nourishing obscurity

Resolve – that’s all it takes, overcoming the fear of fear.

In the chapter on the Scouring of the Shire, from the Lord of the Rings:

The hobbits find many foreboding spiked gates in the Shire, with angry Shirriffs trying to arrest them for Trespassing and Tearing up of Rules and the like. The whole population seems to be held in fear, with all supplies such as firewood and food gathered and “redistributed”, and no pipe-weed for anyone but the Chief, Lotho (a relative of Frodo’s), his cohort Sharkey, and their Men.

A totalitarian state has replaced the carefree rural life, dominated by “the Rules” and suffering from “no beer and very little food.” Journeying deeper into the Shire reveals a devastated countryside. Homes have been replaced by ugly row houses and barracks, trees have been wantonly felled, and the old mill has been replaced by “a great brick building straddling the stream, which it fouled with a steaming and stinking outflow.”

Frodo’s own home, Bag End, lies abandoned and stinks of filth. Sam sums up the situation with his exclamation, “This is worse than Mordor! . . . It comes home to you, they say; because it is home, and you remember it before it was ruined.”

In a not entirely dissimilar way, I went away in 1996, a little Hobbit seeking adventure and returned last year to hear that I couldn’t do this or that, that Brussels says this, that Elfansafetee says that.  I was told that qualifications which were fine when I went away are now not but at the same time, I’m overqualified, that I need one of these nifty new NVQs and that that will make me once again capable of doing my job.

It was all done by the boiling frog principle and by traitors, Grima Wormtongues, in our midst, with no reference to the wishes of the people from where legitimacy is derived in the modern western world.  It’s still a useful model for the purposes of establishing legitimacy.  It’s one area where conservatives and left-liberals are agreed – democratic forms, at least in the rhetoric of the leaders, are the basis of governance.

We are in an EU which lacks any legitimacy the way it is dictating to us.  It must stop.

The following post continues where this post left off:

Steps to regaining sovereignty

1.  Stop all talk of “we can’t” or “they won’t let us” or “it’s a done deal” or it’s “too late”.  No, a thousand times no – in the history of nations, nothing is ever a done deal and treaties are made to be departed from in the fullness of time, once they no longer serve the interests of the nation, especially illegitimate treaties signed against the wishes of the people.

Such a case is now.  Remember, there is no such thing as Brussels saying what we in Britain can or cannot do, notwithstanding the traitors who signed our sovereignty away.

2.  It’s all very well to dream but let’s get down to tin tacks.  The method, as of now, is for the dissaffected Tories to first break away and get their policies in order, including a “renegotiation of the EU treaty” to the effect of asserting our sovereignty as a nation and negotiating a trading position with the individual members of the EU and with Brussels.

Brussels will not play ball but the individual nations will – trade goes on even through wartime.  The prime directive here is for the dissident Tories not to waste time negotiating with the Europhiles in the party – that side has shown its hand already and will only delay and stall.

3.  Having taken most of the conservatives with them, they now do their homework and see they can’t govern alone.  Tentative negotiations are held with UKIP and LPUK as to a coalition once the general election is over.  An agreement is hammered out.

This has the effect of pressurizing Cameron and the other wets to either frantically adopt a new position or else go into oblivion because for sure, he will not carry the community against such a force as this coalition.

4.  The disaffected Tories either don’t break before the GE or they do.  It’s of no matter whether the charade of the next GE goes ahead or not – real power is ebbing away from both Labour and its stooges – the Cameronite Europhiles.

Either way, it ends up as a coalition government, by the grace of Her Majesty [for now].

5.  The policies are implemented, with the U.S.A. standing by.  Brussels’ rhetoric is irrelevant, talk of world courts and sanctions is irrelevant.  Expulsion from NATO is ridiculous, as Britain is part of it with the U.S.  Trade sanctions are ridiculous as so many other nations will step up their trade to fill the void of the European nations and EU nations will feel the pinch and this will pressurize the very fabric of the organization.

6. In this new position, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are given the option of withdrawing from the United Kingdom or staying in, with the Barnett formula and West Lothian still on the discussion table.

7.  Firm steps are taken to give small and medium business incentives and to attract big business through tax breaks and so on.  People are got back to work slowly, benefits not suddenly withdrawn but on a phased system until it is just the rump of the unemployable left on the dole.

Part of that is getting rid of KPIs and NVQs, opening positions once again to people of genuine talent instead of little yes men and women and rationalizing the relationship of Westminster with local government.  For a tax structure – start with the TPA.

This is the only realistic way it can happen.  All this talk of revolution on the streets will not occur because there is no spark, no catalyst, no modern precedent and a lack of resolve.  The catalyst must be the decamping of the dissident Tories.

The point made in comments about EU membership not being a critical issue in people’s minds is valid but taken with all the other issues, from wheelie bins to unencumbered travel, ID cards and so on, it is very much an issue.

Show people that the only way towards safe jobs is for us to go it alone and it’s a different matter.  The ball is in the court of those dissident Tories, for all practical purposes.  We’ve heard Dan Hannan’s fine words on the issue – now let’s see him move and take the other Tories with him, Roger Helmer for example.

Thus the issue is sorted and the might of the U.S., combined with ours, plus that of the Canada and Australia/NZ, will stand up to any threat made to our existence.

[The previous post on the issue plus people's comments, is here.]

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