“Robert Jenrick turns vigilante in bid to tackle London’s fare dodgers”, reports the Guardian in a valiant effort to make tackling fare dodgers look like a bad thing.
Tory MP claims ‘law breaking is out of control’ in video in which he accosts travellers on the underground
Robert Jenrick is perhaps best known to the public as the former government minister who unlawfully intervened in a planning decision involving a billionaire Conservative party donor.
To others, he may be the Tory MP that parliament’s spending watchdog said was centrally involved in wasting nearly £100m on a botched plan to house asylum seekers.
Now, however, Jenrick has a new claim to fame: as the man who released a video of himself delivering “vigilante justice” to people he accused of fare dodging in London.
The failed party leadership candidate posted a video online on Thursday morning in which he accused the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, of “driving a proud city into the ground”, adding: “Lawbreaking is out of control. He’s not acting. So, I did.”
The problem for the Guardian’s Kevin Rawlinson is that Jenrick’s video has indeed brought him fame and admiration, which has only been augmented by the sneering responses from various left wingers. Jenrick’s video has had 11.6 million views. The Secret Barrister’s response, “This is the most spectacularly Alan Partridge thing that has ever happened, and I include Alan Partridge”, has had 1.4 million views and a ratio for the ages.
The alternative media outlet “The London Economic” has been busily putting out anti-Jenrick arguments that exemplify how left wingers miss the point, and which contain the word “akshully” even when they don’t:
“It’s been pointed out that Jenrick’s constituency of Newark actually has a higher crime rate than London”
So the Shadow Justice Secretary isn’t allowed to care about crime outside his own constituency?
and
“Robert Jenrick broke TfL rules in video complaining about Tube fare-dodgers”
Oh no, won’t somebody please think of the poor Transport for London rules – since TfL itself evidently does not.
I came across this tweet a week ago and bookmarked it because I knew it would soon be relevant:
One of the fundamental operating modes of the British state is that it will make everyone’s lives worse in numerous small ways rather than properly get to grips with the people who actually cause the problems.
As usual the Guardian is lying.
People who have heard of Robert Jenrick think of him as the minister who resigned from the last government because he held it was not serious about stopping mass migration.
The Guardian ignores this – and pretends that the public is interested in all the stuff they, the Guardian, rake up to divert attention.
How long has it been since the Guardian was sincere? How long has it been since Guardian staff honestly believed that their policies would make Britain a better place to live in and honestly argued for these policies?
They clearly are NOT sincere now – they make no effort to argue for their policies, or honestly claim that they have made Britain a better place. All they do is smear-and-sneer.
That, smearing-and-sneering, is all the Guardian can do now.
Progressive policies (which dominate the institutions) have made Britain a much worse place – and Britain continues to get worse because of these Progressive policies – which have been de facto accepted by all the political parties who have been in office (in office – even if not in power).
So the Guardian faces a choice – give up Progressive policies, or give up Britain being a decent place to live in.
Sadly, tragically, they have chosen the second option.
The moral evil, for that is what it is, of the Guardian goes back a long way – for example when one of their own journalists, a young Malcolm Muggeridge, found out that millions of people were being deliberately starved to death in the Marxist Soviet Union in the 1930s – the Manchester Guardian (as it then was) dismissed him.
That is not “we honestly have a different point of view about how to make the lives of people better” – that is moral evil, knowing the terrible things that Progressive policies lead to, having the horror shoved in their faces, and then carrying on anyway.
This is real darkness – never forget that. Please do not make the mistake of thinking they are decent people who mean well – they are not, and they do not.
It is not that they do not know of the decay of British cities and towns, the general decline of the culture – they DO know. And they know that it is their Progressive policies that have caused, and are causing, terrible harm.
And they carry on anyway.
Well, in the US, it appears the Guardian Angels are back.
I go to NYC on business, and to be honest I find the city getting increasingly grimy.
Robert Jenrick has upset the right people. Whatever happens politically in the next few years in the UK, my guess is that he will have a part to play.
Psul Marks – Progressive policies that have dominated all three mainstream parties.
It has been pointed out in numerous places (I do not know if this is true but am not aware of any evidence to the contrary) that Mr Jenrick only confronted white offenders. My own experience of the London Underground is that the passengers are an extremely diverse bunch.
However, maybe this particular illegal activity is not practiced by other ethnicities?
Is the Secret Barrister really Jolyon? Asking on behalf of a fox.
I believe the SB is female so even if he was wearing his silk fox-clubbing kimono that would rule Jolyon out.
The clincher is that she appears to be reasonably knowledgeable.
It’s probably a useful metric to understand the current attitudes of the non-invader population. That could be a way to determine how the invasion is changing the underlying pre-existing society.
Stuart Noyes – absolutely, and not just at national level.
For example, who made the decision to fly such things as the “Pride” flag and even the African Nationalism flag (considered extreme even in African nations – as it wants one united African superstate) outside council offices?
These “policies” appear from officials – and elected politicians are told they MUST follow them, any opposition would be “bullying” or would “bring the council into disrepute” and the councilor would be out on their ear.
Remember when the Conservative Deputy Prime Minister, Dominic Raab, made some (rather moderate) criticisms about “policy” being decided by unelected people – he was quickly forced to resign.
As was Liz Truss.
The mistake is to assume that Britain is a democracy and that people such as Jacob Rees-Mogg, or ME for that matter, must be closet leftists – because leftist policies are followed when we are “in power”.
But we are NOT in power when elected – we are “in office”, that is an utterly different thing.
That is something the Reform Party in Northamptonshire (North and West) are now finding out – they won the election, but find themselves “in office – but not in power”.
For example, the Council Tax will continue to go up by 4.9% a year.
The “Secret Barrister” poses as a defender of the principles of justice and the ordinary person – but it is just a pose. In reality this person is very much part of the problem, the decay of British society – as part of the general decay of the West.
Johnathan Pearce.
Although he is a Democrat I think Mayor Adams means well – but the problems are just too difficult.
Even if the Republican Curtis Sliwa (founder of the Guardian Angels) had won the election – what he could do?
Industry has been in decline in New York for many years – and a city of millions of people can not be sustained by monetary trickery, not for ever.
Maybe he’s trying to prepare the ground for defection to reform?
Like those German generals who, once they realised the war was lost, started sending indications to the allies that the were actually honourable professionals and had never really bought into nazism.
He must at least be thinking it.
Having resigned from his position as Minister of State for Immigration on the grounds that Sunak’s policies did not go far enough to tackle illegal immigration at least he “Walked the Walk” – which is a damned sight better than the talkers that still dominate what’s left of the Conservative Party.
As with Reform he’s not perfect but still one of the few decent options out there.
Mark – Robert Jenrick resigned from the last government, over its failure to overcome the officials and judges in mass immigration, long before the Reform Party became important.
He has been on a political journey for a long time – from Cameron style “moderate” (i.e. Globalist Sellout) to Conservative.
On the Reform Party – today in town I noticed that the Ukrainian flag had come down from outside the Council Offices.
Like that or not – it is Reform Party policy, it is what their voters wanted.
I am rather sad to see the Ukrainian flag go, I believe the attack on Ukraine in 2022 was not justified – but getting rid of the flag is democracy in action, and something I did not believe the Reform Party would be able to do.
@Paul Marks
Really, it matters little what Robert Jenrick is: Captain Kirk; the lowest, self serving political slime, or something in between.
Whatever he is, how can he achieve whatever he wants (for the country, for himself, for whoever) within the tory party?
Jenrick probably is one of the few who could look to reform and not appear to be just a rat leaving a sinking ship. As I said, it must at least have crossed his mind.
He can achieve nothing whatsoever. If he becomes Tory leader & goes off the Blue Blairite reservation even slightly, he will get defenestrated the same way Truss was. The Tory Party is a write-off.
Mark and Perry.
You seem to think the problem is the “Tory” Party – rather than the modern system of governance.
You are both wrong – as the problem is the modern system of governance (and not just in the United Kingdom).
The rule of officials, “experts”, and institutions – both government and corporate (which are joined at the hip).
@Paul Marks
The tory party is simply an irrelevance, made so by its own actions since 1997, and particularly since 2019.
Will you ever see that?