@MichaelYeadon3 Watch this and see Professor Sir John Bell, professor of medicine at Oxford University and a member of SAGE slip up in this interview.
https://t.co/zAHIQ3Ju6G
Ed Davey was not so worried about interference in our democracy when he accepted £1.5 million from Ferring pharmaceuticals to help them push the sterilisation of children in the UK.
Much will be said about Angela Rayner in the coming days, and rightly so. A former care worker with no health administration experience, tasked with overseeing an £18.7bn overhaul of social care, is a legitimate story. It deserves scrutiny, and it will get it.
But that scrutiny, however justified, is aimed at the wrong target if the goal is understanding who actually governs the country. Governments set policy. Whether that policy survives contact with the departments meant to deliver it is a separate question, and increasingly the answer depends on the permanent state, the officials who remain in post while ministers rotate through. Ministers like Rayner are not the ones actually running the country. They are the visible layer, replaced every reshuffle, while the people who administer, interpret and often quietly resist their policy stay exactly where they were.
That permanent layer is not a neutral machine simply executing whatever instruction it receives. Over three decades, the same progressive assumptions that reshaped universities, HR departments and NGOs, DEI training, unconscious bias frameworks, equity treated as more important than equality, have been absorbed into a civil service that recruits, trains and promotes from the same graduate pipeline as every other captured institution. Institutional capture and the permanent state are not two separate stories. They are one story told from two angles. Capture explains what the permanent state believes. The permanent state explains why what it believes matters more than who nominally sits above it.
Rayner's own department illustrates the second half of that story precisely. The health brief she may inherit is actually run day to day by Samantha Jones, DHSC's permanent secretary, the accounting officer legally responsible for how the budget is spent and the policy delivered. Jones was not elected. She was not selected by any minister accountable to a constituency. She moved directly from interim permanent secretary and chief operating officer at 10 Downing Street into running the department, appointed by the Cabinet Secretary "with the approval of the Prime Minister," entirely within Whitehall's own machinery. Nobody scrutinises that appointment, because no manifesto and no vote was ever attached to it.
The pattern holds wherever the permanent state meets an elected minister determined to act. At the Home Office in 2022, Sir Matthew Rycroft, the department's permanent secretary, objected in writing to the Rwanda deportation scheme on value for money grounds. Parliament had legislated it and an elected Home Secretary had announced it. Suella Braverman could only proceed by publicly overruling her own most senior official through a formal "ministerial direction," forced into open confrontation just to implement what her government had already decided. She won that particular fight. That she had to have it in public is the point.
Above Whitehall, the permanent state doesn't need to negotiate at all. On 14 June 2022, a deportation flight sat on the tarmac at Boscombe Down, passengers aboard, after Parliament had legislated and British courts, at every level, had already rejected every challenge against it. Hours before departure, a single duty judge at the European Court of Human Rights issued an interim order grounding the flight, no hearing, no published reasoning, no appeal available. One unelected official stopped what an elected Parliament, elected government and domestic courts had already cleared.
So yes, much will be said about whether Angela Rayner is qualified to run the NHS. She probably isn't, and neither were several of her predecessors. But the more revealing question is the one nobody asks about Samantha Jones, or Sir Matthew Rycroft, or the duty judge in Strasbourg: not whether they're qualified, but who put them there, and what happens to a policy that survives every election only to meet people nobody elected at all.
Angela Rayner and Samantha Jones
Last week this utter bastard released a statement about 12 "terror suspects" being arrested for "anti-muslim" hate.
He declared that "lives had been saved" by the prompt actions of the security forces/police.
London Mayor, Sad Dick Khan, echoed @Keir_Starmer's sentiments.
In reality the arrested people were just flying a drone over a gathering of several thousand Muslims at an event organised by a group who have been outlawed in several Islamic states for their own links to terrorism.
No crime was committed. No crime was EVER going to be committed. There was absolutely no danger whatsoever to the attendees.
But these facts didn't stop Bastard Starmer from claiming a major terrorist plot had been foiled.
Subsequently all 12 of the "terrorists" have now been released uncharged.
There was NEVER a terror plot. Starmer knew this.
Has he issued an update? An apology?
Has he hell.
@Keir_Starmer is an utter bastard. Pass it on.
This interview is phenomenal. Commendations to @KonstantinKisin@triggerpod@francisjfoster
There’s so much one could say about it. But the chef’s kiss comes in the last few minutes, when Alastair Campbell inadvertently reveals that he doesn’t understand the difference between net energy loss and net energy gain, and has no interest in learning the difference either.
The interview is also an inadvertent masterclass in the tricks of the narrative control trade, particularly the art of defaulting to dismissiveness (eye rolling, sighing, faux exasperation and moral superiority signalling) to shut down entirely reasonable lines of questioning and inconvenient truths when they threaten to unravel one’s position.
Campbell repeatedly deploys these tactics, like the master practitioner of persuasive dark arts that he is. In fact, he channels dismissiveness as though it’s a secret superpower that only he possesses: as if to suggest that if he can make a question seem beneath him, perhaps the audience will conclude it’s beneath them too.
The spell, however, has almost no effect on Konstantin and Francis, both of whom consistently outmatch him by appealing to something even more powerful: even more superior reasonableness. They refuse to be baited, refuse to mirror his theatrics, and simply keep returning to the substance of the argument.
Campbell doesn’t seem to clock that his secret weapon has turned into a liability until it’s way too late.
Amazing to watch, whatever your politics are.
https://t.co/GP7CBzgnsX
Hi @lowles_nick is this a screenshot of your hit piece on Ann Widdecombe? Was her murderer a fan of yours, a subscriber to @hopenothate?
Not only have you taken the piece down, you've also removed it from being tracked down as an archive.
I suggest you rename HNH as "Hate."
Wales, Plaids Nation of Sanctuary.
This is the moment a migrant with a machete was arrested in Barry. This incident happened in the proximity of a primary school with pupils from Y1 to Y6 with a nursery and play group attached, these schools went into lockdown procedures potentially terrifying a number of children.
There was other reports of this migrant causing disturbances in Greggs on Barry Island in the mornings, shouting, talking to himself, and behaving aggressively.
Further online reports show how females in the area simply do not feel to walk the streets alone day or night…..
This is what Plaid, Labour, Greens & Libs have turned Wales into and unless voted out, it’s only going to get worse.
So @andyburnham you posted this to sound tough.
But you’ve just hired as your Director of Political Strategy a trustee of a charity actively campaigning to REINSTATE the British citizenship of this monster who raped 30 girls in Rochdale.
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE KIDDING?
As a Sovereign nation I don’t want to have The IMF interfering
It does say something though when even the globalists are warning about Burnham tax plans
Meanwhile many months where bond situation far worse than under Liz Truss PM announcement yet not a murmur
We need growth and robust economic growth dynamic not the ever further tax and state
https://t.co/0uuW74Dh47
So, we are told that a £12,000 a year pension is unsustainable, (even though you have paid into it for the last 35years!) Yet paying £40,000 a year to house, and feed, an illegal migrant, who shouldn't be here and has paid nothing into the system is ok!
#LabourOut#Gimmigrants
#AntiBritish
He’s right. The George Soros Henchman are deformed Psychopaths…
Stephen Miller: “It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent ANTIFA demonstrations...not ONE of the people that is demonstrating looks like a NORMAL person”
I've been informed that the man in custody for Ann Widdecombe's murder is allegedly an active member of a "mainstream left-wing political party."
It has further been alleged that the suspect was motivated by Widdecombe's conservative views on gender identity.
Shocking if true.
Zelensky is killing the elderly!
A defenseless old grandfather was sitting peacefully on a bench when Zelensky’s commissars brutally beat him and dragged him off to die in war.
His granddaughter couldn’t fight back against the armed gang - and now she’s left an orphan.
Ukrainians are held captive! Who will free them?!
Ann Widdecombe schools a roomful of woke students on the importance of free speech.
"Only two sorts of people oppose free speech... snowflakes and totalitarians."
"Nobody has the right to live their lives being protected from offence, or from insult, or from hurt feelings."
"It is an occupational hazard of living in society. And if you really can't take it, become a hermit."
"No matter how much we may disagree with somebody, we should defend to the hilt their right to say it."
"You succeed by defeating your opponent, not by wishing him away. You get nowhere by trying not to hear what is being said."
"You may feel virtuous today in what you will not hear, but tomorrow somebody may feel virtuous in not hearing what you have to say."
"Free speech is for all, not for the privileged few."
Big trouble ahead for Nicola Sturgeon, and her lawyer @AamerAnwar 👀
Quite an empty house of commons as @DavidDavisMP drops a few home truths under paliamentary privilege. 👇
But don't for a second think that nobody has been watching. (See next tweet.)