Scotland has voted to stay part of the United Kingdom. This means that they are not stupid, of course. But one and a half million people did vote for Alex Salmond and that is amazing. Beyond amazing actually. Doubtless some people did vote for an independent Scotland, not understanding what was really being offered.
Essentially, at the outset the offering was between status quo and giving power to Alex Salmond. Scotland would be separated from the English parliament certainly, but the idea was that Salmond seized power.
I don't know how many Scots realised that all the Yes campaign talk of the greater social feeling innate to the Scottish could only be delivered through him. Independent Scotland would be immensely wealthy (somehow), with almost free energy, free higher education, prescriptions, buses anything in fact. Hell, everything!
But Salmond isn't a socialist or anything like it. He is a hard nosed Communist and he knows that he mustn't tell you that or even more, most Scots wouldn't give him a second thought. Did not all his talk of a Utopia born of Scotland sound suspiciously like all communist regimes and their promises? Always promises.
But countries like North Korea and Venezuela under Chavez appeal to Salmond not because they are superb places for people to live free, unfettered lives, without the oppression of capitalism, but because of the power that resides with an elite.
Well, for now he is thwarted, but is violence his next option? It usually is for such people.
Friday, 19 September 2014
Wednesday, 10 September 2014
A Coming Referendum
The day of the referendum concerning the opinion of some Scottish people towards splitting from the United Kingdom and rejoining the European Union as an independent state, gets ever closer.
The things that seem clear; Alex Salmond is mad in the same category as Tony Blair. He is power crazed, lacking any interest in any other aspect of his supposed role. A Yes vote is a Yes to Alex Salmond seizing power in Scotland, nothing much else changes, organisationally. It is not a Yes vote for Scottish independence.
Scotland will be reincorporated into an EU of regions, possibly as the Scottish region, allowing some continuity of identity, but just as likely North Britain. The only reason Scotland got its own Parliament after all, was to prepare for the split up of Britain into EU designated districts or regions.
Other areas of clarity are; capital will take flight from Scotland, major companies will, by necessity relocate away, the debt ratio of the new 'nation' will be massive, as will its public spending overspend. Additionally, much harm will be done to the economies of all other areas of the UK.
Less clear is what currency the Last King of Scotland intends for his people. Will it be a Scottish pound, on parity with the British pound? Without the links that Salmond will have so carefully severed, this will lead to a Eurozone style disaster. Or will it be the Euro, as is required for new member states?
This of course will place Scotland in pretty much the same state as the pound parity; a currency completely independent from the needs of the country, region, sorry. But then there is the small problem of meeting the entry requirements on debt...... oh dear. Damned if you do and damned if you don't.
So, how can the madman convince his intended subjects to vote for Christmas? Well, by copying other Marxists by rigging the vote! Can you vote on the future of your nation if you, even temporarily, are not living there? No. Can you vote on the future of Scotland if you are a foreigner living there? Yes.
If you are unemployed and particularly if you would like to stay that way, Salmond is offering pots of free money, but you have to vote for him. And lastly, he has scooped idealistic and easily gulled, let alone influenced children have a vote. Yes, minors are on the in it too.
The deepest irony here is that we need to maintain one union, of peoples who have a shared history and overlapping culture, but ditch another alien system, the EU.
The things that seem clear; Alex Salmond is mad in the same category as Tony Blair. He is power crazed, lacking any interest in any other aspect of his supposed role. A Yes vote is a Yes to Alex Salmond seizing power in Scotland, nothing much else changes, organisationally. It is not a Yes vote for Scottish independence.
Scotland will be reincorporated into an EU of regions, possibly as the Scottish region, allowing some continuity of identity, but just as likely North Britain. The only reason Scotland got its own Parliament after all, was to prepare for the split up of Britain into EU designated districts or regions.
Other areas of clarity are; capital will take flight from Scotland, major companies will, by necessity relocate away, the debt ratio of the new 'nation' will be massive, as will its public spending overspend. Additionally, much harm will be done to the economies of all other areas of the UK.
Less clear is what currency the Last King of Scotland intends for his people. Will it be a Scottish pound, on parity with the British pound? Without the links that Salmond will have so carefully severed, this will lead to a Eurozone style disaster. Or will it be the Euro, as is required for new member states?
This of course will place Scotland in pretty much the same state as the pound parity; a currency completely independent from the needs of the country, region, sorry. But then there is the small problem of meeting the entry requirements on debt...... oh dear. Damned if you do and damned if you don't.
So, how can the madman convince his intended subjects to vote for Christmas? Well, by copying other Marxists by rigging the vote! Can you vote on the future of your nation if you, even temporarily, are not living there? No. Can you vote on the future of Scotland if you are a foreigner living there? Yes.
If you are unemployed and particularly if you would like to stay that way, Salmond is offering pots of free money, but you have to vote for him. And lastly, he has scooped idealistic and easily gulled, let alone influenced children have a vote. Yes, minors are on the in it too.
The deepest irony here is that we need to maintain one union, of peoples who have a shared history and overlapping culture, but ditch another alien system, the EU.
Tuesday, 26 August 2014
Cultural Marxist Utopia
I went to Ascot recently, which doesn't seem a promising start to an item about the Left. It was for the Red Bull Air Races and it was my first visit to this mecca of horse racing. Happily could be my last. What moron put such a large and prestigious venture in a town centre?
The queues to park were horrendous, they forgot to effectively relabel the car parks and the tickets for the 'Grandstand', permitted you to stand on the grass in front of the Grandstand. Must speak to Trading Standards about that.
Anyway, Ascot race course seems a grubby, badly organised place as you arrive, but is really quite fabulous. Good luck to all those lucky enough to have the wealth to really get the best out of the place. I mean that, I have no fear or loathing of rich people.
The day was fine and the racing close. We left early though, to avoid what must, has to be bedlam as everyone leaves at the same time. And this is my point, not the event or the venue but the journey.
Perhaps foolishly I went there mainly by motorway. Well, I still call them motorways and I think that is their retained official title, but they are now some kind of Marxist Utopia. Firstly, in a way of taxing that led to Magna Carta in the first place, cameras to calculate average speeds have been erected alongside, expensive and sophisticated gantries and signs, to allow our very own Stasi to manipulate road speeds.
These displays are operated like a child playing with Buckaroo; just for the users entertainment. We used to just have the idiot matrix board, always displaying a message about something that happened yesterday or offering some pointless 'advice', now they tell you that there is congestion. In real time. And they know there is congestion because a) they can see it on yet more cameras and b) they caused it.
Yes, a key reason for the variable speed limits (after fund raising, naturally) is to cause congestion, which then allows them to further lower speed limits and hopefully catch more people out who can't remember what the last set of 'instructions for driving' were.
If you have experienced this, or if you are fairly normally perceptive, you will realise that this creates dangerous situations and you would be right. But the variable speed limits are for your safety. Or for the safety of people who may at some point have been working in the road, but aren't now.
So we are treated to broad expanses of three and four lane roads, motorways, that used to be the safest of our roads, now reduced to desperate drivers watching signs as to whether they need to slow down further and trying to keep current with the last change, terrified of a possible fine, points and/or loss of licence. At no point has any hint of danger emanated from their driving, though has been introduced by constant vigilance to signs and the sudden need to brake
This braking caused by all the traffic concatenating due to all travelling at 40mph and lorries, now able to change lanes to 'overtake'. It is horrendous, stressful and dangerous, but it serves a very important purpose. For too long, drivers have been able to make decisions, repeatedly on how to drive. Firstly, speed limits were introduced, then technology meant they could be enforced more strictly but motorways still evaded the Left's need to control.
Average speed cameras and variable speed limits were the solution. All you need to do, is slow the traffic until cars, coaches and lorries are all travelling at the same speed. Cars that used to pass a given area at 70 (or so) miles per hour, now traverse it much more slowly at 50, or 40 mph. People lane change to seek some small advantage, lorries included.
So all the spaces that such fast travel allowed are now taken up by a solid mass. You know this is true, because the 'congestion' clears the moment the 'limits' are lifted. But you don't get to make decisions, you do what you are told. You are conditioned just a bit more to accept the dead, controlling hand of the State.
And you know if the subject ever comes up on the TV some idiot will, quite happily and to camera say, 'yes, but if it's keeping us safer.....'. Seeing this sort of thing must make Cultural Marxists sigh with satisfaction, that someone has accepted their prole status, knows their place.
So yes, our motorways, with variable speed gantries and average speed cameras are an example of the Marxist Utopia we are heading for. Just remember that before you grumble about your journey in future. It is for the greater good.
The queues to park were horrendous, they forgot to effectively relabel the car parks and the tickets for the 'Grandstand', permitted you to stand on the grass in front of the Grandstand. Must speak to Trading Standards about that.
Anyway, Ascot race course seems a grubby, badly organised place as you arrive, but is really quite fabulous. Good luck to all those lucky enough to have the wealth to really get the best out of the place. I mean that, I have no fear or loathing of rich people.
The day was fine and the racing close. We left early though, to avoid what must, has to be bedlam as everyone leaves at the same time. And this is my point, not the event or the venue but the journey.
Perhaps foolishly I went there mainly by motorway. Well, I still call them motorways and I think that is their retained official title, but they are now some kind of Marxist Utopia. Firstly, in a way of taxing that led to Magna Carta in the first place, cameras to calculate average speeds have been erected alongside, expensive and sophisticated gantries and signs, to allow our very own Stasi to manipulate road speeds.
These displays are operated like a child playing with Buckaroo; just for the users entertainment. We used to just have the idiot matrix board, always displaying a message about something that happened yesterday or offering some pointless 'advice', now they tell you that there is congestion. In real time. And they know there is congestion because a) they can see it on yet more cameras and b) they caused it.
Yes, a key reason for the variable speed limits (after fund raising, naturally) is to cause congestion, which then allows them to further lower speed limits and hopefully catch more people out who can't remember what the last set of 'instructions for driving' were.
If you have experienced this, or if you are fairly normally perceptive, you will realise that this creates dangerous situations and you would be right. But the variable speed limits are for your safety. Or for the safety of people who may at some point have been working in the road, but aren't now.
So we are treated to broad expanses of three and four lane roads, motorways, that used to be the safest of our roads, now reduced to desperate drivers watching signs as to whether they need to slow down further and trying to keep current with the last change, terrified of a possible fine, points and/or loss of licence. At no point has any hint of danger emanated from their driving, though has been introduced by constant vigilance to signs and the sudden need to brake
This braking caused by all the traffic concatenating due to all travelling at 40mph and lorries, now able to change lanes to 'overtake'. It is horrendous, stressful and dangerous, but it serves a very important purpose. For too long, drivers have been able to make decisions, repeatedly on how to drive. Firstly, speed limits were introduced, then technology meant they could be enforced more strictly but motorways still evaded the Left's need to control.
Average speed cameras and variable speed limits were the solution. All you need to do, is slow the traffic until cars, coaches and lorries are all travelling at the same speed. Cars that used to pass a given area at 70 (or so) miles per hour, now traverse it much more slowly at 50, or 40 mph. People lane change to seek some small advantage, lorries included.
So all the spaces that such fast travel allowed are now taken up by a solid mass. You know this is true, because the 'congestion' clears the moment the 'limits' are lifted. But you don't get to make decisions, you do what you are told. You are conditioned just a bit more to accept the dead, controlling hand of the State.
And you know if the subject ever comes up on the TV some idiot will, quite happily and to camera say, 'yes, but if it's keeping us safer.....'. Seeing this sort of thing must make Cultural Marxists sigh with satisfaction, that someone has accepted their prole status, knows their place.
So yes, our motorways, with variable speed gantries and average speed cameras are an example of the Marxist Utopia we are heading for. Just remember that before you grumble about your journey in future. It is for the greater good.
Tuesday, 19 August 2014
Cameron and War
In a slight twist to the US 'War on Terror' David Cameron has said recently, that he has identified the goings on in Iraq as having the potential to threaten us here in the UK.
He seems to mean that the people currently beheading and murdering their way around the Middle East may decide they don't like us and attack the West, including Britain. This makes me wonder if he saw the attacks on New York on the news. It was a while ago now, perhaps he has forgotten.
Then there have been the odd hopeless attempts to blow people and stuff up here. And the fact that so many of the nutters in this organisation called Islamic State (although that may have changed again by now) are from Britain.
Our country is in danger and has been for some time, from an ideology (not a specific, regional organisation) and that ideology is a branch of Islam. It is a totalitarian order in the mould of the Nazis and Soviet Russia, which is perhaps why it has the backing of the Left here in Britain.
If Cameron or any of the lightweights masquerading as politicians these days, actually wanted to protect this country they would recognise the truth in this and identify, openly the real enemy. Then start dealing with it here, by getting rid of those who live here, but claim to hate us.
We should also stand up for ourselves against the childish rantings of the Left. Their support for the rise in anti-semitism is akin to the early days of Hitler and is being used by the Left to achieve the same things. By acting like nice guys we are letting thugs, murderers and their political acolytes rage around us. We cannot wait until it is too late.
Why exactly the Left think they can use Muslims to help overthrow Western capitalism and then step in to run things as a totalitarian state themselves, I have no idea. Thinking as they do suggests they are thick and/or evil, but do they really think the totalitarian theology will stand aside for them? They hate you too, you idiots!
He seems to mean that the people currently beheading and murdering their way around the Middle East may decide they don't like us and attack the West, including Britain. This makes me wonder if he saw the attacks on New York on the news. It was a while ago now, perhaps he has forgotten.
Then there have been the odd hopeless attempts to blow people and stuff up here. And the fact that so many of the nutters in this organisation called Islamic State (although that may have changed again by now) are from Britain.
Our country is in danger and has been for some time, from an ideology (not a specific, regional organisation) and that ideology is a branch of Islam. It is a totalitarian order in the mould of the Nazis and Soviet Russia, which is perhaps why it has the backing of the Left here in Britain.
If Cameron or any of the lightweights masquerading as politicians these days, actually wanted to protect this country they would recognise the truth in this and identify, openly the real enemy. Then start dealing with it here, by getting rid of those who live here, but claim to hate us.
We should also stand up for ourselves against the childish rantings of the Left. Their support for the rise in anti-semitism is akin to the early days of Hitler and is being used by the Left to achieve the same things. By acting like nice guys we are letting thugs, murderers and their political acolytes rage around us. We cannot wait until it is too late.
Why exactly the Left think they can use Muslims to help overthrow Western capitalism and then step in to run things as a totalitarian state themselves, I have no idea. Thinking as they do suggests they are thick and/or evil, but do they really think the totalitarian theology will stand aside for them? They hate you too, you idiots!
Thursday, 22 May 2014
Elections
Today, in mock signatures we put an 'X' in a box and then put our folded, hidden answers in a box. In the Polling station I attended this morning, the distant observer, with an idea of the order of the candidates would have no problem knowing who you voted for. Obscured the non-booths most surely were not. There are legal requirements around the running of elections, but in today's world of bureaucracies and politics, who 'in authority' need feel constrained by law?
But who will these people, trekking in rain to 'have their say' vote for? This left over of times when the liberty of the individual and the the sanctity of the Englishman in his freedom, is strangely at odds with the rest of our experience. Enormous effort is made to coerce us to vote according the the whims of those who know best, with the BBC and a chorus of other media outlets not just singing the praises of half-wits, but also screaming abuse at the usurper.
You see politics has settled into a cosy career, where as a politician you pretty much don't do anything, but strut around in the certainty of your importance and seek ways to enrich yourself. It is difficult to get caught out on anything of substance because you will espouse no policies, your party will contain no great thinkers. Ironically it will be stupendously easy to catch you on detail, as you won't have the faintest idea about your 'brief'.
Then up pops a party who generally have a list of policies that are supported by a very large section of the community (and certainly the forgotten class; the wage earning British person). I speak of course of UKIP. Now UKIP are seen as being like a bad smell to the career political elite, like the mediaeval poor who offended the rich by their very presence. UKIP don't have the manners of the Westminster bubble, donchaknow?
The politicians, to continue their work avoidance suggest that the attitudes of the people (the hoi polloi) is evidence of a need for education. The poor lambs don't understand in the way the elite does, so it either needs to be explained to them until they are compliant or the option to have a say be removed. They are such a hindrance to progress!
The idea that the elite might be wrong, in error, not just doesn't occur to them, the mere thought would fill them with horror. It could never be so, they would aver, because they know best and always have your best interests at heart (like when Blair increased his police escort and required traffic lights to change in his favour, it was for you. When an MP makes a fortune selling a second home you paid the mortgage on, it is for you).
So, UKIP have attracted ire from all across the spectrum of political entrenchment. They are racist, they will destroy Britain, they will cause riots on the streets (rivers of blood anyone?). None of it is true and the vitriol is extreme and so severe that you just know the fate of Britain or your welfare is not behind it. In fact you are being attacked just as strongly, because so many it seems will vote UKIP.
This is because we have been misled, they say. No it isn't. We have been misled on many things from the NHS to the police, from taxation to the Global Warming scam. But UKIP have one very useful talent; they scare these complacent, money wasting parasites to death.
But who will these people, trekking in rain to 'have their say' vote for? This left over of times when the liberty of the individual and the the sanctity of the Englishman in his freedom, is strangely at odds with the rest of our experience. Enormous effort is made to coerce us to vote according the the whims of those who know best, with the BBC and a chorus of other media outlets not just singing the praises of half-wits, but also screaming abuse at the usurper.
You see politics has settled into a cosy career, where as a politician you pretty much don't do anything, but strut around in the certainty of your importance and seek ways to enrich yourself. It is difficult to get caught out on anything of substance because you will espouse no policies, your party will contain no great thinkers. Ironically it will be stupendously easy to catch you on detail, as you won't have the faintest idea about your 'brief'.
Then up pops a party who generally have a list of policies that are supported by a very large section of the community (and certainly the forgotten class; the wage earning British person). I speak of course of UKIP. Now UKIP are seen as being like a bad smell to the career political elite, like the mediaeval poor who offended the rich by their very presence. UKIP don't have the manners of the Westminster bubble, donchaknow?
The politicians, to continue their work avoidance suggest that the attitudes of the people (the hoi polloi) is evidence of a need for education. The poor lambs don't understand in the way the elite does, so it either needs to be explained to them until they are compliant or the option to have a say be removed. They are such a hindrance to progress!
The idea that the elite might be wrong, in error, not just doesn't occur to them, the mere thought would fill them with horror. It could never be so, they would aver, because they know best and always have your best interests at heart (like when Blair increased his police escort and required traffic lights to change in his favour, it was for you. When an MP makes a fortune selling a second home you paid the mortgage on, it is for you).
So, UKIP have attracted ire from all across the spectrum of political entrenchment. They are racist, they will destroy Britain, they will cause riots on the streets (rivers of blood anyone?). None of it is true and the vitriol is extreme and so severe that you just know the fate of Britain or your welfare is not behind it. In fact you are being attacked just as strongly, because so many it seems will vote UKIP.
This is because we have been misled, they say. No it isn't. We have been misled on many things from the NHS to the police, from taxation to the Global Warming scam. But UKIP have one very useful talent; they scare these complacent, money wasting parasites to death.
Thursday, 1 May 2014
Independent Police Complaints Commission
Just a quick question. Why is it that in the latest iteration of the IPCC website it is much more difficult to find reports on police shootings and information in general? Just wondering.
Do You Dream Of Diesel?
After insisting that we use diesel in our cars to save the planet, we now hear that it is killing 7,000 people a year. Apart from the fact that everything an 'expert' says these days needs to be viewed with extreme caution, it seems that once again the Left make a mess of a pet scheme.
We removed lead from petrol because of a panic over it causing children to become less brainy. It wasn't having that effect, it was a panic. We stopped using DDT and allowed malaria to carrying on killing millions because some daft bat felt DDT was probably doing harm. Rachel Carson doesn't appear in our league of dangerous people who doomed millions, but she did with her idiotic book 'Silent Spring', that Leftie Hippies loved.
I suppose that when ideology has that firm a grip on you and you are extremely unlikely to suffer from the consequences of your actions, then the deaths of those millions wouldn't concern you, as a tree-hugging, planet-saving moron.
Governments aren't completely stupid though and no matter what we think of how deeply dippy it is to fall for the Global Warming scam, governments have not missed the opportunity nor been slow to act in raising taxes. No one worries about a few extra quid when you are paying to save the planet, surely? If you think that way, you may want to cut down on the number of Superman films you are watching.
Interesting, is it not that the much-better-for-us diesel, which also provides better mpg, is that bit more expensive than petrol. And then it kills you. Or might do. Personally, I always found the entreaties to use diesel, or worse take the bus as ridiculous every time my car disappeared in a cloud of smoke belched from the diesel engine of a bus.
On the subject of buses (this rant is now wandering all over the place!), I was brought up to pity the poor passengers with their uncomfortable and long journey to cover short distances, and the timetable of the bus company and the poor driver repeatedly stopping and then trying to rejoin traffic, and I let them out. Now, with their fascistic, under-used 'bus lanes' I think 'stuff 'em', they are on their own.And so does the State, little by little become the enemy of the people not their servant.
Although the poorly researched, clearly incorrect and of propaganda purpose only, film 'An Inconvenient Truth' was forced on schools, if ever a text book existed that was of great use to schools in preparing their charges for the world of Al Gore & co., then it is 'Scared to Death', by Booker and North. Don't read it though to be given a view, but to challenge yourself to find out more, follow up references, be critical and find out the substance of why it is suitable for even schoolchildren.
In other words, treat it in exactly the way that Al Gore and all the Global Warming liars do not want you to do regarding their output. The science is settled, there must be no debate, no more research!
We removed lead from petrol because of a panic over it causing children to become less brainy. It wasn't having that effect, it was a panic. We stopped using DDT and allowed malaria to carrying on killing millions because some daft bat felt DDT was probably doing harm. Rachel Carson doesn't appear in our league of dangerous people who doomed millions, but she did with her idiotic book 'Silent Spring', that Leftie Hippies loved.
I suppose that when ideology has that firm a grip on you and you are extremely unlikely to suffer from the consequences of your actions, then the deaths of those millions wouldn't concern you, as a tree-hugging, planet-saving moron.
Governments aren't completely stupid though and no matter what we think of how deeply dippy it is to fall for the Global Warming scam, governments have not missed the opportunity nor been slow to act in raising taxes. No one worries about a few extra quid when you are paying to save the planet, surely? If you think that way, you may want to cut down on the number of Superman films you are watching.
Interesting, is it not that the much-better-for-us diesel, which also provides better mpg, is that bit more expensive than petrol. And then it kills you. Or might do. Personally, I always found the entreaties to use diesel, or worse take the bus as ridiculous every time my car disappeared in a cloud of smoke belched from the diesel engine of a bus.
On the subject of buses (this rant is now wandering all over the place!), I was brought up to pity the poor passengers with their uncomfortable and long journey to cover short distances, and the timetable of the bus company and the poor driver repeatedly stopping and then trying to rejoin traffic, and I let them out. Now, with their fascistic, under-used 'bus lanes' I think 'stuff 'em', they are on their own.And so does the State, little by little become the enemy of the people not their servant.
Although the poorly researched, clearly incorrect and of propaganda purpose only, film 'An Inconvenient Truth' was forced on schools, if ever a text book existed that was of great use to schools in preparing their charges for the world of Al Gore & co., then it is 'Scared to Death', by Booker and North. Don't read it though to be given a view, but to challenge yourself to find out more, follow up references, be critical and find out the substance of why it is suitable for even schoolchildren.
In other words, treat it in exactly the way that Al Gore and all the Global Warming liars do not want you to do regarding their output. The science is settled, there must be no debate, no more research!
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