The welfare state was founded on piracy,brigandige and plunder from the start.Private property and businesses were seized by force by the State and nationalised, reducing the hitherto independent sector to a miserable state of servitude and enforced public service.
How could a system based on coercion and brute force, pillage and appropriation lead to anything other than a Leviathan state and an erosion of civil liberties? Over night doctors were transformed from proud independent profesionals into serfs of the State,shackled hirelings ruled by government bureaucrats and arbitrary dictat. The self respecting doctors unprepared to prostitute their skills and talents to a Socialist system predicated on slavery and self sacrifice simply fled the country in what became famously known as the 'brain drain', leaving the suppliant remainder to relinquish their independence for a mess of State pottage.
THe social fall-out of the Welfare state has been equally calamitious.The family has effectively been nationalised, fathers supplanted by the mother State acting as surrogate.Girls can have babies on the State,be provided with an ersatz family structure, council accommodation, food provision,child benefit rendering the male socially redundant, with the inevitable corollary of social breakdown,crime and juvenile delinquency.
Socialism cannot function without coercion for no one would willingly subject themselves to its tyrannical yoke.It is therfor a total violation of individual rights,a negation of liberty and freedom. Why then to this present day is Socialism still presented as a benign expression of the humanitarian impulse? Truly a triumph of presentation over reality!
Sunday, March 08, 2009
Saint Bevan And The BBC
Last night BBC4 showed a programme by Greg Dyke on Nye Bevan and it was the usual uncritical hagiography of a clearly wretched character who was almost singlehandedly responsible for the disastrous introduction of socialised healthcare in the UK.
Bully, thug, Bevan was a large burly figure not adverse to picking fights with employers and was from the start an aggressive agent provocateur trouble maker stirring up unrest in the work place.It was inevitable that he would go on to become an extreme Marxist Leftist in the Labour movement and the darling of the far Left which he came to dominate with his dubious powers of rhetoric and demagoguery.(As a recent controversy regarding a company blacklist of agitators in the workplace has shown, those seeking to disrupt businesses and stir up trouble often use the workplace as a springboard to politcal power and companies have every right to avoid employing such indivuduals and sharing inormation about them.)
The usual suspects were wheeled on to vouch for Bevan as a man of the people such as windbag Kinnock.The programme showed that there was a perfectly adequate healthcare insurance system run by employees long before the inception of the NHS which clearly provided all their medical needs but the obvious inference that there was therfor no need whatsoever for a universal national health care system was of course not drawn.The motivation for such a grandiose and unwieldly system was obcviously politically motivated,ideologically driven, designed to give meglamaniac political power lusters self advancement.
Born it would seem with a chip on his shoulder and a smouldering resentment of the successful Bevan was seen as a class warrior by his followers and his bile and inferiority complex came to the fore when well into his career of evil he declared at a public meeting that the Tories were 'vermin'.This played into the hands of his opponents and from that point his star faded and he mercifully died prematurely as all parasites do of cancer thus sparing the country from the fate of his prime ministership which would almost inevitably have taken Britain into Communist rule.
Bully, thug, Bevan was a large burly figure not adverse to picking fights with employers and was from the start an aggressive agent provocateur trouble maker stirring up unrest in the work place.It was inevitable that he would go on to become an extreme Marxist Leftist in the Labour movement and the darling of the far Left which he came to dominate with his dubious powers of rhetoric and demagoguery.(As a recent controversy regarding a company blacklist of agitators in the workplace has shown, those seeking to disrupt businesses and stir up trouble often use the workplace as a springboard to politcal power and companies have every right to avoid employing such indivuduals and sharing inormation about them.)
The usual suspects were wheeled on to vouch for Bevan as a man of the people such as windbag Kinnock.The programme showed that there was a perfectly adequate healthcare insurance system run by employees long before the inception of the NHS which clearly provided all their medical needs but the obvious inference that there was therfor no need whatsoever for a universal national health care system was of course not drawn.The motivation for such a grandiose and unwieldly system was obcviously politically motivated,ideologically driven, designed to give meglamaniac political power lusters self advancement.
Born it would seem with a chip on his shoulder and a smouldering resentment of the successful Bevan was seen as a class warrior by his followers and his bile and inferiority complex came to the fore when well into his career of evil he declared at a public meeting that the Tories were 'vermin'.This played into the hands of his opponents and from that point his star faded and he mercifully died prematurely as all parasites do of cancer thus sparing the country from the fate of his prime ministership which would almost inevitably have taken Britain into Communist rule.
Saturday, March 07, 2009
Capitalism Still Rules
Capitalism may be going through its dark night of the soul but who truly imagines that Socialism is our slavation?It can surely be no coincidence that every time the UK faces financial oblivion there is a Labour government in office.
To believe that Socialism can save Capitalism is to believe that foxes should guard hen houses.Every other politician is on the make,bending the spirit of the law on their expenses and most would not recognise fiancial probity if it kicked them in the teeth.
Brown was never a supporter of the free market and the banks fiasco has been a blessing for him as he gives his Socialist impulses free rein,nationalising the banks and seizing total control of the money supply like any power-crazed third world kleptocrat.
As it has been clearly demonstrated that command style Keynsian economics protracts recessions rather than curing them there is no excuse to go down that road to serfdom again.Only someone historically illiterate could retread that old ground.
The banks should have beeen allowed to take the hit and learn the painful lesson thus being more likely not to repeat such folly in future.The danger of Socialst intervention is that one bail out necessitates the next and future generations of tax payers are in hock to perpetuity.The banks hunger for tax payer bail outs will only grow with the feeding.
To believe that Socialism can save Capitalism is to believe that foxes should guard hen houses.Every other politician is on the make,bending the spirit of the law on their expenses and most would not recognise fiancial probity if it kicked them in the teeth.
Brown was never a supporter of the free market and the banks fiasco has been a blessing for him as he gives his Socialist impulses free rein,nationalising the banks and seizing total control of the money supply like any power-crazed third world kleptocrat.
As it has been clearly demonstrated that command style Keynsian economics protracts recessions rather than curing them there is no excuse to go down that road to serfdom again.Only someone historically illiterate could retread that old ground.
The banks should have beeen allowed to take the hit and learn the painful lesson thus being more likely not to repeat such folly in future.The danger of Socialst intervention is that one bail out necessitates the next and future generations of tax payers are in hock to perpetuity.The banks hunger for tax payer bail outs will only grow with the feeding.
Teacher Teach Thyself
With tens of thousands of children falling off the school rolls at 14,record levels of truancy,(not to mention the thousands of parents who collude with their children's absence by phoning them in sick each morning) perhaps it is time to examine why the State schools are failing so many of their pupils.
We tend to think that if child does not like attending school there must be something wrong with the child but dare it be suggested that there might just be something wrong with school? Rather than addressing this the Government typically approaches the problem from the wrong end and issues a declaration that all children will have to stay in some form of education until they are 18!
Tens of thousands of children leave school unable to read or write which should be a national scandal and yet the government proposes that they remain in a system that has palpably failed them, showing what an extraordinary state of denail it is in.
If we take our car to the mechanic and he fails to fix it do we pay him? Why then do we continue to pay for a school system which is clearly dysfunctional and is failing so many of our children?
The school system should be opened up to competition.The Teachers Union have got a stranglehold on it and the results have been nothing short of calimitous.One teacher at a recent conference even declared boldy that teaching children phonics, ie by the sound of words as opposed to allowing them to guess what words mean, was quote 'Right Wing'!
The curiculum across the board is riddled by an insidious toxic political correctness and Socialist ideology which is enough to dull the minds of the keenest of students.Every subject has been so infected from Geography to History,English to Science.
Schools must be freed from the pernicious sway of Council employed Socialist minded teachers giving parents the freedom to choose their children's education free from State imposed dictat and the cleverly manipulative Social engineering of lottery and postal code selection.Those who choose the independent rout should also be given tax cuts as it is quite wrong not to say immoral for them to be forced to subsides a system they quite justifiaby have no faith in whatsoever.
We tend to think that if child does not like attending school there must be something wrong with the child but dare it be suggested that there might just be something wrong with school? Rather than addressing this the Government typically approaches the problem from the wrong end and issues a declaration that all children will have to stay in some form of education until they are 18!
Tens of thousands of children leave school unable to read or write which should be a national scandal and yet the government proposes that they remain in a system that has palpably failed them, showing what an extraordinary state of denail it is in.
If we take our car to the mechanic and he fails to fix it do we pay him? Why then do we continue to pay for a school system which is clearly dysfunctional and is failing so many of our children?
The school system should be opened up to competition.The Teachers Union have got a stranglehold on it and the results have been nothing short of calimitous.One teacher at a recent conference even declared boldy that teaching children phonics, ie by the sound of words as opposed to allowing them to guess what words mean, was quote 'Right Wing'!
The curiculum across the board is riddled by an insidious toxic political correctness and Socialist ideology which is enough to dull the minds of the keenest of students.Every subject has been so infected from Geography to History,English to Science.
Schools must be freed from the pernicious sway of Council employed Socialist minded teachers giving parents the freedom to choose their children's education free from State imposed dictat and the cleverly manipulative Social engineering of lottery and postal code selection.Those who choose the independent rout should also be given tax cuts as it is quite wrong not to say immoral for them to be forced to subsides a system they quite justifiaby have no faith in whatsoever.
Crime Under The Socialist State
People often wonder why the Government can never come to grips with burgeoning crime when the answer may be staring us in the face - albeit it may somewhat alarming.Big Governments that are ideologically driven do not regard crimes against the individual as being that important and sees social causes behind crime which renders it disinclined to allow the punishment to fit the crime.
What really excercises Governments of a totalitarian stripe is a fictitious concept called 'Crimes against the State' -and for this is punishes people most severely.Failure to comply with tax laws for instance will land you in jail quicker than mugging or burglary.Governments that are Socialist drven will be very lenient on crimes against the individual and very harsh on what it terms 'political crimes'.This explains why we appear to live in a country fit for robbers and muggers and why the innocent have to look over their shoulder in Brown's Britain before expressing an opinion for fear of being apprehended by police force on the lookout for Thoughtcrime.
What really excercises Governments of a totalitarian stripe is a fictitious concept called 'Crimes against the State' -and for this is punishes people most severely.Failure to comply with tax laws for instance will land you in jail quicker than mugging or burglary.Governments that are Socialist drven will be very lenient on crimes against the individual and very harsh on what it terms 'political crimes'.This explains why we appear to live in a country fit for robbers and muggers and why the innocent have to look over their shoulder in Brown's Britain before expressing an opinion for fear of being apprehended by police force on the lookout for Thoughtcrime.
Income Tax Terrorism
Income tax is a tax on intelligence and productivity which is why it is so loved by the Left. It is regressive,redistributive,punitive,egalitarian,Socialistic and profoundly immoral.If we need any tax at all it should be levied on a rational basis and it should not be motivated by discredited 20th century Socialist dogma.
Taxation has rightly been called the tool of tyranny and is a form of slavery forcing the productive to support the idle and shiftless.Workers are effectively slaves to the non workers.
Spare a thought for these hapless taxed drones many of whom have to file their own tax returns and are confronted by what amounts to a tome of inpenetrable jargon and bureaucratese designed by its very opaqueness to intimidate. (The Campaign for Plain English has clearly not penetrated to the inner recesses of the Inland Revenue)Non compliance leads to hefty fines of £100 a month and possibly £60 a day and an eventual jail sentence. Tax collectors have been given extraodinary invasive powers to enter people's homes, intimidate and threaten. A sign on the back of a van sums it up: "fight organised crime: Abolish the Inland Revenue".
Taxation has rightly been called the tool of tyranny and is a form of slavery forcing the productive to support the idle and shiftless.Workers are effectively slaves to the non workers.
Spare a thought for these hapless taxed drones many of whom have to file their own tax returns and are confronted by what amounts to a tome of inpenetrable jargon and bureaucratese designed by its very opaqueness to intimidate. (The Campaign for Plain English has clearly not penetrated to the inner recesses of the Inland Revenue)Non compliance leads to hefty fines of £100 a month and possibly £60 a day and an eventual jail sentence. Tax collectors have been given extraodinary invasive powers to enter people's homes, intimidate and threaten. A sign on the back of a van sums it up: "fight organised crime: Abolish the Inland Revenue".
Library Of The Dumbed Down
The reason charity shops abound in our High Streets is because they are not subject to business tax.Surely in these parlous economic times this business levy should be waived to give a much needed fillip to beleagured business?
Business may be floundering but Government just keeps on getting bigger with more people working for the State than any time in our history.If the market has to pull in its belt why not the State too?
Perhaps a good place to start cost cutting would be with our public libraries which have become surplus to requirements what with the proliferation of said charity shops that sell cheap second hand books and discount book stores including supermarkets.More and more library space has been given over to internet use where seedy furtive looking individuals hunch over computers 'chatting' endlessly online.
The last time I went to my local library there was a large display at the entrance celebrating what was called 'Black History Month' featuring books written by such dubious characters as Malcolm X and Nelson Mandela.I cannot imagine seeing a seeing a similar display celebrating White History Month with books by Enoch Powell somehow.
Newspapers in libraries are available but only catering for those who lean to the Left ie the Guardian, Independent, New Statesman. No Telegraph, Mail, or Spectator. There is an musty odour of municipal Socialism about our public libraries and it is time these not fit for purpose fossilised intitutions were let go.
Business may be floundering but Government just keeps on getting bigger with more people working for the State than any time in our history.If the market has to pull in its belt why not the State too?
Perhaps a good place to start cost cutting would be with our public libraries which have become surplus to requirements what with the proliferation of said charity shops that sell cheap second hand books and discount book stores including supermarkets.More and more library space has been given over to internet use where seedy furtive looking individuals hunch over computers 'chatting' endlessly online.
The last time I went to my local library there was a large display at the entrance celebrating what was called 'Black History Month' featuring books written by such dubious characters as Malcolm X and Nelson Mandela.I cannot imagine seeing a seeing a similar display celebrating White History Month with books by Enoch Powell somehow.
Newspapers in libraries are available but only catering for those who lean to the Left ie the Guardian, Independent, New Statesman. No Telegraph, Mail, or Spectator. There is an musty odour of municipal Socialism about our public libraries and it is time these not fit for purpose fossilised intitutions were let go.
Coucil Tax Grab
The council tax is really a misnomer as it is actually a property tax.It is a pernicious Socialist imposition and has doubled under this wretched Labour administration.
Everyone receives the same 'services' from the council so why should they not pay the same council tax? After all,when people go shopping they are not asked questions about their income or property -everyone pays the same for a loaf of bread and the price of goods and services are not predicated on some absurd egalitarian notion of 'fairness' or 'ability to pay. Only in Government are the laws of logic and justice arbitrarily suppended.
Now and again some hapless OAP is sent to jail for refusing to pay this iniquitous Socialist tax,but if instead of being picked off individually there were to be an en masse non payment a clear message would be sent to this rapacious Government that this council tax is an extortionate criminal tax too far.
Everyone receives the same 'services' from the council so why should they not pay the same council tax? After all,when people go shopping they are not asked questions about their income or property -everyone pays the same for a loaf of bread and the price of goods and services are not predicated on some absurd egalitarian notion of 'fairness' or 'ability to pay. Only in Government are the laws of logic and justice arbitrarily suppended.
Now and again some hapless OAP is sent to jail for refusing to pay this iniquitous Socialist tax,but if instead of being picked off individually there were to be an en masse non payment a clear message would be sent to this rapacious Government that this council tax is an extortionate criminal tax too far.
Conservatism Is Next To Godliness!
I am sick of Conservatism being presented in a negative light in the media. The word Tory has always had a pejorative ring but when BBC presenters utter the word the sneer in their voices is clearly discernible.The word Conservative is only ever used on the BBC in a negative context. To refer to someone or a viewpoint as Conservative is the ultimate condemnation, rendering that person or thing totally beyond the pale and outside any civilised discourse or discussion.
This attitude of intolerance and bigotry is all the more offensive when research has shown that to be Conservative is a sign of highly civilised and evolved dispoisition. Conservatives love their children and take better care of them than liberals,are far less liekly to get divorced,take drugs,commit crime and anti social behaviour or end up in jail.If a survey of prisoner's politcal views were taken it is almost certain that the majority would be of a left persuasion which is why the Liberal party wants to give them the vote.They would hardly be putting forward such an outrageous proposal if prisoners were Conservative in their beliefs!
Conservatives are often charged with lack of compassion but this is just another egregious misrepresentation and slur.The difference betweeen liberals and Conservatives is that liberals have compassion for evil people whereas Conservatives have compassion for good people. Quite a big difference when yiu think about it.
The only criticism of Conservatives I have is that they are too prone to take such misrepresentation lying down and that they are not robust enough in their defence of freedom which is under systematic attack from liberalism. Conservatism is about a small State and defence of individual rights which means minimal taxation and interference from the State in the affairs of the individual.Rather than standing on these core principles Conservatives are too apt to mimic Liberals in moral panic and promise salvation via the State which is a betrayal of everything Conservatism is supposed to stand for. People are crying out for a champion of freedom from the bully State and a populist Conservative party would wipe the floor with the liberal alternatives if only the Conservatives would wake up to this fact and seize the day.
This attitude of intolerance and bigotry is all the more offensive when research has shown that to be Conservative is a sign of highly civilised and evolved dispoisition. Conservatives love their children and take better care of them than liberals,are far less liekly to get divorced,take drugs,commit crime and anti social behaviour or end up in jail.If a survey of prisoner's politcal views were taken it is almost certain that the majority would be of a left persuasion which is why the Liberal party wants to give them the vote.They would hardly be putting forward such an outrageous proposal if prisoners were Conservative in their beliefs!
Conservatives are often charged with lack of compassion but this is just another egregious misrepresentation and slur.The difference betweeen liberals and Conservatives is that liberals have compassion for evil people whereas Conservatives have compassion for good people. Quite a big difference when yiu think about it.
The only criticism of Conservatives I have is that they are too prone to take such misrepresentation lying down and that they are not robust enough in their defence of freedom which is under systematic attack from liberalism. Conservatism is about a small State and defence of individual rights which means minimal taxation and interference from the State in the affairs of the individual.Rather than standing on these core principles Conservatives are too apt to mimic Liberals in moral panic and promise salvation via the State which is a betrayal of everything Conservatism is supposed to stand for. People are crying out for a champion of freedom from the bully State and a populist Conservative party would wipe the floor with the liberal alternatives if only the Conservatives would wake up to this fact and seize the day.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
The Rich ARE Different
The likes of Allan Sillitoe on Desert Island Discs this morning seem to think that the rich create the poor.To paraphrase he said with audible anger in his voice that those who make excess profit from the poor should be strung up on lamp posts.Now let us reason together.If the rich were removed from the picture over night would the poor suddenly find their feet and liberated from the yoke laid on them by the rich become successful,well-off individuals?Does this scenario not stretch credulity to breaking point? Yet it is what is implicit in the Leftist narrative of exploitation and Capitalism.
If the rich did do a disappearing act the poor would have no one to blame for their miserble state than themselves so the Left should pray that the rich will always be with us so they can have a permanent hate figure scape goat upon which to focus their fear and loathing on and upon whom they depend for their carreer of appropriation and plunder via taxation.
If the rich did do a disappearing act the poor would have no one to blame for their miserble state than themselves so the Left should pray that the rich will always be with us so they can have a permanent hate figure scape goat upon which to focus their fear and loathing on and upon whom they depend for their carreer of appropriation and plunder via taxation.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Flat, Stale, Muted, Mannered, Tiresome Obummer Speech
What a damp squib and anti climax it turned out to be.For someone who likes to talk the talk it was a pretty feeble speech with the standard flowery flourishes and mannered verbal conceits, and, reflecting the man,without substance.But very dull. If the million strong rabble were expecting to be roused they would have gone away chastened and disappointed indeed.
The media were fawning and reverential of course having to create the emotion which was so lacking in the speech.The president faltered from the start and nervously stumbled on his oath which will mar his reputation as the great communicator.
The hysteria which has followed this man into office does not bode well and has bordered at times on demented idolatory. One cannot help thinking that this is a wordsmith and not a man of action; someone who is more likely to give a speech in a time of emergency than know what to do about it. The Left love him because he is an intellectual and shares their leftist delusions, but an ability to sway crowds with words is the tool of demagogues down the ages.The Germans who were renowned for their intellectual pedigree and culture were taken in by Hitler and his swooping rhetoric and a good speaker does not a good man make.The most easily suggestible and hypnotisable subjects are intellectuals.As Orwell once observed regarding some ridiculous statement: 'it was the kind of thing only an intellectual could believe'.One has the feeling with Obama that he is the kind of man who can believe at least six impossible things before breakfast.The audacity of hype indeed.
The media were fawning and reverential of course having to create the emotion which was so lacking in the speech.The president faltered from the start and nervously stumbled on his oath which will mar his reputation as the great communicator.
The hysteria which has followed this man into office does not bode well and has bordered at times on demented idolatory. One cannot help thinking that this is a wordsmith and not a man of action; someone who is more likely to give a speech in a time of emergency than know what to do about it. The Left love him because he is an intellectual and shares their leftist delusions, but an ability to sway crowds with words is the tool of demagogues down the ages.The Germans who were renowned for their intellectual pedigree and culture were taken in by Hitler and his swooping rhetoric and a good speaker does not a good man make.The most easily suggestible and hypnotisable subjects are intellectuals.As Orwell once observed regarding some ridiculous statement: 'it was the kind of thing only an intellectual could believe'.One has the feeling with Obama that he is the kind of man who can believe at least six impossible things before breakfast.The audacity of hype indeed.
Thursday, January 08, 2009
UN Hamas Alliance
Thankfully there was no UN during the war with the Nazis giving them succor and aid.This is what the UN is effectively doing in Gazza.Its hostile pronouncements against Israel have shown it to be a biased tendentious pro Arab front rendering it unreliable and pro terrorist and therfor not an organisation which should be supported by western democracies.The EU is equally supporting the Palestinians with tax funded British money which is imoral and insupportable.Both the UN and the EU should be driven out of the Gazza war zone as western journalists have rightly been so that Israel can get on with the job of crushing Hammas.All the while they are there they are giving aid and support to those who seek the destruction of the West and that is a fundamentally immoral and active collusion with evil.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Gaaza Reaps The Whirlwind
The timely assault on Gaza by the Israelis has been met with the drearily predictable and almost universal condemnation of it in the world's press.The rest of the world seems to hold Israel to a different standard, demanding from it behaviour it would never dream of applying to itself.Talk of 'disproportionality' is peddalled by the UN and other bodies of so called respectable world opinion,the same organisasions which have looked on as genocide takes place around the world without lifting a finger.
The protest around the world from hooligan semi barbarian foam-flecked arabs is also part of the tired and predictable circus that follows whenever Israel dares to stand up and defend itself from the psychopathic Hammas scum who hurl their rockets at civilian targets in Israel and terrorise the residents therin.London in particular seems to play host to these human faeces where no less than a thousand lay seige to the Israli embassy and the police were unable to contain them at first.Surely these specimens of human offal should be arrested and summarily deported back to the hell holes from whence they came.
Israel is no doubt mindful that it needs to sort out Hammas once and for all before the muslim terrorist loving Barak Hussein Osama arrives at the Whitehouse and sells Israel down the river.All right minded people will wish Israel all success in routing the criminal terrorist Hammas and sending a clear message to the so called Palestinians that if they vote for such a psychopathic regime which wages war on Israel and seeks its destruction they themselves will face anhiliation.
The protest around the world from hooligan semi barbarian foam-flecked arabs is also part of the tired and predictable circus that follows whenever Israel dares to stand up and defend itself from the psychopathic Hammas scum who hurl their rockets at civilian targets in Israel and terrorise the residents therin.London in particular seems to play host to these human faeces where no less than a thousand lay seige to the Israli embassy and the police were unable to contain them at first.Surely these specimens of human offal should be arrested and summarily deported back to the hell holes from whence they came.
Israel is no doubt mindful that it needs to sort out Hammas once and for all before the muslim terrorist loving Barak Hussein Osama arrives at the Whitehouse and sells Israel down the river.All right minded people will wish Israel all success in routing the criminal terrorist Hammas and sending a clear message to the so called Palestinians that if they vote for such a psychopathic regime which wages war on Israel and seeks its destruction they themselves will face anhiliation.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Rowan's Archbishop Prick Laugh In
The Druid was at it again this morning on the Today programme, giving his Christmas lecture.What do you think it was about gentle reader? The scourge of abortion,the tragedy of single parent mothers of 16,the UK's highest sexual disease rate of teenagers in the Western world,the legions of people lost forever in the twilight world of welfare dependency,drug addiction and crime? Silly! It was about the scourge of(wait for it),unregulated Capitalism!
The country may be tetering on the edge of moral abyss but Rowan does not appear to have noticed,or if he has, thinks it not worth a mention.No,he is troubled about financial greed, the loss of collective consciousness,materialsm and of course,the environment.All the political fixations of the Left featured in the archbishop's ramblings, fetching up finally with his comments that it would really not be that a bad thing if disestablishment took place,by which time even the most ardent and traditional Constitutionalist could be forgiven for agreeing with him.
The country may be tetering on the edge of moral abyss but Rowan does not appear to have noticed,or if he has, thinks it not worth a mention.No,he is troubled about financial greed, the loss of collective consciousness,materialsm and of course,the environment.All the political fixations of the Left featured in the archbishop's ramblings, fetching up finally with his comments that it would really not be that a bad thing if disestablishment took place,by which time even the most ardent and traditional Constitutionalist could be forgiven for agreeing with him.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Up With The Fairies
Richard Branson attempted to cross the Atlantic in a yacht with his son and daughter.It was known to be a risky possibly life threatening escapade with the possiblity of breaking the world record.Why would he do this,threatening not only his life but those of his children as well? He asked the question and arrived at the rationale that life is about adventure.We tend to arrive at the answer to our questions that we want in self serving way dressing it up in high sounding language.
One explanation for this derring do is that modern man lives a relatively safe soft existence with no real life threatening events as his forefathers did and so seeks to artificially recreate danger and challenge in order to grow egotistically and derive energy from this interraction with danger,hence the phenomenon of 'extreme sports', where adrenalin-rush junkies get their fix dicing with death.
In Branson's case this could be tendency exacerbated by the fact that he lives surrounded by the luxury of the very rich and requires life challenging events to offset the ennui of riches and soft living.HIs mother told him to get out the car and walk home five miles when he was four years old.Unsurprisingly he got lost.Was this the trauma that set him on the path of high adventure? The mother's argument was that his childhood contemporaries were soft spoiled namby pambies going to birthday parties and she wanted him to be independent and strong. If a mother attempoted that today her child would possibly become prey to unwanted attentions of a paedophile, or be sent in to care.
At the end of the TV programme(on Virgin channel of course) Branson tells his daughter that if he could be a Disney character it would be Peter Pan the JM Barrie creation who never grew up. He would like to flap his wings at will and fly away,forever child-like.This could be good or bad.We have lots of men-children who retain their love of childhood things long after they should have relinquished them such as those who swear life-long allegiance to a football club or continue to buy pop and rock cds etc.On the other hand JC declares that no man can enter heaven unless he become a little child.
One gets the impression with Branson that for him there is no higher being than man,life is for adventure as he affirms,and that there is nothing beyond this life.If that is the case why not indulge in danger sports,carry on an open marriage(as he confesses, and sell condoms? Talk of a creator with a purpose for man would probably only elicit from him a bemused blank stare.
In place of God Branson seems to offer an ersatz humanistic religiosity.His business we are informed, is not for his children to squander in some playboy-girl fashion,dipping their fingers in his 'honey pot' empire for their personal pleasures.It is to serve a higher purpose,the community and environment.Perhaps he should come clean and admit that all those years ago when he was starting his empire the thing that motivated him was money fame and success,not some grim altruistic perverted philanthropic inpulse all entrepreneurs feel compelled to articulate these days, driven by some unwritten misguided politically correct ideology.
One explanation for this derring do is that modern man lives a relatively safe soft existence with no real life threatening events as his forefathers did and so seeks to artificially recreate danger and challenge in order to grow egotistically and derive energy from this interraction with danger,hence the phenomenon of 'extreme sports', where adrenalin-rush junkies get their fix dicing with death.
In Branson's case this could be tendency exacerbated by the fact that he lives surrounded by the luxury of the very rich and requires life challenging events to offset the ennui of riches and soft living.HIs mother told him to get out the car and walk home five miles when he was four years old.Unsurprisingly he got lost.Was this the trauma that set him on the path of high adventure? The mother's argument was that his childhood contemporaries were soft spoiled namby pambies going to birthday parties and she wanted him to be independent and strong. If a mother attempoted that today her child would possibly become prey to unwanted attentions of a paedophile, or be sent in to care.
At the end of the TV programme(on Virgin channel of course) Branson tells his daughter that if he could be a Disney character it would be Peter Pan the JM Barrie creation who never grew up. He would like to flap his wings at will and fly away,forever child-like.This could be good or bad.We have lots of men-children who retain their love of childhood things long after they should have relinquished them such as those who swear life-long allegiance to a football club or continue to buy pop and rock cds etc.On the other hand JC declares that no man can enter heaven unless he become a little child.
One gets the impression with Branson that for him there is no higher being than man,life is for adventure as he affirms,and that there is nothing beyond this life.If that is the case why not indulge in danger sports,carry on an open marriage(as he confesses, and sell condoms? Talk of a creator with a purpose for man would probably only elicit from him a bemused blank stare.
In place of God Branson seems to offer an ersatz humanistic religiosity.His business we are informed, is not for his children to squander in some playboy-girl fashion,dipping their fingers in his 'honey pot' empire for their personal pleasures.It is to serve a higher purpose,the community and environment.Perhaps he should come clean and admit that all those years ago when he was starting his empire the thing that motivated him was money fame and success,not some grim altruistic perverted philanthropic inpulse all entrepreneurs feel compelled to articulate these days, driven by some unwritten misguided politically correct ideology.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
A Shoe-In For Bush
No one can say George Bush has not seen action in Iraq. He ducked those low flying Iraqi shoe missiles with all the aplomb of a true military professional. I was so impressed.Pity we cannot have another four years.Maybe some grandson of Lee Harvey Oswald is waiting in the wings to save America from the horror just around the corner.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Ex Post Facto Rationalisation De Nationalisation
It's Christmas, so that can only mean one thing: a postal strike! Was all of this carefully planned? First they whine and create a fictitious story about being made to trot at 6 miles an hour and a few days later they announce a strike to inconvenience a badly served public stuck with an antedelluvian clapped out socialist institution which is little more than a thinly disguised welfare programme for the workshy.
The Left love the post office because it holds up a mirror image of themselves,bone-idle, incompetent,locked in the past and morribund.Today a report reveals that this socialist monstrosity is about to bleed the taxpayers dry with a pensioners deficit blackhole which will mortgage future generations to infinity if it is not fully denationalised.As the tories seem happy to buy into the myth of the Post Office as social service and instrument of social cohesion there is next to no chance that we will ever be rid of this absurdist surealist nightmare of socialist State-bound mediocrity masquerading as a public service.
The Left love the post office because it holds up a mirror image of themselves,bone-idle, incompetent,locked in the past and morribund.Today a report reveals that this socialist monstrosity is about to bleed the taxpayers dry with a pensioners deficit blackhole which will mortgage future generations to infinity if it is not fully denationalised.As the tories seem happy to buy into the myth of the Post Office as social service and instrument of social cohesion there is next to no chance that we will ever be rid of this absurdist surealist nightmare of socialist State-bound mediocrity masquerading as a public service.
Ian Dumnkopf Smith
IDS sounded really wet today on the UK's asylum pile-up catastrophe.We have no control over our borders because of the EU which declares that anyone denizen from within the EU can pile into this overcrowded isle, and he was skirting round the issue in a most pathetic way, seemingly more concerned about the welfare of the asylum seekers than that of the British people who are the hapless victims of successive government's calamitous criminal open door come one come all immigration non policy.
There are about 10 million immigrants in the UK who have no business here at all and there should be a five year programme of shipping and flying all of these out of the UK and back to their country of origin.Only those who run lucrative profitable businesses should be allowed to stay,the rest are not welcome.A tiny island,we are sinking under the weight of alien hordes,creating a multicultural cesspit.Al queda operatives are walking our streets claiming job seekers allowance and housing benefits et al and the EU 'Human Rihghts' law renders us powerless to deport them.Only a country with a death wish would tolerate this state of affairs.
There are about 10 million immigrants in the UK who have no business here at all and there should be a five year programme of shipping and flying all of these out of the UK and back to their country of origin.Only those who run lucrative profitable businesses should be allowed to stay,the rest are not welcome.A tiny island,we are sinking under the weight of alien hordes,creating a multicultural cesspit.Al queda operatives are walking our streets claiming job seekers allowance and housing benefits et al and the EU 'Human Rihghts' law renders us powerless to deport them.Only a country with a death wish would tolerate this state of affairs.
Friday, December 12, 2008
Murder Unavenged
The TV programme last night on the killing of Jamie Bulger by two 10 year olds a decade ago was chilling apart from the obvious reason of ten year olds going out with murder in mind in a cool detatched calculating premeditated cold blooded psychopathic fashion,but chiefly because of the way the judicial system handled the case which was nothing short of disgraceful and will be seen as a landmark case highlighting the moral abyss into which the criminal justice system has plunged.
There was no justice in this case as in so many others with the judiciary seemingly in the hands of people bereft of humanity who were hell bent on cosseting these two monsters and releasing them at the earliest moment possible after just eight years in the teeth of doughty opposition from the grieving mother who was no match for the liberal establishment of course who have given these two preternatural peices of human offal a whole new identitiy,and a brand new start in life with a legal order of silence imposed on the local authorities to maintain their anonymity.
It is clear that the only place these two belong is dangling at the end of a rope,but what can be said of the kind of people who run our judiciary who arrived at such a perverse counter intuitive judgement? For them there is no mitigating circumstances,no excuses,no exculpation,they stand condemned as moral delinquents,accessories to the fact, enablers of evil,facilitatos of gross injustice which cries up to heaven for correction.
There was no justice in this case as in so many others with the judiciary seemingly in the hands of people bereft of humanity who were hell bent on cosseting these two monsters and releasing them at the earliest moment possible after just eight years in the teeth of doughty opposition from the grieving mother who was no match for the liberal establishment of course who have given these two preternatural peices of human offal a whole new identitiy,and a brand new start in life with a legal order of silence imposed on the local authorities to maintain their anonymity.
It is clear that the only place these two belong is dangling at the end of a rope,but what can be said of the kind of people who run our judiciary who arrived at such a perverse counter intuitive judgement? For them there is no mitigating circumstances,no excuses,no exculpation,they stand condemned as moral delinquents,accessories to the fact, enablers of evil,facilitatos of gross injustice which cries up to heaven for correction.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
State Educashon - Dumb and Dumber
Soon all children will have to stay in some form of education till they are 18- a sort of protracted illiteracy programme to keep them off the unemployment rolls. The dumbed-down curicula is plumbing ever new depths with the government's numbingly moronic proposal yesterday to scrap subjects like geography and history in favour of a politically correct miasma of studies in touchy feelyism,exploring emotions and Mickey Mouse soft social non-subjects to boost exam results and further erode the last scintilla of academic rigour in the sorry State education system.
Now why would any government want its subjects to be geographically and historically ignorant I wonder?
Now why would any government want its subjects to be geographically and historically ignorant I wonder?
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