Toby on Tuesday

'Apparatchiks and Agendas'

 

                                                                                                                                Picture: Daily Express

 

 For the first time in well over a generation, we are about to have the pleasure of a U.S. President who knows and loves Britain.   We are about to have the pleasure of a U.S. President determined to prevent an accidental war with Russia over its support for what is, despite everything, the legitimate government of Syria.   And if Argentina is foolish enough to attempt another invasion of the Falklands, we will have the pleasure of a U.S. President to whom the Falkland Islanders can look for support.   We will have the pleasure of a U.S. President happy to see Britain at the front of the queue for a trade deal which could even involve Canada in a North Atlantic Free Trade Association.   

 

And above all we will have the pleasure of a U.S. President open to the idea of reinstating Winston Churchill’s bust in the Oval Office from which it was removed by the overtly hostile Barack H. Obama.   Yet to listen to the wretched, self-righteous, self-regarding, narcissistic, wrong-headed and anti-democratic pundits who fill the media and the old political parties, some global catastrophe has happened.  The truth is that Donald Trump will be a fine President who will fulfil his promise to make America great again.   And when America is great, then Britain as her close cousin and true ally, will become great again too.   So to the whingers in Westminster and Whitehall I say, “grow up, seize the opportunity and be glad that UKIP and Nigel Farage have made this new dawn possible!”

 

But today I don’t want to write about the U.S. Presidency.   Rather I want to alert you to the next date in the calendar, 4th December, when the global rejection of the old, failed order gathers pace and Italy goes to the polls in its own referendum.   For Italy’s Prime Minister, the apparatchik Matteo Renzi, is trying to reduce the power of Italy’s Upper House, its Senate, and thereby increase his own hold over the political system.   And under Italy’s constitution, his plan must be put to a referendum.   Originally Renzi  declared that, if unsuccessful, he would resign although he is now backtracking on that pledge.   For the truth is that both Italy’s Northern League and its Five Star Movement, the chief opposition groups, are campaigning against this crude attempt to concentrate yet more power into the hands of the Brussels-driven bureaucracy.   So we can expect yet more turmoil in Italy, buckling as it is under the burden of the employment-destroying Euro currency.

 

So 4th December is likely to be yet one more stage in the collapse of the E.U. Project.   That day too sees a presidential election in Austria, itself unable to cope with its own migration crisis.   So Brexit was only the start of a long process that is sweeping the West.   It will be painful for those who have become used to living well off a failed ideological agenda which benefited only those who managed it, but for the rest of us it will be a liberation.   And it will be a liberation that we should all welcome, not only in Britain, but also across Continental Europe, where Germany’s intelligence services have finally confirmed that “hundreds of jihadists” are among all those “refugees” who have entered the E.U., and last week above all in the United States of America.   Democracy is doing its job across the West and, inspired by Brexit and the new U.S. Presidency, 2017 could just become the year when the West at last moves to ensure its own survival!

 

Until next Tuesday!

Toby