Interim Guidance?

Yesterday was quite the day in the House of Commons, with the SNP, in its call for separate immigration visas for Scotland, having to be told to accept the verdict of one referendum by those who, in seeking to introduce a youth mobility scheme with the EU, were attempting to subvert the result of another, and indeed more recent, referendum.

How would those ruses work? Why, by universal and compulsory digital ID, of course. As would also be required for social media curfews and such like. Those measures are preferred to a healthy insistence that parents should act like parents, since by these means teenagers would be starved of access to any alternative to the ruling ideology. Less than a fortnight ago, that ideology still included gender self-identification, although not only would gents etiquette preclude anyone's passing comment, but a man in drag, for example on a stag night or having lost a bet, would shock no one, much less place him under any threat.

Like the digital ID that was already being introduced ostensibly to combat underage drinking and what have you, the electronic means of the intimate control of adolescents would be administered by the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, Peter Kyle. Like a serving Government Whip, Kyle was given his big break in politics by the Chief Whip whose Whips' Office included both Kyle's close friend, closest ally, and sometime lover, Ivor Caplin, and at the same time Dan Norris, who was also notably close to Caplin. Along with the subsequently adjudicated and disqualified electoral fraud Phil Woolas, such was the Whips' Office that forced through the Iraq War. Caplin, Norris and Woolas were all made Ministers a few weeks later.

Up behind them has come Kyle, among others. Would you trust him and his ilk with your children's and grandchildren's contact details, or with their photographs? The same applies to trusting the Government with assisted suicide, and vice versa. And the Moscow car bomb that killed General Yaroslav Moskalik was effectively, if not literally, planted by British intelligence, which has no meaningful dividing line from the factions that intended to disregard any peace treaty and pursue forever Andriy Biletsky's mission for Ukraine, "to lead the white races of the world in a final crusade against Semite-led Untermenschen."

Such are the people who would issue and monitor, not only your compulsory digital ID and mine, but also that of your children and grandchildren, including the sons and grandsons whom they wished to conscript. Centrism and right-wing populism are con tricks to sell exactly the same economic and foreign policies to different audiences by pretending to wage a culture war. Fascism is inherent in both of them, and it never arises except by their joint enterprise.