HOW POLITICS MOVED TO THE PLAYGROUND

It seems hard to believe in 2021, but not so long ago politicians used to struggle to get people's attention. The papers and certain boring tv and radio shows gave MPs plenty of space to call each other names, but they were easy to ignore, at least between elections. Turn the page, change the channel, spin the dial  and poof they were gone. Every four years or so they would pop up again on the street-corners kissing babies and promising the earth, then they went back to sitting on their backsides and the rest of us got on with our lives.

It wasn't an ideal way to run a country, but the upside was the politicians made a bit of effort to find out what voters wanted. Those last three words are worth repeating - what voters wanted. By identifying the wishes of people who might actually walk into a building and vote, wanabee politicians only needed to echo those wishes, to attract supporters. 

WHATEVER YOU WANT

Although public wishes were mostly quite humble, it didn't really matter if they came true or not. Cursed as we are with short memories, after four long years, broken promises were mostly forgotten and a slightly different set of wishes would likely develop. By paying attention, clever candidates for Parliment would simply adjust their speeches to promote the public's latest desires. Voting, however, remained largely tribal, with the well-off supporting Conservative and the poor choosing Labour.

But as methods of market research improved, the parties -and the promises they offered- grew to resemble each other very closely. This was only natural, as both Left and Right were (quietly) financed by the same interests, and were really very similar groups of people with no particular drive towards changing anything.

MEET THE NEW BOSS

As a result, general elections could be swung one way or another by quite a small number of votes.The notorious "floating voter" was the creature who (we were told) usually decided which face of the Uniparty got to live in Downing Street. This was a crafty piece of elite PR, because it implied the existence of a group of shrewd, thinking voters who assessed the merits of Left and Right "policies" before making their vitally important choice. 

(In January of 2019 I  addressed this non-choice political theatre in the post "TIME FOR A TAX WAR" which seems both quaint and pointed today.)

In reality, it mattered little to the elite which side "won" the election, as avoiding change was the prime purpose of the party-political theatre. It was enough for them that the public believed they were making a difference by casting votes. Satisfied they had "thrown the bastards out", the gullible voters would cogratulate themselves on having "changed" the government and relax...until the next time.  

THEN AND NOW

This was the state of affairs when I was a teenager in the 1970's. Since World War Two it had worked well enough to keep the lights turned on, the trains running and police on the streets - which was really what people expect from government. But an enormous change was about to take place, that would turn this structure on its head. 

Jumping to the present day, it's very easy to see what changed. In the 1970's politicians were seen as distant, boring and a bit dodgy,  but by common consent, they did organise important stuff and collected taxes to pay for them. Things like roads, the police, the hospitals and schools. These last three were (supposedly) independent organisations, although politicians got their oar in from time to time.

THE THREE ESSENTIALS

That illusion has been smashed to pieces -probably forever. Since the advent of a certain Tony Blair, behind the scenes, the police, hospitals and -critically- the schools, have all undergone a silent revolution, transforming them into ruthless tools of government control. It is not coincidental that all three have been central to the Coronavirus deception. Without their blind cooperation, the illusion of a pandemic could never have been maintained.   

Imagine if, when Boris Johnson commanded that the entire (healthy) public lock themselves in their homes "to protect others" the police had refused to enforce his grotesque power-grab. Without the threat of police backup, Johnson's human-rights busting, king-like pronouncement would have blown up in his face. The public could have gone about their business as normal and the whole horror of 2020 would never have happened.

Imagine if, instead of going along with the false claim that without a lockdown "the entire system will collapse" , the NHS chiefs had said it'll be a struggle but we'll cope...  

When it very quickly it became obvious that young people were in virtually zero danger from Covid, imagine if teachers had reacted with the moral, honest response , saying "children's education is too important to be scrapped because of a flu-virus that doesn't affect them..." 

POWER-SHIFT

But the police, the hospitals and the schoolteachers had been prepped and conditioned in advance. Governments had inserted layers upon layers of middle-management into these insitutuions, so that all individuals within the systems were now powerless. The days when a successful head-teacher would be allowed autonomous control were over. 

Senior police chiefs with decades of real-world experience had been replaced with government-appointed puppets whose loyalty went up to Westminster rather than down to the ranks.

By 2020 the NHS was infested with consultants, IT specialists, and agents of Big Pharma, who view threats to public health as wonderful financial opportunities. For the vaccinators in particular, the bigger the threat, the better.

But I would argue that the politicising of education has been the critical factor. Something British politicians have been keeping very quiet about is the collapse in enthusiasm among mature voters for the political process itself -and the rise of teenage activists. Below is the kind of graph politicians would rather you didn't examine in detail.

 

The most obvious feature -and it's a big one- is that enthusiasm for voting in Britain has been declining steadily since Churchill's victory in 1950. An average turnout of around 75% with a peak of 84 has slumped to an average 65 with a trough of 59.  Faith in politicians has been heading south and that trend will likely continue.

There are other interesting aspects to this, however, and none more striking than the changes that attended the arrival -and departure- of Tony Blair. Elected with the lowest voter turnout since World War 2, Blair's first 4 years in government triggered a monumental drop in enthusiasm for voting. Turnout crashed to a post-war record low of just 59.4%. But during those four years, while millions of mature voters turned away from Parliament in disgust, the Blair Party machine was working overtime on rebuilding the education system with the sole aim of gathering children into Labour's electoral grasp.

EDUCATION, EDUCATION, EDUCATION

There have been five general elections since Blair's arrival drove millions of people away from voting - and not one has reached the turnout Britain managed in 1945 after six years of world war. As a measure of public disillusion, this is crystal clear. But buried in the numbers is an even more damning statistic. Since the rock-bottom election of 2001, more young people are voting than ever before -and the vast majority vote Labour, Not because they are "more politically educated" than previous generations -far from it. They vote -and vote left- because the entire apparatus of the education system has been hijacked to persuade gullible kids that they can "save the planet" and "end racism" and "achieve equality" by licking some MP's backside.

I  have been pleading with child-rearing readers to switch to home-schooling for almost three years now [click here for one example] and am delighted to report that more than a few have taken that vitally important step to protect their children's sanity.

The power to shape, indoctrinate, and ultimately pervert the minds of innocent children has been handed to a coalition of Woke fanatics. Children who are struggling to count to a hundred have their heads stuffed with deranged gender-fantasies, while seven year-old white children are encouraged to apologise for their colour. All of this cheered on by so-called "head-teachers" who are political extremists and nothing more.       

IGNORANCE WINS VOTES

The upshot is millions of hopelessly misguided juveniles who are largely ignorant and uneducated as regards anything worthwhile, but who can chant slogans about racism, transactivism and something called "equity" while bleating that their half-formed sexual identities and special snowflake fragility makes them immune to criticism. And when they vote, they vote left. 

The likelihood of a person voting Labour decreases by 8 points for every 10 years older they get. The likelihood of someone voting Conservative increases by 9 points for every 10 years older they get. The crossover point comes at age 39. Source - Yougov poll in the METRO 2019.

Because this herd of youthful morons is the only "growth area" of potential voters (apart from those paddling across the channel) the Right has casually embraced the political lunacies of the Left, in a bid to "retain power". Ironic, in an era when the utter powerlessness of government becomes more clear every week. For adult voters, the choices at the ballot-box are now Woke Left or Woke Light. The 'manifestos' are little more than catch-phrases, wish-lists framed for adolescents who think their brand-new pronouns will prevent the polar ice-caps melting.  

With each passing generation fewer and fewer mature adults bother to vote, and who can blame them? The aims of government are much simpler now : to give the young idiots something to whinge about that will keep them busy while the elite technocracies assemble a worldwide prison within which Woke sheep can be quietly culled.

IAN ANDREW-PATRICK

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