Greece: What It Means For Us All

The comi-tragedy of the Greek financial situation continues, with the new twist of a 'no' vote in a referendum. The options for the Greeks currently are either a) to follow the diktats of the technocrats in Brussels or b) to follow the lead of a far-left party of Greek politicians.

The EU have supported the Greeks by loaning them enormous amounts of money over a long period of time. This has become so large that the Greeks have no way of meeting the repayments. The cause of this poverty is the dysfunctional nature of Greek society, where it seems almost no-one pays their taxes and have no idea that this has to have repercussions somewhere down the line.

Particularly amazing when they also expect to retire early on good pensions, they haven't paid for. The EU knew that the Greek economy did not meet the 'Euro' criteria when they allowed them to join, but everyone in Athens and Brussels hoped that this small detail didn't matter. And they also knew that, as a currency, the euro was of no use to the Greeks; it was bound to undermine their economy.

But Greece had to be part of the great European Project and facts and the plight of populations are irrelevant in that context. For the EU it represented their power and to the Greeks a source of funds.

This economic stupidity is symptomatic of Marxist regimes like the EU, but unfortunately Greece, in Syriza have a government that shares the same ideology. It has been playing dangerous games with the EU and the referendum was a stunt to scare them into doing what Syriza wants; more free money.

Whilst the Greek PM talks tough on nationhood, he is careful to not actually do anything to make withdrawal from the euro, from the EU inevitable. He certainly doesn't want the taps turned off, he wants the debt cancelled.

The EU don't want them to leave as the Project is about the power gained by forcing 'ever closer political union, under Brussels'. If Greece left, it would mean nothing is for ever, other countries being severely damaged by the incorrect currency forced on their economies could also seek to make their own way in the world, much more successfully than when shackled to a corpse.

So what does this mean for the wider world? Well, it is important to notice what has happened in our media over the last few days in particular. Phrases like 'facing the abyss', 'catastrophe' and 'disaster' were bandied about, without, in the following articles any supporting text. We were warned at the weekend that the markets would fall 5-10%, that currency instability would follow a 'no' vote.

Then the Greeks voted 'no' and the markets barely noticed and the commentators kept quiet about how incorrect their prior, dire warnings were. For Greece things are desperate and for the EU it is a political crisis, but for the rest of the world it matters not a jot.

Another favourite, to scare us into not voting 'incorrectly' in any referendum David Cameron might offer on EU membership, apart from the BBC's Nick Robinson saying referendums can have unforeseen consequences -hint; you are too stupid to be allowed to vote-, is that Britain trades mainly with the EU, it is our main trading partner.

Again without any substance, we are being given a vague, but scary warning of catastrophe and disaster, if we leave the EU. Lord knows why trade would be affected, but it is what they say.

But I have looked up some trade figures and it seems that the value of our trade with the EU is precisely £0. I looked and checked, but couldn't find anything that we export to the EU. Except that is the £13+ billion we send to Brussels. Certainly, Britain exports substantial amounts to a number of countries that are also members of the European Union, but not to the EU per se as the media and politicians keep insisting we do.

If Britain leaves the EU, we can still trade with EU members, just as others do. In fact, we could stay in the Single Market and ignore the political control if we want. Not something Brussels, or its love-struck follower David Cameron wants you to know. So, if you get the chance, don't hesitate to force our politicians to work harder once more, setting our laws and dealing with international bodies, to whom we are presently denied access, by voting to leave the EU.

Specifically, don't worry about the negatives. I don't think that we should overly concern ourselves with the salaries and pensions of people who care nothing for the people of Europe and who have done such damage. People like Jacque Delors, Angela Merkel, Neil and Glenys Kinnock and Peter Mandelson. Not people you could warm to!

Greece And Democracy

As the papers are full of comments and articles about the current Greek crisis, I won't bother to recap. What I found interesting was the bleating from Brussels that they had a consensus of what Greece should do, but they won't play ball. And then outrage that the Greek government should dare to ask their people what they think, in a referendum.

So Brussels likes their version of democracy, a group of like minded gravy-train slurpers agreeing on a course of action, but thinks that the great mass of those their measures actually affect shouldn't have a say, should not rely on democracy.

I said before about the mass of media coverage, but it is not really coverage, not if you wanted information. If all you require to know is what the EU's point of view is, then fine, you are up to date. However, if you wanted more detail, well, tough luck.

For instance, I see quite a few stories about the British Treasury drawing up contingency plans in case of a Grexit. That stock markets will sink, how your pension will be affected and generally talking of financial disaster. In passing they do mention that British banks and institutions have almost no exposure in Greece, but fail to substantiate where, exactly the disaster lies.

The reason for this is simple. The disaster will be political. It will damage, perhaps fatally the politics of the European Project. And that is way, way more important than money (it's someone else's anyway) or the well being of the Greek people.

You see, if Greece leaves the Eurozone it will prove it is possible, ditto if it also leaves the EU. All this at a time when much of Europe is concerned with the nature and competence of the Project and David Cameron in particular is carefully crafting scare stories about leaving the EU.

Worse still of course, is the prospect of Greece reverting to the Drachma and with a currency floating to its natural level in the market, becoming a successful nation. (This would require the Greeks to get off their backsides and work and the government to actually collect the taxes too, though).

This example would have the other injured countries in a Franco-German pact set at a level to suit themselves, rushing for the exit. And having risked and been rewarded with a war as a result of attempting to expand this empire into Ukraine, Brussels would not then want to see Spain, Portugal, Italy and perhaps Ireland, leave.

The Spectator had a blog by some dimwit fashion writer for the Guardian wittering on about her amazement that the anti-EU stance of anyone, let alone the ungrateful Greeks should be tolerated. This not only says much about her statist, Marxist mind-set, but also how far reaching is the propaganda of the EU (they do spend a lot of your money on it).

It also shows how the current vogue, much promoted by and for the service of Marxists of not thinking about things yourself has caught on. How keen people are to have ideas planted, fully furnished in their heads, which they then believe and spout, no matter how evidently absurd the notion.

No, what the Greeks have to fear is either they will have to work harder and pay their taxes, or that they stay in the EU and accept the current status as their lot in perpetuity. They are not facing austerity to pay back debts, they are being pushed until the country exists at a level that fits the Franco-German model.

If I Ruled The World - Merkel

Merkel, echoing her Finance Minister, thinks that member states in the EU should have control of their national budgets taken away from them and given to Brussels. This suits the Germans of course and will mean that they can more effectively prune the nations budgets they currently don't like.

The reason for handing power to Brussels, to make it one of its 'competences' is because of the competent way it allowed countries into the EU and Euro that were basket cases and lied about their finances. Also, for introducing the Euro at all, a construct that had no ability whatsoever of working, it was always going to lead to a financial crisis.

But, we should not forget, for also not being able to get its own accounts signed off, ever. Giving control to Brussels would be the same as asking the BBC to form a policy for dealing with paedophiles. On that subject, what did the BBC report as being the problem in Europe at the moment? People in countries like Greece turning increasing it seems, to 'Right wing' parties. Honestly, this is what they hit on as being the issue, not the fact that an attempt to Sovietise Europe through EU power grabs was actually the cause of all the problems.

They didn't highlight the way that Merkel was demanding that power be taken without consent. German leaders have form regarding such statements of course.

Newspeak

I know that I am just a straightforward, liberal minded person so completely out of touch with modern authoritarianism, but I still am amazed at how out of touch I am. Take the Greek athlete's tweet that saw her sent home. It was a racist tweet apparently. Here it is, tell me in what way it is racist.

'With so many Africans in Greece, at least the West Nile mosquitoes will eat home made food'.

I'm guessing that a Greek national is not allowed to have an objection to foreigners coming to her country, illegally or otherwise. She may see how their arrival in large numbers affects the finances of an already challenged country, more people chasing fewer jobs, more social benefits to pay out. Naturally, real world concerns such as these are outlawed and with good reason, as er, to believe in these things would er, probably mean resolving problems.

That can't be right. And anyway, how can the EU delete Greece as a nation state if the Greeks are proud of their country and their nationality? They really must stop seeing it as their country. You wouldn't catch a senior politician in Britain standing up for their country.

Maybe I'm wrong though. Maybe the racism is in mentioning mosquitoes, or that mosquitoes feed on blood? I don't know, the whole construct of objection is beyond me.

Always bear in mind though, that racism mainly exists in the minds of the race industry. They work very hard to ensure that you believe racism is rampant. I saw a woman on the television who was black (the universal phrase for any non-white person whatever their actual colour), who described her hair as 'Afro-Caribbean'. Listening to her, I would guess she was British, but her hair apparently has roots.

Clearly, if the logic the race industry insists on is followed, she should just say African, the belief being that all 'black' people must have come originally from Africa. Putting aside the current anthropological belief that we all came out of Africa, which kinda stunts the race industry's racism, it is a reasonable supposition. But the Caribbean bit is added as that was their most recent, historical location (even if they have no connection to the region) and they were only there of course due to slavery. White slavery.

Well, white slavery that took them there and imprisoned their lives. Their own people often sold them into slavery, or other blacks, or Arabs. But none of that is relevant; it doesn't contain the word 'white'.

Me, I don't care for the colour of skin, I care about the person. I am proud to be British and know we have many fine traditions of which we can be justly proud and anyone else who is British and believes likewise is fine by me. What I dislike is the person who comes here and orders me to bend to their will.

The Left of course use the race industry to sow discord, to undermine Western civilisation, it is just one front in their many fronted attacks upon the people who tolerate them.

I haven't ever traced my roots back through time, but I might start calling myself Norwegian British, or maybe just my hair.

Wither Europe?

No pain, no socialism as you might say. The EU needs to heal itself we hear, it is in dire financial straits. Well, maybe that is wrong, maybe we are letting the Left, the EU frame the 'narrative'. The only problem, as ever, with the EU and its Euro is political not economic.

If Greece was a sovereign country they could do what was necessary to recover, not 'negotiate' with Frenchmen and Germans. But then, that would be a country that also didn't drag down its neighbours or 'partners'. Again, politics.

If you look at the problems roosting today, you see it is the countries in receipt of EU welfare benefits who now need more and more. They won't help themselves (by paying their taxes!) and in many ways they can't, because the central power of unelected technocrats hold them in thrall. Greece is Waynetta Slobopoulos, but with a better tan. The people have become used to a way of life beyond their means and demand as a 'right' that it should continue.

That is the proper framing of this crisis; that it is a political one. A political crisis inevitable by the objectives of the EU from the outset and completely avoidable by the simple expedient of deleting the EU. It is not our national governments that duplicate the powers of the EU, but the other way around. At the simplest it is repeat government and therefore redundant; at the extreme it is an anti-democratic, totalitarian construct that will devour its children.

Saving Private Europe

Well, I suppose you should be fair to the European Project and say that trying to introduce a communist government of Europe without being able to do it all at once, was going to be difficult. Funnily enough, had the Project simply taken over in the Fifties and created the European Soviet Union it would have imploded about now anyway; it would still have been running against reality as indeed did Russia.

But we got the awful slow motion death of Europe by a thousand cuts and a million lies. Today most of its idiocy is laid bare. We are left wondering why this Emperor had a wardrobe, there was nothing to put in it. And there is irony everywhere you look. The EU leadership decide to lie about what they are up to because otherwise no one would put up with it. Then the Greeks lie to those same leaders about their financial situation, to be allowed to join a club and receive its generous 'welfare' payments.

Now that reality has intruded into these plans, Greece is on its knees, struggling to find a political solution to what seems an intractable problem. Intractable to a politician of course. If your intention was to serve your country and its people, the simple expedient of introducing your own currency and taking control and responsibility for it, with a push for economic growth, would be what you would do, today.

It is also a political scare story that Greece dropping out of the Eurozone would be a catastrophe. What is happening currently? 80% of Greek debt has been cancelled but that isn't a problem apparently. So why would the other 20% rock the world? And who says that would go too. And why do Greek need bailouts that dwarf  Marshall Aid, that saved the whole of western Europe?

Of course these bailouts are no such thing. They are just ways of laundering money through Greece, charging interest and then making them give it all to French and German banks. To save them from collapse, from affecting the French and German economies. The only terror in Greece leaving the Euro, is that it shows to other European people that their country too, could escape the madness of the EU. The bureaucrats might lose control, just when they were so close to finally forming their Europe wide dictatorship.

Exploding Europe

On it goes, in the age of Wishful Thinking'. First a person perceived as a true Tory gets voted in whilst Tories elsewhere in council elections get an absolute thrashing. (Ghastly to see how many people vote quite happily for a lying, wealthy, incompetent, hypocritical, Stalinist in the form of Ken Livingstone).

Then a raving Socialist is voted in, in France and Greece can't form a government. People voting against 'austerity', the belief seeming to be that if you don't vote for austerity bad things will go away. Maybe ostriches will inherit the earth.

Anyway it is clear no-one seriously wants to address the issue except Britain, where the people clearly want to vote for Conservative policies of growth, but the wet, leftie Cameron won't offer them this.

It will be funny watching the supremely arrogant Hollande, replacing the arrogant Sarkozy, pout and fume about everything that annoys him and promise his followers the world, delivering nothing but extra grief and debt. He is on a mission to destroy France. Good luck to him. He should also be a big boost to the destruction of the EU, which will help the whole of Europe a great deal. It seems it takes stupid people to finally destroy the stupid constructions of stupid people.

What should Greece do? Well, I think someone in Greece should take the bull by the horns and say that Greece, a once proud country must stand on its two feet and declare itself proud once again. It should print Drachma's in secret and then when all is ready, tell the Eurocrats that they no longer run Greece, that the Euro will be replaced with the Drachma, immediately and with an exchange rate set by Greeks.

If this means trouble for the banks that the EU is supporting, then so be it; they got themselves into this mess and they created the situation for the Greeks to be destroyed. It is only pigeons coming home to roost. Greece can then go about growing their economy and returning wealth to their people. To do this though, they have to abandon their lifelong love of Communism, it has held them back before. Surely they can see the communism of the EU project isn't working for them?

Socialism, by which these days means almost exclusively communists in hiding, has wrecked Europe with its repeated stabs at power. Most spectacularly it has caused the banking crisis by having Blair and Clinton in power at the same time, both courting money and power with banks. Authoritarians have had their day. It is time for their citadels to be torn down, the biggest of course being the EU.

Interesting also to see, as the EU begins its death squirms that it is lashing out at Britain, that constant bastion against authoritarians in Europe through the ages. They are trying to remove the 'old' idea of nations states, beginning here and we don't need to wonder why. They will seek to destroy our financial centres as it keeps us strong, just as they long ago forced us to break with the Commonwealth,

How much longer can we keep finding stupid people to run our politics? When will a leader emerge who can see the EU for what it is?

EU Dictators

I am confused by the welling of comment about how the Greeks, in particular, are being dictated to by a seemingly uncaring EU (which really means Germany and France). The economic powerhouse in the EU
has always been Germany ( a country that never fails to draw attention to how grateful it is, to all those countries who paid for its rebuilding after WW2, rather than just being horrible to them).

My confusion is based on the fact that the EU has always been a dictatorship, it was intended so to be. The self styled elite of this monster have often bemoaned any interference from electorates, that things would run much smoother if (when) they are unable to vote. Why would Germany not assume that they can and should tell the Greeks, or anyone else offending the political structure established for their benefit, to toe the line?

It cannot be a difficult concept to realise; the fact that such a stupid idea as the single currency is being kept alive artificially should surely point out that good government, the welfare of the populations of Europe and common sense do not affect the EU. No, good little Europeans will forget their former identity and obey instructions. They will do as the leaders say.

The question is rather, what limit is there to their ambitions and this time, if they take military action, who can stop them?

Greece Is The Word

Can we get this over and done with? OK, so pretty much everyone (except lefties) knows that the Euro was never going to work, pretty much everyone (except the lefties) knew that countries like Greece lied about their economic situation to get into the Eurozone, so we are used to obviously stupid things still being actioned in the EU, but really, what is going on with Greece?

The on-off bailouts, funds, market swings are a daily farce. As a brilliant quote had it in the Spectator this week, nobody ever taxed themselves to prosperity, so why do we think the 'solution' for Greece is any wiser? They cannot stay in the Euro with its fixed exchange rate, full stop. It cannot happen. But the EU don't admit failure so the alchemists carry on. This small bunch of irresponsible pillocks are dragging the world economy down and they will not stop their lunacy.

But then, when someone else is funding you, why should reason and rationale have any place in your world? Particularly when your benefactor has a bottomless pit of money (apparently). It really is the shock of this age, that politicians cannot respond to an obvious stimulus in anything like a common sense way. That is the indictment on our politics and it is time to call time. Enough is enough.

I, as we all have, have heard the endless witterings of the left that we cannot exist without the EU, that we will return to European wars if the EU goes. That is rot. France and Germany would attack each other in or out of an 'EU' if it suited them. There are many reasons why Europe has not seen another Franco-German inspired war and the EU isn't one of them. But our Prime Minister cannot bring himself to address an important problem, let alone address it in a mature and sensible way. He has to cure binge drinking.

People Are Amazing

Question Time last night was more interesting than usual (or maybe me having a bad cold made it seem interesting). Ed Balls was, as you would expect, talking arrant nonsense 99% of the time, Theresa May was toeing the party line, we had a poet who was very 'of the people', but like a broken clock right sometimes.

Dimbleby drummed his fingers waiting for Peter Hitchens to finish speaking as he plainly wasn't interested in what he had to say and even seemed to laugh at his suggestion that he achieved happiness through his belief in God. Hitchens did have what seemed like a childish outburst at Balls though, saying 'he could do his job better, any day of the week'. But then when you think about the level of incompetence of Ed Balls you realise Hitchens was just being accurate.

Someone in the audience said that she thought public sector workers were special people, low paid and deserved more than private sector workers. Dim carefully avoided asking her if she worked in the public sector, just as he cut off the erudite girl who was making a point he wasn't interested in. A teacher made the point that the government were reneging on a deal he entered when he became a teacher. True, but a) that is the main role of government these days it seems, to start things on bold promises and pull the rug later, when reality bites them, and b) it still isn't funded.

The public sector don't seem to be able to grasp that what they have been promised as pensions they haven't paid enough to cover. They might pay a lot (a policeman said 11%) but it still doesn't pay for what they get. For that, they take money off other people, who will almost definitely be on a worse deal than them (and probably paid less too. They kept mentioning teachers as low paid, and then an example was given of a teacher on £38K at retirement (very low paid, you'll agree) will get a £25K pension. Sweet.

The EU was the best bit though and Dim didn't have to direct things away from dangerous statements either, everyone was dim enough on their own. No one grasped that what is going on at the EU is, at best disingenuous. Greece isn't being bailed out, for two reasons. One, the money is for French, German and American banks and two, once the austerity measures are imposed as the cost of getting the money(!), the Greeks will still be caught in the Euro, with no ability whatsoever to get out of this crisis.

We keep hearing that if the Euro collapses it will be disastrous for the world, but without any explanation as to why. Because it would be no more a disaster than when they all joined up (that was just the seed of a disaster). What has been shown in the clear though, is the lengths to which the EU elites will go to destroy opposition and the absolute lack of democracy in the institution.

Bale Out!

So the EU, having offered enormous sums of money they don't have or know where they can get it from, to rescue the banks who loaned money to Greece, now see the Greeks asking their people what they think. It is a bit like asking turkeys to vote for Christmas but maybe it is the right thing to do. Naturally, it has thrown the EU elites into raptures of panic and upset the markets too.

The Greeks have lied about their economic position previously, to join the EU and the Euro. They have been somewhat remiss in collecting taxes and generally making the country work. People retire early on big pensions. Only an institution as fundamentally corrupt and stupid as the EU could have allowed it to go on for so long. The others in a mess, always believed the EU was looking after their finances; if they needed extra funds they would come from 'papa EU'.

But how very dare the Greeks ask their people to give their view? Have the elites not made it clear repeatedly, that democracy has no place in the modern EU? David Cameron manages to toe the line, so how very embarrassing that some backward, broken down, bankrupt country be so ungrateful as to hold a referendum.

And we are told by vested interests that the EU is essential to our economic survival, yet it is the very organisation that, by continuing to support the Euro beyond all bounds of reason merely because it underpins their political objectives, is dragging down not just the British economy but that of the whole world. France and its partner in crime, Germany have, as usual, a lot to answer for.

Greek Tragedy in Britain

Large sections of the public sector are on strike today, outraged that the pensions they don't pay for are at risk. Why they ask, shouldn't we expect a pension way above private sector workers? Why should we be expected to fund it ourselves? The public sector now pays its staff more than the private sector, requires much less of it (in far too many cases, at least) and allows far greater amounts of time off sick than would be tolerated elsewhere.

People laughed at Cameron, suggesting that we are all 'in this together', when referring to the need for belt tightening. He is privileged they wailed and wants to keep it that way. Just so the public sector. And the scale of the outrage at what they are being asked clearly shows how entrenched this sense of entitlement has become. The only actual outrageous aspect of the proposed changes to public sector pensions is of course, that the very people who are insisting on it, the MP's have excluded themselves from the pool.

In Greece so in Britain. The people are merely stating that they quite liked living beyond their means and how dare the government take it away? Brown of course foresaw this and was equally insistent that he should keep on borrowing to keep the good times coming. I still cannot get my head around how so many people fell, for so long for such an obvious con trick as that pulled by Blair and Brown. But with the level of 'me, me, me' stupidity on display on the streets today, self delusion obviously runs deep.

Naturally, quite apart from dimwitted teachers let loose to 'educate' our children and all the other challenged individuals hiding in public sector posts, there is the undeniable truth that there are just too many of them. Blair wanted to create a client state, one that was dependent on New Labour for its wellbeing. That is a large part of what the problem is. But joining some with a sense of grievance that the promises on employment are reneged on at leisure (even though they should never have been made), are the anarchists who will use this as a reason to unleash violence and the trade unionists who are seeking political capital. For them, their members are just 'useful idiots', a power bloc to support their communistic leanings. Rich communists of course.

Too Obvious?

Not being a financial genius, I wonder if things are as they seem or if that is too obvious? It strikes me that we have a populous in the UK that is increasingly fed answers not educated in the basics and thus able to make their own decisions. An example of this is the deletion of proper science from the curriculum and its replacement with pure propaganda about global warming. It is fed to children as a fact and they a) expect to be told the truth and b) lack the wherewithal to judge the veracity of what they are told. I once asked a physics teacher if you could effectively look back in time by viewing light obliquely, where it would appear to be travelling more slowly as do trains thus viewed. Similar to the Doppler effect, I suppose. He at least had to go away and discuss it with colleagues before coming back with a 'no'. I wonder if such challenges are encouraged today, or if such subjects are even considered?

Anyway, to finances. Greece seems to have succumbed to the Sirens for too long and is a basket case. The people don't like the idea of austerity but haven't suggested an alternative, just a cry of 'don't'. If Greece is allowed out of the eurozone it sets a precedent and suggests the EU is not infallible, which is a heresy. So we get Labour MP's, like the one on QT last night (apparently an economist) who talks eminent sense about Greece needing to grow her economy and export her way out of the crisis. Spot on, but then ideology disables her and she doesn't reach the logical conclusion that they devalue their currency (something they cannot do in the eurozone), but that they should borrow more to do it. Absolute madness, but the only way you can square the circle and comply with ideology, which the Left always put before all else. Naturally the Lib Dems are in the same trap, but are even more inexperienced at living up to their statements than Labour are, hence the constant abuse they are getting currently. But the audience miss the logic and lap up what they are told. Would they borrow more to get themselves out of debt?

Last night on QT again, a fireman said that he didn't want to have to pay more into his pension, he already pays 11% he said. Cue audience applause, as generally the left-packed QT audience don't want cuts and this self-serving cant seems to be infecting normal people too. But the problem is, the fireman doesn't want the level of payout his 11% affords him, he wants the level he was 'promised', which is way above what he is funding. This lack of basic understanding is what supports the Labour led shouts for no cuts, no increase in pension contributions. (We perhaps could feel more sympathy if much of this woe wasn't due to Labour in the first place). To me it is clear, having a population that must retire at deaths door doesn't make us an advanced society. A good few years of healthy and active retirement would be a decent way for all workers to end their days. Not rich, but comfortable. Why can we not do this? Because we recklessly spend on other, much less important things and to be honest, just waste a lot too. And by We I mean Britain and by that of course, I mean the government. Whilst every other week bin collection becomes a fixation of government and people, due to the money available, we are pumping money in 'aid' to a variety of undeserving causes abroad at an accelerated rate. Why is India a recipient of aid? It is currently looking to spend $100 billion on fighter jets. It has a space programme, nuclear technology and is a rapidly growing economy. Aid to African countries, whilst often a better target is handed to the 'President' who then, by strange coincidence acquires new personal jets, limousines and houses. We have pumped trillions of dollars from the West into African projects to save lives and feed the starving over the last 50 years. What would you say the result is? A much better continent, with peace and harmony? No, it is still the pit it was, but now with a few very rich people who are better able to rob their countries. Why must we keep banging our head on the wall?

And government does too many things, with too many people that we just do not need them, nor want them to do. The Quango's are the most obvious method of the implementation of these daft constructs and activities. They show up key areas of government being busy, but doing nothing (except consuming taxes that could and should go elsewhere). If we are under the rule of the EU, what is Westminster (let alone the Mickey Mouse Scottish and Welsh Houses) for? If we are a sovereign nation, then why do we do what a bunch of deranged foreigners tell us and why the hell do we give them so much money?

Of course, no such analysis can avoid mentioning the political scam of the far left that is climate change. Make no mistake, this is a political project to destroy capitalism and nothing else. It has no logic in science, but is designed to cause a massive disturbance to the Western economies by causing them to distrust the energy used in their methods of production. The enormous cost of this pointless effort is the easiest way to not only cut back on our expenditure but also grow our real economy. (By all means incentivise industry to combat pollution, which is  in need of some effort, thus promoting industry and technological innovation).

Smaller government means people can get on with their lives without constantly bumping into bureaucracy and its rules, all a result of them existing, allowing us to spend our own money, which we have more of due to lower taxes, on what we want to spend it on, growing the economy. African countries learn to rely on their people to develop and trade with the richer countries rather than just holding a hand out and keeping despots rich. And the dear old EU. A desperate attempt by the French to at last rule Europe under the Code Napoleon that has been denied them for so long. And it looks like this one is going to fail too. But you have to admit, as proof of the stupidity of the political class it is a good one. It has taken a very long time for a bad idea to be seen as a bad idea.