I’m increasingly coming to the view that we have been fortunate to have lived in a period which can only be described as a brief historical aberration. It’s an historical aberration because it has been a period during which the elites have partially reduced the amount of power and wealth they control.
Let me try to explain
If you Google ‘rule by the elites’, the first description which comes up is: “In philosophy, political science and sociology, elite theory is a theory of the State that seeks to describe and explain power relationships in contemporary society. The theory posits that a small minority, consisting of members of the economic elite and policy-planning networks, holds the most power—and that this power is independent of democratic elections”.
I think the key words here are: “this power is independent of democratic elections”.
Throughout history, the top 1% have always controlled most countries’ power and wealth. However, in the 20th Century, the elites felt pressured to share some of their power and wealth with us unwashed, ignorant, undeserving plebs. For example, after the pointless slaughter of the First World War, the elites were worried about a Russian-style communist revolution in Britain. So they promised us monkeys: “a country fit for heroes”
This led to:
The Representation of the People Act 1918 granted the vote to all men over the age of 21, and 8.5m women over 30 who were householders or who owned property
The Education Act 1918 enforced a compulsory school-leaving age of 14 for the first time, special educational needs were recognised, and school meals and regular health-checks were introduced
The Ministry of Health Act 1919 made citizens’ health a government responsibility by establishing the first ever minister for health
Then came World War II. Actually it wasn’t really the Second World War, it was merely a continuation of WWI. After the Treaty of Versailles, I think it was the French Field Marshall Foch who predicted the Treaty would lead to a new war within 20 years. He was only out by a few months.
Anyway, after the suffering of WWII the elites made more concessions to keep us from revolting against their abuse of their power over us. For example, our beloved National Health Service started in July 1948 and through the National Insurance Act of 1946 a State Pension for everybody was implemented on a contributory basis. Taking effect from 1948, men were eligible at 65, while women could receive it from 60.
The elites no longer fear us
It’s clear that the elites no longer fear us. So they have decided to take back the power and wealth they had conceded to us. We can see how the 1% gradually loosened their ownership of their countries’ wealth in the UK, France and the U.S. during the 20th Century:
But in the 21st Century the 1% are increasing their share of their countries’ wealth. This chart only goes up to 2014. But since 2014, and particularly since the pandemic, the rich have become much richer. According to some estimates, the top 1% have grabbed over 50% of all wealth created in the last few years.
Whether it’s through pandemic lockdowns; the ludicrous Climate Crisis scare; the policing of wrong-thought and wrong-speak; mass, open-borders immigration; the handing over of our countries to unelected, corrupt international organisations; all our politicians joining the Klaus Schwab WEF fan club; the imposition of restrictions on where we travel, how often we can use our cars, what products we are allowed to buy and how we are allowed to heat our homes, the elites have shown that they have triumphed and we have lost.
Say farewell to any thoughts of Democracy. It was just a brief historical aberration which emerged in the 20th Century and has now been superseded by the reimposition of rule by the elites.
Welcome to your new impoverished, restricted, colourless, joyless future unless, of course you’re a member of the lucky 1%.
Wonderful readers’ comments
On Tuesday I had an article used by The Conservative Woman. As with so many articles nowadays, the best bit is not the article, but the readers’ comments. Enjoy:
We elect politicians supposedly to make our lives better. But for the last few years, it seems that the political elites, enthusiastically cheered on by the prostitute mainstream media and funded by big business, have decided that we – who are not members of the political, business or media elites – need to be lied to, controlled and impoverished. We all know the policies our rulers are implementing to make our lives more constrained, poorer and more miserable – more nasty, brutish and short:
The ludicrous Net Zero which is trying to attack agriculture and reduce food production to fight an imaginary ‘methane crisis’; which is pushing up energy costs for homes and businesses to fight the equally imaginary ‘CO2 Global Warming’ crisis; which is trying to force us to buy expensive useless electric cars and similarly expensive and useless heat pumps and which is crippling Western companies so they are closing their plants in the USA and Europe and moving production to cheap-energy China and India. Most of Britain’s heavy industry has already moved abroad and just a month or so ago, German chemicals giant BASF announced a plant closure in Germany with thousands of job losses while investing in a new massive plant in China
Mass open-borders migration which is destroying communities; eradicating Western culture; breaking services such as healthcare and education; causing widespread housing shortages and importing violence and crime. Sweden, for example, used to be one of the most peaceful and boring countries in the world. Now, thanks to a huge influx of Third-world migrants, it leads the world in the number of rapes, bomb attacks and murders
Crushing free speech by dictating what words and even pronouns are ‘acceptable’; censoring any media which dares contradict the elites’ approved narrative; branding any critics as conspiracy cranks and destroying the careers of those the elites consider to have expressed the ‘wrong opinions’ – David Bellamy about 20 years ago and more recently Mark Steyn and Andrew Bridgen, for example
All these have been brilliantly described in books by people like Douglas Murray (The Strange Death of Europe and The War on the West), Laura Dodsworth (A State of Fear), Christopher Booker (The Real Global Warming Disaster) and I might as well do a plug for my modest little effort (There Is No Climate Crisis); daily by websites such as Britain’s The Daily Sceptic and Conservative Woman and in the USA by The Geller Report and Tony Heller’s RealClimateScience and by YouTube videos produced by the likes of Neil Oliver, Paul Joseph Watson and many others of their ilk.
When I used to manage teams, it was always our belief that life was a win/win – the better we made our teams’ lives, the better they would perform. But our elites seem to believe only in win/lose – that they can only win if we lose.
I’m not sure anyone has successfully explained why our rulers are deliberately immiserating us – why our elites think it’s preferable to make our lives worse rather than better. Unfortunately I don’t know the answer either. So you can probably stop reading at this point if you were hoping for some brilliant light-bulb-moment insight.
But I suspect it’s a combination of most of the following:
Useless eaters – I think I first heard this from Neil Oliver. This is the idea that the elites view us with contempt as ‘useless eaters’, worthless people irresponsibly wasting the Earth’s resources and polluting our world due to our excessive consumerism and travel
Gratuitous imposition of rules and regulations – The petty, third-rate poundshop dictators who run our local councils seem to have been emboldened by how meekly we all submitted to the Chinese lab-leaked Chinese plague lockdowns. And so we see a flurry of oppressive new rules in several cities and towns restricting our lives – where we can travel, what cars we can drive, how often we can drive our cars and even banning the eating of meat in schools and council institutions
Caught by their own lies – Perhaps our elites know they’ve been lying to us? Perhaps they’ve always known that Covid was leaked from a Chinese lab doing virus research funded by Frankenstein Fauci; that the miracle vaccines were never safe and effective; that once Omicron became the dominant strain there was no need for travel restrictions, lockdowns and vaccinations and that the supposed Climate Crisis is a load of nonsense. But having used all these lies to deceive, control and pauperize us they have to double down on their lies to cover up their abuse of our trust
Socialists pretending to be environmentalists – I read about this in James Delingpole’s 2012 book Watermelons in which he proposed that environmentalists were like watermelons – green on the outside but red in the middle – that while claiming to care about the environment, most environmentalists are really using the environmental cause to bring down capitalism and subject us all to total socialist state control
Concentration of power and wealth – Throughout history, the top 1% (or maybe even top 0.1%?) have had almost unlimited power over the masses and have always controlled 90% or more of every country’s resources. This changed in the 20th Century as the rise of democracy in the West led to the creation of the welfare state and a dilution of the 1%’s power and share of wealth. Perhaps the new impoverishment is just the 1%’s efforts to destroy the last vestiges of democracy so it can once again impose its power over us and capture most of the world’s wealth for itself
Globalisationand the WEF – The idea that the political, business and media elites view such concepts as communities, countries, patriotism and individual freedom as outdated and even dangerous. Instead they believe that the world would be a better place if a small elite (the 1% or 0.1%?) decided how the world should be run and how we should live our lives. The bogeyman for this is, of course, the person Mark Steyn so colourfully describes as the ‘mad, Teutonic megalomaniac hiding in plain sight as a mad, Teutonic megalomaniac’ – Klaus Schwab and his World Economic Forum. The ludicrously misnamed World Health Organisation’s latest power grab giving the WHO legal authority to impose its policies on any country will be a major victory for the globalists crushing any idea of individual freedom or national sovereignty
The end of politics – In the 20th Century we had political parties with genuinely different proposals for how countries should be run. But now all the main parties seem to have the same policies – that we are useless eaters, that we need to be controlled, that our individualism is a threat to social stability, that the elites know what is best for us, that we are damaging the environment and causing climate change due to our selfish greed, that concepts like countries and patriotism need to be eradicated, that power over us should be ceded to unelected bureaucrats in international globalist organisations often bankrolled by the mega-rich and that democracy has had its day and should be replaced by the new elitocracy.
In my book THERE IS NO CLIMATE CRISIS, I also mention two other possible causes of the West’s self-destruction:
Kakistocracy – governments by the most unscrupulous and most incompetent. As politics has become a profession rather than a moral calling, it has attracted people who have never had a real job but who spend their whole lives in the political bubble and who are only in the game for personal power, self-aggrandisement and self-enrichment
Oikophobia – which is a kind of narcissism which results in ‘the felt need to denigrate the customs, culture and institutions that are identifiably those of your own country‘
Perhaps, as several social scientists have proposed, Democracy is not an end in itself but merely a brief historical aberration from the inevitable re-consolidation of power and wealth by the elites?
Actually, as you can see, I really don’t understand why the elites believe it is better to control and immiserate us rather than helping us improve our lives. One day, hopefully, someone much smarter than myself will come up with the explanation.
If you’d been watching the news, you might have got the impression that there was a bit of a problem in our NHS (which is, of course, the envy of the world). You might have heard about 7.2 million people waiting for treatment, continual strikes, a lack of doctors and nurses and radiologists, disgusting conditions in hospitals, the impossibility of ever seeing a GP, ambulances waiting for hours outside A&E and so on.
But if you are one of the 37,000+ overpaid, over-pensioned managers employed by (please note I did not write ‘working in’) the NHS, you would be completely unaware of any of these problems. In fact, your main concern would be how to employ more DIE (Diversity, Inclusion and Equality) managers.
Here’s an exciting, wonderfully woke job opportunity which has just appeared in my emailbox:
Diversity and Inclusion has never been a bigger priority for Yorkshire Ambulance Service and we are looking for an experienced practitioner with strong working knowledge of diversity and inclusion to lead our agenda. This agenda has a direct impact on the Trust’s ability to achieve its vision to deliver the best outcomes for patients, with the best people, and partnerships.
There has never been a more exciting or rewarding time to join the NHS and this is a fantastic opportunity to join our senior people team to take our diversity and inclusion agenda to the next step as Head of Diversity and Inclusion.
In this role, you will lead, develop and implement the diversity agenda for the Trust, ensuring that all aspects of our services, particularly our workforce practices, are inclusive, with emphasis on ensuring our workforce reflects the communities and patients we serve in order that we can meet the needs of our diverse communities. The successful post holder will also develop and implement a range of initiatives that foster staff attraction, retention and those that generate a culture of dignity, civility and respect.
The successful candidate will have significant experience of managing projects with a cultural impact through engaging staff, staff networks and senior leaders. You will also have a good working knowledge and understanding of diversity & inclusion theory and application, legislation and policy with demonstrable practical application. As you will support with embedding a culture of inclusion, we are looking for someone with a broad knowledge across the whole diversity and inclusion spectrum.
In return for your commitment to our agenda, you can expect direct access/exposure and mentoring by the Trust Board, you will gain experience of working across a large complex organisation, support for the development of your leadership capability and a working environment to support a healthy work/life balance.
Leadership for the development and implementation of EDI strategies and programmes within the Trust and support the achievement of organisational objectives, development capability, build capacity, and improving our culture
Provide professional and specialist advice, guidance, recommendations and solutions, and ensure compliance with national legislation, ensuring staff and the Trust Board understand their collective and individual requirements
Establish, coordinate and chair appropriate groups that are necessary to support the successful delivery of the Trusts Equality, Diversity and Inclusion agenda. Lead on the work of the Trust’s Diversity and Inclusion Steering Group
Programme manage the variety of projects that underpin the diversity and inclusion agenda, ensuring a co-ordinated and consistent approach that supports and responds to the Trust’s governance strategies
Support the Executive Director of People and OD and Deputy Director of People and OD to ensure that D&I strategies, initiatives and business plans are directly linked to the Trust’s strategic objectives, the People Strategy and appropriately reflect national D&I initiatives and best practice
If this sounds like you, and, after reading the person specification, you believe you have the necessary skills and experience for the role, then we would be delighted to hear from you.
For informal discussions, please contact to suzanne.hartshorne@nhs.net
Perhaps we should all email suzanne.hartshorne@nhs.net to tell her (or him or ze – you never know nowadays) that this made-up non-job is a load of woke nonsense and a ludicrous waste of our money?
Oh, and in case you thought this was not representative of the sort of useless non-entities our worthless collapsing NHS is busy hiring, this is just one of around 26 current job vacancies for these pointless individuals, but I don’t have room here to list them all.
2. The joys of immigration
Yesterday I came across this very short video. I believe it’s from the Netherlands. It shows a Dutch pensioner out taking his dog for a walk and how well some young migrants have integrated into Dutch society. I expect similar scenes are occurring every day all across diverse, multi-cultural, migrant-welcoming, open-borders Europe:
I didn’t watch the (IMHO) rather pointless coronation of the King of Eco-loons and his gorgeous Queen Godzilla. And there’s been so much guff said and written about the whole ghastly spectacle that one would think it impossible to add anything which hadn’t already been covered.
But there were a few anomalies I noticed which might be worth mentioning.
Cost of the event
From what little I did hear, we were told that Charles had made changes to the occasion so that the whole thing wouldn’t be a massive splurge of our money. I understand that the final cost will be somewhere between £50m and £100m. If so, after allowing for inflation, this makes it by far the most expensive of the last seven coronations:
Pity Charlie and Godzilla couldn’t have stumped up some of the cost. So much for saving British taxpayers’ money.
Cost of the ‘slimmed down’ royal family
We’ve also been told that Charles has been working on a ‘slimmed down’ royal family. I know he’s only been King for a few months. But I believe he was pushing this idea for several years before he became King. However, like everything else which devours huge quantities of taxpayers’ money, the more we’re told that costs are being cut and efficiencies made and waste reduced etc etc, the more it actually seems to cost us:
From billions to hundreds of millions to a few million?
Again, I admit I wasn’t paying much attention to the event. But I do remember being told a few weeks ago that ‘billions’ of people around the world would be watching the ceremony so it would be a glorious day for Britain. I have the feeling that as the day approached, our hyperventilating reporters dropped the ‘billions’ and instead predicted that ‘hundreds of millions’ would be watching. Then on the day, I have the impression that the ‘hundreds of millions’ was downgraded to ‘millions’.
Personally, I felt more than queasy about the peevish, petulant, self-obsessed, perpetually-complaining Charles becoming King and would have been much more comfortable if Charles had stepped back and let William and Kate take over. But Charles is too selfish to let that happen.
What’s the point of GB News?
I expected brown-nosing sycophancy from the BBC, Sky and ITV. But I was rather disappointed to see the same grovelling, fawning and toadying from GB News. In fact, I’m beginning to wonder what’s the point of GB News. Since the cowardly abandoning of Mark Steyn, GB News has become almost indistinguishable from programmes like ITV’s Good Morning Britain or the BBC’s Breakfast programme.
Oh, and while we’re on the subject of the baleful influence the useless Ofcom has had on free speech in the media, it’s rather amusing that the previous head of Ofcom from 2015 to 2019, Dame Sharon White, has (from what I’ve read) made such a complete balls-up of being head honcho of the John Lewis Partnership that there’s talk of her being booted out before she wrecks the company completely.
As for GB News, if I watch a little TV in the morning, I find Talk TV’s Julia-Hartley Brewer and Mike Graham doing what GB News once said it would do before it capitulated to Ofcom. And although neither Hartley-Brewer nor Mike Graham dares openly question the Human-Caused Climate Change cult, I get the impression from throwaway lines that they both believe the whole thing is nonsense. If I watch a little TV in the afternoon, I find Al Jazeera much more informative than anything British TV can offer.
Oh, no – there’s still Eurovision
My joy at the coronation pantomime finally being over is tempered by the knowledge that we’ve got to get through next week’s equally ghastly horror with people dressing up in stupid costumes – the Eurovision Song Contest. So we need to steel ourselves for yet more gushing and fawning and grovelling and inanities and suchlike from our supposed journalists.
I normally don’t use this blog to write about myself and my sad, little, boring life. But I’ll make an exception this time.
Nobody wants to hear the truth
I’ve spent a large part of my working life giving presentations and I enjoy public speaking. So I put together a shortish (20 minutes) presentation based on my book THERE IS NO CLIMATE CRISIS.
Given that the ludicrous, economically-suicidal policy of Net Zero is probably the most important political and economic policy of the last 50 or more years, I then approached organisations which often arrange speaking events like the Economic Research Council, Policy Exchange, the Institute for Economic Affairs and John Gordon’s Intelligence Squared offering to give a talk about the supposed Climate Crisis. Not only did none of these organisations accept my offer. They just ignored me not even bothering to send an answer. I also tried several Conservative MPs offering to give my talk to any interested MPs. Again, I was ignored.
I know I’m not a famous celeb. But I have had around 10 current affairs books published on a variety of subjects such as economics, business, politics, the European Union, charities, universities and most recently climate. So, I had expected that my offers to give a talk would at least be acknowledged even if there was no interest in hearing what I had to say. I hadn’t expected to be completely ignored. But if any reader has any experience of people working in politics, they’ll know that such people tend to be arrogant, self-regarding, convinced of their own superiority and contemptuous of ordinary people who are forced to pay their usually over-generous salaries.
The only reply I did get was from The Daily Sceptic. I had suggested to them that we organise an event for any interested MPs during which their environmental expert, Chris Morrison, and I would give brief presentations and then do a Q&A session. The Daily Sceptic replied that they weren’t interested.
I guess nobody is interested in being put face to face with the truth about the Climate Change scam.
Ludicrous, laughable, farcical etc etc
Slightly connected to that is this shortish (5 minutes) video in which Senator Kennedy (no relation to JFK) questions David Turk (United States Deputy Secretary of Energy) about how much Net Zero will cost American taxpayers and how much the USA implementing Net Zero will change the Earth’s temperature:
Enjoy:
I think there are two important issues raised by this video:
None of the people trying to impose Net Zero have a clue as to the real cost nor about any influence this will actually have on climate
No politician in Britain or Europe would even dare ask the kind of questions Senator Kennedy asks
A warning to South Korea – beware Net Zero
And finally, readers will know that my book THERE IS NO CLIMATE CRISIS has been translated into Korean by a university professor there:
I’ve even had two articles debunking the anthropogenic climate change cult translated into Korean and published in a South Korean newspaper. I could never have had such articles published in the Greta-worshipping climate-cult-promoting UK press. Moreover, I have tried several times to get interviewed on GB News and TalkTV but have been ignored
Anyway, I’ve just produced a shortish (5 minutes) video for this professor which he’ll be translating into Korean and using in South Korea to warn South Koreans not to repeat the disastrous Net Zero policies being implemented by the West.
Here’s the original English version of the video. It’s a pity nobody in Britain wants to hear this story:
Below (in blue) is a letter I was sent by email. I guess I was on the emailing list because I wrote the book – THERE IS NO CLIMATE CRISIS.
The email is a proposed letter to be sent to MPs about climate change. The letter starts off seeming reasonable to me and, of course, I agree with the author that net zero is economic and societal suicide. But the letter then starts ranting about climate change being a Club of Rome and World Economic Forum plan to depopulate the planet. In my humble opinion (IMHO), the letter is so deranged that MPs’ assistants will bin it long before it gets anywhere near an MP. So it’s rather a waste of time.
Moreover, it’s usually a good idea to avoid mentioning the Nazis and the Holocaust and mass genocide if you want to be taken seriously.
Whoever wrote this letter is (IMHO) an idiot and I’ve emailed him to let him know.
I will spare the author’s embarrassment by withholding his email address.
Here’s the letter:
Letter to as many MPs as possible: Draft for discussion
Dear Sir/Madam
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST
I wish to draw your attention to the following statement
“As to the disastrous consequences of eliminating fossil fuels, it is estimated that nitrogen fertilizer (derived from fossil fuels) now supports approximately half the global population. The government of Sri Lanka banned the use of fossil fuel derived nitrogen fertilisers and pesticides with disastrous consequences for food supply there. If similarly misguided decisions are made eliminating fossil fuels and thus nitrogen fertiliser, there will be a starvation crisis worldwide. It is critical to repeat: eliminating fossil fuel-derived fertiliser and pesticides will create worldwide starvation. And scientifically there is no risk of catastrophic global warming caused by fossil fuels and CO2.” (from a recent paper by Dr William Happer, Dr Richard Lindzen and Gregory Wrightstone)
Therefore do you support the current legislation to achieve net zero, bearing in mind that doubling the current level of CO2 at 412 ppm has virtually no effect on global warming?
If so, do you also support destroying the UK economy to achieve net zero by eliminating the use of extensive coal and gas supplies under our feet in the UK bearing in mind that it will take the UK over 2,000 years to add just 1 ppm to the global level?
If so, you are clearly costing UK taxpayers £billions for absolutely no benefit and no reason at all. Hence, your active involvement in repealing this catastrophic legislation (imposed on the UK whilst we were in the EU) as soon as possible is long overdue.
Furthermore, it is necessary to question WHY has this catastrophic and totally stupid desire to reduce global CO2 output been promoted and implemented by the UN, the IPCC, EU and other organisations including the UK government?
The answer must be contained in the quote below:
“eliminating fossil fuel-derived nitrogen fertiliser and pesticides will create worldwide starvation”
It is therefore obvious that climate change, which has no risk of catastrophic global warming, is being used to divert attention from the desire to de-populate the earth by global starvation, i.e mass genocide. The commitment to reduce the earth’s population has been around for years and was stated by the Club of Rome in 1968 and more recently by the WEF.
The Nazis said and proved that if a lie is repeated and vigorously promoted it is eventually believed by the populace. To make the lie more believable it was helpful to make the populace terrified of the consequences for not believing it.
Climate change obviously fits both scenarios. The WEF could hardly campaign publicly for global genocide to reduce the world population. So, campaign for climate change, terrify the masses and in the process introduce measures (such as reducing nitrogen fertilisers to reduce CO2) which will reduce world food production and starve millions, if not billions, of people.
Hence by supporting and promoting climate change and net zero policies you are allegedly unwittingly or knowingly supporting the global policy for mass starvation, promoted by the WEF and others. You are definitely not helping to reduce catastrophic global warming as it does not exist!
Hence, if you knowingly support your parties (sic) policy on climate change and alleged global genocide you are requested to detail how many lives you believe should be culled from the following population groups, as a result of your agreement and acceptance of the policy of net zero:
World population generally
Commonwealth citizens
UK citizens
Your constituents
This information should be provided under the Freedom of Information legislation.
As you’ll know, CO2 is vital for plant growth. CO2 levels are currently around 413 ppm (parts per million). Many agriculture companies using greenhouses instal CO2 generators to take CO2 in their greenhouses to around 1,000 ppm:
In fact, rising CO2 levels are causing a greening of our planet:
CO2 levels have been much higher for much of the last 600 million years than they are today:
The black line on the diagram is atmospheric CO2 (the scale on the left). The blue line is the estimated average global temperature (scale on the right of the diagram).
Yet, plant and animal life thrived. Just ask any dinosaur. And, in case you were wondering, it wasn’t the CO2 emissions from Fred Flintstone’s car which led to the extinction of the dinosaurs:
If CO2 levels were ever to drop below around 200 ppm, most plant life would die and humans would have nothing left to eat. In fact, it would be rather amusing if our useless Western governments wasted billions on developing wonderful CO2 capture machines which managed to substantially reduce atmospheric CO2 and wipe out the human race.
Here’s a great article from Conservative Woman demolishing the whole CO2-driven, man-made global warming scam. The best bits of the article are the readers’ comments. We truly are in a madhouse when so many people realise that man-made climate change is total nonsense on stilts, yet their governments insist on impoverishing their citizens and destroying advanced Western civilisation in order to fight a demon that doesn’t even exist:
I consider myself patriotic. And, unlike anyone in Parliament or at the BBC, I believe that what little is left of Britain is valuable and worth preserving from mass open-borders immigration, WEF globalisation and the woke, history-challenged, narcissist, UK-loathing social-media mob. But I really can’t see the point of squandering several hundred million pounds or whatever of taxpayers’ money on some stupid ceremony next weekend. After all, the (IMHO) snivelling, self-obsessed, adulterous, climate-catastrophist, Izlumophiliac idiot, Charles, is already King and the beautiful, fragrant Godzilla is already his (supposedly ‘hugely popular’ according to the Daily Mail) beloved queen.
In Disney films, the handsome prince marries the beautiful princess while rejecting the ugly sisters. With Charles, he abandoned the beautiful princess and married one of the ugly sisters.
I’m not against the monarchy. Something like President Tony Blair and First Lady Cherie would be even more ghastly than dumb King Eco-loon and Queen Godzilla. Personally I believe Charles would have (for the first time in his spoilt, self-serving, self-regarding, rather pointless life) earned our respect if he had stepped aside, let William and Kate take over and just taken a position for himself as a senior mentor and adviser to King William and Queen Kate. But Charles is too thick, too selfish and too tin-eared to ever consider something like that. As for swearing an oath of allegiance to the perpetually miserable and moaning Eeyore Charles, forget it. I might do some swearing that day, but it won’t be for an oath of allegiance to a self-centered, intellectually-challenged, woke excuse for a man who has never done anything in his 70+years on Earth to warrant either respect or allegiance.
Is this why they really hate Israel?
Last Wednesday, Israel turned 75. As the lefties and anti-semites in Labour and at the Guardian and the BBC continually howl and scream at Israel as being the source of all the Middle East’s problems, it’s easy to forget quite how small Israel is:
The population of Israel is just over 9 million of which around 2 million are Arabs. The population of the Arab world, supposedly oppressed by these 9 million Israelis of which just around 7 million are Jewish, is over 456 million.
Here is a chart of Israel’s GDP per capita compared to the GDP per capita of its nearest neighbours:
(left-click on chart then left-click again to see in glorious widescreen technicolour)
Israel’s GDP per capita is close to $40,000, the Arab world’s GDP per capita is just $6,647.
Israel is an extraordinary achievement to have created a modern, democratic, economically-successful country in just 75 years in spite of the Arabs’ repeated attempts to wipe Israel off the map. The Arab world is a disaster – hundreds of years of a misgoverned cess-pit of misery, poverty, backwardness, violence, hopelessness and failure. Moreover, the success of the Jewish state compared to the failure of so many countries which follow King Charles’s favourite religion poses some very difficult questions about the role of Charles’s favourite religion in causing economic stagnation, social disintegration, political instability, violence and widespread misery.
Israel’s success exposes the Islamic Arab world’s political, religious and economic failure and that’s why the lefties really loathe Israel.
We’re all encouraged to save for our retirement. But few people seem to have done it better than South African politicians.
Most websites report that South Africa’s former president, Jacob Zuma, managed to save over $20m during his nine years (2009-2018) leading the country on a salary of around $170,000 a year. That’s quite an achievement. Though when I was writing about foreign aid and corruption for my book THE GREAT CHARITY SCANDAL, I saw somewhere that he actually has managed to accumulate over $200m.
That might seem an impressive amount. But it seems to be fairly normal for politicians in that country. Here are South Africa’s 10 richest politicians according to their declared wealth:
Cyril Ramaphosa ( $450 million
Tokyo Sexwale ( $200 million)
Herman Mashaba ( $100 million)
F. W De Klerk ( $46 million)
Saki Macozoma ( $60 million)
Jacob Zuma ( $20 million)
Thabo Mbeki ( $10 million)
Bulelani Ngcuka ( $10 million)
Mamphela Ramphele ( $5.5 million)
Pravin Ghordhan ( $5 million)
This makes our own much loved former PM, Anthony Blair, look like a pauper.
What about the people?
As South Africa’s lucky politicians have become richer than Croesus, have South Africa’s citizens similarly prospered?
Here’s chart of South Africa’s GDP per capita compared to the world average and to a few other countries:
(left-click on chart, then left-click again to see more clearly)
It seems that the GDP per capita has been fairly stable. I was a little surprised as I thought the country was headed towards a Zimbabwe-style economic collapse. But then I looked at who owns the country’s wealth. I came across this summary of a 2022 report from the World Bank:
“South Africa… is the most unequal country in the world, ranking first among 164 countries,” the Washington-based institution, the World Bank, said Wednesday in a report, Inequality in Southern Africa.
So, while the GDP per capita seems to remained quite flat, the rich have grabbed most of the country’s wealth leaving the poor ever poorer.
What about crime?
South Africa, with 36 murders per 100,000 people has the second highest rate of homicides in the world:
Socialist Venezuela with 39 per 100,000 comes top. To put the South Africa figure into context, Columbia is also at 36 per 100,000, Mexico at 25 per 100,000, the USA at 5.4 homicides per 100,000, the UK at 0.5 per 100,000, France at 0.7 per 100,000 and Spain at 0.8 per 100,000. So around 72 times as many people are murdered in South Africa than in Britain.
As far as rape is concerned, South Africa only comes in at number 6 in the world:
Country
Rape Rate
1
Botswana
96.87 per 100k
2
Lesotho
89.29 per 100k
3
Grenada
88.87 per 100k
4
Sweden
87.97 per 100k
5
Eswatini
82.73 per 100k
6
South Africa
70.22 per 100k
I could go on quoting all sorts of other statistics. But they all paint the same picture – a hopelessly misgoverned and corrupt crime- and poverty-ridden hell-hole where a small percentage of the people are looting all the money.
It’s odd that we don’t hear much about South Africa’s current misery in the mainstream media and from all those who protested against the evils of apartheid. After all, I thought black lives mattered to the virtue-signalling, look-at-me, narcissistic, progressive, West-hating libtards.
A post-apartheid paradise for the Rainbow Nation?
Here’s Simon Webb giving his take on the massive benefits South Africa has experienced from black rule:
Several times, I have suggested that there is probably no point continuing with this blog because so many other people now do what I do but do it so much better.
The two websites I recommend are The Daily Sceptic and Conservative Woman. As they use a variety of writers, they can provide much more insightful and well-informed articles than I can.
Here are just a few recent pieces from the Daily Sceptic:
David Craig, on May 17th, 2023
