A Tale of Two Leaders
Wherever we go as a country in the political future, we must do far better than Boris Bunter Mark Two.
Let us not be disheartened; let us not be black pilled. No matter which quarter of the media it is that is telling us the weather is exploding, the Russians are coming, or Putin is dying of cancer, and Zelensky is still Churchill - the battle is afoot, the backlash is coming, and above all, remember that whatever incoherent plans for zero carbon, universal basic income, disinformation, civic cancellation, the Transification of our churches or pandemic serfdom stage two, there are more of us than them, their vision is not just a nightmare it is an impossibility and will not work economically, socially, geopolitically, or energy-wise - and do anything but worsen our failing public health.
And anyway, Christ is King.
Let’s get on.
The country's national health will be at the centre of every government's planning in the wake of the lockdown cancellation of our health care and adverse side effects of the mRNA jab. The court cases and inquiries might be collateral damage for Big Pharma. Still, there will be an inevitable censure for the Government ministers who fell for "safe and effective" and the National Health Service Consultants, GPs, Senior nurses and Managers who of knew both the consequences of lockdowns whilst quietly refusing to take the jab themselves.
The unelected government mandarins, hedge fund managers, media executives and intelligence agency higher-ups that have merged behind the scenes and are running the government are not masters of the universe; they live in their bubbles, attend their international conferences and events, and have built a web of policy, regulation and procedure into global trade and every arm of governance that is almost impenetrable whether we are in the EU or outside it.
Some of the regulations are essential, and some are desirable and necessary. But unelected officials are also susceptible to conflicted and ruinous policies and corrupting strategies. Simply saying the laws should be torn up was always grandstanding. But they have entangled every facet of our lives into their machine; the goal is to render everyone dependent on the state.
Recent reforms in our democratic system of governance and human rights have consolidated power into the hands of a few individuals and organisations. They view patriotism as a sign of low IQ, as they feel they are independent of the realities of ordinary people. Some gamble with whole currencies, economies, and nations and always win regardless of the outcome by hedging both sides. Since the Brexit vote or the Trump Election, they have been running a perpetual colour revolution in their nations. If anything, they are inching us towards the East German communist state regime, and we know what happened to that.
Two populist leaders, elected to curtail the unelected government, President Donald J. Trump and former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, are in the news. The mainstream media will have you believe both are in disgrace. The President will be indicted for spurious breaches of classified documents. But as the President determines what is and is not classified, not some administrative officer in the Federal archives, this is merely the continuation of a weaponised Department of Justice effort to undermine President Trump's attempt to get back into the White House.
This is why a floundering Ron DeSantis, Mike Pence and ludicrous Chris Christie are notionally running against him for the Republican nomination. They have been told that Trump will be mired in court appearances, the MAGA base of his support will split, and they can get their hands on the anti-Trump donor money if not a chance to win the 2024 election and replace the geriatric Biden. It's all fantasy island stuff.
When Biden was vice President, he kept classified material in his garage; Vice President Pence also retained documents; Bill Clinton had his notorious sock drawer, Hillary Clinton, when Secretary of State, installed an insecure computer server in her bathroom that was almost certainly hacked by the Chinese and other intelligence agencies, leading to a round-up of US assets in China.
Trump kept his documents behind lock and key and has a paper chain of correspondence with the Archives Department of the Federal government, showing his willingness to comply. I featured the raid of his Mar a logo estate as the first article in On The Settled Questions, and later the forces that want to get rid of Trump and his MAGA movement.
No, the legal case is spurious, but as in the case of the ludicrous Russia Collusion Mueller Inquiry, the two impeachments, whilst in office, served to misdirect attention and cover up the surveillance states deeds, tie up the President's time, provide for negative media coverage, scare away those who might otherwise be willing to work in his administration and now break Trump's resolve to run for a second term or damage his momentum. It will not work. It will increase Trump's support; he is currently 30 points up on Ron DeSanctimonious and well ahead in Florida whilst sitting eight points up on Biden.
A red pill event is when you see beyond conventional thinking into a profound and shocking, even life-changing, realisation of what is actually going on. Whatever your views of Trump, his run for the presidency, his period in office and then the stealing of his second term by election shenanigans in Georgia, Arizona and Pennsylvania - with open connivance by the Republican leadership with the Democrats’ ballot stuffing - exposed us to just how far gone the American system of government is.
The people most Red Pilled by these events have been the patriotic MAGA supporters and activists; if they thought Washington was corrupt before they selected Trump to shake things up, they watched as the surveillance state declared war on his administration, and the media cheered along. They see this recent indictment of President Trump as a cynical device and will punish any Republican candidate that gives it credit.
Whilst there were high points in the Trump first term, iconic speeches, decisive rejection of climate change lunacy, a near Middle Eastern settlement, a vital renegotiation of trade deals, the exposing of the role of the mainstream media and the corruption at the heart of the FBI, Trump's leadership on Covid was his lowest point and his support of "warp speed vaccines" a catastrophic error of judgment that he is yet to atone for.
Trump underestimated his enemies and was often outmanoeuvred by them. Whereas there was too much bombastic albeit entertaining and often strategic tweeting by the President, his appointments to the Supreme Court have delivered the end of Roe v Wade and New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, which reinforces the Second Amendment and reverses decades of unconstitutional gun control.
But be in no doubt Donald J. Trump desires revenge on those that stymied and subverted his administration and who covered up the stealing of his second term, and that alone is worth him being put back into the White House to dismantle the out-of-control FBI, tame the CIA and hobble the surveillance state. This is a big ask. America may be too far gone. And for the castes that run Washington, this is why Trump cannot be allowed to run or win.
On a much smaller scale in Britain, we can see things more clearly with our American-made, red-pilled goggles. The resignation of Boris Johnson from the Houses of Parliament ends a broadly tawdry ex-Prime Minister’s political career, at least for a period; this is Johnson's calculation. He can see the Tories will lose the next election, and he might even lose his seat in the wake of the investigation into whether he lied to Parliament over his government staff compliance with lockdown regulations.
While he misled Parliament, proving he did it intentionally is hard. Sue Grey, an unelected mandarin of mandarins and former Director-General of Propriety and Ethics in the Cabinet Office, who led the investigation into Partygate, will soon take up her position as… the Labour opposition leader Keir Starmer's Chief of Staff. Talk about conflicts of interest.
The unelected government - that has systematically stymied virtually every conservative promise in the Johnson Manifesto and engineered the resignation of the short-lived Liz Truss’ tenure in number ten - has made it clear to any conservative-minded British voter that even a timid, social-liberal, wishy-washy fop-like Johnson was not acceptable.
The bad Brexit deal was not much better than the May one, but at least it went through, and Johnson will always have that in his CV. But what followed was a disaster. Even though he could see that the Covid infection was comparable to a bad influenza year, and knowing that lockdowns were an egregious violation of the rights of his population and its economic life - particularly damaging to small businesses that once were the backbone of conservative support - he caved in repeatedly, to three lockdowns, social distancing, mask-wearing, that have been ruinous for public health, the flawed NHS and the education and wellbeing of our children.
Every conceivable idea that the unelected bureaucrats assumed they had no chance of implementing was not only rammed through but then championed to the world, credulous modelling from Imperial College, Covid telephone geographic monitoring apps, the violations of our medical records and privacy, mandating of sections of the low paid care workers to compulsory vaccination or sacking, the prevention of people's right to travel abroad without a vaccine passport, that turned out was not a conventional vaccine at all but experimental genetic modification mRNA that was known by Big Pharma to be unfit for use and has already killed and maimed tens of thousands.
The unleashing upon the public of nothing short of a Stasi psychological, behavioural unit, the cowling and manipulation of the population into compliance, whilst Oliver Dowden, the current Conservative Deputy Leader, led a secret team that targeted critics of the lockdowns and mRNA jabs for cancellation and smearing - journalist, politicians, scientists, and independent broadcasters. All on Johnson's chaotic watch. Whereas Donald Trump counterpunched the media, Johnson caved on any reform of the BBC, its licence fee or hopeless bias. He watched while it set up its own BBC fact-checking misinformation unit so that it is coterminous with the surveillance state—the BBC is now leading the charge towards zero carbon serfdom.
We that voted for a historic Brexit deal did so to restore the sovereignty of Parliament, eliminate the unelected foreign bureaucratic rule, restore managed moderate migration, and secure some economic regeneration and revival of the neglected parts of the country, our Ports and fisheries, northern towns and provinces. Johnson squandered or betrayed all this with a splurge of irrational spending, cow towing to Big Pharma, and hobnobbing with unmasked G7 leaders. Our agriculture and energy sectors are now subject to climate change fanatical plans.
Johnson has talent, a disarming charm and an apparently high IQ, but the accurate comparison is with comic character Billy Bunter: a lazy, glutinous prisoner of his appetites, inconsistent with his principles and indifferently squandering his popularist appeal and voter base. Like no conservative leader since Thatcher, Boris said one thing whilst allowing the government machine to do the other – immigration to massive levels to fill the University Industrial Complex’s budget deficits, Zero carbon lunacy unleashed and speeded up (actually, that was one of his actual policies). He never got control of the Government machine that ran circles around him and his ministers because he was too feckless and detached. When his instincts were right, he simply ignored them.
He denounced woke politics whilst his ministers failed to curtail its spread throughout government and every institution of society. Indeed, it accelerated on his watch. Johnson was ousted because the Tories thought he could not win an election, and the coordinated leaks over his lockdown conduct were distributed to the press, in the same way, that the odious Hancock was caught social distancing snogging on an office CCTV camera. By the end of Johnson's term in 10 Downing Street, the unelected government was in complete control and able to oust Truss and select Sunak, whom they are now undermining in readiness for one of their own on the Labour Party benches. The lesson they are ramming home is that they will determine which government ministers, including prime ministers, will be ousted and which policies will be implemented regardless of any Party manifestos.
This, in large part, was Johnson's doing; the promise of his Humbug parliamentary performance, the heady days of the Cummings Johnson assault on Whitehall incompetence, collapsed when his chief advisor fell for the Covid DARPA lockdown state and became disillusioned and then turned on his floundering prime minister. After Cummings lacerating testimony at the Health and Science select committee in May 2021, the writing for Johnson was on the wall. Whereas under President Trump, the legacy of pushback against the globalist project had some real successes, Prime Minister Johnson squandered Brexit because it was a vehicle for his career ambitions and achieving the highest office. He had no principles to guide him once he got to Number Ten Downing Street.
His last squalid misadventure was to torpedo the peace deal on the table in March 2020 that would have quickly ended the Russian-Ukraine war before it really got going, a deal that would have avoided partition at the price of demilitarisation with a third binding Minsk accord-like agreement, allowing Ukraine into the EU but permanently demilitarised. Hundreds of thousands have died or been maimed or rendered homeless by a neo-Con policy that no one in England voted for. The media championed a war to depose Putin when the sensible action would have been to seek peace. Britain is an embarrassment, its reputation in tatters internationally, and the EU project floundering and reduced to open vassal status to the Biden Whitehouse and State Department. Wherever we go as a country in the political future, we must do far better than Boris Bunter Mark Two.