VONC: Who honestly cares?

Pete North • 6 June 2022

The days of even marginally competent government are long over

So we’re back to that tedious question of who should lead the Conservative Party. The real question, though, is what does it matter? If you’re in the lower income brackets then next winter you’re looking at crippling home heating bills and you’re probably wondering if you can afford heating at all. A government grant to insulate your home isn’t going to change that. And with petrol prices creeping towards two quid a litre, the daily commute is looking like a non-option. With household incomes being completely absorbed by energy and fuel costs, there is no disposable income and families will have to cut back on what they spend, be it subscriptions, gym memberships, recreational activities, cars, holidays, day trips and takeaway food. This is seriously bad news for the wider economy.


The question then is who will bring remedy to any of this? It’s certainly not going to be Boris “Net Zero” Johnson then it’s not going to be anyone in the Conservative Party. And if it’s not going to be the Conservative Party then it definitely isn’t going to be Labour of the Liberal Democrats. The policies that contribute to massive inflation and energy poverty are all baked into the Westminster consensus. Democracy doesn’t get a look in. The green blob is calling the shots. They’re going to make you colder and poorer for your own good. They’re coming for your car, and they’re going to bleed you dry with more taxes. This has already been decided. You don’t get a choice in the matter.


They’ve fixed it so your vote won’t make a difference. The people who pledged to “build back better” are going to strip you of your wealth and take everything you have.

Pretty soon they’re going to fix it so you can’t even speak out about it. They’re not going to outright ban freedom of speech but they’ll fix it so that activists can cleanse the internet of speech they disagree with – from climate change to immigration.


It is also unlikely that the cost of living crisis will end this decade. The Conservative Party s dedicated to prolonging the West’s proxy war with Russia to the last Ukrainian. That war will in turn cause new conflicts in Africa as it becomes a full blown food crisis, which will see yet another wave of immigration, and the legacy parties won’t lift a finger to prevent it. There will be no serious effort to tackle illegal immigration. Meanwhile, wokery will continue to rampage through our institutions, and the civil service will fall further down the gender voodoo rabbit hole.


This is pretty much all I write about these days because the standard daily fare of politics is all noise unless there’s a government willing to take back control of the agenda from the respective blobs opening at the highest levels of government. We have Hope Not Hate consulting on the new Online Safety Bill, Friends of the Earth consulting on energy policy and predatory Stonewall activists injecting their poison into the education system. Cranks and weirdos are setting the agenda and our lazy, braindead MPs just go along with it because they always take the path of least resistance.


As far as mainstream politics goes I don’t really have a dog in the fight. I couldn’t care less who replaces Boris Johnson. It’s not even though what was won in the 2016 referendum is at stake. We have left the EU but but the prevailing mindset hasn’t changed nor has the power dynamic. Unless there is a sea change in politics, I’d go as far as saying Brexit is neither here nor there. And there won’t be a sea change because the system is rigged against it. All we can look forward to is a growing culture gulf between the rulers and the ruled.


At this point it’s going to take something quite radical to get Britain back on track our political class simply hasn’t grasped that we are drifting towards a wider economic emergency. They’re running 2012 policy agendas without acknowledging a decade of seismic geopolitical events. They’re in a world of their own. They’re having a vote of confidence in the PM but we need a vote of confidence in the entire Westminster system.


I no longer have any faith in the British political process. The so-called revolt on the right is atomised to the point of uselessness. Reform and Reclaim are useless and I’m under no illusions about what Ukip can achive. Meanwhile there is a sense of resignation and apathy in the voting public who seem to have tuned out. And I don’t blame them. If you can’t influence politics, you simply do what you can to survive it as best you can.


In all probability Fat Blair’s administration will limp on and will probably scrape the next election by the skin of its teeth, largely because Labour has done nothing to deserve power. It will stumble from crisis to crisis, unwilling and unable to assert conservative ideas, pinching a penny here, splurging there, promising everything while delivering nothing, and never taking responsibility for its own failings. Eventually the Oaf will be forced from office, only to be replaced by an equally talentless nonentity. The days of even marginally competent government are long over.


Much has been said of Boris Johnson’s unsuitability but he is the exemplar of modern politics in Britain. He’s the perfect figurehead for what the Wesminster establishment has become. The Conservative Party keeps him because they readily admit, they really don’t have anything better, and we keep the Conservative Party because the public knows that it can’t dredge up anything better. This is it folks. This is the best we can do. It’s the most we can hope for. For as long as Brits wait around for a new messiah they’ll continue to get deadbeat politicians. Our leaders will continue to disappoint and the centre will concede further to the degeneracy of the left until nothing works at all. If the lesson hasn’t been learned from the Johnson experience, we are condemned to repeat it.

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