THE LONELINESS OF THE LABOUR BREXITEER

I once thought it was a mistake to have retired from politics. Labour's got itself into a major mess since I left and I could  have become a member of the shadow cabinet for at least a week. Now I'm not so sure  I'm learning that leprosy is better than being a Labour Brexiteer.  I dropped into my old haunt a few weeks back to be welcomed effusively by Tory Brexiteers but my former comrades in the struggle for socialism (or whatever it was, memory fails me) treated me  like a bad smell, an incipiant fascist, even a friend of Farage -who I've met and liked, though its better not to say so . 

Life's no fun any more. The referendum is over but all the organs I once turned to, the Guardian, the Observer, and the New Statresman are still fighting it and proclaiming Remain as the real winner.. The Gurus at whose feet I once worshipped;Will Hutton, William Keegan, Polly Toynbee are all so hysterically anti Brexit they want Labour to  use a Parliamentary strength it hasn't got to reject it . When it isn't developing suicide as a political strategy the party of the people is busy telling them they're wrong , stupid and gullible.They should  drop their dislike of immigration and follow Lady Curzon's advice to anxious wives  "lie back and think of England"It prompts the question "what shall they know of England who only Europe know?"

It's a bit bemusing to see the party of democracy rejecting its verdict and telling the people they're so stupid that they were conned by specious lies ( far less accurate than Remain's fears) and should gratefully accept the European policy of voting again to correct electoral mistakes.In only a quarter of a century we've stood on our heads on the EU but it's still difficult to ignore the fact that a third of our party's people voted for Brexit and seventy percent of Labour MPs took a different view to their constituents.

 All this could indicate that our  oppositionist  mentality drives us to take on the people as well as the Tories. Or it may indicate that a party which can and should do better than the EU for the workers, the unions and for racial harmony has come to believe that it will never hold power again to do it so we should  be grateful for any crumbs from the  table of an institution which has been so generous to Greece and other failures. 

 THIS could be  animal farm in reverse  with us turning into the Liberals and learning to love the institution which drains us of money, jobs and demand so that Labour's new destiny is to proclaim our Euro enthusiasm, join the Euro and  leap off the EU's naughty step  to lead the whole shambling mess in a British direction which its so obstinately refused to take for fourty years. 

Why all the fuss? The judges verdict that  Parliament should agree to giving notice under article fifty was treated as if it was the end of Brexit . In fact its only a statement of the bleeding obvious. Parliament should and parliament will consent. It  can't deny the verdict of the people and Labour dare not  face the early election which rejection would mean. Nor is it a statement that Parliament should dictate the terms of negotiations if only because it can't.To shackle our side  is to undermine our negotiators and create a Euro fifth column suporting a  Commission which doesn't have a similar disloyal pack hounding its heels and proclaiming that the other side is right in a recreation of Munch's Primal Scream

We could hardly do that and get the best deal for Britain as the people have commissioned us to do. It's only  when the negotiating game of two sided bluff  produces a compromise that Parliament can decide and the proposals  be put to the people to tell us  whether it fulfils their desire to take back control.

 That will be 2019. Just before an election scheduled for 2020. By that  time the world will have changed in ways no one can now foretell  I can't predict the outcome Nor can the Rampant remainers who claim to be  clairvoyant so they can tell us right now that we'll get nowt. I may not have their powers but  I do know that it's better to wait and decide then, rather than indulging  now in an over emotional war of hypothetical nightmares which will go on for the next two and a half years. Shut up the lot of you.

Remaindered again!

Rampant Remainers just won't give up. Having lost the battle they're now refighting it, demanding a rerun and wanting Parliament to veto negotiations.

Their predictions of doom gloom and disaster turned out to be wrong. So they're now relaunching them, claiming that things have got worse though no one's noticed and disaster will still befall the economy, the universities, the banks  and the shops if (rather than when) we give notice to move out.

This undermines confidence and encourages the EU to demand the toughest possible terms aimed at ruining us if we leave.With a little help from their Nritish fifth column.

Why are they so intent on knocking Britain? Because they want to stop Brexit and use the house of Commons to negate the verdict of the people. So why not think for a moment of the consequences if  we have to stay in an organisation the people want to leave.

The least is that it will make us look silly. A nation whose leaders can't lead and which cant make up its mind.We'll get no respect if we slink back to Brussels' tail between our legs to be even more disregarded and ignored than we were before.We were on the periphery then. Now it would be the very naughty step

We'll lose confidence in ourselves and the world will ,lose confidence in us as a failing nation that can't even stand on its own feet and doesn't dare to try. We'll protest at the coming increase in our contribution but be unable to stop it. The drain of money, jobs and demand from Britain will grow as will our balance of payments deficitNo help will be forthcoming from the EU,not even more of our own money back.It's policy for failing states is to treat them like Greece and screw them into the ground to give them the fitness  and health rigor Mortis brings.

If the Remainers are correct in saying that the fall in the pound is due to a collapse of confidence (which they aren't) then the pound should go back  up. British manufacturers would lose their new competitiveness

The left behind people who supported Brexit will feel even more left behind and alienation from politics and the parties will grow. If the politicians don't accept the verdict of the people it compounds existing anger What's the use of voting if the bastards don't listen?

Because we can't pay our way in the world and will neither be allowed to help manufacturing to revive nor to boost exports we'll have to sell off more and more of our companies,property and land to foreigners and do everything we can to attract funny money to London to keep us afloat.

We won't be allowed to cut down on EU migration,so government will be forced to reduce Commonwealth immigration to keep down the numbers .We'll become more of a police state requiring firms and landlords to report aliens and track asylum seekers though we won't be able to deport them because it might disturb their family life and no other country will have them.

Because our influence will be reduced 

and because we've been humbled it will be more difficult to resist lunatic schemes like the European army,the admission of Turkey,money wasted on projects like Galileo or fraud in the ever increasing EU budget and its aid programmes. Who's going to listen to us now?

There won't be anyenthusiastic welcome home party to welcome us back,heads held high,to Brussels.But it's not too difficult to imagine the smirk on Junker's face as he gives Theresa May a welcoming nip on the bum."Rejoice",he'll say,knowing the British contribution to his salary is safe.Oh happy day. 

The thoughts of Tony Blair on Brexit Britain

I will lead a new resistance movement arousing the British people as only I can to throw off the undemocratic tyranny of the abominable Brexiteers. I promise to lead the nation back to where it rightly belongs, at the heart of Europe, somewhere near Prague.

The former leader of the Labour Party made his declaration at the annual conference of the Goldman Sachs and Related Trades Union in Jersey.

Are we to abandon our long and close relationship with Uzbekistan and Hungary and allow the British people to be misled by by these deceitful demagogues of disaster who have conned the people by their lies and deceit into voting against their own interests and turning the ship of state  into a frightening war torn world which even I haven't been able to lead onto the ways of peace. Are we to risk the support, cooperation and prosperity which the European Union brings and miss out on the benefits of the Gallileo satellite guidance system and the European army?

I know well that the British people are too badly  informed and stupid to know their own interests. They must be allowed to vote again and deliver the verdict all right thinking people want . That can only be to go back to the support and economic strength which the Eurozone has brought to Germany and the benefits it brings  to Greece.

I have mobilised the full resources of Mandelson Associates, the Euro MPs Benevolent Society and the Junker Foundation to compile a powerful and objective Dossier written up by the respected historian Alastair Campbell This accurately describes the disasters which must befall Britain if Brexit is allowed to go ahead. 

The City of London will be destroyed within 45 minutes. Billions of pounds, many of them mine, will leave the country. European medicine and science will be closed to us so bubonic plague will spread and excluded from the Schengen area our people will have nowhere to take refuge from the vengeful Roma who'll batter down our fragile border defences. 

I now call on the British people to join me and my all party coalition with Paddy Ashdown and John Major in our rage at the dying of the Euro light and restore the  full democracy of rule by those born to know the way the Nation's interest, and our own.Kill Brexit. Give the EU control and let us march together to wherever America wants us to be.

Beware Miliband Osborne and Clegg: the 3 disastrous failures of recent political history

WHO'S FOR WHAT?

One thing I've learned from long years in politics is to judge causes by who supports them as well as what they want. Which is why I'm very suspicious of the proposal for a parliamentary vote on the start of the Clause 50 negotiations and the beginning of the Brexit process. It sounds fair Until you realise that it originated with. Ed Milliband, George Osborne and  Wotsisname Clegg, the three most disastrous failures in our recent political history.

The first of our three stooges ruined the Labour Party, the second ruined Cameron's government and the third did for the Lib Dems.They all screwed up because they thought they knew better than every one else. Now they want to combine that expertise because they know better than everyone else what to do about the EU. Unlike most Brits they love it. So they've set out to stop Brexit by having Parliament vote against the people's wish to leave. 

They know better than the people. MPs don't represent their constituents because a majority are for Remain but the people voted to come out. So what could be better than have the Commons refuse  to start the negotiations. Its the same as parents take toffee apples from children . The people can't be allowed to have what they want because our Troika of twerps know better.

It won't work If the Commons do reject Brexit Theresa May will call an election which will clobber  Labour, bring the Tories back with an even bigger majority and reduce the LIb Dems from a rump to Clegg as a one man party.

Yet it will achieve something  the recalcitrant  Remainers want. It will screw up the negotiations, strengthen the EU's negotiating position and weaken ours. The aim is made clear by Paul Mason  another of the liberal bien pensant elite: "By declaring formally in a written pact -that they will refuse to ratify a Brexit deal  based on World Trade Organisation tariffs the progressive parties can destroy May's negotiating position in Brussels overnight"

Q.E.D. Screw the people. The can have the Single Market and mass immigration and like it.

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Who's knocking Britain?

Andrew Remainer Rawnsley, the Observer's resident sage announces that if the world begins to think Britain's economic prospects have darkened and that the country has become a less attractive destination for foreign investment then they won't want to hold pounds.  The pound will fall in value.

Probably true. But who's telling them this? It's the Recalcitrant Remainers who're so busy prophesying disaster from a national decision they don't like that they're becoming a chorus of whingers and whiners devoted to destroying Britain's credibility overseas, and preparing the way for the disaster they themselves  prophesy,

Harold Wilson blamed the Gnomes of Zurich for his sterling crises. It's the Gnomes of London who want to produce this one because they've got no faith in Britain"s ability to exist and prosper outside the EU. The people have rejected their pathetic lack of confidence they've now taking their revenge and prophesying disaster if we leave the comforting, supportive backing of a benign EU which has done so much to drain us of jobs, demands and money.

Who's backing Britain?

How to put pounds in your pocket

Remoaners are determined to show that the fall in the pound since Brexit is a disaster in itself and a foretaste of worse to come.Total rubbish. The devaluation is the bonus of Brexit. It is essential if Britain is to compete and it couldn't ha e been achieved in any other way. Look at the history of previous devaluations: Labour's in 1949 and 1967 the Tories in 1972 and 1992. All of them boosted the economy. All of them strengthened exports. None of them led to galloping inflation.  The sad fact is that there is no other way to begin to cure our galloping balance of payments deficit which now runs at 7% of GDP and is unsustainable. Devaluation uses the price mechanism to make imports dearer and to reduce the price of our exports which have been out pocketpricing themselves out of world markets. It makes foreign holidays and villa purchases dearer. It brings more tourists to Britain. It cuts the costs of production in Britain and makes it less necessary to transfer it overseas as all too many firms have been doing because British costs are too high. There is no other way of boosting production in this country and rebalancing our economy from finance, which always wants a high and stable exchange rate, to Industry which needs a more competitive exchange rate. It also makes it easier to counter any attempts by the E U to erecting barriers against us. If we leave the single market the common external tariff we would face is around 3% for most exports, 7-9% for cars, with the fall in the pound we've already had we can easily overlap both and by keeping the pound competitive instead of letting it go back up as previous governments have we can win a bigger share 0f their markets and improve our position elsewhere. Critics should stop moaning and accept Lady Curzon's advice to wives afraid of sex "lie back and think of England"

Attention All! It's your last chance not to vote in the Labour Leadership Election

LABOUR : LEADERSHIP ELECTION OR LONG RUNNING FARCE?

As Labour's lack-of-leadership election draws to a close I wonder if this hasn't been the most farcical election ever. Even Eatanswill in the Pickwick Papers staged a better election .Labour's election is premature,achieves nothing,features two unsuitable candidates and leaves the cream of Labour''s leadership crop to stand and watch 'At least in Eatonswill the electors were plied with beer. Now they're just vetted.

Jeremy Corbyn is a campaigner of many causes not a leader.Yet it will take time to demonstrate his inadequacies to those who elected him and realise them himself.That can only come  from next  year's polls,the council election results and election of new shadow members by the Parliamentary Labour Party to tie his hands.Yet instead of waiting the issue has been forced too soon by sulky Blairites who feel they should be running the party and rampant Remainers  who blame Corbyn for not whipping reluctant Labour supporters into an enthusiasm for they EU they don't feel.This produces a leadership  election whose nomination system allows room for only one alternative . Owen Smith has rocketed from obscurity to grab it pitting the old agitator against the slick salesman fighting to win political enthusiasts not real people.

Result ? A campaign which doesn't interest  the wider public being aimed at Labour's political groupies which makes it a slugging match about who's leftier than the other in a party which needs to move to the centre ground to win. Each candidate adds fifty seven new varieties to the longest suicide note in history Neither indicates what Labour should do after Brexit beyond trying to wish it away.Each highlights the deficiencies  of the other.Neither demonstrates any great leadership potential of his own

Suicide as a political strategy is a necrophiliac's game whichmakes it difficult for Labour to do its job as an effective opposition..Yet neither candidate offers any way  to end the civil war or change a structure designed for disaster  Party enthusiasts hate the MPs as betrayers.MPs hate the leader as hopeless .He hates the General Secretary and the party machine.Compounding antagonisms like this ismore likely to lead to a split than  election victory.Yet Smith's answer is for more moderates to join even though few are prepared to waste their lives in endless committees and boring fights while Corbyn wants more socialists, ignoring the  danger of permeation they bring and putting Labour out of kilter with the people

Both campaigns are based on an outdated view of  politics  .No hope now of arousing any  starvelings from their slumbers .They're viewed as scroungers choosing a life  of dependency .No sign of revolutionary blood to shed in a conservative country.No  1945 type surge and no mass working class to be roused  when there are fewer manual workers .Instead there's much less class solidarity and a steady fall in both strong support  and votes for the main parties.Yet each candidate wants to bring the mass party back from the dead

They're clobbering a bored nation with a smorgasbord of policies : CND,environmentalism femininism, ethnic appeals,gay rights Euro enthusiasm and  an open door to immigration, ignoring the fact that you don't multiply  support by multiplying policies you divide it.

The basic rules of politics  tell us to give party members influence but not power .They pull to the extremes away from the centre ground on which elections are won. Most people aren't particularly interested in politics and would rather get on with their lives, their families their entertainment and their sport.They find politics  irrelevant ,though most will do their duty at national elections .They can even be roused by the manifest failure of a government but then they need a few broad policies from a party which  offers a better alternative not a quarrelling rabble.

The job of the opposition believe it not is to oppose and highlight governmental failures, to develop broad and attractive alternatives and to stand ready for the government to fail.It's not to fight an internal civil war.Any other approach,disunity a plethora of policies,purification damns the opposition and allows the government to get away with far more than if it faced a strong opposition..

Power comes in three stages.First appeal to the centre ground on which most electors live. Second handle power successfully to become a credible government. Then implement the stronger policies you think necessary. Margaret Thatcher managed to jump all three hurdles.Tony Blair fell at the second.But today's Labour party shows no sign of reaching the first. I'll have to write "neither of the above"on my ballot paper,if there isn't a space for a write in candidate. .

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