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Samizdata quote of the day – When something is done by the public, it can only be undone by the public Wales deserves a closer look. Turnout was 50.1 per cent. Yes won by 559,419 to 552,698, a margin of 6,721 votes, settled only when Carmarthen declared last. Barely a quarter of the Welsh electorate voted for the body that now sits in Cardiff Bay as the Senedd. In 2011 a further referendum gave it primary lawmaking powers on a turnout of 35.6 per cent.
Nobody now argues that a 0.6 per cent margin on half a turnout denied the Assembly its legitimacy. Devolution’s supporters treat that September night as the founding act of modern Welsh democracy, and they are entitled to. But the principle has to run both ways. If one in four Welsh electors can found a legislature, then 17.4 million votes on a 72.2 per cent turnout, the largest vote for anything in British history, cannot be treated as provisional.
– Gawain Towler
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Gawain Towler is correct about the United Kingdom referendum for independence from the European Union – the independence referendum was clear and correct, it is just a shame (a horrible shame) that legal independence was NOT used for any actual change in policy, legally we could “take back control of our borders” and so on – but due to the power of judges, officials and “experts” (and, yes, due to the cowardice of many elected politicians – who did not take back power from the officials, judges, and so on) we did not do so.
A few months ago a North Northants Unitary Authority Councillor left the Conservative Party – his reason for leaving was Kemi B. finally committing the party to getting OUT of the European Convention on Human Rights – he claimed leaving was a threat to liberty, I asked him “what liberty has it ever protected?” – he mentioned Freedom of Speech, ignoring the tens of thousands of arrests for the peaceful expression of opinions, he mentioned other Civil Liberties – ignoring the Covid lockdowns which violated all of these Civil Liberties. In the end we got to the real reason he supports the ECHFR – we must not (in his view) be beastly to migrants, or to hostile (“hostile” is my word – he would not accept that word) populations inside the United Kingdom.
If this was just one person I would not mention it – but it was really many, they did not fight the judges, officials and “experts” because, deep down, they either agreed with them – or were fightened of being thought “illiberal”, “nasty”, “racist” and so on.
Useless people – worse than useless. People who are so scared of being called “racist” (or some other “ist” or “phobe”) that they will not defend the British people agains their foes (and they are foes) are a waste of space.
It does not matter what the skin colour of a person is (Thomas Sowell is black and a great man – “Andy” Burnham is white and is a nonenity) – but if someone is so terrified of being called “racist” that they will not do what is right – then they are no good.
As for the Welsh Assembly and Scots Parliament – they have both done great HARM, but if most Welsh and Scottish people want harm done to them (for example the terrible harm that has been done to Scottish education and Scots Law) then that is their business – it is nothing to do with me.
Our political class dont care a toss about legitimacy. They are by and large illegitimate.
We have zero restraint on our political class. There are no constitutional protections.
There is no document or declaration by the people. We were a Royal fiefdom. The monarchy has been replaced by an elite who can do what they want. The UK is their fiefdom.
Stuart Noyes – agreed, if one includes the officials and “experts” as part of the political class, and (alas) the Monarch himself on SOME matters – such as the forces of Islam.
Today the Observer newspaper had on its front cover “Burnham confirms” that Russia was behind the defeat for the establishment in the independence referendum – not “claims”, “confirms”. This is the lying propaganda the media are pushing – coming from the serial liar “Andy” Burnham and other puppets of the establishment (the establishment has been controlled by the left since the 1960s).
The establishment have decided that even the notional independence that Britain now has, is to be ended – and that anyone who objects will be denouced as an agent-of-Putin.
And their attitude to Ukraine, to the Ukrainian people, is much the same – they do NOT want Ukraine to be independent, they want it as part of the European Union and general International Community (Agenda 2030 and all that) – they do not want the Ukrainian people to even exist (no more than they want the English people to exist). As the existence of historic peoples, supposedly violates “Diversity and Inclusion”.
As for Mr Putin – he is no hero, no alternative to the (accursed) International Community (with its totalitarian agenda) – indeed his “RT” is on-the-same-side as the international establishment on many things – including elections in Latin America (always backing the Collectivist candidates), and the Middle East.
The “Nobel Peace Prize” (very much under the control of the international establishment their fake, utterly fake, liberalism) was awarded to someone who ignores the disaster of the last 30 years in her native South Africa (the ANC is beloved by the International Community – and by Mr Putin), and spends her time telling lies about Jews – lies that make the blood-libels of the Middle Ages look tame.
And Mr Putin cheers on the lies.
“Alternative” – he is as much an “alternative” as Eurasia was to Ocenia in George Orwell’s “1984”.
The Soviet Union invented what is now called Agenda 2030 – many decades before the World Economic Forum existed (indeed before the United Nations existed) – right down to people living in blocks of flats they do not own, with everything (including heat and light) controlled by the authorities.
If you want to see what the international establishment have in mind for all of us – visit a Soviet created city, not the tourist bits in the middle – the endless blocks of flats where everything (everything) is controlled by exterior authorities (even when the heating works).
As for the social agenda – baby killing, sexual perversions, and so on – the Soviet Union was in the forefront of all of this – from the coup of 1917 onwards. The West, which started pushing such things in the 1960s, was copying what the Soviet Marxists had done decades before.
Even the NHS – which the “conservative” Jeremy Hunt cites as what makes him “proud to be British” is NOT a British invention – it was a copy of the Soviet health system created more than 20 years before.
The left has always been like this – Rousseau (who the French Revolutionares so admired) had, as a foundational doctrine, that “the fruits of the earth belong to everyone, and the earth itself belongs to no one” – a vicious denial of private property, which is the basis of civilization (as bad as Plato in his most extreme moments). As for perversions – he left his own children to die, and boasted about it in his “Confessions” (and he is boasting – it is clear that he had no real remourse).
Where did Rousseau get this from – he got it from his old patron the Abbe de Mably – entryism into the churches is nothing new, it is centuries old.
When such folk talk of “freedom” they mean the freedom to steal – and the freedom to murder.
As for Britain – the wolves in sheeps clothing was not a joke, it was what the Fabians really were.
For example, G.B. Shaw – with his desire to kill anyone who could not justify their existence to his government board, or H.G. Wells – with his desire to destroy all beautiful buildings, art, and so on – and to destroy the family itself.
The fact that evil men (and they were evil) such as Shaw and Wells are cultural icons in Britain, and the West generally, points to a society which is ill, very ill.