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Thus spake  Guardian Online  : At the stroke of 11 p.m. on 31 January (midnight in Brussels), the UK ceases to be a member of the EU. The divorce is sealed. The only way back is an application to rejoin. The UK enters an 11-month transition period to allow time to negotiate a new relationship. That means staying in the EU single market, its customs union and paying into its budget.  A more significant moment could be 1 January 2021, the UK’s first day outside EU rules. Under the  Brexit withdrawal agreement,  that day could be delayed until 2022 or 2023, but  Johnson has ruled out any extension of the transition period . Postscript: 17.4 million British Voters altered the course of History on June 23 2016. Three and a  half years later,after the most virulently egregious political campaigning seen in Europe post-1945,the democratically expressed Will of the British electorate to Leave the EU shall come to pass. After all the vituperative l...

My feelings toward the current Labour Party leadership farrago are the same as those I have toward the European Union. I hate,loathe and despise the European Union, ditto the Labour Party, and all that it stands for and does.  Keir Smarmer ,Rebecca Long Tall Sally,Clueless,Thornbush,Nando’s and Jessflips. Good luck with those;the rest of the lifeboats have got even bigger holes in them. I read journalist and commentator Peter Hitchens’ touching commentary in the  Mail on Sunday  making a rather compassionate case for the Labour Party somehow to be revived and restored somehow along the lines of what it once was perceived to be. Well bollox to all that .Labour and its  “sister ” parties all across the continent of Europe,including the German SPD, have for quite some years now been undergoing a kind of existential entropy. It’s History’s way of telling political ideologies,movements and parties that the Cosmos has moved on. Strangely enough when the post W...

Well,that's one great big effing surprise if there ever was one!! A 70+ seats overall majority and Labour's worst result since 1935. Considering that my own best guesses were centred around a small Tory majority or essentially a hung parliament - you can never be too pessimistic when it comes to Election outcomes ;after all where would the overwhelming joy & mood of celebration be in the wake of a really great and unexpected triumph if  you had confidently predicted precisely that beforehand ? exactly; relief is part of joy,the thrill of the ride. There was also the added bonus,the doubleplusgood  frisson of Schadenfruede  :- # GeneralElection2019   # Wakefield   # MaryCreagh  It's carnage time at the twitter coliseum Steve McQueen announces "14 Years A Constituent" -follow-up to "12 Years A Slave".in which the ordinary folk of #Wakefield are liberated from their patronising metropolitan Labour Remoaner slave -vote owner #MaryCreagh in #Gener...

#YellowRose #NotinMyName  are the latest hashtags -the flotsam and jetsam of Soros' deep pockets to fan the flames of a EU orchestrated make-believe persecution complex about the supposed fate or otherwise of EU citizens working and sojourning within the borders of the UK.   For those who genuinely haven’t the foggiest notion as to how the world came to have such a thing as an ” EU citizen “,it maybe worth noting how this quasi-legal abortion came into existence. Via the 1992 Maastricht treaty as it happens. Which is :-   The  Maastricht Treaty  (formally, the  Treaty on European Union  or  TEU ) undertaken to integrate Europe was signed on 7 February 1992 by the members of the  European Community  in  Maastricht ,  Netherlands . [1]  On 9–10 December 1991, the same city hosted the  European Council   which drafted the treaty. [2]  Upon its entry into force on 1 November 1993 during the  Delor...

Three weeks to go. Three very long weeks to go until Polling Day in GE2019. And the strain is already showing amongst all the putative contenders for Office. Being both dis-interested and un-interested in the final outcome,I have at least avoided the very worst of the symptoms of persiflage fatigue. And persiflage is as good as it gets in respect of any utterances vaguely resembling well thought out,committed ideological and philosophical points of principle that define the character and motivation of any of the aforementioned putative contenders for Office. A televised " Leaders Debate " live and unscripted,epitomises more than any other micro- electioneering phenomenon the utterly vacuous and worthless nature of the entire entire electoral process itself. Brexit , emotional blackmail about the NHS , the fatuous climate emergency etc etc. are merely the irrational ramblings of a political class whose actual power and influence have long since been effectively usurp...

December 12 2019 :Polling Day seems to be a very long way off.And no doubt even as the days recede,they will actually get longer in the imagination. Boredom and disinterest work that way. It's still only November 9th and the imaginary cheque-book is getting some unprecedented hammer from Labour on 1,000 new " Sure Start " centres - the ones the war-mongering Blairite Regime introduced and the Anti-Labour Coalition of 2010 basically shut down. And not to be outdone the  former conservative Tories and the  former liberal LibDems have also been ripping it up in the fantasy-capitalist prosperity stakes.More doctors,Nurses,infrastructure,blah,blah blah.. Oh, and the Greens aka The Green party (aka the political wing of the Vegan Taliban aka Extinction rebellion eco-millenarian cultists) have come up with a Trillion pound ten year project to take the UK back to the feckin Stone Age by systematically cleansing these islands of all industry.The Greens aim to raise 90% of the...

What is the difference between uninterested and disinterested? " Disinterested " and " uninterested " have  different  meanings, but people are starting to confuse them. Grammar Girl has a trick for getting them right. An  uninterested  person is bored, unconcerned, or indifferent; a  disinterested  person is impartial, unbiased, or has no stake  in the  outcome.   Clearly therefore, I'm at one and the same time un-interested in the forthcoming General Election and dis-interested as to the eventual outcome of that election. Once all the smart,sophisticated,considered,astute insights and observations from the Chief Priests of the MSM Commentariat have been aired and all the usual leading spokesdroids of the major parties have articulated their parties' propaganda ; the British Electorate will make its decisions pretty much as it always does and has done in that very short period of our History that has afforded our nation the ...

Oh boy... British Prime Minister Johnson reneged conclusively on his earlier solemn promise to actually die in a ditch if his government couldn't deliver Brexit on October 31st and that he wouldn't go back to EU to ask for an extension. The EU have helpfully referred to their grand gesture as  a " flextension " and it is valid until January 31st. 2020, which of course is way past the original deadline of October 31. We are now all hostages being held in a parliamentary purgatory where every conceivable ideological schism is surfacing in all the major parties and there are schisms within schisms. In the round of course, the Remain campaign succeeded ages ago in effectively torpedoing Brexit. The waves of Waitrose /Ocado home delivery loyalists and their pithily adorned placards with slogans had sod all to do with the effectiveness of the EU funded, largely Labour Party directed, seditionist enterprise that so remorselessly undermined and heinously traduced wh...

Here's what  The Evening Standard online  trumpeted :- In the style of a Waitrose shopper's guide on how to go about  fomenting sedition. Brexit march London: Saturday People's Vote protest route, map, times and more Thousands of protestors are set to march through London this weekend to demand the public is given a final say on Brexit . Saturday's Final Say rally is expected to draw huge crowds of people to the capital calling for a vote on any EU withdrawal deal. The march will take place nearly a fortnight before the UK is due to leave the EU on October 31, and at the end of a crunch week for Brexit negotiations. Organised by the People's Vote  campaign, Together for the Final Say is the fourth march calling for a final referendum on any Brexit deal to be put to the people.   Here's everything we know about Saturday's demonstration. When is the march taking place? Campaigners are being told to meet at on Saturday October 19, at 12pm,...

October 31 draws ineluctably closer and with it the prospect of, " Brexit " actually happening. The monumental rearguard action undertaken by the Remain campaign to sabotage ,delay ,impede and ultimately eviscerate Brexit as the legitimate democratic expression of the UK electorate in the EURef 2016 - has been to all intents and purposes successful! There is, of course a price to pay for all their shenanigans and in all likelihood it will be a very heavy one. Without recourse to muskets and halberds or judicial auto-da-fes , this country has gone through and to a large extent well into future will continue going through a significant period of historical political sea change on par with The Tudor Reformation of the 1530s and 40s as well as The English Civil War(s) of a Century later. And in spite of the socio-economic driven ideological schisms that have affected all major parliamentary parties over the issue of  " Brexit ", to a greater degree these Parties...

October 31st. had better eventuate. We had better Leave the EU on that date. Just when you thought the interminably egregious, otiose cant and vacuous moralistic slogans of the EU funded seditionist Remain aka Peoples Vote campaign couldn’t delve any further into uncharted depths of paranoid delusion… Corporate MSM and other platforms announce that, ” A judge sitting in Scotland’s highest civil court has rejected an interim interdict (injunction) to prevent to the suspension of parliament. Lord Doherty said he believed the full hearing set down for next Friday should be moved forward to Tuesday or Wednesday.” The judicial foray in Edinburgh is contemporaneous with virtually similar legalistic manoeuvres in London and Belfast. Parliament is being prorogued.Only this time, for the first time since Oliver Cromwell ,significant and influential sections of our metropolitan domiciled liberal europhile elite are keen to bring the uneducated masses into the polemical fray by dispensin...

If muskets and halberds were to hand,then all sides in the Brexit debate would by now have resorted to using them. The current version of Leave / Remain -whatever happens next ,has the UK bidding the 27 adieu on October 31st. And,of course the interminable exchange of invective and partisan ideological opinion,half-truth  and intemperate persiflage continues unabated; only the hashtags have changed and continue to do so over time. #Yellowhammer refers to the cache of civil service documents exploring  possible scenarios of economic difficulties the UK might encounter following our actual departure from the EU,were it to go ahead,on October 31. #RecallParliament is the cri de coeur of disparate forces under the Remain banner who are convinced that Prime Minister Johnson will in effect force the UK into what they feel is a wholly precipitous departure from the EU on October 31 via potential machinations involving what might be considered violations of acceptable parliam...

Well,the UK has a new Prime Minister and all the usual suspects are making all the usual noises .Just a little over 3 years ago, had Gove not betrayed Johnson's candidature for the leadership then we would have been spared the ReMAYner interregnum,the complete bollox-up of the 2017 General Election and yes,the UK would have left the EU . The metropolitan,globalist elitist staged EU -funded pantomime however refuses to leave the stage of history and has persisted over these last 3 years to produce ever more absurd mise-en-scenes. An endless stream of tropes and slogans of treachery and betrayal have been injected into the political discourse that followed the EURef2016 triumph for Leave aka Brexit. It's worth reminding ourselves what depths of hysteria the globalist corporations plumbed in their role as the battering ram for the Remain /Peoples Vote seditionist campaign. On this day 25 July 2018  I posted in Harbinger 64 - Laugh or cry ?  The Times   online re...

With a putative Prime Minister ready to push the parliamentary /constitutional button on  "Leave " and hordes of his own Tory party MPs ready to help Labour et al push the no-confidence button on him; the interminable " Mexican stand-off" on Brexit continues. Herewith my original blog posted on July 18 2018 ( Harbinger :63 ) at a time when the current on -going Mexican Stand-off was just getting under way. Rats in a sack. Brexit might have already been consigned to constitutional oblivion by the metropolitan domiciled globalist ruling elites,but at least their paid-for political actors class are still managing to tear each other to shreds in what is supposed to be a staged re-enactment but is quite entertainingly going terribly wrong. The under-rehearsed participants are actually believing themselves to be in a real world authentic constitutional political struggle,which of course from the audience /spectators’ point of view they are not,only seeming to be so...

In the rest of the world it's July 2019 but meanwhile back in Britain we're currently reliving March 29 2019 - the day,which according to the Law as enacted by parliament,said that the UK was to Leave the EU. And still the global metropolitan elitist pantomime continues unabated.The Tories are about to select one of two barely competent careerist clowns as their next party leader and the UK's Prime Minister. Their,now soon to be, predecessor gave her valedictory interview in which she confirmed everything that anyone with even half a grasp of   Realpolitik  already knew.She really is a politically inept,spineless, wheedling caricature of a petty bourgeois waste of space. And meanwhile the Fenian statelet run from Dublin was coming face to face with its own revelation of a  Realpolitik  moment.That moment when an insignificant failed nation state realises its own utter insignificance in the larger world of politics and international diplomacy. Having spen...

History gets written by the  winners.And  losers tend to get a good kicking. Ultimately there is no-one who is actually ” righteous ” in any of this; no,not one. But that doesn’t mean we ought not to take sides and be actively committed to a cause. What it ought to mean is, that irrespective of the outcome of any particular argument and our role in it ,history gets made, out of which altered circumstances newer conditions inexorably evolve and develop and the struggle renews and is renewed by this inimitable dynamic of human society. But we still like our side,the cause we’re committed to to prevail,we do really want to be the ones on the winning side writing the history of a particular struggle. If that were not so then we’d all be supine conformist automatons and all human society /civilisation would be locked into a totalitarian stasis  forever.Which  of course is utterly absurd but that’s exactly where our present day ruling elites would like to keep the r...

The new session of the european parliament convened in Strasbourg the other day. And with it,the EU entered the decisive phase of diplomatic/political horse trading to get its new  leaders in place. Ultimately, it is the heavy hitters France and Germany and their mutually respective and fluctuating allies that influence/stage manage /cobble together sufficient votes in the parliament to give their imperial appointees at least some veneer of legitimacy. That by itself would be enough of an otiose event as to preclude anything else that might cause friction let alone excitement among the parliamentary attendees.But no, it was the UK's Brexit Party MEPs who managed to garner the facile opprobrium and spurious media headlines with their stunt of turning their backs toward the musicians scratching out the " Ode to Joy " -that most ersatz and superficial of all anthems anywhere or as the metropolitan Labour  Pravda   Guardian put it:- " Brexit party MEPs turned their...

With the sack full of  rats -aka the latest Tory Party leadership - contest drawing to conclusion,I thought I'd amuse myself by reposting some really optimistic posts from around this time in 2016.   originally posted on June 25 2016 as  And So It Goes...#784 at wordpress.com   I sure do like the smell of Victory on a morning.  I’ve been on a high since waking up just after 4 a.m. Friday 24th.to listen to the radio, expecting to hear all about a huge triumph for Remain. The disbelief in the broadcasters’ voices was palpable, they were genuinely astounded.  I imagined that BREXIT was having the kind of visceral impact that Orson Welles’ notorious 1938  ” War of the Worlds ” broadcast had had on an unsuspecting  U.S. public tuning in mid way through that broadcast.   I am so chuffed that the first letter my local newspaper published,all those weeks ago now to start the EU debate, was mine.The one, here on record at this bl...

Today,Monday 10 June 2019 marks the official commencement of the Tory Party leadership contest to replace the outgoing Anglican Tea Lady of the Year,Theresa May. That public political discourse here in Great Britain is even plumbing such unenviable depths of otiose garbage and taking it quasi-seriously, is simply a measure of how many billions of light years we are away from the realisation of the promise born in the aftermath of June 23 2016. 13 putative contenders for the vacant party leadership had put their names forward to enter the fray, though only two succumbed to logic and reason and withdrew before the "off". Quite who will emerge victorious at the end of the hastily cobbled together, proverbial Heath Robinson party electoral process is anyone's guess. Boris Johnson ,Jeremy Hunt, Esther McVey, Dominic Raab appear the most plausible; then again when has plausibility ever been a consideration? to wit a committed Remainer with a woefully incoherent liberal re...

There are 1,001 vastly more challenging issues and problems that ought to be occupying our attention, but still it all comes down to being stuck in the Leave /Remain quagmire. I'm sure that the likes of Thomas Cromwell had pretty much the same view about how the Reformation was panning out in the 1540s. Apparently WE - the royal "we" aren't voting the way that the generally smug,middle class EU funded public sector bureaucrats,professionals,academics,luvvies and shysters would like us to vote. The "We" are still being stupid,ignorant,xenophobic etc etc. And the way they can "prove"(  as they did back on June 23 2016,that in actual point of fact 48% is numerically equal as well as  intrinsically morally superior to 52% ) that pro- Brexit parties lost the EU elections 2019 is by adding up all the votes cast for all the parties and arbitrarily assigning them top pro and anti-brexit forces.  Or as I tweeted somewhat more succinctly at the time:...