Why we don’t want the Great Woke North as our 51st – Latest News
Imagine you had a woke lunatic residing in your attic.
Someone who contributed nothing to the family — past barking politically appropriate slogans — and but anticipated full mattress and board.
You would possibly hear her or him (or “them”) stomping round late at night time, yelling “Trans women are women!” or “Defund the police!”
And the subsequent morning they’d be down with their hand out, anticipating breakfast and pocket money.
A nightmare, proper? Well, I more and more suppose that’s what it might be like if Canada actually had been to grow to be America’s 51st state.
It could be like having an overgrown teenager skulking round at the high of this mighty republic, draining your assets, inflicting you embarrassment and poisoning your physique politic with PC crap.
We hear a lot about the Canadian resistance to the thought of their leafy nation being strong-armed into a Greater America.
I believe we need to listen to more resistance from within the US itself — particularly from Republicans.
Seriously, guys, this huge 51st state with its 41 million people could be a royal ache in your neck, electorally and economically.
President Trump upped the ante on the Canada query this week.
He mentioned if Canada had been to grow to be “our cherished Fifty First State,” then all the powerful tariffs he’s imposed on its imports would “totally disappear.”
I take pleasure in the president’s ribbing of Canada as a lot as the subsequent individual. I had a chuckle when he referred to Justin Trudeau as “Governor Trudeau.” I stay up for him teasing the new Canadian PM, Mark Carney, in the similar vein.
But don’t do it, Mr. President. Stop flirting with this infamously loony-left nation.
This is a people who voted Trudeau into energy, a politician who’s such a moist leftoid he says “peoplekind” as a substitute of mankind, wears “Eid Mubarak” socks, and behaves like an overexcited schoolgirl on TV reveals like “RuPaul’s Drag Race.”
Who do you suppose the voters of this 51st state would put into the White House? Yep, the Dems.
I’ve a cautionary story for the Trumpists eyeing Canada.
Here in the United Kingdom we have a “Canada situation” — it’s known as Scotland.
I like Scotland. Beautiful nation, good people.
But politically? Politically, it’s a woke carbuncle on our kingdom.
It’s like a boil of batty concepts that always drains the life pressure, to not point out the coffers, of our superb island.
It’s becoming that, like Canada, Scotland is at the head of our nation, as a result of it’s the source of many a political and financial headache.
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The UK — nicely, England — props up Scotland’s economic system.
The Scots economic system is in a dangerous method. Scotland is presently operating a national deficit of 10.4% of GDP, which is more than double the deficit of the UK as a complete: 4.5% of GDP.
To keep Scotland afloat, we must pump money into it. Get this: people in Scotland obtain £2,417 more in public spending, per head, than the UK average.
Those huge handouts come from the far more productive half of the kingdom — England.
In essence, Scotland is our welfare queen. The 57 million of us who reside in England are carrying on our shoulders 5.5 million Scots — it’s our taxes that line their pockets and shield them from financial break.
It isn’t arduous to examine the 51st state of Canada likewise leeching off the relaxation of America.
America’s GDP dwarfs Canada’s — who do you suppose will choose up the invoice if the brown stuff hits the fan?
I doubt New Yorkers or people from Los Angeles can be content material to subsidize a nation that has long had a tendency to look down its nostril at America and its people.
And what do we get from Scotland in return for our help? The electoral equal of the finger.
For the previous 18 years Scottish politics has been dominated by the Scottish National Party. They rule the roost in the devolved legislature of the Scottish Parliament.
And how can I put this? The SNP is with out query one of the loopiest, wokest political events in all of Europe.
Imagine Justin Trudeau in a Pride-colored kilt slugging a malt whiskey — that’s the SNP.
They’re the fly in the soup of our kingdom’s politics.
They fought tooth and nail to dam Brexit, which was voted for by 17.4 million Brits, the largest electoral bloc in the complete historical past of the United Kingdom.
They have turned Scotland into a laboratory for lefty authoritarianism. Forget “Scotland the Brave” — underneath the SNP it’s more like “Scotland the Brave New World.”
Scotland has grow to be a world chief in censorship. The SNP has handed legal guidelines that forbid the singing of “offensive” songs at soccer matches. People have actually been jailed for singing impolite ditties at sports activities occasions.
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The SNP has drafted some of Europe’s most insane hate-speech legal guidelines. At one level it even thought-about making it a crime to “stir up hatred” in a non-public dwelling.
Your outspoken uncle pops over for dinner and says “Trans women are not women”? Call the cops!
The SNP’s leaders have nicely and really guzzled the Kool-Aid of wokeness.
In 2023, the then First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, put a double rapist in a girls’s jail as a result of he “identifies” as a girl.
Many people can have seen the clip of the SNP’s Humza Yousaf moaning about how many “whites” there are in positions of energy in Scotland.
Maybe that’s as a result of 95% of Scots are white? Just spitballing right here, Humza.
This occasion of woke tyrants with its race-baiting and trans lunacy has a warping impact on UK politics.
It implies that whoever Brits vote into energy, whether or not it’s the Conservatives or Labour, there may be all the time this gaggle of turbo-smug sneerers up north in search of to disrupt our democracy with divisive ideologies.
That could be Canada for you guys.
It, too, is a hyper-woke nation with a fondness for censoring “wrongthink.”
It’s a nation performatively ashamed of its historical past — it has an annual National Sorry Day, for heaven’s sake.
It’s a nation the place preening woke blowhards like Trudeau can get into energy, and a nation that’s economically method behind the USA.
Do you actually want it to be the 51st state? It could be a complete drag on the project of ethical and financial renewal Trump has kick-started.
Save America. Forget Canada.
Brendan O’Neill is chief political author for the British online magazine spiked.
