If Peter Mandelson's little helper, Wes Streeting, is still in with a shout at becoming Prime Minister, or even if he is not, then consider that on his watch, a 97-year-old woman has died after having been told that she would need to wait 10 days for an ambulance over a suspected hip fracture. Has Streeting resigned over this? Has anyone? Will anyone?
Keir Starmer may sack Streeting, anyway. You come at the king, you best not miss. But as for Starmer's warning notices to suspected paedophiles, is that an old story, or does it just feel that way? Contrast them with the people whom Starmer did insist on prosecuting all the way to custodial sentences. Today, he is off again about the learning disabled brother whom he pretty much allowed to starve to death, just as he insists that his sister bring a packed lunch when she comes to see him. Tell us again how very "decent" he is. As his Oxford contemporary Benjamin Schoendorff has just told Crispin Flintoff, "Keir is no Hitler, in the sense that he is not charismatic, he is not leading anything."
I have spent my entire life first in the Church of England and for the last 27 years in the Catholic Church, around which I also grew up in that my entire secondary schooling was under Her aegis. I spent my late adolescence and my early adulthood in the Labour Party, and I have remained politically active. I have been to prison twice. And like you, I have never knowingly met a paedophile, nor even heard of anyone from back in the day who had turned out to have been one. Yet our lords and masters cannot get out of bed, if that, without falling over them, and they go out of their way to make life as easy as possible for them, not least by appointing their close friends and their political protectors to key positions from the Washington Embassy, to the House of Lords, to, putatively, the Chair of Ofcom. It all suggests an answer to the question of why MPs had school holidays, although when they returned later today, then they should ask why the Privy Council's website still listed Peter Mandelson as a member, just as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was still a Counsellor of State.
For 17 centuries, there has been a continuous, if usually almost invisible, refusal of the recapitulation in Jesus Christ and His Church of all three of the Old Israel, Hellenism, and the Roman Empire, by those who cleaved instead to the previously normative practices that have most lately been detailed in the Epstein Files. In a few hours' time, Zia Yusuf will set out his no doubt laughable "patriotic curriculum" ostensibly "based on Christianity", and his plans, which may have some merit, to save church buildings. But while we live in hope, there would appear to be no expectation that he himself will recite the Apostles' Creed and be baptised. Nor, presumably, will Suella Braverman, who has been tweeting her enthusiasm. It is very telling that this mission has not been committed to Danny Kruger, perhaps the most striking of the Reform UK MPs to have been allocated no portfolio when Home Affairs had been allotted to a member of the general public.
Moreover, there will be two further points to Yusuf's programme for the re-evangelisation of the land of Bede, Alcuin, Anselm, Becket, More and Newman. One will be an "outreach programme" that by pledging lower taxes, would attract back those, including Richard Tice, who had decamped to Dubai or Singapore. Yes, really. And the other will seek to force the Police to search the homes of everyone who had been referred to Prevent. Yet not only is Prevent based on a proven hoax, but does Yusuf think that he is already Home Secretary? Or does he think that if Reform came to power, then it would keep it forever? This degree of willingness to empower his successors, known for the time being as his opponents, would suggest that Yusuf really was a professional politician after all. Any remaining doubt would be dispelled if he succeeded in selling himself as the man to re-Christianise Britain when he was the Muslim representative of an Epstein Class party.
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