The UK Supreme Court Rules

A Good Day for the British

by Terry Field

Yesterday, in a landmark judgment, the British Supreme Court upheld the judgment of the Scottish courts and overturned the English court of Appeal. In landmark cases subject to judgment, Lady Hale, speaking for all eleven justices stated that the Prime Minister had acted to prorogued Parliament with the intention of inhibiting the capacity of Parliament to act and to perform its function. 

Stopping short of stating that Johnston had lied to or misled the Queen, they did go on to say that because his actions were intended to stop proper parliamentary scrutiny, they offended against the relationship between Parliament and the executive, since the former is the senior of the two estates of the realm.

Left, Terry points the way to a better day for Britain!

Parliament was there for not prorogued, the actions of the Prime Minister were void and of no effect. The representatives of the monarch approached Parliament with nothing more than a ‘blank sheet of paper’.

The Speaker has stated that Parliament will reconvene tomorrow at 11.30 Wednesday.

This is a beautiful day for Britain, for the Union, for Parliamentary sovereignty and for a slow return to rational behavior and the evaporation of the psychotic condition that has afflicted so many in Britian when they regard Europe through the bloodshot lenses of the worst rabble rousers.

Readers may here recall I have talked of the power of the fascistic method. Of the way it can, when used by skillful political functionaries possessed of powerful assertive personalities and simple repeated arguments coerce the minds of the disengaged, the previously relaxed and the confused and unaware. You may recall I said it would be applied with more and more force in coming months. We must be aware of its dangers as we see what it does to the relaxed and quite vulnerable institutions that function, routinely, by gentle consensus and group agreement whilst regarding minorities always.

The actions of the referendum political operators has been to try to both remove the representative nature of Parliamentary democracy and replace it with rubber-stamp attendees, whilst continuously working at the extreme margins of the composite constitution Britain has functioned under since the Glorious Revolution of 1688.

This extra-parliamentary activity has in some measure resulted from the perturbations seen in sections of the populations following on the great increase in difficult living conditions for many after the 2008 financial collapse, and the great increase in perceived excess wealth resulting from the economic forces I have discussed at some length before in these blog notes.

All this unhappiness has laid many people open to the blandishments of street rabble rousers.  Open to the suggestions of people selling certain solutions to complex problems, and to those identifying Europe as the causative factor in the trials of the newly and permanently dis-advantaged. The latest data suggests that the concentrations of ‘leave’ voters were NOT found in the centres of poverty. 

They were found in such as Essex (east of London), and in Wales, Cornwall, other English counties. The Welsh people were not of a composite mind to leave, but the vote was ‘swung’ by large numbers of retired, older English voters who has moved to Wales to live where real estate is less expensive, but who were otherwise not financially uncomfortable.

The Welsh, the metropolitan areas, Scotland, Northern Ireland voted to remain in the EU. Scotland is quite poor when compared to England. Yet its population voted by a large margin to remain.

Why did this strange split of desires occur?

If it was not the much vaunted ‘poverty factor’ that propelled it, then what was the causative factor or factors?

Of course, in many working-class areas, irrespective of comfort, ease or the lack of it, there is in every country an elevated sense of the value of the ‘local’, of the ‘national’. That in itself does not explain the vote. It explains the tendency to susceptibility to vote leave, but there is another factor. That factor is the fascistic method and demagogic authority with a repeated simple and certain message, that causes those people to vote for something they were previously relatively unconcerned with.

I have lost count of the number of people I have seen on British video media who have stated a strong, indeed burning and yearning desire to ‘leave the EU’ and not one of these people, when challenged could give a cogent, powerful and convincing reason to do so. Why could they not do so?

Because they felt only the need to repeat the strong message the demagogues had rammed into their minds. NONE of them could suggest what they or their country could do which it was prevented from doing whilst being in the EU. I never heard a single cogent reason.

The worst was the repeated message, created by back-office marketing men in the service of the radical leave politicians, that Mrs. May’s deal is the sort of deal a country would agree to ‘if it had been defeated in war’. This was then parroted by people who had no concept of what her agreement contained, had no concept of what ‘defeat in war’ could ever mean. They were in effect the dupes of thought managers. The techniques used on the streets are Goebbels-like in their simple repetitive drumming, laced with conflicted rage at ‘Europe’ and topped with a contempt for Parliament that is ‘frustrating the will of the people’.

The sum of all this is to rip thinking out of the structures upon which parliamentary democracy depends. The street becomes the place where confused people are corralled.

Brexit as a subject does not matter in itself. Any number of other matters could have been propelled to become an obsession. The thing that matters is that the fascistic method has such immense power and can destabilise so comprehensively. It is the choice of the autocrat. It is now employed not just on the street, but within the heart of the executive. That is entirely new.

As to the Brexit matter, well, one might as well ask people what they think the colour pink looks like and to hold up a card with their version painted on it. There would be 67 million different cards. The matter at hand is that a set of deeply self-interested private individuals have said  ‘this colour of pink is the right one! Follow me and ALL of you can have MY LOVELY PINK COLOUR!!!.

Statistics being what they are, and the bell curve being normally distributed, the effect of the demagogue is to skew the curve in automatic favour of the offered, ’official’ pink colour. The addition of the worst and continuous excesses of ‘social media’ accentuates the need to form ‘tribes’ and leave the common political space.

Thus, in a ‘western’ world that is quickly retreating from the ordered discipline that wise government backed by and scrutinized by a fully functioning representative parliament, the Supreme Court gave Britain two wonderful gifts today.

One with a direct effect; and one with an indirect effect we should act upon if we are wise and love our lives as our ancestors have lived them. The first gift was that Parliament will sit today and the executive has been again been confirmed as being the junior partner of the Parliament Assembled. That was argued by Lord Pannick QC for the appellant and was confirmed in the judgment. A most important re-affirmation of the supremacy of Parliament Assembled.

The second gift is to calm our fever, to remove us from the sweaty clutches of the political violence of the demagogue street-vendors. This gift can make decent people look at their support for this shameful lying destructive weak little man Johnston who acts to look like and behaves like an anti-democratic South-American-style autocrat in thrall to the extra-parliamentary  political grouping.  That is in effect removing the governing party entirely from both parliament and people, in order to try to recover the voting block they fear Nigel Farage’s party holds in his grasp.

The Supreme Court can and should, in its judgment, make honest British people abandon a government whose Prime Minister has acted in a way not seen before and which must never be seen again. Reflection as to what is decent, and to what is indecent is a requirement of the electorate if it is to benefit from the continuation of the vigour and authority of its Parliament. The Supreme Court has offered us all a way back to where we were. It is up to all of us to grasp it. We are not a rich and powerful country; we are beset by problems and dangers. Yet we can be a great and enduring democratic society. All we need to do it to want that, and act upon our best instincts. Our democracy is an inheritance beyond price. It eclipses all else. We need to rediscover the awe our ancestors felt for it.

Of course, today is about the constitution, but the battering ram applied was the demagogue and the Brexit fantasy.

The bubble of mania and psychosis against the European Union will NOT be lanced, however, if the street offers liars a chance to lie unchallenged to the gullible in a second referendum should it be offered.

Since we now live with the politics of the street, as a result of the actions of the weak Prime Minster Cameron who was rightly described by President Obama as being ‘a lightweight’, then there needs to be introduced into law serious penalties for being shown to lie to the people in order to procure their vote. Alternatively, the referendum vote should take place with no permitted comment from the time the vote is announced outside of Parliament or by Members of Parliament during the canvassing period. Accountability should be framed in terms of parliament and it should exclude all others. That way, the second referendum could only be the servant of and the advisory statement directed to Parliament, where authority must lie.

Parliament must reassert its authority. The actions of the street should be crushed where it subverts political conversation on the matter at hand. Failure to do this is a liars’ indeed a fraudsters’ charter.

It is hard to do. But it must be done.

Finally, it is wonderful to see that, given Britian functions via its unwritten constitution, which amongst other things regards common law, precedent, statutory authority and established procedure as key elements in cementing proper behavior, which in turn facilitates the effective functioning of the branches of government, the Supreme Court has acted with unprecedented vigour and unanimity, from eleven Justices, in asserting with certainly and clarity that the structures that protect Parliament, and which in turn guarantee the people a full response from power to their representatives are to be jealously guarded and protected.

All in all, a good day to be British.

What Yet Could Be

by Glenn N. Holliman

Our regular corespondent, Terry Field of England, France and Florida, seems to have taken a lead from the Romantic poet Samuel Coleridge in this epistle, perhaps having awaken from a restless sleep to pin the following vision of what yet could be. 

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, above, awoke in 1797 from a dream and quickly recorded Kubla Khan, an imaginary world of a massive Pleasure Dome.  

Understanding Mr. Field's vision does require an extensive knowledge of British and European politics and history.  And a willingness to let one's imagination float a bit under what, a 'Pleasure Dome'?- GNH

Let’s be chipper about Brexit. It COULD all work out well !!! by Terry Field

The dream of success goes something like this.

The mechanisms for leaving the European Union have been prepared in advance with care and cool deliberation by highly talented political operatives. It is probable that there will be a declaration of a general election on the day in October that offers an election date of 1^st November.

In the count-down to that election, there will be no Brexit intervention by the government. None. The clock will tick down, since it was set in motion by the May Government and ratified by parliament. In the interval of 25 days between declaration and election, only the clock will act, The Johnston Junta – for elected by 100,000 unrepresentative Antiquities, makes it just that – is driven by a considered response long ago structured by the very talented Mr. Cummings and a small number of others. Most of them in Trumpies in Washington.

There will be attempts to stop this. In the courts. In the Parliament. Perhaps involving the functioning of the monarch.

BUT

If this process is stopped half way through the election period ending on the 1^st November, then the entire body of the Brexit Party, the present Conservative Party voters, a proportion of the Labour vote, and the DUPers will all vote to reinstate the exit process. And they will all vote within the framework of and directly for the ruling Conservative Party. 

No other choice offers the prospect of effective exercise of power.

 The Greens, the communist party aka The Labour Party, the assorted lost folk of the ‘no-particular party but I am ever-so Politically Correct’ voters will fragment into their little tribes, and proceed to wipe each other out in the election – this is a first past the post system. Ruthless and effective in dumping the duds and no-hopers. Only focused strength and tactical voting will win. And the Tories have that in their grasp. Farage will be the only one voting Brexit Party.

Johnston will walk it.

Then, here will be a real choice, and it will be his to make.

At that point he needs nobody at all. He dumps Dominic Cummings; he has served his purpose.

Does he need no-deal?  Not at all. The election is his. He commands the stage like a colossus.

But then, even though Britain is weaker than America, that slow moving behemoth wakes up to the fact that Perfidious Albion HAS NOT LEFT YET!. It was stopped by the heroic opposition of left-leaning Tories in the last parliament.

Britain therefore still functions in the EU, as the process was stopped, by order of the courts and by Parliament taking control of the agenda in the last moment and executing legislation via its control of  the business of the house. The naïve folk who stopped it thought they were thwarting Johnston, but they were in fact giving him electoral success and  the future. Johnston did not try to stop them.  He was secretly banking on it.

In a flash, they won him the election, smashed the Brexit Party, neutered Lib Dems, marginalized the communists aka The Corbyn Labour Party.

Now, in early November, he is a man with infinite possibilities.

He has a comfortable majority. He is clear of the flatheads from the DUP. He sees an eviscerated Labour Party before him on the opposite benches. He sees a bunch of- as ever- infinitely malleable Lib-Dems – gushing rage and impotence – and the odd Green from the never-never-land of Brighton and Hove. The ERG simmer and bubble, but his parliamentary majority of the fully corrupted consign them to insignificance.

In America, the Plan cobbled together by Trump and the man he thought he could control, Johnston, for smashing The EU via the British trojan Horse has entirely unraveled. Britain – those perfidious swine – they have NOT LEFT!! And they show no sign of so doing.

Johnston, being an Oxford Educated classicist, read Cisero and the fate of Catilina – he knows JUST how fast things can change. And when he sees an American  ‘friend’,  arrive from Washington, he well knows the short sword is there to one day open his political viscera when his guard is down. And leaving the EU is not just dropping one’s guard to America, it is helping them point their sword at the British jugular and pulling the blade to the national neck for them.

When compared to the United States, outside the EU Britain has in real effect the fire power of Zimbabwe on a bad day now. He thought of that when the American mustachioed lunatic Bolton (a man who makes Herman Kahn look cuddly) visited offering ‘sector by sector’ deals in the twinkling of an eye – just as long as the UK dumps its entire foreign policy and inserts the Foreign Office into a cobwebbed annex of the State Department.

Now the fully empowered and totally unencumbered Johnston looks benignly on Brussels, and EVERY Tory MP short of the headbanging ERG needs HIM in another five years’ time!!! He is electoral gold. He is their pimp. They will do what he wants, where he wants it, when he wants it. He OWNS the Tory Party.

They – the Tory MPs - all know the moment of nationalistic madness has passed. Farage has left the country and taken up a roll in Mississippi running a radio station  called Darkbart. The Tory ranks now all look to five years’ time and a re-run of the gravy train.   

Below Nigel Farage, a Brexit leader

They will follow Johnston ANYWHERE!!!

Even up and into the Berlaymont Building and never leave it!!!!!! Oh those Crepes Suzette!!!

SO NOW the real agenda begins. Europe is stuffed. Deflating and shrinking, very fearful, assaulted by both America and China, full of race competition violence, full of mutual suspicion, trying to form a European Army but incapable of forming a brigade, with NO direction, run now by a clearly somewhat deranged blond female German failed political nonentity with a nice line in power-haircuts and hordes of children by NO political sense at all.

Thus now Johnston then approaches his real target. NOT powerful, always-dangerous Washington keen on using Britain to smash the rival EU; no, he approaches both Russia and Brussels via Berlin at the same time to forge the only rational European structure and one that should have been done LONG ago. Meanwhile Germany and Russia have taken about all they plan to from Trump. They are open to offers. Any offers. And Johnston has the offer of the millennium for them. Which they accept as though it is Christmas. Which, happily, it actually is.

He invites Europe – in reality Germany (The Frogs always do what they are told) - to reconstruct its democracy with looser outer ties to the stragglers – the lazy latins and the dreamer British. BUT he also invites Russia in. IT oozes raw materials, space, brains and many good Germans there since the 18^th century pretending to really be Russian. Germany wanted to do this for decades, but it had and has NO political legitimacy to propose this. IT thought Britain opposed it, as indeed it did, before America went away and Trump cut the mooring line for the British once ‘unsinkable aircraft carrier’. Germany of course  also  risked American anger with French rage were it to openly contemplate Russia as a part of the European scene.

Yet now all has changed.

America is gone to Trump Heaven, China is run by a new Stalin-like figure, and Johnston is free to re-forge the European Great Game. He alone can do so. He can bring ALL the parties together in the European continent including Russia – now to be fully together and unified in a grand bargain. Remember; Britain has NOT left the EU yet. France sits in the corner steaming. China is mad as hell with Russia at this unanticipated development,, but in one bound Russia is now free of both the fear of China in the Pacific east; and it can relax entirely about America.

Johnston has recreated 1913 all over again.

Only now with a love fest between Russia and Germany that will endure and grow. 

The REAL Europe, of Britain, Russia, Germany fully co-operative  -  are united as was always the dream and ALL others are out of the picture.

Above, Terry and his wife, Fina, spend their summers in Normandy, their own Pleasure Dome not far from the sea.

The United States is where it was before the First World War. Nowhere at all. Just very big, isolated and self- obsessed. It really has become a nowhere in the new Johnston-designed now. It can buddy up to Japan, suffer from the Yellow Peril for all of eternity, but the action – the real action - is once again in the full and complete Europe. The vitality of 19^th century Europe is here once more. The concentration of synergies commands the world.

Britain of course will then have returned to be itself. A political free-radical, doing its own thing. There is no transaction charge in the capital markets in London. It sails free and vigorous to endless commercial opportunity. In a flash, across Europe, socialism, the infection of the 19^th century injected into the twentieth, is now dead, buried, and gone. Germany and Russia command Poland far more profitably than they did when they tried it with tanks and there is no mess to clean up. Indeed, there has never been a better time to live anywhere between the Rhine and Moscow.

And Johnston, the lightweight, reviled liar, cheat, leaver-of-wife man-we-love-to-hate, has changed the world entirely.

And with no help at all from Dominic Cummings. who now passes his time in an asylum in Surrey, where through the haze of drugs he wonders just what happened to his version of reality. - Terry Field

The British Ambassador Resigns

By Glenn N. Holliman

David Collingwood, British educator and keen observer of the human race, emailed the following from his holiday villa in southern France with permission to post.   

"If you feel that you’d like to publish this, you have my full authority.  Here, in la Vaucluse, it is a comfortable 30 degrees Celsius: I write in the shade of olive trees at the table in our Provençal garden; ahead is the unmistakeable outline of Mont Ventoux; around, thousands of cicada chirrup merrily; above is the cornflower-blue sky beloved of Cézanne; and by my right arm is a glass of chilled rosé. What could be better? No wonder I wax lyrical today.  Warmest good wishes and bisous." - David

The high profile story here, as, one would hope it is over there, is the maliciously-leaked (confidential) correspondence of Kim Darroch, the British Ambassador to the USA.

Left, David, wordsmith and 
intellectual of the Midlands, shares an insight.

He did what all ambassadors do: he assessed state and actions of foreign governments and advised his government accordingly. As an ambassador quite rightly expects his correspondence with his government to be confidential, he must be blunt and honest, rather than diplomatic.

Right, Ambassador Kim Darroch. 

That a potential British Prime Minister - Boris Johnson - would refuse to give his full support to a British ambassador, beggars belief. 

Right, the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson?

That a nation’s leader - President Trump - would lower himself by resorting to social media to question the judgement of any ambassador is shocking. 

No gentleman would admit to reading another’s correspondence: he would distance himself from such behaviour. Thus, the best, and correct, response to Sir Kim’s (leaked) reports would have been not to respond at all. The alternative would have been for Mr Trump to have condemned the criminal and treacherous behaviour of the perpetrator of the leak.

Without naming specific prime ministers and presidents, I look back with nostalgia to times when the leaders of both our nations at least made a pretense of dignity and courtesy, behaving in a manner befitting their high office. - David Collingwood