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Of Boris and Van Rensburg
Aug. 1st, 2019 08:38 amThe circus comes to Downing Street, its clowns a Poundland version of Trump's Deplorables. Yes, they are hard right wing, yes, some are very stupid while others are very ruthless but in truth, the great similarity between them is this one thing: they are, every one of them, shameless liars, completely comfortable with staring into a camera and saying something they know to be untrue. This they share with their leader; what they don't share is his charm, his knack for the funny. They are his uglies, and they will be his last line of dispensible scapegoats once he cannot blame the EU and Remainers for any lack of success.
Boris is a pleasant chap, but pleasant isn't good, or even capable. He's about to spend £100 million on a press campaign to convince the EU that we are really leaving without a deal, and to chivvy us into accepting No Deal as something on a par with the Blitz. £100 million on a mass gaslighting operation when there are kids in this country getting food out of bins. The problem with Boj is that he is all about the theatre, the propaganda, never about what is actually happening.
Scotland knew how to greet him: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2019/jul/29/boris-johnson-booed-as-he-visits-scotland-video
Wales provided similar welcome: https://twitter.com/JimMFelton/status/1156259115771080705
Northern Ireland was somewhat more polite with protests rather than boos: https://twitter.com/search?q=Boris%20Stormont&src=typed_query
And old Ingerland had a few words on the matter as well:https://metro.co.uk/2019/07/24/thousands-protest-outside-downing-street-boris-johnson-becomes-prime-minister-10456087/
It does remind me of Siener Van Rensburg, the boer prophet or claimed prophet, who heartily hated the English and proclaimed he had seen visions of its doom:
'Oom Klasie (SVR) saw a well in England. Someone is pouring yellow water from the well on to the grass,
but the water runs back into the well. The bottom of the well comes up and it is dry.” This is the start of England’s ruin because of betrayal (yellow water). The traitors come from within their own ranks (the bottom of the well comes up and it is empty)...I see a woman decorated with ribbons (a symbol of the English
nation). Then I see the ribbons unwinding one by one until she is totally naked — and eventually I see her die. This means that in time England will lose all her possessions and colonies...'
'In time to come matters will go badly,' said Van Rensburg. “I see seven black clouds in the sky and raindrops begin to fall. A man in a grey suit (somebody divine) appeared and asked me whether I had seen the clouds, and I replied yes, I saw two clouds in the east, west and south, but only one in the north.
Then the man said to me: ‘Those are seven disasters God is going to send over England which will destroy it...” Then Van Rensburg remembered the vision of the woman covered in ribbons.
He tells that when he was imprisoned in the Fort in 1914, one night he saw how a Rebellion officer stood in a well with him (great trouble). However, there was a ladder in the well and he (the Seer) stood with one foot on the first rung. Simultaneously he saw the grass in England catch alight (civil war) and the
flames are high, then disappear, and the country looks like a harrowed field after ploughing.
Then a multicoloured pig stood in a well (England in dire straits) and it was licking the sides of the well. It seemed unable to get out. Some aloe stumps lay across the well (The British government was attempting to hide its problems from the rest of the world). The pig is very hungry, indication a great famine in England in the future.
“I saw pigs running across a dam wall. The dam becomes empty and a large bird sits on the paving stones beneath. A small bird comes flying along but is immediately swallowed up by the large bird.” He interpreted this as follows: “The dam is America who intends lending money to England; consequently England will be financially ruined. From https://archive.org/stream/VanRensburg/Van%20Rensburg_djvu.txt
Van Rensburg seems to have had all the prejudices of his place and time and a few extra, courtesy of the war; and of course, he may have been utterly bonkers.
But Boris Johnson is our PM. And suddenly, everything is bonkers.
Boris is a pleasant chap, but pleasant isn't good, or even capable. He's about to spend £100 million on a press campaign to convince the EU that we are really leaving without a deal, and to chivvy us into accepting No Deal as something on a par with the Blitz. £100 million on a mass gaslighting operation when there are kids in this country getting food out of bins. The problem with Boj is that he is all about the theatre, the propaganda, never about what is actually happening.
Scotland knew how to greet him: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2019/jul/29/boris-johnson-booed-as-he-visits-scotland-video
Wales provided similar welcome: https://twitter.com/JimMFelton/status/1156259115771080705
Northern Ireland was somewhat more polite with protests rather than boos: https://twitter.com/search?q=Boris%20Stormont&src=typed_query
And old Ingerland had a few words on the matter as well:https://metro.co.uk/2019/07/24/thousands-protest-outside-downing-street-boris-johnson-becomes-prime-minister-10456087/
It does remind me of Siener Van Rensburg, the boer prophet or claimed prophet, who heartily hated the English and proclaimed he had seen visions of its doom:
'Oom Klasie (SVR) saw a well in England. Someone is pouring yellow water from the well on to the grass,
but the water runs back into the well. The bottom of the well comes up and it is dry.” This is the start of England’s ruin because of betrayal (yellow water). The traitors come from within their own ranks (the bottom of the well comes up and it is empty)...I see a woman decorated with ribbons (a symbol of the English
nation). Then I see the ribbons unwinding one by one until she is totally naked — and eventually I see her die. This means that in time England will lose all her possessions and colonies...'
'In time to come matters will go badly,' said Van Rensburg. “I see seven black clouds in the sky and raindrops begin to fall. A man in a grey suit (somebody divine) appeared and asked me whether I had seen the clouds, and I replied yes, I saw two clouds in the east, west and south, but only one in the north.
Then the man said to me: ‘Those are seven disasters God is going to send over England which will destroy it...” Then Van Rensburg remembered the vision of the woman covered in ribbons.
He tells that when he was imprisoned in the Fort in 1914, one night he saw how a Rebellion officer stood in a well with him (great trouble). However, there was a ladder in the well and he (the Seer) stood with one foot on the first rung. Simultaneously he saw the grass in England catch alight (civil war) and the
flames are high, then disappear, and the country looks like a harrowed field after ploughing.
Then a multicoloured pig stood in a well (England in dire straits) and it was licking the sides of the well. It seemed unable to get out. Some aloe stumps lay across the well (The British government was attempting to hide its problems from the rest of the world). The pig is very hungry, indication a great famine in England in the future.
“I saw pigs running across a dam wall. The dam becomes empty and a large bird sits on the paving stones beneath. A small bird comes flying along but is immediately swallowed up by the large bird.” He interpreted this as follows: “The dam is America who intends lending money to England; consequently England will be financially ruined. From https://archive.org/stream/VanRensburg/Van%20Rensburg_djvu.txt
Van Rensburg seems to have had all the prejudices of his place and time and a few extra, courtesy of the war; and of course, he may have been utterly bonkers.
But Boris Johnson is our PM. And suddenly, everything is bonkers.
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