Burham launches manifesto. Sort of.

 A pressure group backing Andy Burnham for the Premiership has launched a document, essential handing out it's wishlist of items for a new PM to address.

Top of the pile is the nationalisation of water and power companies. 

Now the water companies, I'd nationalise in a heartbeat. I'd also make legislation so that they could never be again sold into private hands.

I'd go one further and start criminal investigations into the boards of these companies and make than personally liable for the damage caused to the environment by their actions. Let's claw back some of those bonuses by fining the shit out of them.

The power companies I'm a bit more ambiguous about. They've just maximised profit in the best way they can. By screwing the paying customer, with a side serving of government ideology. 

Sure, a few grannies have died of hypothermia, we have poor baseline energy generation and energy costs are at the very least twice or even three times what they should be because the energy companies and government ideology made it so, but you can't fault the energy companies for just following the ideals of the government.

In true Communist fashion, the group also advocate more caps on more things, because they have no idea of the concept of unintended consequences, or the extra cost to the government of setting up yet another watchdog organisation to oversee (badly) yet another facet of our lives. 

I mean, they could just start building more homes, to bring the cost of rent and purchase down, but oooh no, rent caps are what we need. 

Then once all of these new expensive bodies have been created, keep them off the books somehow, so that they don't show up on the national balance sheet. Or more likely we won't see the massive extra drain on resources they will create.

The thing is with Burnham's policies, is it's a build it now, pay for it later sort of regime, like the new bee network in Manchester is financed in such a way that the pigeons don't come home to roost for a few years. But they do eventually. By which time, Burnham has moved on and someone else is left picking up the pieces. It's forecast that the local authorities in Greater Manchester will have to pay an ever-larger chunk of change to allow the bee network to keep running.

I predict the usual socialist fuck up, by which in 5 years time the bee network faces collapse without a big government bailout. 

And Andy Burnham wants to use this model to national infrastructure.

I mean lets apply it to defence: Imagine all our tanks being franchised and rented from BAE or whatever, the same for our aircraft too. Our ships rented out from Scottish shipyards. All all of the above rented from some huge corporate. 

Assets that could be withdrawn at any minute, especially if there was a threat to the safety of the asset. No more entering war zones or fighting wars. Too dangerous. Those Tanks, planes and ships might get damaged and would affect the bottom line of the leasing company. 

It's nonsensical. 

But when have Socialists ever been sensical?

Starmer Resigns. And Every Line of His Resignation Speech is a Lie.

 Here is the video of his speech, courtesy of Guido Fawkes at order-order.com:

Virtually every sentence is a lie. It's what we've come to expect from Starmer.

Basically the first sentence, stating he was proud to walk into number 10 was the truth. Although I have the feeling he must have thought "Oh Fuck, I've got to deliver now" as he walked to the door of number 10.

The preamble about the party was mostly truthful, until it came to the statement that he'd driven out antisemitism. Really? How many Labour MPs called for the eradication of Israel? From the river to the sea is not an idle chant, is it Kier?

Restoring trust on the economy? You're having a laugh Kier. Rachael from accounts has borrowed almost as much in the last month as the Conservatives did while propping up the economy during Covid lockdowns and furloughs. Except with Labour, that's just "normal" borrowing. Unsustainable borrowing. 

Restoring trust in Defence? Oh, my God. How long his it taken to produce the defence review, that STILL hasn't been completed? How many defence ministers have resigned over the cuts you want to enact on the defence budget? How many times have you lied to the public and to world leaders regarding your commitment to defence?  Nope, I'm not having that one Kier. Flat out lie. 

Restoring trust in National Security? While importing and allowing to settle here undocumented migrants whop have dodgy histories. You've allowed child murderers to settle here. You've allowed killers of women to settle here. You've allowed actual terrorists to settle here. 
That's another big fat lie right there. 

A party that stood with, not against our national flag? Kier lies worse than a cheap Chinese watch. Maybe the Union flag is in the background, left over from teh Tories, but woe betide anyone who is not a Labour supporter putting a national flag up. Off to the Gulag with them.

Now after that sentence, Kier strays into almost truthful territory. He doesn't want power for power's sake, but wants to change Britain for the better. This is not a lie. He wants to impose his ideology, which he thinks will improve the country. It won't. But ideology is always like that. It requires blind faith. 

But then immediately strays from truth: To build a country with dignity and respect. Really? How many of those people he imported has dignity and respect for the country? How many Labour party accolytes have respect for our country and it's history? Very few I suspect, the Labour line on oppression, Empire, and colonialism surely is at odds with Kier's statement.

Where everyone is seen and everyone is valued? Everyone except the majority, who you dismiss and instantly label far-right, eh Kier?

Wealth and opportunity for all? Er, no Kier. You've saddled us with the highest tax burden for a generation and you're also borrowing money at an eye-watering rate, impoverishing our Grandchildren.

Then we get the big lies. The economy rising faster than our peers? Depends who you class as our peers. Europe is an economic dumpster fire thanks to the socialist governments doing their thing. Importing more immigrants to take more welfare, creating a hostile environment for small businesses, imposing ever more red tape and beaurocracy. Yeah, we're doing minimally (like 0.01% of GDP) better than Europe. But we're not better than similar economies in other, less suicidal countries of the world.

Then we get the bit about the changes to workers and renters rights.

Yes, the workers right bill that has forced a downturn in companies wanting to employ people.

The renter's rights bill that has made renters homeless or forced them into the clutches of industrial scale corporate landlords, with massive increases in evictions before the imposition of the law or rent increases.

By now I'd lost interest. Others can dive deeper into his speech, but by now it was clearly just ideological hogwash.

Starmer is a hurt man. The country rejected him. He had a thumping majority, he says, and a mandate to change the country. Except he didn't. 

He had a majority in the Commons because the Tory voters abstained. It was handed to him rather than won.

He then decided to make himself a liar. All the promises made before the election? Gone.

Instead we had Digital ID, online safety (that requires digital ID), supposedly for the kids. But the only way to prove you're not a child is to surrender your ID online. 

We had a government headed by an ex-lawyer that seemingly didn't know how the law works. Didn't know that you can't sue an American company in America with no presence in the UK for something that they failed to comply with in the UK. 

We basically had new, made-up legislation created to make the government look like it was doing something, rather than being the lazy, feckless bums they really are. 

I very much doubt that Burnham or whoever take the poisoned chalice of Labour leadership will make serious changes. They are ideologically captured. You could see that with Starmer's speech.