Above, Mr Ed Miliband the chief architect of the Climate Change Act 2010 and inset, Nadine Dorries.
The other day, the media reported on the Right Honourable Nadine Dorries , PC – the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport up to 6th September 2022 – the Member for Mid Bedfordshire making what to most observers seemed an extraordinary comment – for a Tory MP – suggesting that Mrs O’Leary has no mandate for her programme and should one from the voters via a General Election!
The mainstream media pundits and doubtless the Chairman of her constituency party will have regarded this as the most extreme case of a Turkey voting for an early Christmas (Thanksgiving for our US readers) in political history!
Many dismissed it as just plain bizarre and carried on with their ordinary tasks.
The BG however is NOT one such organ! On the contrary, we think that Ms Dorries has a point. The lady realises that there are some fundamental structural issues and other major issues that any UK government has to confront. The lady realises that the present Truss Ministry neither has the mandate or the support in the Commons – let alone the country for what has to be done.
The biggest challenge the UK faces is in fact adopting a U turn on the whole issue of “climate change” and the lunatic pursuit of “Net Zero”. This is a ruinous policy that cannot possibly succeed – whichever political party is in power.
I think the lady realises this. I also think her working experience to date has provided her with this insight.
From 1978 to 1981, the lady was a nurse in Warrington and Liverpool. When The Buffoon became prime minister in July 2019, the lady was appointed as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Mental Health, Suicide Prevention and Patient Safety at the Department of Health and Social Care. She was promoted in May 2020 to the ministerial rank of Minister of State for Mental Health, Suicide Prevention and Patient Safety.
One of the things that the lady’s experience will have shown and taught her is that when a person is an addict – they have to reach absolute rock bottom and despair before they can begin the long slow climb out of their addiction. Sadly many addicts are unable to climb out of their rock bottoms and they take the way out of suicide.
I am sure that the lady knows that most of the political and chattering classes have become so wedded to the “climate change” issue and “Net Zero” they are like an addict: they will have to experience the equivalent of “rock bottom” before they come to their senses. Of course, the people who will really suffer will be their long suffering constituents!
Given the state of the polls were the Tories to go to the country it is entirely possible that they would be virtually wiped out. A few constituencies would still return Tory MPs but the likelihood is that the Tories would end up with the numbers of MPs at Liberal Democrat levels – if they were lucky.
Tim Montgomerie of Conservative Home (https://conservativehome.com/) has already commented that Tory MPs have accepted that there will be a Labour government and the task for the party is to try and limit the damage in terms of loss of seats. Of course there is rich irony on display here: Mr Montgomerie was reflecting that Mrs O’Leary’s tenure of #10 is precarious as many Tory MPs are of the opinion that they must get a new leader quickly – not to win the next election (they have accepted that this won’t happen) but to try and ensure that Labour’s majority is not of overwhelming proportions and thus giving them a fighting chance of getting back in 2029.
Of course, there is NO CHANCE WHATSOEVER of Mrs O’Leary taking her former supporter’s advice!
However, there is a reasonable chance that Tory MPs – wanting to keep their seats if possible – will conspire with Mr Gove and see that the 1922 Committee changes its rules – AGAIN – to allow Mrs O’Leary to be challenged and also that the franchise is limited to Tory MPs.
IF this happens Mrs O’Leary will resign from her position as the Conservative Party Leader and the new leader (a Tory MP) will take over. Mrs O’Leary will then go to Buckingham Palace (or another Royal residence) to meet the King with th intention of resigning from her position as his Prime Minister.
It is entirely possible that His Majesty will refuse to accept this and instead will dissolve parliament an call a General Election!
Ms Dorries will then get her wish!
Personally I hope this happens!
There is ONE thing I earnestly and sincerely hope DOES NOT happen! A nuclear attack on the UK!
As I have posted before now, the great danger is a US nuclear response to a Russian nuclear attack on Ukraine. Such a hypothetical response would be limited. There is a significant risk that the USA will choose a B-2 aircraft (flown from a USAF airbase located in the UK) with free fall B61 nuclear bombs to make the attack. The reason? In an attempt of limiting the inevitable Russian nuclear response!
If you are a US politician, better UK lives are lost as opposed to US lives!
Now, should the US administration decided to do this they have THREE choices:
#1: That the US President inform the British Prime Minister before the aircraft takes off.
#2: That the US President inform the British Prime Minister after the aircraft takes off and is en-route to it’s target.
#3: That the US President inform the British Prime Minister after the aircraft has carried out it’s mission!
It is likely that the US President opts for choice #3!
It is entirely possible (depending upon the severity of the US strike) the Russians might responds by “taking out” the Royal Navy’s nuclear facilities (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMNB_Clyde & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNAD_Coulport) on the Clyde.
This would make Mrs O’Leary’s (and her party’s) position untenable.
Were the Tories to be wiped out, Labour’s majority would be on monumental proportions. This notwithstanding the likelihood that the SNP will win all Scottish seats. This would be a NECESSARY thing!
Sir Keir Starmer would then have the great challenges to tackle and WILL FAIL COMPREHENSIVELY because he will stay wedded to the whole issue of “climate change” and the lunatic pursuit of “Net Zero”!
The other thing that will happen of course is that Wokery will be allowed to run riot! There will be many more cases such as that endured by Mrs Caroline Farrow (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11279745/Devout-Catholic-mother-arrested-series-malicious-posts-uploaded-chat-forum-KiwiFarms.html).
In FACT, the fewer Tory MPs there elected, the better! This because in British Politics it is only the minor parties such as UKIP who can come up with innovative and radical policies! “Brexit” was THE classic example!
The innovative and radical policy of “no problem with CO2” has largely been adopted by UKIP. The Tories need to adopt is now! They won’t if they have any MPs! As long as a political party seeks tactic approval from the Brussels Broadcasting Commissariat they will be unable to adopt the policy of “no problem with CO2”!
Many lefties of course are only too well aware that a Labour government now will have to tackle the serious challenges that Mrs O’Leary has to face!