Andy meddles while England burns

We have a country that has serious problems running right to its core and affecting the daily lives of everyone in it.

We have a PM who acts like a minor jobsworth and meddles in only the most insignificant issues of the day

 

He's meddled in the price of bus tickets, capping the cost at £2. This will save money for people who use buses and usually pay more than £2 for their journey, but the estimated annual cost of the price cap of £500 million, will come from everyones tax money

 

He's meddling in the building trade, because he wants to prevent people from being scammed by cowboy builders. His scheme might prevent a few dim people from being taken for a ride, while the rest of use existing tools like 'Trust a Trader' to check the skills of those we employ, but the costs of the scheme, levied on trades people themselves, and obviously passed on to the consumer, will increase bills for everyone

He wants to prevent airlines from charging parents extra to have their kids sat with them, because apparently airlines are ripping off parents. The process airlines use, where you pay a fee for every different thing you want, is not ripping people off, it's ensuring they only pay for what they want to use. They're budget airlines. They're cheap. This is how they do it

If you don't want to pay for seats, you don't have to. They will sit you somewhere, and usually families go together where possible, but not always. Taking a child on holiday, means there might be additional expenses you have to stump up for

Once the airlines are prevented from charging for childrens seats in peak child periods, the cost of everybodys seat will go up to compensate

 

And what about concert tickets? They're expensive. They're expensive when the tickets are for someone popular, who people are willing to pay a lot of money to go and see. If people weren't willing to pay the money, they would not do so and ticket prices would come down

The meddler in chief wants to legislate to bring ticket prices down anyway. I'm not someone who goes to concerts, so I don't know what will give to compensate for this loss of revenue, but I'm sure that something will

And it's not just tickets you buy over the counter. The meddler wants to meddle in resold tickets. If people did not want to pay through the nose for a resold ticket, they would not do. But Andy has to make sure they can't, if they want to or not

 

He's also meddling in subscriptions, proposing to make it easier for people to get out of subscriptions they don't use. Ok, so there are a few annoying things when it comes to having a subscription for something; credit card for a free trial, auto renewing at a higher price, endless waffle when you phone up to cancel, but none of these are really anything to do with the national government. 

As long as you understand the possible pitfalls of subscribing to something, and you keep a regular eye on your finances (Which should go without saying for everyone), you'll be fine. And if all else fails, go online and cancel your direct debit

 

Under the same legislation above, he wants to meddle in misleading discounts. Many years ago, I bought a jacket in a shop in Preston. It was a tenner. I bought it because it was a nice jacket and worth a tenner. The sign on it said, 'Reduced from £100'. I didn't buy it for the reduction, it wasn't worth £100, and I just figured that price tag would be for the rich toffs who buy things because they are expensive, and not for what they are. It was my first experience of the discount system where something is advertised at a silly high price for a while, so it can be 'discounted' later

Nobody should need to government to prevent them from buying tat they don't want, just because a shop says it's on sale

 

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So what we've got, is a PM who concentrates on oiling the squeaks of society, while the whole edifice is crumbling

 

We've got totally open borders, where illegal immigrants don't sneak in, they're ferried in, welcomed and given free board and lodgings. If costs an absolute fortune, the crime rates have gone up, streets are unsafe and there's shit everywhere

The civil service is out of control. It's huge, it's captured by the left, they all pretend to work from home, and it costs an absolute fortune

 

The NHS (May it live forever) is suffering from huge waiting times, overcrowding, low health outcomes, lack of front line staff, a surfeit of useless management staff, including HR officers, diversity officers, inclusion officers, and even climate change officers, and the whole thing costs an absolute fortune

 

The cost of living is increasing for everyone, including home heating and car fuel bills. Inflation, transport costs, taxes and wages are ensuring that your weekly shop costs an absolute fortune 

 

Borrowing and the national debt is out of control, and paying back the debt plus interest is costing an absolute fortune

 

Ever since the police allowed the 'mostly peaceful' BLM riots, but cracked down hard on the anti-lockdown protests, they have picked a side, and it isn't ours. They are 'powerless' to stop a pro Palestine march in London on 7th October, but are totally able to go in with batons and shields when people march with little England flags

They will lock down an entire town to prevent people trying to get in the way of illegal immigrants breaking the law by entering the country on a rubber boat, but will not arrest the illegal immigrants

The courts are the same. They will send you to jail for complaining about immigration on Twitter, but release you on bail if you've been arrested on suspicion of being a terrorist

And all the while, policing of constant pro pal marches and huge mobilisations to protect the boat people are costing an absolute fortune

 

Legislation is out of control and heaping all kinds of costs on small businesses.  The minimum wage, employers national insurance, excessive employee rights, excessive health, hygiene and safety laws, excessive environmental regulations, excessive bureaucracy and red tape, are costing businesses an absolute fortune

 

Welfare is out of control. Unemployment is up because businesses can no longer afford to hire people, and those who've made being on the dole a career choice, are getting paid more than some people in full time employment. Young people are getting paid to stay at home because they have anxiety, or some made up brain fog issue

And the cost of all these unemployed, be it genuine or just plain laziness, is costing the country an absolute fortune

 

And to pay for it all, we all have to pay an absolute fortune in taxes 

 

The country is literally going down the shitter while Andy fiddles. I have four more years before I can retire and get out of this godforsaken country, so it's not all bad

I made a prediction once, though: 'It will get a lot worse before it gets better'

I later updated that prediction:' It will not get better in our lifetimes'

I now udate that prediction again: 'If this keeps up, four years time will be too late' 

 

Changing my password...

 ...on the UK Government website:

23?

23?

23, seriously?

23? 

Where was Angela Rayner when...

 ...Just Stop Oil did it?

 Far-right marches led by the self-styled “Danny Tommo” should not be treated like normal protests, the communities secretary, Angela Rayner, has said, calling the marches “intimidation” that should not be permitted.

Rayner said the behaviour of some masked marchers – who have blocked roads and transport hubs – was not an acceptable form of protest.

I do not remember a single peek out of anyone on the Left, Angela Rayner included, when Just Stop Oil were doing the exact same thing described here

In fact, JSO were doing this exact stuff a lot more frequently, and on random roads and motorways. These 'Far Right' protests are targeted specifically at disrupting the influx of illegal immigrants, as I understand it, and not just at messing with the daily lives of many ordinary people going about there business

 

Where

were

you

Angela

Rayner

When JSO were pissing everyone off at the height of their tomfoolery, the police even assisted them

 

Could you imagine the police assisting 'Just Stop Illegal Immigration'?

 

No

 

Ok, so I know a lot of them were arrested and charged when they took it too far, but nobody in Government stood up and suggested banning the right to protest, and while they were just blocking roads, they were tolerated by the police, who even stepped in to stop members of the public trying to remove them

 

And I'll leave you with one last thought. This Danny chap, whose supposed to be the head honcho of all these recent protests, was arrested recently for slashing a rubber boat in the channel

In the comments under all the articles about his arrest, the Left wing agitators who always think they're oh so clever, keep saying he deserves whatever he gets, because he filmed himself comitting criminal damage and posted it online

 

Well in that case, I think he should use the exact same defence as the HSBC Nine

 The Extinction Rebellion campaigners admitted using hammers and chisels to break windows at HSBC in Canary Wharf in the morning of 22 April 2021, but denied this was criminal conduct.

 

 

They got found not guilty

There are 650 of them and thousands of enablers

This story in Not Always Right (One of the sites in my sidebar) got me thinking about something that's bugged me for a long, long time

In a nutshell, the story is, young girl has a minimum wage job demonstrating Meta Glasses and other AI related tech. Man comes over and berates he for half an hour about how she's promoting AI, which is going to destroy the world

 

Now at the moment, I have no problems with AI. For me it's just a superior search engine, but I'm aware of a lot of other practical uses too. It may one day destroy the world, but I've not seen any evidence of it so far

 

What peaked my ears was the girls response. Quote:

"For roughly the next half hour, this man stands at my display explaining how I, personally, am contributing to the downfall of civilization. 
Not Meta.
Not Mark Zuckerberg.
Not the engineers who actually build the AI.
Not lawmakers, executives, investors, or anyone else with any meaningful control over how the technology is developed or used.
Me. 
A woman making twenty dollars an hour inside a Best Buy."

Ok, so I don't actually think she's doing anything wrong, and I think the guy berating her was a bit of a prat, and probably believes in chemtrails, but reading her response, she seems to think that AI is wrong, but it's not her fault and she's 'just doing her job'

 

There are many bad things that have happened in the past and are happening now, that wouldn't be possible without armies of drones doing their jobs

 

In my response to the post I mentioned Trump, because everyone on that heavily left leaning site hates Trump. If Trump wants a bad thing to happen, he's powerless to make it so, without a lot of other people doing it for him

 

Trump wants to kick out illegal immigrants, so he sends in ICE. 

 

ICE aren't just a bunch of enforcers who kick in doors and arrest people. That's just the bit you see in the news. There will also be a small army of back office staff, administrators, clerks, accountants, lawyers, cleaners, mechanics, and countless others I can't even think of. There is also the logistics involved in arresting a lot of people and transporting them to other countries, along with the legal framework that has to be followed

 

If Trump wants to deport illegal immigrants, it takes thousands of other people to actually make it work

 

Unfortunately for us in England, our Government wants to import illegal immigrants. Even that requires a lot of enablers. It's not just a case of doing nothing and letting it happen. The RNLI has to go rescue them from the small boats, the police have to turn up and arrest the protesters, the courts have to jail the protestors, the coach drivers have to turn up and pick up the illegals, the hotels and their staff and security have to look after them, the DWP has to find the benefit money and route it to them, the Home Office has to fast track their asylum claims, the police have to arrest them for rape, the courts have to give them bail so they can bugger off out the country and try again

 

Facilitating illegal immigration to England, and all the bad things that happen as a result, requires thousands of enablers

 

If your council tax goes up and you are annoyed because the council can't even empty the bins properly, there will always be someone available to deal with you if you refuse to pay. Even if you think your council tax is quite reasonable, just imagine the number of people required to collect council tax from every household in the UK, and distribute it to the correct places 

 

Even the BBC employs a lot of people to turn up at your door and bald faced lie to you about needing a TV licence 

 

None of this is new to you, and it's a very old saying: "There are 650 of them and 65 million of us"

 

But there aren't 650 of them. There are millions

 

If Mark Zuckerberg wants to sell Meta glasses that will rise up and enslave humanity, he can't do it by touring Best Buy stores and demonstrating them himself, he needs to pay people to do it for him

 

And people need jobs

 

Where I work, we do a lot of contracts for other companies. I've seen a Muslim refuse to work with alcohol and a vegan refuse to work with animal products. Both times it was no problem, as there were others to do the work, other things for them to do, and our company found the objections to be reasonable

I would like to think that if we took on a contract shipping rubber boats to France, I would refuse

But I'm old, and close to retirement, I'm not a young girl on minimum wage trying to afford her next Costa coffee

 

And how would it work out anyway, if people started to think more about the morality of the work they do? I think there will always be enough people who think even the worst things are perfectly fine and would be happy doing them. If thousands of people left their jobs on moral grounds, thousands of others would take them up on their own, different moral grounds. After all. most of Jesus's friends were tax collectors...

 

Yes, no matter how bad those at the top try to make things, they will always have their army of enablers to make it possible

 

Covid taught me that 

I agree with the Guardian

No, seriously 

Food allergies when flying are no joke. That’s why nuts should be banned on planes
Lucy Pasha-Robinson

Indeed. All the nuts with food allergies 

Government to the rescue

Solving problems of it's own creation 

 

According to Tim Worstall, this is a quote from Richard Murphy, the UK's comedy economist:

There is also only one known solution, as it is clear that the private sector will not create the number of jobs required to engage younger people in the UK in work, and that is for the government to take on that job instead.

I didn't bother to go to Murphs website and find out if this was an actual quote, because my time is worth more to me than that, but it certainly sounds like something he'd say. Why? Because it's totally economically illiterate

 

Firstly, the private sector can't create jobs for young people because it can't afford to do so. Young people with no skills and experience are not worth the cost of the minimum wage and employers national insurance

 

Of course, if young people can't get jobs now, they will eventually become middle aged people with no skills and experience. The government has created an impossible situation where it's too expensive to employ people, so the government must pay benefits, which come from money taken from the private sector in taxes (Simplistic overview, but correct)

 

So according to Murphy, the government must step in and create jobs itself. To correct the problem that it created itself

 

So what jobs will the government create? They don't produce anything, they don't sell anything. The only jobs they can create for young people will be pen pushing public sector trainee management types, who will add no value to society what-so-ever, but will need to be paid for by taxes taken from the private sector and its employees

 

If the private sector is unable to expand and create more jobs and value, but the government has to take more money to pay the valueless jobs it creates, we're in an ever decreasing circle; smaller private sector, bigger government, until something gives

 

To Richard Murphy though, this is of course, a feature, not complete balmpottery