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Sean Gabb Newsletter, 21st November 2018
“Which if not Victory is Yet Revenge” Thoughts on the Tory Apocalypse
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by Sean Gabb
1^st December 2018
As I write, those who demand a second referendum on the European Union
seem ever more likely to have their way. Their argument is: that it is
now two years since we were asked to vote on leaving; that no one
expected the process of leaving to end in the present shambles; that
we should be asked what we now think of leaving. These calls are an
obvious fraud on the electorate. Since the French rejected the
Maastricht Treaty in 1992, the custom in Europe has been for any
unfavourable referendum result to be followed by another one, in which
the preferred result is given. This was done to the Danes and the
Irish. It is now being done to us.
You should never overlook incompetence as a cause in great events.
Even so, the present crisis in British politics does look like a
conspiracy. Theresa May had more than two years to announce a clean
break, and then to negotiate whatever arrangements with Brussels would
minimise disruption in the short term. Given moderate firmness and a
few bribes, she could have had all this in place by the Christmas of
2016. Instead, she promised and promised while delaying. At last, with
no time for any easy alternative, she announced a “deal” that amounts
to treason. It has united both sides of the argument in outrage – most
of it, I have no doubt, genuine. Thus softened, thus brought within
four months of what we are assured is the cliff edge of leaving
without a deal, the idea is that we are to be asked again.
I do not know if there will be a second referendum, but I suspect
there will be. I would like to think that a vast mass of anger will
descend on our rulers, and the 52 per cent of 2016 will become the 75
per cent of 2019. But I doubt this. There are enough two-legged sheep
in this country to vote as they are directed. Even if there were a
fair set of options on the ballot paper – the existing Deal, no deal,
or remain, and some kind of proportional voting so that a fifty per
cent majority can be had – there would be a majority for calling the
matter off. However the European Court of Justice decides if our
notice of withdrawal can be unilaterally withdrawn, I do not doubt
that, for a crippling price, our “friends” in Europe would let us stay.
If this were to happen, what next? There might be civil unrest –
though I doubt this as well. But one thing is reasonably sure. This is
that the System will have delegitimised itself. The European issue
will not go away. Nothing will be the same again. Here is what I think
will happen – and partly what, even when I am less angry than I am, I
may want to happen.
First, the Conservative Party will die as an electoral force. We gave
these people one job to do in 2016. Indeed, as I recall, they took
exclusive control of the job, freezing out everyone else. Whether from
uselessness or wickedness, they messed it up. They will be punished as
soon as there is an election. Speaking for myself, unless a
Conservative Government leads us out of the European Union in March
2019 with a better deal than Theresa May has brought back, I will not
vote Conservative again.
Second, there will be a Labour Government led by Jeremy Corbyn. This
will do nothing to increase immigration – which has already been
running at full pelt since around 1990. It will make the country into
no more of a police state that it has already been made or projected
by the Conservatives. But it may abolish the Monarchy and the House of
Lords, and disestablish the Church of England, and remove charitable
status from the public schools, and load real taxes on the rich, and
drive a lot of financial business from the City of London. Again
speaking personally, I am inclined to welcome all of these changes.
The Queen has failed in every duty she promised at her coronation to
undertake. Her progeny are embarrassing trash. It would be nice to
change the line of succession, as in 1701. But, since this will not be
done, a republic will free us from a century of Charles the Mad,
William the Insipid and George the Almost-Certainly-Useless. The real
House of Lords was abolished in 1998. Its
successor is a clique of leftists in ermine. I will say nothing of the
Church of England. But the rich are mostly fair game. In any community
but the openly despotic, they are suffered to exist so long as enough
of them show what the Italians called vertú. All the very rich I can
see are either sucking like mad on the public nipple, or beneficiaries
of more complex scams enabled by a bent financial system. Away with
them all. They are none of them our friends. If Jeremy Corbyn wants to
rid us of them – even if for other reasons than mine – I will shed no
tears.
Third – well, that remains to be seen. All I will say is that, unless
they pull off the greatest diplomatic coup since Disraeli went to
Berlin, they have lost my vote. Short of that miracle, every road away
from our present state of public degeneracy leads though the total and
irreversible destruction of the Conservative Party.
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