8 Jul 2022

Boris Johnson – Gone but not forgotten.

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I’m Conservative, party member and voter. I’ve been less than happy with the Johnson Cabinet(s) and the party’s slide towards Social Democratism.

His administration adopted Net-Zero,  a Green Agenda and has an insatiable apatite for other peoples money. Tax & Spend until our eyes water. A Brexit deal that, after May’s sabotage, has allowed the EU and the Republic to effectively annex Northern Ireland. Add in an Energy crisis, long in the making but none the less definitely on Boris’s watch, unfunded Covid furloughs and potentially World War III starting up in Ukraine, we’re headed for that ‘Perfect Storm’.

This is a crisis, it’s for real, it’s not about ‘partygate’ or even a touchy-feely gay Deputy Chief Whip it’s about massive inflation, power-cuts, energy rationing and food shortages. Voters, citizens sitting at home in the cold, in the dark and hungry as the Economy spirals down out of control. We’re talking Depression not just Recession. So while Boris was away, Ukraine, G7, NATO etc.  A group of his Cabinet Ministers engineered a coup and now we have an Administration ham-strung by it’s own MPs while they squabble amongst themselves to establish a new pecking order. If they go on like this, come the next election the Parliamentary Party will be able to fit in a mini-bus.

For me it’s increasingly clear that there is currently only the one Big Government Party and a few Nationalist groups in Parliament. Pro-EU with the Radical (Islington) Left represented by Labour, Authoritarian Green Left, the Lib-Dems and  Left of center Social Democrats calling themselves Conservative.

This is unsustainable!

15 Jan 2022

Brexit and our United Kingdom?

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It’s the winter of 21/22 and no more Frost!
I had doubts about a last minute Brexit cobbled together for Christmas / New Year but was reassured by the appointment of Lord Frost as Chief Negotiator.
It’s clear that the ‘Northern Ireland Deal’ was fudged. Ireland had been promised a route to unification if it stuck to the EU’s position and who’s bureaucracy had no intention of negotiating over it’s interpretation of The Northern Ireland Protocol.
Does Truss and or Westminster have the will to keep the UK whole. Will Johnson be in Downing Street long enough to show his willing?

25 Feb 2021

Brexit – We could have, should have, and nearly did make it.

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That Christmas Eve deal felt all wrong at the time!

Having rolled blithely through every negotiations deadline set by the UK side, despite all the warning signs, as if by magic, on Christmas Eve, in a festive spirit of mutual Goodwill and cooperation We Allowed Brussels to Screw Us!

I have to admit Barnier played a blinder. He had a game plan and he stuck rigidly to it, never saw him (genuinely) flinch once, unlike the feckless Whitehall and Westminster swamp rats we had to rely on.

So now we have an EU administrative Border down the middle of  the Irish Sea, being enforced by UK Customs no less. We have EU fishing boats continuing to plunder our fishing grounds while our shellfish catch rots waiting to be admitted to the EU

4 Jan 2021

Brexit – I think We Made It!

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I would have been happy with a WTO no-deal.

I’m distinctly uncomfortable with any last-minute deals made with a behemoth like the EU, even now I’m unsure that the EU’s faux Parliament may not try and derail it. Somehow it’s not right that with eight days remaining, three of those public holidays and two a weekend, the two sides should be overwhelmed by a Yuletide bonhomie and festive spirit wherein all matters outstanding were suddenly resolved and everyone went home for the Holidays happy. There is little doubt in my mind that serious compromises were made. It remains to be seen just where, that’s in addition to yet another fisheries sell-out of course.

Having said all that, I have great respect for our chief negotiator David Frost whom I suspect was eventually able to impress on the EU’s Barnier the reality of our National Will for Sovereignty.

As things stand I remain mildly skeptical, waiting for the other boot in the backside to arrive.

29 Aug 2018

Brexit & Conservative, not mutually exclusive.

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If you’ve looked at this site you will already know that I am,

  • a) A Brexiteer and voter,
  • b) A Conservative voter
  • c) Something of a Libertarian but with.
  • d) A Unionist & Nationalist commitment.

In fact I (like to) think I’m not alone in my overall views. A basic old-style ‘Conservative’

I admit I’m old enough to have voted in both of the last two Referenda. For the EEC in the first and against the EU in the last. In 2016 I was surprised by the result – pleasantly I must add, but surprised none the less. I had expected the vote to go the other way, but by a similar though smaller margin. To be honest, that was pretty much the opinion of our Governing Elite, their Hired-help/Servants and their Media (State funded and otherwise).

For our Governing Elite it was a major ‘kicking’. From their perspective a catastrophic error. We were told how we should vote and why – and we didn’t!

Some say Cameron then fell on his (political) sword. I prefer to think that he chucked his toys out of the pram and quit having made a massive political mistake.

As a long-time Conservative voter I believed Cameron’s unexpected electoral success after his coalition with the Lib-Dems was based on his promise of an EU referendum, not on a mediocre platform of poorly defined ‘Compassionate Conservative Social(ist) reform’ and intrusive micro-management of peoples private lives – that’s not what he called it but that’s what it was!

David Cameron went off to visit his soulmates in Brussels and went through the motions of trying to negotiate a new relationship with the EU but both sides had substantially misread Cameron’s election victory (such as it was) and the mood of a substantial part of Britain’s electorate,. not least UKIP’s single issue voters. Neither side felt any compelling imperative to change and disrupt what both perceived as merely a transition toward a United States of Europe. After all, once the referendum was dealt with the EU Superstate was all but inevitable.

I suspect that having ‘Tangoed’ through the Halls of Power with the Lib-Dems for all that time, each side grooming the other, there are many in the Party who are much more comfortable with a European Social-Democratic platform of Federalism and a Regional rather than a Sovereign Parliament in Westminster. And these folk are calling themselves ‘Conservative’ and (currently) have charge of the Party and Government.

 

26 Mar 2018

Brexit Ultralight; but when?

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It would appear that we are about to be given the (B)ill for Mrs. May’s election debacle last year (2017).

A Tory government in disarray, forced to compromise with it’s rabbid Remainer faction because it’s Leader called and lost an unnecessary election.

I believe, and will continue to argue that, far from Mrs. May having won, even just held-on to power (though she did), Corbyn and the Socialists were the big losers. They were unable to dislodge a deeply divided and flawed Tory Government. It is an important distinction, failure to understand which, could easily consign the Tory Party to a Never-never Land along with, or possibly even in place of the Lib-Dems.

Mrs. May as Tory Leader and Prime Minister is still a solid Remainer. I am convinced that her purpose, as far as possible, is to ‘mitigate’  what she perceives as the ‘harmful’ effects of the Brexit she has (unwillingly) undertaken to implement in her bid for personal power. She and her ego see her leadership as a means to move us away from our error in the 2016 Referendum by stretching Brexit even beyond the term of this government. Strangely she seems able to control her cabinet with steel resolve undaunted by her abysmal performance in the 2017 Election and Party Conference but unable to resist even the most outlandish Brexit bargaining maneuvers of the Brussels elite. Perhaps the parsons daughter  would punish us for having made the wrong choice back in June 2016.

As a final thought, having seen the way Remainer May abases herself and by extension our Nation before the apparatchiks of the EU can the Premiership of our once Great Britain be such a poison chalice that none will dislodge her?

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