A perfect articulation of how I feel at the moment. Thank you. (Including about the planes; I live adjacent to Runway 2 at Manchester Airport so get plenty of opportunity to be distracted from our crumbling country by them).
Pete - off topic but I've just read this on Dr North's blog. "... I must say that I'm beginning to wonder for how much longer I want to continue blogging."
I'm not in direct touch myself but do persuade him to keep going. There are no others who grapple with our current problems so effectively and no other political commentators in England with that research ability. depth of experience and knowledge, and ability to get things across clearly.
Out of step with current political thinking in England.? Damn right. All the more reason to keep going, I'd have thought.
On your own article above, yes, the Brexit insurgency failed. Could have been the last chance to rectify matters through the ballot box. Have to wait and see.
The Brexit insurgency failed because there was no insurgency. There was no coherent plan as remains the case, just thousands of individual ideas without any prospect of coalescing into something deliverable. The key proponents of Brexit who given a chance to deliver it runaway or continue to preen their egos for cash on TV. No ideas, no leadership, nothing...all well rehearsed here on Pete's pages. The country is adrift and whilst I reject big conspiracies there is a drift upwards of capital so the rich will get richer, the rest of us poorer just as there continues an all-out blitz in hollowing out our living standards and rights. The ECHR is a particular target of ire which for reasons incomprehensible and egged on by many who probably need it most. Just think of it like an insurance policy which you never need until you need it. I think Labour has a chance to slow down the rot, but their chances of stopping it or reversing it. All they can do is to address the fall in living standards our rights and our national resilience. Radical steps must be taken to re-capture & tax the capital tied up in the non-dom offshore scams on the Isle of Man, Virgin Islands, Channel Islands Gibraltar, and Monaco. If you can afford to make your money here but can't pay your tax here then eff off. Given the big media companies base themselves in these places that seems a big brave ask for politicians who rely on their largesse. We need to re-shore our industries for strategic resilience and limit the sale of our new industries to overseas enterprises. Invest yes, own no. Renewables are great but why is it done in a punitive manner? Tax domestic cars & fuel maybe, but subsidise public transport. Free buses & trains anyone? operating safely, not the out-of-rush-hour loony tune wagons filled with those wanting to nick your phone, spew on your shoes, or stab you. I think we must push push and push Labour to address these issues and not get lost in the day-to-day media cobblers of false equivalence which Starmer being overwhelmed by. The focus on brown boys in boats coming to take the country over is just a wilful distraction perpetuated by those whose Brexit follies and management skills have been found seriously wanting and all part of the former regime. The future has to be more rights for workers, more workers in the boardroom, more incentive to invest and hold not sell and run, more industrial resilience. More tax on those who have milked this country for decades and as a badge of pride hide their money abroad otherwise we will end up with a feudal system of peasants and elites
No socialist tropes here quite the reverse the country needs to make money and fast. The question is how? Brexit has failed, there was no plan and there is no plan, its proponents have run away and the grown-ups are left to pick up the pieces and find ways to earn money by enabling our trade to work properly again for everyone not just the big companies who can afford the nonsense. We cannot reverse Brexit because of democracy and the EU doesn't want us. We can't go forward without a vision or road map and there is none for now. Our rights and standard of living are being eroded and this must be addressed. We are in a jam and if shouting about migrants and the ECHR is your solution then you have fallen for the distraction and part of the problem
Amazing to me that so many people in Britain appear to be oblivious to Allah's Army that has been imported over the last couple of years....most definitely by design.
A perfect articulation of how I feel at the moment. Thank you. (Including about the planes; I live adjacent to Runway 2 at Manchester Airport so get plenty of opportunity to be distracted from our crumbling country by them).
Especially at six in the morning, I find.
Pete - off topic but I've just read this on Dr North's blog. "... I must say that I'm beginning to wonder for how much longer I want to continue blogging."
I'm not in direct touch myself but do persuade him to keep going. There are no others who grapple with our current problems so effectively and no other political commentators in England with that research ability. depth of experience and knowledge, and ability to get things across clearly.
Out of step with current political thinking in England.? Damn right. All the more reason to keep going, I'd have thought.
On your own article above, yes, the Brexit insurgency failed. Could have been the last chance to rectify matters through the ballot box. Have to wait and see.
Sounds more like he’s ushering in a new dark age that will never end
Churchill warned of a ‘New Dark Age’ in his Battle of Britain soeech 1940.
‘A perverted science’ was mentioned.
God grief, how accurate he was.
It is not a dying regime. One thing governments are good at is staying in power.
Both planes and politicians have a way to come back down to earth very suddenly…
Brain dead
The Brexit insurgency failed because there was no insurgency. There was no coherent plan as remains the case, just thousands of individual ideas without any prospect of coalescing into something deliverable. The key proponents of Brexit who given a chance to deliver it runaway or continue to preen their egos for cash on TV. No ideas, no leadership, nothing...all well rehearsed here on Pete's pages. The country is adrift and whilst I reject big conspiracies there is a drift upwards of capital so the rich will get richer, the rest of us poorer just as there continues an all-out blitz in hollowing out our living standards and rights. The ECHR is a particular target of ire which for reasons incomprehensible and egged on by many who probably need it most. Just think of it like an insurance policy which you never need until you need it. I think Labour has a chance to slow down the rot, but their chances of stopping it or reversing it. All they can do is to address the fall in living standards our rights and our national resilience. Radical steps must be taken to re-capture & tax the capital tied up in the non-dom offshore scams on the Isle of Man, Virgin Islands, Channel Islands Gibraltar, and Monaco. If you can afford to make your money here but can't pay your tax here then eff off. Given the big media companies base themselves in these places that seems a big brave ask for politicians who rely on their largesse. We need to re-shore our industries for strategic resilience and limit the sale of our new industries to overseas enterprises. Invest yes, own no. Renewables are great but why is it done in a punitive manner? Tax domestic cars & fuel maybe, but subsidise public transport. Free buses & trains anyone? operating safely, not the out-of-rush-hour loony tune wagons filled with those wanting to nick your phone, spew on your shoes, or stab you. I think we must push push and push Labour to address these issues and not get lost in the day-to-day media cobblers of false equivalence which Starmer being overwhelmed by. The focus on brown boys in boats coming to take the country over is just a wilful distraction perpetuated by those whose Brexit follies and management skills have been found seriously wanting and all part of the former regime. The future has to be more rights for workers, more workers in the boardroom, more incentive to invest and hold not sell and run, more industrial resilience. More tax on those who have milked this country for decades and as a badge of pride hide their money abroad otherwise we will end up with a feudal system of peasants and elites
No socialist tropes here quite the reverse the country needs to make money and fast. The question is how? Brexit has failed, there was no plan and there is no plan, its proponents have run away and the grown-ups are left to pick up the pieces and find ways to earn money by enabling our trade to work properly again for everyone not just the big companies who can afford the nonsense. We cannot reverse Brexit because of democracy and the EU doesn't want us. We can't go forward without a vision or road map and there is none for now. Our rights and standard of living are being eroded and this must be addressed. We are in a jam and if shouting about migrants and the ECHR is your solution then you have fallen for the distraction and part of the problem
Amazing to me that so many people in Britain appear to be oblivious to Allah's Army that has been imported over the last couple of years....most definitely by design.