call it the ‘ratchet’ some call it ‘incrementalism’.

Whichever word you use we were never consulted on uncontrolled mass immigration (because we don’t have an advanced democracy like Switzerland) and we certainly didn’t vote for it. There is zero democracy with regards to who we allow into our country. Lowe knows before this century is out we will have become a minority in our own homeland. By minority he means absolute minority. We’ll be a majority minority first and that is just a few decades away from where we are now.”

10. Seeing as there seem allegorical, prescient things going on

… let me add one more. The whole Unherdables “complex” is anchored to HQ, which is under threat this summer and plan Bs and Cs are being thought through right now. It took a fair bit to set up HQ, it’s doing its job well. So what’s the issue?

Govt pressure on third parties, not least being banking … is one thing, it only takes one insane regulation such as the farmers’ inheritance tax … and an already wobbly edifice collapses. Rachel from Accounts herself is only a cog in a machine, as we know, and that machine wants us crippled, also as we know.

Repeating that phrase … it only takes one insane regulation. There’s also a thing called cascade effect or house of cards. The allegory from me today is how HQ operates. Medically, I cannot sit at a computer these days for long, laptops cause me skinburns, ipads are ok, plus I am starting to feel the cold badly, cold which Gates is providing. I have two ipads which till now have been near flawless in operation … which is why I bought them … money well spent methinks. I can jump into bed and blog, research etc., the various parts of the UHC complex dovetailing nicely, as the aging curmudgeon ages. All good.

The later ipad has started overheating quickly, the charge drops alarmingly fast … the hand burns, even through the plastic cover. The earlier 2021 ipad is going fine … go figure. A single ipad does not allow the tag teaming I need to bring HQ to you and I’m thinking these months coming up are when I need to be on duty so to speak.

I’m suspecting there are things in the more recent Apple products not nearly as good as the earlier versions … a bit like cars today too. There are still months to go before any hard decisions are needed … but am thinking ahead, devising plans B and C. That’s all … nothing dire … as yet. Just looming.

9. Kathy and the malaise of the west

Almost an allegory at TCW … herewith an excerpt …

“TALK ABOUT a depressing end to the week for all who saw 2029 as our last hope to rescue our sick and dying land. The dream of a Farage team swinging into office on a ticket as radical as Trump 2024 has all but evaporated.

I thought that I would be celebrating TCW’s eleventh birthday yesterday, bucked this year by the return of Trump, the death of woke and the end of the catastrophic war in Ukraine at last in sight.

But no, I couldn’t clink the glasses. Not with the country going backwards. Not when we at TCW suddenly find ourselves manning the last defence, when we should be on a forward charge. This is all because of Reform UK’s suicidal public purge of Rupert Lowe MP. 

‘Well, there’s certainly not too much professionalism going on in Reform. What an utterly chaotic public show of mismanagement and incompetence. Looks like a set-up, smells like a set-up – it probably is a set-up,’ one of our regular writers emailed me.

Indeed so. When I read Rupert Lowe’s rebuttal to the allegations on Friday afternoon, I tweeted that it could not have been written more forcefully. When I read the Reform UK ‘statement that came from Zia Yusuf, Reform UK’s Chairman, and Lee Anderson, its Chief Whip, I had just one thought: they have just added their signatures to Britain’s death warrant, the fools.

A classic of its genre, every line ‘read’ of the very things they should be fighting. A woke ‘offence culture’ declaration.

Oh no, I thought, this is ‘Hope not Hate’, ‘Me Too’ and ‘subjective hate crime’ rolled into one!”