Back in April, Rupert Lowe declared in a statement about Reform UK, “I simply cannot endorse a party that has put so frighteningly little thought into what it would actually do with power”.
Would it be worth talking to Rupert - explain your position and, if he understands/agrees, offer your services. He has the means and reach, you have the understanding of what is missing.
I really don't have the time or the energy or the money to go down to London to explain to these people what they are pathologically incapable of understanding.
If the problem Peter has been concerned about is so easily solved, a writer - Peter - and a computer hack costing around £700ish, is it a problem, or more a discussion point?
Something more important, what about Corbyns new party and what about the Afghan charade?
Let’s start with the Afghan madness.
A soldier in the MOD sends names to the Taliban government. Why is he doing that in the first place?Aren’t communications with foreign governments dealt with by the Foreign Office?
RAF aircraft are sent to airlift the Afghans.
Where from?
Bagram air base? Surely not? If they’re flying into Pakistan, how are the thousands of Afghans smuggling themselves across the border?
MSM have reported the Taliban are searching for those on the list!
They had the list 3 years ago. Why now? Can’t stop them leaving the country and can’t find them.
Even less efficient than our civil service. 😳
I would imagine the soldier implicated in this ‘error’ spoke Arabic? Not a run of the mill soldier then?
I wonder?
I remember the French, Germans etc agreeing to take extra Afghans in 2 years ago and was surprised our government weren’t mentioned. It would have been political suicide for the Tory government.
A clever, though unethical way around the problem?
I pointed out to Peter, law is a tool of the government of the day.
Turning to the political situation.
If not completely in the mire from Corbyns new party, Labour now face the Afghan debacle.
Here’s a thought.
Afghans are estimated to commit 22 x more sex crimes than UK citizens.
If the figure of 100,000 Afghans arriving in the UK is correct and the figure of 59 sex crimes per 10,000 Afghans living in the UK is right, it correlates to 590 sex crime as a result of this additional migration.
Unfortunately figures for other crimes like murders committed by Afghanis isn’t held, yet.
It’s now a certainty the Tories are finished - which is why they are trying to shoehorn into Reform.
Labour are gone too and will put their energy into proportional representation.
Which means the UK will end up like Poland, France and Germany, with the largest party in Parliament being out voted by a coalition of other parties.
Slightly more important than Peters delve into semantics?
19/07 As an update Andre Walker (YouTube) has said only 6 Afghan names were released - they were on Facebook and were removed.
There was no release of thousands of names by some fictitious MOD person.
The Taliban have stated no interest in any list of Afghans held by the UK as they are Afghan civil servants (supposedly) not traitors to Afghanistan.
The super injunction was issued because the UK government didn’t want protests from Brits, on the run up to the general election.
Corrupt parties like the Tories and Labour, should be removed from government, Parliament and any organisations holding power.
Re your water policy sketch: a water strategy could encompass a policy of keeping new build infrastructure (reservoirs and a water grid) in the public domain and squeezing out transnational ownership in the long term (longer term than an election cycle).
You might want a funding strategy that didn't rely on raising money internationally - would that require some MMT variant?
If we're growing critical infrastructure, then we may want parallel strategies for security from cyber attack and aerial attack (nuclear desalination plants look like tasty opportunities).
Finally, if you want to put regulation under ministerial control, would it be possible to provide some assurance of non-gormless leadership over say three election cycles?
The failure of water companies to invest in water filtration and sewerage plants whilst asset stripping and cutting staff side by side with increasing charges to the public makes them very unpopular.
The lax regulations/regulator that allowed the water industry to fail requires beefing up to enforce investment - at water companies expense - not customers who paid through the nose for nothing.
The share price would collapse in some cases, which would allow the government to buy the shares at a price which takes account their historical failure to invest in water industry infrastructure.
I think the real story here might be...what's the point of this 'Reform Britain' crowd?
They won't be contesting elections and nobody 'has' to listen to them. We know Reform won't, there's a rumour of some sort of arrangement with your old mates at Homeland BTW. Habib has both a policy tank and a party, so presumably one will be 'advising' the other.
Rupert had a few options, including presenting himself as the last hope the Tories had or parking his ego and working with Ben. He's chosen easily the worst option available to him and you have to wonder why that is...
There's a reason Lowe gives Habib a hard swerve. I don't know what it is, but Lowe's instincts are correct. Habib is a fantasist and poorly advised. There is a need for a pressure group/PAC to add political pressure and advance policy, but RB is going to be another slop factory. At this point, I don't really care what any of them do. I'm not invited to the party, nor do I wish to be. There is a need for an outside critic - and that's what I'm good at.
Well I did think you had to choose between commentating from the stands or being a player on the pitch. At least you saw sense with Homeland, which is the main thing.
The problem with pressure groups is...they're only any use if somebody is actually listening to them - if nobody is interested in what they've got to say then it's all a bit of a waste of time...
On with something new of my own in the coming months - everybody's got a party these days - you are very welcome to join. Goes without saying.
How aware are any of these guys as to the actual state of UK finances? As in how bad it is and will get? I get the impression Farage and Tice have some inkling given then bickering with the BOE, but does anyone else in this area?
Great idea Pete! Maybe this is wishful thinking, but it might embarrass Restore Britain into taking policy more seriously.
That's the general idea.
Would it be worth talking to Rupert - explain your position and, if he understands/agrees, offer your services. He has the means and reach, you have the understanding of what is missing.
I really don't have the time or the energy or the money to go down to London to explain to these people what they are pathologically incapable of understanding.
If the problem Peter has been concerned about is so easily solved, a writer - Peter - and a computer hack costing around £700ish, is it a problem, or more a discussion point?
Something more important, what about Corbyns new party and what about the Afghan charade?
Let’s start with the Afghan madness.
A soldier in the MOD sends names to the Taliban government. Why is he doing that in the first place?Aren’t communications with foreign governments dealt with by the Foreign Office?
RAF aircraft are sent to airlift the Afghans.
Where from?
Bagram air base? Surely not? If they’re flying into Pakistan, how are the thousands of Afghans smuggling themselves across the border?
MSM have reported the Taliban are searching for those on the list!
They had the list 3 years ago. Why now? Can’t stop them leaving the country and can’t find them.
Even less efficient than our civil service. 😳
I would imagine the soldier implicated in this ‘error’ spoke Arabic? Not a run of the mill soldier then?
I wonder?
I remember the French, Germans etc agreeing to take extra Afghans in 2 years ago and was surprised our government weren’t mentioned. It would have been political suicide for the Tory government.
A clever, though unethical way around the problem?
I pointed out to Peter, law is a tool of the government of the day.
Turning to the political situation.
If not completely in the mire from Corbyns new party, Labour now face the Afghan debacle.
Here’s a thought.
Afghans are estimated to commit 22 x more sex crimes than UK citizens.
If the figure of 100,000 Afghans arriving in the UK is correct and the figure of 59 sex crimes per 10,000 Afghans living in the UK is right, it correlates to 590 sex crime as a result of this additional migration.
Unfortunately figures for other crimes like murders committed by Afghanis isn’t held, yet.
It’s now a certainty the Tories are finished - which is why they are trying to shoehorn into Reform.
Labour are gone too and will put their energy into proportional representation.
Which means the UK will end up like Poland, France and Germany, with the largest party in Parliament being out voted by a coalition of other parties.
Slightly more important than Peters delve into semantics?
19/07 As an update Andre Walker (YouTube) has said only 6 Afghan names were released - they were on Facebook and were removed.
There was no release of thousands of names by some fictitious MOD person.
The Taliban have stated no interest in any list of Afghans held by the UK as they are Afghan civil servants (supposedly) not traitors to Afghanistan.
The super injunction was issued because the UK government didn’t want protests from Brits, on the run up to the general election.
Corrupt parties like the Tories and Labour, should be removed from government, Parliament and any organisations holding power.
Re your water policy sketch: a water strategy could encompass a policy of keeping new build infrastructure (reservoirs and a water grid) in the public domain and squeezing out transnational ownership in the long term (longer term than an election cycle).
You might want a funding strategy that didn't rely on raising money internationally - would that require some MMT variant?
If we're growing critical infrastructure, then we may want parallel strategies for security from cyber attack and aerial attack (nuclear desalination plants look like tasty opportunities).
Finally, if you want to put regulation under ministerial control, would it be possible to provide some assurance of non-gormless leadership over say three election cycles?
The failure of water companies to invest in water filtration and sewerage plants whilst asset stripping and cutting staff side by side with increasing charges to the public makes them very unpopular.
The lax regulations/regulator that allowed the water industry to fail requires beefing up to enforce investment - at water companies expense - not customers who paid through the nose for nothing.
The share price would collapse in some cases, which would allow the government to buy the shares at a price which takes account their historical failure to invest in water industry infrastructure.
The public would find such actions very popular.
I think the real story here might be...what's the point of this 'Reform Britain' crowd?
They won't be contesting elections and nobody 'has' to listen to them. We know Reform won't, there's a rumour of some sort of arrangement with your old mates at Homeland BTW. Habib has both a policy tank and a party, so presumably one will be 'advising' the other.
Rupert had a few options, including presenting himself as the last hope the Tories had or parking his ego and working with Ben. He's chosen easily the worst option available to him and you have to wonder why that is...
There's a reason Lowe gives Habib a hard swerve. I don't know what it is, but Lowe's instincts are correct. Habib is a fantasist and poorly advised. There is a need for a pressure group/PAC to add political pressure and advance policy, but RB is going to be another slop factory. At this point, I don't really care what any of them do. I'm not invited to the party, nor do I wish to be. There is a need for an outside critic - and that's what I'm good at.
Well I did think you had to choose between commentating from the stands or being a player on the pitch. At least you saw sense with Homeland, which is the main thing.
The problem with pressure groups is...they're only any use if somebody is actually listening to them - if nobody is interested in what they've got to say then it's all a bit of a waste of time...
On with something new of my own in the coming months - everybody's got a party these days - you are very welcome to join. Goes without saying.
How aware are any of these guys as to the actual state of UK finances? As in how bad it is and will get? I get the impression Farage and Tice have some inkling given then bickering with the BOE, but does anyone else in this area?