Brother Mundabor on the election (and yes, the consequences of the left getting in would have been disastrous). I was teaching on Thursday and one of the right on trainees was telling her English colleague she should have voted. How she hated the minister for the NHS. And who to vote for (Corbyn). Like many Londoners, she was not born in England.

England was Christian. The most hard core Christian party left, the DUP, (Sinn Fein never will go to Westminster, and they have been converged) is now holding the balance of power. The fate of the union resided, for 24 hours, with the Orangemen.

The UK is far less relevant to the destinies of Christianity than the US, which is why I don’t cover it much. When they gave us Brexit they probably did for us the most they could do until Christianity comes back on these shores.

However, yesterday’s vote showed this: in the modern times of volatile voters you are never far away from big trouble.

Don’t listen to the noise from the leftist MSM and consider than the numbers are far less brutal than they portray: the Conservatives got 42% of the vote (not happened since the Iron Lady) and snatched 13 seats in Scotland (see above) up from… one.

However, the shameless socialist message of Jeremy Corbyn caused an unprecedented mobilisation of the New Idiots, the young bleeding hearts seeking their “feel the Bern” moment. Coupled with obvious mistakes from the Tory leadership, this summed up to a passable defeat for Labour and a big disappointed for the Tories.

That the press touts a party sure to remain in opposition and more divided than a Bosnian village in the Nineties as winners (poppycock: 261 MP up to now smell defeat from Connecticut, only less brutal than in 2015) again tells a lot about the emotional stupidity of our times.

The Conservatives have damaged themselves, but they will stay in power with or without May at the helm. Labour has avoided annihilation playing the good-hearted underdog, but they are nearer to Mars than to power. The new Parliament is certainly more Brexit-oriented than the old one. The only party campaigning for Remain has embarrassed itself, going from quite dead to dead. The anti-Brexit Scottish National Party has been savagely beaten. It is by far not all bad, though thanks to May’s arrogance and incompetence it is certainly not the result it could have been.

Still, imagine what a catastrophe it could have become without the two recent terrorist attacks, which certainly benefited the Tories and allowed May to try to look statesmanlike and sure footed for a change.

We weren’t very far away from the abyss. I don’t think it would have been the end of Brexit (more or less hard) but it would have been chaos as a Socialist madman tries to impose his program on a divided party known for extreme loyalty to their leaders. It would have been a true chaos scenario until the unavoidable next election. Thank God even May’s arrogance did not lead to that.

What my brother has to deal with is how the leadership of the church has compromised with progressives. This is seen in Sinn Fein which used to be staunchly Papist and nationalist with a Thomist sense of economics and politics. This was far better that the Marxism of the social gospel.

The Loyalists have not fallen into that trap. Like Millwall, they know no one likes them and they don’t care. But they are Calvinists, and the Calvinist idea of covenant enables them. They have chosen to remain in Christ.

Deuteronomy 29:2-15

² Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: You have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land, ³the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders. ⁴ But to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, or eyes to see, or ears to hear. ⁵ I have led you forty years in the wilderness. The clothes on your back have not worn out, and the sandals on your feet have not worn out; ⁶ you have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine or strong drink – so that you may know that I am the LORD your God. ⁷ When you came to this place, King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan came out against us for battle, but we defeated them. ⁸ We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. ⁹ Therefore diligently observe the words of this covenant, in order that you may succeed in everything that you do.

¹⁰ You stand assembled today, all of you, before the LORD your God – the leaders of your tribes, your elders, and your officials, all the men of Israel, ¹¹ your children, your women, and the aliens who are in your camp, both those who cut your wood and those who draw your water – ¹² to enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, sworn by an oath, which the LORD your God is making with you today; ¹³ in order that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he promised you and as he swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. ¹⁴ I am making this covenant, sworn by an oath, not only with you who stand here with us today before the LORD our God, ¹⁵ but also with those who are not here with us today.

There are many who call themselves Calvinist but function like the rest of the world: seeing everything as relative and expressions of power. Critical theory is in the air we breathe: but it is a lie. Brother Mundabor knows this, and bears witness against the corruption in his church, the leadership are Catholic in Name Only.

I would align with him, though he calls me in error and says I need to join the Barque of Peter. The real division is between those who take the word and promises of God seriously and those who see this as stickers you can take on and off.

There is some good in the DUP as a party. Like Guido Fawkes, I like their manifesto, and they will have an ability to drive some of this through parliament.

The DUP manifesto is rather better in places than that Conservative manifesto:

The DUP pledged:

• To reduce the rate of Corporation Tax to at least 12.5%;
• To freeze then cut or abolish the TV licence and reform the BBC;
• To cut the VAT rate for tourism businesses;
• To introduce a Trade Accelerator Plan including an enhanced range of initiatives to help support both new and existing exporters to explore new markets;
• To abolish Air Passenger Duty;
• To establish low tax, deregulated Freeports in economically underdeveloped parts of the UK
• To reduce the number of Government Departments and reduce the number of Special Advisors;
• To introduce a Civil Service Voluntary Exit Scheme yielding annual savings of approximately £100 million;
• To create new trade, investment and innovation hubs in key global markets;
• To introduce alternative models of public sector service delivery such as increasing the use of social enterprises.
  …

Guido for one welcomes the eleventh-hour entry of the DUP, our new political overlords

The elite are horrified. The DUP make the SSPX and the Orthodox look effete. I am enjoying the pain on Twitter today. I hope that these lads manage to stop the abortions and appeasement of Islam which is baked in to the policies of the elite. The more liberal tears flw, the happier I will be.

It may be that this is the hour of redemption, It certainly is the hour for a sledgehammer to remove the corruption from the counties and courts of England, where the Social Activists rule by intersectionality and offence. If they go, we can all rejoice.

For this I know: it will take those who believe, who are hard core, to make this change. Orangemen are a remnant. I pray that the other branches of the tree of faith stand with them.