BoJo - a turd spewed to the top by a geyser of sewage

That’s a quote from former British diplomat Craig Murray, writing at Consortium News. That’s one of the non-MSM news sites I like to check out on a daily basis, and I suggest you do too. It’ll expand your horizons if you’re accustomed to a steady diet of CBC or CNN, or, Lord have mercy, CBCNN. Yes, there really is such an aberation. Murray pins the demise of the UK, and “western civilization” generally, on the triumph of neocon ideology since the Thatcher-Reagan era. I largely agree with him. The only value that matters anymore is the size of your bank account. The plumper your finances, the more you are held in esteem in polite MSM-curated society. Those with no finances are left with no voice. That’s why across “Western civilization” we celebrate billionaires while children starve. And that’s also why former insiders like Craig Murray are excomunicated from mainstream media and smeared as pro-Putin propagandists. Which, to my way of thinking, makes it even more important to add a sprinkle of Consortium News to your daily diet of MSNBCFOXCBCNN…

BoJo grows a pair

Well, this was unexpected.

I fully expected the other four eyes to roll over for Trump's order to keep Huawei out of their 5G networks. The Kiwis and the Aussies caved immediately. I've long predicted that Canada will eventually follow suit, and I truly believed the UK would as well, especially after Boris became PM and Brexit becomes a reality. On the face of things, Boris needs some stuff from Trump, like a trade deal, that I would have thought ensures that he locks Huawei out of UK 5G.

So why does he appear to be giving Trump the finger?

I've always been of the belief that the Huawei ban is more about commerce than it is about security. The security claims, that Huawei will hand over all the secrets of the West to the Communist Party of China, seems dubious at best. In the real world of cyber-espionage, all the major players will infiltrate each others 5G networks, regardless of where the hardware is sourced. Huawei is widely regarded as being a generation ahead of Western technology. A ban would secure market share for Western companies.

Note what Boris has done. He's not banned Huawei outright, but he's capped their market share at 35%. I'm guessing there was some back and forth between Boris and Donny J, and that Trump signalled he could live with this deal before Boris made the announcement.

What's in this for BoJo? He just "defied" Trump. That's got to count for something in the polling numbers.


This has ramifications for Canada. If Trudeau follows Boris, and instead of an outright ban on Huawei imposes a market cap, he wins in at least two ways. Firstly, it gives him a chance to pose as something other than a Trump toady. That's a political win for him.

Secondly, it could open up a path to unwinding the Meng Wanzhou logjam. That would be an even bigger political win.

The think tank here at Falling Downs used to predict with 99% certainty that Canada would institute a full ban on Huawei. Now the odds are we'll take the opening Boris just gave us.

BoJo is Trump without the charisma

What, you didn't realize Mafia Don had any? Keep an eye on Boris Johnson for a spell. You'll see what I mean.

BoJo is touted as the next PM of the UK, at least until the next election. At which point Jeremy Corbyn will most likely take the office. Neither eventuality is going to sit well with the anti-Brexit crowd.

The Brexit hysteria has been the biggest media clusterfuck after Russiagate, with the same tenuous non-grounding in reality. What's really going to happen the day after Britain leaves the EU?

Legions of paper shufflers in both the EU and the UK will have more papers to shuffle. Beyond that, precious little. In fact, there's bound to be a steep increase in employment ops for qualified paper shufflers on both sides of the Channel. This should be welcome news.

Scary stories about the Irish border notwithstanding, life will go on, just as it did after the Y2K hysteria, if you're old enough to remember that.

The EU is on the back foot for many reasons quite independent of Brexit. My father's generation, the people who endured the WW2 at ground level, naturally have an appreciation for the fact that there's been no war on the Continent for seventy-something years.

Fair enough.

But it's also true that what a lot of folks see when they look at the EU today is a bloated bureaucratic behemoth that gets its marching orders from the USA.

Covfefe unleashed

Top story in my Globe and Mail today features the erstwhile Mark MacKinnon doing what he's won journalism awards for; rooting through the archives in search of a new slant on old stories. And by golly, he found a winner, at least in the eyes of his editors.

Yup, the dastardly Putin has been systematically rubbing out his critics! How do we know? Well, the "nerve-agent attack against former spy Sergei Skripal" in Britain three weeks ago has reopened the cases of 14 other "mysterious deaths" that the conspiratorially inclined would like to link to Bad Vlad.

Skripal was found semi-comatose on a park bench in England on 4th March.

The last time I was found semi-comatose on a park bench, they thankfully didn't make a big deal of it, and by the way, I really appreciate that.

Sergei Skripal had no such luck.

By 5th March highly placed British authorities were speculating for the record that the Kremlin was behind this "assassination attempt." By 6th March Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson was openly calling out Putin in parliament...

Proof?

Hey, if you need proof, you're obviously a Putin stooge. Just like the year and a half long (and counting) investigation into Putin's tampering with America's "democracy," no proof is forthcoming because a) there isn't any, and b) if you think it might be a good idea to provide some, you're obviously... a Putin stooge!

Case closed!


By the way, "covfefe" is an accidental Trumpian invention that, roughly translated, means "gibberish."

Pot-addled hillbilly takes a break from Bieber-bashing to pontificate on Brexit

It's gotta be tough being Bieber, wouldn't you say?

Yup, slamming Hollywood starlets and being an asshole at A-list parties has pretty much gotta drain your energy, at least if you had any in the first place.

But no matter the level of assholery, Biebs remains on the A-list.

I know... it seems to energize him.

But belieb it or not, there are bigger deals than Bieber loose in the world today.

Like Brexit for example.

Frankly, if George Galloway and Boris can see eye to eye on Brexit, there must be something good in Brexit.

And when Phoney Tony is campaigning for the "remain" side you know immediately that "remain" is profoundly flawed.

I've heard it said that Obama has weighed in on the remain side because it's way easier to steer one combine of 28 nations than it is to steer 28 disparate nations who each have their own agenda. That shit-show would just be totally unmanageable.

It's a conundrum alright.

But when Phoney Tony is on the one side, and George and Boris are both on the other, there's no question about which side of the debate I'm on.

Brexit now or Brexit later, but sooner or later Britain is out of the EU.