Philp-y Bluster

A filibuster is a political procedure where you talk so much that you prolong debate in order to prevent a political decision. So you’re technically following the rules but everyone knows you are acting against the spirit of good government.

So what’s a Philp-y Bluster?

When you try to achieve something politically because you think you’re a smooth talker but your sheer arrogance and ignorance mean you fall flat on your face.

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Mark Twain

Police Minister Chris Philp has always come across as a nasty man. Watch the sanctimonious chancer get taken down a peg or two for asking a British Congolese QT audience member if Congo’s a separate country to Rwanda.

Home Office minister Chris Philp just asked if Congo is a different country from Rwanda on #bbcqt.

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— Ian Fraser (@Ian_Fraser) April 25, 2024

The smuggest of Ministers, he normally talks on TV to get the Tories out of trouble. But that only works because the media’s rigged and none of the people who are able to call him out are ever allowed on.

But this time he was totally humiliated by a member of the public. It was ‘funny’ because the more he opened his mouth the worse it got.

How do you recover from showing yourself to be utterly unsuitable for office? You don’t.

The fact that Philp works for the Home Office who will be deporting refugees to Rwanda reveals just how ignorant and uninformed UK government ministers are.

The Tories have built up such a culture of lies and incompetence that this sort of thing is now regarded as normal.

The Rwanda Bill itself is a disgrace precisely because it pretends Rwanda is safe when it is at war with Congo, a country it has invaded twice.

Rwanda is ruled by an elected dictator Paul Kagame ( long term client of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change) in power since 1994 who has amended the constitution to let himself stay in power for potentially over forty years.

Why always complain about Putin being such a dictator when Kagame won his last election with nearly 99% of the vote in 2017?

He plans to run again, for a fourth term, this August, in what looks like it will be another one horse race.

In this clip from two months ago Lord Kenneth Clark former Chancellor, Home Secretary and Minister of Justice states that Britain is sliding toward elected dictatorship.

So no wonder Britain loves Rwanda.

Blair Inc

Blair was interviewed in the Sunday Times this weekend.

The following paragraphs appear near the end of the piece:

Blair is not a fan of the Conservatives’ plan to fly illegal immigrants to Rwanda, which is being batted between the Commons and the House of Lords. “Politics works when policy comes first and politics comes second,” he says. “When you ask what’s the right answer to a problem and then you shape the politics around that. Part of the reason Britain is in the difficulty it’s in is politics have come first and policies second. Immigration is a classic example. One of the reasons the Rwanda boats thing has been chosen [by the government] is it gives you a huge political row. But for what? If you actually want to deal with immigration, deal with people’s right to be here.”

The answer? We’re back to ID cards — endorsed afresh this month by Lord Blunkett, who as home secretary was instrumental in New Labour’s original attempt to bring them in. This time they would be digital, not the plastic kind that so offended opponents such as a young Liberal Democrat MP called Nick Clegg in the mid-Noughties. Blair points out that migrants who clamber ashore can easily slip into the black economy. “The problem is that once you are here, it’s very difficult to track people,” he says. “So at any one time, you’ve probably got 750,000 [or] maybe even a million people here without permission. They can come in as students, they can come travelling to Britain on a tourist visa and they can stay. My thing is nothing to do with Rwanda, per se. It’s just I don’t know how many people you’re really going to be able to deal with through that.”

Sunday Times

Blair is likely still friends with Rebekah Brooks who is still high up at Murdoch’s News International. So she will have sorted out this interview. He has needed to set the record straight about the Rwanda Plan and his place in it. Did he sell the idea to Priti Patel? Will Starmer keep on with it? Either way Rwanda joined the commonwealth in 2009 despite not being a former UK colony. 2009 was the year Blair started doing business there. That’s a striking amount of coincidence. Let’s see what happens next with Keir Starmer’s unofficial chief external advisor.