Tag: #poverty

Health me or the country

I don’t know if I agree with the farmers reasoning or not, but I do agree with their right to protest, I agree that they and us should be listened to, and truly think that only direct action is even remotely viable as a form of protest with this basically neo-nazi excuse for what should be a Labour government. 

This government has after years of corrupt, cruel and murderous consecutive Conservative governments only sought to expand on the vile policies of the Tories and their bosses. It used to be the British Establishment calling the shots but now this bunch of traitors have added Mossad and Israel to its list of masters. That is absolutely Treason in the plainest of terms. #Labour #government #Fascism #hate

My current state of health according to the recent tests and my doctors insistence of me being in hospital, which I am resisting, means I am in no way certain of a tomorrow,  but I vow I will use my words to fight these vile creatures to my very last breath, whether that be later today or more likely with a little luck, in many years to come.

 Dramatic in the extreme, I know, however that’s my reality, I am told,  for today. I cannot keep a silence in the face of such continued wrongdoing. That is not my way.  If I do recover from this latest episode, which I am more than confident I will, despite the worried voices of my doctors,  I vow I will fight for people in any possible. 

Snow

Snow looks ace, but I am sat with my heating on in my nice warm bungeelow (like a bungalow but much more fun). Sadly the greed of corporate shareholders and CEO’s mean that many cannot afford heating, and too many even homes.
We can give all we can to the vulnerable, either directly or through charities (some of the money we donate might actually reach those in need, but sadly rarely all of it), but even then it’s very short term. May last people a week, a month or too often a night or single day.
There are countries where there is no need for charities, these countries don’t have homeless, don’t allow fuel exploitation. They are few and far between but there are some. Britain is not one of them.
It’s the greed of those with wealth in the UK (as a beginning) that needs addressing, investigating and those involved or enabling holding to account, with strong consequences for the people guilty of the immoral and corruptive behaviours.
I would call them criminals, but as most of the law makers are in this group there are no laws to break.
No one person or even family needs the amount of money these parasites have. They judge their worth in £’s €’s $’s and all the other currency they can lay their hands on.
Do they collect this wealth to help others? They will tell you they do, but the reality is they collect it to play with others, not as in inclusion but control. They collect it to feel superior and important. Tho surround their weak little minds with sycophants agreeing to all their whims.
I don’t care if we have people more materialistically wealthy than others, but when those with that kind of wealth only use it to manipulate our world to increase it further they have crossed a line.
In this current world, no individual or family should be able to buy entire towns, or even countries when we do have people dying through poverty.
No person should be building a interplanetary taxi service for the super wealthy, when our planet is dying because of their greed.
No one should be stealing our health care, our services, our support to line their pockets.
It has to stop.
So yes the snow looks lovely, it makes it look as if there is a blank canvas for a new beginning. Maybe it’s time we made that happen?

My saving the world from pollution and war.  An environmental plan.

It seems that  so many people seem to currently have a beef  with cows, or indeed more accurately their gas, or rather as we in the uk like to call it  a Trump.

Now I cannot in all honesty lay claim at the door (I know most fields have gates not doors) of the cows themselves, nor their anus’. Yes these beautiful and sadly very edible creatures do produce a lot of methane, let’s face it a cow just cannot fly, even though they are evidently full of gas, and if they did we would all end up with a pat on the head.

The numbers of cows, and other domesticated and invented animals in agriculture (sheep a prime example of a creature designed by millennia of human farming and breeding by design), are the issue. Most of us can generally cope with one partners trumps throughout the night, but if you slept with a football team in a small room after they had been eating weetabix all the previous day, well I suspect breathing apparatus would be preferred over silk sheets.

Even so would you feed all the men or women on the team untested chemicals, or just reassess your sexual appetite? 

Now my personal belief is that if we reduced the need for breeding cattle by er let’s say……….0.168% (the percentage of billionaires to the rest of the world’s population), a good level of the damage could be reversed, especially as these ‘billionaires ‘ seem to have the  most dramatically negative impact upon the planet. A bog standard Rolls Royce for instance is 6,200cc. That’s 6.2litres of fuel to fill the cylinders on each rotation of the engine. I can only imagine what the environmental impact of a pre catalytic converter version is, but even so a bus that carries 76 passengers is likely only around 7litres.

Now there are some people that are not even millionaires, who fly planes, but the difference between a 5240cc cessna 172, burning roughly 7 – 9 gallons per hour, and even a small Lear jet  31a burning  202 gallons per hour is dramatically different.

Most of us reading this (and definitely me writing it) are not millionaires, a significant number of us (me included) will have no saving at all. Even eating out at somewhere that’s only one step up from what I  believe to be, terrorist backing, McDonald’s is a once in a blue moon treat, and often though we would love to leave a tip for the lovely waiting on staff, we can’t afford to and eat.

A billionaire I imagine could eat anywhere without worrying about the cost, even if it has to include the meals for their paid lackie’s and the additional security. I can’t be sure though as – if you hadn’t already guessed, I am no billionaire. 

My nipping the 8 – 10 miles on a weekend to Matlock Bath,  in Derbyshire, on my 1500cc motorbike doesn’t really equate to a billionaires trip on their Lear Jet to a bordering erm……….continent.

Now I am not writing this as a  jealous human, to be honest,  when my health allows, I cannot believe there is any feeling to equate to riding my bike, and even if it’s to the same destination every time, it’s where my friends are, where I am known, and most of all where I am safe if my health deteriorated. It’s my version of heaven most of the time.

My hobby is tinkering with my bike and yes flying into space too, but that one I do in my mind and record in my writing. Hopefully the impact my life has upon the atmosphere is negligible.  My wardrobe is generally flown  in from the closest charity shop, carboot or market, so not many air-miles to offset there.

I do drink milk, though not copious amounts and only very rarely eat beef, usually any meat I do have is chicken or pork.  I am not a proud omnivore either, and respect all my friends that are vegetarian, pescatarian (Oscar my fish is not on anyone’s menu, be warned!) or vegan, I have tried to cut out meat, but my diet is already complex due to health conditions and meds,(yes just another selfish lazy-arse meat eater full of excuses).

Now I am losing my point a little here, not as much as some reading this are losing their will to….well you get my meaning. But my point is my hobbies do not include building spaceships, punching holes in the ozone, nor do I, as sadly I believe the majority of billionaires do, invest in the arms industries, in munitions, military aviation, missiles research and development (BAE systems a prime example),  basically in war.

I don’t bribe politicians or even in some cases own them,  (not that i could even afford to offer them a pint), I personally don’t have any influence on any country’s policy at home or abroad, though I wish I did. I have never used subterfuge, corruption or lies to influence how others see me. I, as almost everyone else on the planet do not crave power, I am no self declared leader, no celebrity, social media or otherwise. I am a grumpy bloke that’s lived long enough to have a little experience that informs my own brand of I guess wisdom, without any claim to be actually wise.

I see corporations as being the conglomeration of materialism for gain, and only, yes only to feed into the quaffers of their billionaire and even millionaire shareholders.

So again if we rid Earth of its billionaires,  maybe we would be actually able to reorganise the way food is farmed and distributed, to save the huge carbon footprints developed by transportation.

Imagine if all our lettuces were British grown, given those farmed in Britain are often exported abroad.  We should be organising into communities for produce as much as possible, but who owns shares in all the biggest transport groups,  the cargo fleets at sea or in the air? Well you or even your folks might have a few shares, but most of you won’t be invited to the DHL board Xmas  party. Not that Musk, Gates or even Branson would likely attend unless it was on a private island in the Seychelles?

The point is billionaires do not actually bring anything to the table of the world other than a lust for money, gold, control and power. Everything they invest in becomes theirs and is only ever for profiteering.

They invest in war, in poverty and power. We the “poor” (which is a term I may use to describe myself on a material level, and always proportional to what is being discussed,  as in compared to billionaires we all likely are financially and materially poor in comparison,  however, may  be deemed as materialistically rich compared to someone existing on the streets here in the UK or anywhere in this world,) do not have any real value to a billionaire.  We are simply either defined as eaters, people who only exist to eat away at the resources that would solely be those owned or rather claimed by the billionaires if we did not exist, or we are a measure of the proportional wealth of each of them. We make being super rich special, give them something to feel superior to.

They may invest in our ideas, in our skills, but only to profit themselves.

I attended the last ever Queens garden party. Not I must add through personal choice, but because I had an obligation to others who had worked tirelessly,  and/or put themselves at risk during the pandemic, the invitation being their recognition.

Whilst there I can truly state that I found out who our – the majority of human beings, true enemy is. They are not immigrants or refugees, they are not exclusively foreign either.  They do not tend to wear a uniform or even carry their own gun. They likely are not even the majority of so called decision makers we love to hate and despise (even though that’s usually for the right reasons), it’s those people that are so far aloof from us that we have no influence upon their lives in any way.

I spoke to the chap who hat been the Queens personal butler for the majority of the latter part of her reign. He was exceedingly intoxicated (pissed as the proverbial newt in reality). He spent over twenty minutes telling us how fabulous the Queen (God bless her sunken soul) was, but each example only truly proved how vile she realy was. It displayed a person that believed herself to actually be God’s representative upon Earth and a woman who was morally bound to judge, condemn and order all she met. This was a person that had no understanding of the ‘real world’,  who didn’t bother with cash because that was for commoners.  If things were not to her exact liking she would chastise those who were close enough to blame, whether politician, Admiral or footman.

She had it seemed to me no more care for the people than Charles the first, but in her way far more power.  Remember she was not only the figurehead of the Establishment, here and likely in most if not all countries, she was also a billionaire, and the person who directed and controlled all of the corruption, misdeeds and behaviours of all those around her.

She was not some lovable pensioner, sitting in the granny flat of Britain, she was, in my humble opinion,  a truly narcissistic sociopath.  In reality how could anyone brought up to be above all others, be anything else?  (One of many reasons Monarchy and Royalty should not exist).

No doubt there will be some,  now screaming for my republican socialist head (I am only a global not nationalistic republican) on a spike, and even a few staunch CofE followers calling me heretic.

Just to be clear, my head would not look good on a stake, to be honest it doesn’t look that great on my shoulders and that’s it’s natural home.

I also was introduced to the so called diplomats that were supposedly to be the communication link between us commoners and those who we were supposed to see as our betters. However after speaking to and observing these over dressed (morning suits and top hats) peacocks, often once out of their exclusively male roped off enclosure, complete with medieval style tents, wandering with very beautiful young women, that were evidently not related to them in any way beyond the ornamental, it soon became clear that the only phrase they could parrot and even then only  restrictedly process the answer,  from commoners English, was “oh and what did you have for breakfast”. It made Pygmalion look like a contemporary film of today’s society.

We did get to have a lovely conversation with I believe the Japanese Ambassador and his wife, and they truly were at odds to those representing the UK. They were affable and polite.

Again please excuse my digression, however just to be clear I drove to London in my little mini, sadly many others arrived in far more formal and less environmentally supportive vehicles. The constant overwatch helicopter itself wasn’t the best advocate for taking global warming with any kind of serious position.

On the way home from the palace, with my soul mate and rock, we were lucky enough to observe those lovely lads of the Bullingham Club, who even now it seemed carried the same moral values of Cameron and Johnson….none!

So basically the point of this I suppose essay of sorts, is, to show that cutting the need for cows by 0.168% not only saves the methane produced by 0.168% of cattle, but also has the additional bonus of reducing the carbon footprint billionaires feel entitled and are actually able to cause at whim, by those carbon footprints caused by the drive to prioritise profit to shareholders over need, to reduce the effect of the poisons and damage caused to the planet (if not it’s population) by conflict and war, almost always exclusively designed with profiteering for billionaires in mind, and by the raping of our assets both nationally and globally 

Remember building obsolescence into products ensures the need to upgrade, and this deliberate obsolescence is all about profit, to make sure you upgrade and they continue to make money. i-phone is a classic example of this, ensuring that the removal of support and updates means you either update every two years or your phone becomes virtually unusable.

So we can truly effect in a positive way the climate change in this world, just by adopting the tools employed by those who affect it most adversely,  their main one being it seems eradication, only we can do this without copying their murder, their genocide, we can do it simply by a distribution of wealth.  No need to kill the billionaires just seize assets and put the money back into the public systems and infrastructure it was stolen from

Actually we could even build upon this success,  and include millionaires in the equation.  Just think how much better our world would be, a little more equality, more choice, less pollution, less war, even significantly less need for greed.

I reckon this could even save not just these doomed generations of our species, but the entire planet and all life upon it.

And no, still no one gets to eat my fish – Oscar, he is my version of a pet dog!

 

 

Needs to end now!

So again Sunak pushes the UK into war, over not morality, not security, not protecting people, but over vast mineral deposits to be had.

No actual declaration but £500,000,000 he has now pledged (on top of the massive amounts of money and equipment already given), to fund the weapons for a morally suspect foreign power, this when we have not only cuts to all the services we need for people to survive, but also a crisis where children and their parents are going without food and shelter and excuses of lack of money to resource our NHS.

This government does not provide for the basic needs of our citizens but funds death abroad, pretending we are still a bloody imperialist super power still, not the poverty stricken pathetically isolated nation with likely the world’s largest divide between the extremist rich and destitute poor.

This needs to stop, we should not be awaiting a faux election to end this, especially when the country has no actual opposition to corruption, profiteering, cruelty and the theft of all our remaining nationally owned assets.

It really is the time to make the stand. Truly.

Change, good or bad?

Final day of Notting Hill carnival ‘marred by serious violence’, say police: Eight people stabbed with man, 29, in a ‘critical condition’
Headlines from Mail online. August 29th 2023


No recognition that when a country is being governed by greed and cruelty, when there is a loss of hope for the current and future generations, when there is nothing for people to aspire to, when there is no food on the table, and the prospect of a winter without heat, stability or even for many a roof, there will be civil unrest, there will be increases in crime, more violence, more theft.


It’s interesting how desperate Braverman is to take Britain away from the Human Rights Act and laws where people’s freedoms are protected. How the government want “all theft” investigated, but not assaults, and definitely not corruption and theft by politicians.


The British people are being carefully manipulated by the press and media, more than TASS ever did in the height of the cold war. The spin and outright propaganda from government and the establishment puts even Goebbels to shame.


The problem is though, that it is not going to be middle class middle England BBC News viewers who will rise up. The so called enlightened, the “woke” the humanists, even those of us claiming to be socialists have been lazy, we have screamed our chants on social media, some even got out on the streets, but none of that has any effect upon a regime that just ignores the opinion of not just the electorate but the demands of the United Nations in regard to human rights breaches. That’s truly terrible when we realise it was Britain where people (our people, our forebears) spilled blood, fought and died for us and eventually the majority of the world to have those very human rights, Braverman, the Conservatives, all politicians and their masters (whether British, American, Russian or Israeli) wish to steal from us now.


The people that will ignite the change that is coming are those that have been put in ghettos, in slums, in no go areas, those raised on streets run by County Lines, those kids given hand guns at 9 years of age, the people who dare not leave their homes due to gangs, those people who have no hope of ever escaping their lot even for a weekend.
The revolutionaries of this century are not going to be fighting for anyone else, they are not going to be waving banners, there will be no factional flags to identify them, they will be those people ignored by everyone. Those people we distance ourselves from.


Your streets lined with CCTV and those few under resourced and under trained PCSO’s will not be protection.


Revolution now will not be about race, it will not be for equality or freedom, it will be those with nothing to lose, giving all to just survive. It will be a grab at the power with no intent to sustain it. No replacement ideology, no manifesto, just desperation.


We can sit typing away, just as I am doing now, in our little suburbs, our quaint villages, our country market towns, looking at the big political picture, criticising and shouting but within the limits of the ingrained fear of prosecution due to this surveillance culture.
We can pretend to hold the moral high ground, yet wait for others to bring about the change that’s really needed, we can buy into the bizarre rhetoric so many seem to spout about how demonstration and civil disruption is wrong and the protestors are our enemies, which as a socialist I cannot ever get my head around, our rights were gained only by demonstration, protests, and civil disruption. Yes disruption might make you late for work or may mean you miss a flight or other things, and there will be folk commenting about how ambulances and fire engines get blocked, but I guess they are not drivers themselves who have to fight the gridlock daily caused by infrastructure not fit for purpose due to corruption over development of Britain by often investors from countries our own government describe as oppressive or corrupt. Ironic. They won’t realise that the underhand stripping of NHS assets and the continuing privatisation means those very same ambulances are held in often 8 to 10 hour queues outside A&E departments that cannot even assess the patients never mind admit them.


If we wait, the fight to come will not be for our rights, it will be for our very survival. It is that simple.


If we wait, there will be no chance of positive planned change. There will be warlords, territories and vast locked down areas policed by violence, whether by gangs or government.
Scare mongering? Sadly I do not think so. I see daily the way people have lost hope, lost respect not only for others but themselves. I worked and lived in areas where there was nothing to strive to, where the only respect was for the biggest gun and most violent gangs.


A few years ago there was a move by a certain city to bring in reformed gang leaders from the most dangerous areas of the USA, to educate youngsters who lived in an extremely infamous estate.


The American ex-gang leaders stayed a matter of days. They left saying this particular area was far more dangerous than the Bronx or LA, because over there the gangs wore colours, you knew your foe, but here anyone could kill you without notice.
Has that changed?


I haven’t the answers, sadly my health and as the doctors call it my frailty means my days of marching and more are long gone. But my frustration, my concerns and even fears for those coming after me are all to real. I may be just some daft or mad old man renting on, or maybe I am just seeing what so far others seem blind to. You decide.

Energy crisis, real or fake?

Around 3% of your fuel bills are paid to the national grid. That’s about £20 a year.
Ofgen are very cagey about who generates the electricity, we do know the French Government own a huge swath of the generation plants,including nuclear and wind power.
The cost of that electricity is set by the stock exchange trading,but not open trading, its called wholesale but is controlled by a monopoly league of the main companies such as Eon, Octopus and the like. The prices they charge you do not reflect the cost of generation nor connectivity.
So this entire cost of living crisis in the UK is about profiteering for shareholders. And get out of your head that share holders are middle class middle England pensioners in Clackton or Brighton, share holders are mainly the richest people in our society and not just British but mainly overseas investors.
They are people like Boris and his dad, Sunak, May, Starmer, Musk, Putin, Gates and all those vile creatures that surround them.
Their profits cannot be allowed to suffer even if you have to.
It truly is that simple.