What’s is desperately needed is a restoration of the drive to individual responsibility, accountability and independence, and that can only come from a national perspective and a purge of Marxism from the education system. Dependence breeds apathy and degradation. Too many Britons are infected with a socialist mindset.
Love this Pete. Here in Worthing, I've been complaining about the lack of pavement maintenance, poor environmental services. Dodgy builders flytip along the A27. Drivers throw litter. It looks awful and obviously contributes to microplastic dust as it degrades.
The council allow weeds to grow on/through our pavements (called rewilding). It looks awful and uncared for. I'm on their case and do a beach clean most days - obviously worse during summer. It just takes a little effort.
"Good leadership is confident leadership - and confidence comes from knowing what is broken, how it got broke, and how to fix it."
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Good leadership is not merely confident leadership. Fools are often confident. And their conclusions about "what is broken" etc are simplistic, notwithstanding their confidence.
Politics is full of such people - noisy, pushy blusterers who drown out thought with their shouting.
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"Some of my thinking has already influenced the Homeland Party’s housing policy."
You are right what we are primarily missing is good leadership which having passed a gruelling six months military training in 1970 and served for 10 years in the regular and 12 in the Reserves I feel I know something about.
The military views good leadership through the four 'Cs' - Candor, Commitment, Courage and Competence and the military also gives us the the six 'Ps' - Prior Planning and Preparation Prevents Poor Performance.
In fact take away the current lot of woke Top Brass and this country could do with a lot more military discipline and attitude.
I don’t think you can have military discipline without a strong narrative about what that discipline is for.
I mean, militaries have spent b thousands of years learning how to create stories people would die for. I’m not denigrating the military by calling them, stories, by the way; I actually think stories are incredibly important.
They’re backed up by powerful symbolism, such as flags, uniforms, rituals, ceremonies and codes of honour.
Without a powerful story, discipline isn’t enough. People need to sign up for it and they’re nowhere near ready to do so.
I do wholeheartedly agree that discipline us important, but we need the story first – about what our society stands for and why it’s worth serving.
I agree that what is missing are proud, brave and competent politicians prepared to stand up for the UK against the minority woke liberal elite lobby, and supporting useful idiots, who feel ashamed of our past.
WE need politicians to be proud of Our Island's Story which is a great book EVERY child should read.
A refreshingly honest and interesting article Pete - enjoy the residual summer away from the keyboard - does wonders to reduce the stress levels.
The good news is that we've examples of cities, more so than towns that have benefitted over the years from large cash injections , great transport links and visionary leadership at national and regional level - I'm thinking here of Liverpool, Manchester and, to a more limited extent, Birmingham.
Maybe we can learn from these examples - the key is for the local population ( & punters) involved in planning their own future - having a 'dog in the race' is a powerful incentive especially for younger generations. People have to be shown what good looks like - it exists all around us , as does ' the bad ' which is precisely what rhe legacy and social media pray upon.
Finally, I'm minded of the old adage " Life is rarely as good as you think it is, but then it's rarely as bad as you think it is...." - keep bimbling on Pike. 🫡
It's the case that both Councils had the intelligence (maybe more so than vision) to accept central government money when the makeover was first mooted & also created a planning environment to enable the redevelopment of much of inner Liverpool and Manchester - The Liverpool One devt by Grosvenor Estates was indeed visionary and acted as a force multiplier for other developments.
I'm not saying it was all sweetness and light - but it shows what collaboration can do with the right focus.
You’re definitely on to something here Pete. Creating a sense of pride in your home community by not seeing “broken windows” and repairing them why they’re broken along with zero tolerance for the window breakers, was essentially what Rudi Guilliani did in New York in the 90s and it transformed the city. That and making public servants (Police, teachers, NHS staff, local government officers) do what they should be doing rather than what their left wing agendas tell them to do would go a long way. I still think we’re fucked unless we stop immigration though 😂
Should we focus exclusively on the notion of cash injections as the route to regeneration? Towns grew around economic activity, the loss of which has impoverished our population centres. I think one of our big problems is working out reasons for many population centres to carry on after the rug-pulls of deindustrialisation and consolidation of high Street activity into out of town centres and Internet shopping.
I agree. Changes in the structure and pattern of economic activity are at the core of urban decline, and revivals in economic activity are the only factor in the end that will lead to revival. 'Regenerate' all you like, but if you can't attract businesses to invest in a town, it'll do little long-term good. Historian Jeremy Black made this point in his excellent podcast series for The Critic on the history of the English Town. Worth a listen.
Indeed. You need to understand the system if you're gonna fix it. It's all too apparent that too many of the people "leading" us don't have a clue how things work. I mean: how anything works! This is a circumstance that is bound to lead to decline.
Independent small scale farms of English families are the greatest threat to the establishment. Lots of them are an existential threat. And once they form a parallel society it’s game over. Always get the farmers on board.
An article in the Telegraph added context to the perception of lack of polce response to minor crimes like shoplifting. Crimes like this, faredodging, and anti-social behaviour are the “broken windows” that if allowed to persist, produce an erosion of confidence in the viability of the community with a consequent reduction in commitment to any participation in civic responsibilities. The police report that they are discouraged by the fact that people that they arrest are often released without significant penalty only to re-offend and the judges are frustrated because even if they prepared to hand down a custodial sentence, there is no room in the over crowded prisons.
That’s not context it’s a poor excuse. If those police had any integrity when they’re ordered to oppress a hotel protest they should all call in sick. Until that happens I wouldn’t trust a word they say.
It’s gonna take a revolution in mindset to reorganise English people to rebuild the social infrastructure.
English are gonna have to come to stark realisations: Neo-Darwinist Evolution is false (see MITTENS), moon landings are most likely impossible, much of modern science is partial facts, omitted truths and fabricated nonsense, most modern medicine supresses and anaesthetises sickness leaving it to fester and progress never healing it, most disease is caused by bad food, preservatives don’t preserve food they just hide the mould, British History is actually banking history and every war was about monopoly of currency, the British East India Company was a foreign corporation based in london that hired british soliders as mercenaries, official medieval history is bunk and the real truth was a demurrage currency wealth boom based on corn where people were sovereign and arable villages were wealth havens their bones were thick they were a foot taller and their teeth were healthy into old age i.e. they weren’t sickly peasants, the Celtic horse coin symbol from 500bc was still being printed until Anglo-Saxon 600+ad in East Anglia, old English diet even before Normans was beef, beef and more beef and it was good and abundant all year round, the Kingdom of Brythonica (Cornwall, Wales, Strathclyde) was still thriving until 14thC, the English had a bond of Christianhood that held each man to his community and each other Englsih man and any tyranny by lords or government was swiftly crushed by this brotherhood. These things are facts. You need to live in truth. Know yourselves or die.
I hesitate to put Jenrick on too much of a pedestal. At the end of the day he is a bloody Tory, and that party has a well-established track record of talking a good game then stabbing us all in the back once entrusted again with the trappings of power.
While I agree with the "broken windows" principle, I probably would not make vagrancy laws a priority - especially at a time when the state is forsaking natives in favour of foreigners. Much of the population is only a few pay-checks away from penury at any given time and, to some extent, we all risk being thrown onto the street by the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. Criminalizing people who finds themselves in unfortunate position is adding insult to injury, no more just and logical than debtors' prisons.
The revelation that a cabal of 700+ senior civil servants of Islamic persuasion, influence the service is an advance, but only if that influence is investigated - otherwise it just gives a green light to allow unfair practise in favour of Islam. Something that has been suspected anyway.
As for ‘democracy’ Rupert Lowes description of how the civil service influence Parliament reveals a system in which MPs - the people’s representatives - are cowed. Appalling.
The state of our towns and city’s are a result of decline of our industrial and commercial base- such is the WEFs influence on our political system.
It will lead to the eventual collapse of our economy.
Before Jenrick is able to do anything, the leadership (establishment) running the Tory party has to be expunged.
Jenrick is putting the cart before the horse.
For me he’s Boris Johnson mk2.
What of Reform? As the only Parliamentary party worthy of thought, Farages party finances look opaque and prone to influence, so no go.
That leaves us looking at political parties with no Parliamentary MPs ie Advance UK, UKIP etc..
Whilst Muslims have a right to their own interests under the HOIN banner, there have been questions raised over extremist views/actions by some in this group.
A group within a group or a hidden agenda?
The civil service at large also has a group ‘CSMN’.
This is an organisation estimated to comprise 4% to 5% of the civil service.
What’s is desperately needed is a restoration of the drive to individual responsibility, accountability and independence, and that can only come from a national perspective and a purge of Marxism from the education system. Dependence breeds apathy and degradation. Too many Britons are infected with a socialist mindset.
Love this Pete. Here in Worthing, I've been complaining about the lack of pavement maintenance, poor environmental services. Dodgy builders flytip along the A27. Drivers throw litter. It looks awful and obviously contributes to microplastic dust as it degrades.
The council allow weeds to grow on/through our pavements (called rewilding). It looks awful and uncared for. I'm on their case and do a beach clean most days - obviously worse during summer. It just takes a little effort.
"Good leadership is confident leadership - and confidence comes from knowing what is broken, how it got broke, and how to fix it."
..
Good leadership is not merely confident leadership. Fools are often confident. And their conclusions about "what is broken" etc are simplistic, notwithstanding their confidence.
Politics is full of such people - noisy, pushy blusterers who drown out thought with their shouting.
..
"Some of my thinking has already influenced the Homeland Party’s housing policy."
..
Big state collectivist socialism, basically.
You are right what we are primarily missing is good leadership which having passed a gruelling six months military training in 1970 and served for 10 years in the regular and 12 in the Reserves I feel I know something about.
The military views good leadership through the four 'Cs' - Candor, Commitment, Courage and Competence and the military also gives us the the six 'Ps' - Prior Planning and Preparation Prevents Poor Performance.
In fact take away the current lot of woke Top Brass and this country could do with a lot more military discipline and attitude.
I don’t think you can have military discipline without a strong narrative about what that discipline is for.
I mean, militaries have spent b thousands of years learning how to create stories people would die for. I’m not denigrating the military by calling them, stories, by the way; I actually think stories are incredibly important.
They’re backed up by powerful symbolism, such as flags, uniforms, rituals, ceremonies and codes of honour.
Without a powerful story, discipline isn’t enough. People need to sign up for it and they’re nowhere near ready to do so.
I do wholeheartedly agree that discipline us important, but we need the story first – about what our society stands for and why it’s worth serving.
I agree that what is missing are proud, brave and competent politicians prepared to stand up for the UK against the minority woke liberal elite lobby, and supporting useful idiots, who feel ashamed of our past.
WE need politicians to be proud of Our Island's Story which is a great book EVERY child should read.
https://www.awesomebooks.com/book/9781902984742/our-island-story-a-history-of-britain-for-boys-and-girls-from-the-romans-to-queen-victoria/used
A refreshingly honest and interesting article Pete - enjoy the residual summer away from the keyboard - does wonders to reduce the stress levels.
The good news is that we've examples of cities, more so than towns that have benefitted over the years from large cash injections , great transport links and visionary leadership at national and regional level - I'm thinking here of Liverpool, Manchester and, to a more limited extent, Birmingham.
Maybe we can learn from these examples - the key is for the local population ( & punters) involved in planning their own future - having a 'dog in the race' is a powerful incentive especially for younger generations. People have to be shown what good looks like - it exists all around us , as does ' the bad ' which is precisely what rhe legacy and social media pray upon.
Finally, I'm minded of the old adage " Life is rarely as good as you think it is, but then it's rarely as bad as you think it is...." - keep bimbling on Pike. 🫡
What is this 'visionary leadership' in Liverpool or Manchester?
It's the case that both Councils had the intelligence (maybe more so than vision) to accept central government money when the makeover was first mooted & also created a planning environment to enable the redevelopment of much of inner Liverpool and Manchester - The Liverpool One devt by Grosvenor Estates was indeed visionary and acted as a force multiplier for other developments.
I'm not saying it was all sweetness and light - but it shows what collaboration can do with the right focus.
You’re definitely on to something here Pete. Creating a sense of pride in your home community by not seeing “broken windows” and repairing them why they’re broken along with zero tolerance for the window breakers, was essentially what Rudi Guilliani did in New York in the 90s and it transformed the city. That and making public servants (Police, teachers, NHS staff, local government officers) do what they should be doing rather than what their left wing agendas tell them to do would go a long way. I still think we’re fucked unless we stop immigration though 😂
Should we focus exclusively on the notion of cash injections as the route to regeneration? Towns grew around economic activity, the loss of which has impoverished our population centres. I think one of our big problems is working out reasons for many population centres to carry on after the rug-pulls of deindustrialisation and consolidation of high Street activity into out of town centres and Internet shopping.
I agree. Changes in the structure and pattern of economic activity are at the core of urban decline, and revivals in economic activity are the only factor in the end that will lead to revival. 'Regenerate' all you like, but if you can't attract businesses to invest in a town, it'll do little long-term good. Historian Jeremy Black made this point in his excellent podcast series for The Critic on the history of the English Town. Worth a listen.
Can't think of a good 'Gateshead Revisited' pun.
Sebastian had one look at Gateshead & took Flyte ?
Meanwhile over at Reform their strategy is to launch a football kit.
Indeed. You need to understand the system if you're gonna fix it. It's all too apparent that too many of the people "leading" us don't have a clue how things work. I mean: how anything works! This is a circumstance that is bound to lead to decline.
If this little bit of policy work can be of use you are very welcome to have it, evolve it, improve it, and hopefully something like it will be implemented after the next election. https://open.substack.com/pub/scouch1/p/a-new-framework-for-british-citizenship its a bit long 😅😚
Independent small scale farms of English families are the greatest threat to the establishment. Lots of them are an existential threat. And once they form a parallel society it’s game over. Always get the farmers on board.
An article in the Telegraph added context to the perception of lack of polce response to minor crimes like shoplifting. Crimes like this, faredodging, and anti-social behaviour are the “broken windows” that if allowed to persist, produce an erosion of confidence in the viability of the community with a consequent reduction in commitment to any participation in civic responsibilities. The police report that they are discouraged by the fact that people that they arrest are often released without significant penalty only to re-offend and the judges are frustrated because even if they prepared to hand down a custodial sentence, there is no room in the over crowded prisons.
That’s not context it’s a poor excuse. If those police had any integrity when they’re ordered to oppress a hotel protest they should all call in sick. Until that happens I wouldn’t trust a word they say.
It’s gonna take a revolution in mindset to reorganise English people to rebuild the social infrastructure.
English are gonna have to come to stark realisations: Neo-Darwinist Evolution is false (see MITTENS), moon landings are most likely impossible, much of modern science is partial facts, omitted truths and fabricated nonsense, most modern medicine supresses and anaesthetises sickness leaving it to fester and progress never healing it, most disease is caused by bad food, preservatives don’t preserve food they just hide the mould, British History is actually banking history and every war was about monopoly of currency, the British East India Company was a foreign corporation based in london that hired british soliders as mercenaries, official medieval history is bunk and the real truth was a demurrage currency wealth boom based on corn where people were sovereign and arable villages were wealth havens their bones were thick they were a foot taller and their teeth were healthy into old age i.e. they weren’t sickly peasants, the Celtic horse coin symbol from 500bc was still being printed until Anglo-Saxon 600+ad in East Anglia, old English diet even before Normans was beef, beef and more beef and it was good and abundant all year round, the Kingdom of Brythonica (Cornwall, Wales, Strathclyde) was still thriving until 14thC, the English had a bond of Christianhood that held each man to his community and each other Englsih man and any tyranny by lords or government was swiftly crushed by this brotherhood. These things are facts. You need to live in truth. Know yourselves or die.
I hesitate to put Jenrick on too much of a pedestal. At the end of the day he is a bloody Tory, and that party has a well-established track record of talking a good game then stabbing us all in the back once entrusted again with the trappings of power.
While I agree with the "broken windows" principle, I probably would not make vagrancy laws a priority - especially at a time when the state is forsaking natives in favour of foreigners. Much of the population is only a few pay-checks away from penury at any given time and, to some extent, we all risk being thrown onto the street by the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. Criminalizing people who finds themselves in unfortunate position is adding insult to injury, no more just and logical than debtors' prisons.
Glad Peter can see the light, I just see shadows.
The revelation that a cabal of 700+ senior civil servants of Islamic persuasion, influence the service is an advance, but only if that influence is investigated - otherwise it just gives a green light to allow unfair practise in favour of Islam. Something that has been suspected anyway.
As for ‘democracy’ Rupert Lowes description of how the civil service influence Parliament reveals a system in which MPs - the people’s representatives - are cowed. Appalling.
The state of our towns and city’s are a result of decline of our industrial and commercial base- such is the WEFs influence on our political system.
It will lead to the eventual collapse of our economy.
Before Jenrick is able to do anything, the leadership (establishment) running the Tory party has to be expunged.
Jenrick is putting the cart before the horse.
For me he’s Boris Johnson mk2.
What of Reform? As the only Parliamentary party worthy of thought, Farages party finances look opaque and prone to influence, so no go.
That leaves us looking at political parties with no Parliamentary MPs ie Advance UK, UKIP etc..
Our democracy is not in a healthy place.
The Home Office ‘leaked’ it last year.
It was taken up by GBNews.
Whilst Muslims have a right to their own interests under the HOIN banner, there have been questions raised over extremist views/actions by some in this group.
A group within a group or a hidden agenda?
The civil service at large also has a group ‘CSMN’.
This is an organisation estimated to comprise 4% to 5% of the civil service.
‘The revelation that a cabal of 700+ senior civil servants of Islamic persuasion, influence the service…’
Do you have a source for that?