Treason is Usually Bad Politics

Lessons from the UK Elections

I hope my American readers had an explosively fun Fourth of July.  I did in spite of myself.  As for any British readers . . . well, I’m sorry.  No, I am not (yet) sorry for our rebellion on this side of the pond.  I’m sorry because with your parliamentary elections, you just had an awful Fourth of July even if some of you do not know it yet.

But it was a somewhat good night for Nigel Farage and his Reform UK.  He finally won a seat in Parliament.  Reform was the third most popular party with over 14% of the vote.  Reform voters punished the Tories.  There are any number of seats where Reform took votes and seats away from the Tories.  I’m sad to see Liz Truss and Jacob Rees-Moog are among those thus beaten by the left-right combo of Labour and Reform. The Tories as a whole deserved last night, but those two did not.  There are also any number of seats where Reform was in second place and ahead of the Tories, often well ahead.

But there was one important aspect in which the night was a disappointment.  (I write this with a handful of results still out.)  Reform UK won only four seats.  This while the Liberal Democrats, who with about 12% got less of the popular vote, won 71 seats.

Which brings me to my first obvious lesson from last night — the UK’s electoral system is not fit for purpose . . . unless that purpose is to perpetuate the rule of the Globalist establishment.

The party to the right of the Tories gets 14% but only four seats while the party just to the left of the Tories gets only 12% yet is awarded with 71 seats?  Come on!  With the Conservative Party becoming a Globalist left-of-center party and with the new actually conservative party, Reform, being cheated by the first-past-the-post system, just about everyone right-of-center in Britain has been disenfranchised.  Heck, the American Revolution may have had less provocation than this.

Now one can hope either that actual conservatives gain control of the Conservative Party or that Reform will quick grow into a strong conservative party — and do not underestimate the persuasive power of Nigel Farage.  So perhaps the disenfranchisement of conservatives will end at the next election.  Nonetheless, the current situation is neither right nor healthy for a democracy.

But there is a second even more obvious lesson.  Yes, I do think it’s important to bravely state the obvious at times.

Treason is usually bad politics.

I say “usually” in part because the treason of letting in millions incompatible with Western culture has overall worked quite well for Labour as it has for Democrats in the U. S.  Yes, there can be short term political issues as for Biden now and Gordon Brown in 2010.  But in the long run, treason seems to working for Labour and the Democrats. So allow me to narrow this lesson a bit…

Treason is lousy politics for a right-of-center or centrist party.  This election was always going to be a difficult one for the Tories.  The willful negligence of allowing in unprecedented numbers of “migrants” for over a decade with all the accompanying problems made last night a well deserved disaster.

The treason of enabling the invasion is part of another treason, the utter betrayal of the base of the Conservative Party.  No party, certainly no supposedly right-of-center party, can succeed by betraying its base. The Tories lied to their base about “stopping the boats” and then delivered the opposite.  That was not only policy madness; it was political madness as center and center-right parties are also finding out in France and Germany and elsewhere.

I hear that already establishment wet Tory toffs are saying the Tories need to move to the center.  Heck, under the Cameron-Sunak axis, the Tories have moved so far to “the center” that now they are for all practical purposes Globalist Left.  If one wants to vote for the Globalist Left, there is already Labour and the Lib Dems.  “We want to be invaded and go to hell but slightly slower than Labour will take us” is no way to win an election.

It reminds me of liberal churches that try to attract people by being like the world. Well, guess who does the world better. The world.

No, the Conservative Party desperately needs a strong actually conservative leader now, not another Globalist treasonous back-stabber like Rishi Sunak.  Good riddance to him and to the Wets like him.

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Well, I better leave it at that as I am beginning to foam at the mouth already, and I should begin preparations for a possible visit from Hurricane Beryl.  Feel free to pray for me and for us here along the Texas coast.  I’ve been through Harvey and Hanna, and I do not like how Beryl is acting.  I am not looking forward to this.

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photo: Rishi Sunak being all wet.