Well, “a week is a long time in politics”, is the oft-repeated Harold Wilson quote. Right now, it’s difficult to set about writing anything on the current British political crisis following Theresa May’s spectacular Chequers Brexit betrayal which isn’t likely to be out of date by the time it’s published.
Sadly, this was not unexpected for us UKIPpers. The main surprise is that she still appears to retain the confidence of the bulk of the Parliamentary Conservative Party. It’s shameful to see the likes of Michael Gove, Daniel Hannan and the other (Monmouthshire) David Davies MP busily trying to polish the turd. It doesn’t appear the chairman of the 1922 Committee has yet received the requisite 48 letters to trigger a leadership election which could topple May.
Yet grassroots Tories – who were never allowed a vote on Mrs May’s coronation – are up in arms, as are swathes of Leave voters up and down the country who have watched 2 years of ministerial dithering and establishment sabotage culminate in this coup against democracy. Even many in the normally politically apathetic general populace are taking their eyes off the World Cup and asking, “What’s going on?” “Why has Boris Johnson resigned?” “Didn’t we vote to leave?”
Those Tory MPs may just be biding their time. As the opinion polls start coming in showing Conservative support falling away and they start to think about their slender majorities, they may decide it’s time to get that letter in. Maybe they’re waiting to see the EU’s reaction. Will they reject even these desperate proposals and where will that leave May? Maybe they’re waiting for BoJo to throw his hat into the ring after the summer recess?
Of course, many of them are Remainers and will welcome the softest of Brexits. Others put career before principles. There has been speculation that May was forced down this route by globalist big businesses threatening to cancel their donations to the party. If there were a leadership election, Theresa May may yet win. Even if there were a Brexiteer revolt in her own ranks, she may work with the Remainer majorities in other parties to push her deal through. May’s proposals don’t even please the Remainers though.
Sad to say the pattern we’ve seen throughout these torturous 2 years, including – especially – on the part of the Tory Brexiteer frogs as the proverbial water has been slowly heated to boiling point, is that of country and democracy taking second place to maintaining party unity.
We shouldn’t expect the Tories to deliver radical change. The Tory party is the establishment party par excellence. There is a common misconception that the Conservative Party is right wing. Conservative now means conserving the socialist status quo.
Will it be DUP who ride to rescue and force a no-confidence vote?
The threat which May doesn’t hesitate to dangle in front of her MP who might be considering rebelling is that of a Corbyn-led Labour government.
Labour have indeed already overtaken the Conservatives in the polls and, if voters are going punish May’s betrayal and divided party, who are they going to turn to? We, of course, think they should turn to UKIP for many good reasons. While we are up to 6% in the polls, it would appear to be fantasy to expect the disaffected electorate to flock to us en masse between now and a possible snap autumn election. Though both major parties are divided on Brexit and despite Labour being dominated by Remainers and not having a coherent policy on Brexit, we can expect Corbyn’s party to be the main beneficiary of a Tory government collapse.
It may come as a surprise but I was once one of Jeremy Corbyn’s constituency activists. Back in the dying days of the last millennium, in the wake of Britpop, Cool Britannia and the Labour landslide I had moved to north London and was excited to be where the action was. For a young leftie, that was as true for politics as it was for restaurants and nightlife. After all, Islington was where Tony Blair had famously made his home and supposedly made a deal with Gordon Brown over dinner at the (now long gone) Granita restaurant on Upper Street.
Whereas in most places local parties of all colours struggle to find volunteers to stand in council elections, for any budding New Labour wannabe career politician Islington was the place to get your foot on the ladder. Mary Creagh was a councillor (trying harder to ingratiate herself with Jeremy Corbyn at the time), as was Jenny Rathbone (who was later parachuted into Cardiff). I also recall meeting Remain clown-in-chief Andy Parsons (“What do you do then?” “I’m a comedian.” “Oh really.”)
I think it was just the once I met Jeremy Corbyn, when he dropped in at a barbecue hosted by a local party activist. He seemed like a nice genuine guy – in an earnest leftie kind of way – much more like your average grassroots leftie than any slithery Blairite careerist. Being a leftie at the time, I didn’t find that objectionable. I would often see the dishevelled figure of my local MP passing my window on his pushbike and thought it rather quaint and down-to-earth.
It was a short time after this that Blair went to war in Iraq and I left the Labour Party in disgust. That was one of a series of Red Pill events which led me to where I am today. The way I see it is that I have grown up and moved on, while the aforementioned are still stuck in the same political place.
I was gunning for Corbyn during the leadership elections, not because I still see eye-to-eye with him, nor because I hoped he would damage the Labour Party, but because I saw him as more honest than his plasticky weasel-worded Blairite opponents, who I deeply despise.
Corbyn and his fellow-travellers can’t help being open about the deluded adolescent hard-left policies they want to pursue. They’re not as scheming and duplicitous as the Blairites. They’re not that clever.
Ed – Part II of this article by Comrade K will be published on Wednesday.
Not a cat in hells chance of UKIP ever winning a seat in Parliament under FPTP. We only got a single, solitary MP in 2015 and that was with just short of FOUR MILLION votes. Even then the guy was not actually UKIP but rather an ‘independent Tory’ who has since mysteriously left politics altogether! Both Labour and Tories will do ANYTHING (and I mean ‘anything’) to prevent the ‘Far Right’ UKIP ever getting remotely near endangering their cosy little Westminster cartel.
In the eyes of Joe Public we remain a ‘one man, one issue’ protest group. That ‘one man’ has all but disappeared and needlessly ‘snipes’ at UKIP at every opportunity whilst still having the nerve to sit in Brussels as a ‘UKIP’ MEP! Granted the other ‘issue’ is still alive and kicking but that, too, will shortly disappear over the horizon either in the form of May’s ‘deal’ now the impotent zulus in the 1922 committee have shown their cowardice and melted away like snowflakes in spring OR a second referendum will be called by an incoming Momentum government and that will finish our Brexit dreams I’m afraid. The ‘People’ will have spoken and all and sundry will appear on TV saying……..’democracy must be obeyed’. Oh how the odious Major, Heseltine, Ashdown, Blair and Clarke will be lauding it over the ‘peasants’ who ‘made a mistake first time round’!
Attempts by GB to set a more ‘radical’ tone by openly addressing the extremist Islam problem have been viewed with despair (and that was even before his public support for TR) by many in the Party who have threatened to ‘resign’, ‘never vote UKIP again’ unless GB backs off. GB is nothing if not ‘stubborn’ and I think he will continue to ‘court’ TR until such time as whatever remains of UKIP decide to sling him out. When that happens, could someone please let me know what the purpose of UKIP will be?
The Labour Party is only interested in ONE thing: power. And getting into power.
My personal feeling is that even Jeremy Corbyn is being used. I may not agree with his policies, but I do respect that he has some principles, and has mostly stuck to them, except for the cause of Brexit, which I suspect he is secretly in favour of.
Mr Corbyn has found himself incredibly popular with a lot of younger voters. But even I can’t help but feel that if he were to lead Labour into government, and to become Prime Minister, the New Labour Blairites would be circling and waiting in the wings for any opportunity to oust him and replace him with ‘one of their own’.
The “Red Tories” would be back, and then we’d all be able to see for ourselves just exactly what difference there was between the Labour and Conservative parties, ie none.
As much as I’d want it, I don’t see UKIP winning any General Election with an outright majority any time soon, sorry to say this. But if we can at least get a ‘foot in the door’ with a number of MPs in Opposition to comrade Corbyns lot, there could be opportunities further down the line.
The Tories are about to collapse, and once Labour supporters find out their dreams of a Socialist Utopia aren’t going to happen, they will inevitably collapse also.
So if the Tories and Labour are going to collapse and UKIP won’t win a majority, who exactly is supposed to run the country?
It’s not that I doubt what you’re saying but in such a scenario the country would be left in chaos. Maybe it’s something we need to go through to be rid of the LibLabCon and what a joy that would be.
On the other hand, look what happened to various Middle Eastern countries when they were left with a power vacuum and no clear leadership, we have to be careful.
Mind you Sharisa May isn’t exactly what I’d call a leader either.
What I meant to say is that the Tories are already collapsing, and that Labour would collapse if they got into power and then started fighting amongst themselves for control of the party. Perhaps after five years of Labour, maybe the general public could be convinced to turn to UKIP?
The other aspect to all this leads to the question “is this all deliberate?” If the globalists want to impose their ‘new world order’, they need to undermine national governments, and when the public loses faith in their governments, at the point when the public are demanding “something must be done”, only then can the globalists present their ‘solution’.
When will the penny finally drop with ordinary, decent, Conservative Party members and voters that they are simply useful idiots for the corporations who pull all the strings in the Conservative Party. The Conservative party is a business owned and run for the benefit of corporations who have no loyalty to the nation state and thus do not respect the will of the people to leave the EU? The majority of the sponsor corporations will do anything at any cost to keep us shackled to the EU.
Wake up and smell the coffee!
They’re waking up Jake. That’s why our membership is soaring.
A poll in yesterday’s Guardian has UKIP on 11%.
@Stout;
That’s liberals for you. They’ll use a higher polling figure to harness intolerance, bigotry, prejudice and Kipperphobia and then drop it down to 5% to pretend we’re down again.
Labour’s core beliefs seem interchangeable with Conservative and LibDems policies. That’s inevitable when political leaders attend the same schools, same universities and even graduate from the same PPE course.
Labour were an undemocratic disgrace regarding immigration in to the UK but history has proven that the Tories, under Theresa May as Home Secretary and then PM, have let in more ponces and religious backwardsmen than Labour.
What does worry me is that Labour has harnessed the energy of every virtue signalling shameless infantile mollycoddled muppet to push for open borders while living in their own monoculture of wealth, privilege and/or public subsidy.
Sir Keir Starmer, Lady Nugee and the rest of the Establishment liberal cultists that have hijacked Labour are a threat to us all.
These experts of the law will gleefukly imprison thousands of Tommy Robinsons given half a chance under the auspices of hate crime or new anti-free speech laws they will get in the statute book.
Blimey, choosing between the Tories and Labour as they are now is like trying to choose between Gonorrhea and Syphilis, a doctor may be able to make the choice but most of us just wouldn’t want either, although either may be preferable to a Conservative or Labour government.
I’m keeping my fingers crossed for UKIP, I pray the party makes some political headway at least.
Suddenly UKIP looks like a very serious runner again – largely due to May making it very clear that democracy means nothing. Thanks Sharia!