LABOUR. There really is no other option.

This is definitely my last posting on here . I'm not going to get in to deep about this but I've made a decision. I'm like most people I hold conservative, liberal and left wing views on many aspects of society and the world. But sadly most of my life I have know nothing but thatcherism. Not only under the tories but also under new Labour. The result of this is things change very slowly and the rich get richer.

Corbyns Labour is different. I like the fact they have some radical ideas to change society. Christ we need to change.
Okay I don't agree on some things (and they have to expell the nuts) but the things I do agree on are important.
 We cant keep on going they way we are . The rich getting richer and greed being the biggest motivation for so many.

So heres hoping that labour gets in. We need to take the world back from greedy businessmen and make it fit for all people

Not everything is a lie

Why is it than when people see there's a problem with one thing then there must be a problem with everything. The far right and the far left are particularly open to this mindset. This mindset is also prevalent amongst many of the people who speak out against the lunatics on the left and right who are stifling debate. Many of these I strongly admire.

The conspiracy theories are many. Some are true. But once they find a whole in the fabric of reality many more wholes open up.
The government has lied to us about one thing. Therefore they must lie about everything!
They have totally messed up brexit therefore there must be a dark plot that we don't know about.
The trans movement is about trying to destroy the family.
Putin is not a bad guy. We're trying to frame him.
And the best one is climate change. Yes world governments and the rich elite are money worshipping pricks especially ours. But that doesn't mean that the thousands of scientists are lieing about climate change. Nutters like Jeremy Corbyns brother- Piers- to Nigel Farage.
And then there's others who I strongly admire like Candace Owens who fall into this mindset as well. The elite lie so everything they say is lies.
Myself I don't believe a thing politicians tell me but I tend to believe experts in a chosen field. If a credible intelligent expert tells me that brexit will be bad or that climate change will be terrible I'm not arrogant to think I know better than they do.

I can't remember where I read this and I may be paraphrasing here but here goes
" a conspiracy theory is a way for the unintelligent to sound intellectual,".

I tend to agree with John Cleese on what is wrong." The older I get the more I realise that no one in authority has a clue what they are doing".

The only thing I do know is this. There is no grand plan by some global elite. The rich are rich through greed and luck. The hear all and end all is money. It comes before everything , even our home. There is no George Soros like character manipulating the world to mould it to his desire.
Life is nothing more than a sequence of events. But sadly we allow the greedy and arrogant to dominate many of these events.

Stop falling for their distractions. There manufactured conspiracies. While we are all talking about the illuminati, brexit, hidden agendas, flat earth, fake moon landings, 911 etc. The rich and greedy are taking more and more of us . They aren't planning it that way -I honestly cant see them having the intelligence- They are just greedy opportunists

For the young

Anyone who has read this blog will know that  I'm no fan of many aspects of the modern way of thinking. There's far to much political correctness. There's far to many people deliberately looking to get offended. There's just so much judgement of others who think differently to yourself.

There is so much virtue signalling on social media, that's why I don't do social media at all. Its a shame because these platforms can be so good in changing the world. They can however be used far to often for building social bubbles for yourself and others who think just like you.

I could spend hours writing about all that's wrong with the world and especially this country. But what's the point . Open most media either digital or print and you can read all about it.

I'm an environmentalist. I'm a vegan - who often relapses back to vegetarian and I'm a minimalist. I'm also a 54 year old man who is disgusted by my generation and the selfishness that seems to define it. This country is now full of midlife crisis men and women who care very little about anything but themselves. Its all about the car; the house and all the other possessions that they think they need and screw the next generation.

I've been critical myself of many of the younger generation. I've said they need a reality check. That the world does not work like they want it to.

Well I was wrong. Who am I or anyone else to criticise them for not wanting to belong to the world that I know.

If they want to be woke.
If they want 73 genders.
If they take offence at things that my generation doesnt.
If they wish to live their lives in social media . That's up to them.

With all this also comes respect for each other. Respect for the planet. Respect for animals.
You don't have all the answers. Your young and idealistic.
BUT, your coming from a better starting place than my generation. You have a better grounding than my generation and my peers. Don't make our mistakes and try not to make new ones.

This is your world now. I think you may actually treat it better than we did.
Good luck.

State owned farmers

Agriculture.

...Or to call it by its proper title. The so called self employed business subsidised by the state for Tory voters and donors -depending on how many acres the farmer owns...

Now I have nothing against farmers. There's a saying up here 'you have to piss with the dick you have'. In other words if there's a system in place that encourages farmers to be dependent on state handouts you cant really blame them for taking advantage of that system.

How in a supposed modern country can we allow a system that pays millions to self employed business owners. Who must spend more time making sure the paperwork is done to get the government handout than they do running the business. 

They get paid to cut the hedges on the sides of the road -so as the birds have no where to nest or no berries for the winter. 

They get paid to cut the verges , usually just as the flowers have come through. 

The unnecessary work they carry out is staggering. How many of these jobs would they do if they weren't getting paid to do them.

Imagine a gas fitter or electrician having this kind of set

up. 

..'Yes Mr Smith. You just keep rewiring that same house..the state will pay you. 

Its ridiculous. 

They get paid to grow crops that get the most subsidies rather than what sells best. 

They get paid to destroy the land. If the land is not ready to farm they don't get the subsidy. So don't leave them trees or meadows. Where's the encouragement to be look after the environment. 

The roads are now full of oversized tractors [all paid for by the taxpayer], destroying the asphalt and tearing up the verges. 

The damage is now that bad on many country roads that you cant see where the road ends and the verge begins- well until you blow your tyre out in the potholes and ridges.

I know its not all plain sailing for farmers. The system is now stacked in favor of the big guys. The farmers who own huge swathes of land. As time has gone by the smallholding farmer has been bought up by the neighboring larger landholder. 

Years later then this larger landholder has no choice but to sell to the even bigger farmer...and so on and so on. 

The subsidy system is really biased towards these mono-crop producing landowners. But I find it hard to feel sorry for the little farmer who has lost out to the bigger farmer.

They should have realised that one day the greedy system that they exploited would devour them as well

Nationalise the necessities of society

We've all done it, Sat in the pub,face,works canteen and numerous other places, complaining and discussing the state of the country. 

How many times have you heard common sense coming out of the mouths of friends family and colleagues. 

How many times have you sat in company and just heard the words like 'Christ these idiots couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery'. 

How many times a day do you watch the news or read a newspaper and think with incredulity how inept and moronic our elected and un-elected leaders are. 

When I say elected I off course I mean the local cllrs right up to MPs. Un-elected are the army of civil servants . Many of whom have gotten there by nepotism or kissing the right arse.

Collectively the IQ is not as high as it should be. Okay I may be being unfair there to call them all thick. I bet there is some talent out there but it gets snuffed out by the mass incompetence of their peers.

Mad as a bucket of frogs comes to mind.

...If you have a bucket of frogs and one attempts to get out [or go its own way] the rest of the frogs reach up and drag it back down. The British political and social system in a nutshell...

Lets look at the big one. The one that we Brits are most obsessed with-the NHS.

To criticise the NHS in the 21^st century anything else but wonderful is akin to saying there is no god in the 15^th. Christ-sake do you get attacked for it. ..So here I go. Bring on the hate.

The NHS is not fit for purpose. We live in a country that allows, in fact encourages, its residents to drink too much eat to much-and the wrong stuff-and drive everywhere. We are a nation of fat unhealthy and lazy people. THEN,when the damage is done the NHS is expected to jump in and treat you. All paid by the next generation of tax payers. 

The poor sods who are desperately trying to find a job and buy a house, and also pay for the people who came before them and abused there bodies.

I bet that if we lived in a country that was full of self aware people who actually cared about what they are doing to there bodies we would need an NHS a fraction of the size. 

An NHS that could concentrate of people who need treatment because of accidents or conditions that are not of their own making.

Imagine all the kids who have not yet had a chance to screw their bodies up who are or may become seriously ill. The poor souls with hereditary diseases or genetic abnormalities. Imagine how much funding and help would be there to help them. But instead millions of fat lazy drunk people soak the NHS dry.

Then there's the NHS itself. The way its ran. Incompetence on a monumental scale. The waste must be incredible. But again why worry, the tax payer will pick up the bill!

Why do we waste so much money on people who genuinely don't want to help themselves.

The NHS isn't there to cure. Its there to prescribe drugs . Its there to allow business to become millionaires and millionaires to become billionaires.

A population with diabetes, taking statins and god knows what else is a nice little earner for the politicians friends.

I came to the conclusion a long time ago that our governments -labour,Tory,liberal -are not interested in saving our tax money. They are not interested in spending it wisely. They don't care that they have their hands in our pockets. 

We should live in a country that trusts our leaders. We should trust that they are fiscally responsible. We should know that every penny they take of us is being used to make our society better. But its not. They don't care about that. They just care about keeping the money going around. Our collective pockets are deep. Their greed is incalculable. Their dishonesty criminal.

Of course the NHS could be ran better. Privatisation isn't the answer though. Healthcare should not be for profit.

But we need it ran by people who are fiscally competent. People who do know how to run an organisation. And if they fail they get sacked. I mean sacked. Not sacked with a million pounds severance. Sacked,escorted to the door and slung out. It happens to the rest of us plebs so why should these people get away with it. The problem is we have people in charge who appear to answer to drug companies before the taxpayer.

I don't buy into this 'bring back the matrons ' BS. Matrons were good at caring for people. They shouldn't be running the business end.

And yes the NHS is a business. They buy drugs and equipment from the private sector. So it should be ran like a business. Not a private business but a state ran business. Nationalisation. Ah quick stone him. Infidel for even suggesting such a thing. But a nationalised industry is totally different to nationalism.

The NHS needs nationalised. I mean properly nationalised. Not like the old days of nationalization that did not work.

I've seen it first hand. I worked for British gas just as it was coming out of nationalisation. 

Christ it was bad...22 levels of management form the actual workers to the chairman And every level of management was top heavy with the most useless people I hAve ever come across. There was no accountability for cost. The taxpayers hole 'again' was deep. 

And the unions didn't help. They had so much power that even if any decent manager wanted to get rid of someone useless they couldn't. The unions were so strong.

I couldn't believe the waste and incompetence I seen there. I left school and worked on farms then building sites. I knew what work was. Then I joined British Gas.

Start work a 8 am-but actually leave the yard about 9. Them umpteen coffees wont drink themselves you know.

Travel to the job. That could be anything for a couple of miles to 20 or thirty. Another cuppa.

Dinner was 12 , so depending how far you were from the yard you would set of accordingly to get there for 12- oh and leave enough time to grab the chippy or pie shop. an hour for dinner would take you to 1 pm then travel back to the job. Finishing time would be 4.15 so again you had to leave the job with plenty of time to get back to the yard. 

...And we were the ones that worked!...

All the levels of management did somewhere in between sod all and fuck all... and their was hundreds of them.

But that doesn't mean nationalization doesn't work. The nationalization of the past didn't work.

And lets be honest very few things have actually been really privatised. They are all subsided to the hilt by tax payers cash. 

Wouldn't it be better to just take them back under government control.

The environmental movement needs to change

The environmental movement.

I'm an environmentalist. I love nature. It breaks my heart how we are destroying our plant mostly for profit.

So why aren't I marching and protesting ?

Because I genuinely believe that the environmental movement, to many times, is making things worse.

I come from a working class background. Council house and state schooling system. I don't class myself as working class, I don't class myself as anything really. I care deeply about the planet as I'm sure many others from my background does. So why don't I and these others not march and protest. Because we feel no connection with the school teachers, and social workers or the kids of school teachers and social workers who are. These people far to often come over as sanctimonious and condescending and it turns many of us away from them.

I can give an example; the green party.

A few years ago I joined the green party, and I went to a few meetings to get to know them.

Very nice people, lovely people indeed. But the kind of people I could socialise with , not really.

I knew of two events that I considered attending. The first was protest against a nuclear waste suppository in the area. I knew the greens had a information table up so I went to support them.

As I turned the corner into the square where they were I was met with -white boys in dreadlocks, playing the bongos and a pretentious hippy woman dancing in front of the table...I kept walking. No way was I embarrassing myself by standing with them.

The other time the local party had an information stall in town centre. Again I thought I would support them. 

Nope, I kept walking again. Just as their table came into view they had decided to have a -mass dying- to show people what was happening in Gaza. 

Again a good cause but , no way was I going to be associated with a load of social workers laying on the pavement with their arms and legs akimbo. Far to embarrassing.

As I have already stated I come from a working class background but I'm not working class.

No tattoos, hate football. Own my own home. I'm not patriotic; the only time I feel pride for my country is when it does something worth being proud of. I couldn't give a damn about what's gone before, its in the past, its history. Likewise neither do I feel shame for what has happened in the past; its history.

Too many times though these same protesters are the same ones who display white guilt or shame for Britain history. These are usually the same people who will defend peoples backwards cultural practices just because they aren't white British.

And these are too often the same people who tend to come from the regressive left.

Also far to many times they have the following kind of mentality to the answers to combat climate change.

If we all had an allotment the world would be fine.

If we all ate organic the world would be fine.

If we all burnt wood -because its carbon neutral- the world would be fine.

Well no we wouldn't. There are too many people on the planet. That's the big issue there that no one talks about. There are too many human beings.

European birth rates have plummeted. That's why we have had mass immigration. Our political leaders don't let people migrate here on humanitarian grounds. We need more consumers. Our capitalist societies need ever more consumers.

But 'as I say' the green movement tends to left leaning and will not wake up this very real fact, and until they do the world is fxxxxd

The Independent Group

So its happened. After months of 'will they wont they' seven MPs have left the labour party ; 8 now of writing this this morning.

Well I say the Labour party but in effect it has now become the Socialist Workers Party. A once proscribed organisation by new Labour.

I've met the SWP many times. Vile people who pretend they are warriors for social justice when in fact they are bitter and twisted inadequates who blame their every ill in their pathetic lives on the government, the rich...and the Jews. 
The likes of the BNP blame their pathetic lives on the government , the rich , the Jews ...and all immigrants. 
Basically the only difference between the SWP and the BNP is their views on immigrants.

But back to the small group of defectors. I hope this is genuine and will become a real collective of independents. I've written that the problem with politics is political parties.

All parties have some good and some bad ideas. Political parties tie you into their ideology and ensure that you put party before country. The only way to a real and fair democracy is individuals standing for parliament.

The Tories are biased towards their business donors. Labour is biased towards the unions.

Yes we need business but you don't donate to a political party for the good of the country.

You donate because it will benefit you!

The same goes for Labour. The unions should not be tied to a political party. Too many times all the unions crave is power and influence. They aren't in it for the British worker, just themselves. And like the Tories this external influence takes the party in a direction that doesn't benefit the people, just each other.

Politics, to be fair, should be publicly funded. Surely a room full of academics could come up with a fair system to put this into practice. This will never happen though. The only way it would be looked at is by the party that is in power. And as we all know promises go out the window as soon as the keys to number 10 are handed over.

So 'The Independent group'. Lets hope it is what it sounds like; independent. That it encourages people to stand as genuine independent MPs . Free from interference from a controlling body. Of course they should have a code of conduct . A guideline of basic principles.

Such as no platform of racism- genuine racism- not the accusation of racism just to stifle debate and shut down an opposing idea.

No platform for sexism-genuine sexism. Again not just the accusation to shut down debate and stifle debate.

This should be right across the board. No transphobia. Homophobia etc. But again with the caveat that genuine phobics are not allowed to stand and not just the accused to stifle debate and discussion.

The only difference between genuine independents should be policies. And not pseudo intellectual arguments about people,race,ethnicity,sex,gender etc...these principles should be left up to academics to discuss., not politicians.

Most politicians do not have the expertise to debate issues like this. In fact most politicians don't have the expertise to decide on many things. They should seek advice from experts and then when they have done this THEY SHOULD LISTEN.

The world is getting more dangerous politically. The masses are so disillusioned with the political class that nationalist parties are gaining more and more ground. The far right is on the march. From Brazil to Russia.

Christ sake we have a perma-tan buffoon sitting in the white house. He got there not because America has somehow gone more racist or small minded. No, he go there because the average American feels no connection to the political process. It happened here with brexit and its happening right across the world.

Imagine what a different world it would be if politicians didn't have this unshakable belief in their own worth and actually did what was best, not what they thought was best.

Brexit...pass me the whisky

I'm so sick and fed up with brexit. I voted to leave the EU in the hope it would fire a shot across their bows and they would get shaken and sort out the very real problems the institution has.
Sadly though it has not happened. it looks like we are in very reall danger of 'forever more' being governed by homegrown morons...labour, tory and liberal.

After seeing the absolute shit storm that has become brexit it cant be worse to remain members of the EU. Surely no one can run the UK worse than the UK government. The only thing all our three main parties are experts on is ...politics. Its like the worse episode of Game of thrones. Everyone fighting for power and money ,but unlike GOT, not getting anywhere. And their isn't even any dragons or nudity to keep us entertained.

Our whole political class has one thing on its mind- process protocol and agenda. They don't give a toss about the country. Party politics and self serving egos is the only common cause among them.

We do need a peoples vote. Yes I know we have had a referendum but I don't think we knew of the complexities of leaving. And that included you as well remainers.
You arrogantly accuse leavers of not knowing what they voted for. Neither did you.
We all voted on our preconceived world view. You knew buger all about the EU as well.

The future is indeed scary out of the EU. The thought of having a tory government without any real opposition is indeed terrifying.
Labour and liberal where the fuck are you.  Get of your sanctimonious high horses and start representing the people.

An open apology.

What a fool I was. I acted like an uneducated small minded moron.

I foolishly voted to leave the EU. The most important vote I will ever have -perhaps- in my lifetime and I blew it.

My whole life I can barely remember any good news regarding the European Union. So much of the British media only reports nothing but negative. This stuff soaks into your psyche and whether you want it to or not it does go towards forming your world view.

I'm an avid reader of books, but lets be honest I've never come across any on the EU and how it works. They will be out eventually but in the context of history.

So a lifetime of negativity about the EU and then posh boy Cameron -just to destroy the UKIP voter who would otherwise vote conservative- gives me a vote on staying or leaving the EU. Wise decision indeed!

I had very little information at hand about any good aspects of EU membership; and Christ I had loads of bad information on the evil that is the EU.

Yes of course I could have listened to the very wise people shouting at me and belittling me to vote remain. Eddie Izzard,Bob Geldoff,Gary Linekar and oh so many more. Why did I not listen to these 'highly educated and worldly wise celebrities'?

Of course they were backed up by other giants of society such as Cameron and Ozbourne. Inbred Etonians must know what they are talking about !

There really was a huge amount of brain power talking down to me and telling me I was a racist,xenophobic, nationalist and a little Englander,

Why did I not listen to my betters!

Looking back with hindsight the answer is pretty obvious now. After a lifetime of negativity of the EU and then getting told how to think by celebrities it is all so clear now. I know what I should have done...

All I had to do to get the facts about the EU was go to the airport and book a ticket to Brussels.

Then all I had to do was go the European parliament.

Then I just had to ask to see the accounts to see how much the UK gave them.

Then I just had to go and read every piece of legislation that they have ever produced to see if it was good or bad.

Then I could have spent a few days hanging around parliament and see exactly how it works.

Then I just had to wander myself in and have a meeting with the commissioners and see exactly what they did.

Then I could have had a working lunch with Schultz and his cronies and find out about what they did and how they get elected.

Then I just had to get on a few flights and go and visit all the other member states and have a word with their governments and see what their relationship with the EU was like and how much they paid in and got out.

I suppose then I could have popped over to Germany and asked Angela Merkel why she took it on herself and encouraged thousands of refugees to risk their lives heading through Europe to Germany. And the immense pressure it has put on the southern countries, not to mention the thousands of deaths of these desperate refugees caused by her holding out a virtue signalling prize of utopia. A cynical person could say- she only did it to show the world 'hey forget about that little moustachioed psycho who took Europe into war and killed millions of Jews . Us Germans [and especially me] are really really really nice now; trust us.

A cynical person could say that.

So' then after my little fact finding jaunt around Europe and getting the truth about the EU I could have come home and shared my new found knowledge with my circle of friends and family. There you go. job done . We're still members and everything is fine and dandy. No Brexit. No absolute shambles from May's government ;everything remains the same.