IMPLEMENTATION OF TURBO BREXIT

The government continues to tell anyone daft enough to listen to them, that Brexit is so complicated that it is impossible to do anything until sometime next year. The triggering of Article 50 is being heralded as the moment to wait for. However, all triggering Article 50 does is start a negotiation. It does not implement the vote to leave.

'Brexit' is simply a term. It is a term now being used in order to start a debate of what the term means. This is a subversive distraction. The public voted to leave the EU. They did not vote to have a negotiation. 'Brexit' is a term to encapsulate the vote for Britain to leave. The core issue is to leave. Presently, the government is doing nothing to actually get out of the EU, and is focused on stalling matters until they are prepared to open negotiations.

It should be remembered, that the EU's response to Britain's referendum vote, was to offer to agree a deal speedily. This offer was repeated. The EU did not want matters to drag on. That offer was not taken up. It is the Tories who are keeping Britain in the EU, and they continue to refuse to implement the vote to leave. At a recent EU summit, Theresa May actually complained to the other EU members that Britain was being shut out of the EU meetings, and that she was unhappy with this. She wanted Britain to remain fully engaged in the EU decision-making processes.

The English Rights Campaign has set out 10 points that would enable Britain to make the most of leaving the EU. This has been titled Turbo Brexit (see the English Rights Campaign item dated the 4 August 2016). While it is desirable to have a complete break with all matters being sorted out in one go, there is nothing to prevent making a start if the will is there. To examine the 10 points in turn (for ease, the original Turbo Brexit point is set out in italics in brackets):

1.       (A complete end to the annual payments to the EU. Any post-Brexit deal should exclude any further payments to the EU. The so-called Norway Model should be rejected. From the money saved, £100million per week should be allocated to the NHS. The sooner the EU payments cease, the sooner the extra funding for the NHS is available.) - This can be implemented at once and unilaterally. There is no justification to continue paying into the EU when we are no longer involved in the decision making and when we are scheduled to leave. The NHS needs the money and is more important than the EU. It is not a complicated matter to stop authorizing payments to the EU, any more than it is too complicated for someone to stop signing cheques.

2.       (There should be a full restoration of British sovereignty. Neither the EU, nor any other international organization, should have any power over Britain's internal affairs. Britain's laws should be determined by Britain's parliament. Britain should withdraw from the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights and repeal the so-called Human Rights Act.) - This should be implemented without delay and the EU is only a sideshow regarding this. This would require the repeal of the 1972 European Communities Act. The May Government is making a big noise about a great repeal bill. Despite the government bombast, this bill is relatively straightforward and should take immediate effect and not be deferred.

3.       (Britain should regain full control over its territorial waters and those should be set at the international standard, with the fishing limit extended to 200 miles. Britain should have full control over its fishing policy and fish conservation.) - Britain should begin this process and notify the relevant international organizations. There will be a need to make a new arrangement with the EU regarding existing fishing activities, but we are able to act unilaterally if the EU is unreasonable.

4.       (There should be an end of free movement of people and Britain should take whatever measures are necessary to bring mass immigration to a complete end. The EU should have no say over who lives in Britain. Illegal immigrants and immigrant political extremists should be deported. This must necessitate withdrawing from the UN Convention on Refugees; help should be given to genuine refugees in their own or neighbouring countries. British citizenship should not be granted until someone has lived in Britain for at least 30 years and is someone of good standing.) - Britain should stop mass immigration at once. Britain should get on with the necessary legislation. The current free movement of people will need to be ended, which affects the EU. Again, unilateral action can be taken if the EU is unreasonable. Ending mass immigrant is not negotiable.

5.       (Overseas Aid should be reduced to a minimum. The aim should be to reduce it by at least £10billion. Those who wish to give donations to overseas bodies and charities, are of course free to do so with their own money.) - This should be done at once and does not affect the EU.

6.       (Britain's trade policy should be one of balanced trade. Britain has a massive balance of trade deficit with the EU and also with China. Britain needs to adopt trade policies that will eliminate these trade deficits. If necessary, tariffs should be used. In addition, there should be measures to prevent further key British firms being taken over by foreign entities. Other countries protect their key industries and so should Britain.) - Future trade relations with the EU are the most problematic item. However, this cannot be used as a justification for inaction on everything else, nor can Britain afford to be strung along in open-ended talks with the EU, possibly, until the Article 50 two-year time limit expires and the EU tells us to clear off (this has been described as 'Dirty Brexit'). Britain could offer to continue current arrangements, with some modifications, with a deadline for EU approval. Failure to reach agreement by the deadline could result in either tariffs or a reversion to WTO rules. Grandstanding an interpretation of 19^th century free trade theories is not the priority. The priority for Britain should be to bring a trade with the EU back into balance, which would be a positive transformation of the British economy; Britain needs to pay for imported goods by exporting goods rather than funding the trade deficit by selling assets and borrowing from foreigners. Bringing the trade back into balance means that Britain would boom, generating both the tax revenues and the higher living standards needed.

7.       (There should be a determined de-Marxification programme to remove the ideology of political correctness from society. Those promoting political correctness should have their access to public monies cut. Political correctness should cease to be the basis of morality and patriotism should be quietly engendered.) - This should be done at once and does not affect the EU.

8.       (Priority should be given to reducing the government spending deficit; ending the scandal of councils seizing pensioners homes if they are taken into care; and reintroducing a fully transferable married couples tax allowance. To raise money, in addition to the extra tax income from increased growth due to trade being brought back into balance, and the savings on overseas aid and payments to the EU, there should be the introduction of a Solidarity Tax on those who have thus far avoided the extra costs of the political correctness and immigration that they so loudly demand. All organizations bringing in immigrants should be charged the full cost of a house; there is no reason why taxpayers should fund a housebuilding programme to cater for the immigrants brought in to save wages and training costs for business and other organizations; let those organizations which do so well out of immigration pay to house those immigrants.) - This can be implemented without EU interference, although the speed of the implementation will depend upon the speed with which Britain leaves.

9.       (The House of Lords needs to be replaced to better reflect the views of ordinary people and to cull the collection of cronies with which the chamber has been stuffed since the expulsion of most of the hereditary peers; it has become an expensive Ponzi class gravy train and is dysfunctional. There should also be the introduction of an English parliament to give the English an equal footing in Britain. The powers devolved to the various national parliaments should be equalized with a proper federal structure.) - This should be done at once and does not affect the EU.

10.     (There should be selective measures taken to tackle crony capitalism, self-aggrandising lawyers and dishonest bankers (including their agents). Monopoly abuse should be met with fines. Lawyers should no longer be allowed to manipulate the law to their own financial advantage (e.g. orchestrating allegations from foreigners against British troops, and exploiting divorce proceedings). It should be assumed that the wealth created during a marriage is split evenly in order to simplify, make fairer and minimize lawyers' fees. Small and medium sized businesses should have the law amended to alter the balance of power in their favour regarding banks. Bank criminality should be aggressively prosecuted.) - This should be done at once and does not affect the EU.

In conclusion, it is obvious that the main reason for the delay in an implementation of Turbo Brexit is not the EU, but because the Tories do not agree with it and are dithering regarding any implementation of the Brexit vote. The Tories are the problem.

THE USA

The third presidential debate yesterday, was arguably the one most focused on policy. There were a number of questions on set topics. These topics were: The Supreme Court; Immigration; The Economy; Fitness To Be President; Foreign Hotspots; National Debt; and Closing Statements (which the candidates did not expect).

SUPREME COUIRT

Hillary Clinton said that the issue was what kind of country the USA should be? She mentioned women's rights and LGBT. On abortion, she believed it was a woman's choice. Donald Trump said he supported the 2^nd Amendment, was proud of the NRA's endorsement, and was pro-life. He believed it was wrong to terminate a pregnancy close to 9 months.

IMMIGRATION

Trump said that the USA needed strong borders and that amnesties were a disaster. He pledged to get the criminal illegal immigrants out and reiterated the need for a wall. Clinton prioritized keeping families together, and wanted a path to citizenship for 'undocumented people', of whom she said there were 11 million.

In response to a direct question from the modulator about a previous statement of wanting an 'open hemisphere' including open borders, Clinton launched into an attack on the Russian president, Putin, who she claimed was trying to help Trump. The debate on immigration ended with an argument about who was to be most trusted on nuclear weapons and the importance of defence alliances.

Clinton did not properly answer the questions put to her and sought to distract the debate onto other issues by churning out allegations against Trump and Putin.

THE ECONOMY

Clinton said that 'when the middle class thrives, America thrives' and that her economic proposals would create 10 million new jobs whereas she accused that Trump's proposals would lose 3 million jobs. Clinton said that her proposals would not add 'a penny' to the debt.

Trump described Clinton as a disaster, that the Democrats had doubled the national debt, and that jobs were 'being sucked out of the economy' due to bad trade deals. He pointed out that the US growth rate was very low and that there was a need to get it up. He said that the USA's growth rate was around 1%, compared with 8% for India and 7% for China.

Clinton no longer denied ever having been in favour of the Trans Pacific Partnership, and said that she opposed it now and would do so as president. She said she would not tolerate Chinese dumping of steel, and would appoint a trade prosecutor to enforce trade agreements. Trump pointed out that she had been in power for 30 years and that if she meant it she would already have done it.

Clinton ended the debate by accusing Trump of racial discrimination in his businesses and how she supported women's rights whereas Trump was insulting to women.

FITNESS TO BE PRESIDENT

Trump pointed out that the recent claims from a number of women made against him were false and their stories had been debunked. He criticized Clinton for causing trouble and using rioters and false allegations.

Clinton said that Trump believed the belittling women made him bigger, had been insulting to women and that this was who Trump is. She declared that the USA was great because it is good and that there was a need to stand up against Trump.

Trump countered that Clinton had broken the law when she deleted 33,000 emails, had lied to the FBI and had run a crooked campaign.

Clinton attacked Trump referring to Trump's comments about some Muslim parents (Khans who Clinton had promoted), John McCain, a judge, and his comments about women. She said this was a pattern and was not who America is.

Trump countered by saying that the Clinton Foundation, which Clinton described as a world renowned charity, was a disreputable enterprise that had done a lot of harm in Haiti, was being used to fund Clinton and her campaign, and, despite all Clinton's talk of LGBT and women's rights, was grubbing up monies from Saudi Arabia where homosexuals risked being killed and women were treated very badly.

FOREIGN HOTSPOTS

There was a debate about Iraq and Syria. Clinton committed that US troops would not be deployed in Iraq. Trump said that he believed Iran was a danger and was gaining dominance in Iraq.

Trump said that the USA did not know who the rebels in Syria are. He pointed out the threat posed by allowing in Syrian refugees who were extremists and wanted a safe haven in the Middle East to accommodate them. Clinton said that the US should not let in unvetted people and considered Muslim communities in the US to be in the front line in the fight against extremism.

NATIONAL DEBT

It was pointed out by the moderator that at 77% of GDP, the national debt was the highest it has ever been since WWII.

Trump said that with faster growth of 5-6% and by taking negotiating better trade deals the USA would be better able to fund its spending and bring the debt down. Clinton said that the wealthy needed to pay more and of the need to rebuild the middle class.

Clinton accused Trump of criticizing Ronald Reagan's trade deals, which Trump readily accepted. He said he spoke out because he considered them to be bad deals and he had been proven right.

Trump said there was an urgent need to replace Obamacare, which he said was quickly running out of funds and premiums were already rocketing. Clinton said there was a need for more funding, would tax the wealthy, and committed that there would be no reduction in benefits.

CLOSING STATEMENTS

Clinton said that she was reaching out to everyone and would stand up against powerful interests.

Trump said there was a need for change and promised to make 'America Great Again'.

The outcome of the debate was that Trump had held his own and had shown considerable knowledge of the key issues in contention. Clinton did not have a monopoly on wisdom – despite what she likes to pretend.

The English Rights Campaign will pick up on some matters. To deal immediately with Trump's comment about not knowing who the Syrian rebels are, the favoured group for the West is the Free Syrian Army. This group has received funding from Western countries. Even so, it has virtually ceased to exist not least because of a failure to expand its size and due to defections to other Islamist groups who then benefited from Western weaponry.

In March 2013, the extent of the barbarity of the Syrian civil war was demonstrated by the rebel commander Khaled al Hamad (also known as Abu Sakkar) of the Free Syrian Army who was videoed eating the heart and liver of a dead Syrian soldier. Hamad said: 'I swear to God, you soldiers of Bashar, you dogs, we will eat from your hearts and livers! O heroes of Bab Amr, you slaughter the Alawites and take out their hearts to eat them!' He was not disciplined. These are the moderates.

There was no mention of Clinton's 'basket of deplorables' assertion. This was highly convenient for Clinton. Unlike tittle-tattle of what Trump might have said many years ago, this was a statement of political intent by Clinton. It is a reflection of her politics and the type of policies she will pursue. When she speaks of America being good and who America is, she means political correctness. Her deplorables statement is what she means by being good. She holds tens of millions of ordinary Americans in open contempt and believes others should do likewise.

Trump made an important point about the Clinton Foundation being funded by the Saudis. Despite her proclamations of wanting women's and LGBT rights, such does not prevent Clinton from grubbing up monies from some of the most backward and anti-LGBT and anti-women's rights regimes around. She is hypocritical.

Clinton's economic policy is focused more on taxing the wealthy than on increasing the productive capacity of the US economy. She is evasive and backtracking on her commitment to the various trade deals with which she is associated. Trump has consistently demanded trade reform as a means of revitalizing the US economy. He is determined to increase the US growth rate. Clinton regards the trade issue as an embarrassment and is not to be trusted at all.

Clinton's track record, her deplorables attack on ordinary Americans, her commitment to a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, and that fact that she changed the topic in the debate all show that she is untrustworthy regarding immigration. Trump has remained consistent in his determination to build his wall and stop illegal immigration.

For those who wish to 'Make America Great Again', then The Donald remains the one to vote for.

QUOTE OF THE MONTH (bonus)

'Charles Neufeld, a German arms dealer waiting for deliverance after twelve years as a prisoner of the Khalifa, heard apocalyptic sounds from the city gaol. For months he had been shackled in irons. Now he was half-smothered in dust and stones. The explosion sounded to him and his fellow prisoners “like the screeches of the damned let loose”. The gaolers climbed on to the roof and reported that the “devils” came from boats (in fact, they came from 5-inch howitzers) which had steamed up to Halfeya, a few miles north of the city. Later that afternoon, Neufeld was told that the bombardment had failed … By the mercy of Allah, the boats of the infidel had been driven off … and sunk. Neufeld collapsed into despair. But that night, he lay awake and heard an eerie sound – the pat-pat-pat of bare feet as thousands of men fled silently through the narrow streets to escape the English invaders …

Despite the bombardment of the Mahdi's tomb, morale seemed excellent. The Khalifa's troops fired a volley of shots, as though to celebrate a victory. It was impossible to hide the scale of desertions; yet the great majority of the Khalifa's vast army stood firm. There must have been 50,000 white-robed Ansar there in the plain, banners flying, spears and swords flashing in the fierce sunlight.'

'What a spectacle, [Winston Churchill] wrote later, “Never shall I see such a sight again” … the Khalifa's army was marching swiftly towards him … concentrated on a front only four miles wide, under hundreds of wildly waving banners. “The whole side of the hill seemed to move”, wrote Churchill later, “and the sun, glinting on many hostile spear-points, spread a sparkling cloud”.

Behind Jebel Sugham, the black hill at Churchill's back, and invisible to the Mahdists, rose the dust of 25,000 men, six brigades of [General] Kitchener's British and Egyptian infantry …'

'For [Kitchener] the war had began thirteen years earlier, on 26 January 1885, that day of shame for Britain, when Khartoum fell and Gordon died [Kitchener had been a major in the failed relief column]. Now it was time for them to repay that debt and wipe the slate clean. So he had sternly reminded his men on 7 April that year, on the eve of the battle of Atbara: “The Sirdar [Kitchener] is absolutely confident that every officer and every man will do his duty, he only wishes to impress upon them two words: 'Remember Gordon'. The enemy before them are Gordon's murderers.” '

'About an hour after dawn on 2 September, the cavalry patrols reported that the Dervish army was advancing straight towards the British camp. Within half an hour their flags and spears broke the skyline over the black hill to the south-west. … At 6.50 a.m. British field-guns began to knock holes in the advancing line, giving the cue to the Egyptian batteries, and the gunboats on the river to the east. Armageddon had begun.'

'Two divisions of the Khalifa's army (about 6,000 men under Osman Digna and 8,000 men under the Emir Osman Azrak) put their faith in Allah and charged straight at the British camp. They wore the holy uniform of the patched jibbah (plus, in some cases, chain mail). They advanced in an enormous crescent, brandishing their spears and their texts from the Koran, and chanting, like the muezzin from the minaret, “La Illah illa'uah wa Muhammad rasul Allah” (“There is but one God and Muhammad is his Prophet”). The shells knocked holes in their lines, but the holes were soon filled. From 2,000 yards the British infantry started volley-firing with their smokeless Lee-Merfords. Still the Dervishes came on steadily, now running, now walking. The Maxims then joined in. At 800 yards' range the Egyptian and Sundanese battalions followed with their Martini-Henrys, firing black powder. There was pandemonium in the British camp, and the enemy was lost in the smoke … British infantry were firing volleys shoulder to shoulder, with the front rank kneeling and the rear rank standing … As the smoke cleared, shot and mangled, 2,000 men at least [lay] in crumpled heaps. Thousands more were retreating, wounded. Not a single man had survived to reach the British firing line.'

'Yet only a quarter of the Khalifa's army had been fully engaged. The Army of the Green Flag, 20,000 men under Emir Wad el Sheikh and Ali Wad Helu, had vanished northwards. After a tussle with the cavalry and the camel corps, they had slipped behind the Karan Hills, two miles north of the British camp. And where was the Army of the Black Flag: 17,000 men led by the Khalifa himself and his brother Yakob?'

'[Kitchener] gave orders for the 21^st Lancers to reconnoitre the plain, followed by the army, advancing in echelon of brigades from the left.'

'Their [21^st Lancers] CO, Colonel Martin, insisted on a cavalry charge. The regiment had been mocked for having no battle honours, and now they got a bellyful. For a few extraordinary moments, Winston Churchill felt the stunning shock of the collision between 400 shouting horsemen and 2,000 yelling [Dervish] infantry.'

'There was now no cavalry to reconnoitre. So Kitchener's two front brigades marched briskly off … unaware that the rear brigade – the 1^st Egyptian Brigade of Brigadier-General Hector MacDonald – was a mile behind the rest, and cut off by nearly 40,000 Dervishes … “Fighting Mac” was a veteran of Majuba (where he was supposed to have knocked out a Boer with his bare fist). He was a square-jawed Scot, promoted from the ranks of the Gordons … he sent off a galloper, a messenger to tell the Sirdar about their predicament. The galloper got short change. “Can't he see that we're marching on Omdurman?” was the Sirdar's reply. “Tell him to follow on”.

Fortunately, something made the great man change his mind. In a few minutes the two British brigades and the other Egyptian brigades wheeled away from Omdurman and swung west to protect MacDonald's left flank. Still more fortunately, the two surviving Mahdist armies … were unable to coordinate their attacks … So MacDonald was able to parry each in turn. First he smashed down a charge from the west: a yelling line of white-robed figures, under a huge black banner, crumpled and mangled by the combined Martini-Henrys, Maxims and field-guns firing case shot. Then he smashed down a charge from the north, and drove the men of the Green Flag back to the shelter of Karari, pursued by Broadwood's Egyptian cavalry.

It was time to resume the march on Omdurman … The enemy [Kitchener] remarked, had had a “good dusting”.'

'[Kitchener] had destroyed the Khalifa's army and added a vast new territory to the British Empire, nominally in partnership with Egypt. Only one thing detracted from the completeness of his victory: taking a fresh camel, the Khalifa had escaped with a trusty band … But all relics of the Mahdi were scatted to the winds.

Four days after the battle, Kitchener order the dome, cupola, plinth and every trace of the Mahdi's tomb to be razed to the ground.'

'Kitchener set the seal on the recovery of Khartoum. On 4 September the gunboats steamed across the river for a memorial service to be held in front of the ruins of Gordon's palace. The upper storey had crumbled away, and so had the famous staircase where Gordon had died … Twin flags, the Union Jack and the red flag of the Khedive, were solemnly hoisted on the broken wall and twin national anthems … crashed out across the river front. The service ended with Gordon's favourite hymn, “Abide With Me”, played by the 11^th Sudanese. And Kitchener, the man of stone, impervious to suffering or triumph, found he had no voice to dismiss the parade. Tears swelled the large pale-blue eyes, smudged the dust on his cheeks – tears of happiness and gratitude, he explained to his astonished staff … After thirteen years he had redeemed his country's honour. Gordon was avenged.

Three thousand miles away in Berlin, the Kaiser was writing to his grandmother, Queen Victoria, to congratulate her on the British victory. She too was thinking of the place where “poor Gordon met his cruel fate”.'

The above extracts are from The Scramble for Africa, by Thomas Pakenham, and give an account of the Battle of Omdurman (1898).

Had 'Fighting Mac' and Kitchener been less careful, and had the Dervishes been able to coordinate their attacks, then 'Fighting Mac' and his men may have met the same fate as the British army at Isandlwana at the hand of the Zulus January 1879.

General Gordon, who had been sent to Khartoum to organise the Anglo-Egyptian withdrawal from Sudan, was killed by the Mahdists at Khartoum. His severed head was wedged between branches in a tree to be pelted with stones by passers-by.

Joseph Chamberlain, the Colonial Secretary, who was in the USA at the time of the Battle of Omdurman, said to a New York reporter: 'That settles it for all time. Gordon is avenged.'

There are two lessons to be learned from this. First, the struggle against ISIS and other sects of radical Islam has been described by both British and American politicians as being a 'generational struggle' (see the English Rights Campaign item dated the 24 March 2016). As a point of historical fact, that is untrue. Extremists have been popping up in north Africa and the Middle East for centuries and are likely to continue to do so for centuries more. This is an ongoing problem.

Second, despite the long wars in Egypt and the Sudan, there were no dervishes committing atrocities in Britain, or any other Western country. Yet Radical Islamist extremists are doing so now. The cause of this wave of terrorism and violence is not simply Radical Islam – otherwise we would have experienced the same in the 19^th century. The immediate cause of the atrocities across many Western countries today is that the Islamist extremists are being brought into Western countries, and are even being transported across the Atlantic. It is those who advocate mass immigration, those who are forever demanding that ever more 'refugees' be brought over to the West, and the politically correct, who are to blame. It is their monopoly on governance that has ended the country as being a safe place for the nation to live.

 

QUOTE OF THE MONTH

'Please understand that there is no one depressed in this house; we are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.'

- Queen Victoria, putting some backbone into one of her ministers just after 'Black Week' in the Boer War, in which the British army had suffered a series of setbacks. At the time the British army was outnumbered more than five to one.

THE USA

The fight between patriotism and political correctness is the fight between good and evil.

That the US presidential campaign is mired in tittle-tattle should not deflect attention away from the important issues. The similarities between the USA and the declining Britain at the start of the 20^th century grow. Then, the towering figure of Joseph Chamberlain led the Tariff Reform Campaign with the forces of the establishment mobilised against him. The ruling Unionist government was split. Joseph Chamberlain toured the country to make speeches to packed venues.

Today, in the USA, the Republican Party is split, with the grandees, in particular Paul Ryan, knifing Donald Trump rather than supporting him. He tours the USA in a series of rallies that are packed out. The audiences are huge. He advocates a more protectionist approach to trade as well as opposition to mass immigration and political correctness. The US race hangs in the balance with Hillary Clinton ahead.

Clinton, like a grubby lawyer, is intent on smearing her way into the White House. The aim is answer the case made against her by discrediting her opponent. Currently, it is claimed, $millions are being offered by a Clinton donor for tapes of The Apprentice show, allegedly embarrassing to Donald Trump. This is how immoral and how malevolent Clinton is. Her stance is consistent with her previous treatment of those many women her husband has allegedly assaulted or with whom he has had affairs. For example, 'trailer trash' is how Hillary Clinton described one of them.

In the second election debate, Donald Trump was correct to point out the extent of Clinton's hatred and that she should be ashamed of herself. She plays the victim and peddles smears, yet it is she who is guilty of that which she accuses others. It is she who had Muslim parents at her conference attacking Donald Trump; it is she who is peddling the line that border controls are racist; she who divides society into supposedly oppressed groups who she then encourages to unite against the majority; it is she who has accused the Trump campaign of being 'built … on prejudice and paranoia', and of taking 'hate groups mainstream'; it is she who has made comment of the Trump rallies being 'largely white audiences' and alleging 'systemic racism'; it is she who has rehashed Frankfurt School communism with her allegation of there being an 'Alt-Right' with alleged 'Racist ideas. Race-baiting ideas. Anti-Muslim and anti-immigration ideas;' it is she who has alleged a supposed 'Trump Effect' with a message of 'Make America hate again' (see the English Rights Campaign item dated 15 September 2016). More brazenly, it was Clinton who said:

'You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? [Laughter/applause]. The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people, now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric. Now some of those folks, they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America.'

It should be noted that she condemned these Trump supporters as not only 'deplorables' but also 'irredeemable'. Clinton has never properly apologised for these remarks, nor explained the contempt she has for ordinary people and their values. It is Clinton's political correctness that betrays itself in these remarks. In the recent debate she merely said that she was 'sorry about the way I talked about that'. It was her terminology she said she regretted – not her political correctness. The former BBC North American Editor, Justin Webb, recently wrote in the Daily Mail:

'You have to understand why Trump's people will genuinely back him to the last. For them, there is no other candidate, because all the other alternatives on the Republican side have more or less sold out – to big business, to special interests, to Wall Street. Trump is no less than a general leading an insurgent army. For the average Trump supporter, this is not politics: this is war. If they lose, they die … His people are not just gloomy, they are downright desperate. They are mostly white, and living in a nation where the white people will be a minority by 2050. Plenty of white Americans are happy with that prospect but, for those at the bottom of the pile, it feels frightening.'

It should be added that the establishment have also embraced political correctness, for which the ordinary people have never voted and do not want.  Given Clinton's sneer at the 'irredeemable' 'deplorables', one can well understand why. Backs are to the wall.

The fight between patriotism and political correctness is the fight between good and evil.

 

THE USA

One thing that was proved in the presidential debate yesterday is that those Republicans who have run away in the face of some 'locker room' banter by Donald Trump that was leaked to the media, have made complete fools of themselves. Given the scale of the condemnation heaped upon him, it was expected that The Donald would fail to present himself as a credible candidate. In the event, he acquitted himself very well. He had very significantly improved compared to the first debate. He bested Hillary Clinton.

Clinton did not properly explain herself regarding the deleted emails. She relied upon a suggestion of appointing a lawyer to enforce trade deals as a solution to the $800billion trade deficit. She further continually tried to stir up division and hatred in true politically correct fashion, and then had the gall to declare that 'when they go low, we go high', before hurling a lot of untruths about Muslims, a Mexican judge and the Birther issue. She continued to refuse to use the term 'radical Islamic terrorism'. Regarding her description of tens of millions of Americans as 'deplorables', Clinton merely said that she was 'sorry about the way [she] talked about that'.

Clinton did not explain her criticism that Donald Trump had not paid more taxes, even though his business had suffered losses. Enoch Powell once said: ‘You don’t tax a loss. You only tax a profit. You raise more, the more profit there is to tax’ (see the English Rights Campaign item dated the 3 May 2005).

How do you tax a loss? Taxes are levied on profits not losses. Clinton’s smear about this is rubbish.

On the economy, immigration and security, Donald Trump was the one offering change and a determination to tackle the USA's serious problems. Clinton only offers more of the same.