What Unites the Political Elites?

It can only be corruption. Or can it?

We've just had the almost decapitation of a Northern Irish man in Belfast. 

Yet Sinn Fein, sworn enemies of the English spout the same empty-headed rhetoric. 

Now when a Sinn Fein minister spouts the same policy as an English Conservative, or an English Liberal, or a Politician from South of the Irish Border, or a Liberal in France, or a Christian Democrat in Germany, you can't help but wonder what is going on?

The only European enclaves free of the mind-virus are Poland and Hungary.

But what, or who has assimilated all these politicians?

Who, in it's crudest form has bought them?

Who has the financial power to buy the politicians of a continent? Who has the power to control the media, influence focus groups and create the narrative for the puppet politicians to follow?

And they are puppets. Kier Starmer is desperate to blame someone else for his failures. If it's not 14 years of Tory rule, it's the public, the made up "far right" rightly protesting against abhorrent Police procedures and the actions of imported men from areas of the globe where low morals are de rigeur. 

Starmer, so desperate to offload the burden of leadership, he's trying to tie us to Europe once again, so the politicians of the continent can tell him what to do. So if it goes wrong again, he can absolve himself of blame. 

But, with all these singular voices across Europe and even further across the Western World: Canada, Australia, and liberal States of America. 

Who has the wealth to buy power and influence across the globe? 

Is it wealth? Does one person or group control enough money to buy a whole civilisation?

Or is it fear? Is the puppet master so fearsome, the puppets play the tune to the point of eradicating their own countries and cultures?

If it is fear, where is it projected from?

Does someone have nukes? Or worse weapons? 

Is the threat terrestrial, or as some opine, extraterrestrial?

No matter how far fetched, there must be a reason that politicians in lock-step say the same words, erode the same freedoms, take us ever closer to world government.....

The simple question is... Why?

Andy Burnham: What if He Wins?

First off, I hope that Labour get a bloody nose in the Makerfield bye election and Andy Burnham doesn't get in and Labour don't have the rebranding that the gullible may fall for.

But let's do the thought process: what if Burnham got in. What might he do to improve Labour's chances of winning against Reform or Restore at the next election?

 What would Burnham's policies be as PM?

One of the likely pushes of a Burnham government would be to Nationalise public transport. The success of Bee line in Manchester has already gained public support in that city. However, no on notes the cost of conversion from Private to Public ownership. Yes, the busses and trams might work a bit better and having a single transport entity makes moving from buses to trams seamless, but does the cost outweigh the benefit? Only time will tell. Of course users on see the benefits, especially if the service is subsidised with borrowed money. Like most socialist projects, it may all collapse in 5 years as borrowing costs rise beyond the ability to fund repayment from fares.

If the Bee line experiment is pushed to become a Nationwide experiment, let's hope there's enough good will in the markets to allow the borrowing to fund the enterprise. Also the large investment funds may get a bit upset at losing the profits from road and rail transport companies.

The second most likely nationalisation in Burnham's public-ownership-focussed brain would be the utility companies, especially the water companies. And it would be supported by the public. But...

The problem he has there is convincing the public to fund repair of the infrastructure caused by decades of lackluster investment by private owners. Why should the public pay? And if the public pays, how are they compensated by the companies that profited from the hideous profiteering by the owners of the utility companies whilst in their ownership?

Those are just two of the problems that Burnham could face if he tries the "Manchester Mayor" his term as PM. 

Notwithstanding the issues he faces from the declining revenue from tax, increased borrowing (and the pressure to borrow even more to fund re-nationalisation), increasing inequality, increasing social and cultural division, etc.

Whether Burham can see past the leftist ideology and identify the true causes of those issues, is another thing. Starmer is captured by ideology. I get the impression Burnham is (currently) a bit more free-flowing, but if he becomes PM would the party, the blob and donors constrain him? 

Hopefully it never comes to that and Burham loses the bye-election. 

Then we'll see Starmer revert to type and his true authoritarian nature will come out. I'm sure there will be a reshuffle like you've not seen before, with ever more obscure and ineffectual personalities put in positions of power, so as not to threaten Starner's premiership. Whether he gets to eradicate all his opponents from the cabinet remains to be seen.

But Starmer is like the step-dad from hell. He is determined to make you a better person (according to him) by force if necessary, up to the point of abuse. Let's just hope we can survive the next 3 years unscathed and whoever gets in can reverse the last 30 years of abusive government.

The Most Subtle "Fuck You" in Recent History.

Pork Sausages were served on a deportation flight leaving Ireland heading to Pakistan. 

The Irish really know how to say fuck you and don't come back in the nicest way possible.