Tories and other sundry right-wing little Englanders persistently ask the Scots why they won't accept the 'settled will' of the people who voted by a majority to remain part of the United Kingdom. Similarly, people ask the same question of those of us who voted to remain within the EU, why we won't accept the verdict of the referendum, and label us remoaners. I cannot, and will never, pretend to speak for anyone else, but I will give a straight answer to why I will not accept those results, and the principal reason is that they were both the result of the most mendacious and heinous campaigns in my lifetime. Both the Scottish and EU referenda were a fraud and a catalogue of lies. I will not regurgitate what I have said before about those campaigns, but both were a disgrace to any civilised society and an affront to democracy.
Had both those campaigns been fought on facts, decency and genuine differences of opinion, then my opinion would have been different too. I am never afraid to be wrong. I have been wrong about most things all of my life and still harbour doubts about most of the things I believe in. I am never afraid to be beaten either. I was active in politics for over 25 years and have never been on the winning side in an election yet, and I stood for office about eight times, as well as helping other people. I am used to being wrong and losing. What I object to is being beaten by fraudsters and liars and having to live with the consequences of their lies and fraud. What is also unacceptable is that we are supposed to just accept the lies and 'get on with it.' It never fails to amaze me how so many people who voted for a lie and who now know that it was a lie, are quite content to accept the situation. What also deeply concerns me is that the UK is now governed by a parcel of lying rogues who have been exposed as being a parcel of lying rogues. We have Boris the Spider for example as our Foreign Secretary. This is a man who spent the entire EU referendum telling the British how he would earmark £350 million per week that would be saved if we left the EU for spending on the NHS and immediately after the result announcing that he didn't mean it. That was just one of the barefaced lies he and his cronies are guilty of. His job is now to try to convince foreign governments that he is trustworthy and that the government he represents is honourable etc. I mean you genuinely could not make such a farce up, it is like a Wodehouse novel. That is modern British government, a fraud and a lie, and we are supposed to simply accept it and respect them.
For those of you from outside the UK, one of the telling arguments used during the Scottish referendum to defeat the Yes campaigns was that a vote to leave the UK would seriously jeopardise our membership of the EU. A majority of Scots voted No and now find that we are out of it anyway and that we were the victim of a serious fraud. We are now expected to respect the people who lied through their teeth to us and accept our subordination to their will. Yes we argued that a vote for independence was a once in a generation phenomenon, but that was on the basis that we would not be lied to and betrayed. It was on the basis that the unionists would be honest and dignified. One of the immediate effects was the revulsion in Scotland for the Labour Party who ran a simply foul campaign including targeting pensioners and telling them that if they voted Yes then their pensions would cease to be paid the following week. As you know they were thrashed at the following general election.
The great slogan of the EU leave campaign was to regain our country and take back control. I am witnessing a very similar mendacious campaign being run by the Trump people. Make America Great Again. OK, but how are you going to do that? What we have heard so far is similar to what we heard in Britain. You are going to target foreigners, you are going to demonise minorities. People in America are actually enthusiastically supporting a man who openly admits he will use torture, he says he loves waterboarding as an instrument of the state. He is going to build his wall etc. He is going to target the families of America's enemies and openly tells the Americans he is going to kill women and children. What we must ask is when he will start torturing Americans, and killing the families of Americans who he identifies as his enemies and a threat to 'his' America. As I mentioned before, I cannot get over how much he resembles Mussolini with his childish pout and self-satisfied demeanour. I fear for America as it is entering a very dark place, where the national sport seems to be shooting unarmed African Americans and an obvious psychopath seems likely to win the Presidency. Politics is approximating the scenarios last seen in the 1930's with Germans now openly fearing that they are witnessing the re-emergence of Nazism. In my next post I am going to discuss what people today call socialism to show how intellectually barbaric the national narrative is. That may not be for a few days, but, as MacArthur famously said, I shall return. You have been warned
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
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