Whee

One of the most fun parts of a blowout conservative election is the editorial scrambling and the losers' bitter explanations for their failure.  Yesterday brought us the priceless "We won the argument, if not the election," which has to be up there with "I can't imagine how he got elected, no one I know voted for him."

There's also the 2016 Krugman Pronouncement:  this unexpected trouncing of my allies spells doom for the economy.  We may never recover.  Last week's UK editorials had largely given up on Labor's victory, so they spent a lot of time worrying that the Conservatives wouldn't command a convincing majority.  Maybe they would try and fail to cobble together a coalition.

CNBC worried earlier this week that the pound wouldn't fully recover from damaged inflicted by the recent parliamentary stalemate.  Ink was lavished over the danger that businesses wouldn't invest in an atmosphere of uncertainty over their beloved EU.  Interested readers of that CNBC analysis may glance at the bottom of the page and find today's update:  sterling surges on historic BoJo win.  The author can't help speculating, though, on how this stunning turn of events might still give a little hope that the Brexit stalemate could still drag itself along by its fingernails:
The analyst added that if a big majority over all other parties is realized then Johnson may now have the scope to “ignore the Brexiteers in his party and provide businesses with some certainty by quickly extending the transition period.”
I'm sure that's what the surging sterling tells us about what business investors--and voters--want to see: a further extended "transition" period.  The whole thing has simply been too rushed and abrupt.  On the other hand, from Johnson's victory speech this morning:
"And with this mandate and this majority we will at last be able to do what?" (Crowd shouts "Get Brexit done".)
By the way, all 18 Brexit defectors lost their seats. There's a convincing mandate for delay for you.

Meanwhile, the execrable anti-semite Communist Corbyn says he will resign, but not right away.  Certainly before the next election, but he's taking some time for "reflection."  Not to be outdone, everyone's favorite spybuster, Christopher Steele, announces that BoJo is a Russian asset.  As Sarah Hoyt says, in the future we'll all be Russian spies for 15 minutes.

2 comments:

ymarsakar said...

Well, spies aren't supposed to talk about their trade jobs.

Generally, secret agents or those working for special projects like the Manhattan Project, are known for tight lips. They don't talk about much of anything. Unlike the regular military who might let slip that you have no need to know, or that you lack classification level to read the intel, or that they aren't allowed to talk about this subject matter, the secret agents will just shut down. They will evade the discussion and won't respond, as responding either way, creates curiosity. An alternative is to create several hidden layers of identities. Such as a crazy person online. Nobody bothers to kill the crazy person, because nobody will believe them, thus it won't matter even if they do leak some sensitive info. This, strangely enough, can be used as a cut off and fail safe, for leaking information past the filters of the death squads and counter espionage.

Nobody also listens to keyboard warriors or those they think are arrogant or full of themselves (having knowledge in too little subject matter expertise or claiming to know too many subject matters). This is a very useful psychological shield, because it prevents a red flag through misdirection and disinformation ,rather than strict espionage controls.

The onion effect is a layered security. So to protect manhattan project, what we do is to create shell corps creating secret weapon X. Secret weapon X is the real secret, we shall say and use. But the real real secret is the nuke.

ymarsakar said...

One of the muck ups that government national security agencies did was to respond to an FOIA request for UFO related materials, with the response "you lack the clearance to read this intel". Except, who they told this to was a person with clearance capable of reading the nuclear armaments of NATO. So... when did UFO related projects require a higher clearance than knowing the details of strategic weapons?

Hehe, the bureaucracies are kind of stupid when they try to play the spy game. Although I have to admit, they do have a point. They don't require complete contingency because the public is even dumber than the bureaucrats. They actually believe all these criminal conspiracies are just due to "incompetence".