Remember, when the grooming gangs hit the news again in January, after decades of these gangs operating, the official line from No10, repeated by the regime media, remained that ‘the real story here is the tech oligarchs spreading disinformation and the spread of the Islamophobic far right’.
They briefed fake news to the media that ‘Cummings is writing Elon’s tweets’. The PM gave a speech about it. Useless regime hacks like Lewis Goodall called it ‘his best speech’. Goodall explained that the ‘real story’ is the influence of Elon, social media radicalising the right, ‘the emergence of a common UK/US online right … making extremist, until recently fringe politics mainstream in British conservatism… Far right thinking … has become mainstream. Remember that the notion of ubiquitous Muslim grooming gangs has long been a trope of extremism, despite little evidence’ — and the idea that there’s been a national conspiracy to deny victims justice ‘is dangerous nonsense’ (Goodall, Jan 2025).
This was ‘the mainstream’ pundit view in SW1-media-land only 6 months ago. Being pathological and pathologically incompetent, the regime then tried to organise another layer of coverup with a report but this went wrong because the scale of evidence is so vast the author rebelled and told enough of the truth to make the No10 line untenable. Narrative Whiplash kicked in: suddenly the gangs were no longer ‘far right disinformation’, they’re real, there’ll be an Inquiry, though of course the core Insider belief hasn’t changed — the purpose of the Inquiry (from Whitehall’s perspective) is to control the story and suppress as much as possible voters connecting the collapse of border control and the systematic rape/abuse/killing of English children.
I thought you didn’t like Cummings
I do not like him at all. But just because he is an arse does not mean everything he says is wrong. He has seen the blob from the inside and often has interesting insights even if he was an utter covid-fascist amongst other flaws.
Perry – you sum up what I also think about Mr “lockdown” Cummings.
As for the United Kingdom generally….
Things continue to get worse here – the World Health Organisation Pandemic Treaty (rightly rejected by the United States) has been accepted by the British government (the deadline for rejecting the amendments was the 19th of July) so no need for Mr Cummings for the next lockdown. And the Online Safety Bill (Act) is now in force.
Talk of this being a free country is now nonsense.
Will the regime fall?
Yes it will – but not till May 2029 (perhaps a month or so later – if they choose to carry on even after the local elections, till the full five years is up).
But the country will be utterly wreaked by then.
Even as late as the, much smeared (lied about), 1930s, the United Kingdom was still better governed (or less badly governed) than most other Western nations.
Later, from the Atlee government onwards (yesterday was the 80th anniversary of that government coming into office) the United Kingdom became an example of a government worse than most other Western governments (although the demented “educated” classes pretended the opposite). In the 1950s and early 1960s there was a partial correction in the United Kingdom – but in the late 1960s and 1970s British government became dramatically worse. This was partly (only partly) corrected by Margaret Thatcher – up to 1990.
Things have gone badly since 1990 – but will now get much worse, very much worse.
The main function the United Kingdom will serve over the next four years will be as an example of bad, indeed terrible, governance.
If “right wingers” in other nations (including the United States) have any intelligence they will use the line “Do you want to end up like Britain?” to help them win elections.
Being a bad, indeed terrible, example of governance – is still serving a role, and this is the role the United Kingdom will serve, it will serve as a warning of the terrible consequences of leftist (what Americans, bizarrely, call “liberal”) policies.
As for the rape and other abuse of British children.
President Trump warned yesterday of the terrible consequences of mass immigration into Western Europe.
His warning was true – but sadly, partly, out of date.
Now natural increase (births) has partly taken over from immigration, as various people (for example the late John Enoch Powell) warned it eventually would.
Even if all migration into the United Kingdom stopped right now, ethnic conflict would continue to get worse and worse.
“Demography is destiny” – as the French used to say, before the regime there started to punish people for saying such things.
Mr Cummings mentions that 200 years ago the British government was much better than other governments at procurement (of military equipment and so on).
Part of the reason for that was that the British economy was vastly stronger than any other county – with the possible exception of the United States. Due to the relative (relative – compared to other nations) lack of statism in Britain.
But Mr Cummings is correct that British government was also different then – there was no Civil Service then, ministers and the Prime Minister hired and fired their own staff – and personally managed government.
And such Prime Ministers as Lord Liverpool and Sir Robert Peel were rather efficient managers.
The rot set in with Prime Minister Russell – and his faith in officials, ideas being pushed by Sir Charles Trevelyan – who was promoted (yes promoted – and honoured) after every disaster he was responsible for – his record in Ireland being the worst. He was true driving force behind the creation of the bureaucracy.
However, (see above) I would still argue that Britain was better governed, or less badly governed, than other nations – even as late as the 1930s.