Not The PMQs - 29th April 2026

He’s awful but you can’t get rid of him.

Yesterday’s PMQs, which took place after some attempt to prorogue Parliament in time to cancel them were a symphony of sycophancy from the Labour backbenchers and Opposition was as usual drowned out by boasting and counterattack. The Speaker kept his counsel as far as the PM was concerned; only Iqbal Mohamed orating on Palestinian “genocide” was cut short.

We await the release of Mandelbrouhaha documents as per the Humble Address, or whatever remain unshredded after some spurious Great Tea Trolley Disaster; Starmer’s former henchman McSweeney has been slow-roasted in Parliament but so what; the trial of the “Ukrainian rent boy” arsonists (allegedly) has begun this week to a deafening silence from the mainstream media despite the apparent lack of a D-notice; yesterday a motion to refer the PM to the standards committee was voted down by his army of myrmidons.

His enormous majority in the House gave him absolute power in 2024 on a technicality – validated by one-fifth of the electorate, one-third of votes cast – and by Saint George he’s going to keep it.

In the 2011 referendum the two major parties, now deservedly moribund, colluded to howl down the chance of a better voting system because they were happy with Buggins’ turn at government as the people lurched from one sour disappointment to another. Now it’s “a plague o’ both your houses!” but we innocent Thebans must suffer a plague of misfortunes because of the malfeasance of the Great Ones.

Only disaster can save us.

But not just a disaster for Starmer. Even if he goes, the sickness stays.

It is a mind-virus: “affairs are now soul size.” We have to “squeeze the universe into a ball / To roll it towards some overwhelming question”:

“What is Man?”

Philosophy is not merely academic. Ideas kill.

If we define ourselves – our narrative – in the wrong way, calamity follows. For socialism the key issue is equality. A biography of Chairman Mao says that when he was told nuclear war would kill a third of humanity he replied, “Good, then there will be no more classes.”

We’re watching this obsession burn through our community now. Its logic is insane.

Individuals do not matter, only the masses, who are composed of individuals. Equality is the goal, but meanwhile an elite is needed to “educate” and lead the people. Democracy is an obstacle; it is the voice of the masses, but they are ignorant and excitable. They can be kept that way by biased schooling and the mass media.

Man’s only identity and justification for his existence is economic. The implications are lethal – here is the writer George Bernard Shaw:

Note that he said this in March 1931 when Britain was in the depths of the Depression and the unemployment rate was over twenty per cent.

Shaw was an early member of the socialist Fabian Society, which became interested in “eugenics”, a term coined by Sir Francis Galton to mean the genetic improvement of the human “stock.” That last word suggests the need for a controlling elite like that of farmers breeding cattle and indeed Sweden passed a law in 1934 that authorised the compulsory sterilisation of thousands of its citizens.

For all the talk of human rights, people do not matter. We are a collection of nothings who have no fundamental identity. Whatever self-concept binds us together must be destroyed – history, religion, culture, race. New Labour’s socialism is existentialist: we are, before we decide what we are, and the result of any such decision is an illusion.

Note by the way that although Sartre’s monumental work concluded that “Man is a useless passion” he advocated authenticity and courage – which are values. To be consistent he should have accepted that to be a lying, self-deluding coward is equally valid. He said freedom was purely a matter for individuals but became seduced by Marxism and during the May 1968 Paris riots he supported the student movement by arguing that freedom could be realized collectively.

What are the consequences of the nihilism that is plaguing Britain?

Now, any child can be killed in the womb, up to the moment of birth.

At the other end of life, there is “assisted dying,” supposedly for people predicted to die within a few months but in Canada and elsewhere we see already how the program may be extended; Shaw, thou shouldst be living at this hour.

The Bill to legalise “assisted dying” has fallen in the House of Lords, but campaigners are talking of using the Parliament Act to force it through. If this succeeds, it will the end of Upper House resistance in any matter; for the Commons, “The very firstlings of my heart shall be / The firstlings of my hand” as the Scottish tyrant put it. We will be driving a fast car without brakes or steering.

What is the purpose of our being alive between these two points? To pay taxes and validate the rule of our superiors, perhaps.

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