{"id":1175810,"date":"2021-12-31T14:49:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T19:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1175810"},"modified":"2021-12-31T14:49:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T19:49:38","slug":"delingpole-my-biggest-disappointments-of-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/delingpole-my-biggest-disappointments-of-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Delingpole: My Biggest Disappointments of 2021&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdelingpole-my-biggest-disappointments-of-2021%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1175810&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237455056-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">So many haven\u2019t covered themselves with glory this year. Here are my biggest disappointments of 2021:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Mainstream Media<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>2021 has tested to destruction the quaint notion that journalists are motivated above all by the quest for truth regardless of where it leads them. Nope: just as the MSM refused in 2020 to acknowledge there was anything even remotely suspicious that a senile child-sniffer somehow beat the most popular president in US history, so in 2021 the MSM refused to admit that there was anything remotely suspicious about the official pandemic narrative.<\/p>\n<p>In Downing Street press conferences, the default question was always \u201cWhy aren\u2019t you doing more to enforce masks, CCP-style lockdowns, quarantines, etc?\u201d, never once \u201cIsn\u2019t this all a terrible overreaction? And since when was Big Pharma so eminently trustworthy?\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t just the slavish lickspittles from the BBC and <em>The Sun<\/em> who refused to stray outside the Overton Window. Even all those stalwart conservative\/libertarian\/free-market columnists that you used to imagine would always be your bulwark against tyranny turn out to have been just as craven.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Sure, they could be big and brave and outspoken talking about the threats to freedom posed by Wokistas insisting on weird pronouns. But when it came to broaching the more awkward subject of a globalist, technocratic takeover being conducted under the guise of a pandemic: crickets!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Farage Predicts 20,000 Illegal Boat Migrants Will Arrive in 2021, Condemns Media for \u2018Conspiracy of Silence\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/14hpb0chh2\">https:\/\/t.co\/14hpb0chh2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1393604589056761857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Scientists<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Like journalists, only with greater delusions of intellectual credibility and fewer scruples. Any newspaper article beginning \u2018Scientists say\u2026\u2019 relieved you of the need to read any further because it might just as well have begun \u2018Pinocchio says\u2026\u2019 The only honest ones in 2021 were either retired \u2013 or recently sacked for having spoken out of turn.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Medics<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Like scientists, only even more disappointing because you thought they were there to save your life, that they valued things like the Hippocratic Oath and that no way would they push experimental treatments on you without informed consent. Sure there have been some notable exceptions to this rule but most of them are no longer actual working doctors because they have been hounded out of their jobs for wrongthink.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Libertarians<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>All that fine-sounding stuff about the Laffer Curve, the moral case for lower taxes, the genius of Hayek and Von Mises, that hilarious anecdote about Milton Friedman (\u2018Why not do it with spoons?): they\u2019ve always been great on the <em>theory<\/em> of freedom. But it turns out that when it\u2019s genuinely under threat they run for the hills, especially when it turns out that the donors who pay their think tank salaries are actually part of the problem they\u2019ve been pretending to fight all these years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Conservative Party<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nothing whatsoever to do with anything that any reasonable person might construe as \u2018conservatism\u2019. It doesn\u2019t care about: the countryside; private property; limited government; personal responsibility; low taxes; tradition; liberty. But it does want to take away your petrol car and your gas boiler and your foreign vacations because St. Greta said so; and it\u2019s totally relaxed on the subject of open borders.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">82 Per Cent of Voters Think Boris Govt Is Handling Channel Migrant Crisis Badly <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TTdhY82kEk\">https:\/\/t.co\/TTdhY82kEk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1465700646825250819?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 30, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>The Archbishop of Canterbury; The Pope<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Painfully woke oil executive Justin Welby and South American leftist agitator Bergoglio were enthroned (as Archbishop of Canterbury and Pope) almost simultaneously in March 2013. Perhaps the timing had some significance in the Luciferian calendar, but it was certainly disastrous for many believing Christians who have looked on, appalled, at the destruction this grisly duo have wrought on their respective churches. Welby wants to decolonise church statuary; Bergoglio wants to abolish Latin mass; both appear more interested in worshipping Gaia than God.<\/p>\n<p><strong>All the idiotic celebrities, politicians, journalists who allowed themselves to be roped into the government\u2019s campaign to vilify people who don\u2019t want get vaccinated.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>History will judge these shills, I hope. But not, I fear, before this obviously orchestrated campaign has whipped the vaccinated section of the populace into a witch-hunt frenzy against the unvaccinated. What they are doing by sowing the seeds of such division is wicked and unforgivable.<\/p>\n<p><b>Brexit<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Sure, we all had a lovely idea of what Brexit meant when we voted for it. But the Deep State never for a moment had any intention of allowing us to have it. Nor have they.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boris Johnson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From his chummy, affected nickname (his real name is Alexander) to his japesome <em>Telegraph<\/em> articles celebrating breast implants and BMWs, Johnson is, and always has been, an elaborately constructed fraud. The pity is that most of us (me included) hoped there was something real beneath the facade and didn\u2019t realise the truth until he was inextricably entrenched and the damage had been done.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The British<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not all of them. I\u2019d say a good ten per cent have risen to the occasion and I\u2019ve been proud to march alongside more than a few of these stalwarts, such as Bob the former Telegraph cartoonist to Jamie Franklin of the Irreverend podcast.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, given our proud history from the various wars where we have thrashed the French, the Spanish, the Germans and the Dutch, given our roistering national spirit (Merrie England), our love of pluck and dash and wit and liberty, it has been something of a disappointment to me as an Englishman to see how swiftly most of my compatriots have caved to mask tyranny, to petty bureaucracy, to sinister idol worship (clapping for a crappy socialist healthcare system? Really??), to demagoguery, to the kind of curtain-twitching snooping and snitching more redolent of East Germany under the Stasi.<\/p>\n<p>I do hope John Bull can recover his spirit in 2022. And I wish the same to all my fellow freedom fighters around the world, from the US and Canada to Australia and New Zealand. We deserve better than this \u2013 and if we don\u2019t get it, we have only ourselves to blame. There are no white knights. It\u2019s up to us. Since God is on our side I\u2019ve no doubt we shall prevail in the end.<\/p>\n<p>But given what we\u2019re up against (principalities, powers, the rulers of the darkness of this world, spiritual wickedness in high places), I suspect it\u2019s going to be quite a struggle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So many haven\u2019t covered themselves with glory this year. 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