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Whizjet's avatar

I’ll be listening.

I believe that out of all our political Leaders since the 1960s, only two have actually believed in this country and worked to improve things for its people.

One of those was Margaret Thatcher, the other is Nigel Farage.

The rest of them have been a rag-bag of dishonest, egregious, meretricious, self-absorbed and self-obsessed, pathocratic, opportunistic megalomaniacs.

And our present ‘leader’ fits all of those adjectives.

Carole Waters's avatar

Perfect descriptions of the utter morons that have and are currently running the country into the ground!

Ken Norman's avatar

Wow, that's quite a list of adjectives there, Whizz!

I like them, tho. 👍🏻

Whizjet's avatar

Think Wilson, Heath, Callaghan, Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Johnson, Starmer and Burnham - you’d need a specialist scatalogical dictionary to properly cover them all!

pottybird53's avatar

Brilliantly put!👍🎊🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Evola's Sunglasses's avatar

It's important for the Right to understand if we are to win. That millions of our own people who live in post industrial wastelands are on welfare and fear the Right will take it away from them and provide no economic solutions.

Thatcher achieved many things but see did speed up the de-industrialisation of Britain and now our manufacturing and industrial base is in China.

Whizjet's avatar
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She ended the myth that we could survive on inefficient and loss making nationalised industries.

I long ago came to the conclusion that she was not actually Conservative - because Tories before and after her behaved like the LibLabCon UniParty they actually are.

Evola's Sunglasses's avatar

But we now have no industry.

We are completely exposed with a catastrophic Trade Deficit

David Asquith's avatar

All together now, “Things can only get worser”. 🎶

Sam's avatar

I'm not so sure Burnham can go for an early election now Matt. He's just lied to the people of Makerfields faces and a lot of them will be furious with him (rightfully)

I think Labour are looking for another seat for him which will take time.

Ken Norman's avatar

My God, those numbers are truly staggering. For a country that should be, and once was, leading the way financially and in many other ways, we are now not only completely and utterly broke, we are massively deep in debt and, embarrassingly, the laughing stock of the entire planet.

If I could move to Zeta Reticulae, I would. 😡

Richard Riley's avatar

I agree entirely Ken. In the space of 100 years, we have gone from superpower with the worlds largest empire to a bankrupt state riddled with self hate, despair, delusion and no hope. That's quite some feat.

Gerry Box's avatar

Suggest everyone watches Triggernometry’s latest discussion with Dr Robert Pape : This is the age of political violence. Admire what he’s trying to do, much is very relevant to what we are experiencing.

Colin Martin's avatar

One thing is for sure, our politicians (and this goes for the Conservatives too, as they consolidated these policies during 14 years in power) are DELIBERATELY destroying the wealth of this country. Every measure taken removes wealth and thus the incentive to create wealth; the Treasury is even taxing the interest made by investments of money that has already been taxed! What is the point in working hard if your money is given away to useless, lazy people? On top of this, VAST sums, countless billions, are given away to foreign despots as 'aid', and because we do not have this money to give away it simply goes onto the National Debt, thereby increasing the interest payments that we have to find!!!

We are utterly, utterly bankrupt and because this is being done deliberately, then it follows that the Government must have a plan for us, some sort of goal, a final destination to be reached. My guess is that it is all tied-up in Agenda 30, the UN's plan to equalize the wealth of the world, which is where Net Zero comes in, whereby we close down any ability to create wealth that we have and move all our wealth to the Third World. Mass immigration also ties in with this because as these hordes arrive they immediately begin sucking on the teat of the welfare state, which further reduces the wealth of those who have paid into the system. Make no mistake, the French riots are coming, and will reduce this country to a flaming wreck. The end is nigh.

Sam's avatar

Also look in history at the type of person who would stand up and organise resistance against this type of thing, and then look at the type of person the government attacks at every opportunity. You will see they are the same group.

Colin Martin's avatar

Yes, lawfare used against anyone who tries to organize opposition - Nigel, Tommy Robinson, Danny Tommo, Young Bob...... I read an article this morning in 'The Daily Sceptic' that stated that today, 50% of our GDP is spent by the Government, but 100 years ago the figure was 5%! When you realize that personal money equals freedom, but Government spending equals slavery, it all makes sense. Thatcher's mission was to create personal wealth, thus freeing people from the Socialist welfare trap, but today's politicians are aiming to make everyone dependent upon welfare and dependency on the state, by driving down wages, so that it is extremely hard to earn enough money to support yourself without state handouts.

Sam's avatar

Yes. Unfortunately it seems that Communism keeps evolving independently whenever the conditions for it arise - and we all know where it ends up.

Kevan Chippindall-Higgin's avatar

I have just received an email from the Rassemblement Nationale confirming that the French Govertnment is imposing a 0.8% surcharge on all domestic and car insurance policies to pay for the damage caused by the rioting.

I wonder how many frustrated Frenchmen will thinking if they are paying for it anyway, they may as well get their money's worth. It would be a tragicomedy if this resulted in even more riots.

Kevan Chippindall-Higgin's avatar

Every single tax ever raised has been to solve an immediate problem,starting with income tax on the very rich at 6d (2.5 pence) in the pound to fund the Napoleonic Wars. Every single tax ever raised has never gone down once the immediate problem had been dealt with.

Government swiftly became addicted to our money and that addiction has only got worse. Pensions have been destroyed because Gordon Brown taxed pension dividends at 40%. At a stroke, the income into a pension fund was reduced by that amount, so it grew progressively more slowly. After 40 years, that is a lot of growth gone. Government's answer? Put more money in.

Then Labour finally woke up to the pension crisis and brought in the workplace pension which was on top of NI contributions for the national pension. This was a voluntary scheme, but woe betide you if you did not vounteer.

Every rise in VAT has been at the hands of the Tories. This mob promised not to raise VAT at the last election and even Labour is not brazen enough to break this promise. Well, not until the country is fully bankrupted and prostrate.

One solution is government. It keeps growing by creating make work schemes that gum up business, imposes considerable direct costs and immense indirect costs.

We need to look at complete departements, ministries in old speak and evaluate what would happen if they suddenly closed. If the answer is nothing, keep them closed, fire the staff and sell the buildings. If the answer is a few things would cause problems, parcel them out around essential ministries.

Then an in depth investigation must be made into how each department operates. As the old gag goes, "How many people work for you?" "About half, but I do not know which half." Investigating the non productive and obstructive half needs to be done. DIE could be dispensed with at a stroke as could net zero. I am sure there are plenty of operations within government that contribute nothing to its running and outcomes but everyone is busy, busy, busy.

Government is all about inputs. Outcomes rarely cause concern. That thinking must be turned upside down. Decide on the desired outcomes and then work out how to acheive them.

There will be a shock somewhere along the line. There is so much tension in the country that something is bound to give. I do not know what or when, but when it comes it will be ugly.

Evola's Sunglasses's avatar

Our political class has completely failed.

100 years of humiliation.

Max Lite's avatar

Reform won't win the next GE but the disaster of Labour is the opportunity for the next incarnation of the Right. That's the best to hope for now.