Government Have Just Found out China is Not Our Friend.

Well, the rumours were that the Chinese owners of "British" Steel were running down stocks of raw material in an attempt to put the steel plant out of production. 

I've blogged before about my hate of foreign companies owning UK strategic assets. Whether it's steel production, ports, nuclear power stations, power and water utilities, I find that allowing foreign companies to own major or strategic assets unthinkable for any UK government. 

Because the foreign companies do not have our best interests at heart. 

For instance the foreign owners of water companies don't care of they dump raw sewage into our rivers, because they've no interest in this country at all. 

The only consideration they have is making a profit. At any cost. Even if that means ruining the company. 

For instance the water companies are being saddled with increasing debts to pay off dividends to shareholders and the company itself is being starved of investment and run into the ground. 

In the case of British Steel, the owners are deliberately running the company into the ground in order to close the last remaining major steel plant in the UK, so we become reliant on foreign steel supplies.

Supplies that can be interdicted and destroyed, products that have strategic importance: armour for tanks and other armoured vehicles. Don't think for a minute that the recipe for that military grade steel hasn't been shipped to China.

I can't believe how idiotic our government is in opening ownership of strategic assets up to geopolitical opponents. There should be limitations on ownership of strategic assets like ports, drinking water providers, power companies, nuclear reactor builders, military shipbuilders.

These are the companies that we need to be apart from malign foreign influence. They must be given special status. NOW.

Council Workers and Councils Taking the Piss: Not Just Working from Home, but Working From a Different Country

In this report, it's revealed that Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole Council have granted permission for council workers to work not just from home, but from another country entirely.

You might think fair play, if I was working at a desk, I could o that work anywhere in the world. 

But, there are many issues that I'd like to present to you.

The main one is that being out of the office, the worker cannot be monitored, you can't see whether they are working, sunbathing, have a mouse mover plugged into their PC or just generally taking the piss.

Now most people might be more trusting and let them work at home. Fine, at least they can be called into the office to work occasionally. However, working abroad, there's very little option for them to be called into the office. And if they are, who pays the transport bill? Yeah, I bet the worker will have some clause that makes the council pay at least some of the bill. Or I bet they get to claim it on expenses.

Then there's the moral issue. Council workers are taking advantage of cheaper living costs, including council tax by living in a different country. Therefore they are not affected by the very rules and costs they impose on the rest of us. Is that morally right?

Council tax goes up? Not their problem, they're taking advantage of a different regime in Sunny Spain. 

Even more fantastical, in the report above, it appears social care workers are working from abroad. Hang on, how does that work?

This madness has to stop. This is taking the piss with the public purse.

The Rise of The Communist State.

Right now, we are in an authoritarian state. 

You cannot say words that are contrary to the government narrative, lest you be locked up for several years.

God (or is it Allah?) forbid you mention anything disparaging against our wonderful Muslim life-enrichers, bringing us blessing from abroad and a new way of understanding how the world outside the relatively safe Western countries behaves. 

If you get any traction and generate a following, if you get popular, you are instantly attacked. Several people have risen in prominence and then been vehemently attacked in the media. All the media, all towing the same line, spouting the same rhetoric in order to silence you.

And if that doesn't work, then the next step is lawfare, employing activist judges that will do the bidding of the government and the various attack-dog agencies to first scare you into submission and then to actually jail you.

You can't deny there are now a number of people that have gone through the process above. It's no longer random, it's quite obviously a playbook used to silence the effective communicators that dare to speak against the sate-controlled narrative.

I said to start that we are in an authoritarian state, but where is this leading? I've already mentioned that I think the Woke ideology has it's roots in Marxism, but what's the next step?

Well, Marxism begets Communism. And we are damn close to that.

Paul Hitchens already mentioned he knows Kier Starmer and his ilk and that Starmer is even further left than Jeremy Corbyn. Corbyn is a genuine Socialist old Duffer, well-meaning but ideologically left of Socialist. You might say Marxist.

But Starmer is another creature entirely. He's a committed Marxist, that we know. So was Tony Blair. But how deep does the Marxist ideology run with Starmer? Well, I'm beginning to think Starmer is a Communist.

Just his mannerisms, the way he speaks and the way he forms policy. Does anyone believe that the Cabinet is consulted when Starmer makes speeches? Does he consult Parliament at large? 

Of course he doesn't. He's a dictator. He's an authoritarian, committed to the use of the full force of the law towards his perceived enemies. Hence the crack-down on the Southport protesters. 

Starmer just couldn't comprehend that the working class should have a grievance against government policy, or even less that they should air that grievance in public.

Starmer is a Stalinist: his first instinct is to remove the resistance to his ideology. He'd shoot the protesters if he could get away with it, he'd eradicate them from existence. As it is, sending them down for a decade is as good as he can do.... at the moment. Due to the limitations of the law, there are limits on the power of the activist judiciary to follow his lead. 

But don't think that will be the case forever. 

Freedoms will be eroded and catastrophes will be exploited to bring in even tighter laws. 

We will sleepwalk into Communism. 

I feel that the leaders of Western Europe  are captured by Communist ideology. As I said, they may not think they are Communist and they certainly won't call themselves Communist. But it plain to see that the crackdowns on freedom in Europe, the restrictions on criticism of the sate and the superstate of the EU are indicators we are heading that way. 

I long suspected that the unification of Germany was like a Trojan horse, in that we let ex-Communist East- Germans into leading positions. Their ideology has poisoned the well of European freedom and fraternity. 

We are now governed and edicts come from on high to serve external masters. The requests do not come from the people, they are instead imposed from above.

The only requests from the proles that get accepted are those that lead to more restrictions. Have you noticed that? Not one request from the people to be more free or for less government intrusion has been accepted or ratified into legislation by our government., for a very long time; Decades possibly I'd like to make that broader by saying Western European governments, but I'd hope that somewhere there's a request for more freedom from the common people that was acceded to by one government in Western Europe at some point in the past 30 years...

Yeah, I can't think of one either. Which is extremely worrying.