[Malcolm Armsteen]

Standard British assumptions, part 94.

Foreigners are either amusingly inept, or sinister and threatening. What they never are is equals. In 2016 the EU army was a threat (and besides, Our Boys would have to do all the heavy lifting and take orders from some jumped up generalissimo who wouldn't even have a country if it wasn't for us).

In one.

[Youngian]

I'd love to believe this headline's a dead cert but its written by Allister Heath. He has plan; Get rid of Greeny wokes, slash public spending and cutting taxes, under the benevolent leadership of Lord Frost.

The Conservatives face 1997-style annihilation if they don’t stop this drift
Even Brexit could be lost if they are unable to fix this mess. A total reset in No 10 is now required

Without drastic, urgent action, the party will be sucked into the kind of death spiral that sank John Major’s government in the mid 1990s, and a Left-wing coalition led by Sir Keir Starmer and supported by the SNP, Welsh nationalists, Greens and other rabble-rousers may seize power in 2023 or 2024. Such an outcome would be calamitous, and result in a vicious class and cultural war from which the country would never recover.

There are now just two viable options if the party is to bounce back. The first is for Boris Johnson to remain in office, attempt to fix the immediate damage caused by Partygate, and then recant his worst policies and delegate huge amounts of power to a David Frost-like CEO in No 10.

The aim would be to ruthlessly target the 43.6 per cent of the electorate who voted Tory in 2019, but by following the broadly conservative approach these voters expected, rather than the weird blend of reheated neo-Brownite social democracy and green paternalism that was unleashed upon them instead.

Crucially, the about-turn I’m describing is not about lobbing a few shreds of “red meat” to a starving base, penning random “Right-wing” tweets announcing a policy that unravels within hours, or even replacing a few figures in No 10 or Whitehall. No, only a total reset will do.

The second option, regrettably, would be for Johnson to step down and be replaced by somebody who follows an improved version of the 2019 strategy. This individual would need to grip a machinery of state recaptured by the Blob – and even more so now civil servants have been tasked with potentially terminating the careers of elected politicians.

He or she would then need to impose, at great speed, an agenda that fuses pro-capitalist reforms while appealing to suburban cultural conservatives with a tough agenda on crime, human rights, wokery, Brexit and much else besides.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/0 ... top-drift/

Frost approves of the plan

[kreuzberger]

Something about unelected bu... oh, never mind.

[Youngian]

Only a fool doesn't change their mind in the face of overwhelming evidence. Or you could have saved a lot of time and looked at it in the first place. Tony's back to quoting the Sex Pistols instead of Enoch and his dad banging on about the war.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Was he in it for the concrete outcomes? I got the impression he was someone who, having got more rightwing as he got older, saw Brexit as a chance to act the rebel "gunslinger" again, sticking it to squares like David Cameron.

[Andy McDandy]

He's always had a bit of the working class right winger about him - he fronted an ad in 2004 about saying no to the Euro IIRC. Not that uncommon among the journalists on the punk scene - Garry Bushell got his start there, covering the Oi! movement (although that was in fairness as much about kicking heads in as about music).

[Nigredo]

[Youngian]

Habib’s a wealthy man and like Putin he probably surrounds himself with sycophants praising his brilliant political logic.

[Spoonman]

Catch yourself on will ye and just fuck off.



(Habib, obvs, not Oblomov!)

[MisterMuncher]

It must be easier to get into the news pages of the Tele than the classified ads at this stage. I get that papers have an interest in publishing press releases to retain access, but it's not like Habib has exclusive offers beating the door down.

[Oboogie]

I wasn't sure where to put this...please don't let them breed.

[Samanfur]

She's married, and he's in a relationship. They're trolling for attention, as usual.

[Oboogie]

Alternatively, there is this.

[MisterMuncher]

Meh, saves anyone else from having to deal with their bullshit on a daily basis.

[Oboogie]

I wonder how the RMT's members who worked at P&O feel about this advice now?

[Boiler]

I'm more bothered about the workers being given the boot with zero notice than petty point-scoring over Brexit.

Shame on you, oboogie.

[Abernathy]

I'm more bothered about the workers being given the boot with zero notice than petty point-scoring over Brexit.

Shame on you, oboogie.

I don’t think the point Oboogie was making was “petty point scoring” in the slightest. On the contrary, it was highly germane to the P&O situation.

[Boiler]

I know it's fashionable to slag off unions on here (funny, you wouldn't have your precious Labour Party without them) but not all Union members follow the advice of their union leaders.

Again, you should be looking at a party that effectively allowed "fire and rehire".

I say you're wrong, Abers.

[davidjay]

I know it's fashionable to slag off unions on here (funny, you wouldn't have your precious Labour Party without them) but not all Union members follow the advice of their union leaders.

Again, you should be looking at a party that effectively allowed "fire and rehire".

I say you're wrong, Abers.

I don't think it's fashionable to slag off unions at all, just the leaders who believe that some kind of Ghost Dance-esque government would bring back their seventies power and influence. I also think that it's possible to wrily smile at those who voted for their own demise.

[Boiler]

Not sure I can "wryly smile" at 800 people losing their livelihoods with no notice via Zoom.