Dishonour!
As aide behind Osborne’s trendy haircut gets the same gong as top Rolls-Royce boss, what a telling snapshot of Cameron’s Britain ...
LIKE millions of others less than six weeks ago, I voted for Britain to leave the European Union. And I did so with a passion.
To my surprise and delight, we were in the majority. The people of the United kingdom had decided to free themselves from the rule of the unelected European Commission and become a fully independent nation again.
When Theresa May took over from David Cameron, she insisted: ‘Brexit means Brexit.’ Yesterday, however, it turned out that a cross-party coalition in the House of Lords — also unelected — are pursuing plans to block Brexit.
Among them is Baroness Wheatcroft, a wealthy Remain supporter who lists skiing and opera as her hobbies in Who’s Who.
In effect, she is plotting to steal the votes of the 17 million of us, who, in her opinion, were unenlightened enough to put their crosses in the wrong box on June 23, by a margin of 52 to 48 per cent.
In other words, she is trying to trample on democracy.
Lady Wheatcroft, a former editor- in- chief of the Wall Street Journal Europe, claims that ‘there is an argument that at some stage people ought to be given an opportunity to think again’.
What arrogance! What is it about the referendum vote that she doesn’t understand?
It is interesting to note that Wheatcroft was catapulted into the Lords by David Cameron in 2010. He, too, of course, was a passionate Remainer.
Licking his wounds following his humiliating referendum defeat, he has also delivered a tetchy rebuke to the Leave majority.
His resignation honours are a depressing list of cronies, pro-Remain donors, spin doctors and EU-fanatic lobbyists. They illustrate his cold fury at having been defied by the electorate. This is shameful. Moreover, his political courtiers and their Left-liberal allies seem to be employing constitutional trickery in order to ‘revisit’ — their euphemism of choice — the referendum verdict.
It is becoming clearer by the day that Britain’s elites are refusing to accept the result of a referendum that the Leave campaign won despite a gigantic, unscrupulous propaganda campaign supported by the Government, the EU, crony capitalists, smug churchmen, luvvies and the trade unions.
Tycoons
Lady Wheatcroft perfectly personifies this type. She is a former financial journalist whose social circle was made up of the sort of jet- setting international tycoons who hang out in the champagne bar of the Royal Opera House.
She spent less time with the good people of Sunderland, East Cambridgeshire, Merthyr Tydfil, Mid Devon and other areas across the country — who, fed up with MPs who seemed to be ignoring their views, were profoundly worried about the effects of uncontrolled migration.
Wheatcroft was one of the first Cameron cronies to be promoted to the Lords. Now, as a dying act of power, the former PM wants others to follow.
Outrageously, his list of names is dominated by the organisers and bankrollers of the Remain campaign.
These people, I need scarcely remind you, managed to lose — and by a margin that shocked the liberal British establishment to its core.
Vote Leave won because voters saw through the shameful propaganda war waged by Remainers — led by that flawed architect of Project Fear, the then Chancellor George Osborne.
They rejected his menacing threats to punish voters with vicious tax rises and spending cuts if they decided to pull out of the EU. They saw through the utter desperation of his prophecies of doom and warnings of an emergency budget.
They were infuriated by the way he talked Britain down — ridiculously predicting ‘decades’ of woe if Britain pulled out of the EU.
Osborne’s reward? It’s a nomination from his mate Dave for one of the highest decorations in the land. He’s in line to become a Companion of Honour.
Meanwhile Osborne’s former aide, Thea Rogers, who is said to have persuaded him to adopt that ridiculous ‘Caesar’ haircut and encouraged him to lose weight, is nominated for an OBE.
Sinister
That’s the same honour given to the director of manufacturing at Rolls-Royce, one of Britain’s finest companies and who has more than 30 years of experience in the automotive and aerospace industries.
The award of the same honour to these two people is a telling snapshot of modern Britain.
Who on earth advised Cameron on compiling his resignation honours, the most notorious since the roll-call of crooks and dodgy businessmen issued by Harold Wilson in 1976 (and dubbed the Lavender List as it was allegedly written by his secretary on lavender notepaper)?
According to Westminster insiders, the finger print of exparty chairman Lord Feldman can be found on it.
Interestingly, Lord Feldman himself was raised to the peerage in the same honours list as Lady Wheatcroft.
He, too, personifies the Cameron Chumocracy. He is unelected, unaccountable and appointed to his job only thanks to a friendship with Cameron that dates back to the days when they played tennis together at Oxford University.
By what authority does Wheatcroft state self- righteously that ‘people ought to be given an opportunity to think again’ about the Uk’s membership of the EU?
A clue to this snooty thinking can be found in an article she wrote the month before the referendum. She patronisingly accused those who wanted to Leave as coming from the ‘Fawlty Towers school of economics’ and being ‘not reliant on economics but emotion’.
What a malicious yet revealing comparison.
Basil Fawlty was a lower-middle- class hotelier striving to make his business work. He fits the description of the ‘swiveleyed loons’, as Lord Feldman is reported to have described Eurosceptics.
It is now clear how badly Cameron, Osborne, Feldman et al misunderstood the British people.
One factor, overlooked by many commentators, is the progressive Notting Hill Tories’ obsession with U.S. politics.
They fell in love with the suave, sinister culture of armtwisting depicted in the American version of the political thriller House Of Cards. For years, Cameron’s Tories fancied themselves as Capitol Hill-style bosses, dispensing patronage and settling scores with virtuoso cajolery and charm.
The technique worked, for a time, with their own MPs. But when they tried it on the general population on June 23, it failed spectacularly.
Conspiracy
Cameron fell on his sword, but Tory Remainers continued to play by the House Of Cards rulebook. Very well, they say, let us achieve victory by other means. Or in Baroness Wheatcroft’s weasel words, by giving people ‘ the opportunity to think again’.
This is nothing less than a conspiracy to bury the result of what was arguably the most important referendum in our country’s history.
It is a strategy that seeks to mimic the ruthlessness of U.S. politics but which also chillingly resembles the corruption of democracy in Russia by Vladimir Putin.
Although Prime Minister Theresa May was a Remainer, her savage punishment of the Notting Hill set in her Cabinet reshuffle demonstrated that she has no fear about upsetting her predecessor.
But she must act immediately — for the sake of democracy — to block David Cameron’s resignation honours and to squash his chums’ bid to prevent Brexit.