RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Nothing less than a coup is taking place in Britain... The ultra-woke civil service and renegade Tories still loyal to the EU are working to destroy an elected government.
PUBLISHED: 22:02 BST, 26 May 2023
Forty-one years ago, author Chris Mullin published A Very British Coup, a political thriller subsequently turned into a riveting TV drama series.
It centred on a plot to undermine a Labour Prime Minister, Harry Perkins, swept to power by a landslide victory on a hard-Left manifesto.
The conspirators, including the Americans, the British Establishment, the Right-wing tabloid Press and treacherous opponents in his own party, eventually succeed in forcing Perkins to resign.
Today's modern political landscape looks very different, yet some things haven't changed. There are similarities between Mullin's novel and the rolling coup currently taking place against this Conservative Government.
The Americans aren't involved, but the New Establishment and renegade Tories loyal to the EU are doing their best to destroy a democratically elected Government, aided and abetted by the unions and the overwhelmingly Left-wing broadcast news media.
Suella Braverman asked one of her civil service aides to find out if it was possible to arrange a one-on-one Zoom session
Forty-one years ago, author Chris Mullin published A Very British Coup, a political thriller subsequently turned into a riveting TV drama series
Coincidentally, Mullin — who went on to become a Labour MP and minister — wrote an online piece this week for the Spectator magazine pretty much echoing my column in Tuesday's Mail about the ridiculous feeding frenzy aimed at toppling Home Secretary Sue Ellen Braverman, their latest quarry.
Last year, as you're probably aware by now, Sue Ellen got a speeding ticket and was given the option of accepting a fine and three points on her licence or attending a speed awareness course. She was also offered the chance to take the course online, like millions of other motorists caught over the limit.
Braverman asked one of her civil service aides to find out if it was possible to arrange a one-on-one Zoom session. When told it wasn't, she paid her fine and took the points.
Labour and the Westminster Village went berserk, accusing her of breaking some obscure sub-clause in the ministerial code and demanding her immediate resignation.
The Boys In The Bubble even hijacked a press conference at an international summit in Japan to badger the Prime Minister about Sue Ellen's heinous crime.
Instead of telling them to grow up, a visibly irritated Sunak dithered until he had consulted his ethics adviser, before deciding to stand by his woman.
Mullin clearly had the same reaction as me, labelling the furore 'nonsense' and stressing that nothing she had done was a resignation matter.
So why did this trivial story only emerge now? You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to conclude that it was connected to Braverman's recent speech confirming her determination to tackle mass immigration and drive through the Rwanda deportation plan — which the Left and the Whitehall Blob hate with a venom.
Sue Ellen is also a prominent Brexiteer and Remoaners were salivating at the prospect of claiming another Leave scalp. She has been subjected to vicious character assassination and even called a 'Nazi' — an appalling slur given that her husband is Jewish.
As I wrote on Tuesday, the Home Secretary is everything the New Establishment despises — tough on crime, tough on illegal immigration, tough on those who pretend a woman can have a penis, forthright in her rejection of 'white guilt'.
And, worst of all, she's a Tory of Kenyan Asian descent — therefore considered to be a race traitor, into the bargain.
The Left reserves a special loathing for Conservatives from ethnic minority communities. 'Coconut' — brown on the outside, white on the inside — is one of their milder insults.
He has been subjected to vicious character assassination and even called a 'Nazi' — an appalling slur given that her husband (Rael Braverman, left) is Jewish
That a woman of colour like Sue Ellen can be subjected to such sustained levels of abuse, only serves to demonstrate the depths to which some on the Left are prepared to sink to bring her down.
Don't forget they meted out the same kind of treatment to another female Home Secretary of Asian background, the petite Priti Patel, who was accused absurdly of 'bullying' senior civil servants — which amounted to little more than becoming noisily exasperated when they failed to do their job properly.
Dominic Raab, like Braverman and Patel, another leading Brexiteer, was also driven out of Government by 'bullying' allegations. He's a bit of a cold fish, by all accounts, and doesn't suffer fools — of which there seems to be no shortage in Whitehall.
But he also has a fierce intellect and held the fort admirably when Boris Johnson nearly died after contracting Covid. Certainly he deserved better than to be hounded from office over flammed-up claims of bullying, which these days can involve little more than asking civil servants to turn up for work.
Who can blame Raab for throwing in the towel altogether and standing down as an MP, too, given the amount of unwarranted denigration he's had to endure? No doubt our modern-day mandarins cracked open a bottle of bubbly in the Civil Service Club when that welcome piece of news came through.
First, it was Prime Minister Johnson walking the plank. Now it was the turn of Raab, Deputy PM to both Johnson and Sunak.
Don't forget they meted out the same kind of treatment to another female Home Secretary of Asian background, the petite Priti Patel (pictured), who was accused absurdly of 'bullying' senior civil servants
Dominic Raab, like Braverman and Patel, another leading Brexiteer, was also driven out of Government by 'bullying' allegations
And just when you thought the campaign against Boris couldn't sink any lower, consider the latest mud being slung at him. Not content with having forced Johnson out as Prime Minister, his opponents are determined to bury him in the ground with a stake through his heart, just in case he ever has the audacity to attempt a comeback. Mail.
