{"id":251923,"date":"2022-04-08T07:19:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T07:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=251923"},"modified":"2022-04-09T07:35:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T07:35:23","slug":"more-institutional-rot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=251923","title":{"rendered":"More institutional rot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Aspiring prime minister and leading \u2018conservative&#8217; Sajid Javid.<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>By Savant \u2013 irishsavant.net April 7, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The previous post underlined the dire state of the US military, one of the few remaining institutions which might have risen to defend the heritage of White countries. In reality most institutions appear to have been lost, most notably the media. However Anglosphere readers might have expected better from the venerable <em>Spectator<\/em>. This weekly journal has been publishing for close to two hundred years and is still going strong. Being an editor or even a journalist there has often provided the path to the top of the Conservative Party, Boris Johnson being the most recent example. That it continues to be seen as right-wing and conservative underlines the extent to which the Overton Window has migrated to the left in recent times. Its positions today would not be out of place in the <em>New Stateman<\/em> of twenty or even ten years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Take a recent article about Ukrainian refugees stranded at Calais, trying to reach England. \u201cAs we checked into our hotel we saw seven Ukrainian refugees resting on the couches in the lobby. There was nothing eye-catching about the group apart from their obvious weariness and the pile of Ukrainian passports on the tables in front of them. We met Mohammed and his wife who left Kiev\u2026..\u201d Whoa! Roll it back there. A <em>Ukrainian<\/em> named <em>Mohammed<\/em>? I read on expecting, in line with basic journalistic practice, a detailed explanation for this anomaly. But none was forthcoming. We were left to infer that there was nothing unusual about Ukrainians named Mohammed and that Britain was very cruel indeed for not allowing them cross the Channel and gain refuge from violent primitive Third-World France.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_228848\" style=\"width: 380px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Nadhim-Zawahi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-228848\" class=\"wp-image-228848\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Nadhim-Zawahi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"370\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-228848\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nadhim Zahawi. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the same issue we have \u201c<em>Zahawi\u2019s Story<\/em>\u201c, a panegyric to Nadhim Zahawi, an Iraqi Muslim who has miraculously risen to the top of the \u2018Conservative\u2019 Party, first as Minister for Kuffar Jabbing and now Minister for Education. He recalled to the swooning clucking journalist \u201cWhen I stand at the mirror shaving I have to pinch myself. How did a boy from Iraq who ended up on these shores at the age of 11 without a word of English end up as Secretary Of State [Minister] for Education?\u201d. A very good question. How indeed? Not that the awe-struck journalist would ever be so rude as to ask it. He eventually became \u201ca Conservative activist\u201d but nowhere explains his stratospheric rise through the ranks of country toffs to the very top of the greasy pole. Or maybe he does, inadvertently. \u201cAround the table were those young Conservatives \u2013 Sajid Javid, Pritti Patel, Tobias Ellwood, Adam Afriyie, Shailesh Vara, Robert Halfon and Kwasi Kwarteng\u201d. Not exactly an extract from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Burke's_Peerage\">Burke\u2019s Peerage<\/a>, is it? But this brains trust was formulating \u2018conservative\u2019 policies and as we know, most of them went on to greater things. Ellwood was the only actual Englishman among them and he was born in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Halfon is an interesting case. A Ukrainian Jew mired in multi-faceted corruption and sexual misbehaviour throughout his career, he\u2019s survived multiple scandals, any one of which would have ended the career of, well, an Englishman. But he does have <em>some<\/em> political and religious principles. <em>\u201cHalfon has said that one of the three things that motivate him in politics is \u201cunashamed support for the State of Israel as the only real democracy and progressive force in the Middle East. I have always been very supportive of Israel. I have been to Israel many times for work and family, especially now that my father, who has become more Orthodox, lives in Jerusalam. I talk a lot about Israel in the House of Commons.\u201d<\/em> Well for once he\u2019s telling the truth because if you check out Hansard you\u2019d imagine he represents Israel and not his Harlow constituency.<\/p>\n<p>So there you go. These are the people at the summit of the party professing to represent the traditional British people, lauded to the skies by the oldest media representative of that people.<\/p>\n<p>Our institutions have been lost.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishsavant.net\/?p=1959\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irish Savant on how a group of select politicians who serve a trans-national elite, rather than the people they claim to represent, have helped undermine once revered institutions <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251923"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251926,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251923\/revisions\/251926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}