Carl Benjamin, aka Sargon of Akkad (a YouTuber of some note), has set out five principles for uniting the right. It’s pretty bog standard National Conservative shtick. There’s not much to disagree with, but for his central premise. There is no uniting the right. Narcissism of small differences prevents it. Don’t waste your time trying.
Probably the reason is that any intellectual foundation of conservatism has been abandoned. There is nothing to unite around. Mr Benjamin mentions C.S. Lewis but he is not coming from where C.S. Lewis came from, AFAIK A history play was put on at Westminster Abbey recently, with Charles Windsor playing the lead role as king. The Archbishop was played by the real one, but he read his part - how much of it he believed is not clear. The assumption is that Britain should survive - why? As for First Past the Post, there is no verdict at all in the sense of "truth telling" - one can only say that election results could be worse.
“… the electorate has a pretty good track record. They kicked out John Major …”
“This time around they’ll (the electorate will) punish the Tories but they won’t embrace Starmer with any enthusiasm.”
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, insofar as the big political issues are concerned it doesn’t make any significant difference which party is in power, the Globalist Elites (GEs) will rule the roost. Politics is going global; for the time being democracy has all but had its day.
Whilst ever the nation state exists, even if in name only, the GEs only tolerate a particular head of government while they consider him/her to be conning the people enough to remain popular enough with the people whilst responding favourably enough to the GEs’ string-pulling.
Trump, although seemingly popular enough with the people, would not be conning the people in the way the GEs would wish and so are fighting tooth and nail in an attempt to alienate him from the electorate.
The GEs must have been rubbing their hands with glee when and whilst Blair became Prime Minister.
One wonders how well the GEs will embrace Starmer should he become PM.
It appears to me that it is becoming increasingly difficult for a PM to both please the GEs and to con the people enough to remain popular enough with the people. Whichever party wins the GE are we in for a continued succession of PMs?
Or will the people have woken up enough to realise what exactly is going on? Then what?
I have contemplated that there will never be any reliable opposition, and we will end up living under an Islamo-communist regime, which you can only oppose by joining an underground resistance movement. This is probably partly because I find the idea of being an underground resistance fighter romantic 😄. I was watching a video the other day where somebody pointed out that authoritarian regimes are remarkably effective, having been the norm for most of human history. It is democracy that is the exception. COVID showed us that most people won't resist, even when placed under house arrest by the state, and the long march through the institutions is now too far advanced to be reversed which is why voting increasingly doesn't have any effect.
"we will end up living under an Islamo-communist regime" I do hope that you are wrong, however much we seem to be heading that way. We have time to stop that happening. The question is how?
Probably the reason is that any intellectual foundation of conservatism has been abandoned. There is nothing to unite around. Mr Benjamin mentions C.S. Lewis but he is not coming from where C.S. Lewis came from, AFAIK A history play was put on at Westminster Abbey recently, with Charles Windsor playing the lead role as king. The Archbishop was played by the real one, but he read his part - how much of it he believed is not clear. The assumption is that Britain should survive - why? As for First Past the Post, there is no verdict at all in the sense of "truth telling" - one can only say that election results could be worse.
“… the electorate has a pretty good track record. They kicked out John Major …”
“This time around they’ll (the electorate will) punish the Tories but they won’t embrace Starmer with any enthusiasm.”
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, insofar as the big political issues are concerned it doesn’t make any significant difference which party is in power, the Globalist Elites (GEs) will rule the roost. Politics is going global; for the time being democracy has all but had its day.
Whilst ever the nation state exists, even if in name only, the GEs only tolerate a particular head of government while they consider him/her to be conning the people enough to remain popular enough with the people whilst responding favourably enough to the GEs’ string-pulling.
Trump, although seemingly popular enough with the people, would not be conning the people in the way the GEs would wish and so are fighting tooth and nail in an attempt to alienate him from the electorate.
The GEs must have been rubbing their hands with glee when and whilst Blair became Prime Minister.
One wonders how well the GEs will embrace Starmer should he become PM.
It appears to me that it is becoming increasingly difficult for a PM to both please the GEs and to con the people enough to remain popular enough with the people. Whichever party wins the GE are we in for a continued succession of PMs?
Or will the people have woken up enough to realise what exactly is going on? Then what?
The GEs- indeed...
I have contemplated that there will never be any reliable opposition, and we will end up living under an Islamo-communist regime, which you can only oppose by joining an underground resistance movement. This is probably partly because I find the idea of being an underground resistance fighter romantic 😄. I was watching a video the other day where somebody pointed out that authoritarian regimes are remarkably effective, having been the norm for most of human history. It is democracy that is the exception. COVID showed us that most people won't resist, even when placed under house arrest by the state, and the long march through the institutions is now too far advanced to be reversed which is why voting increasingly doesn't have any effect.
"we will end up living under an Islamo-communist regime" I do hope that you are wrong, however much we seem to be heading that way. We have time to stop that happening. The question is how?