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By  David Craig, on May 14th, 2025Wednesday blog In my Monday-Tuesday blog I showed how Chatgpt’s AI could produce satirical song lyrics in just a couple of seconds. Just as a fun experiment, on Monday afternoon, a few hours after Starmer’s immigration speech, I asked Chatgpt to write a 600 word blog criticising Keir Starmer’s latest speech on controlling immigration. I was amazed at the result. I had assumed that AI was just some kind of big computer system. But I’m now beginning to realise how powerful and revolutionary it can be. If a technical idiot like myself can produce satirical songs and blogs in just 2-3 seconds using AI, it’s hard to imagine what an intelligent person could achieve. About 3 seconds after I asked Chatgpt to write a blog for me, this is what ChatGPT came up with:In his latest speech on immigration, Prime Minister Keir Starmer unveiled a series of reforms aimed at reducing migration to the UK. While the intention to address public concerns is understandable, the proposed measures raise significant questions about their practicality, economic impact, and alignment with the UK’s values. Economic Implications One of the central components of Starmer’s plan is to extend the residency requirement for settlement from five to ten years, with reductions available through a contributions-based model favoring work in public services or skilled sectors like AI and engineering. Additionally, the government plans to restrict post-study visa durations and consider charging universities per foreign student. These measures could deter international students, who contribute significantly to the UK’s economy and cultural diversity. Universities may face financial challenges, and the broader economy could suffer from a reduced influx of skilled graduates. Impact on Healthcare and Social Care The proposed cap on care worker recruitment from overseas aims to push employers to hire from within the UK’s pool of economically inactive individuals. However, the care sector has long relied on migrant workers due to domestic shortages. Limiting this recruitment without a robust plan to attract and train local workers could exacerbate staffing crises in healthcare and social care, ultimately affecting the quality of services provided to the public. Integration and Language Requirements Elevating English language proficiency requirements for all migrants and their adult dependents is intended to enhance integration. While language skills are crucial for integration, the policy may disproportionately affect individuals from non-English-speaking backgrounds, potentially limiting the diversity and richness that migrants bring to UK society. Legal and Human Rights Concerns The government’s plan to limit judges’ use of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights to prevent deportations raises concerns about the UK’s commitment to human rights. Article 8 protects the right to private and family life, and restricting its application could lead to unjust deportations and family separations, undermining the UK’s reputation as a defender of human rights. Political Motivations Starmer’s rhetoric, including phrases like “failed experiment in open borders,” echoes sentiments often associated with right-wing politics. This shift appears to be a strategic move to counter the rising influence of the anti-immigrant Reform UK party and to regain support lost in recent local elections. However, adopting such rhetoric risks alienating progressive supporters and undermines Labour’s traditional stance on social justice and inclusivity. Conclusion While addressing immigration is a legitimate concern, the approach outlined in Starmer’s speech may lead to unintended economic and social consequences. Policies that potentially harm key sectors, compromise human rights, and shift political rhetoric towards the right warrant critical examination. A balanced and compassionate approach to immigration reform is essential to uphold the UK’s values and ensure the well-being of its diverse population. By David Craig, on May 8th, 2025Thursday-Friday blog There have been quite a lot of ads on daytime TV recently for UNICEF. These ads, of course, show all the wonderful charitable work UNICEF is doing in desperate countries around the world and ask us plebs to donate our already heavily-taxed money:  The UK branch of UNICEF rakes in just over £160m a year. Here are the salaries and benefits for some of the top UNICEF UK bosses:
You may think these are quite modest and deserved for an organisation which is raising and spending over £160m a year. But you also have to factor in that salaries, grants, and allowances paid by the United Nations to its staff, including UNICEF executives, are generally exempt from income tax. This is a standard practice for international organizations like the UN. I’ll leave it up to you to decide whether UNICEF deserves our money or whether it is being excessively charitable to its own tax-avoiding bosses with our already heavily-taxed money. By David Craig, on May 7th, 2025Wednesday blog I wanted to write about this. But congratulations to the Telegraph and Daily Mail and vloggers like The Blackbelt Barrister and Simon Webb for picking up on this story that our Government doesn’t seem keen to mention. As far as I’ve seen, the BBC hasn’t thought it worthwhile reporting on this story either. Here’s our Government’s unusually long press release about the supposedly ‘best deal India has ever agreed‘ new trade deal Britain has agreed with India: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-india-free-trade-deal-a-deal-for-growth Don’t bother reading it. The key point is that there’s one not insignificant issue the lengthy Government press release doesn’t mention at all – under the deal an apparently unlimited number of Indian workers will be able to come to work in the UK on 3-year visas and neither they nor their employers will have to pay National Insurance. This will immediately make them at least 20% cheaper to employ than equivalent British workers. This seems to be something Mr Starmer and Mr Reynolds and, of course, the BBC ‘forgot’ to mention when blethering on about ‘best deal India has ever agreed’ Although, at least it does seem to be ‘best deal India has ever agreed‘ – but for Indian, not for British workers. Moreover, as I guess many of these Indians will be married, will they be allowed to bring in their families? And would that include wife/husband, a pack of brats, the workers’ parents, maybe a few aunts and uncles and 15 to 20 cousins and their families? Probably they’ll bring in a few family members each so that will mean more school places will be needed, it will be harder for taxpaying Brits to get NHS treatment, the cost of housing rentals will increase due to higher demand and there will be further pressure on many other public services. And, of course, with the latest clashes between India and Pakistan, the new arrivals might decide to bring their decades-long rivalry and violence to our streets enriching us even further. Starmer repeatedly claims that “puting more money into workers’ pockets” is one of Labour’s main goals, Unfortunately, many or even most of those workers whose pockets will benefit will apparently be from India, not from the UK. Anyone still not believe in ‘The Great Replacement’? Here’s Simon Webb explaining this latest Starmer betrayal of Britain, a country Starmer seems to loathe: By David Craig, on May 5th, 2025Monday-Tuesday blog Could Ed Miliband have been the new Guy Fawkes? First I thought I’d bring you a little climate panic story which I don’t think the BBC’s climate Cassandra, Justin Rowlatt, will be mentioning. Why won’t he mention it? Well (IMHO), partly because this story takes place in Central London so it doesn’t allow Rowlatt and his camera crew and various other BBC hangers-on to fly somewhere exotic at our expense to tell us the Earth is doomed because we plebs travel too much. But this story won’t be mentioned by ‘our BBC’ mainly because this story rather undermines the whole ‘you all have to buy EVs to save the planet’ nonsense. It has been reported (not by the BBC, of course) that users of the parliamentary estate have been informed that they won’t be able to charge their electric vehicles in New Palace Yard’s underground car park. The charging points are due to be removed on health and safety grounds following a review by the Safety and Fire teams, and in consultation with the Chair of the Administration Committee. I guess that the Safety and Fire teams are worried that were a faulty EV lithium ion battery to spontaneously combust and, burning in a fire at around 2,000 degrees which would overwhelm any sprinkler system while spewing out toxic fumes, Ed ‘EV’ Miliband might achieve what Guy Fawkes failed to do.  I rather suspect that within the next few years, insurance companies will demand that all EV charging points in garages under offices, flats and other buildings are similarly removed as a condition in their insurance policies. We may even see EVs banned from underground parking garages altogether. The ghastly ‘genocide’ against Palestinians I don’t know if these idiots are still protesting about the supposed ‘genocide’ of Palestinians by Israel:  But, if the Israelis are really committing ‘genocide’, they’re not doing a very good job. This supposed ‘genocide’ against Palestinian Arabs has been going on for over 70 years:
If the ‘genocide’ doesn’t stop soon then these people will be wiped out completely. Not! Though there are plenty of genocides being conducted around the world. The most recent seems to be the slaughter of Alawites and Christians in Syria by groups of Jihadis:  The murderers seem to have been eagerly supported by members of the new ‘moderate’ government’s security forces. But nobody protests against this as the murderers are from our favourite religion. Oh, and in case you didn’t know, the UK government is giving around £160 million of our money to the new ‘moderate’ government in Syria. I wonder if some of our money will go to help fund the slaughter of more Alawites and Christians? By David Craig, on April 30th, 2025Wednesday-Thursday blog Let us all join together to congratulate our Iberian Peninsula friends. They seem to be leaping ahead of Starmer’s amd Miliband’s wonderful ambition to lead the world in becoming ‘clean energy superpowers’. In achieving this, they have showed us all what Mad Red Ed Miliband’s economically-suicidal plans will do for us:  Of course, those in power will give us all kinds of sophisticated explanations why there were massive power failures in Spain and Portugal – complex planetary movements, Venus going up Uranus, solar phenomena not seen for 100 years and of course, ‘climate change’. I’m no ‘scientist’ dependent on government grants for my luxury, globe-trotting, climate-conference-attending lifestyle. But there does seem to be an embarrassing (for our rulers) connection between the power failure and excessive use of useless, so-called ‘renewables’. I look forward to hearing the BBC’s Justin Rowlatt and the Guardian’s George Monbiot trying to explain away this latest catastrophic failure of their much-loved ludicrous Net Zero policies.. By David Craig, on April 28th, 2025Monday-Tuesday blog On 24 and 25 April 2025, the IEA (International Energy Agency) and the UK government convened an international Summit on the Future of Energy Security in London. UK Prime Minister, Keir Starmer amd Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero Ed Miliband were among the keynote speakers. The IEA informed us that: ‘The Summit will examine the geopolitical, technological and economic factors affecting energy security at the national and international level. It will provide leaders and decision makers from around the world with an opportunity to review the trends shaping global energy security – and reflect on the tools needed to address traditional and emerging energy security risks.’ At this important conference, our leader, Sir Keir, spouted: “So our task is clear – To act – together… To seize the opportunity of the clean energy transition. Because homegrown clean energy is the only way. To take back control of our energy system. Deliver energy security. And bring down bills for the long term.“ “And I want to tell you we’re going all out –  through our Plan for Change to make Britain a clean energy superpower to secure home grown energy and set a path to achieving clean power by 2030.“ And the hero of this momentous gathering of many of the world’s greatest jet-setting hypocrites, Lord Edward Miliband blethered: “Abundant energy can raise living standards, economic growth and deliver for today’s and future generations of citizens. For the UK, just to talk about us for a moment, there is an exciting vision of energy security and abundance from cheap, homegrown, low carbon power. So our vision of low carbon power goes well beyond the climate imperative — important as that is. Homegrown low carbon power is our nationally chosen route to energy security.” Firstly, I hope you’ve noticed how our rulers have changed the narrative. Originally, they kept telling us that we needed Net Zero to save the planet from global boiling:  But now they hardly mention supposed climate change and instead claim they’re acting to provide energy security. Let’s look at how Red Ed Miliband is giving us “energy security”:
At the same time they are:
 Starmer and Miliband must realise they are lying when they claim they are giving us “energy security” when they’re actually actively destroying our energy system. I know we all lie:  What astonishes me is that these two (IMHO) Davos-adoring, UK-hating scumbags can lie so brazenly. By David Craig, on April 26th, 2025weekend blog There are some quite interesting (I think) things happening in China which don’t seem to get much mainstream media attention. Last year, Evergrande, once a giant in China’s property market, collapsed due to mounting debt triggering a wider crisis in the Chinese real estate sector. A Hong Kong court ordered the company’s liquidation in January 2024. Evergrande’s debt surpassed an astonishing $300 billion. Moreover, there are many other Chinese property companies which are also over-indebted and on the brink of collapse. And several new Chinese cities which are just ghost cities:  There are an estimated 65 million Chinese homes which are unoccupied. Many Chinese families have invested in property expecting a continual rise in property prices. But when a country with a falling population keeps building ever more properties, economic gravity will eventually win over uncontrolled speculation. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will inevitably claim that China’s economy grew by the planned 5% this year. But the truth is that in many cities, Chinese property prices have fallen by up to 50% and this is having a negative knock-on effect on consumer confidence, consumer spending and the Chinese economy. And now that Trump has imposed massive tariffs on Chinese exports to America, many Chinese factories are closing as they can’t sell their now unwanted production in the Chinese home market and up to 20 million Chinese workers may lose their jobs. Moreover, around 12 million students graduate from Chinese universities each year and unemployment for new graduates is at around 55%. Faced with this situation, after years of bullying its neighbours with its aggressive expansionist policies, Chinese mafia boss (sorry, I meant the head of the much-respected CCP) Xi PingPong has just been on a charm tour of South-East Asian countries to try to make friends and create a group of countries who will oppose the new US tariffs. Judging by the video linked below, Xi’s attempts to seduce China’s neighbours into an anti-US trading block are backfiring as most countries seem to prefer getting into bed with the US rather than China. South Korea has already finalised a new trade deal with the US and many other countries are expected to follow. Much of this is explained in the video below. It’s rather long and the presenter is not (IMHO) the most stimulating speaker. But you only need to watch a few minutes to get the picture. Why this situation might be important to us is the issue of how Chairman Xi will react if China goes into a serious recession and he feels his position is under threat. In such a situation, totalitarian leaders usually try to find a foreign enemy so they can use the cover of patriotism to rally their disaffected people. If Xi goes that route, an invasion of Taiwan might look extraordinarily convenient for Chairman Xi. Anyway, here’s the video explaining why Xi might be becoming a ‘Norman No Friends’: By David Craig, on April 23rd, 2025Wednesday-Thursday blog When historians look back at the first quarter of the 21st Century, what will be the over-riding theme of their conclusions? The first half of the 20th Century could be seen as The Age of Slaughter with several hundred million killed in wars, man-made famines and Communist terror campaigns. The second half of the 20th Century was The Age of Globalisation. But what about our times? I humbly suggest that we are living in what could be called “The Age of Insanity”. Here are just a few pieces of evidence of “The Age of Insanity”: The belief that men and women can change sex/gender: It took years of campaigning and no doubt millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money for the greatest legal minds in our country to produce 88 pages of legalise lawyer-speak to conclude that peope are born as either male and female and no amount of dressing up in the opposite sex’s clothing and no amount of cutting bits off or adding bits on to people’s bodies can change their sex: But even though our most brilliant legal brains have managed to discover the bleeding obvious, thousands of enraged lunatics are still protesting and claiming that a man can become a woman and vice versa:  This whole issue is madness, insanity. The great scamdemic: We now know what most of us suspected all along:
But in spite of the virus being relatively harmless to most of the population, our economies were closed down, we allowed ourselves to be imprisoned in our homes, the Big Pharma companies pressed governments to ban Ivermectin for treating Covid-19 and instead pushed politicians into coercing us all to be repeatedly injected with a new, hastily-developed, hugely profitable, untested and often dangerous new medical product This whole issue was madness, insanity. The Great Replacement: For some reason, which a minuscule brain like mine fails to understand, our rulers are intent on destroying our societies and economies through mass, open-borders, Third-World immigration. According to the Irish Government’s “Project Ireland 2040” plan, around one million migrants from Africa and Asia will be brought into the country with the result that a third of the Irish population will be foreign-born:  By 2060 or 2070, Irish will be a minority in their own country. Similarly in Britain, we have over one million mostly uneducated, mostly unemployable and many criminal Third-Worlders flooding into our country each year. White British are already a minority in about 10 of England’s 55 cities. By 2050, White British will be a minority in most cities, By 2080, White British will be a minority in their own country. The only possible result of this invasion will be civil war as predicted in Christopher Priest’s 1972 dystopian novel – Fugue for a Darkening Island:  The whole issue is madness, insanity. The climate catastrophist doom cult: We’ve now had about 40 years of apocalyptic, end-of-the-world prophecies of imminent extinction of humans due to supposed anthropogenic climate change. This end-of-times cult even has its own Saint Joan of Arc in the form of the (IMHO) ghastly Swedish school-skiving Swedish doom goblin:  Not a single one of the climate catastrophists’ predictions have actually happened: sea levels aren’t rising, polar bears are thriving, the Great Barrier Reef has never been so healthy, the Antarctic ice sheet is growing, the Arctic sea ice hasn’t melted yet, crop production is at an historic high, the Earth is greening due to increased atmospheric CO2, the number of deaths due to weather events has fallen by over 90% in the last hundred years in spite of a tripling of the human population and human life expectancy is at a record high. In fact, we’ve never had it so good:  Yet, in spite of all the evidence that there is no sign of man-made climate changse doing us any harm, many Western countries have decided to impoverish their citizens by committing economic and societal suicide by reducing the use of cheap, reliable fossil fuels and by replacing them with expensive, intermittent and unreliable supposed ‘renewables’. This whole issue is madness, insanity. I’m sure readers can think of many more examples that we are living in “The Age of Insanity”. Just click on the title of today’s blog if you wish to add your no doubt extensive wit and wisdom to my modest efforts. Welcome to Pathocracy There are lots of ‘ocracies’ – democracy, autocracy, bureaucracy, kleptocracy, theocracy, aristocracy etc etc. But there’s one you may not be familiar with – pathocracy. Pathocracy is a concept developed by Polish psychologist Andrzej Åobaczewski, referring to a system of government where individuals with personality disorders, particularly psychopathy, gain power and influence, potentially harming society. Is ‘The Age of Insanity’ a form of pathocracy? By David Craig, on April 21st, 2025Monday-Tuesday blog Britain’s greatest intellect and towering colossus of international diplomacy, David ‘Lamebrain’ Lammy, is just one of many (IMHO) UK-hating idiots demanding reparations for Britain’s past involvement in slavery. He, of course, ignores the fact that many British sailors and soldiers lost their lives in abolishing slavery. But I agree with Lamebrain Lammy. I think reparations should be paid for our slave-owning past. The average GDP per capita in Sub-Saharan Africa, where many of the slaves came from, is approximately $1,581. Now if we look at the countries where the slaves were taken, we can seen that leaving Africa was absolutely the best thing which could have happened for their descendants. The average GDP per capita of African Americans is around $23,000. The average GDP per capita for the Caribbean countries is around $18,000. Moreover, the life expectancy in Sub-Saharan Africa is 62.6 years. For African Americans it is 77.4 years and for the Caribbean it is 73.7 years. Admittedly, being moved to America and the Caribbean to work as slaves probably wasn’t particularly pleasant for the Africans who were originally enslaved. I guess their GDP per capita was pretty much non-existent and their life expectancy wasn’t too great either. But getting out of the hopeless, rotten hell-hole that is Africa has been like winning the lottery for the living descendants of slaves both in terms of their incomes and life expectancy. So perhaps these descendants of slaves should be showing their gratitude by paying the descendants of slave-owners lots of money for giving them much improved life chances? How about that, Mr ‘Lamebrain’ Lammy? |
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