Allister Heath – The Telegraph Aug 2, 2023
Britain’s deranged war on cars, our looming ban on gas boilers, the debanking scandal, the failure to prosecute crime, the attempted cancellation of women, the sabotage of the Brexit agenda, the scale of migration: welcome to anti-democratic Britain, where the beleaguered majority is increasingly subject to the whims of an entitled, activist elite that often seems to despise the people over which it exercises so much power.
All the policies listed above share a devastating commonality: they are deeply unpopular, and would be crushed in a referendum after a fair campaign, were the politicians courageous enough to grant the public a say (in the case of Brexit, they did, of course, and continue to this day to resist implementing the revolutionary change implied by the vote).
In a truly majoritarian society, one where the demos actually exercised kratos, no form of crime would be tolerated, and certainly not burglaries or muggings. Nobody would dare to indoctrinate school children with extreme trans ideology, and the green agenda would be centred around urgent technological innovation rather than seeking to prevent working people from flying to holidays in the sun.
Yet we live in a very different political reality, one in which public opinion is flagrantly disregarded whenever it doesn’t align with the views of the ruling class. Westminster has become cartelised: the large parties are committed to an unrealistic dash to net zero, refuse to discuss the gargantuan cost involved, and omit to mention that Britain’s carbon emissions are about 3 per cent of China’s. On the great subjects of our time – family policy, the size of the state, the NHS and even planning rules – there is little difference between Tory, Labour and Lib Dem MPs, disenfranchising millions.
The intellectual conformity is stultifying, and has been reinforced by the emergence of an all-powerful Blob, the nexus of mandarins, policy advisers, quangocrats and other government agents, a class of “public servants” who don’t really like the public and are increasingly convinced that they have a constitutional duty to constrain and contain elected politicians. They are experts at delay, prevarication and lawfare, and are cheered on by the Left-wing activists who have taken over the legal profession, our cultural institutions, academia, charities and even many big companies.
Thus even in the rare instances when the Tories attempt to think the unthinkable and respond to public opinion, as with the Channel crossings, the system does its best to block any change, empowered by quasi-constitutional legislation such as the Equality Act, the Climate Change Act and our membership of the ECHR.
The upshot is an extraordinary disempowerment of the electorate: is it any wonder that some voters fear we risk becoming a democracy in name only? Take the absurd war on cars: a tiny minority of activists, council planners, devolved administrations and ministers are seeking to discourage the mode of transport that the vast majority of the population relies on. Or consider immigration, which is a lot higher than the public would like: all potential solutions to reduce numbers while preserving the economy are lambasted as gimmicks, meaningless or self-evidently stupid. The Tories have promised to cut numbers in every single one of their manifestos since at least the 1990s, and yet aren’t even pretending to try any longer. How does this not disastrously undermine trust in politicians?
Until recently, all parts of British society bought into the democratic ethos developed after the great voting reforms of the 19th and 20th century, or at least paid lip service to it. It was deemed snobbish to dismiss the views of ordinary voters out of hand, and borderline insane to seek to reverse the expansion of the consumer society.
That consensus, already left fragile by the Blairite legal revolution and his massive increase in the number of university graduates, was finally shattered after the 2016 Brexit referendum. Most of our institutions are now controlled by a pseudo-meritocratic elite convinced that only it can prevent the masses from reverting to ignorance, racism and prejudice.
Our new ruling class is paternalistic, messianic even: in a post-religious age, it has taken on the role of priest and saviour of the common people. It still occasionally feels the need to legitimise unpopular ideas by pretending that they garner majority support, hence all the polls “proving” that people support net zero. Yet when asked to pay the price in terms of actual cash or drastically reduced convenience, the public immediately rebels.
There was a time when we worried, rightly, that the tyranny of the majority was the main threat to freedom and prosperity; today, it is the tyranny of the minority that poses the greatest danger. Our new task is to prevent the majority from being oppressed: how do we stop the capture of every institution by the radical Left? How do we make Parliament more representative, and reduce the power of the Blob? One answer would be to use a lot more referenda, as the Swiss do; another would be radical reform of the Civil Service, turning ministers into CEOs with proper control over mandarins.
I’m well aware that the majority can have bad or evil ideas, or vote for maniacs. We need to retain – and in some cases, further develop – protections against majoritarian abuses, even if some of the current ones are no longer fit for purpose or have been hijacked. Elites have helped drive much good social change in recent decades, including by fighting racism and prejudice against all sorts of minorities.
But the pendulum has swung too far away from majoritarian rule, and too much power handed to social engineers. Today, the problem doesn’t lie with the public, which is largely tolerant and liberal-conservative, but with the elites, who have become authoritarian and anti-democratic, captured by wokery and a dislike of material aspiration.
What we call populism, in the current British context, is really the majority trying to reassert itself. Voters are developing a new form of class consciousness; “motorists” are becoming a political force. The Ulez fiasco is acting as a gateway, normalising opposition to other excesses.
The message to politicians is clear: start listening to the voters again, or else Britain will soon face a popular uprising orders of magnitude greater – and more unpredictable – than Brexit.
See the lie?
“All the policies listed above share a devastating commonality: they are deeply unpopular, and would be crushed in a referendum after a fair campaign, were the politicians courageous enough to grant the public a say (in the case of Brexit, they did, of course, and continue to this day to resist implementing the revolutionary change implied by the vote).”
First, there’s no real Brexit silver lining. The Nazi regime has allowed EU and the new UK kite marks to be used, because banned the EU mark/standard would destroy businesses and jobs. These little e
Englander loons need to get a couple of working brain cells!
It simply isn’t possible to detach ourselves from the biggest economic trading zone on planet Earth.
I hate Tony Blair, but he said the UK is too weak to consider rejoining the EU. The UK has economically fallen off a cliff, and even if we wanted to rejoin, we will have fallen even further by that point. To be fair, Turkey would have more chance of joining the EU before Nazi UK.
UK rates just went up, but if the Bank of England were serious about inflation, rates would be 16% and higher, and if this was implemented, most households would go belly up.
Your typical house, in real terms, is losing around 20% per year in value. You have real inflation, plus the nominal price falls. The Nazi regime is running out of tricks. Oh, let’s scrap inheritance tax, just to get inheritors back into the property market, any trick to keep house prices up, when they are at least 50% over value.
A referendum today, would see a mandate to rejoin the EU, but like I say, bankrupt Britain is out on its own for a very long time. New trade deal in the Far East, another import deaster, because the UK failed to export in the EU, an market that was specifically designed to help the UK flourish, but oh no, we couldn’t even succeed with that, so good luck with lazy business sheeple who can’t be bothered, are locally rude and unprepared, and basically have nothing to sell these Far Eastern nations that they can’t get elsewhere for a quarter of the price.
As to the green agenda, it was never going to work. Banning combustion cars will be stopped or rolled back. The move to ban gas boilers is a demp squib. Most UK homes aren’t hermeticcally sealed to make these heat exchangers work, and most simply don’t have the space to fit them, and the huge amount of free outside space to allow them to work.
The purpose of these woke policies is to create new lines of widgets, new services, more debt, all with no decernable economic benefits, I mean, we’re not exporting, we’re imports most of this crap. This country can’t even manufacture the blades for wind turbines! WTF is going on?
Just as the UK forces more tax on alcohol, or reduced alcohol, it just damages UK business. Sheeple will certainly buy less in restaurants, and they’ll buy less over all. For instance, I’d never buy a bottle of wine with less than 12%. It’s not an alcohol specific thing, it’s just a fact that low alcohol wines, less than 12%, simply don’t taste as nice. I’d rather drink tap water.
Here in France you can get decent glugging wine for €4 a bottle, and it isn’t any of that UK sweet shite. Even the UK reds are far too sweet, because UK buyers can buy horrible wine and have it sweetened for the UK sheeple palette.
But what else would you expect from The Telegraph, just flawed arguments.
“The message to politicians is clear: start listening to the voters again, or else Britain will soon face a popular uprising orders of magnitude greater – and more unpredictable – than Brexit.”
Looks like the Torygraph is priming the pump ready Farage.
“On the great subjects of our time – family policy, the size of the state, the NHS and even planning rules – there is little difference between Tory, Labour and Lib Dem MPs, disenfranchising millions…”
Let me summarise how this might go:
Farage starts another party. Daily Mail readers and the bar stool preachers sign up. Past members of nationalist or vaguely nationalist parties are excluded from the new party lest they tip off the faithful as to the MO.
This new party splits the Conservative vote — as intended – and makes way for the Labour Party to carry out whatever it has been sold to do by the Bilderbergers and the rest.
Farage’s new party continues to grow under a Labour government. As Labour’s reign is finally coming to a halt, the Tories agree an electoral pact with Farage — read MI5 — and its back to business as usual. The new party disappears into the sunset and Farage is then mothballed ready for the next cycle of BS “politics”.
Macauley wrote in this spirit 200 years ago; there is a long paragraph that looks like today’s writing except that he mentions steam, then the replacement for animal power. His contemporaries were always warning that the big debts and spending meant that society would soon collapse, whereas he knew that innovation in technology would keep us ahead of that: it did, and it is still doing so
Interesting summary article but it raises an important question “another would be radical reform of the Civil Service, turning ministers into CEOs with proper control over mandarins.” Who are the bigger problem? the Civil Service? or the puppet politicians? Or do they all believe themselves to be part of the ‘Elite’? (which, of course, they are not).
Well.. the so called ‘social contract’ (such as it was) is broken beyond repair and probably has been for decades..
The difference being.. now you can’t actually ignore their nonsense anymore.. and like the self self en-titling..self entitled brats they are …’They’ are now dispensing with the charade of democracy and moving into the oligopoly so called democracy always was… (as king big ears or his withered old tart)
so brutality and tyranny are on the menu and you are about to get the second course… double helping…
Which of course.. should be obvious by now…
So how is destroying Germany working out?
I’ve no doubt in my mind that the UK has been nothing but a neo-con one party fascist state since the very early 90’s (probable since the signing of the Maastricht Treaty in 1991). With the political and economical aspects almost predominantly evident since the middle of the previous decade (especially after the Brexit Referendum). Which many Pro EU Remainer affiliates had no intention of honoring anyway.
Though the tide is now thankfully turning rapidly against this dysfunctional and inept Tory Government which has been in decline ever since David Cameron left office shortly after Brexit Vote. With one incompetent leader after the next.
Which I feel will lead to startling revelations and scandals rocking the present worthless UK Government later this year, and leading to a more revolutionary General Election in the Spring next year.
With the main opposition Labour Party not playing the decisive front running results that it expects to achieve.
Some big upheavals I perceive are in the making…..
An uprising? In Britain? Brexit was an uprising? Haha .. I think the Militairy have already taken over observing certain protocols during the last days of the Elisabeth ..
Welcome to your Jewocracy–a rigged two party Zionist-Commie State masquerading as a ‘democracy’. Same basic setup in USA, except the Zionist Party is called ‘Republican’ & the Commie Party is ‘Democrat’, whereas in the UK the Zionist Party is termed ‘Tory’ & the Commie Party is ‘Labour’…but hey, keep voting.
Same (Perfidious Albion) as it ever was.
There will be no uprising, has this author of the article been in a coma for three years. The fact is the politicians do not have any power where it really matters, immigration and foreign policy ( choosing not to get involved in wars ) are two of those areas. Cowardice is a major problem with these politicians. For instance, look at the convid hoax, go to thirteen towns or cities from all parts of the UK and ask fifty people in each town three questions.
No1– do you believe there was indeed a deadly virus, it was as they claimed.
No2– do you believe there was a virus but it was exaggerated.
No3– do you believe it was a hoax
I cannot know what answers we would get, but I am 99.9% sure we would not have 650 people giving the same answer. Not one of those political scumbags ( 650 of them ) has ever called it for what it was, there is none of them on record calling it the hoax it was, and that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt the vast majority ( maybe all ? ) are at best self serving cowards, some just plain stupid, and the best of them just dishonest criminals.
Everybody knows Communism were created, nurtured and promoted by Jews. It was launched in 1848 with Marx’s Manifesto. ‘Equality’ for gentiles means everyone is dead poor & enslaved. However the Jews see themselves as THE ‘Chosen Ones,’ they belong to the upper castes, they say. I wonder if the ‘German Nazi Supremacist’ stereotype is the Jew vampire looking into the mirror.
To police the system they also need an intermediary class of sadist brutal thugs. Rumors are some Jews already volunteered for that job (he, he..).
Fascism is the opposition to it. ‘Democracy’ clearly cannot stop the Jewish collective from taking power for themselves. We can properly define Fascism with three words: God, Country & Family. These are the foundations of the National State.
Much bullshit has been said about Fascism, after all, it lost the war. Interesting to note Fascism in Portugal with Salazar survived the war until 1968. Franco’s Fascism lasted until 1975. My suspicious is both leaders were very popular among the people. People like ‘Carl Jones,’ have emotional bias. According to social engineer, Gramsci, indoctrination (Hollywood films) before puberty creates sticky bias.
Jews can do Fascism too, for themselves, which is the case of Israel (sic). However Jews in the U.S.A., or Britain, don’t do Fascism there (God, Country & Family), they do Communism (open borders, LGBT+, divide & conquer, social subversion, constitutional trampling, etc). Like a ghost, Communism packed its bags in 1991 and headed to the West. Russia today is for ‘God, Country & Family’ the same way Germany was in the 1930s, less steroids. Jews hate Fascism for goyim, never forget that.
In our countries, including Ukraine, Fascist Jews are poseurs and probably double-agents. They are only wearing Fascist’s clothing; they are there to sabotage & destroy, never forget that. Ever.
The elite few dominating and oppressing the majority are the “we know best” crowd who never disclose their actual knowledge on any important issue lest the majority get a hold of it and there be real debate and opposition to their designs. Even when the facts leak out to the public on something so existential and threatening as government cooperation and collusion with releasing a bioweapon flu virus on the public to start a plandemic, not a peep of it is heard in our legislatures. The opposition parties are not really there to challenge the government of the day on such issues. They are first and foremost loyal and obedient to the “Crown”, or in the US the “we know best” deep state, and never to the people at large, in their pretense of democratic government.
sign me up please?
Come back Oliver Cromwell.
So the Telegraph owned by the oligarchs run from the City warns us about the minority ! The lackeys at Westminster take their orders from the City , they are rubber stampers and thereby keep their snouts in the trough. Like Dr E Michael Jones has said we need big government to smash the oligarchs. We need more taxation of the oligarchs until we’ve bled them dry. Nothing happens without the City’s approval any right thinking person knows that looks like this piece was written for the brain dead goy.Didn’t Aristotle say democracy ultimately leads to oligarchy ? We’ve arrived at the destination of liberal capitalism and Trotskyism or as a writer on here previously said The Anal Empire.
Saftey valve article. There will never be a revolution in Britain. The goyim are too stupid, lazy, and soaked in drugs.
what a medival picture !
Now ?
HICKMAN –Cromwell was Christian agent of the Yids, who made pact with these mongrels stipulating in return for their financial assistance to fund his ‘revolution’ he would nullify Edward I banishment of them in 1290.
British “quiet desperation” is at an all-time high.
I would love to live to see the day ANY Brit gets up and does something to change his situation.
These people deserve everything that is happening to them because they refuse to come out of hiding.
Such indifference to true terror will undoubtedly lead to rivers of blood in London streets, because if there’s one thing I do know, it’s that Jews/Khazarians are the most merciless, hate-filled, seething, frothing, drooling sons of bitches ever created, and they will take no prisoners when the day comes, and it’s coming soon !! I pity the poor women who are going to have to endure the horror and moral terror that is headed their way. What will be done to their mortal bodies will turn the men who witness it into STONE.
GET UP NOW BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE. STOP PUSSYFOOTING AROUND !!
“…start listening to the voters again, or else Britain will soon face a popular uprising…”
As if ZOGUK has EVER “listened to the voters”.. or gives a flying fck what they say!
LMFAO!!!🤣
I look, with disgust, at that photo at the top and can’t help but lament that another opportunity was blown for a rousing fire bombing a la Dresden. The difference being, of course, that the citizens of Dresden didn’t deserve such a fate from psychotic-yet-cowardly pilots while that chamber chock-full of vile treasonous scum shown deserve far worse than merely being incinerated.
Remember that epic movie “They Live”? Put on the glasses:
https://cdn-attachments.timesofmalta.com/141ff03e7c76e647daa15c0a69957225495d01e4-1570164514-5d96cf22-1200×630.jpg
They live scene, going to the grocery store and with the glasses you see Jews:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPZOi8EgcYM
Here is how it happened:
1. Rothschild central bank
2. Jews take over
3. Parliament becomes a Jew whore house
4. War all the time, economy in shambles, politicians reduced to screeching chimps
5. Putin takes revenge on Britain
6. Britian collapses, everything turns to shit, race wars, blacks killing whites (like South Africa)
7. Jews, seeing they are unwanted parasites move to Israel.
8. Jews create new holiday celebrating their victory over the thick Brits
9. Fred B. says love the Jews and quotes the Jew Jesus
@Yukon Jack. I couldn’t have said it better!
The most dangerous enemy to society ever is government. The one thing they do well is indoctrinate. The mess the world is in now is proof in the pudding. Why the Schwabs, Gates and Soros of this world are still walking around is a mystery to me.
;@Yukon Jack
there was no such thing as a “jew” until the latter half of the 17th century,
there were people of the tribe of Juda that lived in Judea, allegedly.
spoken with a Y sound for J,
I am always ready to stand corrected if proven to be mistaken or “wrong.”
I see the windbag trot Carl Jones is flapping his gums again.
The deranged fool sees “Nazis” under every bed and in his delirium imagines that Britons want to rejoin the EUSSR.
ROFLMAO
Farage is a nudger who works for MI6. He says things, or starts a party, the fake news report it, and the big parties start to reposture in the direction which MI6 wanted.
The debanking scandle is about forcing the banks into a more two way fascist system.
Since 2008, when we had fascism on steroids, and it was all one way traffic to the banks coffers. Now they want the banks to play ball, in order to avert social unrest, such as very long mortgage holidays, extended terms, ten times salary, 100yr mortgages, all to keep bankrupt Britain afloat.
The truth. It’s gone beyond your regular fascism and now we’re in full blown Nazism.
We were always Nazis, but it was contained within MI6 and very high circles.. Today its it’s everywhere.
When you look at the British Nazi elites, they have zero unity, apart from hating Russia and Putin. On almost every other front, they’re broken, and this is why Nazism has become visible, if only to a few of us who are willing to call it as it is.
Why is Europe paying ten times the price for imported US energy? I’ll tell you why, because NATO and the NWO is a fascist Nazi system. All roads lead to Rome, or the City Crime Cartels & Wall Street mobs.