Tabloid money…
the smug indifference of the globalist agenda
⬤ Chelsea fans are now seeing the downside of their Faustian pact with dirty money, says Brian Reade in the Daily Mirror. For years, rival football supporters “looked on powerlessly” as the “ill-gotten gains” of Chelsea’s owner, Roman Abramovich (pictured), bought “every trophy in sight”. But Newcastle’s fans shouldn’t be too quick to gloat. Their idols are also financed by “blood money” and their club’s name “exploited to present the human rights oppressing Saudis in a positive light”. And “when Liverpool were desperate to escape the clutches of hedge-fund cowboys… many fans would have accepted Saudi, Russian and Chinese money”, just as Manchester United fans would have “to oust the parasitical Glazers”. Chelsea’s current skint status “should serve as a warning to all clubs tempted to sell their souls to the devil”.
⬤ The cost of living crisis means that, just like in the 1970s, people are struggling to pay their bills, says Richard Littlejohn in the Daily Mail. But as far as generation snowflake is concerned, “a real crisis will be when Waitrose runs out of quinoa”. “Some people give the impression that they’d rather starve than give up their increasingly expensive Netflix and Apple TV subscriptions.” How many millennials would give up their phones and social-media accounts to make ends meet? In the 1970s, “by the time I’d bought a small bag of smokeless coal… we had just about enough left over to splash out on a bottle of Moroccan gut-rot, our Saturday night treat”. But for today’s lot, “it’s a choice between heating and tweeting”.
⬤ The “shameful behaviour” of Dubai-owned ferry firm P&O, which sacked 800 staff last week, has exposed the disdain shown by supporters of the globalist agenda for the idea of “economic patriotism” for what it really is, says Leo McKinstry in the Daily Express. Their “smug indifference to Britain’s real needs has left our country... dangerously vulnerable to hostile manoeuvres by foreign operators”. P&O was once “one of the most illustrious names in British seafaring”. That means nothing to its current owners. We need to build up our independent capacity, not indulge in a permanent global auction. “A nation that is governed by the demands of alien vested interests is barely a proper sovereign nation at all.”