Bill Bryson: Britain ideal place for Communism

Thirty years ago, in Notes From A Small Island, Bill Bryson, the most famous British writer ever to come from Des Moines IA, had this to say about the suitability of Not-so-great Britain for the Communist social experiment.

It has long seemed to me unfortunate...that such an important experiment in social organization [as Communism] was left to the Russians when the British would have managed it so much better. All those things that are necessary to the successful implementation of a rigorous socialist system are...second nature to the British. 

For a start, they like going without. They are great at pulling together, particularly in the face of adversity, for a perceived common good. 

They will queue patiently for indefinite periods and accept with rare fortitude the imposition of rationing, bland diets and sudden inconvenient shortages of staple goods, as anyone who has ever looked for bread at a supermarket on a Saturday afternoon will know. 

They are comfortable with faceless bureaucracies and, as Mrs. Thatcher proved, tolerant of dictatorships. They will wait uncomplainingly for years for an operation or the delivery of a household appliance. 

They have a natural gift for making excellent jokes about authority without seriously challenging it, and they derive universal satisfaction from the sight of the rich and powerful brought low. Most of those above the age of twenty-five already dress like [east Europeans]. 

The conditions, in a word, are right.

Roughly a year after Mr Bryson's highly recommendable book appeared, Sir Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Bliar ascended to the leadership of the Labour half of the Uniparty* and became Prime Minister of the Disunitede Kingdom. Evidently he had read the book, for he did his damndest to turn Britain, if not Red, then deep Pinko.

He failed, of course, because Margaret Thatcher had made it politically impossible to renationalize the steel industry, railways, etc., and not enough Third World migrants -- legal and otherwise -- had been "welcomed" to the green and septic isle to complete the transition to totalitarianism.

Fast forward to July of 2024 when British voters, having tired of a succession of feckless and inept "Conservative" governments, gave the Labourites 411 seats in a general election, whereupon the equally feckless and inept King Charles III invited Sir Keir Starmer (to be played in the movie by Sir Michael Palin) to form the next government and lead Britain down the People's Path to, errr... thingy... you know....

The Starmer government quickly set new records for incompetence, DEI, and geneeral wokeness in the face of common sense. Of 122 ministers appointed by the New Dear Leader, 18 have resigned, 1 has been dismissed, and 20 have left to spend more time with their families. [These figures are from Wikipedia, so should be taken cum grano salis. Ed.]

Given the opportunity a couple of weeks ago to show buyer's remorse, the British electorate gave Sir Keir's Labour Party (and, it must be said, the "Conservatives" as well) a rirhgt thrashing in a local elections bloodbath which saw it routed on English councils, and destroyed in Wales and Scotland. See *"Uniparty politics FAILS in UK...", WWW 10/5/26.

Does this mean that Bill Bryson was wrong? I think not. It's just that his timing was off. If Sir Keir can somehow cling to power through one more election [I'll take that bet. Ed.], he and his Pinko friends may yet reduce No-longer-great Britain to the level which prompted Mr Bryson to  write what he did. IMHO, Britain is fecked (as the Irish say) but I don't expect to be proven right until... maybe this fall!

VIDEOS: Brits don't Truss cuckservative/CINO Prime Ministers

Greetings to our readers in the Disunited Kingdom, where his Britannic Majesty, King Charles, the Third of that name, will shortly receive the formal resignation of Liz Truss, the "Conservative" (read: CINO) Prime Minister who announced her resignation today, after just 45 days in office. Here's what she told the meeja just a day previous to throwing in the towel.

  

Following the presser, Ms Truss held a hastily arranged meeting in her office with Graham Brady, a senior Conservative lawmaker who oversees leadership challenges. Mr Brady was tasked with assessing whether the prime minister still has the support of Tory members of Parliament.. and found, to no-one's surprise, that she did not.

A growing number of lawmakers -- not just opposition members but MPs in Ms Truss's own so-called Conservative Party -- had called for the Prime Minister's resignation after weeks of turmoil sparked by her ill-conceived economic plan, which scared hell out of economists, the stock market, investors and everyone else. Even President Brandon said he didn't think it was a good idea, but quickly added it wasn't any of his business.

Following last month's unveiling of the plan, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng [a diversity hire? Ed.] was fired. Several 90- and 180-degree turns later, the policy was abandoned, but the damage had been done. Discipline within the Cuckservative Party broke down completely.

Walt notes with satisfaction that it was not bunny-brained economic policy alone that brought Liz Truss low. She reportedly had a 90-minute shouting match with Suella Braverman -- a woman of colour -- over, of all things, immigration. 

During the campaign to replace Boris "Bozo" Johnson, Ms Braverman was seen by grass-roots conservative Conservatives as their candidate, the one who would at last tackle illegal immigration, as the party had promised to do during the 2019 election campaign. Alas, Ms Braverman was not allowed to reach the final runoff. As a soop to the social conservatives, Prime Minister Truss named her Home Secretary, responsible for policing, national security and immigration in government. 

Unlike her predecessor (also a WOC), Ms Braverman continued to push immigration control in word and deed, leading to significant tensions with Ms Truss, who was not especially interested in it. Quite the contrary, during her push to become the next PM, Ms Truss advocated more immigration, as "needed for economic growth" -- the line being pushed by Messrs Brandon, Trudeau et al.

So, being against the open borders agenda, Ms Braverman had to go. Officially, she was made to resign as Home Secretary for sending a fellow Tory MP an email in which she wrote "Why are we trying to appease the OBR? Is everything getting thrown out the window?"

The unelected Office for Budget Responsibility, very much part of the liberal establishment, considers immigration-driven increases in GDP to be ipso facto a good thing. Ms Braverman called liberalizing immigration policy in defence to rulings by  the European Court of Human Rights "a betrayal of the 2019 electorate."

Today, the London markets are in turmoil, as is the Conservative Party and Not-so-great Britain herself. Such is the level to which things have sunk that it is reported -- breaking news as I write -- that Bojo has cut short a European vacation to return (he thinks) to 10 Downing Street. What a gong how! Or perhaps a Muppet Show? 

UK pol says he can't be a "progressive liberal" and a Christian

This rather boyish-looking individual is Timothy "Tim" Farron. [Not "Timmy"?" Ed.] As you might guess from the pin-striped suit and the image of Westminster behind him, he is a British politician. He was, for a short time -- not long enough to get his English teeth fixed -- the leader of Britain's Liberal Democrat Party.

Mr Farron is also a Bible-believing Christian, which is the reason he gives for his recent resignation from his lofty position. (Not so lofty, really, considering that his party finished this month's election with but 12 of the Westminster Parliament's 650 seats.) He says his party's "progressive" platform, which he advocated during the election, is "no longer compatible with his Christian faith."

"To be a political leader, especially of a progressive liberal party in 2017, and to live as a committed Christian, to hold faithfully to the Bible’s teaching has felt impossible," Mr Farron explained. "we are kidding ourselves if we think we yet live in a tolerant, liberal society."

During the recent election campaign, the Liberal Democrat leader was repeatedly attacked -- sometimes by members of his own party -- for past statements indicating that he believed homosexual acts and abortion to be sinful. This, of course, is the opposite of the pro-queer agenda of the "progressives" and all right-thinking persons of the 21st century. Mr Farron waffled on the question after winning the party leadership in 2015. Asked repeatedly whether his Christian faith meant he believed homosexuality was a sin, he first prevaricated, then eventually said he did not think homosexuality was sinful.

Following the election, Lord Paddick, who is the UK's most senior openly gay police officer, resigned as the Liberal Democrats' home affairs spokesman over "concerns about the leader's views on various issues that were highlighted" during the election campaign. In his resignation statement, Mr Farron said he had found himself torn "between living as a faithful Christian and serving as a political leader." To make himself perfectly clear, he added, "I seem to be the subject of what I believe and who my faith in is."

Canadian Liberals (and other liberals) will be quick to urge the new leader of Canada's Conservative Party, Andrew Scheer, to follow in Mr Farron's footsteps down the straight and narrow path before his (Mr Scheer's) Roman Catholic faith -- already labelled "social conservatism" -- becomes and embarrassment to him.

Read the whole story here: "Tim Farron resigns as Liberal Democrat leader, saying it felt ‘impossible’ to lead party and be Christian", Catholic Herald, 14/6/17.