I decided when it was called to ignore the present general election. Its outcome seemed obvious the moment it was called. It had seemed obvious for at least three years. Labour will win. The Conservatives will lose, and lose badly. Labour in Government will be better in some respects, worse in others, but probably no different overall. I have teaching. I have marking. I have a book to finish. Commenting on the dullest general election since 2005 did not make an entry on my agenda for June.

I have now changed my mind. One of the Conservative election promises is to bring in military conscription. Speaking a few days ago on the risible GBNews, the Business Minister, Kevin Hollinrake, confirmed that “No one will be exempt from it when it’s in place.” What is the reason for this? There is no time in living memory when the British State did not treat the people of this country as its absolute property, to be robbed and bossed about just as it pleased. But why the sudden focus on kidnapping young people to put into uniform?

One reason is that the British State is keen on an open war with Russia – an open war, as opposed to the shadow war we have been fighting for the past generation. Even nowadays, a war needs a sufficiency of young men for sending off to be shot at. For the whole of this century, and particularly since the “Conservatives” came into government, there has been nothing like a voluntary sufficiency. Here are some figures I have put together from The UK Defence Journal. These show desired and actual numbers of ordinary recruits to the Army:

This is nowhere near enough fodder for a modern Somme or Passchendaele. Despite what they will say when they think someone in authority is listening, young men in this country are not stupid. They know that joining the Army has nothing to do with fighting for King and country, and everything to do with committing atrocities against civilians or dying for ends no one in authority will honestly or even clearly explain. The answer, then, to this collective “I pray thee have me excused” is “compel them to come in.”

I am not dismissing this reason. The British State really does seem to want an open war with Russia, and with Iran, and probably with China. And this alone is reason for putting everyone who has been in government since 2011 on a list of targets for impeachment and attainder just as soon as we can elect a Parliament cleansed of placemen and the undeclared agents of various hostile foreign powers. At the same time, though, I am inclined to a different uppermost reason.

The Conservatives lied their way into office in 2010 by making the smallest possible number of promises to do what the electors wanted and to sort out an accelerating national collapse. Though they made all the right submissions to the Establishment, they were not welcomed. But the deal they made was that the Establishment would be left alone to continue making ordinary people poor and enslaved. In return, the Ministers and their creatures would be left alone to make themselves rich through bribes and insider trading. It is an open fact that the legislative agenda has continued since 2010 as if Labour had won and kept winning. So far as the corruption is concerned, that too is a pretty open record. I will only add that one of my students is in a good position to know the truth of what he says, and he assures me that a certain person now in the Government has arranged a deal worth £500m for the laundering of Russian oil through an African country. I have no evidence for this, but I believe it. I certainly believe it of the person my student named.

Now, the 2020 deal seemed to come unstuck in 2015. David Cameron called his referendum on the European Union at the wrong time, and he lost it. The rules of our Potemkin democracy do oblige our rulers to go through the motions of listening to us, and this was a serious embarrassment. Jeremy Corbyn had been elected leader because of a parallel oversight by the Labour Party, and it was too risky to arrange another election and a new Labour Government. The first answer, then, was to begin a filibuster about the difficulties of obeying the popular will. The obvious hope was that we could be persuaded to drop the matter and confirm this in a second referendum. Sadly for the Establishment, the English majority took a firm stand in 2019, and made it clear that the matter would not be dropped.

The second answer was to allow the Conservatives to win a big majority in 2019, then to let them make a mess of leaving the European Union, and certainly not to make any changes that would raise difficulties for a British re-entry in the late 2020s. This the Conservatives did. We now have a reliably Europhile Labour leadership. A Starmer Government will not explicitly rejoin the European Union. But it will make agreement after agreement that will collectively amount to rejoining. It will do the bidding of an Establishment that sees England as nothing more than a trading platform, plus grouse moors and expensive shops – a place where the right people will take a cut from counting and laundering the money made by others, without any need to put up with an industrial working class or troublesome voters.

I have no reasonable doubt that Labour will win the present election. Even before the election was announced, the Conservatives had done all they could to guarantee a big defeat. But perhaps the Establishment is still fretting over what happened in 2019, when the electors turned feral against the May Government. Perhaps the Conservatives have now been told to make sure of the result by coming up with a policy calculated to lose votes. Most English couples have no more than two children. Many have only one. We are now told that a re-elected Conservative Government will put our children into uniform and send them off to be shot at in wars that even a compliant media will have trouble selling as in the national interest. The object is to make a probable collapse into a certain wipeout.

If so, I am for once willing to do as the Establishment directs. I will not vote Conservative. I will not vote Conservative now or ever again. I hope that, when the votes are counted, the Conservatives share of seats in Parliament will be comfortably in double figures. The closer to zero, the happier I shall be.

I hear the objection – “But a Labour Government without an effective Conservative opposition will be a terrible thing.” Will it? When did the Conservatives last effectively oppose anything done by a Labour Government? When did the Conservatives last reverse anything done by a previous Labour Government? When did the Conservatives last do anything actually conservative? The answer to all these questions is a long time ago – sometimes a very long time ago. After this Government of corrupt mediocrities, there may not even be much harm left to be done by another Labour Government. The limit of its destruction may be more constitutional vandalism. The difference this time, however, is that the Ancient Constitution is already gone. If Labour abolishes the House of Lords, it will do no more than sweep away an assembly of leftists in ermine. If it holds any kind of referendum on the Monarchy, the progeny of Elizabeth the Useless are all embarrassing trash, and the country would gain some hope of eventual improvement without them to act as a fig leaf for the real powers that be. The Church of England? The ancient universities? The judiciary? These went rotten a long time ago. For all the further harm that can be done, they might as well be filled with embittered transexuals and black lesbians.

Yes, let us get this election over. Without the soporific power of a Conservative Party, the long sleep of the English Right may then lift. If not, we probably deserve all that is coming.