I suppose we can only thank heavens that Miliband reversed the no-nukes policy. But like with any new coal mines and oil/gas drilling rigs, it's also still going to be mid-2030s before Rolls-Royce SMRs come on line - assuming no delays (spoiler: there probably will be; something usually crops up).
Pete...I think I'm turning into you on X. Not just we bear a slight physical resemblance to each other and share a love of military hardware but I found myself being the "contrarian" in a discussion amongst conservatives in an X thread.
Someone said we should introduce National Service which got a few agrees but I said no, terrible idea. I first put out my moral objection: Indentured servitude to the state is not a very conservative idea. National Service post-war was a Labour policy which wasn't overturned by the next Conservative government (where have we heard that before?)
Then I outlined the practical objections: We don't have the infrastructure to take in a few million 18-20 year olds, equip them (with what?), train them (by whom?), house them (where?) and then what do they do for 2 years? The problem back in the 50s is that the conscripts either sat around painting stones or peeling potatoes or being sent to various brush fire wars around the world.
Then there's the issue of civic national service: Again who's going to train these conscripts, supervise them and what will they do? If a local authority can't keep tabs on who's renting a shop in a busy part of Glasgow how are they going to deal with a bunch of youths who don't want to be there?
So I did a "Pete North" and pointed out the pitfalls that needed serious thought and addressing and was called "negative" and "anti-progress" for my troubles.
The tunnel is an illusion the universe is intelligent and will not allow this abberation to continue.The divine presence is here and many will feel it as many do now. Time is irrelevant as the veils are lifting look to the skies which will be lit up and the water soon to cleanse.
I can see why people are disinterested in your view.
The Tories, Labour are dying and the traditional protest parties Lib Dems and Greens are failing to grow as they offer more of the same.
People are frightened even alarmed by what is going on. It’s not only mass migration it’s also the move towards totalitarian rule, imprisoning people for protest, censorship by MSM, political, judicial and police corruption, the end of jury trials.
People believe they are in a perilous situation and look for a party to represent them with hopefully genuine people who won’t turn 180 degrees once in power.
If a party with policies demanded by the voters achieves power the method of bringing the policy about is secondary.
Reform are talked about by MSM but Restore and Advance are censored out of the discussion.
So Ben Habib talks about pedophile castration and MSM is silent.
Rupert Lowe talks about capitol punishment and the MSM have no kick back.
Voters think that parties that are so radical will have no problem deporting illegal and tourist migrants.
If a non globalist party gets into power but fluff their lines, people wont rail against them.
People will pull together to support them after decades of maladministration.
People now fear for their future if traditional Parliamentary parties retain power.
Meanwhile Lowe spends his time searching for talented successful people in his own image able to change the country - but not politicians.
Reforms model is rejected.
Advance are struggling because Habib thought his party could merge into Restore so Advance supporters wonder why they should stick with Advance rather than move to Restore.
Never say never. But you're right the evidence is for continued deterioration - in living standards above all. Daily life for those who lived during the 2nd half of the 20th century is already tangibly, measurably worse in so many areas: housing, health, education, public transport, taxation to name but the most obvious. Relatedly, when one thinks of 'social collapse', the most recent precedents are those of a more 'advanced' group taking over a less capable society. But what we are experiencing is the opposite. Our decline is most obviously akin to that of Roman civilisation, and if history is any guide, without 'paradigm change' we have further to fall.
I don't know why I bother but here goes. When I first joined substack your arguments at the time were your manifesto would take years, maybe ten years to, ahem, manifest itself. And later, as you now admit, it was Homeland, a pretty bubble that didn't survive its first pin prick being by its borrowed Americanism not having a 911 or Luftwaffe to inflate it in any public imagination. Life was still far too cosy for Joe High St to wake up.
I only follow you because you see through the pointless vengeful irrelevance that is Lowe. At least Farage has set a ball rolling. I'm convinced he doesn't want spend a minute in Number Ten dealing with all that bollox but he attracts people who do, who can, who are wanted as an alternative to the recent 29 year shit show..
Now, unsurprisingly, you've hibernated into negative mode. Defeatist at the same time as Joe High St JHS is peering with annoyance at the very city which helped drive the latter industrial revolution, its small machine shops closing as the Concorde project wound down, what, 50 years ago? The accountants and the Unions destroyed our car industry back then, the poisonous Left and its march through the institutions have more or less won. But not quite.
The remark - who will train the 18 year olds? They are still here in hiding in the still relatively fit 60-80 year olds and many young tradesmen and women only defeated by political correctness, woke, HSW, COSSH and whatever else has the country strangled. A casual glance at Youtube reveals the wherewithal on how to mend something, construct something, improvise something, repair an engine, wire up a solar panel to charge batteries and run inverters to provide domestic electricity.
My shed, if only I could get round to it has the wherewithal to do this. I'm feeling old and discouraged, half a dozen projects lie unfinished in the winter cold, the chips are not down, the Luftwaffe aren't coming but I put down my tools, wipe my hands on my oily rag and come here to tell you off for wasting mine and others' time with your defeatist philosophy writing. Buck up, go and saw a piece of wood in half. You, Pete North are part of the problem.
I have my answers but not on my own. Today I can buy a wind generator to go with my petrol generator off ebay or Amazon - yes from China. I can afford it. I have enough stuff in reserve to last a few weeks. The rest of my street? Have they f*** and when the chips are down who'll be knocking at my door? "The eccentric old bloke up the road has a generator, spare BBQ gas bottles and weeks worth of flour and pasta in reserve! Why's he got a crossbow and a catapult?
You won't answer in your self obsession though will you?
I suppose we can only thank heavens that Miliband reversed the no-nukes policy. But like with any new coal mines and oil/gas drilling rigs, it's also still going to be mid-2030s before Rolls-Royce SMRs come on line - assuming no delays (spoiler: there probably will be; something usually crops up).
https://www.amrc.co.uk/news/rolls-royce-smr-will-build-britain-s-next-generation-of-nuclear-power-plants
Pete...I think I'm turning into you on X. Not just we bear a slight physical resemblance to each other and share a love of military hardware but I found myself being the "contrarian" in a discussion amongst conservatives in an X thread.
Someone said we should introduce National Service which got a few agrees but I said no, terrible idea. I first put out my moral objection: Indentured servitude to the state is not a very conservative idea. National Service post-war was a Labour policy which wasn't overturned by the next Conservative government (where have we heard that before?)
Then I outlined the practical objections: We don't have the infrastructure to take in a few million 18-20 year olds, equip them (with what?), train them (by whom?), house them (where?) and then what do they do for 2 years? The problem back in the 50s is that the conscripts either sat around painting stones or peeling potatoes or being sent to various brush fire wars around the world.
Then there's the issue of civic national service: Again who's going to train these conscripts, supervise them and what will they do? If a local authority can't keep tabs on who's renting a shop in a busy part of Glasgow how are they going to deal with a bunch of youths who don't want to be there?
So I did a "Pete North" and pointed out the pitfalls that needed serious thought and addressing and was called "negative" and "anti-progress" for my troubles.
Establishing firm foundations appears to be an anathema to these people. Sad.
Maybe the May council elections will shake them up a bit. I do hope so or we will be in this slow descent to chaos right up to 2029.
The tunnel is an illusion the universe is intelligent and will not allow this abberation to continue.The divine presence is here and many will feel it as many do now. Time is irrelevant as the veils are lifting look to the skies which will be lit up and the water soon to cleanse.
🙏💓
"He's a comin back", but not just yet.
In this case time is irrelevant the veils are lifting between the dimensions as the frequency of the Earth affects our very own accelerating change.🙏💓
I can see why people are disinterested in your view.
The Tories, Labour are dying and the traditional protest parties Lib Dems and Greens are failing to grow as they offer more of the same.
People are frightened even alarmed by what is going on. It’s not only mass migration it’s also the move towards totalitarian rule, imprisoning people for protest, censorship by MSM, political, judicial and police corruption, the end of jury trials.
People believe they are in a perilous situation and look for a party to represent them with hopefully genuine people who won’t turn 180 degrees once in power.
If a party with policies demanded by the voters achieves power the method of bringing the policy about is secondary.
Reform are talked about by MSM but Restore and Advance are censored out of the discussion.
So Ben Habib talks about pedophile castration and MSM is silent.
Rupert Lowe talks about capitol punishment and the MSM have no kick back.
Voters think that parties that are so radical will have no problem deporting illegal and tourist migrants.
If a non globalist party gets into power but fluff their lines, people wont rail against them.
People will pull together to support them after decades of maladministration.
People now fear for their future if traditional Parliamentary parties retain power.
Meanwhile Lowe spends his time searching for talented successful people in his own image able to change the country - but not politicians.
Reforms model is rejected.
Advance are struggling because Habib thought his party could merge into Restore so Advance supporters wonder why they should stick with Advance rather than move to Restore.
Never say never. But you're right the evidence is for continued deterioration - in living standards above all. Daily life for those who lived during the 2nd half of the 20th century is already tangibly, measurably worse in so many areas: housing, health, education, public transport, taxation to name but the most obvious. Relatedly, when one thinks of 'social collapse', the most recent precedents are those of a more 'advanced' group taking over a less capable society. But what we are experiencing is the opposite. Our decline is most obviously akin to that of Roman civilisation, and if history is any guide, without 'paradigm change' we have further to fall.
I don't know why I bother but here goes. When I first joined substack your arguments at the time were your manifesto would take years, maybe ten years to, ahem, manifest itself. And later, as you now admit, it was Homeland, a pretty bubble that didn't survive its first pin prick being by its borrowed Americanism not having a 911 or Luftwaffe to inflate it in any public imagination. Life was still far too cosy for Joe High St to wake up.
I only follow you because you see through the pointless vengeful irrelevance that is Lowe. At least Farage has set a ball rolling. I'm convinced he doesn't want spend a minute in Number Ten dealing with all that bollox but he attracts people who do, who can, who are wanted as an alternative to the recent 29 year shit show..
Now, unsurprisingly, you've hibernated into negative mode. Defeatist at the same time as Joe High St JHS is peering with annoyance at the very city which helped drive the latter industrial revolution, its small machine shops closing as the Concorde project wound down, what, 50 years ago? The accountants and the Unions destroyed our car industry back then, the poisonous Left and its march through the institutions have more or less won. But not quite.
The remark - who will train the 18 year olds? They are still here in hiding in the still relatively fit 60-80 year olds and many young tradesmen and women only defeated by political correctness, woke, HSW, COSSH and whatever else has the country strangled. A casual glance at Youtube reveals the wherewithal on how to mend something, construct something, improvise something, repair an engine, wire up a solar panel to charge batteries and run inverters to provide domestic electricity.
My shed, if only I could get round to it has the wherewithal to do this. I'm feeling old and discouraged, half a dozen projects lie unfinished in the winter cold, the chips are not down, the Luftwaffe aren't coming but I put down my tools, wipe my hands on my oily rag and come here to tell you off for wasting mine and others' time with your defeatist philosophy writing. Buck up, go and saw a piece of wood in half. You, Pete North are part of the problem.
I have my answers but not on my own. Today I can buy a wind generator to go with my petrol generator off ebay or Amazon - yes from China. I can afford it. I have enough stuff in reserve to last a few weeks. The rest of my street? Have they f*** and when the chips are down who'll be knocking at my door? "The eccentric old bloke up the road has a generator, spare BBQ gas bottles and weeks worth of flour and pasta in reserve! Why's he got a crossbow and a catapult?
You won't answer in your self obsession though will you?
Very depressing but certainly fits my 10 year plus belief that things will get a lot worse before they get better...........if ever?
However I have to believe that a phoenix does always rise from the ashes.