4. Where
we are today
Where are we today? In a nutshell: The current political
system has failed. Government, the very institution that is supposed to defend
and uphold the rights and freedoms of human beings against criminals and
wrongdoers, has been taken over by, and is being run by, a cadre of those same
criminals and wrongdoers.
Our enemies are using against us many political tools. Such
as: Making bad, oppressive and restrictive laws. Arbitrary and unjust taxation,
at both national and local levels, which has already reached historic highs,
and is trending upwards at an unprecedented speed. Allowing the corporate
cronies, that constitute their client class, to impose on us extortions, such
as out-of-control energy and water bills. Arbitrary, often collective,
ever-tightening limits on what we may do. And violating our human rights, such
as privacy, the presumption of innocence, freedom of speech and freedom of
movement.
Governments and their cronies are coming to treat us like
resources to be exploited, objects, or even mere numbers in a database; not
with the dignity due to us as human beings. Their approach to the COVID
pandemic was to trash our rights and freedoms on the bad excuse of some
nebulous idea of “safety.” The untried-technology COVID vaccines, though touted
as safe and effective, turned out once rolled out to be ineffective at stopping
the spread of the virus, and to have more bad side-effects than any other vaccine
in history. Yet governments forced many people either to take the vaccines, or
to lose their jobs.
The results in terms of excess deaths and other damaging
medical conditions have been dire. So much so, that government statistical data
about these areas, which was previously made public, is often no longer
available. People, who want up-to-date “official” data, cannot find it any
more. Worse, government changes the definition of established metrics like
“excess deaths,” in order to make the situation look less bad than it really
is. Further, those who speak out about these issues are, in effect, being censored.
And there are plans to roll out lots more vaccines of the same type in the
future.
On top of this, globalist, internationalist, religious,
environmentalist and corporate élites seek to shape political policies around
the world to suit their own vested interests. Organizations like the United
Nations and the European Union have risen, grown, and become more and more
corrupt and tyrannical. And “non-governmental” and nominally private
organizations have joined the bandwagon too. Among these are the World Economic
Forum (WEF), with its “Global Redesign” and “Great Reset.” And the World
Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), an organization of
multi-national companies which “brings together transformational organizations
to form a global community that shifts the systems they work within towards a
better future.”
Meanwhile, advisors and influencers, bureaucrats, technocrats
and “experts,” green, religious or political-correctness maniacs, churchmen, financial
and big-business élites, mainstream media and Big Tech, academics and
activists, and some that are several of the above, fall over each other to take
as much as they can from us, and do as much harm to us as they can.
Since the recent UK election
Further, in the UK, we have recently come through (in July
2024) a “democratic” election process. Through this, the Labour political
faction have acquired all but unbridled power. Yet they acquired that power
with the expressed consent of only 20% of those eligible to vote. 80% of us did
not want Labour, and 54% of us (including the 40% who did not vote at all) did
not want any of the four mainstream political parties. That so much power can
be gained on the basis of so few votes is not justifiable in any democracy.
And despite promising to create “change,” Labour are
carrying on with the same old attitudes as the previous, discredited Tory
government. Dishonesty, corruption, cronyism, interfering in our lives on any
excuse, high and ever-increasing taxes, extreme green policies, unbridled
immigration, tyrannical “public health” policies, arbitrary and ever-tightening
limits harshly enforced, seeking scapegoats to punish unjustly, and more.
Indeed, they seem to be doing everything they can to double down on us, and give
us ever more and more of the same.
I must declare a personal interest here. I have been for 25
years a victim of a bad law called IR35, which has ruined my career as a
one-man software consultant. Over a quarter of a century, I have been prevented
from earning at least three quarters of a million pounds I should have been
able to. The effect has been to force me down into poverty in my old age. I
will never forgive either Labour who initiated the policy, or the Tories who,
far from repealing it as they initially promised to, actually made it more
severe.
During the summer of 2024, riots sprang up in many different
areas of England. The ostensible grievances behind different riots were
different. One was sparked by government overreach. Another by a multiple child
murder. Others by police bias. Yet others by discontent over immigration
policy, now a hot topic in the minds of many people on all sides of the issue.
But there seems to be in all these cases a common thread. People feel alienated
from a system that, instead of working for them, is actively working against
them.
And Labour and their establishment fellow travellers’
response to all this? To lock up as many people as they can, particularly those
who disagree with them politically. While at the same time releasing real
criminals from prison early to make room for them. To suppress freedom of
speech, particularly on social media, even harder than the Tories did. To drop
altogether a proposed bill to protect free speech in universities, and another
to improve the accuracy of history teaching in schools. And to seek to blame
“far-right thugs” or “fascists” for all today’s ills, when the real blame lies
with the political system and those in charge of it.
On top of all this, almost every day we hear yet more
proposals for state interference in our daily lives. Such as banning smoking
(already banned inside) in pubs’ beer gardens and many other public spaces.
Forcing pubs to close earlier. Minimum prices on alcohol – raking in yet more
tax revenue. And a whole raft of rights-violating measures in a Northern
Ireland “public health bill.” These are touted as “public health” measures, but
it’s obvious the real intention is to take away our freedom to make our own
decisions. The UK government is setting up a tyranny in matters of public
health, not at all far away from the extreme proposals which the United Nations
and its World Health Organization (WHO) have been and are peddling.
They are taking away from pensioners the benefit they have
received the last two years to help them keep warm through winter, at a time
when energy prices are rising rapidly due to bad green policies. Without doing
any objective analysis on how many will die, and contrary to their rhetoric
before the election. They are cheering about it, too!
And there’s more. For example, they want facial recognition
cameras to track people as they go about their daily lives. They also want more
cameras to catch car drivers out doing things like not wearing seat belts, to
give excuses to fine them heavily. And they are bullying us, and seriously
threatening our freedoms, including freedom of speech. It looks as if they are
indulging in an orgy of suppressing our rights and freedoms, just for the hell
of it.
To summarize what Labour are doing to us, I would say they
are doing everything they can think of to bring in more revenue for, and to
increase the power of, the political state. While doing absolutely nothing to
bring any benefits to the people they are supposed to be serving. They are
serving, not the people of the UK as they should be doing, but the state. While
feathering their nests, and indulging their own pet political projects, at the
same time.
They are also singling out groups of innocent people, like
pensioners, for especially callous victimization. They obviously think of us as
expendable “useless eaters.” And yet, there is no group of human beings in the
world more deserving of support than old people, who have played their full
part in the economy, but due to their age can no longer do so. Any
self-respecting African tribe would be horrified at the idea of their elders,
far from being valued for their wisdom and advice, being left to stew in undeserved
poverty. Besides, those who have earned a good life deserve to be able to enjoy
the remainder of it. And unlike children, many old people have no-one else to
look after them.
In any sane welfare system, people who have paid into the
system for half a century or more ought to be first in the queue for help. So,
by targeting pensioners as victims, Labour are tacitly admitting that the
welfare state, in the form in which Labour themselves built it in the 1940s,
has failed. A “welfare state” that cannot, or will not, support its old people
is a broken system. It has got to go.
And now, it looks as if Labour plan to offer “reparations”
to Caribbean countries for the slavery that was imposed on people by slave
traders in the 17th and 18th centuries. To be paid for,
of course, by taxpayers. But not a single individual alive in the UK today, as
far as I know, has either enslaved anyone, or benefited from slavery by even
one penny. So, none of us human beings have any reason either to accept any
guilt for slavery, or to pay a single penny to assuage anyone’s guilt. The
whole idea is farcical. You might as well claim reparations from the French for
the Norman conquest, or from the EU for the Roman invasion of 55 BC. Anyone
that promotes or supports any such scheme ought to be made to pay for it
themselves, personally.
And then there is prime minister Keir Starmer, at the UN’s
CoP 29 climate “conference of the parties” in Baku, Azerbaijan. Making “an
ambitious commitment to cut UK emissions by 81 per cent by 2035, compared with
1990 levels.” Yet another tightening of a “target” that should never
have been there in the first place. This is exactly the kind of crap that so
many of us supported Brexit in order to get away from. Yet Starmer says he
“wants to get ahead of the game.” Ahead of the game in destroying industry and
the economy in the UK, that is. We the people of the UK are not amused.
And then there is Starmer’s giant tax-grab, which will force
family farms out of business by making them pay inheritance taxes they can’t
afford. Unsurprisingly, this has begun to trigger pushback from the farmers;
and their support among the public is increasing. This has the smell of a
dispute that is likely to get very nasty indeed. And could very seriously
damage food security for everyone in the UK.
But it’s even worse than that. For the inheritance tax grab
will hit, not just farmers, but every family-owned business in the land. The
implications are enormous. If entrepreneurs who have built family businesses
are no longer able to pass on their business to their children, that will close
down a whole swathe of the economy. And the people worst hit by this will be
precisely the kind of independent, self-reliant business people, who are
already on the rocks due to the bad policies of successive UK governments. This
is simply social engineering, designed to hit and hurt a victim class of
productive people, whom the establishment don’t like.
Then there is the VAT tax grab on private school fees. This
hits not only the big upper-class schools like Eton, but also small independent
schools, including Catholic and Muslim ones. Again, this tax grab harms
independent people, while increasing the power of the state.
As the TaxPayers’ Alliance has recently put it: “From
business owners to farmers to families to entrepreneurs, if you’re not part of
this Labour government’s client state, they’re coming for you and whatever
you’re managing to make to support yourself and your family.”
And then there is Starmer’s lame reply to a parliamentary
petition asking for a fresh general election, which attracted more than 2.75
million signatures in its first week, and now has over 3 million. Including
mine, of course! The petition specifically stated that Labour “have gone back
on the promises they laid out in the lead up to the last election.” Instead of
trying to refute this assertion, all Starmer had to say was “that isn’t how the
system works.” The reality is, that from the point of view of ordinary people,
the “system” doesn’t work at all.
The Pact for the Future
At the end of September, a party of our supposed
“representatives” took a jolly to New York, to a United Nations event called
the “Summit for the Future.” This was horribly reminiscent of the 1992 “Earth
Summit,” which has led to so many bad policies that are being imposed on us
today. At that meeting, they agreed on three documents: a “Pact for the
Future,” a “Global Digital Compact” and a “Declaration on Future Generations.”
I immediately noticed three strange things about this
summit. One, I saw nothing about it in any of the media until the meeting was
under way. Two, this jolly could not have been initiated by Labour since they
took power, since they had been in for less than three months. Therefore, it
must have been arranged by the Tories, and agreed to by Labour. Three, neither
Tories nor Labour mentioned such a pact in their manifestos. I wonder why not?
So, there has been collusion between the main parties on the issue. And there
has been no consultation of us human beings about any of this, no debate on the
issues, and no opportunity to speak out against their plans to sign us up,
against our wills, to yet more destructive UN agendas. Hardly democratic, is
it?
Reading the “Pact for the Future,” it is yet another example
of the usual, mealy-mouthed, anti-human, UN-speak. I have severe doubts about
the mental state of those that wrote things like: “We are at a time of profound
global transformation.” “We are confronted by rising catastrophic and
existential risks, mainly caused by the choices we make.” “We risk tipping into
a future of persistent crisis and breakdown.” I wonder what they have been
smoking; it must have been a pretty bad trip.
And then… “Our challenges… can only be addressed
collectively.” “Today, we pledge a new beginning in multilateralism.” They seem
to be admitting that the UN has failed. But they want not only to go on with
it, but to double down on what it has been doing.
And what do they want to do to us? “We will urgently
accelerate progress towards achieving the [Sustainable Development] Goals.” “We
commit to accelerate meeting our obligations under the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement.” That looks to me like more
than just doubling down! And: “We will place people at the centre of all our
actions.” What as – in the cross-hairs, as helpless targets?
When in 2022 I wrote an article on the sustainable
development goals, I summarized them as follows:
·
The United Nations’ “Sustainable Development
Goals” agenda is a blueprint for the destruction of human civilization as we
know it, and for tyranny by a self-appointed global ruling class over every
human being alive.
·
For at least 30 years, the UK government has
been a major leader in the stampede towards the “sustainable development”
agenda. They have done this without allowing us, the people they are supposed
to serve, any other choice, or any chance to object.
·
The main thrust of the agenda is a global power
grab by an international élite of the rich and powerful, at the expense of
ordinary people. The world-view of its promoters, far from being “cultural
Marxism” or anything like it, seems to be a globalist, feminist form of
fascism.
Then there are the doses of genderism, racism and ageism,
that seem to be obligatory in UN documents. “Gender equality and the
empowerment of all women and girls.” The word “women” occurs 50 times, whereas
“men” doesn’t occur at all. There is special honour for “Indigenous Peoples,”
although it doesn’t look as if that includes those of us whose ancestors were
already here in England at the Norman conquest. And then we have “young”
mentioned 37 times and “youth” 39, against 4 mentions for “older people.” And
the interests of those alive today are to be subordinated to those of “future
generations.”
Cancelling elections
On January 8th 2025, the ruling Tory group on
Surrey County Council, my second-tier local council, chose to force through a
decision to write to the government “to request that Surrey is part of a ‘first
wave’ of areas looking to take the opportunities presented by the government’s
devolution agenda.” Now “devolution,” if the word means anything, ought to
bring local government closer to home for everyone, through smaller local
councils with more autonomy. Yet what Labour have in mind, according to the
leader of the District Councils Network, is quite the opposite: “mega councils
imposed on communities” without any regard for the views of local people. That
is what it looks like to me, too.
As a result, the elections scheduled for May 2025 are to
be postponed for anything up to three years, without the people being allowed
any say in the matter, or consulted on the new set-up. This is such an obvious
stitch-up to prevent the people of Surrey expressing their anger, and Reform
UK, Lib Dems and Independents gaining seats and power at the expense of Tories
and Labour, that my immediate reaction was: “The Tories have shot themselves in
the foot, and everyone else in the belly.”
Looking wider, the fact that a significant number of rural
county councils are deciding to take the same route as Surrey shows that county
councillors in those counties are selfishly scrambling to prevent elections
being held, in which they and their parties have a good chance of being kicked
out of power. They are nakedly serving their own interests and agendas, not the
people who pay for their “jobs.”
The “climate and nature” bill and “Zero Hour”
In the last few days of 2024, I discovered the “climate and
nature” bill. Originally touted in 2020 by a Green MP as the “Climate and
Ecology Bill,” this bill was surreptitiously re-introduced as a private
member’s bill by a Labour MP in 2023. It was supported by current or former MPs
of no less than seven establishment political parties.
In its 2023 wording, the bill sets a “climate target” based
on the Paris agreement, which many other countries in the world, including the
USA, are now beginning to distance themselves from. It also demands that the UK
“halts and reverses its overall contribution to the degradation and loss of
nature in the United Kingdom and overseas.” Yet no evidence is provided of any
such “contribution” to any “degradation and loss.” Is not putting some deity
yclept “nature” ahead of the interests of us human beings, when no government
has any right to exist without being a nett benefit to us, treason against us
and our civilization?
The bill also demands that the UK government bring about: “the
end of the exploration, export and import of fossil fuels by the United Kingdom
as rapidly as possible.” And “avoidance,” “limiting,” “restoring” or
“offsetting” of “adverse impacts in the United Kingdom and overseas on
ecosystems and human health” of “United Kingdom-generated production and
consumption of goods and services” and “all related trade, transport and
financing.” This looks to me like a demand, not only to rapidly end all use of
fossil fuels in the UK, but also to end all economic and financial freedom. It
is, obviously, a recipe for economic collapse too.
The bill’s second reading took place on January 24th.
A shadowy, extremist organization called “Zero Hour” was pushing this bill. It
appears to be, in origin, a private limited company, first set up in August
2020. It claims to have 60,000 supporters in all. “Zero Hour” claims the
support of almost 200 members of parliament, from 10 different parties. These
include 88 Labour and Labour Co-op (22% of their MPs), 72 Liberal Democrat
(100%!), 12 Independents (80%), six SNP (67%), four Greens (100%), four Plaid
Cymru (100%), two Tories (2%), two SDLP (100%), one Alliance (100%) and one DUP
(20%). It also claims support from more than 50 peers (including 24 baronesses
and seven bishops), six mayors (including Sadiq Khan, of course), 34 borough
councils, including mine, and more than 300 other councils.
The cat, so to speak, is out of the bag. No longer can
anyone be in any doubt that a substantial proportion of the UK political
establishment are setting out their stall to destroy our industrial
civilization. This particular bill failed on January 24th, because
someone of relative sanity inside government seems to have decided that Zero
Hour and their hangers-on should not be allowed to take the matter as far as a
parliamentary vote. Yet the extremists are going to be given another chance on
July 11th. We human beings in the UK must now respond to what, as is
becoming increasingly clear, is a treasonous attack against our human
industrial civilization. This has the feel of an issue with the potential to
trigger a popular revolution.
Donald Trump
A few thoughts on the recent US presidential election.
Donald Trump gets a lot of bad press. Indeed, he seems to be hated by political
establishmentarians all over the world. Now he is, without doubt, a severely
flawed personality. And he has some crazy notions, like building a wall along
the USA’s southern border. And even crazier ideas of taking over Canada,
Greenland or the Panama Canal, without reference to the local people.
All that said, despite disappointing results from his first
presidential term, he seems to have convinced a surprisingly large number of
Americans that he can represent their interests better than the establishment
could ever do. I can understand how these people must feel: if their only
choice is between an unpredictable madman and a tyrannical, humanity-hating
establishment, they will flock to the madman.
When Trump first took power for his second term, I was
expecting a fairly random mixture of good and bad. Over the weeks, though, I
have become more and more impressed by his DOGE project, which seems to be
cutting into a lot of the entrenched establishment in US politics. It is
certainly causing many of them to panic. And he seems to be serious about
ending the war in Ukraine, and cutting through the bad politics that has
perpetuated it.
There are many other potentially good things Trump may try
to do, assuming his enemies don’t manage to bump him off. If he makes the USA
into an energy superpower, there will be far less reasons to start wars in
places like the Middle East. If he is able to rein in the EPA and other such
federal agencies, and impose on what is left of them a culture of truthfulness,
honesty and transparency, then public respect for the green agenda will be
dashed to the ground. If Bobby Kennedy is able to help him by doing the same
for the health agencies, we will find out at last the truth about what happened
over COVID. And much more besides.
Trump has already issued an order requiring the USA to leave
the UN’s WHO. That’s good. He might even be persuaded, by those of us who see
the United Nations for what it is – an evil, domineering organization that is
the main driver behind the political establishment’s quest to destroy Western
civilization – to kick the UN out of New York, their headquarters. Perhaps,
even out of the USA as a whole! These are encouraging thoughts – if he is both
willing and able to make them happen.
The Great Rip-off
To return to the situation in the UK. The Tories were far
worse than merely bad; but Labour are already worse yet. It feels as if we are
trapped inside something like a rubber-band, that is being stretched closer and
closer to breaking point. Something has got to give. And soon.
Worse, the establishment’s corporate client class are more
and more ripping off, and treating as sub-human, the people of the UK. Energy
bills, water bills, driving and flying, to name but four, are rapidly becoming
unaffordable for many people. (Public transport isn’t getting any cheaper,
either.)
Moreover, it is becoming harder and harder to pay those
bills, because old forms of payment are being replaced by less usable and less
reliable ones. Banks are making life more and more difficult for their
customers, by closing branches and trying to push people into on-line or phone
banking. With the WEF’s “Great Reset” as a model, I have dubbed all this the
Great Rip-off.
And yet, there is also a feeling of “climate change” in the
air. Turning point, tipping point, call it what you will. At which, all the
pressures that our enemies have built up can be turned around, and made to
rebound to their disadvantage. Many people have felt it, as shown by Reform
UK’s surge in membership and popularity since December – even despite its
internal differences. So have I.
2025 is, indeed, a new year.
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