I've got a bee in my bonnet about the fact that the 'Unholy Trinity' above all went to British or rather English Public Schools. The English Public School system is not like the American Public School System. In England your mater and pater or your Mom and Pops pay for you to go to selective education with smaller class sizes, huge sports pitches made of natural grass and not asphalt, a matron and a tuck shop. You can join a cadet force as Nigel Farage did forty nine years ago and march around the quad making threatening noises and bullying intimations all be it unintentionally.
Zia Yusuf, Nigel Farage's chief of propaganda, the Belle of Bangor attended Hampton School whose current yearly attendance fee per pupil is £26,040.
Rupert Lowe left ReformUK Ltd after Zia Yusuf claimed that Lowe had used threatening and or bullying language against him.
Suella Braverman of ReformUKLtd attended the fee paying Heathfield School in Pinner.
Ben Habib, the leader of AdvanceUK was head boy at Rugby School and became president of the Rugbeian Society.
Rupert Lowe attended Radley College, an all boys independent boarding school near Oxford.
We all know where Nigel Farage went to school
So why have I the Shark Fisherman of Wales got a bee in my bonnet that all these right wing movers and shakers were privately educated?
As a woke lefty I am of course going to be accused of the politics of envy. Envious of people with hardened hearts who were shaped by the loveless atmospheres of their boarding schools? Yeah Right.
Mater & Pater dropping them off with shouts of "See you next exeat old fellow, keep up with your Latin studies now won't you"
The bee is moving aggressively around my bonnet because these leaders have obvious psychological flaws and those flaws have made them 'successful politicians'.
When they were at their cloistered halls there would have been less children from different ethnic backgrounds. Indeed, Braverman and Yusuf and Habib might have been the only pupils of South Asian descent in their year. So they 'played the white man.' They immersed themselves in the upper class white milieu and they became 'Establishment Brits'
Nadhim Zahawi started his education at Holland Park a co-educational comprehensive before moving to Ibstock Place School, a private school in Roehampton. Enough years spent at the 'Socialist Eton' to know when an area of London is not safe because there are a plethora of men who haven't slept.
All the privileged people mentioned in this blog post so far will be expecting the less privileged to vote for them to remove the 'Communist' 🤣 Keir Starmer from power either in local elections or at the General Election.
Four of them, Yusuf, Braverman, Habib and Zahawi are blissfully unaware of their own skin colour because as far as they are concerned, they are white.
"What's this got to do with skin colour?" cry the supporters of the Patriotic Right, "we are local citizens with legitimate concerns and if the tax exile Sir Jim Radcliffe says that we have been colonised, then we have been."
The disillusionment of the ordinary man and woman has been tapped into! 47 years of Thatcherism & Neo Liberalism distilled down into soundbites about illegal migrants and small boat people.
Rupert Lowe who is being bankrolled by White South African enthusiast and billionaire, Elon Musk, to move the UK towards civil war on ethnic grounds via Great Yarmouth.
These are all deeply flawed individuals and it all stems back to their public schools. They were unloved and they have grown up to be unloving adults. Politicians without compassion, human empathy and love for humanity. School was where they were the big noise, the big bully (allegedly) the Head Boy, the Head of the Debating Society. There is a cruelty that belies these people, one that they refuse to admit to. They are trying to relive their schooldays through politics so they can be the big cheese once again.
All they see is the white picket fence that surrounded their playing fields in the 70s and 80s of the last century.
I must now release my bee who will hopefully go off and sting every last one of these divisive motherfuckers.
Now you might have to be of a certain vintage to recognise the two films referenced in the title. The only word missing is 'whisky'.
There are two films which have the Scottish Isles as their backdrop the 1949 Ealing Comedy 'Whisky Galore' and the 1983 film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and produced by David Puttnam 'Local Hero'
It's been a long time since I saw either of them but Donald Trump's avaricious appetite for Greenland brought them to mind.
Is Donald Trump Felix Happer in Local Hero? Happer played by Burt Lancaster runs Knox oil who wants to buy a Scottish town, not for a refinery as we are first led to believe but NO SPOILERS.
If you can source these two films from You Tube or elsewhere I recommend them both for your time in trying to understand the President of America's obsession in turning Greenland into the 51st State.
I'm not as concerned about the tariffs as I am about this obnoxious baboon blustering in and taking sovereign territory. Trump has become emboldened by the actions of Netanyahu. We know that he's 'pissed' that he didn't get the Nobel Peace prize but I'm expecting him to say that Hamas are lying under the frozen tundra and they have to be wiped out.
Now the Israeli Genocide of Gaza has shifted the collective unconsious. Everybody is on tenterhooks. It feels like it's going to go off World War III at any moment. The collective psyche is fractured and the gung ho President is making war like noises.
Now I have been a big critic of the orange man baby but for the purposes of this blog I am going to have to arrest judgement for awhile and try and conjure up some understanding around the wounded whale.
He is a wounded mammal! He is guilty by association with Jeffrey Epstein. He might not have actually taken part in kiddy fiddling but the widely distributed pictures suggest otherwise. Here we have a 79 year old soon to be 80 year old President who took great pleasure in mocking sleepy Joe Biden. He's going the same way!
He must have a fractured psyche! He is in such denial about his friendship with Epstein that he's blaming everybody else. "It's the Democrats, they did it"
Now he's drunk on the success of Venezuela! The blood lust is in his nostrils. He feels compelled to keep the lunacy going. It's going to be Greenland next. Then Panama.
If the World is dealing with a wounded whale then should we, if we want to avoid World War III, should we withdraw the harpoons and let him go and play in the deep end.
What have Whisky Galore and Local Hero got to do with this? Let us not forget that Trump's mother was Scottish. She was born and brought up on the Hebridean Island of Lewis. Born in Tong, a few miles from the main town of Stornoway.
You know what I am going to suggest next?!
Before the wounded whale has the opportunity to make a move on Greenland, a deputation is sent there from Scotland, led by SNP leader John Swinney and made up of local heroes from the Isle of Lewis bearing whisky, shortbread, golf balls, golf clubs, haggis and anything else that would be legal to bribe the man baby with.
The Scottish deputation need to meet Donald Trump in Nuuk, the Capital of Greenland and they need to persuade him in a swirl of bagpipes to cease and desist. "What would your mother Mary Anne Macleod say Donald?"
He has infantilised himself in the eyes of the world but the Scottish deputation need to infantilise him further. John Swinney might have to smack his legs like his mother might have done when Donald J Trump was an even bigger toddler than he is now.
It is the only chance to avert WWIII! Who knows we might get another piece of classic cinema out of the story!
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