John Ward March 8, 2020 Electorates unfit for purpose

At the End of the Day

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How natural discernment was sacrificed on altars built from quicksand and conformity

The London Times may not wish to be the new barometer of madness, but whether it wants that title or not, it is backing at 5th Italian reverse-gear speed into being something in the hall with a needle pointing permanently to Bonkers.

In the Sunday Times today, Dr Sharoam Moalem on why Women are genetically the stronger sex, Caroline Criado Perez on why cars are unsafe for women, Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg on the corporate Glass Ceiling, Christina Lamb on women snatched as children to be “comfort women” for Japanese invaders during the Second World War, Eleanor Mills on International Women’s Day, Nigella Lawson on how she learned to love exercise, the spotty dress, playsuit, maxidress and blouse that will update your look for spring, the best red lipsticks and how to find a shade that suits you, and those Sandals the Fashion Crowd want.

Surely I cannot be the only bloke on the planet observing that there is a degree of muddle in all this? “Women are strong, men are bullies…but here are some ruses to exploit their weakness while making yourself as attractive to them as possible”.

And yet and yet….not a single column inch in the Murdoch House Magazine on the subject of 3.65 million traditional British homemakers swindled out of their long-promised State pensions.

Is there any analogy anywhere that fits such a Cyclopian media viewpoint?

Actually, there is.

Imagine you are a mediaeval Saxon serf, and your hole in the ground therein for the pooing purpose is backing up alarmingly. And so you call in Guillaume de Montfort, the local Norman cesspit expert. He takes a sniff around, and opines that the problem lies in the nearby castle of the Sheriff of Nottingham. For a sum not exceeding the dowry on the serf’s voluptuous daughter, he guarantees to unblock said castle’s output, but he will need a sum in advance in order to secure the labour and hardware necessary to effect a clearance. The desperate Saxon agrees.

Guillaume goes forth to the Sheriff, and offers to clear his smelly drains free of charge, in return for a Knighthood, and a promise from King John to cede to him the development of the small Ham known as Rother. The Sheriff declares this to be a No Braining solution, at which point Guillaume calls in the Rod of Dyno and blasts every last Norman turd to places elsewhere.

Sadly, ‘elsewhere’ turns out to be the head, food, children and oxen of the duped serf and his fellow hamlet dwellers. But when the hapless Saxon collars de Montfort and asks why before he was merely smelling of human excretia but but now he’s covered in the stuff, the Norman conqueror merely smiles and says, “Have you no sense of duty? The sheriff is your protector against wicked poachers abroad in the land who would steal your deer!”

Think of the sheriff as the State and Guillaume as the media, and you’re about there with the modern citizen-taxpayer’s lot.

Just let me put this out there…..

Every year, 23%+ of our earnings go to paying politicians and civil servants to protect us from enemies and disease, to run and update the infrastructure, and to educate us

The first lot have no expertise to justify their salary, and the second mob lick foreign multinationals all over with a view to their personal employment

For 23 years in a row, those in receipt of our taxes have spent more than the amount we give them, and during that period have run up £4.4 trillion in debt and future liabilities

Around 74 million of us give up £1 in 5 so that roughly 2.7 million of them can live in pensioned clover. The Spending Watchdog estimates that they waste £3 out of every 10 they receive.

The real income of the employed has declined 30% since 1995. Since 1970, Britain’s manufactured exports have shrunk from 22% to 9% of gdp. In the 48 years we were members of the European Union they were so keen to lionise, we lost money on the deal 47 times. In order to extract ourselves from Franco-German leeches, we have paid out £157 billion unnecessarily. We have the worst State Pension levels of any of the Top Ten EU member States.

And yet, the opposition Parties have fought the last four elections not on charges of fiscal incompetence accompanied by hard evidence, but rather on even more expensive policies offering not just zero evidence of likely efficacy, but also some disturbingly clear signs of rewarding dubious causes and tiny minorities for all the wrong reasons – aka votes.

My conclusion for some time now has been that we are paying for a tiny number of people – probably no more than 3,000 in total – to behave as if believing in the nonsense they learned at Eton or the LSE or Oxford is applicable to the problems of a complex après l’Empire State….and somehow represents getting a life.

It is a gigantic game of Let’s Pretend. A game that insists all women feel imprisoned and bullied, Islam is a misrepresented religion of pacifist and tolerant outlook, 0.14% of the population unsure about their gender is a bigger problem than 3.65 million who’ve been cheated out of their living, only white people are racist, replacing a £250K job with $5K a year part-time slavery is a result, we have a Special Relationship with Washington, perfectly natural emotions are to be disparaged, and Boris Johnson is a nice man really.

I have this sense that – although very few Leftlibs are bright enough to work this out – Keir Starmer is the perfect leader for a 21st century Labour Party that has lost the plot, but found some “progressive” policies that will render it unelectable as long as there is still the popular vote.

Why? Because his flat-screen, ice-cold persona is tailor-made for the role of Front Man in a post-democratic Britain – where the corporacrats increasingly play the role of Kingmaker, and post-election horse trading results in a neutered Master of Ceremonies who “leads” a Coalition, behind which are lots of Robbins and Sedwills negotiating with every Tom, Dick, Murdoch and Soros.

Variously thick, busy, disinterested, ill-informed, uncaring, wallet-obsessed, tired, angry, cynical and lazy voters do not make for the kind of electorate Platonic democracy requires.

After Plato came Roman leaders offering bread and circuses to placate the demos, as opposed to schools and media designed to make them aware, doubting cross-examiners.

The reforms put in place by the 1945 Attlee administration potentially paved the way for the World’s most sophisticated electorate. Wilson, Thatcher, Blair, Campbell and all who followed destroyed discernment based on a desire for the Common Good in favour of power over an Orwellian mob.

We are now dealing with the consequences.

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micky molewarp on March 10, 2020 at 10:48 am

whilst i agree with peter charles’ observation that, after two, arguably avoidable, and disastrously bungled empire-salvaging world-wars, the british establishment was – in order to buy off the red-revolutionary tendencies – forced to grant our pleb-predecessors the welfare-state, i simply cannot agree, with router al, that this same incompetent, in-bred, and parasitic british imperial establishment – which had systematically raped the colonies of their mineral-wealth – was in any manner motivated by altruism, when it subsequently invited, from those same exploited colonies, black and brown british overseas citizens, who – in common with our own pleb-predecessors – had vainly fought to prop up the crumbling british empire, but who, in a hard-won new world of post-war-opportunity, were, in contrast, willing to accept the unpopular, menial, and dirty jobs which were being snubbed by our own home-grown hitler-exterminating pleb-heros – who in fact, for their own part, still feeling pretty bloody miffed that churchill had deliberately allowed hitler to blitz all industrially-based communist-pleb-hot-spots, fancied equally that, by way of hard-won war-reparations, they were owed something better.

in the case of our british overseas citizens, that something better comprised the political phantom of independence, together with the illusory opportunity of climbing the – racially exploitative – capitalist rope-ladder out of colonial oppression, whilst, for our own pleb-predecessors, that something better consisted, on-the-one-hand, in the mirage of an all-singing-all-bum-wiping welfare-state – which, ultimately, proved not to be first-class-funded from ill-gotten imperial establishment-coffers, but rather subsistence-rate-supported by compulsory pleb-contributions – and a something better which, on-the-other-hand, consisted in the chimaeric bait of professional employment accessible through higher-class-education – which, again being subsistence-rate-supported by compulsory pleb-contributions, itself eventually proved dumbed-down to such a criminally comprehensive extent that entry into the professional-class, via the acquisition of top-rank university-qualification, remained, for the democratically disenfranchized majority, nothing more than an unaffordable, and therefore largely unattainable, pipe-dream.

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Waldgaenger on March 9, 2020 at 9:47 pm

Router Al, Peter Charles +10.

Here is an anecdote. My father served in Burma and India. After the war he served an apprenticeship to become a carpenter joiner. He worked and trained alongside a German who had been a prisoner of war, worked on the land and married a friend of my mother’s , they were both land army girls. Our families became friends. Later the German chap returned to Germany with his family.

In the late fifties or very early sixties they returned for a family visit and visited us. I was a very naughty boy lugging in to adult conversations. The German was trying to persuade my dad to emigrate to Germany. I remember him saying that our housing was sub standard and that my dad worked far too hard. This was the time of the “German Economic Miracle” when the media made great play of the hard working Germans compared to the lazy and feckless British workers. He said that he did not need to work overtime in order to live (my father worked seven days a week during summer time ). His wife was a housefrau whereas my mother worked as a nurse. The secret he said was that he had vastly more horsepower at his disposal. He laughed that dad was still carrying timber and tools up ladders onto roofs and that bricklayers still carried bricks and cement in hods up onto roofs.

I guess that this anecdote illustrates Peter Charles’s point and I have remembered this fireside chat all of my life.

I think that Britons were let down by our appalling class system, which rather than invest in a modern capitalist economy wanted to return to the pre war conditions of toffs and ragged trousered philanthropists. How much has changed?

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RouterAl on March 9, 2020 at 11:38 am

It’s a rot that was started by WW1, we killed off 750k men , and mentally disabled countless more. Does anyone profess to know why we allowed it to start. This leads us on to WW2 in which we sided with the USA and a president who hated the British Empire and wanted it destroyed and the Jewish Bolsheviks who hated Christians , private property and Royal Families. We had been failing as an industrial power before then , but we got a second wind after WW2 with our inventiveness during that war. We had leads in Jet engines, Computers , Radar and Aircraft. Unfortunately we decided to go down the route of the celebration of mediocrity and state ownership. We devoted more and more resource’s to the feckless in society. We trashed our education system along with our moral under pinnings left over from our Christian heritage in the name of equality. We fell under the mass delusion that we can look forward to equality in all out comes no matter what activity we became involved in. We allowed unchecked immigration from 3rd world countries and refused to look at the downside of the costs of this altruism. Our once unarmed police are now the best armed in the world, our military navy and air-force are a shell, our universities now produce worthless degree’s for 70% of the indebted students , our courts now control our democracy not parliament, we celebrate and protect with ever draconian legislation every minority no matter how ridiculous their claims and indeed we even fund their activism with government grants.
Here in Scotland where once we might have boasted we will end poverty period we now replace that with we will end period poverty. The proponents of such stupidity fail to notice that rather than being a noble action it’s actually a tragic end to their post war experiment and they are so busy responding to the cries of encore , they fail to realise that we now have lots of females too poor to even afford sanitary products. Is there anything more 21st century than the lefts virtue signalling.

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Peter Charles on March 8, 2020 at 9:31 pm

“The reforms put in place by the 1945 Attlee administration potentially paved the way for the World’s most sophisticated electorate.”

While that is true it is also the Attlee government that decided the Marshall Aid we were granted, more than any other country by a large measure, should be spent on social welfare, nationalisation and full employment for the returning soldiery, TPTB being fearful of revolution should things not change. At the same time, as THE victorious first world power we pretended that nothing had changed globally and Britannia still ruled the waves and as we were bankrupt we borrowed even more billions, yes about $4 billion, from the US to prove it. In contrast Europe used their aid to rebuild their infrastructure and manufacturing base, we grudgingly fixed a few bits of infrastructure here and there, largely leaving industry to do their own rebuilding and while Europe replaced 1920s machinery with cutting edge equipment and technology we replaced 1920s machinery with 1920s machinery.

It was the decisions made post WW2 that sowed all the ills we suffer today, lack of competitiveness, lack of manufacturing, lack of investment, lack of applied innovation and development, too much government, too much social engineering and even the societal fracturing we experience and even the lack of national confidence that saw our Masters begging to be allowed to join the European Club.

And let us not forget that the post war education reforms failed to live past the 1960s when our Masters decided it was better to have everyone share an equally shoddy education than cream off the cleverest 10%.

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