Posted on 09/05/2025 11:38:09 AM PDT by Twotone
I regret the downfall of the soi-disant Ginger Growler. As corrupt and talentless as she was, the Deputy Prime Minister was, in a certain sense, real - in a way that Sir Keir never can be, except perhaps to favoured Ukrainian rent-boys. And her boast that she threw Boris Johnson off his stroke at Prime Minister's Questions by "flashing me ginger growler" was, by the standards of the age, a harmless jest that added to the gaiety of the nation.
However, politicians only matter if politics matters. And the consistent message from the courts, the cops, the press and the permanent democracy is that it no longer does. The Uniparty gins up Growlergate, as it did Cakegate, to keep you playing along: more circuses, but less and less bread. Meanwhile, in America the Leader of the Opposition has to put up a half-billion bucks for the right to appeal a political prosecution; his equivalents in France and Romania are removed from the ballot; in the Netherlands the winning party gets backroomed into irrelevance; in Germany parties of "left", "right" and "centre" sign an agreement pledging to talk only positively about mass migration, and the sole hold-outs finds the odds of their candidates in North Rhine-Westphalia making it to Election Day lessen with every twenty-four hours.
Whatever the above is it isn't politics. Indeed, at any other time, these would be pre-revolutionary conditions. Yet we are assured, at least with respect to the UK, that that is not how mature, settled, highly evolved democracies do things.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
Bkmo
Mark Steyn has been writing about the self destructive effects of mass third world migration for over two decades. He concludes this column with the following:
“Which suggests that, as Neil Oliver likes to say, what has happened has happened because they wanted it to happen, way back when. We’ll take that up in the coming week.”
He concluded his August 4, 2025 column with the following:
“This is happening because the people in charge want it to happen. Precisely why they want it to happen is a subtler question we shall address in the days ahead.”
This is now twice he has asserted this is all intentional and he is going to expose why. I am keeping an eye out for that.
Me as well. Thx for pointing it out.
Think what you want about Angela Rayner, but my Grandfather always said, if the roofs rusty, the basement will be wet.
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