The British Governing Class

The above is a quote from Kim Philby, in the BBC's "New Footage of Kim Philby" concerning how such "pedigree" aided his ability to deceive for so long. It matters much much less the substance of what someone says than their social status and the ability to put on the airs of such in communication.

Our British Governing Class has been doing exactly this deception to the British people since the beginning of the 1960's. And the result of that today, to quote Pete North: Brexit is the last chance for democracy in our lifetime:-

"Once we vote in, there is going to be no more reform. If it was unreformable with the very real threat of Brexit, they are not going to listen to us once we have caved in and accepted Cameron's bogus package of reforms.
And on that matter, I have a bone to pick with Leavers. We are seeing far too much rhetoric from Tory MPs who have come out in favour of Brexit that largely lets the PM off the hook - saying that it was not the fault of Cameron that he didn't get a good deal. Not only did he not try to reform the EU or our relationship with it, instead merely restating various existing instruments that will never be used - he has actively lied about it.

And so any MP giving Cameron a free pass is hedging their bets - when to fully campaign for Brexit necessarily demands visceral opposition of the PM - who is, de facto, the leader of the Remain campaign. If such mealy mouthed behaviour is the best we can expect then you're simply not in in the game and ceding ground to the opposition.

I cannot stress how much is at stake here and why it matters so very much. If we don't get out now, there is only one real way out and if you think the Brexit on offer presently means uncertainty then you'll get a nasty re-education as to what that word means when we're forced out at the next Euro crisis. And there will be one.

The bottom line is that no supranational entity with so little mandate to govern has ever survived and it has never ended well. So we can take it as read that one way or another we are leaving and the choice in this referendum is not the choice you might think."

Sounds like our modern day "Philby", David Cameron is enabled to get away with his Deceptions over the Dodgy Deal by his other British Governing Class colleagues.

 The Smirking Arrogance of Kim Philby - Completely missed by British "Intelligence"

• EU Referendum: Dave's dodgy deal - 1 
• EU Referendum: Dave's dodgy deal – 2 
• EU Referendum: a denial of democracy 

 Aided by the Government:-

• EU Referendum: the good, bad and the lies - 1 
• EU Referendum: the good, bad and the lies - 2

 What do the "Soviets" think (laughing!)?:-

• EU Referendum: a Duff deal  

And will the British people ever learn?

• EU Referendum: the nine deceptions 

 Much has been made of David Cameron being born into the British Governing/Ruling Class:-

Here we have another "Philby" in Boris Johnson who will be the current leader of the Leave Campaign to David Cameron's Remain Campaign:

• EU Referendum: not in our name
• EU Referendum: not on our side 
• EU Referendum: beyond stupidity 
• EU Referendum: the Johnson saga continues 
• EU Referendum: the Johnson disease 

The British Governing Class - today

I don't personally care what the background of people is, very much. In fact at least Mr. Cameron and Mr. Johnson are adept at presenting themselves well and in fact dealing with so much inanity that passes for serious and productive argument - when the complete opposite, our "sophisticated savages" / "urban barbarians" routine rears it's unwelcome head nine times out of ten: I value their contribution for dealing with that maelstrom of unrefined shit-stirring. But what I dislike is that these individuals are the head of a rotting system of governance such as:-

"Britain's exit from the European Union would lead to the “implosion” of the continental bloc and force the United States to intervene to put “Humpty Dumpty back together again”, the boss of the London Stock Exchange has claimed.

Xavier Rolet added that the “UK leaving the European Union is the end of the European Union”. In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Mr Rolet, one of 200 business leaders to sign a high-profile letter in February supporting the campaign for the UK to remain in Europe, said such a prospect would be “devastating.”

“I think this would be a geopolitical event that would reverberate way beyond the European Union. I think it would be devastating to the economy of the United Kingdom, and would not be good for anyone with their headquarters in the European Union.

He said that the fallout would trigger a major shift in current geopolitical allegiances. “It will mean an advantage for Russia, it will mean a reassessment of the value of the UK relationship and the European relationship by China, and it will mean that the United States has got to come back in and intervene.”

Referencing the Marshall Plan designed to help Europe to get back on its feet economically in the wake of the Second World War, he continued: “The gaze of the United States would have to move back towards Europe, with a view to putting Humpty Dumpty back together again.”

“It’s not business’s role to tell the electorate how to vote. But it’s not illegitimate for business to say, 'if this happens, that’s what we think the consequence could be’.

“In my humble opinion, in the area of clearing, which basically drives the bulk of our flows... the decision to leave the EU would be beyond devastating for the City of London.”

Assholes like this get a leg-up from people like Cameron or Johnson. And it seems to me all over again: The Lost 20 Years (Ushinawareta Nijūnen)

People can trust each other instead of these Hierarchical Social Structures full of Social Climbing and Deception:-

Economical with the Truth - Academic bias

~ Paul Reynolds 

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How Not To Remove Stinging Nettles

Chopping down stinging-nettles may feel good, but for how long?

  

In Ecological Succession different founder species form different types of transient habitats towards a "climax community" eg from a grass clearing over time developing via stages into a mature forest. This of course is what is going on when from the point of view of gardeners "weeds" such as stinging nettles (Urtica dioica) establish on a lawn or in a garden and grow. They're easy to chop down, but as anyone knows who's had to clear large bushes of them, they quickly (rapidly!) grow back. Hence some digging finds a complex matt of root systems from which at any point new nettle-stems can grow back from. It's effectively an example of the "roots vs shoots" problem or "root cause". The effort to dug up the root system is considerably more, however it does resolve the problem of permanently removing the stinging nettles from that particular patch of ground.

EU Referendum: The Rule of 2

In Eurosceptic "Amnesia" vs Brexiteer "Total Memory Recall" the importance or input of memory was considered in our arguments. This follows from the observation made in Literature And Science about future qualitative inferences that shape our expectations of future results compared to post-hoc quantitative deductions which can then feedback into our next future decisions. In Understanding The Mountains of Madness we saw how the argument as per the Electoral Commission's Referendum Question:-

 The argument simplified to it's essence

 Is not so much shaped as above, but as:-

• Pro-EU Status Quo which is observed to be not working very well.
• Anti-EU extremism which is considered unsafe and possibly unsound.

We learnt from The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up what our arguments concerning "good governance" reduce down to and how this principle has the potential if applied to make us happier as a people. We looked at elegant patterns in Pattern Recognition and adding to that from the above booklet "A House Divided": Can Parliament serve two masters: the Nation and the European Union?

(1) Design for EU, 1947: "No government dependent on a democratic vote could possibly agree in advance to the sacrifice that any adequate plan must involve. The British people must be led slowly and unconcsiously into the abandonment of their traditonal economic defences..." ~ Peter Thorneycroft, later Chancellor of the Exchequer and Chairman of the Conservative Party.

(2) What Germany Means by "Integration": "Does free Europe want to join Germany? Germany is the heart of Europe and the limbs must adjust themselves to the heart, not the heart to the limbs." ~ HANS SEEBOHM, Minister of Commerce in Dr. Adenauer's Government 1950.

(3) "In this challenging time we are naturally encountering difficulties. They are the birth pangs attending the creation of a United States of Europe." ~ Jean Monnet (The father of the EU) April 30 1952, addressing the Washing Press Club on the European Coal and Steel Community.

 Common Market Referendum - MP Nigel Spearing was there - The country was Duped!

You can compare and contrast with Edward Heath's quotes here in a timeline:-

I would argue the above are "the roots" of the EU Referendum argument. Mostly hidden in the sands of history. And hence we see a pattern emerging:-

• 2-Speed EU: Periphery and Core
• 2-Stage Referendum Process
• 2-Extremes on the political spectrum where a Middle Way is manufactured above.
• 2 actual arguments: The Government-EU Argument (Top) and the Government-People Argument (Down) (which will be attempted to be neglected).

Effectively the Government-EU argument comes before our own. We're excluded from it as per David Cameron's hush-hush Reform Details and avoiding mention of the EU Time-Table towards Association Membership. What concerns them is the argument of the present such as:

In fact far from Brexit causing the UK/Britain to collapse... it's the very reverse proposition that worries "the powers that be" and well-spoken by Xavier Rolet in the above too: The consequences for uncertainty on the EU/EUROZONE, itself. For this reason, this argument cannot accept the primacy of the "ultimate frame of reference itself: Time and History" to our arguments and hence what must happen as their objective and therefore as the visible public argument leading up to our Referendum is their argument: Chopping down stinging nettles not removing their roots. This is backed up again in Conservative Home piece attempting to persuade via the political angle: Nadhim Zahawi MP: Our best future in Europe would be a multi-speed EU – not the divorce that would be worse for everyone .

Surely it seems reasonable to help the EU/EZ as Europe affects us either way we vote? There's nothing unreasonable in suggesting this. However, we have to consider our choices a little more deeply... to bring up from The Campaign For An Independent Britain (see blogroll)

• The millions in EU funding the BBC tried to hide
• Anti-Democratic and Second Class
• Déja Vu 

We can witness how deep the seeds of deception have gone into our national identity, attacking it and further as per again the latest booklet from The Campaign For An Independent Britain (CIB):-

 Generations Betrayed: Cutting the roots of our National Identity (in education)

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”  ~ George Orwell. 

The great problem we as a people face is with arguments which do not actually engage with our own arguments as per democracy but seek to attack and undermine our identity and hence the abuse of power by our own government, our own ruling institutions that underpin democracy we see as per the warning from The Road To The European Union directly applicable to us! When we make a choice we are representing ourselves, our identity, what we value and what we work towards. All those assumptions that help us form a successful nation are undermined when we don't act in accordance with them, when we fail to remember them and fall for the persuasive arguments as per Eurosceptic "Amnesia" vs Brexiteer "Total Memory Recall" .

The above "mocked-up ballot paper" may seem extremely tendentious, but what I think it symbolizes is not to worry about all these exterior postulations from David Cameron who is "a prisoner of his own making" (just count the number of lies he's made and the continuation of The Great Deception under all our Prime Ministers); it's to remember to count on our own interior understanding of our place in the world; draw on our own roots which if we keep healthy like those pesky stinging nettles will grow back out of the ashes of The Great Deception: It's those roots we must look after, not the ever-changing political weather of the day.