Blaming the British Dystopia on “the Blob”

In an interview with Trevor Phillips on Sky News, former Prime Minister Boris Johnson blamed the ‘Boriswave’ of migration on what he describes as liberal remain-voting civil servants. Boris is counting on the general public having a short memory. In 2018 interview with the Telegraph he argued that the Government should make the “liberal” case for immigration and warned that “a society that isn’t open to talent will die”:

That was why it was right to take back control. It’s not about migration, it’s about control. It’s about who calls the shots. I’m a proud descendant not just of Turks but God knows what. There are lots of people who voted leave who are very liberal on migration, who shared my point of view… If I, as a UK politician, believe there is a case for having talented workers in our country and being open and saying to the people of the UK, ‘Look, we need software people from Hyderabad…because they add massively to our culture’ then it’s up to me as an elected politician to make that case.

When asked “who is in charge”, former Tory MP Danny Kruger replied “It is the system, what we call the deep state”. He has argued that the British government is “pushed around like a child in a playground encircled by bullies”. But what does Kruger himself believe? Once the chief speechwriter for David Cameron, he helped craft the “modernising” project that transformed the Conservatives from a mildly patriotic centre-right party into a socially liberal one. Under Cameron, the government legalised same-sex marriage, increased foreign aid spending to a record-high, and oversaw a surge in net migration. Despite that, in 2013 Danny Kruger told The Guardian “I’d like to know where David Cameron’s compassionate Conservatism has gone”. He confided to the paper his “fear” that the rhetoric of forthcoming elections might focus more on “bashing burglars”, “sending immigrants home” and targeting “skivers”. He changed his own rhetoric on immigration after the electoral chances of the Tory party plummeted and Reform UK rose in the polls. Even now, while blaming “the system,” Kruger continues to shield the individuals actually responsible, stating, “I don’t really blame individuals. In fact, I honor Boris Johnson.”

Other than Brexit, the Boris Johnson wing of the Conservative Party was in full support of every facet of liberal opinion. One of Johnson’s loudest and most persistent cheerleaders is Jacob Rees-Mogg. He has blamed “the blob” for the current state of the country:

The blob hates the right-wing of the Conservative Party, that is to say the Boris Johnson wing of the Conservative Party because it shatters their beliefs and gives the electorate control. The blob is all about control by the elite.

The function of Rees-Mogg is to provide a reassuring traditional face to a party that ushered in revolutionary change and to bamboozle right-wingers into voting for a liberal party. And yet even Rees-Mogg can’t keep up the charade. When asked by a Telegraph journalist whether demographic change in the UK was happening too quickly, Jacob Rees-Mogg responded with an air of nonchalance, “I’m not concerned at all”.

After her short and turbulent premiership, Liz Truss re-emerged as a self-styled right-wing critic of the political system. In an op-ed she penned for Fox News, she claimed her tenure as PM was “sabotaged” by what she described as the “deep state”. The actual reason was more mundane: her mini-budget included massive tax cuts buts but no spending cuts of any kind, leading to economic turbulence. Her time in office contrasts sharply with her current political stance. While she used some tough rhetoric for illegal migration, as Prime Minister she intended to increase legal immigration. She had campaigned for Britain to to remain in the EU. Her opinions were not notably different from those of the average civil servant. By her own admission, she had worked hard to secure the release of Alaa Abd El-Fattah — an Egyptian man who had tweeted “fucking hate white people… a blight on the earth” and described British people as “dogs and monkeys” — after the Tory government had granted him British citizenship.

For all their shortcomings, Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick have at least been forthright about the actual issue: politicians. Speaking on the Heretics podcast, former Home Secretary Suella Braverman lays the blame squarely on the decisions of Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak:

I’m not one of those politicians who blames the civil service… On legal migration, we had come out of the European Union… We had the levers at our disposal… This is what I would say to the prime ministers: we’ve got an open goal on legal migration… You just need to give me the authorization and I will literally go and kinda press some buttons. Its a very very simple process…. My efforts were rebuffed and I was outnumbered in the cabinet. We went back to the electorate with unprecedented levels of net migration.

It does feel like Britain is governed more by human rights lawyers than elected politicians, but that state of affairs was created by parliament itself. If our elected representatives wanted the UK to leave the European Convention on Human Rights, then the UK would leave. Robert Jenrick revealed to GB News that members of the Tory shadow cabinet told him “I will never serve in the shadow cabinet of someone who wants to leave the ECHR”. The policies of the Conservative Party were freely chosen, consciously and purposefully, over the course of 14 years.

Reform UK will be no different. During his years as a senior Conservative MP, Zahawi had argued for an amnesty for illegal immigrants and had loudly condemned America’s so-called “Muslim ban”. Seeking to justify Zahawi’s position in the party, Deputy Leader Richard Tice said:

We need a team of a range of talents across the board. And that includes the talents of knowing where the blob is. Knowing how to deal with the blob.

Zahawi is a strange choice for a party supposedly at war with the forces of political correctness within the civil service. When Keir Starmer appointed Antonia Romeo — a figure dubbed the “queen of woke” by the press — as Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service, Zahawi called it a “good appointment”.

Mark Littlewood, director of the right-wing PopCon organization, gave a sycophantic interview to Zahawi in which they discussed reforming the civil service. Littlewood blames the current state of the country on the “structural problem” of the “Blairite machinery of government”, an outlook that Zahawi conveniently agrees with. The blurb for the YouTube video reads:

“Is the UK legal system being weaponized against the will of the people? From judicial overreach to the rise of “activist lawyers,” the pillars of British democracy are under pressure. Nadhim Zahawi knows the unvarnished truth about where and why the system is broken”.

Zahawi has previously made the case that Britain must have mass immigration so that immigrants from third-world nations can send money out of the British economy back to their country of origin.

We cannot allow politicians to use the “deep state” as a scapegoat for their own shortcomings, or as a cover for their own liberal agendas.