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