Bad Enoch and the Vampires
‘America sneezes and Britain catches a cold’ goes the old cliche, and certainly the weird MAGA cult’s talking points are being mirrored in the macabre Tory party ‘leadership’ race.
For MAGA read MEGA.
Robert Jenrick, Kemi Badenoch, James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat are all vying to be the next leader of the Tory Party. Given the quality and tenor of their campaigns we can expect, by the end of the week, one of these people to be not elected but disinterred from a sulphuric pit and presented to the Conservative Party conference as Nosferatu to the Undead.
The Undead
The Tories have just suffered its worst defeat in a century, and their response is to re-invent themselves as party even further to the right than the creation that was just eviscerated atthe General Election, primarily because they are terrified of Reform UK but also, mainly, because they are loathsome people with rancid views about just about everything.
So what we are seeing is the Conservative party re-emerging as some kind of wildly incoherent Christian Nationalist, Anglo-Populist, Neo-Fascist talking shop regurgitating Trumpist talking points and spraffing them into the ether. It’s kinda fun.
Bad Enoch’s Party
Liz Truss precisely mirrors JD Vance in calls for universities to be defunded. She says they should be closed down if they’re “antithetical to conservative values”. In new video by MSNBC JD Vance says he wants to “shut down American universities, seize their endowments and business using extra constitutional powers”. He wants to “rip them out like a tumor and install political religion”, starting with Harvard.
Badenoch says 10% of civil servants “are magnificent but 5-10% are “very very bad, like should be in prison bad.” She went on to say that 54,600 civil servants should be locked up in prison. And that sounds like a not-so distant echo of similarly threatening rhetoric from across the pond.
Robert Jenrick pledges he would move British embassy to Jerusalem at Conservative Friends of Israel meeting, exactly mirroring the moves in 2017 that were initiated by Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.
Conservative leadership candidate Robert Jenrick suggests all British citizens should be forced to swear an oath of loyalty to Israel or face deportation. Kemi Badenoch says people who oppose apartheid and genocide shouldn’t be welcome in the UK – while Robert Jenrick says the Star of David should be displayed at every point of entry to the UK.
To say this is unhinged is a moot point. The party that comprised the government of the UK is now arguing we should be even more wedded to a psychotic regime now raging war on four fronts across the Middle East and engaged in ongoing genocide.
Now, if all this trans-Atlantic mayhem sounds pre-meditated or uncannily similar, it is. The Bannon-Truss-Farage communication lines funded by the Heritage Foundation and the Koch Brothers networks have been fizzing and popping for the last few years as the Conservative party ground itself into electoral disaster.
One of the centre points from a largely empty (in every sense) Tory party conference was Robert Jenrick’s bizarre claim that the armed forces are ‘killing rather than detaining terrorists’ because of the ECHR:
“I’m extremely concerned… It risks making life much more dangerous for our soldiers.”
Tory leadership candidate @TomTugendhat criticises @RobertJenrick‘s comments that the armed forces are ‘killing rather than detaining terrorists’ because of the ECHR.@maitlis pic.twitter.com/UgiDyGX1Ai
— The News Agents (@TheNewsAgents) October 1, 2024
But if you rewind back to April this year you can see the origins of this attack on the ECHR and the formation grounds for the Tories latest incarnation (‘Who’s Behind the NatCon Network?‘). As I wrote then:
The National Conservatism (NatCon) conference was sponsored by Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), a Hungarian think tank. MCC received more than £1.3 billion in Hungarian state funding in 2020, and awarded a 10 percent stake in the country’s oil and gas giant MOL.
In his speech, which was live-streamed on GB News, Nigel Farage atook aim at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) for its first climate verdict last week, which found that insufficient action to tackle climate change is a violation of human rights. The ECHR is “telling us we have no option but to implement net zero policies” Farage said.
We are witnessing a pincer-movement of the right and far-right to focus on the ECHR, not just because it protects you and I’s human rights, and those of immigrants, but because it protects our fragile ecology. It’s telling that our unelected and entirely unaccountable Foreign Secretary, Lord Cameron warned the European Court of Human Rights that it is “planting the seeds of its own destruction” by “overreaching”.
Asked about the UK’s future relations with the Strasbourg court in the Lords, Lord Cameron said: “There are occasions, in my view, when this court overreaches itself and we saw one last week with respect to climate change, where it took a judgment against Switzerland.
“And I think it’s dangerous when these courts overreach themselves, because ultimately we’re going to solve climate change through political will, through legislation in this House and the Commons, by the actions we take as politicians, by the arguments we put to the electorate – and so I do think there’s a danger of overreach.”
The LM Network (Living Marxism) has been well documented here. What we see here is a convergence of Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), the Hungarian state and the LM network as directed by Frank Furedi. Having successfully infiltrated British public life, the LM network is now operating at an altogether grander, international level.
As Sam Bright of DeSmog has written (‘‘Hard-Right’ NatCon Event Was Organised by Oil Funded Group‘): “MCC is chaired by Balázs Orbán, who is the Viktor Orbán’s political director. The think tank’s board also includes Hungary’s Minister of Culture and Innovation, János Csák. According to the investigative outlet Follow The Money, MCC is conservative, nationalist and Eurosceptic, and “plays a key role in spreading the ideology of the Hungarian government”. Balázs Orbán has said: “It is our goal for Hungary to become an intellectual powerhouse, in which MCC plays a key role.”
The NatCon organising committee also featured sociologist Frank Furedi, the executive director of MCC Brussels. Furedi delivered the 2020 annual lecture at the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading climate science denial group, on the subject “eco hysteria”. During the lecture, he promoted the fringe claim that politicians and corporations are trying to push civilisation into a “climate lockdown” by reducing individual freedoms.”
It’s worth witnessing the descent of the former de facto leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party, Frank Furedi to the far-right. The spectacle will add fuel to the speculation that all is not as it seems with the LM Network and Furedi’s former colleagues. In 2018 I revealed the dark money behind Spiked! Furedi’s former comrades who were in receipt of $300,000 from the Charles Koch Foundation (‘Revealed: US Oil Billionaire Charles Koch Funds UK Anti-Environment Spiked Network’).
In 2022, the writer Ravi Bali noted (‘Ex-Marxist Furedi Joins Racist Authoritarians at CPAC Hungary‘): “Frank Furedi––who was the foremost intellectual of UK radical-left group, the Revolutionary Communist Party, for more than 25 years––has made the transition from revolutionary Marxism into the fold of white-nationalist authoritarianism. Furedi spoke last week at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Budapest, Hungary. CPAC is organised by the American Conservative Union (ACU), the foremost right-wing Republican organisation in the United States.”
So here we can see some of the roots of Bad Enoch’s party, and where it might go.
The Vampires
The violence imagery that Trump is summoning is intensifying as his polling bombs. Here he calls for something between The Purge and Kristallnacht. Foreshadowing is a key and historic fascist action:
“If you had one really violent day.” Psychopath Trump calls on police to be violent with criminals. Note: Watch the people behind him. They’re bored, listless, talking among themselves, and on their phones. Trump’s lost it. pic.twitter.com/WCV00KqU3S
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) September 29, 2024
Then we have Rosanne going nuts:
I know that I shouldn’t be surprised by anything Tucker does at this point.
But when Roseanne says they’re literally vampires, I was expecting at least a bit of skepticism.
There’s literally nothing he won’t nod along to if it’s targeted at the people he hates. pic.twitter.com/0614KoWWLm
— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) September 28, 2024
Do we have anyone over here who could tip us over the edge into full on Roseanne-They are Literally Vampires territory? I mean, Neil Oliver isn’t far-off is he? Or old Revolutionary Russell now doing baptisms in his underpants?
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Sometimes (more than is healthy) I think, thank fu*ck I don’t have long left, but secretly, I would love to see how the next 10 years plays out.
The USA have nuclear missiles in Scotland and we don’t seem to give a shit.
Watching the Tory conference I keep hearing Frank Muir singing ‘everyone’s a fruit and nutcase’ in my head.
the only thing that matters is yer bank balance, if ye’re right at the top of the money tree ye can do whatever the fk ye like & if ye’re running around the ground whatever falls on ye falls on ye. Don’t expect any help from the NHS or SHN if ye live near a british military camp in scotia. Expect to be so far down their list of priorities ye’d be as well hopping in front a bus. Perhaps, if ye need access to one of they medical centres the mod has kindly commandeered ye might be higher up the list of folk they’d like burnt at the stake as soon as the next available opportunity arises, just so’s they can continue offering ex military personnel the opportunity to make further cash offering private phsyio, gym classes, deep tissue massage & associated sports psychology shite. Would it be overly cynical of humble wee me to suggest the object here is to push out the lowly lossie bumpkin/menial wurker in order tae install yet anuthir zombified believer in britain’s greatness. & would it also be cynical of me to suggest that most of these zombified nutjobs marching tae whichivir tune happins tae be playing itself taewards further murder are salaried service personnel with residences elsewhere who consider raping & ripping the pish out of local infrastructure a fringe benefit ae being postid up here in the first place. Furthermore, if the ministry of attack’s claim to have nuclear capacity is anything other than their usual bluff & bluster, well, the level of incompetence regularly exhibited by any I’ve ever had the misfortune to encounter would, you’d have thought by this time, ensured that scotia self destructed before any further atrocity can be inflicted overseas, except starmer, the tories & trump won’t have that will they, and neither will the snipey snip who will tacitly acknowledge whatever intervention is deemd most likely to rake in most financial gain whilst completely denying any actual involvement & blaming the baddies down south, o’er the wattir, across the pond, so on, so forth, etcetera.
Did I really see this or did I just dream it?
“it protects you and I’s human rights,”