Brexit: Bad News For Continuity Remainers?

Continuity Remainers have been attempting to make the case that we should overturn the results of the European elections in 2014, the General Election in 2015, the European Union referendum in 2016, and the General Election in 2017.

Such a case must inevitably be predicated upon two notions:

1. That public opinion has since shifted so fundamentally that the repeatedly-expressed will of the people should be delayed until a new question can be asked, and 

2. That the original referendum outcome was somehow tainted. 

These cases have both been dealt a huge blow. 

The first is difficult to argue, when a ComRes poll on the front page of the Sunday Telegraph shows a 14% lead not just for Brexit, but for a No-Deal Brexit, in the event that the EU refuses to make further concessions. (Of course, a 44-30 lead is even wider than 14% when the Don't Knows are excluded!)

You can't argue that the entire process should be delayed for many months, and kicked into the long grass, with the intention of re-fighting a referendum when polling is hardly clearly in your favour.

The second has already struggled because of Remain having outspent Leave by 3:2 during the referendum campaign, and because Remain got a free £9-10 million propaganda campaign in addition to that.

The argument that Leave broke the rules is still being tussled over in court. Remain campaigners have also been fined for breaches of the rules. The Court of Appeal ruled (Wilson & Ors, R v The Prime Minister [2019]) this week that "there is no evidence that gives rise to any soundly based ground for believing the outcome of the referendum result would have been different if the breaches of the rules had not occurred", and that "It would be inconceivable for the common law to adopt a principle that requires or even enables a court of law to interfere with the democratic process where any breach of the voting rules is proved but not such as to affect the result".

In possession of these facts, the moral and intellectual case for a re-run referendum is dead in the water.

And yet, the argument will go on. Because still, almost 2 years and 9 months after the referendum, some senior politicians still refuse to accept the result. 

It's like someone grabbing you around the waist and refusing to let go, then deriding you for not being able to run fast enough whilst they're holding you back.

University: Then and Now.

As a teacher for forty years, I was constantly surprised and disappointed in the intellectual abilities of so many state school colleagues.
I felt as if I was a neutral observer to a process of unrelenting decay.

When I first arrived at Wales High School in South Yorks in 1975, a large proportion of the staff were my intellectual betters. At the time, that did not surprise me too greatly - why would it? - As well as having a degree, they were self-educating, and so many possessed a self-improving approach to life. To this they were able to add life experience.

Within a year or two, I was able to slot comfortably into this erudite body. I noticed too the depth in so many who were considered to be teaching non-academic subjects. So many deep thinkers.

As the years passed, I began to notice how many new staff possessed few of these qualities. Chatting to them, a shallowness began to peep through which was not a mere blip. It was something which continued - as did the decline for the rest of my time in that establishment.

In many ways, these staff were better teachers of their more limited material than the often uninspired generation which had preceded them. One of life's ironies, I suppose.

I watched as exam standards to be achieved by pupils were gradually and inexorably lowered - and in some cases, you felt that it was perhaps because the teachers would not have been able to cope with the former requirements of intellectual rigour in advanced level teaching!
'O' levels and then GCSEs were no longer able to support those going on to study in depth 'A' levels - consequently the 'A' levels had to become easier.

At this point, I must note that leftists reading this will be wetting themselves in fits of apoplexy as they screech, "But you are belittling the achievements of pupils, today."
Leftists - masters of the non sequitur - cannot fight the point made and so will resort to their casuistry and customary diversionary tactics of abuse whilst attempting to get you to discuss an unrelated topic - which is only vaguely connected to the original point. A superficiality extraordinaire!

Let us return to the main issue. This naturally means that there has been a huge social decline in scholastic achievement.
Link these points to the abolition of the grammar schools, which was a knife in the heart to genuine education; leftist propagandising of pupils and students, often through subtle - and not always so subtle - methods; tricks such as manipulation of syllabuses; a general social decline in morals and responsibility; the opening up of universities to numpties - and again, the movement is ineluctably downwards.

During a sleepless night, I think I managed to put my finger on the differences between then and now in both 'A' levels and university degrees.
In the past, true thought was required along with deep analysis if you were to succeed.
Today, the sound-bite generation relies on the aforementioned clips of heavily-edited information and tends to learn how to merely accumulate data from a variety of sources.

There are still erudite young people out there - and even a few from comprehensives - but these are essentially from the naturally self-motivating. Sadly, these are becoming a rare breed threatened with extinction in our increasingly mindless culture.

The left, of course, have scored something of an own goal. This means that schools which teach pupils to a much deeper level will see most pupils waltz through the easier exams without turning a hair. With the sole exception of the comprehensives in 'posh districts' - this means that those parents who can afford to do so and send their children to independent schools will be the winners.

The consolation for the left though, is that this new intelligentsia will be able to move straight into liberal left and even marxist indoctrination in so many parts of higher education.

Peace.

Six New Christian Movies!

https://www.christianpost.com/news/6-christian-movies-coming-to-theaters-nationwide-this-spring.html

No-Deal, Please!

Support for a no-deal Brexit is growing in the face of the EU's refusal to help salvage Theresa May's deal, according to a new poll.

A survey by ComRes found that 44 per cent of the public now believe the UK should leave without a deal if Brussels refuses to make any further concessions - a six point rise from January. Less than a third (30 per cent) disagreed.

It came as 74 senior Tory activists, including more than 50 association chairman, told Mrs May that Conservative voters "do not fear a no deal exit" and "just want Brexit delivered."  Telegraph.

Birdie.

Corbyn & Labour's Visceral Hatred of Israel.

Margaret Hodge‏Verified account @margarethodge Mar 6 

Yet another piece of evidence leaked by @thetimes showing political interference by Corbyn's office into antisemitism complaints. Jeremy complains to me about a breach of trust, truth is he has completely squandered the trust of the Jewish community.

Blogger: Of course, Israel's desire to protect itself from myriads of cowardly attacks from assorted nations which want to purge its very existence from the planet - is wholly unreasonable!

What Does The Word 'Leave' Actually Mean?

A Sentence To Truly Deter! Well Done Justice Whipple!

The first person to be convicted of FMG in Britain “betrayed” her three-year-old daughter by mutilating her, a judge said, as she jailed her for 13 years

The 37-year-old Ugandan woman was found guilty of cutting her three-year-old daughter at her home during the 2017 summer holidays. After helping a “witch” carry out the practice, she then cast a series of black magic spells.

The woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for cutting her toddler daughter, and an extra two years for indecent images of children and animal pornography as police raided her home following her arrest. Telegraph.

Sheffield Catching Up With London?

Yesterday, I experienced the best coffee I have ever drunk in an English coffee house. That may not be more than damning with faint praise, you might think, but no, it was truly superb.

It was in that mall, known happily to all native Sheffielders as Meadowhell. The name is not too far off the mark, BTW - not to Ikea's impossibly high standards, I must admit, but worthy of no more than a maximum of a couple of visits a year. Tragically, it is where our bank is located which necessitates rather more visits than I would care to make.

Having a little time to spare we had wandered amongst the eateries browsing overpriced menus in what used to be called The Oasis - and may still be for all I know - only to be horrified at so many of the food prices on offer. (You might risk Harvester, of course.)

An ASDA custard donut costs 13 pence each if you buy in a bag of five - in store. Similar products tidied up somewhat and sold in fives would have perhaps cost you in excess of fifteen or twenty pounds in and around The Oasis. Is the scenery really that good? - I do not think so - and, to the point, neither did Mrs Blogger! 

£50 to buy afternoon tea for two with extras at Godivas must have been someone's idea of a sick joke, I must inevitably surmise. Who on earth would spend fifty quid on tea for two? Who are the wealthy folks who can afford to? In Sheffield?

So we settled for a trip to the Caffe Nero where I asked my beloved to buy me a double macchiato as she whisked off to the counter in search of a caffeine hit. She kindly obliged and I sipped a coffee of supreme quality - in fact, the best I have ever experienced outside Spain.

The only tiny problem was the small handful of coins received in change from FOUR QUID! (And please do not think that double means anything more than about 40% of a proper cup!)

I was horrified. London prices have made it to Sheffield. This may hardly be construed as a good thing!

The Early Church.

https://www.christianpost.com/news/jd-greear-lists-4-game-changing-convictions-of-the-early-church.html

Good Point. I Like It!

The British defeated the EU - you should be demanding surrender terms, not offering them.

• IGOR GRÄZINESTONIAN MEP AND LAW PROFESSOR.TELEGRAPH.

German IFO Institute On Brexit.

Top economists at Germany’s Ifo Institute have admitted that a “No Deal” Brexit — “Hard Brexit”, according to detractors, or “Clean Brexit”, according to proponents — would not leave the United Kingdom any worse off than the European Union, unless it was executed extremely poorly.

“In the case of a hard Brexit, would the UK really apply the high EU external tariffs and carry out elaborate physical checks at the borders?” asked Gabriel Felbermayr, director of the German think tank, in a report covered by the Telegraph newspaper.

“Such a strategy would be hardly rational for London and technically perhaps not feasible,” he suggested. Breitbart, Jack Montgomery.

Peace.

Birth Strikes.

(Incidentally, this blogger does not find any Scriptural merit 

in 'birth strikes'.)

A few days ago, two women appeared on TV to announce that they had decided never to have any children because they were terrified that the planet was being laid waste by climate change.

The natural world was being wiped out, they said. So how could they possibly give birth to children who would have no future? Some 90 women have now joined this “birth strike” campaign.

Leave to one side whether these poor women have been terrified out of their wits by a theory that is without foundation. Reacting to the claim that human existence is causing unstoppable global catastrophe, they have become so despairing they want to extinguish the possibility of new human existence altogether. Melanie Phillips.

Birdie.

Vomitworthy!

Meghan Markle says she 'felt the embryonic kick of feminism' as she reveals hopes for baby.

England Take Short T20 Series - And In Style!

At a 114 for five with just four overs remaining, England looked dead and buried. 
Step forward Sam Billings of Kent who was largely responsible for England's huge recovery to reach a very challenging target of 182 for 7. Billings scored a fine 87 before being out on the final ball of the innings.
Predicted totals of around 135 in the first half of the innings, as England had thrown away early wickets with abandon in the face of some decent bowling, seemed pretty accurate. 
182 was a mighty recovery which made England narrow favourites to win and to take the trophy by 2 - 0 with one match remaining.
To control the Windies, when it was their turn at the crease, looked a tricky task - especially if Chris Gale were to fire on four cylinders or Hetmyer were to hit his straps.
They did not!
David Willey began the rot with a couple of wickets, Chris Jordan plundered four more with his best bowling display for England. The excellent Rashid took two more as Plunkett also hit form with a brace.

Wickets fell; more wickets fell; the remaining wickets fell too.
The Windies were utterly routed as England skittled them for a derisory 45 and won the game by the impossible-to-imagine margin of 137 runs.
Phew!

Any Faint Chance That May Will Get Tough With EU At The 11th Hour?

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1097178/brexit-new-latest-theresa-may-deal-today-eu-ultimatum-commons-vote

Seed Sown In Peace.

Labour On The Same Scale As The BNP?

Tamara Cohen‏Verified account @tamcohen

ECHR say Labour may have committed unlawful discrimination over #antisemitism

2:03 AM - 7 Mar 2019

Blogger: Perhaps this might henceforth be referred to as 'pinko, institutionalised anti-semitism'.

Birdie.