It's Not the Weight, It's the Attitude...

The News that the Government is to start a pilot scheme offering weight loss drugs to unemployed people to enable them to get back into work.

Sadly, I predict the scheme will be a failure. 

The reason is that there are plenty of skinny people on the dole and their lack of weight hasn't enabled them to get into work any better than an overweight counterpart. 

It's not the weight that is the issue, it's the attitude and the benefits system itself.

If you want to work, you'll go out and find work. Whatever it is. Not all of us can do physical jobs, but even the disabled can get a job in a call centre because of access rights legislation.

The other block to getting a job is the cost to work. When you are on benefits, everything is provided for you. Your rent is paid, you get dole money every fortnight and life is relatively easy, if a bit cash-poor. 

If you then get a job, you instantly lose the payment of rent. You have to re-apply with no guarantee that your rent will be paid. 

If you take a minimum wage job, you lose benefits and then have to pay tax. If the minimum wage is the absolute minimum the government says a person should be paid, why isn't it a tax-free salary? That would instantly boost the salary straight away. It just seems immoral to start clawing back tax from the most disadvantaged wage earners.

The whole system drops you like a stone. There is no support, no easing you into work. It's like jumping off a cliff emotionally and psychologically.

It's that transition that needs to be addressed, not the weight of the people. 

The cynical part of my brain does wonder if this is part of some conditioning process. You know, to make being overweight and unproductive a morally poor choice. Fat-shaming.

I can see a future if everything comes to pass like assisted suicide where the paths cross and if you are on the dole and consuming too much and getting fat, you'd be offered weight-loss drugs or else it's off to the boneyard with you. 

Of course if the option is take the drugs, be productive and work for peanuts against being rendered down for glue or Soylent Green, that may just motivate a proportion of the dole bums into working.

But there's always a hard core of institutionalised generations of unemployed.... 

The Power of the Gulf State Investment Funds.

I've blogged a number of times the amount of power the Gulf State Investment funds (GSIF) wield within the UK. They own a significant proportion of the UK through various funds and companies. Through those investments they wield an incredible amount of power and influence.

It's in the news that DP World, the owners of Tilbury Port pulled 1 Billion pounds of investment in the port over comments that the Labour Party have said regarding P&O Ferries, another company owned by DP World.

The row has now been settled and DP World have agreed to continue as previously planned, but this is the first time that the power GSIFs hold over the UK Government has become mainstream.

I don't know how to put it, but the words I commit to the ether here on my blog are not random musings of some nutter. I have analysed and watched in practice the things that I blog about.

The normal person doesn't understand the machinations of government going on behind the scenes. And to be honest, I don't understand all of them. I do know the various areas I've investigated though.

But do believe me when I say that globalism has not benefitted this country at all. It has benefitted those that seek to exploit the people at the bottom of the pile. But it has over the decades made the lives of those at the bottom of the social scale a whole lot worse. Now it's affecting the middle class, you can see the likes of the Reform Party making headway against the mainstream parties, but do they truly understand the reasons for the demise of this country over the decades? 

We need to get back to a closed shop. Earn money here, pay tax here, don't want to pay tax here? Invest here. Start to contribute to the country and you'll be allowed to take a small portion of the profit out of the country.

Do you work here and send all your money to your family in another country? Tough. You'll get taxed on it as badly as I'd tax a company stripping assets here and sending the proceeds abroad.

We need to stop the money leaving this country. We need to start making things here, investing profits here, improving the lives of workers here.

Setting Up a Narrative: Tyranny In Action.

The latest news is that that MI5 is saying that Russian spies are trying to create mayhem on the streets of the UK.

I assume this is a direct reference to the recent riots.

I also assume this is another attempt to de-legitimise the protests, now that the "far-right" narrative has largely failed to gain traction because it's patently obvious the people involved weren't far-right and they actually had legitimate concerns.

The independent media in the form of blogs and videos has largely debunked the far-right narrative. Those of us that are working class saw through that straight away. It could be us on the streets if kids in our town were murdered.

The government and media then went on to try and make Tommy Robinson some far right arch villain, directing the riots from abroad. Except it's quite clear on his videos, if you care to look, that he was doing no such thing and was advising against violence as it plays into the hands of the corrupt government.

So the latest narrative is (in an attempt to gain some sympathy from the working class) that the rioters weren't far right (as we all are aware), but instead they were pawns in some 3D chess game between Putin and the West. Or Iran and the West. Or something. If they were innocent pawns, why are they serving maximum sentences in jail. Or is this now some way to wind back the narrative once the lawsuits and appeals start winning for unlawful arrests and imprisonment?

Yeah, try again MI5. If the rioters were duped by anyone, it was the Policemen dressed up in dark clothes wearing facemasks that directed the riots towards the migrant hotels and started kicking the doors in. 

The real reason why Tommy Robinson is now such an existential threat to the authorities is he's learned and adapted to their tactics. There may have been a time when he would have been kicking the doors in and having a good old scrap himself. But that was back then. 

Nowadays, Tommy has learned to protest peacefully, he has learned to Police those that attend the peaceful protests so that they remain peaceful. During the last two protests, he has banned facemasks, so that those causing trouble can be identified. 

Lo and behold, no violence. Because the undercover Police that would have been geared up and pretending to harass the Police, so the Police could start to charge in and make arrests, have been neutralised.

If you don't believe what I'm saying there are videos of various protests where you get someone threatening Police (as you would in a training exercise) but never getting battered or arrested, but the people beside them are arrested.

If the Police go in and snatch people, they will have the optics of snatching clearly peaceful protesters. So the authorities now have to make up some new excuse to de-legitimise the protesters. They are  not patriots, they are acting on the orders of Russian spies. If you join them, you are siding with Russia, Iran or some other country we don't agree with.

Tommy is due to come back into the UK any day now. He's cleverly stayed away from the UK as the authorities feverishly try and come up with a reason to hold him under terror laws or some such.

Terror laws that were used to hold Tommy at a port before he left the UK. Terror laws that have been used against reporters reporting the truth about the Israel-Gaza conflict. Basically terror laws that have been used against anyone not adhering to the government narrative. 

Ignore political differences, the people held under terror laws would I assume not like each other's viewpoint. But look at the common denominator: the government. Both sides conflict with the government narrative and so have to be silenced. 

That is tyranny, right there.

As an aside, were the machete-wielding Muslims that turned out when it was said that there were going to be 100 far-right protests Russian patsies? 

Was the Pakistani guy that spread the rumour that the guy that killed the kids in Southport was a Muslim a Russian Patsy? 

Really, MI5? Is this the best you can do?