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Unexpected? Surprise? No! Totally predictable

By David Craig, on July 17th, 2025

Thursday-Friday blog

Here are a few recent headlines from the mainstream media about UK inflation:

  • BBC: “UK inflation unexpectedly jumps to 3.6%”
  • Financial Times: “UK inflation unexpectedly rises to 18-month high of 3.6%”
  • Guardian: “UK inflation unexpectedly rises to 3.6%”
  • Independent: “Inflation in surprise rise to 3.6%”
  • London Evening Standard: Inflation in surprise rise to 3.6%
  • MoneyWeek: “UK inflation unexpectedly jumps to 3.6% in June”
  • Bloomberg: “UK inflation unexpectedly rose to its highest level since January 2024 “

Here are a few headlines about the UK’s falling GDP:

  • BBC: “Reeves disappointed after economy unexpectedly shrinks”
  • Sky News: “The UK economy unexpectedly shrank in May“
  • Financial Times: “UK economy unexpectedly contracted 0.1% in May”
  • Scottish Financial News: “Surprise 0.1% fall in UK GDP”
  • Guardian: “May’s unexpected 0.1% decline in GDP will make depressing reading for Rachel Reeves”

Am I the only person who can see a pattern here? The pattern is, of course, the repeated use of the words “unexpected”, “unexpectedly” and “surprise“.

In her October 2024 budget from hell, our useless excuse for a Chancellor hit businesses with tens of billions in extra costs – increase in the minimum wage, increase in National Insurance contributions, increases in business rates. Moreover, new horrors are coming such as Red Angie Rayner’s disastrous “Employment Rights” legislation. Though probably this should be called “Unemployment Rights” legislation as it will lead to a massive increase in unemployment. Plus, of course, we have crazed Ed Miliband’s highest energy prices in the world.

Given this assault on Britain’s businesses in order to fund massive pay increases for our useless, do-nothing, skive-from-home, parasitic, worse-than-useless, incompetent, failing public sector, is it any wonder that GDP is falling, inflation rising and that we’re heading from recession?

So why are we repeatedly told that the rise in inflation and fall in GDP are “unexpected”? They’re not “unexpected”. They’re totally predictable. I believe that so many of the media using the words “unexpected” and “unexpectedly” and “surprise” is a form of brainwashing. A version of the “Nudge Effect”. Our mainstream media no longer report the news. Instead they have become propagandists for Labour and so they try to portray our rising inflation and falling GDP as something surprising, something which has nothing to do with Chancellor Reeves’s economically-illiterate, growth-crushing policies.

Our politicians are incompetents and liars. Our media are deliberate liars. Our public-sector bureaucrats are incompetents and liars. And it’s us who have to pay for all this incompetence, manipulation and lies.

Are you ready for ‘de-development’?

By David Craig, on July 16th, 2025

Wednesday-Thursday blog

I believe quite a few people don’t understand why our rulers are trying to wreck our economies and impoverish us all while, of course, ensuring they are protected from their own destructive policies.

I propose that part of the explanation may lie in the fact that they have a Malthusian view of the world. They believe that life is a ‘zero sum game’ – the more we in the West consume and the better our lives, then the poorer will be the lives of the majority of the human population who live in poverty or in conditions close to poverty.

When you have this mindset, the solution is obvious – reduce the standard of living in the wealthy developed world. The way to do this is through fear and control and the supposed ‘climate apocalypse” provides the perfect vehicle. Here are just a few quotes from the document I linked to in my previous blog:

Generate fear

Quote by Paul Watson, a founder of Greenpeace: “It doesn’t matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.”

Quote by Jim Sibbison, environmental journalist, former public relations official for the Environmental Protection Agency: “We routinely wrote scare stories…Our press reports were more or less true…We were out to whip the public into a frenzy about the environment.”

Quote by emeritus professor Daniel Botkin: “The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.

Quote by Al Gore, former U.S. vice president, and large CO2 producer: “I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.”

Quote by Stephen Schneider, Stanford Univ., environmentalist: “That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have.”

Quote by Sir John Houghton, lead editor of first three IPCC reports: “If we want a good environmental policy in the future we’ll have to have a disaster.

Create a sense of urgency

Quote by Steve Sawyer, identified as the “political director” of Greenpeace International: “Without urgent measures to rapidly reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, the possibility of limiting the temperature rise below a dangerous level will have disappeared within a decade.”

Quote by Al Gore, former U.S. vice president, and large CO2 producer: “We are running out of time, we must have a planetary solution to a planetary crisis.”

Quote by Jim Leape, the man in charge of the head office of the World Wildlife Fund: “We are running out of time. We know that if we continue to rely on fossil fuels we will face a future of worsening air pollution and an increasingly inhospitable climate.”

Quote by Greenpeace spokesperson: “we are simply running out of time.”

Quote from a Worldwatch Institute press release: “the world is running out of time to head off catastrophic climate change…now is the time to act.”

Quote from The Environmental Forum: “We are running out of time.”

Quote from Time magazine: “we are rapidly running out of time to cap carbon emissions.”

Quote by James Hansen, the famous climate scientist warned (in 2008 & 2013): “we’re running out of time.”

Quote by Stefan Rahmstorf, a climate scientist legend in his own mind: “we are now running out of time.”

Quote from alarmist, Australian professor Barry Brook: “This is especially true for climate change and environmental sustainability, where we are perilously close to running out of time.”

Quote by Secretary General of the United Nations tells business leaders at summit: “running out of time” to make climate change a strategic priority.

Quote by Ian Bruce, a climate change specialist for David Suzuki Foundation: “We’re running out of time and we need to change the mass way of thinking.”

Quote by a co-director of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition: “I know we’re running out of time.”

Quote by David Frame, climate modeler, Oxford University: “Rather than seeing models as describing literal truth, we ought to see them as convenient fictions which try to provide something useful.”

Quote by Richard Benedik, former U.S./UN bureaucrat: “A global climate treaty must be implemented even if there is no scientific evidence to back the greenhouse effect.”

Climate is the excuse – control is the goal

Quote by Christine Stewart, former Canadian Environment Minister: “No matter if the science is all phoney, there are collateral environmental benefits…. climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.”

Quote by Timothy Wirth, U.S./UN functionary, former elected Democrat Senator: “We’ve got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.”

Quote from the UN’s Own “Agenda 21”: “Effective execution of Agenda 21 will require a profound reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world has ever experienced a major shift in the priorities of both governments and individuals and an unprecedented redeployment of human and financial resources. This shift will demand that a concern for the environmental consequences of every human action be integrated into individual and collective decision-making at every level.”

Quote by Ottmar Edenhoffer, high level UN-IPCC official:  “We redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy…Basically it’s a big mistake to discuss climate policy separately from the major themes of globalization…One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore.”

Quote by Naomi Klein, anti-capitalism, pro-hysteria advocate of global warming: “So the need for another economic model is urgent, and if the climate justice movement can show that responding to climate change is the best chance for a more just economic system…”

Quote by Club of Rome: “In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill….All these dangers are caused by human intervention….and thus the “real enemy, then, is humanity itself….believe humanity requires a common motivation, namely a common adversary in order to realize world government. It does not matter if this common enemy is “a real one or….one invented for the purpose.”

Quote by Maurice Strong, a billionaire elitist, primary power behind UN throne, and large CO2 producer: “Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?” 

Quote by Gus Hall, former leader of the Communist Party USA: “Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible.”

Quote by Daphne Muller, green-progressive-liberal writer for Salon: “This moment requires we the people to rethink democracy as a global mechanism for enacting policy for and by the planet.”

Quote by Christiana Figueres, leader of the U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change: “This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.”

Do our rulers want to reduce the number of us ‘useless eaters’?

By David Craig, on July 14th, 2025

Monday blog

Here’s a very brief insight into how some of our political, academic and activist leaders view us.

(To be able to read the image, right-click on the image, left-click to choose ‘open image in a new tab’ and then left-click on that ‘new tab’. Then you can read the text clearly)

Or for something more easily legible, you could click on the link below:

https://www.c3headlines.com/global-warming-quotes-climate-change-quotes.html

More simple arithmetic for our useless, lying, UK-hating rulers

By David Craig, on July 11th, 2025

Friday blog

Yesterday in my blog, I did some fairly simple arithmetic. This showed that, were Britain to deindustrialise and completely bankrupt the country at the altar of Net Zero, this could possible reduce atmospheric CO2 levels by an ‘impressive’ 3.4 millionths of a percent. Of course, this 3.4 millionths of a percent reduction would be dependent on no other country increasing their CO2 emissions. But that doesn’t seem to be happening:

So, Britain is committing societal and economic suicide for absolutely no purpose at all.

Yesterday’s arithmetic was clearly too complex for our useless rulers. So, today I’ve got a much simpler arithmetic puzzle for the loathsome Starmer and his motley band of UK-hating, WEF-puppet nobodies

In/out, in/out shake it all about

Let’s imagine there’s an island called Britain. And let’s imagine this island is ruled by a UK-despising, Davos-adoring, spineless, liar and coward – Keir ‘not queer’ Starmer – who has never had anything to do with alleged Ukrainian alleged rent boys.

This piece of loathsome garbage, Starmer, does a deal with (capitulation to?) a granny-bothering, perfumed, pompous French popinjay called Mr Macron.

Let’s take a typical week where 1,000 mostly uneducated, mostly unemployable, mostly backward, mostly criminal, mostly sex-obsessed illegal migrants are helped on their way to Britain by the pompous French popinjay’s police and navy and then are ferried in luxury to Britain by spineless, treacherous Starmer’s pointless Border Farce:

But Mr Starmer has done a ‘ground-breaking’ deal with the French granny-botherer whereby Mr Starmer will send 50 Third-World illegals back to France and in return Mr Starmer will take another 50 Third-Worlders from France.

Now children, here’s the question: If this ‘ground-breaking deal’ happens, how many mostly uneducated, mostly unemployable, mostly backward, mostly criminal, mostly sex-obsessed illegal migrants will remain in Britain that week? Is it:

  • 1,050
  • 1,000
  • 950
  • zero because this ingenious plan has ‘broken the evil people-smugglers’ business model‘ and ‘stopped the boats’ as Mr Starmer promised us.

You can send your answers on a postcard of a Union Jack to Mr Starmer, c/o Larry the Cat, Downing Street, Londonistan because Starmer clearly doesn’t know the answer to this question.

What about the fat lady?

To cheer us all up, for something completely different here’s a gravitationally-challenged lady being helped onto a plane. There’s something about this very short video which seems to sum up much that is wrong with Western society:

https://kaotic.com/video/c8218355_20250707181120_t

I couldn’t have said it better

By David Craig, on July 8th, 2025

Tuesday blog

Just copy the link below:

https://x.com/wideawake_media/status/1941814648556187960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1941814648556187960%7Ctwgr%5E778429092d190637679b0ca959d3136e176dceca%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdailysceptic.org%2F2025%2F07%2F08%2Fnews-round-up-1577%2F

“Angie – A love song” by Keir and David

By David Craig, on July 4th, 2025

weekend blog

I attach below a link to my latest short political parody video.

If this brings even a faint smile to your face, then please help me by sending the link to everyone you know and to journalists (GB News and Talk TV, for example) and to any organisations (Reform UK, for example) who might also find this amusing.

It doesn’t cost you anything to encourage other people to watch this video and it’s a great help to me.

Disabled? Pull the other one

By David Craig, on July 2nd, 2025

Thursday-Friday blog

Here’s a comparison of disability rates and disability payments for ten European countries. The countries are ranked in order of the most generous to the least generous.

The most generous country in terms of how much disabled people can get paid appears to be Switzerland, though I’m not convinced by the figure – it looks rather too high to me. I have checked other sources and believe the actual figure for Switzerland is about £2,000 a month and NOT the £7,149 shown on the table above.

But the UK has the highest percentage (21.7%) of people with a disability in Europe and comes in 6th place on the leaderboard for the highest monthly disability allowance.

While every European nation offers some financial assistance, either in the form of a benefit, or pension scheme, the UK has some of the best additional benefits for disabled individuals. As the UK is also one of the only countries with a National Health Service, any treatment relating to disabilities is often free and ultimately far cheaper than the rest of Europe.

If you’re living in the UK and have a disability, you could be entitled to the following:

Disability Allowance

  • £679.90 per month on average

Home

  • Up to 100% council tax discount
  • Winter fuel payments up to £300
  • £140 warm home discount scheme – discount on gas or electricity bills
  • WaterSure scheme to cap your water bills
  • Disabled facilities grant to modify homes between £25,000 – £36,000

Travel

  • Free bus pass
  • Blue Badge scheme, allowing for free parking
  • Motability scheme, where you trade some or all of enhanced mobility component towards the cost of a vehicle
  • Up to a third off rail tickets with a disabled person’s railcard
  • Vehicle tax exemption

Of course, the difference in the percentage of people who are classed as disabled depends on how each country defines ‘disabled’. But it is ludicrous to suggest that all Britain’s 14.6 million (21.7% of the population) supposed ‘disabled’ really are disabled, when countries like Germany with a population of 83 million only has 7.9 million disabled, Italy with a population of 59 million has only 3.2 million disabled and Spain with a population 48 million has just 2.5 million disabled. Moreover in sick-note Britain, every single day 3,000 more people are being signed off work – up from 2,000 a day under the Tories. Maybe that’s why you can’t get to see a doctor – they’re all too busy helping skivers and parasites into a life of leisure at working people’s expense?

Looking at the chart, a cynic might even think that the more a country gives to its ‘disabled’ the more ‘disabled’ that country tends to have.

While the lefties bleat and moan about the cruel proposed benefits cuts to Britain’s supposed ‘disabled’, I get the feeling that at least 4 to 5 million of Britain’s 14.6 million ‘disabled’ are probably a lot more healthy than yours truly.

Chancellor Reeves not looking too chirpy

By David Craig, on July 2nd, 2025

Wednesday blog

It seems that our first female Chancellor, the (IMHO) blundering, incompetent, useless Rachel Reeves, looks rather sad (and about 100 years older than she actually is) as Keir ‘Liar, Liar, Liar’ Starmer fails to confirm that Reeves will still be Chancellor for the rest of this wretched parliament:

Heatwave? Or just different thermometers?

By David Craig, on June 28th, 2025

weekend blog

I guess you’ve all seen the mainstream media’s weather predictions for the next few days:

But I live in one of the warmer areas of the UK – the South Coast – and I just checked three different weather forecasts for Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. The highest forecast temperatures were 26 degrees on Monday and 27 degrees on Tuesday. After that the temperature was forecast to drop to around 21 to 22 degrees. Hardly a reason for panic and predictions of weather Armageddon. In fact, I think I’ll plan to enjoy some long walks along the beach admiring the unmodestly-displayed totty and I doubt I’ll die from heatstroke and/or dehydration despite the warnings from our superiors.

One reason our rulers claim temperatures are hitting new records may be that there has been a change in the type of thermometers used.

The excellent ‘not-a-lot-of-people-know-that’ website explains: Temperature recordings can move around from minute to minute; change, if it occurs, is generally around 0.1°C to 0.3°C. These changes do not affect old-style mercury thermometers but are picked up by the super-sensitive electronic devices used by the Met Office since the 1990s. It is for this reason that the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) recommends averaging readings over five minutes to standardise data and remove short-term ‘noise’.

On May 1st, the Met Office claimed a station at Kew Gardens recorded a temperature at 2.59pm of 29.3°C. Promoted by the BBC, this was said to be the highest temperature ever recorded on this day in the UK. But the temperature was a massive 2.6°C higher than that recorded at 2pm and no less than 0.76°C above the figure recorded a minute later on the hour. In fact the one minute plunge is similar to that found on July 19th 2022 when a national record of 40.3°C at RAF Coningsby was set at a time when three typhoon jets were landing. This was later claimed to be a “milestone in UK climate history” by the Met Office.

Moreover, during the warm spell a couple of weeks ago, the hottest temperature in Britain was recorded at guess where. Yup, RAF Coningsby, home to the RAF’s Typhoon jets. I remember this as the BBC ‘catastrophist’ reporter was filmed standing outside the security fence. Apparently pro-Plasticine terrorists are allowed on RAF bases, but BBC weather reporters are not.

A (12-minute) video is doing the rounds among those beastly climate sceptics and global warming deniers in which astrophysicist Dr. Willie Soon explains that it’s the sun, and not anthropogenic CO2 which regulates our climate. Who would have thought that?

China ‘Tofu construction’

By David Craig, on June 26th, 2025

Thursday-Friday blog

Here’s a short video from China. It might remind readers of a certain age of the final scene of the original version of the film “The Italian Job” starring Michael Caine: . 

But this happened in China just a couple of days ago. Apparently this was the third motorway bridge collapse in China in the last few months. Around 200 people have been killed in these three incidents.

There’s a phrase in China – “Tofu construction”. “Tofu-dreg project,” also known as “tofu construction,” is a term used to describe poorly constructed buildings or other projects, often associated with shoddy workmanship and substandard materials. The phrase originated in China, where it’s used to describe structures with significant flaws or a high risk of collapse. The term uses “tofu dregs” (okara), which are the leftover pieces after making tofu, as a metaphor for the poor quality of the work. 

The term gained prominence after being used by former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji to describe poorly built levees on the Yangtze River in 1998. It was widely used again following the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, where many buildings constructed with inferior materials and techniques collapsed. 

Here’s another short video. This time from Thailand. It shows the Bangkok Audit Office skyscraper collapse, which was attributed to aftershocks from the 2025 Myanmar earthquake. This was the only building in Thailand to collapse after the Myanmar earthquake.

This was being built by a Chinese company using below-specification steel for the load-bearing pillars from a Chinese owned steel manufacturer and seems to be yet another recent example where the term “tofu-dreg project” was used in reference to shoddy construction.

A few years ago I read a book titled “Badly Made in China”. The book focused on how (often corrupt) Chinese companies would agreed to provide buildings or products and then started cutting corners and using substandard materials in order to reduce costs and thus boost profits.

A flood of Chinese-made electric vehicles is heading for Europe and Britain, undercutting European-made models. Assuming these cars actually reach us and don’t catch fire on the way sinking the ships transporting them, I humbly suggest that prospective purchasers look at issues like the solidity of key structural parts, the quality of anti-rust coatings and the safety of Chinese-made batteries.

You have been warned.

 
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