The parallel experience between Mal and Mrs May is uncanny. But can Mal profit from it ? Bull S. certainly can't.




Political strategy: the Liberal mold is broken
AMM 12/06/2017

Jennifer Oriel writing in today’s Australian makes comparison of UK’s PM Theresa May and Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull.

Basically, the tune is that both politicians have moved too far from the people. Arrogance is at the base which results in a superiority over the vast unwashed who have nowhere else to go. Even if those pseudo elites promised to change their ways will anyone believe that. We can hope not. It’s time to hitch your horse to another wagon—it can’t be much worse. Everything has to begin somewhere!

Jennifer Oriel: “Is Theresa May a conservative?” It was one those questions that, once uttered, makes you feel like you’ve broken an unspoken rule of political etiquette.

British vote a wake-up call for centrist parties
By way of explanation, I said that in her acceptance speech for leadership of the Conservative Party, May hadn’t mentioned conservatism. The question was politely brushed aside by the political insiders, with assurances May would win the British election in a landslide.
After all, her only competition was that clown Corbyn.

The centrist politics dominating the West for more than two decades have provided stability for the economic order. Whichever major party wins office, investors are reasonably assured of the free flow of capital.

But voters have developed the sense that the major parties resemble each other so closely there is no real choice in elections. They are no longer represented.

For people without much money, the free market seems remote and less vital than the values that hold society together, trustworthy leaders, and the ability to afford the necessities in life while enjoying some light relief from the daily grind.

When given the opportunity, voters chose men like Donald Trump and Jeremy Corbyn instead of more centrist candidates. It is tempting to categorise such choices as merely an expression of populism. Trump and Corbyn did campaign as populist candidates. However, while populism is a common term of derision among centrists, the distinguishing characteristic that voters attribute to anti-establishment candidates such as Trump and Corbyn is authenticity. Their appeal is increased by an engaging, entertaining style.

Corbyn has enthused about Marx, welcomed a long-time communist to his campaign team and was endorsed by the Communist Party. He has praised jihadist groups and recently ran the Islamist propaganda line of holding the West culpable for Islamic terrorism. To me, Corbyn is odious. He embodies the repudiation of the enlightenment and poses a threat to the liberal democratic order. To his supporters, however, he is authentic, the real deal, the leader of a grassroots movement. Unlike May, he went off script and took his message to the streets, often bypassing traditional media for more direct engagement. Perhaps most importantly, he was elected by Labour members and could thus profess a type of authenticity superior to May’s more establishment candidacy.

Authenticity promises voters three things centrists do not: honesty, predictability and a sense of order. However repugnant some may be, authentic candidates appear more trustworthy than the agile, nimble and ever-compromising centrist alternative. The more centrists compromise, the more compromised they appear.

The election campaigns of Malcolm Turnbull and May share more than a passing resemblance. Both are centrists who gained party leadership before contesting a general election. Both called early elections in the belief they would increase their party’s majority. Both hired the reportedly anti-conservative Mark Textor to help shape their campaign strategies. Both were criticised by party members for betraying foundational party values in favour of political correctness, minority politics and climate change activism. Both have a history of changing their professed values when the political tide turns against them.

And both almost led their parties to electoral oblivion. The Turnbull team lost 14 seats in the 2016 election, while the Tories have lost 13 seats under May.

In the wake of the Liberals’ election performance, Textor became a symbol of a party that had lost its moral compass. Party loyalists blamed the campaign on pollster politics and the populist strategy of trying to attract green-left voters by denigrating conservatives and the party base.

The campaign bore the hallmarks of what British political commentator Tim Montgomerie calls the Crosby-Textor-Fullbrook script: tax, competence, negativity about opponents and message discipline.

It also showed the ugly face of centrism: disloyalty, faceless men, naked avarice and political opportunism.

May’s election manifesto revealed a Conservative Party without soul. The term conservative was expressed mostly as a negation. The rare positive framing was reserved for conservatism as a force for free markets and small business.

That’s an important part of the conservative idea, but a remarkably sterile reading of such fertile philosophy. The co-author was Ben Gummer, a Tory MP with a fondness for green politics who reportedly said the pro-Brexit vote made him feel sick.

Bit more in the LINK
http://morningmail.org/political-strategy-liberal-die-broken/#more-61772

The paw Lefties missed out. Boo Hoo!!



Election Shock in UK! Gets Conservative Govt!
AMM 13/06/2017



British sitzsprinklers are in scalding anguish.
Sure they had a conservative government before, but that conservative government was a wishy washy, blithery quivery, culture vulture, waffling government like our own.
A government like Mr. Oddball-Noballs-Turnbull’s, which has forgotten that the majority has rights too.
A government that didn’t give a toss for national sovereignty.

A government that prosecutes Christians for reading the Epistles of Paul in public, but tolerates and encourage Muslim immigrants who cling leech-like to a nearly bankrupt welfare system, establishes their own ‘judicial system,’ and knifes and bombs with a manical devotion to Allah.

And the reason that this new government is conservative in the way that the old one was not is because the only way the new mob can last five years is with the support of the DUP – the Democratic Unionist Party.
And the DUP is a bible-banging counter of the IRA.
The DUP has its roots in the para-militaries of Belfast which bombed and murdered exchanged shot for shot with the IRA during “the troubles.”

They opposed the Sunningdale Agreement which would have shared power in Northern Ireland and in pursuit of that caused a huge general strike. On the fourth day of the general strike supporters exploded four car bombs in Catholic Dublin and Fermanagh killing 33. That ended the Agreement and Northern Ireland descended into further into terrorism and counter-terrorism that continued until the Good Friday Agreement.

True, true, the DUP has given up the concept of violence in politics for nearly 20 years now but that doesn’t mean they have forgotten what terrorism is.

Or how to counter it – with things like abolishing the right to trial by jury, and internment. Not that they had anything to do with these measures – they were not a party then with any power to make legislation , but they saw no harm in it.
They opposed tooth and nail getting into the EU back when it all started.

And the DUP have the notion that marriage is between a man and a woman – a quaint concept in the enlightened England of today.
Their attitude to certain scientific theories is quaint too – they think there are only two sexes, boys and girls, who become men and women when they are older.

Now, they will not be able to change substantially any social laws like these, but they will have a big impact on – guess…
Farmers and terrorism.
Ok, you guessed terrorism, all right. But not farmers.
And it is all pragmatic economics.

At one time Northern Ireland had one of the biggest if not the biggest ship-building works in the world. They built the Titanic (England provided the captain) and they had the biggest rope-building works, huge tobacco works, and a massive linen industry (Irish linen still has the name.) These industries provided a huge work-force skilled in manufacturing.

Today they only have farming – agriculture is the biggest, steadiest, income earner, because all the tourism is in the south.
Now. While they were in the common market they received subsidies. These subsidies helped them to compete in price with Australia’s cheaper wheat, fruit, meat. … Australia and the US were locked out of the EU through punitive tariffs.

So the DUP will bargain on farm (and certain welfare) economics and lend their instincts and knowledge about the effect of Muslim terrorism and how to deal with it. Fighting fire with fire comes to mind.

What the Conservative Party is getting in return is loyalty.
Because there is another background here, these people are Ulster Irish. Ulster’s symbol is the Red Hand of Ulster an ancient Gaelic Irish symbol which signifies among other things doing anything it takes to win.

And their motto, quietly breathed among themselves, is “No Surrender.”
The Red Hand of Ulster has a history going back thousands of years in Ireland. It’s everywhere in Northern Ireland, even government departments. The 36th Ulster Brigade that fought in WW1 had it as a cap badge. It is the symbol of the ancient O’Neill family, Gaelic football associations, and of the murdering para-militaries of Northern Ireland. Both sides claim it though the native Irish have the longest tradition of use.

“No Surrender” is a uniting phrase of the British Protestant establishment in Northern Ireland and stems probably from the time of the Siege of Derry. But “No surrender”is also the ‘war cry’ of the Belfast Brigade of the IRA and is remembered in a rebel song.

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