{"id":296,"date":"2019-12-14T13:32:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T13:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/?p=296"},"modified":"2020-02-17T18:44:41","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T18:44:41","slug":"democracy-returns-to-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/democracy-returns-to-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy returns to the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>\n

DEMOCRACY<\/strong> RETURNS TO THE UK<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Whilst\npreparing to move from England to Kaliningrad in December 2018, I was asked by\nsomeone, was my reason for quitting the UK down to Brexit? ~ meaning, was I\nleaving the UK as the UK was leaving Europe. \u201cNo,\u201d I replied, \u201cI\u2019m leaving the\nUK because the UK will never leave Europe.\u201d Many a true word said in jest, as\nthey say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another 12\nmonths passes, during which the lies, deceit, fear-mongering, treachery,\ndisloyalty, and numerous attempts to abandon democracy in the name of\nNeo-Liberalism, would seem to bear out all I had predicted ~ for, in spite of\nvaliant and untiring attempts by Nigel Farage to extricate us from the insidious\ntentacles of the EU experiment, it looked as if key figures in the British establishment,\naided and abetted by rich persons with no legacy-British background and a\nbiased judicial system, would stop at nothing to ensure that their socially\nengineered Frankenstein would lumber on regardless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Get Brexit\nDone!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

And then,\nreturning to England just before Christmas, on the 13 December 2019, something\nmarvelous, something quite extraordinary, something amazing happens: Just when\nyou thought it wasn\u2019t safe to use the word democracy anymore in the UK, the\nBritish electorate surprises everyone, including themselves, and prove to the\nworld that they are still capable of rational thought. In spite of all that has\nbeen thrown at them by the Leftist media, the lies, the deceit, the propaganda,\ninstead of buckling to the war of attrition and voting, as politicians such as\nJo Swinson felt sure they would, for cancelling Brexit, they did just the\nopposite, turning 13 December 2019 not into the travesty expected but in a\ngreat day for democracy, the day that restored faith in the British people\u2019s\nability to see beyond the smoke and mirrors and decide, resolutely, that they\nwanted to take their country back. Not that the political class should have\nbeen surprised; after all, Cameron and Co never for the life of them believed\nthat the British people would have the temerity to ditch the EU, but they did,\nand now Boris Johnson, forced by his own party\u2019s treachery as much as by\nanything else to launch a General Election, is voted back into Number 10 to\nfinish the job he started, to \u2018Get Brexit Done!\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unable to\nadmit that this election was about one thing, and one thing only, Brexit, the Liberal-Left-\ndominated media go gunning for poor old Corbyn. It\u2019s all his fault, he \u2018led\nLabour into the abys\u2019. Well, yes, but mainly because the majority of his party\nwere pushing to scupper Brexit, angling all the way for a second referendum\nwhich would hopefully bring the result that they wanted rather than concede to\nthe one they did not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feeling\nsorry for Corbyn? Then you should also feel sorry for Jo Swinson, leader of the\nso-called Liberal Democrats. So convinced was she that the brainwashing of the British\npeople through month after month of Project Fear had worked, ie that Brexit was\ngoing to inflict everything from a boil on your arse to a land heave in your\ngarden, that she gambled her entire career and the fortunes of her party on the\nilliberal and undemocratic promise to \u2018Cancel Brexit\u2019 if she won. She lost.\nMedia predictions had been significant gains for her party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One thing,\nhowever, the Liberal-Left media did get right and that was their description of\nLabour\u2019s rowt as a political earthquake. It was so sudden, so severe and so\ndevastating that it shot off up North, making terrible destructive inroads into\nLabour\u2019s traditional heartland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Red Wall, Labour\u2019s impregnable swathe of safe constituencies, the North-South divide which seemed as old as Hadrian\u2019s Wall itself, crumbled; even worse (worse that is for Labour), seats that had been held by Labour since the inception of Labour itself had its long entrenched, complacent  arses kicked well and truly out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democracy\nreturns to the UK<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The\nmagnitude on the Left-Wing Richter scale was not immediately apparent to me,\nbut as I read the various reports, commentary and analysis I began to realise\njust how devastating Boris\u2019 victory had been for the Left. The media likened\nits effect to the election of Margaret Thatcher, but in fact it was worse, much\nworse. As one Leftist commentator wrote, Boris Johnson had in one fell-swoop\nswept everything away that Tony Bair had built. But isn\u2019t this what happens\nwhen you botch something together without due regard for planning permission\nand building regulations? The same commentator went on to lament that Boris\nJohnson\u2019s victory was the dawning of a new era in which \u2018patriotism and\nimmigration\u2019 will take precedence over economics. So, it is boo hoo for the\nNeo-Liberal Globalists, but then someone should have told them that this is\nwhat Brexit has all been about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was\nHitler\u2019s Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels who famously said, that \u201cIf\nyou tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to\nbelieve it.\u201d He should have added for the sake of the liars, \u2018just don\u2019t go\nbelieving it yourselves!\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his new\nand much empowered role, Boris Johnson has the golden opportunity to preside\nover a new era, not a cliched new era but one that could really make a\ndifference. The good ship UK has lacked a firm hand at the helm for far too\nlong. For the past twenty years or more we\u2019ve been drifting into the maelstrom,\ncarried by a pernicious subcurrent that has left us as a nation PC disoriented\nand all but morally bankrupt. Naysayers believe, and can you really blame them,\nthat we are too far off course to find our way back; then the answer must lie\nin going forward but with a significant change of direction. We have not always\nbeen Not So Great Britain and our destiny does not have to be the Disunited\nKingdom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the coming months the Liberal-Left will resort to their usual\nilliberality. They will refuse to accept at all costs that the Brexit election\nwas a resounding rejection of their unprincipled mission to subvert and\nsubstitute true democracy for their Trojan Horse version of it, and on the receiving\nend, of course, it will be poor old Corbyn\u2019s end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ironically, that well-known adage \u2018Be Careful What You Wish For\u2019 could not be more applicable. It was the Left that called for \u2018The People\u2019s Vote\u2019. They got it. The people voted for Brexit. Now Boris has a clear and an unequivocal mandate \u2018To Get the Job Done\u2019 as promised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copyright \u00a9 2018-2020 Mick Hart. All rights reserved.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DEMOCRACY RETURNS TO THE UK Whilst preparing to move from England to Kaliningrad in December 2018, I was asked by someone, was my reason for quitting the UK down to Brexit? ~ meaning, was I leaving the UK as the UK was leaving Europe. \u201cNo,\u201d I replied, \u201cI\u2019m leaving the UK because the UK will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meanwhile-in-the-uk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":441,"url":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/independence-day-freedom-from-the-eu\/","url_meta":{"origin":296,"position":0},"title":"Independence Day: Freedom from the EU","author":"Captain Codpiece","date":"1 \u0444\u0435\u0432\u0440\u0430\u043b\u044f, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Independence Day: Freedom from the EU 31 January 2020 On 23 June 2016, the British people voted in a democratic referendum to leave the European Union. One thousand three hundred and eighteen days later ~ the political establishment and liberal-left pressure groups having exhausted every trick in the book and\u2026","rel":"","context":"\u0412 "Meanwhile in the UK"","block_context":{"text":"Meanwhile in the UK","link":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/category\/meanwhile-in-the-uk\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3200,"url":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/moving-to-russia-from-the-uk\/","url_meta":{"origin":296,"position":1},"title":"Moving to Russia from the UK","author":"Captain Codpiece","date":"20 \u0444\u0435\u0432\u0440\u0430\u043b\u044f, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Why I left the UK and moved to Kaliningrad Published: 20 February 2021 I was sitting in the office of our antique shop. It was a bright, sunny afternoon one Saturday in June. A couple whom we knew as being members of the 1940s\u2019 crowd had just parked their 1935\u2026","rel":"","context":"\u0412 "Diary 2021"","block_context":{"text":"Diary 2021","link":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/category\/kaliningrad-mick-harts-diary\/diary-2021\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"UK as the sinking cultural ship","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/5TReey5Gc.jpg?fit=800%2C664&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/5TReey5Gc.jpg?fit=800%2C664&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/5TReey5Gc.jpg?fit=800%2C664&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/5TReey5Gc.jpg?fit=800%2C664&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8656,"url":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/lies-and-democracy-are-they-now-the-same-thing\/","url_meta":{"origin":296,"position":2},"title":"Lies and Democracy are they now the same thing?","author":"Captain Codpiece","date":"14 \u043c\u0430\u0440\u0442\u0430, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Wake up! It's not the coffee you're smelling! 14 March 2023 ~ Lies and Democracy are they now the same thing? When I left the UK for Kaliningrad in 2018, friends, acquaintances and business associates, but not family, who have ceased to be surprised by anything I do, responded to\u2026","rel":"","context":"\u0412 "Meanwhile in the UK"","block_context":{"text":"Meanwhile in the UK","link":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/category\/meanwhile-in-the-uk\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Lies and Democracy are they now the same thing?","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/SPREADING-DEMOCRACY-min.png?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/SPREADING-DEMOCRACY-min.png?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/SPREADING-DEMOCRACY-min.png?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/SPREADING-DEMOCRACY-min.png?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/SPREADING-DEMOCRACY-min.png?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":13458,"url":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/reform-mass-deportation-bill-is-the-way-to-save-uk\/","url_meta":{"origin":296,"position":3},"title":"Reform Mass Deportation Bill is the Way to Save UK","author":"Captain Codpiece","date":"14 \u0441\u0435\u043d\u0442\u044f\u0431\u0440\u044f, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"As Starmer does the hokey cokey with one migrant in and one migrant out, Nigel Farage has a better solution: Mass Deportation 14 September 2025 \u2013 Reform Mass Deportation Bill is the Way to Save UK Vote Reform UK Fabulous news. When the UK\u2019s Reform Party, with Nigel Farage at\u2026","rel":"","context":"\u0412 "Meanwhile in the UK"","block_context":{"text":"Meanwhile in the UK","link":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/category\/meanwhile-in-the-uk\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Reform Mass Deportation Bill is the Way to Save UK. Save our children's future.","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Please-save-our-future-rz-min.png?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Please-save-our-future-rz-min.png?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Please-save-our-future-rz-min.png?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Please-save-our-future-rz-min.png?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Please-save-our-future-rz-min.png?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3376,"url":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/25-reasonable-excuses-for-leaving-the-uk\/","url_meta":{"origin":296,"position":4},"title":"25 Reasonable Excuses for Leaving the UK","author":"Captain Codpiece","date":"26 \u043c\u0430\u0440\u0442\u0430, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"You can check-out any time you like,But you can never leave!' Published: 26 March 2021 ~ 25 Reasonable Excuses for Leaving the UK You might not believe the BBC, and that is all to your credit, but, as sensible as it sounds, the UK government has indeed ruled as part\u2026","rel":"","context":"\u0412 "Meanwhile in the UK"","block_context":{"text":"Meanwhile in the UK","link":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/category\/meanwhile-in-the-uk\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"25 Reasonable Excuses for Leaving the UK man running scared","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/man-scared-Rz.jpg?fit=1200%2C779&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/man-scared-Rz.jpg?fit=1200%2C779&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/man-scared-Rz.jpg?fit=1200%2C779&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/man-scared-Rz.jpg?fit=1200%2C779&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/man-scared-Rz.jpg?fit=1200%2C779&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":12392,"url":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/uk-zelensky-tour-charity-gala-performance\/","url_meta":{"origin":296,"position":5},"title":"UK Zelensky Tour is a Charity Gala Performance","author":"Captain Codpiece","date":"6 \u043c\u0430\u0440\u0442\u0430, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The fool stands where he\u2019s told to 6 March 2025 ~ UK Zelensky Tour is a Charity Gala Performance Having watched the spat in the White House recently, where Trump missed the opportunity to stick one on a man widely regarded as the world\u2019s biggest scrounger but couldn\u2019t really do\u2026","rel":"","context":"\u0412 "Meanwhile in the UK"","block_context":{"text":"Meanwhile in the UK","link":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/category\/meanwhile-in-the-uk\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"UK Zelensky Tour \u00a32.26 billion T shirt","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2.26-billion-rz-min.png?fit=900%2C981&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2.26-billion-rz-min.png?fit=900%2C981&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2.26-billion-rz-min.png?fit=900%2C981&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/expatkaliningrad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2.26-billion-rz-min.png?fit=900%2C981&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}