The parallels between British and American politics are simply eerie. In 2016, after British voters unexpectedly rebelled against their political class and chose to leave the European Union, Donald J. Trump took to calling himself Mr. Brexit—and guess what? Since then, of course, the political classes in both countries have been conspiring to reverse the election results. But Theresa May just suffered the greatest defeat of any British Prime Minister when her BRINO (Brexit In Name Only) deal negotiated with the EU was rejected by the House of Commons 432-202. Subsequently, May has survived a vote of No Confidence and the outlook is confused. But clearly the Deep State has not yet tamed British populism. A good omen for Trump?
May’s defeat was terrible enough, but it was even worse because the “payroll vote,” of Members of Parliament (= Congressmen) holding government office, is around 140. Hence, BRINO only attracted around 60 backbenchers (who within reason can vote as they like). The Spectator has a list, with names, of the 118 Tories to voted against May’s deal.
This gives May and her government a tremendous problem because ever since she came back with the draft deal she has been saying it is her way or the highway, stubbornly insisting that no other deal is available. But such was the deal’s subordination of UK interests that many commentators argued would leave the UK as a vassal state. [May’s Brexit deal: the legal verdict | The PM’s plan isn’t bad – it’s atrocious, by Martin Howe QC, Spectator, November 24, 2018]
The parallels between British and American politics are simply eerie. In 2016, after British voters unexpectedly rebelled against their political class and chose to leave the European Union, Donald J. Trump took to calling himself Mr. Brexit—and guess what? Since then, of course, the political classes in both countries have been conspiring to reverse the election results. But Theresa May just suffered the greatest defeat of any British Prime Minister when her BRINO (Brexit In Name Only) deal negotiated with the EU was rejected by the House of Commons 432-202. Subsequently, May has survived a vote of No Confidence and the outlook is confused. But clearly the Deep State has not yet tamed British populism. A good omen for Trump?
May’s defeat was terrible enough, but it was even worse because the “payroll vote,” of Members of Parliament (= Congressmen) holding government office, is around 140. Hence, BRINO only attracted around 60 backbenchers (who within reason can vote as they like). The Spectator has a list, with names, of the 118 Tories to voted against May’s deal.
This gives May and her government a tremendous problem because ever since she came back with the draft deal she has been saying it is her way or the highway, stubbornly insisting that no other deal is available. But such was the deal’s subordination of UK interests that many commentators argued would leave the UK as a vassal state. [May’s Brexit deal: the legal verdict | The PM’s plan isn’t bad – it’s atrocious, by Martin Howe QC, Spectator, November 24, 2018]
By finally returning to the issue that won him the election, President Trump once again has a winning hand. That's why we're hearing so much about "white supremacy" this week.
Liberals lie all the time, but when they know they're vulnerable they lie even more than all the time. They're vulnerable on immigration. Even heroic, nonstop lying doesn't help—as CNN has discovered.
So, naturally, the media have turned to their larger project of relentlessly trying to discredit conservatives as "white supremacists."
Unfortunately for them, apart from a few crackpots—whom I assume exist in a country of 320 million people—there are no "white supremacists." There were white supremacists 50 years ago, and they were all Democrats. (See my book Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama.)
Today, "white supremacy" is nothing but a comfortable fantasy the left developed to explain its sick preoccupation with white people.
Earlier by Harri Honkanen: Muslim Grooming Gangs In Finland—Exposed, As In U.K., By “Right-Wing Extremists”
The industrial city of Oulu, the largest settlement in northern Finland, markets itself as “the Capital of Northern Scandinavia.” The slogan can be found everywhere, from the entry to its small airport to the sides of its buses. But it’s soon going to have to change this to “The Muslim Child-Grooming and Rape Capital of Scandinavia.” The grooming scandal I wrote about last month has finally erupted into public debate—thanks in part to British Dissident Right journalist and activist Katie Hopkins.
Exactly as in Britain, Oulu’s authorities, police and newspapers had been colluding to conceal the arrest of 7 Muslim “refugees” for grooming and sexually assaulting white girls—aged between 10 and 14—from the Finnish people. They were thwarted by an intrepid independent nationalist councilor Junes Lokka. Now the situation has spiraled entirely out of control. Hence Katie Hopkins has made her way to the Arctic city to find out what’s going on.
On December 10th, about 100 furious Finns turned up to protest about the rapes and their cover up in front of Oulu City Hall. At one point, a “foreign background” (“Muslim”) construction worker, carrying a knife, stood on the city hall’s steps to defend Islam before being disarmed, dragged off the steps, beaten up, and then taken away by the police. [Oulun perussuomalaisten mielenosoituksessa kahnaus, Kaleva, December 10, 2018]