I want to cut and paste this and send it with a note to my newly-minted Labour MP, who'd rather fight over the pre-destined closure of a local post office than raise his head above the parapet to criticise all the benefits cuts and the idiocy that is Net Zero.
Even the IPCC is now saying that global climate change cannot reasonably be blamed on human activity, but electic cars, heatpumps and solar panels are still being heavily pushed and installers punished by fines for inadequate take-up.
David Turver and others on Substack make the case eloquently but the government continues to double down.
I'd love to know what we can do to make them change tack. Reality tends to hit eventually but it's going to be too slow.
And if you have a maniac Energy Minister, you really are in trouble.
Just why are 60m of us in total thrall to 22 human beings in Downing Street, who apparently know nothing and care less?
I'm coming to the conclusion that we'd do better with Monty Python's 'strange women lying in ponds distributing swords' as the basis for our system of government. We've had enough of the 'supreme executive power derived from a [20%] mandate from the masses', let's give the farcical aquatic ceremony a try. Couldn't be any worse, could it?
So agree! The whole system is the opposite of a meritocracy. There are so many intelligent and educated people in all spheres and yet we get this bunch of cretinous maniacs - career politicians who simply know how to manoeuvre, backstab and brown nose their way to power - pushing the rest of us around and trashing our country and our lives. I did a masters in Constitutional law recently and boy did that open my eyes to the organisational rot.
Excellent article, I have saved it. I was on the bus the other day and there was a poster for a hotline for women to call so we feel safer walking home at night. Well how about we stop importing men 200 more likely than British men to attack us? The focus is always on women "feeling" safer and not actually being safer. We don't "feel" unsafe irrationally. And I would argue having your phone out and being distracted isn't a great way to reduce mobile phone theft.
Similar story with the women's jogging clubs you see posters for now. Feel safer and jog at a time totally inconvenient to you!
As a nation we seem to have a peverse internationalist pride in importing everything as we are funding foreigners. But our enemies do not respect us for this, quite the opposite. The Chinese view us as losers for buying their cheap, unethically produced goods and abandoning our own manufacturing.
As opposed to other countries, we are loathe to celebrate our own culture but we celebrate everyone else's. In Spain they have cooking programmes celebrating their own food. Can you imagine us doing that? It would be wonderful! We have excellent products like Wiltshire ham, crumpets and Stilton but we are ashamed to admit it.
Can't argue with any of this as it's more or less what I come out with when my poor wife gets to hear my rants on the state of the country. All we have left if we are to have a slither of hope of rescuing our country is radical measures, some would say extreme. We need to deport hundreds of thousands if not millions somehow and bring back industry. We need to limit foreign ownership of major assets. We need to return to common sense policing and a common sense energy policy. Now where we probably diverge is in any belief that any of this will happen, i am sceptical as I see a civilisation dying and historically it doesn't get saved
Is there any hope left? If we don’t abandon net zero quickly and provide cheap energy for the UK (we have sufficient natural resources to do this) we won’t save ourselves. That along with stopping immigration and some repatriation would be a bloody good start.
Bang on the money as always. As a people we really do need to engage in local politics and take back what is rightly ours, our democracy, our community ,our country.
A problem is that local politics has so little power. Power is centralised so much of local politics is implementing directives from above ie care for the elderly and vulnerable, education etc. Only 19% of our council's budget goes to looking after local needs that are not mandated.
Except that ordinary people are caught in the crossfire and have no idea what to do about it. Reasonably they do not trust those who think they do know.
That's pretty much what I'd say, except for the last bit. Yes, a lot of things need to be done, but I don't believe that they will be.
What I see for the future of the UK is increasing decrepitude and immiseration of the indigenous population combined with ascendant islam, facilitated by the most poisonous and inept groups of "elites" ever assembled.
At some point the previously dominant anglo-saxon majority will start to fight back and there wil be years of civil unrest, tyranny and repression. The country will be ruined. Well, even more than it currently is.
Look to Ireland, where the fire bombing of migrant facilities is becoming commonplace.
It's a terribly depressing prospect, but I just don't see how the UK can get itself out of the hole that Blair (I blame him entirely) dug for it.
I expect with our political class in charge we will straddle the competing blocs and tear ourselves apart in the exercise. The only consolation is watching Labour fall apart tying itself in knots, triangulating hard without any conviction or skill, howling platitudes at the wind and expecting to be heard. It would be great tragedy expect we all have to pay for the show.
Comprehensive and very well written.
I want to cut and paste this and send it with a note to my newly-minted Labour MP, who'd rather fight over the pre-destined closure of a local post office than raise his head above the parapet to criticise all the benefits cuts and the idiocy that is Net Zero.
Even the IPCC is now saying that global climate change cannot reasonably be blamed on human activity, but electic cars, heatpumps and solar panels are still being heavily pushed and installers punished by fines for inadequate take-up.
David Turver and others on Substack make the case eloquently but the government continues to double down.
I'd love to know what we can do to make them change tack. Reality tends to hit eventually but it's going to be too slow.
And if you have a maniac Energy Minister, you really are in trouble.
Just why are 60m of us in total thrall to 22 human beings in Downing Street, who apparently know nothing and care less?
I'm coming to the conclusion that we'd do better with Monty Python's 'strange women lying in ponds distributing swords' as the basis for our system of government. We've had enough of the 'supreme executive power derived from a [20%] mandate from the masses', let's give the farcical aquatic ceremony a try. Couldn't be any worse, could it?
So agree! The whole system is the opposite of a meritocracy. There are so many intelligent and educated people in all spheres and yet we get this bunch of cretinous maniacs - career politicians who simply know how to manoeuvre, backstab and brown nose their way to power - pushing the rest of us around and trashing our country and our lives. I did a masters in Constitutional law recently and boy did that open my eyes to the organisational rot.
Excellent summary - thank you.
Whatever the short to medium term consequences of destroying these world 'Ivory Towers' the long term future will be better for it.
I'd even go further than Nationalism over Globalism by advocating that within the nation state we need far more Localism.
https://harrogateagenda.org.uk/
Excellent article, I have saved it. I was on the bus the other day and there was a poster for a hotline for women to call so we feel safer walking home at night. Well how about we stop importing men 200 more likely than British men to attack us? The focus is always on women "feeling" safer and not actually being safer. We don't "feel" unsafe irrationally. And I would argue having your phone out and being distracted isn't a great way to reduce mobile phone theft.
Similar story with the women's jogging clubs you see posters for now. Feel safer and jog at a time totally inconvenient to you!
As a nation we seem to have a peverse internationalist pride in importing everything as we are funding foreigners. But our enemies do not respect us for this, quite the opposite. The Chinese view us as losers for buying their cheap, unethically produced goods and abandoning our own manufacturing.
As opposed to other countries, we are loathe to celebrate our own culture but we celebrate everyone else's. In Spain they have cooking programmes celebrating their own food. Can you imagine us doing that? It would be wonderful! We have excellent products like Wiltshire ham, crumpets and Stilton but we are ashamed to admit it.
I will watch your video with great interest.
Can't argue with any of this as it's more or less what I come out with when my poor wife gets to hear my rants on the state of the country. All we have left if we are to have a slither of hope of rescuing our country is radical measures, some would say extreme. We need to deport hundreds of thousands if not millions somehow and bring back industry. We need to limit foreign ownership of major assets. We need to return to common sense policing and a common sense energy policy. Now where we probably diverge is in any belief that any of this will happen, i am sceptical as I see a civilisation dying and historically it doesn't get saved
Is there any hope left? If we don’t abandon net zero quickly and provide cheap energy for the UK (we have sufficient natural resources to do this) we won’t save ourselves. That along with stopping immigration and some repatriation would be a bloody good start.
Bang on the money as always. As a people we really do need to engage in local politics and take back what is rightly ours, our democracy, our community ,our country.
A problem is that local politics has so little power. Power is centralised so much of local politics is implementing directives from above ie care for the elderly and vulnerable, education etc. Only 19% of our council's budget goes to looking after local needs that are not mandated.
Except that ordinary people are caught in the crossfire and have no idea what to do about it. Reasonably they do not trust those who think they do know.
Excellent Pete. Must renew my subscription.
I am forwarding it to a couple of my liberal American friends. They will probably stop reading at ‘Trump’.
Excellent summary - thank you.
Whatever the short to medium term consequences of destroying these world 'Ivory Towers' the long term future will be better for it.
I'd even go further than Nationalism over Globalism by advocating that within the nation state we need far more Localism.
https://harrogateagenda.org.uk/
That's pretty much what I'd say, except for the last bit. Yes, a lot of things need to be done, but I don't believe that they will be.
What I see for the future of the UK is increasing decrepitude and immiseration of the indigenous population combined with ascendant islam, facilitated by the most poisonous and inept groups of "elites" ever assembled.
At some point the previously dominant anglo-saxon majority will start to fight back and there wil be years of civil unrest, tyranny and repression. The country will be ruined. Well, even more than it currently is.
Look to Ireland, where the fire bombing of migrant facilities is becoming commonplace.
It's a terribly depressing prospect, but I just don't see how the UK can get itself out of the hole that Blair (I blame him entirely) dug for it.
I agree. Blair lifted the shovel but all his successors have continued digging.
Excellent piece Pete; eloquently puts into words my exact feelings about what's happening.
I expect with our political class in charge we will straddle the competing blocs and tear ourselves apart in the exercise. The only consolation is watching Labour fall apart tying itself in knots, triangulating hard without any conviction or skill, howling platitudes at the wind and expecting to be heard. It would be great tragedy expect we all have to pay for the show.
Would love to hear you and morgoth have a chat about the state of it.