A woman was sent to prison for 2 1/2 years for saying something mean on social media, yet the fool you spoke to thinks there is no infringement on free speech?
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There is definitely a divide among who will describe the UK as having systemic problems, and especially any to do with immigration or misguided net-zero policies. The educated will discuss things more the way a cookie-cutter educated leftie would in the United States, even if that person espouses some degree of fiscal ‘conservatism’. The cost of living has risen whilst wages and purchasing power have stagnated. GDP is up partly because it includes rents and property values - indicative of bubble money, not productivity or production.
Natural gas is being phased out to be sent to France to be converted to electricity which will then be sent via conduit back to the UK, leaving the UK vulnerable. Coal is gone. Last power station gone. Rights to North Sea oil have been sold. Green credits are going to owners of unused land with trees, for example in Scotland.
Since the Iran war, airlines have been given government permission to reduce overseas flights and cancel flights without usual notice or usual reimbursement to customers. The number of flights offered has halved, while the prices have roughly doubled. Planes are flying with heavier loads than before, as there are fewer of them.
The people are being told to prepare for shortages of fuel in the winter months and a difficult environment (prices and supplies) for heating homes. Likewise, the fuel issues in the Middle East are forecast to affect phosphorus and fertilizer supplies, which may cause later shortages. The UK already only produces 40% of the food it uses.
As in many places, everything costs more now - but there is so little wiggle room for most British people to absorb the excess costs. Even the wealthy are not very rich, and usually not very British. For a time, the welfare state and free higher education did dramatically change the lives and social classes of many people, but the ease of having the good life has waned over the past twenty years, much as in the US.
A leaked white paper from April on Project Cornerstone (I think I mentioned this before) outlines contingency plans on rationing of fuel and goods should things become more difficult, and its framework implementation relies on all persons having a unique identifier within the digital ID system which many think is optional or not up and running, and both of these are incorrect assumptions.
More and more towns and villages are becoming like the cities, very pluralistic and diverse, with new people and populations which many do not feel they have seen before or in such great numbers. Under-used churches are becoming mosques. In-home care work and social care work is heavily saturated with workers from southerly continents. Word has it that these people are recruited, and then encouraged and funded by local councils to start their own companies, and to recruit from their countries. Many of these people work very hard, and do jobs which many natives seem disinterested in or unaware of - but this is the same trope used in the US - so of course not entirely true.
The tabloids, which offer different content to UK IP addresses than to US IP addresses will run stories about grotesque violence against women in parks and on beaches and walking to their cars to go home, usually some time after the event, and always with online reader comments disabled so as not to incite any uprisings. Companies like Serco, hotels, and property management companies offering what are called HMOs to house many people in converted houses are making a lot of money via contracts housing the growing number of migrants that arrive daily, after they are escorted by the coast guard safely across the channel. The costs to house migrants are three quarters of the budgetary black hole deficit Labour is trying to fill through other cuts and increased taxation.
Even access to legal aid or solicitors or lawyers is limited because so many have redirected their services to fulfilling the administrative need for help with asylum claims which amount to a multi-year backlog. Courts are backlogged. While migrants wait, they can have their families join them. As these people plant roots in the UK, they cultivate different legitimate reasons to be granted leave to remain or asylum in the UK because they satisfy Articles 3 & 8 of the ECHR - even if the original threat necessitating asylum is no longer a paramount or a proved concern. Persons and their families who entered the UK under asylum seeking also have completely different access to funded higher education and training programmes. Some would say this is good, but many natives just feel taxed and exploited.
The UK will probably never leave the ECHR. MPs are under no legal obligation to do as their constituents ask, and there really remains the question if all party policies are steered toward a roughly common outcome from some force of decision making at the top of the political food chain.
Businesses on high streets are closing left right and centre because they cannot afford the high tax rates imposed by Labour policies just to maintain facilities. The lower and middle classes continue to bicker online about the alms for the poor and disabled being too generous because they often exceed wages. A majority of disability claimants receive money for mental health disorders, but many things distort the true picture of how well the national health service is not bettering the health of the nation.
Figures will show that native British tend to be high recipients of social welfare benefits, but this is also because many work but are underemployed or earning too little with full employment, and so get top-ups or low income assistance through what is called “Universal Credit”. The elephant in the room is that wages and salaries are stuck in 1986 for a developed nation. Labour recently repealed the two-child benefit limit, but to people with racial sensitivities, they point out that native British are not typically the families which have more than two children. One wonders if the natives would care about the costs helping others if they felt that they were doing well and that their culture and heritage were under no threat of change from heterogeneity of occupation.
Nobody would be surprised if the IMF has to be approached in another year or two.
Socialism is still strong in Wales and anywhere north of the Midlands. Likewise the economic picture of the UK is incredibly bleak when London and or the Home Counties are removed from statistics.
The NHS continues to deliver services through torpid and inept methods to those desperate enough to seek help. Complaints are handled or ignored through services called PILS or PALS which will often do nothing more than help someone attain services they should have been provided in the first place, or perhaps a written apology for ill treatment. Medical negligence legal claims options are narrow under the law and what is permissible would probably offend most who are used to more responsible medical care.
Accident & Emergency department waits are now routinely in excess of 12 hours. Waits to see a GP are 2-4 weeks on average.
The UK suffers through heatwaves with most businesses and individuals having inadequate money to install air conditioning in buildings, or even to pay for recreation in the few buildings which do have it - never mind that there have been significant heatwaves at least for a few days here and there for years, if not decades. The media spin is heavy on catastrophism of climate change.
We expect more taxes, stagnant growth, and no way to get a General Election in time to turn the ship around. Maybe it’s Agenda 2030 in action? NPR got it right today when they said that Burnham represents a change in personality, not a change in policy… And parliament isn’t back until September anyway.
In a country where it rains nine months of the year and yet more essential services are mismanaged, all we can expect is a hose pipe ban due to potable water shortages. No joke.
Many of the issues identified are directly related to the immigration issue.
JUST ABOUT ALL OF THE AREAS BELOW ARE UNDER DURESS FROM IMMIGRATION, i.e. the impact of Supply vs Demand
Prices:
Growth: Too many immigration are on public assistance....not productive member of society, i.e. weak productivity, low tax revenue to repair crumbling public services & FUND OTHER SERVICES DEPENDENT ON TAX REVENUE
The National Health Service (NHS)
Wait times: Long delays for routine hospital treatments and emergency care are major concerns.
Funding: The health service faces high demand from an aging population AND demand from immigrants with large families AND that also goes back to productive workers & tax revenue.
Housing
Again supply vs. demand as a result of immigration and if it's like the USA, immigrants are getting subsidies for rent and down payments to buy homes, that a double whammy for citizens - supply is reduced and when prices prices rise citizen's are priced out. They aren't getting subsidized.
Yes and you could add to this list: censorship; the two-tier justice system; the rapid erosion of historic constitutional rights. All of these are necessary to keep the population in check while they are forced to accept immigration that nobody wants and nobody ever voted for.
I'm reminded of the lyrics of The Kinks song, Living on a Thin Line. ".... there’s no England now." Dave Davies was more visionary than anyone realised when he wrote it back in 1984 …. Oh, the irony of that date, George Orwell must be up there laughing his socks off!!
Mind Viruses sounds like a book, which I would be interested in reading. I took a 6 month break from the Internet to catch up on my reading and work on my health program by getting more exercise and daily sunshine. I did buy Vaccines: Mythology, Ideology and Reality ...and enjoyed it. Regarding England: My daughter thinks someone like Tommy Robinson would be someone who would be good for England as a leader...However, the moneyed elite are the ones who always wind up in top positions...and the interests of the governed are not in their calculations.
"That's not true" sounds like my mom (standard lib boomer, though it's possibly better that she gets her news from YouTube instead of TV). Any facts in opposition to her beliefs are "not true" while several exaggerated tales she's shared with me which I take it are viral on the left turned out to be actually, in the old sense of the phrase, not true. We are in difficult waters when there is no shared reality.
My advice to Burnham (apart from “how about you get a proper job for once in your? life”) would be to stop borrowing money you can’t afford, to pay for an aggressive war of choice that is rapidly destroying the economy of the UK and Europe.
A woman was sent to prison for 2 1/2 years for saying something mean on social media, yet the fool you spoke to thinks there is no infringement on free speech?
They redefine what is free speech versus what is some other sort of speech. Et voila.
lol kinda like "Our Democracy"
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Disjointed reply here as low on time…
There is definitely a divide among who will describe the UK as having systemic problems, and especially any to do with immigration or misguided net-zero policies. The educated will discuss things more the way a cookie-cutter educated leftie would in the United States, even if that person espouses some degree of fiscal ‘conservatism’. The cost of living has risen whilst wages and purchasing power have stagnated. GDP is up partly because it includes rents and property values - indicative of bubble money, not productivity or production.
Natural gas is being phased out to be sent to France to be converted to electricity which will then be sent via conduit back to the UK, leaving the UK vulnerable. Coal is gone. Last power station gone. Rights to North Sea oil have been sold. Green credits are going to owners of unused land with trees, for example in Scotland.
Since the Iran war, airlines have been given government permission to reduce overseas flights and cancel flights without usual notice or usual reimbursement to customers. The number of flights offered has halved, while the prices have roughly doubled. Planes are flying with heavier loads than before, as there are fewer of them.
The people are being told to prepare for shortages of fuel in the winter months and a difficult environment (prices and supplies) for heating homes. Likewise, the fuel issues in the Middle East are forecast to affect phosphorus and fertilizer supplies, which may cause later shortages. The UK already only produces 40% of the food it uses.
As in many places, everything costs more now - but there is so little wiggle room for most British people to absorb the excess costs. Even the wealthy are not very rich, and usually not very British. For a time, the welfare state and free higher education did dramatically change the lives and social classes of many people, but the ease of having the good life has waned over the past twenty years, much as in the US.
A leaked white paper from April on Project Cornerstone (I think I mentioned this before) outlines contingency plans on rationing of fuel and goods should things become more difficult, and its framework implementation relies on all persons having a unique identifier within the digital ID system which many think is optional or not up and running, and both of these are incorrect assumptions.
More and more towns and villages are becoming like the cities, very pluralistic and diverse, with new people and populations which many do not feel they have seen before or in such great numbers. Under-used churches are becoming mosques. In-home care work and social care work is heavily saturated with workers from southerly continents. Word has it that these people are recruited, and then encouraged and funded by local councils to start their own companies, and to recruit from their countries. Many of these people work very hard, and do jobs which many natives seem disinterested in or unaware of - but this is the same trope used in the US - so of course not entirely true.
The tabloids, which offer different content to UK IP addresses than to US IP addresses will run stories about grotesque violence against women in parks and on beaches and walking to their cars to go home, usually some time after the event, and always with online reader comments disabled so as not to incite any uprisings. Companies like Serco, hotels, and property management companies offering what are called HMOs to house many people in converted houses are making a lot of money via contracts housing the growing number of migrants that arrive daily, after they are escorted by the coast guard safely across the channel. The costs to house migrants are three quarters of the budgetary black hole deficit Labour is trying to fill through other cuts and increased taxation.
Even access to legal aid or solicitors or lawyers is limited because so many have redirected their services to fulfilling the administrative need for help with asylum claims which amount to a multi-year backlog. Courts are backlogged. While migrants wait, they can have their families join them. As these people plant roots in the UK, they cultivate different legitimate reasons to be granted leave to remain or asylum in the UK because they satisfy Articles 3 & 8 of the ECHR - even if the original threat necessitating asylum is no longer a paramount or a proved concern. Persons and their families who entered the UK under asylum seeking also have completely different access to funded higher education and training programmes. Some would say this is good, but many natives just feel taxed and exploited.
The UK will probably never leave the ECHR. MPs are under no legal obligation to do as their constituents ask, and there really remains the question if all party policies are steered toward a roughly common outcome from some force of decision making at the top of the political food chain.
Businesses on high streets are closing left right and centre because they cannot afford the high tax rates imposed by Labour policies just to maintain facilities. The lower and middle classes continue to bicker online about the alms for the poor and disabled being too generous because they often exceed wages. A majority of disability claimants receive money for mental health disorders, but many things distort the true picture of how well the national health service is not bettering the health of the nation.
Figures will show that native British tend to be high recipients of social welfare benefits, but this is also because many work but are underemployed or earning too little with full employment, and so get top-ups or low income assistance through what is called “Universal Credit”. The elephant in the room is that wages and salaries are stuck in 1986 for a developed nation. Labour recently repealed the two-child benefit limit, but to people with racial sensitivities, they point out that native British are not typically the families which have more than two children. One wonders if the natives would care about the costs helping others if they felt that they were doing well and that their culture and heritage were under no threat of change from heterogeneity of occupation.
Nobody would be surprised if the IMF has to be approached in another year or two.
Socialism is still strong in Wales and anywhere north of the Midlands. Likewise the economic picture of the UK is incredibly bleak when London and or the Home Counties are removed from statistics.
The NHS continues to deliver services through torpid and inept methods to those desperate enough to seek help. Complaints are handled or ignored through services called PILS or PALS which will often do nothing more than help someone attain services they should have been provided in the first place, or perhaps a written apology for ill treatment. Medical negligence legal claims options are narrow under the law and what is permissible would probably offend most who are used to more responsible medical care.
Accident & Emergency department waits are now routinely in excess of 12 hours. Waits to see a GP are 2-4 weeks on average.
The UK suffers through heatwaves with most businesses and individuals having inadequate money to install air conditioning in buildings, or even to pay for recreation in the few buildings which do have it - never mind that there have been significant heatwaves at least for a few days here and there for years, if not decades. The media spin is heavy on catastrophism of climate change.
We expect more taxes, stagnant growth, and no way to get a General Election in time to turn the ship around. Maybe it’s Agenda 2030 in action? NPR got it right today when they said that Burnham represents a change in personality, not a change in policy… And parliament isn’t back until September anyway.
In a country where it rains nine months of the year and yet more essential services are mismanaged, all we can expect is a hose pipe ban due to potable water shortages. No joke.
Thank you, Hannah, for taking the time to inform us of the details combining to kill England with a thousand cuts.
It's hard not to point to the presence of non-English loiterers living on the dole as contributing to most if not all of these threats.
Thank you for the effort of writing that.
You are very articulate and well informed. I hope you are running as a Reform or Restore candidate if you are still in the UK.
They brought it on themselves with weak leadership.
This assumes that voting makes much difference. The candidates offered vary little in their policy options.
A myopic view Melanie. They have a rigged system and a “choice” of Stooge 1 or Stooge 2. Just like the US and pretty much everywhere.
Many of the issues identified are directly related to the immigration issue.
JUST ABOUT ALL OF THE AREAS BELOW ARE UNDER DURESS FROM IMMIGRATION, i.e. the impact of Supply vs Demand
Prices:
Growth: Too many immigration are on public assistance....not productive member of society, i.e. weak productivity, low tax revenue to repair crumbling public services & FUND OTHER SERVICES DEPENDENT ON TAX REVENUE
The National Health Service (NHS)
Wait times: Long delays for routine hospital treatments and emergency care are major concerns.
Funding: The health service faces high demand from an aging population AND demand from immigrants with large families AND that also goes back to productive workers & tax revenue.
Housing
Again supply vs. demand as a result of immigration and if it's like the USA, immigrants are getting subsidies for rent and down payments to buy homes, that a double whammy for citizens - supply is reduced and when prices prices rise citizen's are priced out. They aren't getting subsidized.
Yes and you could add to this list: censorship; the two-tier justice system; the rapid erosion of historic constitutional rights. All of these are necessary to keep the population in check while they are forced to accept immigration that nobody wants and nobody ever voted for.
The way that nation is deteriorating, they will soon be Lesser Britain, before they're nothing at all.
“Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t realize what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone. They paved paradise and put up a parking lot” Joni Mitchell
I was going to quote the same.
It always amazes me how people convince themselves of false narratives when the truth is right before their noses.
It’s much easier to believe a rosy lie when you’re on a rooftop in Mayfair with a fine drink in your hand and a few million in the bank.
I'm reminded of the lyrics of The Kinks song, Living on a Thin Line. ".... there’s no England now." Dave Davies was more visionary than anyone realised when he wrote it back in 1984 …. Oh, the irony of that date, George Orwell must be up there laughing his socks off!!
Mind Viruses sounds like a book, which I would be interested in reading. I took a 6 month break from the Internet to catch up on my reading and work on my health program by getting more exercise and daily sunshine. I did buy Vaccines: Mythology, Ideology and Reality ...and enjoyed it. Regarding England: My daughter thinks someone like Tommy Robinson would be someone who would be good for England as a leader...However, the moneyed elite are the ones who always wind up in top positions...and the interests of the governed are not in their calculations.
"That's not true" sounds like my mom (standard lib boomer, though it's possibly better that she gets her news from YouTube instead of TV). Any facts in opposition to her beliefs are "not true" while several exaggerated tales she's shared with me which I take it are viral on the left turned out to be actually, in the old sense of the phrase, not true. We are in difficult waters when there is no shared reality.
It translates roughly to “I refuse to think about that, it makes me uncomfortable.”
The man at the rooftop party : mentally ill with a mind virus?
I shall buy your book.
https://mises.org/mises-wire/ruling-class-wants-you-think-central-planning-inevitable
My advice to Burnham (apart from “how about you get a proper job for once in your? life”) would be to stop borrowing money you can’t afford, to pay for an aggressive war of choice that is rapidly destroying the economy of the UK and Europe.
Q: "What is Left of England and the English People?"
A: Not a lot
If you were advising Burnham, you’d have no advice about immigration? Truly?!