Nothing less than a coup is taking place in Britain
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After 13 years in charge is this really all they've got left?
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Nothing less than a coup is taking place in Britain... The ultra-woke civil service and renegade Tories still loyal to the EU are working to destroy an elected government
Client journalists insisting it's all the fault of the people who haven't been in charge.
A party and its supporters that used to promote personal responsibility now seem determined to do anything other than look in the mirror when it comes to working out why things are going wrong for them.
You see it in the Mail and the Telegraph almost daily "woke" this and "blob" that.
It's bonkers.
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Nothing less than a coup is taking place in Britain... The ultra-woke civil service and renegade Tories still loyal to the EU are working to destroy an elected government
Client journalists insisting it's all the fault of the people who haven't been in charge.
A party and its supporters that used to promote personal responsibility now seem determined to do anything other than look in the mirror when it comes to working out why things are going wrong for them.
You see it in the Mail and the Telegraph almost daily "woke" this and "blob" that.
It's bonkers.
Littlejohn has a point though. Hardly a day goes by now without MSM and opposition politicians clamouring for the sacking of a Tory MP or Minister due to a perceived misdemeanour. Raab had complaints made about him by people who had never even interacted with him, and what happened to Truss was just bizarre.
Rufus Stone said:
Littlejohn has a point though. Hardly a day goes by now without MSM and opposition politicians clamouring for the sacking of a Tory MP or Minister due to a perceived misdemeanour. Raab had complaints made about him by people who had never even interacted with him, and what happened to Truss was just bizarre.
You cannot be serious. You'll have to show your workings out for that one.Rufus Stone said:
Littlejohn has a point though. Hardly a day goes by now without MSM and opposition politicians clamouring for the sacking of a Tory MP or Minister due to a perceived misdemeanour. Raab had complaints made about him by people who had never even interacted with him, and what happened to Truss was just bizarre.
Ms Truss is a staggering nincompoop who should never have gotten anywhere near power. She's emblematic of a crowd who are post competence, and post pretty much everything else.
The impressive Ms Braverman has already resigned once for legitimate reasons. It's not as if she'll have learned her lesson.
The piggies can squeal all they want, for now at least actions still occasionally have consequences. I'm sure they're doing their very best to break that link.
Riff Raff said:
You cannot be serious. You'll have to show your workings out for that one.
She went through all the MP's voting. She went through all the hustings. She went through all the members voting. And she won, but nobody got behind her and she was forced to resign shortly after. I call that bizarre.Rufus Stone said:
She went through all the MP's voting. She went through all the hustings. She went through all the members voting. And she won, but nobody got behind her and she was forced to resign shortly after. I call that bizarre.
The whole thing was indeed bizarre but I'd call it government working sort of correctly. She fulfilled the formalities but when she actually got behind the wheel there wasn't enough genuine backing. Nothing much gets done without that.
For there to be a coup attempting to overthrow a "democratically elected government", doesn't there actually have to be a democratically elected government in the first place?
At the 2019 General Election, every 1% of votes cast for the three main national parties won them the following number of seats:
This is Ethel Caterham, btw...
Why have I posted a picture of Ethel Caterham, you may ask?
Ethel is the very last person left alive on the entire planet who was eligible to vote in the 1931 General Election, the last time any party actually gained more than 50% of the vote!
The irony to top all ironies is that even though the Conservatives recorded 55% of the vote, Stanley Baldwin didn't get to form a Conservative government, as they'd already entered into an "anyone but Labour" pact of National Government 2 months before the GE with just about everyone else!
At the 2019 General Election, every 1% of votes cast for the three main national parties won them the following number of seats:
- Conservative - 8.37
- Labour - 6.29
- Lib Dem - 0.95
This is Ethel Caterham, btw...
Why have I posted a picture of Ethel Caterham, you may ask?
Ethel is the very last person left alive on the entire planet who was eligible to vote in the 1931 General Election, the last time any party actually gained more than 50% of the vote!
The irony to top all ironies is that even though the Conservatives recorded 55% of the vote, Stanley Baldwin didn't get to form a Conservative government, as they'd already entered into an "anyone but Labour" pact of National Government 2 months before the GE with just about everyone else!
Rufus Stone said:
Littlejohn has a point though. Hardly a day goes by now without MSM and opposition politicians clamouring for the sacking of a Tory MP or Minister due to a perceived misdemeanour. Raab had complaints made about him by people who had never even interacted with him, and what happened to Truss was just bizarre.
By MSM, do you mean accredited and well respected news outlets staffed by properly trained journalists, as opposed to some halfwit on Facebook? I think we reached peak mentalism when Liz Truss claimed her budget was sabotaged by the left wing financial elite. Yes, all those revolutionary communist hedge fund managers and City traders.
17+ million people voted for a reckless financial experiment with Brexit, and now it's failed, it's clearly the fault of the 16+ million people that voted against embarking on a reckless financial experiment.
It's all just made up b
ks. The irony is, it's the right in the UK that traditionally moan about people today looking for others to blame for their woes and not accepting responsibility. Yes 13 years of catastrophic failure is everyone else's fault but their own. Rufus Stone said:
She went through all the MP's voting. She went through all the hustings. She went through all the members voting. And she won, but nobody got behind her and she was forced to resign shortly after. I call that bizarre.
Or alternatively, one might say she was perceived as the least loathed/least threatening to their own ambitions/most controllable candidate by her peers in the Commons and the least Brown candidate by the party membership, so everything was looking rosy until she and Kwateng came out with what most economists formally termed a "bat-st mental" budget, and they all realised very quickly that they'd made a horrendous error of judgement!I certainly can't see that there were many leftie, woke civil servants involved in her overthrow?
Countdown said:
The frother wing of the Conservative Party is fast resembling the MAGA GOP.
Littlejohn does what he is paid to do.The Conservative Manifesto of 2019 is what the democratic vote gave its overwhelming support for at least, in England.
If I google the manifesto and start reading it, ticking off items as I go, will the result be:
a) Littlejohn is right and hardly any of it was implemented
b) Littlejohn is wrong and the democratic process remains strong i.e. Whitehall and No 10. have implemented the manifesto.
If you don't have the time you can skip to the answer:
The Answer is 'A'
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