Urging all MPs to read the guide to conspiracy theories, Ms Mordaunt said: “Such theories are a real threat not just to democracy, but to the wellbeing of our constituents.”

Where to start? I will set aside Qanon, 5G and chemtrails. They are beyond my interests and I have no views on them. That leaves five.

My general view on conspiracy theories is that their existence is a conspiracy useful to the ruling elites, and has been since the CIA came up with the very term in the 1960s in order to discredit the many people (and growing in number these days) who, quite plausibly, believed that JFK was killed by the very same CIA.

The key word here is “plausible”.

There are a few rules of thumb in the analytical study of politics. One emerged from public choice theory.

It is that politicians and bureaucrats and now corporate elites, university chiefs, legacy media and non-government organisations – since members of the crony establishment are all now part of the broad governance class – all have private as well as public interests, and that they act in those interests in matters of public policy.

Another rule of thumb is that governments make decisions in secret, lie, cover-up, “look over there”, break promises and fight tooth-and-nail to resist difficult matters becoming public knowledge.

Witness, to take only one recent example, the four-year fight by the Victorian Government to keep secret the internal documents relating to COVID policies.

Anyone who has worked in government knows this. Yet those who haven’t seem surprised whenever it is pointed out.

It is astonishing just how many people believe that their governments are motivated by good will and noble intent.

It has been up to conspiracy “researchers” to point out reality. We all now know, at least in relation to COVID, that the conspiracy theories were often spot on.

Even blind Freddie should be able to see that conspiracy theories do far more good than harm, despite the bleatings of the Penny Mordaunt class.

It remains the case that governments are liars, cheats and do evil things and perennially seek to conceal their sins.

So, the general case in support of conspiracy theories about governments is solid and unexceptional.

What about the five listed in the Tory Guide? They all pass the smell test with flying colours, as it happens.

COVID POLICY

COVID policy is a means of government control?

• It is beyond doubt that COVID management was tyrannical, and intended to be so;
• Lockdowns, absurd social distancing and mask mandates were enacted to create fear, not to promote anyone’s safety;
• Governments willfully ignored virology and medical science generally;
• Governments colluded with vaccine manufacturers and knew at the time that “safe and effective” claims were patently false at worst, and unproven at best;
• They must have known that their statements about the alleged dangers and ineffectiveness of COVID treatments like Ivermectin were lethal lies;
• They must have known that their policies were harming a generation of children, and leading to social pathologies and economic ruin;
• They did all this to avoid admitting the truth that they had got the whole thing wrong;

CLIMATE LOCKDOWNS

What about climate lockdowns and fifteen-minute cities?

Those who advocate for these make no pretence at anything other than climate conformism. What started as car-averse new urbanism has morphed into net-zero malfeasance.

Believing this to be the case is unexceptional and provable. There is no advocate of net-zero who is not also a champion of fifteen-minute cities, and vice versa. It is all about reducing your carbon footprint.

The elites have already declared a climate emergency that doesn’t exist. They claim it to be the biggest threat we face.

They have shown that they will use any tool to enforce their commitment to crushing Western economies with net-zero garbage.

These measures include tax measures, massive government spending, international law and blaming common droughts and floods on climate change.

They will ban fossil fuels, cars and phase out short haul air travel (as in France).

They will build whole fake industries of green energy and will provide crony capitalists like Malcolm Turnbull and Mike Cannon-Brookes with huge subsidies to manufacture solar panels.

What are the emerging tools to be used to effect climate totalitarianism? Digital ID, programmable currencies, banning dissidents from social media, aka digital totalitarianism.

These things are already happening. They are not conspiracy theories.  Joining the dots to end up with a climate emergency-driven social credit system is a short step away.

GREAT RESET

Next, we have the great reset.

There isn’t an attempt at a global takeover by those with a Geneva postcode? Really? Well, they would say that, wouldn’t they?

Not that the elites hide their light under a bushel.

The WEF’s Klaus Schwab and friends have been writing books about the great reset for decades. He even called one The Great Reset.

He is regularly invited to the main table, as he was with a recent G20 meeting. Did Penny Mordaunt not notice how nearly 200 countries all responded the same way to COVID? Just a coincidence, was it?

Many Western countries are marching in lockstep to implement WEF policies? Like climate action and smart cities, often of the fifteen-minute variety.

They all gather at Davos each year, paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for the privilege. They attend the conferences of the Bilderberg Group. The Club of Rome. The Trilateral Commission.

Oh, and the meetings are secret, and it takes leaks to even know who is attending, where the meetings are held, and what the agendas are. Secret. Deliberate. Connected. Malevolent.

GREAT REPLACEMENT

This is the theory that governments are denuding our nations of their Eurocentric people and filling up the space with immigrants of every colour and creed.

Well, of course they are.

As I have argued previously, we are now way beyond replacement theory and are now experiencing replacement reality.

In most European cities, the native populations are outnumbered. Londonistan? The clue is in the name. California? Try Mexifornia, as Victor Davis Hanson once described his pitiful home State.

That governments in the West have massively increased immigration is not in dispute. Nor is the fact that the newcomers are largely non-white and non-Christian. Certainly in Europe.

Open borders are policy. The only thing in dispute is the motive for the shift.

Replacement policies are not theories. They are reality. They are not conspiracies.

UKRAINE

One of the alleged conspiracies relates to the US warmonger class and what RFK Jr calls the money laundering scheme that sees US taxpayers funding military causes in order to line the pockets of defence contractors and the American companies that will rebuild the country.

This is another no-brainer. The conflict is one between two corrupt ex-communist States ruled by thugs.

Couldn’t they both lose? Why do we care? We hang out the Ukrainian flags so as to signal our virtue.

NATO aggression and a US backed coup in Ukraine in 2014 didn’t help the Russian mood. It helped to define Russia’s intent.

Even Paul Keating saw this coming in the early 1990s. And now, we are left with a potential nuclear war, with American weapons used to bomb “deep inside” Russia, and Europe sitting on a tinder box.

The crooks who run America are locked in a battle, perhaps to the end, with the crooks who run Russia. To add a new dimension, Russia is now moving ever closer to communist China.

In the five cases listed here, it is the political class, not the conspiracy theorists, who are the emperors without clothes.

It is bluster arraigned against political realism and masses of evidence. And note how the authors of the guide twist the actual ideas of those of us who see through all the lies told by the powers-that-be.

To hide behind anti-Semitism is a good trick, too.

Penny Mordaunt’s support for this distracting tosh about the threat to our democracy from conspiracy theories is disgraceful. She is a disgrace.

The Japanese and Albertan politicians are stand-out heroes. Yes, traitors to their political class, but (again) in the eyes of political theory, they are defenders of accountability and warriors for representative democracy and political legitimacy. What is left of it.

The godless technocrats, the managerial class, rule over us now. They are the ones who will have penned Mordaunt’s “guide”.

Believing that what the utterly sane and perceptive conspiracy theorists say about them must never, ever become widely accepted, lest their power and baubles be taken away from them.

They continue to play their games and to get useful idiots like Penny Mordaunt to dance to their tune.PC

– Paul Collits