The craziest story of the last few months must be the shenanigans at Chinese-owned ‘British’ Steel. In order to reduce the company’s carbon emissions to save the planet from non-existent ‘global boiling’, our useless fake Conservative government is giving ‘British’ Steel’s Chinese owners around £500m of our money to close down its blast furnaces, replace them by supposedly ‘environmentally-friendly’ electric arc furnaces and, in the process, fire over 2,000 skilled British workers. A cynic might wonder how much effect the closure of these blast furnaces will actually have on the Earth’s climate.
When questioned about the ‘wisdom’ of this, the business and trade secretary, Kemi Badenoch (real name Olukemi Olufunto Badenoch), laughably claimed: “The UK government is backing our steel sector. This proposal will secure a sustainable future for Welsh steel and is expected to save thousands of jobs in the long term.”
The only possibly amusing part of this disaster is that the Labour-supporting unions are beginning to see the catastrophic real-life consequences of their party’s (Ed Miliband’s) Climate Change Act on what little is left of the British economy, “This deal will have devastating consequences for jobs and workers,” said Gary Smith, the general secretary of the GMB. “It will rip the heart out of the Port Talbot community.”
I’d like to write more about this, but the stupidity is so mindbogglingly obvious, there’s really not much more that can be said.
Australia to become renewable energy superpower
This leads on to a rather entertaining (for all of us who have given up any hope of having intelligent politicians) story from Down Under. Our UK politicians are forever telling us that by abandoning cheap, reliable coal and gas energy and replacing it with unreliable and expensive supposedly ‘clean renewables’ like wind and solar, Britain will somehow become a “clean energy superpower”.
Our Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, has said: “We need to move further and faster to transition to renewable energy, and I will ensure the UK is at the forefront of this global movement as a clean energy superpower“.
And here’s a quote from the Labour Party’s current 2024 promises to Britain: “Labour’s fourth mission in government will be to make Britain a clean energy superpower. We will make energy cheap and secure, so that the British public never again face spiralling bills; boost jobs and investment in every region and nation of the country; and grow our economy from the bottom up and the middle out.”
Of course, this is complete nonsense. As I have shown in previous blogs, the more renewable/clean energy a country relies on, the higher its energy costs and therefore the less competitive its industries are. You don’t need a PhD in economics to understand that. So the phrase ‘clean energy superpower’ is a brobdingnagian-sized oxymoron. If you have gloriously cheap, reliable fossil-fuel energy, you can become a superpower like China. If you are reliant on hideously expensive and unreliable supposedly ‘clean’ energy, you bankrupt your country.
Well, it appears that our friends from Down Under are making the same ludicrous promises to their long-suffering population as their few remaining industries are crushed by Australia’s ever-more-clean, ever-increasing energy costs.
As Australia’s Minister for Climate Change and Energy recently explained: ‘Our Government is laying out the roadmap for our nation to become a renewable energy superpower’. And the Australian Treasury proudly announced: ‘The Albanese Government’s second Budget will help to unlock Australia’s potential as a renewable energy superpower with significant investments in clean energy industries and jobs’.
Below is a link to a short (4 minutes) video. I quite like this guy’s commonsense take on the whole clean energy catastrophe.
Here are just four reasons why I believe Israel will lose the war against Iran-backed Hamas and Iran’s other chums in the Middle East:
Reason 1: An impossible task
Israel claims it wants to destroy Hamas. There are apparently about 30,000 to 40,000 Hamas fighters. How many can Israel actually kill? 1,000? 2,000? 5,000? More? But it would be impossible for Israel to kill 30,000 to 40,000. Moreover, for every Hamas member killed there will be 5 or 10 or even 20 new volunteers. As they say, you can kill people, but you cannot kill an idea. In this case the ‘idea’ ranges from establishing a Palestinian state to murdering all Jews as is dictated in the Religion of Wonderfulness’s holy book.
Reason 2: A diplomatic and public relations disaster
Israel sees itself as a tiny, vulnerable country of about 7 million Jews and a couple of million Arabs surrounded by a group of hostile Arab states with a population of over 465 million. So the Israelis see the current battle as a fight for survival and cannot understand why the rest of the world doesn’t see this. However, most of the world sees the battle as a heavily-armed Israeli military attacking an almost defenceless Palestinian population of about 2.3 million, around half of whom are under the age of eighteen. The daily picures of wrecked Gazan buildings and wounded and dead Palestinians are a diplomatic and public relations disaster for Israel and are making Israel into a pariah state
Reason 3: Asymetric warfare
It’s clear that militarily Israel is more powerful than Hamas. But Vietnam, Afghanistan and more recently Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has show us that military superiority doesn’t always equal battlefield victory. Israel has repeatedly shown it can defeat Arab armies in conventional warfare. What Hamas have done is effectively use asymetric warfare to negate Israel’s military advantage by drawing Israel into a modern-day Stalingrad of urban and tunnel warfare which may give Hamas the advantage. The Germans reduced Stalingrad to rubble but still couldn’t win. The world will not allow Israel to use the same tactics in the heavily populated Gaza Strip. Moreover, it took the Americans and Iraqi forces nine months to drive ISIS out of Mosul. Israel will only have a couple of weeks at most before it is forced by international pressure into some kind of ceasefire. Then the Israeli army will probably end up withdrawing from the Gaza Strip leaving most of Hamas’s infrastructure intact – ready for the next attack on Israel.
Reason 4: Israel has shown it is vulnerable
The 7th October Hamas attack and the current Gaza quagmire has shown Israel’s enemies that the country is no longer militarily invincible. This will invite ever more attacks which eventually will overwhelm Israel’s capacity to defend itself.
Can Israel ever be a viable state?
In its 75-year existence, Israel has achieved the impossible – turning a small piece of Middle-East scrubland into one of the world’s most fertile, technically-advanced and democratic countries. Ideally, the international community should come together to achieve a two-state solution. But Israel’s enemies’ implacable hatred of the Jews is such that I have my doubts whether the Arabs would ever stop their attacks on Israel whatever land or other concessions the Israelis make. I doubt Israel can survive to reach 100 years.
Israel is only around 290 miles long and 85 miles at the widest point. The only solution I can see is for an international agreement gradually handing over Israel’s land to the Palestinians over maybe a 10-year period and using money from the oil-rich Gulf states to pay for Israelis to move to any country of their choosing with the agreement they will be given citizenship of their country of choice. After all, in 2022, around 2.8 million migrants entered the USA, about one million came to Britain, probably over one million came to Europe. So there should be no problem for countries to absorb just over 7 million highly-educated, highly-productive Israelis over a period of say ten years.
Another advantage of this would be that Western countries could expel anyone claiming to be a Palestinian refugee as the Palestinians would now have their own glorious country. Though, as we all know, within just a few years of taking over Israeli land, the corrupt, incompetent, multi-multi-millionaire Palestinian leaders would have turned rich, fertile, technically-advanced Israel into poverty-stricken, backwards scrubland with a couple of mangy goats and a few half-hearted olive trees.
If this handing over of Israeli land was to happen – and I realise it won’t – the fun part would be to see the reactions of the Israeli Arabs. Now they jump around sceaming their mouth-frothing hatred of Israelis and the West while having all the advantages of living in a rich democratic country with abundant job opportunities. But I suspect that, when faced with the prospect of living in unemployed poverty whie being governed by incompetent, venal, primitive, kleptocrat Hamas or PLO butchers, most Israeli Arabs would much rather follow the Israeli Jews away from the Holy Land.
The bleeding-heart progressive liberals in the West no doubt believe that sacrificing Israel to our Religion of Wonderfulness friends will appease them. But in a sense, this proposal could be called ‘The Crocodile Strategy’ – by surrendering other people to the crocodile, you hope the crocodile will not eat you. If this were ever to happen, the pro-Palestinian mobs would soon find out that the crocodile is not so easily appeased and the end of Israel will only delay, not avoid, an eventual confrontation with those who hate us and want to dominate us:
I understand that Israel had to respond to the 7th October Hamas attacks. But by responding, Israel may be committing suicide. Here’s someone explaining Israel’s dilemma better than I can. He does say some things I disagree with such as the Gaza Strip being like an open-air prison. In fact the Gaza Strip is such an impoverished hell-hole because Hamas have stolen the many billions in foreign aid given to Gaza and used it to build their 300 miles of tunnels, buy weapons and make Hamas leaders richer than Croesus:
Here’s someone much wiser than I could ever be – and no, I don’t mean Piers Morgan
In my previous blog, I tried to show how the Russia/Ukraine war was largely the result of catastrophic misjudgement by and the over-inflated egos of our rulers.
I haven’t watched the video below to the end. But what I found interesting in Jordan Peterson’s explanation was how, once again, catastrophic misjudgements and over-inflated egos have led to the current Middle East disaster. Peterson focuses on the Abraham Accords pushed by the Trump administration and points out:
why these were reviled by the Establishment purely because they were a success for the hated ‘populist’ Trump
why Trump didn’t get the Nobel Peace prize
why Biden was so small-minded that he didn’t continue with these as he didn’t want to accord any credit to Trump
how Iran and its proxies have succeeded in sabotaging the Abraham Accords thus setting back any chance of a Middle East peace perhaps forever
But then I suppose you can look back at any historical disaster, for example WWI and its continuation WWII, and see these were caused by the egos, incompetence and stupidity of our rulers. However, when history is written by the victors, their catastrophic stupidity is inevitably and conveniently erased and they portray themselves as political and military geniuses. As for those forced into war and whose friends and family are mutilated or killed, they’re told they’re actually heroes and the whole episode is turned into a supposed national triumph.
So our useless, incompetent, self-serving rulers avoid all blame for anything. Such has it always been and such will it always be:
Rumours that the West wanted to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian
Ever since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there have been rumours that the West pressured Zelensky to ditch peace talks with Russia as the West hoped that a prolongued war between Ukraine and Russia would weaken Russia making the country less of a threat to the West:
In which the writer suggested: “Russian and Ukrainian negotiators appeared to have tentatively agreed on the outlines of a negotiated interim settlement. Russia would withdraw to its position on February 23, when it controlled part of the Donbas region and all of Crimea, and in exchange, Ukraine would promise not to seek NATO membership and instead receive security guarantees from a number of countries.”
And, more recently, the brilliant The Daily Sceptic reported: “In a recent interview with Berliner Zeitung, Gerhard Schröder claims that in March of 2022, “the Ukrainians did not agree to peace because they were not allowed to”. According to the former German Chancellor, “they first had to ask the Americans about everything they discussed” and “nothing could happen because everything else was decided in Washington”. Though given that he was previously a highly-paid board member of the Russian energy giant Gazprom, we should perhaps take anything Mr Schröder says with a pinch of salt.
However, Schröder is now the fifth person to state that the West opposed a peace deal in March/April of 2022. In April of 2022, the Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told the broadcaster CNN Türk: “Following the NATO foreign ministers’ meeting, it was the impression that … there are those within the NATO member states that want the war to continue, let the war continue and Russia gets weaker. They don’t care much about the situation in Ukraine”.
An erily accurate prediction?
In his 1997 book The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives Zbigniew Brzezinski warned:
“The most dangerous scenario [for America] would be a grand coalition of China, Russia, and perhaps Iran, an ‘antihegemonic’ coalition united not by ideology but by complimentary grievances.”
Brzezinski graduated with a PhD from Harvard University in 1953 and became Professor of American Foreign Policy at Johns Hopkins University. He was later the United States National Security Advisor from 1977 to 1981, under the administration of President Jimmy Carter.
As Putin meets with his friends from China, Iran and Hamas, the only thing Brzezinski seems to have got wrong is that he didn’t include North Korea in the “coalition united not by ideology but by complimentary grievances”.
A cornered rat will always attack
One of the stories Putin has told about his childhood was an incident when he was attacked by a cornered rat:
I wrote a blog in 2022, shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine titled “Putin warned us – “not an inch eastwards”. NATO spat in his face. That was stupid!” In the blog I featured two short videos in which Putin warned the West that he would not tolerate any further eastwards expansion by NATO.
I wrote:
“For years, Putin has repeated his warnings that he would not allow Ukraine and Georgia, which both have long borders with Russia, to join NATO. In December 2021, Putin yet again warned the West that allowing Ukraine and Georgia to join NATO would be unacceptable – the first minute of this 3-minute video. In this video Putin (sensibly in my opinion) asks whether the US would allow Russian troops and missiles to be positioned along its borders with Canada or Mexico and reiterates his “not an inch eastwards” threat”.
Yet in January 2022, the US presented its written response to Russian demands on Ukraine not joining NATO and on NATO troops being withdrawn from Romania and Bulgaria, but made clear that it did not change Washington’s support for Ukraine’s right to pursue NATO membership, the most contentious issue in relations with Moscow.
The reply, which was delivered to the Russian Foreign Ministry by the US ambassador in Moscow, John Sullivan, repeated the US offer to negotiate with Russia over some aspects of European security, but the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, said the issue of eventual Ukrainian membership of the alliance was one of principle.
Blinken was speaking hours after his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, threatened “retaliatory measures” if the US response did not satisfy the Kremlin.
“Without going to the specifics of the document, I can tell you that it reiterates what we said publicly for many weeks, and in a sense for many, many years. That we will uphold the principle of NATO’s open door,” Blinken said, adding: “There is no change. There will be no change.”
The West thought Putin was bluffing. But Putin wasn’t bluffing. Putin doesn’t do bluffing. After all, he has had three successful mini-wars in the last few years – the 2008 Russian invasion of Georgia in which Russia routed the Georgian military; the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea without a shot being fired and the Russian invasion (sorry, I meant “peace-keeping force”) during the Armenia and Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
It would seem that Putin believed the Ukraine invasion would be just another of Russia’s quick mini-wars – charge into Ukraine with 169,000 troops, take the main cities, depose the West-friendly government and install a Russian glove-puppet regime. But Putin got that one horribly wrong and so now we have a real mess on our hands.
I guess all I’m trying to say is that NATO – due to its arrogance, short-sightedness and catastrophic misjudgement of Putin’s character – possibly bears just as much responsibility for the Ukraine mess as Putin’s nationalist aggression and misjudgement of Russia’s military power compared to Ukraine’s.
So now we have what Brzezinski predicted “a grand coalition of China, Russia, and perhaps Iran, an ‘antihegemonic’ coalition united not by ideology but by complimentary grievances.”
I have little understanding of and, luckily for the world, no influence on what happens in the Middle East. But looking at the situation, I wonder if any of our leaders have the slightest understanding of where things may be heading either.
Has Israel missed a trick?
Israel must feel it is damned if it invades Gaza and damned if it doesn’t. If it invades, daily news broadcasts of dead Palestinians will make Israel even more of a pariah state in the eyes of much of the world. If it doesn’t invade, it risks being shown as weak which will encourage more attacks.
Personally, I think Israel has missed a trick. It should have given the world an ultimatum. It should have demanded:
all Hamas operatives leave Gaza and are resettled in another Middle East country
the whole Hamas 300 miles of tunnels is destroyed under UN supervision
all hostages are released
Gaza becomes a UN protectorate
In return, Israel would stop attacking Gaza and agree to peace negotiations. This would have put Israel on the moral high ground and taken away much of the international pressure on the country. After all, Israel’s critics would then be forced to justify the murderous Hamas remaining in Gaza and the Arab countries would have to justify refusing to resettle Hamas terrorists.
I believe Israel should have done this as the world has changed in the last few years:
the USA is led by a weak, incompetent and increasingly senile puppet president
the West is destroying itself with post-colonial guilt, ludicrous culture wars and its economically-suicidal Net Zero
mass open-borders immigration into the West by Israel-hating hordes has irreversibly and negatively changed the West’s demographics
the West’s Gen-Z are superficial, virtue-signalling and ignorant, have no understanding of history and have the attention span of an amoeba so there is no longer any natural constituency supporting democratic Israel
meanwhile a new power grouping – Russia. China, Iran and North Korea – all of whom want Israel’s destruction and ultimately the West’s collapse – is becoming the dominant power in the world
What happens next?
I fear the following scenario is more than likely:
Step 1: Israel invades Gaza with massive loss of lives on both sides. There are massive anti-Israel demonstrations in all Western countries putting pressure on politicians to distance themselves from Israel
Step 2: Hezbollah attacks Israel from the north and various other Islamic groups attack from Syria forcing Israel to fight on three fronts
Step 3: The West continues (half-heartedly?) to support Israel, so Iran shuts the Straits of Hormuz cutting off 20% of the world’s oil supply and 25% of the world’s gas supply as we move into the European winter. This causes economic chaos in the West and even more destitution in Africa
Step 4: The USA attacks Iran in order to re-open the flow of oil and gas from the Middle East
Step 5: In retaliation, Iran attacks Israel with a massive onslaught of missiles against Israel’s main cities. Turkey and Egypt come under pressure from their populations to support their co-religionists in a war against Israel and the West
Step 6: Who knows what happens next? The Samson option – nuclear war? But I suspect that none of our useless rulers have even thought this far ahead.
Will Israel exist in 5 years’ time?
Israel’s situation is made even more perilous because its PM, Netanyahu, is largely responsible for the failure to prevent the Hamas attack because he was intent on reforming the country’s laws to emasculate the country’s supreme court and thus became distracted from his main task – defending Israel’s security. Therefore Netanyahu is probably more interested in saving his own lousy career and reputation than thinking logically about where he may be leading his country. Moreover, as I have tried to explain in previous blogs, Israel’s existence hangs by less than a thread. The population of Israel is just 9.4 million including 1.7 million Arabs. The Arab world population is over 456 million. There are 48 times as many Arabs as Israelis. And Israel is rather small compared to the land occupied by our Arabian friends. The surface area of Israel is a mere 22,145 km² compared to a massive 13,132,327 km² for the Arabian world:
Although I support Israel as a beacon of democracy, enlightenment and economic progress surrounded by a massive hell-hole of ignorance, backwardness and hatred, I struggle to find reasons why Israel can survive as a country.
Sadly, I think barbarity will have won against civilisation.
Journalist ‘risking her life’
And to cheer us all up a little, here’s a Romanian journalist ducking down in fear for her life while reporting on the deadly Israel-Hamas war while people merrily cycle past:
The UK’s debt is now £2,629,377,653,182. Though it will be a lot higher by the time I finish writing this blog as it’s increasing by over £2,000 every second:
Here’s the chart of our national debt as a percentage of GDP:
(left-click on chart, then left-click again to see in glorious widescreen)
Our national GDP is about £2,154,552,486,677. So our debt is more than 122% of GDP. And our interest payments are over £71 billion a year – £2,252 per second. Our debt is equivalent to over £80,000 for every person in employment. And our interest payments are costing every taxpayer over £2,000 a year. I’ll repeat that, each employed person is being forced to pay over £2,000 a year just in debt interest.
I’m no economist. But even I can see that this isn’t healthy.
Ludicrously, I heard some pig-ignorant Tory MP claiming in an interview that the useless, waste-of-skin fake Conservative government was going to reduce our national debt. Clearly this idiot didn’t even understand the difference between deficit and debt. As long as the Government has a deficit – taking in less in tax than it spends – its debt will increase. Duh!
Can Labour be any worse?
When Labour inevitably wins the next election, they will do everything in their power to bankrupt Britain:
massive increases in public spending especially on our ‘envy-of-the-world’ NHS
massive tax increases to pay for Labour’s public spending splurge
wrecking the tiny remnants of British manufacturing with the highest energy prices in the world due to eco-crazed Ed Miliband’s frantic attempts to destroy our country by replacing cheap reliable fossil-fuel electricity with expensive, unreliable supposed ‘renewables’
But the big question is – will the bond markets allow Labour free rein? Labour will need to borrow an awful lot of money to fund its planned public-spending blowout in spite of its inevitable, inexorable tax rises. If the bond markets refuse to lend Labour the money it will need or if the bond markets demand ever higher interest on the money they lend to Labour, then Labour will be stymied in their efforts to bankrupt Britain and we may even find Britain crawling to the IMF for a bailout.
We saw what happened to the brilliant Liz ‘trussed-turkey’ Truss and her even more brilliant chancellor Kwasi ‘Khazi’ Kwarteng when they tried to defy economic gravity. I suspect that Labour’s plans to destroy our country will also hit the brick wall of economic reality. So perhaps Labour will be no worse than the abominably incompetent, useless, lying, fake Tories?
I’ll only leave this up for one day as it’s not particularly insightful and nobody is interested in my boring little life.
Not having children and doing most of my administration on the Internet, thus avoiding bank branches and call centres, I don’t have much contact with the younger generation. But I found this trivial incident, when I did interact with Britain’s Generation Z, interesting. I thought it might be worth mentioning as maybe some of you have had similar experiences.
First, the boring background
Last Friday, I had a one-year fixed-interest bond with Nationwide Building Society mature. Using the Internet, I moved some of the money to my current account to cover living expenses for the next year. But when I tried five times to put the rest of the money in a new one-year fixed-interest bond, the Nationwide system crashed five times. So I had to go to the nearest branch.
At the branch I explained what I needed done – a simple matter of a few clicks on the Nationwide website taking no more than two minutes. I know this as I’ve done this before. However, I was told that this was so complex that none of the five staff in the branch was qualified to do this unbelievably simple task and so would have to wait half an hour for the only person there capable of this task to come back from her lunch break.
Incidentally, the Nationwide area manager responsible for six branches was there. But either he was incapable of doing this incredibly simple service or else he had much more important things to do than serving a worthless customer like myself (one of the people who pays his no doubt generous salary and pension).
Given that I had to wait 30 minutes to have this two-minute task done, I asked the girl (not?)serving me if I could make a complaint about the poor level of service at the branch. She started typing heaven knows what into her computer, so I asked for a copy of my complaint. She refused saying it was against Nationwide policy to let customers see the complaints they made. As the area manager was there, I asked him for a copy of what the girl was typing. He said that wasn’t possible and if I wanted to see it, I would have to make a ‘Subject Access Request’ to Nationwide head office. Anyone who has been following the saga of Nigel Farage’s debanking by Dame Alison Rose’s Coutts will know all about this.
Things went on in this vein for about twenty minutes and I felt that the staff there were trying to obstruct everything I asked for in order to wind me up in the hope that I would lose my temper which would give them an excuse to refuse to serve me.
“You’re making me feel uncomfortable”
There were several big signs on the wall about how Nationwide Building Society would not tolerate any abuse or violence or threats against their staff or something like that. So I asked the girl, supposedly taking down details of my complaint, if I was being abusive or threatening or whatever. She answered “no”.
We’ve all met many unhelpful, bloody-minded, useless bureaucrats in our lives. Usually their attitude is something like: ‘I am superior to you, I have power over you, I consider you to be a worthless piece of dirt, I can be as obstructive as I like and there’s absolutely nothing you can do about it. Ha-ha-ha-ha!’ Particular experts at this, I’ve found, are useless, arrogant, lazy BA check-in and cabin staff; underworked NHS nurses who feel their nursing degrees put them above menial tasks like looking after patients and anyone working employed in a phone company or Internet call centre
Like most of you, I’m used to such people and generally can handle their mulish incompetence and obstructiveness. But this girl really threw me by adding “you’re making me feel uncomfortable”. This was a brilliant move on her part. I was the customer wasting my time trying to get just the most basic customer service from an organisation which had quite a lot of my money, whose IT system was a pile of cr*p and whose branch staff were beyond incompetent. But by saying “you’re making me feel uncomfortable”, the girl immediately made herself into the victim and thus found an excellent excuse to refuse to serve me.
The limited insight I got from this was that for the snowflake, me-me-me, I-am-the-centre-of-the-world, social-media Generation Z playing the victim in any confrontational situation was a sure-fire way to win.
Next time I have to deal with some ludicrously-misnamed ‘customer service’ employee or call centre, I think I’ll try this tactic – make myself the victim by bleating about my hurty feelings and need for a ‘safe space’ rather than allowing myself to be pushed into the role of an increasingly frustrated customer trying to get the most basic level of customer service.
My complaint to the BBC
And while I’m on the subject of wasting time dealing with useless, self-serving bureaucracies, I’ve just done one of the most pointless acts of my life – I’ve made a complaint to the BBC.
Last Sunday, there was a BBC documentary on the housing crisis – how a shortage of new homes was driving up home prices making them unaffordable to anyone without a bank of mum and dad to call on. The BBC blamed governments for not building sufficient homes and evil, capitalist buy-to-letters for snapping up the homes that were on the market thus shutting out people looking to own their own homes. But no mention was made of immigration.
Here’s my complaint:
Why did the programme not mention immigration?
In a programme about the housing crisis (mainly in England) there was no mention of the effect of immigration on the availability and affordability of housing. Between 1997 and 2021, the population of England shot up from 48.7 million to 56.5 million – a rise of 325,000 a year mainly due to immigration – at a time when around 200,000 to 250,000 homes were being built a year. The fact that your programme-makers didn’t mention the effects of immigration suggests either that they are incredibly stupid (which I doubt) or that it was a deliberate result of political bias that the programme covered up the effects of immigration on housing availability and costs.
Please issue an apology and correction
I’m looking forward to being fobbed off by the usual overpaid, arrogant, waste-of-skin, wfh, Generation Z BBC tosser.
Of course we don’t know what’s going to happen in the Israel/Palestine/Hamas imbroglio. And many more much more intelligent people than myself will speak and write millions of words about the situation. But I have a worrying suspicion that Hamas has already won. Here’s why:
Whatever the Israelis do will be ‘wrong’
The Israelis are caught between a rock and a hard place. They can’t attack while supposed negotiations to free their citizens are supposedly ongoing. Yet the longer the Israelis delay, the more time Hamas have to prepare
Throughout the world, public sympathy is firmly with Hamas with many millions believing the Israelis deserved the October massacre of around 1,400 Israelis by Hamas subhumans
The Hamas attack has brought to the surface widespread anti-semitism where we have Australian mobs chanting “gas the Jews”, Stars of David being painted on Israeli homes and businesses in Germany and massive anti-Israel protests in many other countries
If the Israelis do attack Gaza, every time a Palestinian is hurt or killed, Israel will be accused of genocide and there will be massive pressure on Western leaders to distance themselves from Israel’s actions.
If Hezbollah, Jordan, Syria and even Iran decide to pitch in, hoping to finally kill all Israeli Jews ‘between the river and the sea’, it’s difficult to see how Israel can survive
The situation in the West
Demographics:
there are 3.9 million members of the Religion of Incredible Peacefulness (ROIP) in the UK, but only 0.3 million Jews
there are 5.7 million members of the ROIP in France, but only 0.4 million Jews
there are 5.6 million members of the ROIP in Germany, but only 0.2 million Jews
there are 0.8 million members of the ROIP in Australia, but only 0.1 million Jews
there are 3.5 million members of the ROIP in the USA, however there are 4 million of Jewish heritage
Moreover, while the ROIP populations of most countries are increasing rapidly due to higher birth rates and open-borders immigration from the wordls’ worst hell-holes, the populations of Jews are static or declining. Soon, the USA will be the only Western country where a political party can be elected while being supportive of Israel’s right to exist. That doesn’t bode terribly well for Israel’s future as Israel will become increasingly isolated.
Ignorance and stupidity:
It seems that the same mobs of narcissistic, virtue-signalling, West-hating, oikophobic fools who demonstrated with such passion for the utterly corrupt BLM and who bleat and moan about the supposed coming climate catastrophe are also turning out in their hordes to protest for a free Palestine. The most ludicrous of these useful idiots are the LGBTQ+++ supporters of Hamas:
They seem to be unaware of what happens to people like them under radical ROIP governments. I could post a few videos here of homosexual men joining the Fallujah Flying Club with lifelong membership. That lifelong membership being the last 4-5 seconds of their lives as they are thrown from tall buildings with their hands tied behind their back and then their bodies are stoned just to make sure they see the error of their ways. But I’ll spare you.
The West’s societal suicide
There used to be an acronym used by economists – the BRICS – referring to Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa which were regarded as the fastest-growing developing economies. Perhaps we need a new acronym – the CRINKS – China, Russia, Iran, North Korea and South Africa? Our enemies – China, Russia, Iran, North Korea and South Africa (the CRINKS) – are uniting against the West, increasing their militaries and getting stronger. Meanwhile the West is impoverishing itself with the ludicrous Net Zero stupidity and tearing itself apart with the even more stupid culture wars – women can have penises, all Whites are inherently racist, diversity is our strength, there should be no borders and so on.
Third-world countries are watching a rising, self-confident, corrupt, democracy-loathing CRINKS and a declining, self-destructing, self-hating West and deciding which side to join. Many corrupt, kleptocrat-ruled, resource-rich but economically basket-case African countries have already enthusiastically substituted hard-won independence for subjugation to Chinese Belt-and-Road economic colonialism. Others have seen coups supported by Russian Wagner mercenaries. Most Third-World countries will choose to pitch in with the winners in the competition for global power. They will join the CRINKS and not the West. This will further isolate Israel.
Survival against the odds?
Israel has survived over 75 years almost miraculously turning a tiny patch of Middle-East scrubland into one of the world’s most prosperous, democratic, scientifically-advanced and productive countries. But the population of Israel is just 9.4 million including 1.7 million Arabs. The Arab world population is over 456 million. There are 48 times as many Arabs as Israelis. And Israel is rather small compared to the land occupied by our Arabian friends. The surface area of Israel is a mere 22,145 km² compared to a massive 13,132,327 km² for the Arabian world:
I wonder how many of those protesting against the supposedly ‘evil’ Israel actually realise how small and vulnerable Israel is?
In view of all this and more, I have a horrible suspicion that Hamas have won and Israel will not survive to reach 100 years.
As for the libtard, historically-ignorant, self-admiring, anti-semitic fools screaming their mouth-frothing support for Hamas, be careful what you wish for. Once Hamas and Hezbollah and ISIS and their chums have finished with Israel, they’ll be coming for you:
The writer puts forward a similar position to the one Neil Oliver presents in his YouTube monologues.
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And to hopefully further prove the point that our government is our enemy, here’s Dr John Campbell presenting MP Andrew Bridgen’s speech to an almost empty House of Commons about excess deaths, some of which may be linked to the experimental mRNA supposed ‘vaccines’, and our government’s somewhat anaemic response to Bridgen’s speech:
I’ll just leave this up for one day as it’s not adding a great deal to the sum total of human knowledge.
I’ve just got back from a week on the Côte d’Azur. In the flat I was renting they had Netflix on the TV and my partner started watching a series called “Emily in Paris”.
Wikipedia explains “Emily in Paris follows Emily Cooper, an American from Chicago with a Master’s degree in communications, who moves to Paris for a new job opportunity. She is tasked with bringing an American point of view and social media presence to a venerable French marketing firm. Cultures clash as she adjusts to the challenges of life in Paris while juggling her career, new friendships, and active love life.”
I realise this is just a TV programme and not reality. But I watched a few episodes as I found the behaviour of the main characters interesting. They were all obsessed with posting stuff about their lives on social media and then checking their phones every few minuites to see how many ‘likes’ each post got. Most posts seemed to be of the main person with a group of friends having a wonderful time, grinning like maniacs while whooping/shrieking/screaming with delight about how fantastic and glamorous their clothes, their friends, the places they visit and their lives were.
For this generation social status doesn’t seem to come from educational attainment or professional achievement or profundity of thought or sporting success. Instead social status seems to be mainly based on the number of exciting posts one can make on social media and the number of ‘likes’ and ‘followers’ one can accumulate.
Searching on the Internet, I came across a serious medical study titled: ‘In Search of Likes: Longitudinal Associations Between Adolescents’ Digital Status Seeking and Health-Risk Behaviors’.
The abstract starts: This study introduces a new construct-digital status seeking-which reflects a set of behaviors made possible by the social media environment. Digital status seeking is defined as the investment of significant effort into the accumulation of online indicators of peer status and approval. The concurrent validity of this construct was examined, as well as the longitudinal implications of digital status-seeking for adolescents’ engagement in health-risk behaviors.
Research by one company into school-leavers’ most sought-after jobs suggested that becoming a social media influencer, an app developer or a video games developer are now the most popular dream jobs among school leavers.
There is no truth anymore. There is little search for knowledge and self-improvement. It’s only about me-me-me-me-me!
There seems to be a whole new world out there as the younger generation dedicates their lives to the pursuit of ‘likes’ in the Age of Inanity
David Craig, on November 7th, 2023
