Warning: Politics

Over the years I have only very rarely touched upon politics, outside of the corruption intrinsic to certain types of scientific publication. This post is more political. You know where the back-button is if you need it!

This is the settlement section of my own personal sewage treatment works, better known as a septic tank, about which I know far more than I would prefer. Certain components of household waste float to the top, much as some politicians do in political parties. I can definitely see Boris Johnson up near 12 o'clock, Richboy Sunak close by on his right, Nadhim Zahawi over towards 3 o'clock and I recently had to have the sh*t pumped out to get rid of the smell from Matt Hancock (so he's gone, thank goodness). Liz Truss has sunk.

I'm largely apolitical. If I had to characterise myself it would be mildly left of centre. I had never heard of Prof Sunetra Gupta before I heard her on the RCPath webinar talking about covid and epidemiology in early 2020. That was well before the days of the Great Barrington Declaration.

She is very comfortable to describe herself as a staunch socialist. This is her talking about Jeremy Corbyn. For those outside the UK he was the very left wing Labour Party leader rendered unelectable by the UK main stream media. This is what Prof Gupta had to say:

Ultimately her point is that Corbyn would not have made a morbidly obese type 2 diabetic bus driver work through the whole of the pandemic while some zero risk middle management bloke was paid to stay at home hiding behind his sofa and working on Zoom to carry on "running" the country. One of my neighbours, a renal transplant recipient with insulin resistance from immunosuppressive meds, had to get a job as a Tesco delivery driver because he lost his pre-covid job as a direct result of the first lockdown. Go figure.

I have to state that I have almost never, ever even considered voting for the Labour Party in any election. I don't do the whole "Looney Left" thing. But I have done so just once.

That was in 2019 and it was only because Corbyn was the party leader.

Not because I approve of all of his policies and life decisions (FFS, he's a vegetarian!) but, primarily, he is one of the few UK politicians who did not massively fiddle his parliamentary expenses claims in the 2008/9 scandal. He's not a crook. There might be a handful of other politicians around the world in this category but they're like hen's teeth. Recall my septic tank and what floats to the top.

So I have a great deal of respect for Jeremy Corbyn. Especially after the clear cut demonstration during the last three years of how the main stream media works with misinform to promote an agenda. Before covid I massively underestimated the influence of the MSM. How could anyone believe this crap? My bad.

So it was nice to see Liberty Places put out this tweet

Fact:

@jeremycorbyn

would never go to Davos, never send arms to Ukraine, never ignore vaccine harms, never bow to the IMF, UN, NATO or EU technocrats. Many need to admit they got him wrong.

I don't think Liberty Places (not all of whose posts do I agree with) are exactly Socialists by any stretch of the imagination!

Corbyn was replaced by Starmer, who was interviewed by Emily Maitlis. There was about 30-40 minutes of drivel before the final quick fire questions, I listened to it all. This is the most telling few seconds, the rest is in the same vein:

The full interview video appears to have been removed from Youtube and I clipped the above few seconds from this guy's channel. Had to use Brave running under Linux to find it.

There is a reasonably accurate summary/partial transcript at The Conservative Woman. If you ever find the whole video then Starmer's hatred of Corbyn and his preference for the company of Piers Morgan (inset vomit emoji here) over Corbyn was emphatic and understandable, if morally reprehensible. Like the WEF/parliament clip, the Corbyn/Morgan clip is right at the end of the interview in the quickfire questions section.

This person, Starmer, is likely to be our next PM. As Lord Sumption discussed with Jay Bhattacharya, all those years ago in 2021, we might be witnessing the collapse of Western Democracy. That seems to be progressing pretty well.

The current divide is not between Left and Right, these are irrelevant. It's more individuals vs globalists.

Most people don't realise.

Peter

Edit: can't resist re publicising this from Bob Moran:

and this piece of ancient history too. Have to be fair to both sides: