Nero fiddles

When Britain needs a leader at this time who exudes confidence, gravitas and strength we have one who fucking dances around like a fucking idiot happy about a Telletubbies movie! With companies pushing each other to get out,jobs being lost,the longest recession since the 1930s(even including the war),the Union itself being threatened, and a future as certain as my chances of staying sober this weekend, the people needed reassuring,not distracted and holding their heads in their hands! I don't remember seeing Churchill,Atlee,Thatcher or even Blair dancing around like fucking morons. Britain needs a real revolution to stop this madness.
All empires fall, Babylonians, Greeks, Egyptians,Romans and our power fell very recently. Yet,we can control how we fall, and for the last 50 years the previous governments although I have hated many of them,have ensured that the UK punched above its weight,and a major part of that was joining a much bigger union, and being a major player within that union, shaping that union with our partners, we are already beginning to see that power slipping away. China today have asked for an official apology for a Chinese journalist who assaulted someone,yes you read that right,how fucked up is that? That wouldn't have happened if China didn't think it now has the UK by its balls. We will fall as Rome fell due to Nero fiddling as Rome burnt.
Our leader dances as we burn. Shame!

Duterte and Cambridge Analytica

Duterte is like a wife beating husband, he is violent but he is nice to his friends and brings home money. People don't understand why his wife complains as he is so funny and successful.

The company Cambridge Analytica is a famous company that was this year forced to close after they were found to have spread millions and millions of fake posts and comments on social media. They were paid by the Russians,by Duterte,by groups supporting Brexit and right wing American groups and many others This is not disputed,they were raided and their records and contacts and payment history released. Facebook is now desperately trying to find a way to stop this. The example used is now always Duterte and how social media was used to spread lies and intimidate opponents. Throughout the world universities are studying how this was achieved and allowed to happen. The people living in The Phillipines can see the truth of what is really happening,but it is those not living there that continue to spread the fake news that the government gives them. It is a remarkable phenomenon, and although Cambridge Analytica was forced to close everyone knows that they have been replaced. The same is now happening in Burma,where a Muslim genocide has been happening,but there is an army of trolls on the internet that continue to deny the truth....even when photos and clear evidence is produced. The idea being that if you keep telling a large group of your uneducated people that black is white and white is black they will eventually believe you.

So he didn't steal? Is that now a good thing? A thing to be praised? Modern governments do not steal for their own personal gain. The leader of Hong Kong is not very good but her honesty is never questioned and the fact that she doesn't steal is not held to be a good thing, if she did,she would just be a criminal. The same can be said of the British Prime Minister and even Trump. They never get elected with the slogan..... She/he is good because they don't steal.
And it is no use bringing up past leaders,if they stole then they must face the court and justice
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/daveyalba/facebook-philippines-dutertes-drug-war

Duterte is like a wife beating husband, he is violent but he is nice to his friends and brings home money. People don't understand why his wife complains as he is so funny and successful.

The real war

This is the biggest single most damaging event since World War 2. The economic damage it caused is still being felt severely today. In Britain it brought austerity and enabled the racists to gain power and through absolute lies trick our nation into becoming the laughing stock of the world. The deaths caused by austerity continue with medical services suffering and food banks feeding our children and the disabled dying through lack of money and shelter. The people who caused it continue to be protected and the corporations who benefitted continue to pay no taxes. Governments began wars against the terrorists of 9/11 and destroyed the countries they came from and began a blitzkrieg of a whole region and expressed surprise when millions of refugees poured out of the rubble and continue to do so. Yet, the criminals who caused the economic crash and the system that allowed it and continues to do so is left untouched and stronger than ever.
In years to come,in centuries to come, this event will be seen as a catalyst to misery and the instigator of a backwards step for humanity, the cause of Brexit,of Trump and the fake news wars.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/sep/11/lehman-brothers-collapse-where-are-the-key-figures-now

Fight for your right...to hear the real news.

https://www.facebook.com/theguardian/videos/10157074224021323/

Surely this must be a battle cry for The Revolution? All media should pull out of the White House, refuse to interview those Republicans that don't condemn what is an attack  on the freedom of the press, which until last year was a freedom American's held dear. His tweets should be ignored by media,and apart from any direct policy decisions that have actually been put into effect he and his lackeys should be ignored. At the same time, newspapers,magazines,websites,T.V. and radio should have blank pages, blank airtime where they should have been able to report on the their government without fear. This is a very sad day for accountability of the executive and the media's ability to do their job.
Has he turned the U.S. into Turkey,or Thailand or Egypt or China or Singapore or The Philippines, and the other nations where journalists are killed,jailed,attacked and vilified for telling the truth?

The Meek

Most of the happiest and richest countries in the world have mixed market economies. They educate their citizens for free and encourage and give them that free education whilst ensuring they have good healthcare. They encourage their people to work to innovate,to strive for more. Their weak and disadvantaged are brought into society rather than punished. The Welfare of all is important and seen as necessary and noble. Housing is available to all.
In these same countries unemployment is low,crime is low,and education is excellent. They compete commercially alongside the elite,they out-perform bigger richer nations in productivity and quality of life.
It is not fucking rocket science.
Pure capitalism doesn't work,as communism doesn't work. 
In the 90s they talked about a '3rd Way' but that was part of the propoganda,as the 3rd way was already there,with most European nations,meanwhile we began charging our students and making the unemployed into a parish. 
We (The U.K.) are heading towards the American model of capitalism. Work or die,and fuck the consequences of crime and healthcare.
Sweden, Norway,Denmark,Finland,Switzerland,even Germany and France will inherit the Earth.

The Last Days

Throughout history many great conquering civilisations have fallen, The Egyptians,Greeks,Romans,Mongols,Vikings,Danes,Normans, Portuguese,Spanish,Dutch,Moors,French,Ottamans,Russians,Prussians,Germans,British and Americans. History has taught us that all have fallen eventually. Why can't the British and American people realise that? 30 years ago it was obvious and we accepted it, as it was clear that, firstly we realised the error of our ways and more importantly that it was not practical.
We are left with the dregs today of those that still believe it is desirable and obtainable to get those empires back,we are leading others to do the same,the idea that nationalism is a good thing,that power is our aim,that leadership is our God given right.
All of these ideas have only resurfaced in the last decade,during the age of austerity,'The age of Austerity' caused by rampant capitalism.
The after effects of the banks destroying our economies with impunity led to the perfect conditions for the right wing to grow,as they did during the Weimar Republic of Germany after World War 1.
The Conservative government of the UK decided to pass on the cost of 'austerity' in 2010, not to the banks or the corporations or the rich,they decided to pass on the burden to the poor,to the working and even middle classes. This in turn meant libraries closing, cuts in health care,wage freezes,huge fucking huge cuts in the police force and military,in roads that never got fixed,in the deprivation of the disabled and the unemployed....the list goes on. Yet the banks got off scot free and the biggest propaganda machine ever mounted in (at least British) history began to blame the unemployed,the elderly,the disabled,those at the bottom.
It forgot (this propoganda machine),who caused the austerity.
Eventually the anger rose from the people,so the propoganda machine changed tact,it changed aim....to refugees,to illegal refugees and at this time millions were coming into Europe after we had spent 15 years bombing them and their neighbours and left no viable governments in place,only chaos,violence and hunger.
The irony is, is that we stopped those same refugees arriving,they were absorbed by our European neighbours....who hadn't bombed them for 15 years.
So the Propoganda machine shifted again,to the EU. When people are pissed off,hungry,no library to go to,no decent roads and you are told that the blame lies in basically anywhere then you will believe it
We are in an unprecedented age of propoganda, in what we now call 'fake news',
Statistics and absolute facts are dismissed....history is dismissed,and of course the banks and markets roll on unaffected.
The banks are to blame,but education is also to blame,and so is reality TV,soaps and the dumbing down of culture,and much more. In 300 years time this decade may become more infamous than the decades of the last century,this decade may well become as famous as The Fall of Rome and the step back into The Dark Ages. Let's hope not.

Lest we forget

Yes, Society today seem immune to suffering,be it the homeless, racist attacks, toddlers locked in cages,dead babies on beaches...the list goes on. People seem to think it is ok to say "Nothing to do with us" "They shouldn't have left their country" "Charity begins at home". This is not the world I grew up in,these are not my morals. 

If we lay down and allow these ideas,then we become complicit,complicit in the same way as many were forced into compliance in the last century,there is no difference. As developed countries,we are supposed to lead the way,to show humanity that violence,racism,fascism and corruption are not the way forward,that there is an alternative,we are failing,we are falling back to believing we are somehow superior,that our lives are worth more than the lives of those less fortunate.
The Geneva Convention in the World Wars was only applied to 'civilised'' countries, Britain wrote in a get out clause that said and this is almost verbatim "When fighting the 'uncivilised' there are no rules, the actions of the 'civilised' side will be according to necessity"
That feeling of superiority,in the first instance of your town,your football team,your county,your country,your race, persists today,in almost every country in the world but now again in Europe and the U.S.A. I see it in developing countries,it continues to devastate large swathes of the planet tribally.
In 1899 the European powers had a Peace conference where it was decided that the peace conference itself was useless as Europe was now too powerful and civilised to ever again embark on war,with the advancement of technology they believed that they were too intelligent for war.  Until 1914 the major powers of the world had enjoyed a long period of peace,and any significant war seemed beyond anyone's belief. 9 million soldiers(This war was still largely fought on the battlefield,so they were  soldiers) died in the 4 years that followed.
A mere 21 years later at least 50 million people died,soldiers and civilians.
We ignore the past at our peril,we ignore the past then we repeat it.

 The photos below are of my Great Great Uncle who gave his life 100 years ago this month to defend his country. My children's Great Great Great Uncle. Generally those that died were 'uncles' (They weren't at the time) as they never had children,they didn't get the chance,they gave their lives so your Grandaddy's granddad could have kids. 

The superiority of the English(?)

The superiority of the English.

Football is a good place to start. We haven't won a major trophy for over 50 years,but we feel we are entitled to one,that it is our right. Spain,Germany,Italy and France have all won recently,Greece at The Euros..

Business, Germany has consistently out performed us forever.

When we travel throughout Europe we realise their streets are not violent and they can walk freely in the centre of their towns at night. We see the family unit together there,we see their trains working,their education working,buses are cheap,people are nice. Except Paris.

Now we have seen Russia is also a lot nicer than we thought. We don't have the worst weather,Ireland has that, we certainly don't have the best, Greece has that. 

Our people have a sense of entitlement,they believe was earnt 70 years ago in wars where every other country also suffered,the common man doesn't start wars, governments do.

We are not entitled to win The Eurovision song contest because we had The Beatles and The Rolling Stones,we are not entitled to win the World Cup because we invented football.

Europe and the world are looking at England( that's where the leave vote came from,Wales can fuck off) as a sibling looks at a petulant,sulking brother or sister. 

I hope we win the world cup this month,but we must understand that in Europe's eyes and the world's we are in no way superior. A world cup and 2 world wars does not a great country make.

There is no Commonwealth.

The British Prime Minister asked her department whilst in the Home Office to toughen the immigration process policy, to create fear, and she ordered the billboards and vans with the 'go home' messages. Then they began deporting people who had come here legally from Commonwealth countries just as they were due to collect their pensions from the 40 or 50 years they had worked and paid into the system. She oversaw the denial of NHS treatments for the same people including chemotherapy and other life saving treatments. All instigated by her. Her minnows denied in front of parliament that deportation quotas did not exist, those same minnows have now stated that they LIED to parliament. Instead of targeting illegal immigrants this government chose to focus on legal immigrants who were invited into Britain and worked and raised families and paid their taxes for half a century. I spit on Theresa May and those that support her,even I have to say that there are Tories that that are as outraged as the rest of us. She has shamed our country and tarred our country with a disgusting shade of shit. Racism, governmental racism. If you are not ashamed of our government then you are part of the problem. How can we get our country back? How can we make our country great again? Stand against this crap, together,Tory,Labour,Liberal, fight the fight against The Mail,The Sun and The Express. Keeping quiet has fed the right, who shout louder,keeping quiet has brought our country shame and reduced us to already becoming once again a laughing stock, 'the sick man of Europe'.
Say no to racism,say no to fascism,say no to this fucked up incompetent government.

If we don't face the past then we will never face the future.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/13/commonwealth-citizens-harassment-british-immigration-policy

I believe the BBC is right to air Enoch Powell's speech,to show how we are going backwards,to show how the very speech that was demonised for so many decades has now become the rhetoric of our newspapers and the right wing. How in the last few years we have become just like him, xenophobic and with delusions of grandeur. The speech repulsed so many back then that it became a model of how we should not be. He was proven wrong, and the UK would not have prospered without the influx of Commonwealth citizens who came and worked and helped to build modern Britain.
Play it again,let his words sink in, and then let's once again do the opposite.

Goodbye Professor

The world lost a great man today.

Immigration is good.

http://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/publications/press1.asp?index=5053

An exhaustive, comprehensive study was commissioned by the UK govt on the impact of immigration before and after Brexit. They appear to be reluctant to release the findings, here they are;

New analysis by the Centre for Economic Performance

A reduction in immigration from the European Union (EU) following a vote for Brexit would not lead to any improvement in living standards for those born in the UK. Cuts in EU immigration would not offset the big fall in UK living standards caused by the reduction in trade and investment that would result from Brexit. 

The researchers highlight the empirical evidence showing conclusively that EU immigration has not had significantly adverse effects on average employment, wages, inequality or public services at the local level for people born in the UK. Falls in average real wages of UK-born workers are more closely associated with the biggest economic crash for more than 80 years. 

Our new evidence shows that the areas of the UK with large increases in EU immigration did not suffer greater falls in the jobs and pay of UK-born workers. The big falls in wages after 2008 are due to the global financial crisis and a weak economic recovery, not to immigration. 

There is also little effect of EU immigration on inequality through reducing the pay and jobs of less skilled UK workers. Changes in wages and joblessness for less skilled UK-born workers show little correlation with changes in EU immigration. 

EU immigrants pay more in taxes than they use public services and therefore they help to reduce the budget deficit. Immigrants do not have a negative effect on local services such as education, health or social housing; nor do they have any effect on social instability as indicated by crime rates. 
https://www.google.com.hk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/brexit05.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiYjcrHtNnZAhVEspQKHSRQCVEQFjAAegQICRAB&usg=AOvVaw0pPRDFPW4FRB0Bdh4iJOje

For my sons

https://youtu.be/eM9b5C26hvs

End of Empire.

The British budget today is Nero  fiddling whilst Rome burns! The British Empire died 70 years ago, as it should have, as all empires hopefully have.We have taken years to deal with that, and as previous generations who fought in the world wars not for the empire but for peace and freedom have left us, the generations they left behind are intent on destroying our nation completely by insisting that we are still an empire, still Great. We are not Great, we are not special, there are many nations that have overtaken us, that have found their place in the modern world. Our chance at working together with our neighbours is slipping away, our chance to still hold our own in a a much bigger world. The idea that nations are lining up to make deals with us was always ridiculous, we are now a joke and the vultures are circling. This budget has laid clear how our obstinance and self importance will now run us into the ground, how Rule Brittania will make us a second rate and poor, pitiful nation. Those that pedalled the lies, those that promised what they knew to be untrue, those are the traitors, those should be tried for treason.
Those in great power must ensure that those below them remain in great unrest and upheaval and always believe that an 'enemy' has taken away an imaginary period of wealth and stability. Make the people believe that others are responsible , as long as those in great power continue to have great power.

Watch Nero fiddle, as you burn.

2017. The world we live in is a scary place, and if you believe that foreign powers have not embraced both technology, and social media to infiltrate the west then you are a fool,  just watch Trump and Farage and know that they succeeded, they have divided the US, they have divided the UK from Europe. They have in effect divided the Allies, NATO and the UN. When our children suffer through foreign aggression it will be our fault.

Are we oppressed?

When we look back at history, people have always been oppressed, it (is)was normal. Even today most nations continue to oppress their people, we choose to ignore it. The freedom we had in the west seems to have been a mirage, a blip in history. For those of us growing up in post war Britain, where conscription ended, and also  capital punishment, where workers' rights were fought for and won, where freedom of religion, sexuality and speech became human rights, where gender equality was strived for, and racism was apparently going to be a thing of the past. That 'window of time' when nationalism was a dirty word.

Was it all just a dream, were we lulled into a false sense of hope, of liberalism, of enlightenment? Is the reality, is the norm, oppression and a shift of power and money only to the rich?

At which point have all the cultures and societies before us realised they were oppressed? The ones who were violently and suddenly oppressed and enslaved are under no illusions, but almost every society in history was eventually oppressed if not enslaved.

My question is....At what point does a society realise it is oppressed?

My answer is..... Probably too late!

Face up to reality

Big Brother, The Only Way is Essex, Love Island, and all of the fucking 'reality' shows are slowly destroying our culture. The people in these things are not real, but they are held up to our youth as the way to success. Take the men, none of them have body hair, or spots, or moles, or bellies, and not a brain between them, just psychopaths, sociopaths and narcissists. The women are even worse. Go to any British pub or club and everyone has an alien orange glow, weird fucking hair, and the most awful fucking clothes, a country of plastic Barbies and Kens and that is the adults, what has this done to teenagers? Vajazzles, boob jobs, fake tan, and affected speech, and the belief that it's normal to be rude and stupid, and to insult and bully those that aren't. This disease has made it to the core of society, and that narcissism has led to a belief that British people are better than others and a dislike of anybody foreign or anybody normal. It is a disease that has affected the core of Britishness, of course not only Britain, but its effects have become mainstream in British culture. Is your child, grandchild being bullied in school because they don't conform to what the TV tells them to do? Do you and your kids spend every evening watching this shite, and EastEnders and Coronation Street? That is what Britain is teaching its youth, the future generations. I spit on your culture, it disgusts me, it shames me, it doesn't make me proud to be British. What happened to our moral compass, our politeness, our stiff upper lip, our pride? The answer is in the TV schedules.

Theresa May, you lost. Resign.

The bottom line; The British election system is a 'first past the post' system(We voted against proportional representation just a few years ago in 2011). A winning government must have 51% of the seats, the Tories don't. 58, yes 58% of voters voted against the Tories.
That is not a victory.
Resign and call a new election.
Do the right and decent thing. You have not won under the rules of our parliamentary system.
Resign resign resign.

The end of the monarchy

Let us hope that this will be the speech Prince Charles will make at his 'coronation';

Richard II; "Ay, no; no, ay; for I must nothing be;
Therefore no no, for I resign to thee.
Now mark me, how I will undo myself;
I give this heavy weight from off my head
And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand,
The pride of kingly sway from out my heart;
With mine own tears I wash away my balm,
With mine own hands I give away my crown,
With mine own tongue deny my sacred state,
With mine own breath release all duty's rites:
All pomp and majesty I do forswear;
My manors, rents, revenues I forego;
My acts, decrees, and statutes I deny:
God pardon all oaths that are broke to me!
God keep all vows unbroke that swear to thee!
Make me, that nothing have, with nothing grieved,
And thou with all pleased, that hast all achieved!
Long mayst thou live in Richard's seat to sit,
And soon lie Richard in an earthly pit! "

(Richard II, William Shakespeare)

The real meaning of patriotism.

Time for the fightback; What are British values? To care for those less able and less well off than you, to accept other peoples, to respect our neighbours at home and abroad and to offer assistance to those in need. To be honest and fair, not to lie or be boastful or nationalistic, to have a fair and open government that rules for the good of the people and with the tacit permission of the people. We don't hate, we are inherently a generous practical people who sometimes naively have shared our values and ideals with others in the hope that by example(and in the past through coercion, thankfully the past) others will follow. We have been free for a thousand years, we have not suffered slavery or oppression during that time, we have suffered but we were not owned and those inflicting great suffering did so in isolation and were soon stopped. We began the industrial Revolution, we began with labour laws that are today the norm. We have a proud history mostly but not completely guilt free. The time for hate has passed, the turmoil that is coming will teach us that hate only leads to sorrow, ask our neighbours, they have already been there.
After the dust has settled there is only one way forward and that is tolerance, respect, peace, love and cooperation with each other and the world regardless of colour or creed or anything else as long as we get the same respect back. The way to defeat hate is to lead by example, to shun those that espouse violence, hate and intolerance, not only from outside but also from within. Today, this year is not the end of the 'liberal' story, it is a lesson of what happens when you turn away from humanity and human values, there is only an empty shell remaining, an empty scary world for our children and grandchildren, but we are better than that, we are stronger than that. Forward we will march as a nation and as a planet. That is patriotism, the desire for a loving encompassing society and world.

Politically correct

Being 'politically correct' means not insulting women, people of a different colour, religion  or sexuality or physical or mental ability, or nationality.
Not being able to discuss differences in religion or gender sensibly without malice  is curbing free speech and understanding.
We don't need to discuss most of these differences, they are just differences. Those differences that we have a choice about, such as religion should be freely discussed...without hate or an intent to create hate.
There is no free speech when it comes to most of the 'politically correctness' and rightly so. For the same reason you can't call a woman the b word or the w word and you can't call a disabled person the s word or a gay person the q word we can't use the n word. It is not fucking rocket science!
In today's world we must stand taller against this shit, we are not cowed, we are not beaten, we will fight this shit forever.....you know why? Because we are right!