A Common Purpose.

The phrase in the title of this piece is quite innocuous... "a common purpose" It could be a beneficial thing, as in people working together towards a common goal or purpose, doing something for the common good.

But the phrase Common Purpose has been hijacked. It has bee hijacked by Marxists who use the phrase Common Purpose to define an organisation that has infiltrated the top layers of government, the health service, councils and the military.

Common Purpose identifies individuals in high-ranking positions to partake in their "training courses" (essentially indoctrination) and help form a common governance across layers and departments of organisations that have control over many aspects of our lives. Common Purpose themselves describe it as leading across boundaries, i.e. promoting the same style of management seamlessly across different organisations.

Any organisation that offers high ranking "leaders" of organisations places training courses really needs to be investigated.

But when the people invited covers the whole upper eschelons of governance then alarm bells need to be ringing.

If an organisation takes leaders from Government, Councils, Social Services, Education, The NHS, The Police, The Fire Service, The Ambulance Service, the Army, the Air Force, the Navy, the Legal profession...... and "trains" them, or at the very least brings them all to think and act as one with a common purpose without publicly defining what that common purpose is, you begin to feel a more sinister side to what they are doing, rather than something more innocuous. You would think that what they do and why they do it would be out in the public domain, but it isn't. You would think that an organisation that affects so many of our public services would be higher profile. But they are not.

More importantly our tax money is going towards putting people on these courses and the money is going to this organisation without any oversight. Most people would not have heard of it, but there it is, creeping through the upper layers of our most influential organisation. With no accountability, no information of why this money is being spent or what exactly it is being spent. on.

Just who does this private organisation called "Common Purpose" that influences the top echelons of governance report to? Certainly not the taxpayer.

I just happened to be at an event for one of my Grandkids last night. The amount of subliminal messaging around the event was untrue. The phrases used were innocuous: "Teamwork" "community" that sort of thing. But when everyone was chiming the same song, kids were given cue cards to read out to the audience with the same words on them. Over and over. What does that sound like? Brainwashing. Cultural Marxism.

Of course the teachers lapped it up, they being Common Purpose types themselves.

Once upon a time Education was about er, education. Making yourself fit mentally for life after school. You were an individual and treated as such. Some excelled and were creamed off and went to Grammar School and groomed for a University education.

Some of us at 11 decided we weren't performing ponies and stuck two fingers up to the 11-plus. We took what deliberately underfunded Secondary Modern  education gave us and still excelled. On our own terms. The people that become entrepreneurs and innovators. Because they have not had individuality educated out of them.

Nowadays we have the Homogenous Comprehensive Education system that supplies drones into the world. They act and think as one. They all win at sports because no-one loses, they hide in the "team" and refrain from excelling, they know how to perform well to pass tests, but stick one in a tricky real-world situation and they would crumble. Or cry. Or post on Facebook how unfair the world is. Or not bother and sit at home on benefits.

This is the world that Common Purpose is giving us. A homogenous, Marxist world, where innovation and individualism actual thinking are to be avoided and the herd mentality rules.

Common Purpose trains leaders to lead as a pack, with homogenous rules, all the same. But there is no leadership. When things go wrong (and they will with a Common Purpose leader at the helm because they are too busy following rules about equality, the environment,  etc. rather than actually leading and doing things that actively improve those things.). It's passive management, passive leadership, sleepwalking, you know the type. Full of talk from the Common Purpose Hymn book, but very little in actual leadership. Failure with no consequences, their Common Purpose buddies will save them if they fuck up...

Next time you watch a senior someone on the TV, just listen to the words they are saying. See if you can spot the patterns that identify a Common Purpose Drone. Lessons Learned (but no action taken), going forward (with the same old plan), teamwork (because being an individual is unacceptable).....

Windrush debacle.

It seems very clear that the people caught up in the Windrush problem, or their parents should accept some level of blame for the issues coming home to roost this week.

You'd think the parents of the children coming to settle in the UK would at some point ensure their children were able to stay in the UK legally, rather than leaving it up to chance and whimsy...

But then the children themselves: If someone choses to live in the UK for 50 years or so, why the heck haven't they gone through the process of applying for a UK passport? That simple task would have solved all of the issues now appearing.

50 years, so several Jamaican passports would have had to be renewed in that time. maybe 5 opportunities to think "maybe it's time I actually put down roots here and got a UK passport".  Maybe 5 opportunities where they were told "you really need to get naturalised you know....".

But no, for some reason during 5 decades of residence they decided to stick with a Jamaican passport despite as they have stated having no ties to Jamaica.

The mind boggles.

And although I'm not entirely devoid of sympathy (after all being hauled away at the crack of dawn under the threat of being deported is no fun), at the back of my brain something is saying come on, accept some responsibility yourself.

Post-Winter Potholes

There is much debate at the moment about the state of Britain's Roads.

After the winter, quite a few roads have been affected by quite deep potholes. Of course it's been said that the fault is the lack of maintenence. It is in a way, but it isn't a lack of maintenance, but the wrong type of maintenance that has caused the problem.

Across the country in previous years, tarmac roads have been resurfaced using a method of spraying tar on the road surface and then a layer of chippings laid into the tar.

I've seen it up and down the country, usually afterwards there's a 20 or 20 mph speed limit until the road sweepers come through and hoover up the piles of chippings that line the road. Councils have been conned by contractors into thinking this will extend the life of the road by decades. It won't.

So there has been maintenance, but only to the surface of the road. It's cosmetic and doesn't repair the deeper fabric of the road surface.

Water is able to get into the deeper layers of tarmac and over time and a few winters frost will start to push the stones apart. Eventually you have a patch of loose stones just waiting for another frost to push them out and onto the road surface. You can see it on roads everywhere: a pothole surrounded by loose tar covered chippings. Eventually the frost recedes, the loose chippings fall back into the hole and then traffic starts to erode the edges of the pothole, adding more loose chippings to the area surrounding the hole and in the process enlarging the hole.

Eventually the surface around the hole crumbles away, producing a full-blown pothole.

So, the cosmetic resurfacing over the past few decades has come home to roost with a patchwork of deeper potholes in roads this Spring.

Filling the potholes with tarmac is only a temporary mesure because the fabric of the road surrounding the hole is weakened and eventually the patch is expelled as the area around it loosens.

The only way to fix it permanently is to dig the road up and start again. Very costly and probably more costly than doing proper meaintenance in the first place rather than the cosmetic tart-up job that's been going on. Not quick and not cheap. But done by the same people that promoted the cosmetic resurfacing as a permanent solution. Win-Win for them.

Maybe we'll be good in time for next winter....