The Israeli Atrocities: Coming to a Western Country Soon.

I blogged when the US pulled out of Afghanistan that we had a ready-made army here in the UK of Extremist Muslim sympathisers and that we had better watch out that the arms left behind in Afghanistan don't find their way to Western shores.

What I didn't predict was Hamas getting a shitload of the weapons and attacking Israel. I thought Israel had one of the best security services in the world. I thought their intelligence services were up there with the best. They had infiltrated various Muslim extremist organisations to various levels, so knew what was going on outside their borders.

So I thought.

Then last weekend happened. Several thousand Hamas psychopathic idiots lost their life while slaughtering unarmed Israelis. 

If Brits have been killed my response would be the mother of all disproportionate responses. I'd nuke Gaza. Just a small tactical one to vaporise the Hamas leadership and send a message: do not fuck with me. Or the soft option which would be to carpet-bomb the place. And thank me for being merciful. If we can trace the weapons back to their source, then the conduit must be eliminated and every town along it flattened.. I don't truck with the people that shout about women and babies being killed. Hamas exists in Gaza because the population allows it. The population is culpable for any killing perpetrated by Hamas. Just like those supporters of Palestine also say Brit civilians are legitimate targets because of their support for Israel or the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Or Israeli civilians are culpable for the actions of the Israeli government. 

If I had my way there would be zero tolerance. 

The same should now be happening with the Muslim immigrants: if they have arrived here without documents, we must assume their intentions are not honourable and we give them one option to be returned to their home country. Otherwise they will be returned to a country of our choice. Get flown home or have a fucking long walk. Your choice.

I have no time for the bleeding heart do-gooders that say we must do more to help the immigrants. You mean the standing army that has landed on our shores over the past few years, refuses to accept our way of life and refuses to integrate?  The people that would happily take up arms and cause atrocities?

I just hope to God that the arms from Afghanistan don't find their way into Europe and especially the UK. Because if they do, then there will be a bloodbath. 

We have no standing army able to respond to or contain thousands of heavily armed men like the Hamas attack. Our Police would be inadequate against such a force. 

Just how long would it take to respond with overwhelming force if even a few hundred armed men appeared on the streets of one or more of our towns or cities? You cannot imagine the loss of life that would occur if dedicated, psychopathic, armed extremists raided towns across our country. I say towns because there are enough undocumented men in this country aligned with the likes of Hamas to be able to attack more than one town simultaneously. In numbers that the Police could not compete with.

City Centres, Shopping Malls, Christmas Markets and Large public gatherings must be considered at critical risk after the Hamas attack on Israel. To do otherwise would be foolhardy.

Don't say I didn't warn you. 

You Know Who's Pushing an Agenda When they Deny It's Existence: The Leftist Gaslighting Around 15 Minute Cities.

This is the day I start the call the far left loonies an new name: Left-Leaning fascists. Because if it quacks like a Fascist, walks like a Fascist, then it is most likely to be an actual fascist.

Allow me to introduce the 15 minute city concept and the people who have just started in the last couple of weeks to deny it's a thing in order to criticise the Conservative Government's announcement that it will set up legislation to oppose it.

The 15-minute city is another supra-national concept that is being promoted by governments across the world. Initially as a concept is sounds benign: at it's most basic it's about ensuring that all goods and services are available within a 15 minute walk from your house. Sounds wonderful , doesn't it?

Your doctor, your shops, your hospital and all essential services will be by design only 15 minutes away. Then you can ditch your car and cycle everywhere. 

Except, amongst the goods and services provided will be jobs. You'll never need to leave your 15 minute area because you will work, play, sleep, shop, live and die all within that 15 minute area. There will be no need to leave your 15 minute area, ever.

Now, on it's own it sounds like utopia. Finally city councils across the country and indeed the world will be working to provide all we need in our local neighbourhood.

Until that is, you look at the bigger picture and how (if you don't comply with the 15 minute neighbourhood idea) they will Enforce your stay within your zone.

Take Oxford. The city council there proposes splitting the city up into zones. You can travel within your zone as much as you want, but travel directly between zones will be limited to 100 trips per year.

Of course you will still be free to travel between zones, but you will have to pay a fine for each additional trip over the 100. So if you Live in Zone A and work in Zone C, you will eventually be forced to stop using your car for the journey. 

Of course the supporters of this idea promote the good: cleaner air, shorter journeys done by non-polluting means, you know by now the usual cheery rhetoric used by the authoritarians.

What they don't promote that well is the enforcement. Fines, bigger fines if you transgress more, smaller zones and more draconian terms inflicted later once the initial steps are accepted and the enforcement infrastructure is in place. 

Of course this is all decried as a conspiracy theory by the Fascist Left. They say that the 15 minute city proposals are nice cuddly neighbourhoods  where you have everything at your fingertips. 

It's merely a coincidence they say, that Oxford council have around the same time come up with proposals to split the city into separate zones (coincidentally very similar to the 15 minute zones) and to limit the number of times you can travel between these zones by enforcement cameras.

Yeah, and I'm THAT gullible.

This article by the United Nations paints a wonderfully rosy picture of the 15 minute city: The 15 Minute City | UNFCCC but it is the ENFORCEMENT aspect of climate control in cities along with these plans that those of us that can join the dots and see how the two will eventually work hand-in-glove.

The creepy thing is that JOBS will be included in the 15 minute city proposals. So who provides the jobs? How do they stop you driving a car out of your 15 minute area to a job in another part of the city or another city altogether? Of course the answer is enforcement.

They will limit your travel by introducing the local enforcement cameras and by eventually introducing pay-per-mile. I'm sure the enforcement cameras will be used to charge you more per mile if you leave your zone. The temptation will be too great to keep you in your zone under the auspices of reducing pollution.

So, is it really a conspiracy theory that 15 minute cities are not the benign things that the ideologues on the left promote. 

I certainly think there is more to the 15 minute city that the Fascist Left are letting on. If you don't realise that, you are a mug.

We're Officially a Third World Country...

The scrapping of the Northern leg HS2 now proves without doubt that the UK cannot complete large scale engineering projects. 

We really are a third world country. Actually this might be defined as a new term, because at least third world countries have the ability to become prosperous and move to first world status.

We are actually in a state of managed decline. We cannot complete the engineering projects befitting first world status. Instead we have crested the wave of technological progress and are on the downslope.

The next question is what now becomes of the London-Birmingham portion of HS2? It doesn't make financial sense to continue working on it, because what's the use is a high-speed rail link to Birmingham that would only save minutes off the time taken by existing rail links between London and Birmingham?

HS2 only made sense if it was completed as envisioned, to make the longer journeys further North shorter and to provide a cross-Pennine high speed rail link. 

Now you might as well accept we're crap at completing engineering projects on time and in-budget and cancel the lot. Why continue to sink money into a project that makes no sense monetarily and socially?

In fact, why was HS2 approved in the first place? How did costs spiral out of control so massively? Why were initial tenders so poorly priced? Just what were the reasons? Was it bad management? Was it numerous changes of plan? Were compulsory purchase settlements to buy land and buildings under-rated? Was the legal cost of planning opposition to blame?

Was it just a vanity project to prove we could do what they were doing on the continent? Were we told to do it by the EU? Why was it started without sound costings?

The lack of transparency from the government needs to be addressed. The costs and the reasons for those costs increasing needs to be out in the open in real-time. It shouldn't require a journalist to go digging through various sources to come up with the reasons.

Yes, Covid may have played a part, but had management been sensible about the requirements of working through the pandemic, it shouldn't have amounted to more than employing security staff to be on site while everyone else stays at home. If the works are mothballed in a decent state there should be no increased costs from re-starting work. So unless the whole shebang is managed by muppets, the costs shouldn't have escalated as far as they have.

I know material costs have increased substantially, but HS2 caused that by being the biggest building site in Europe. The costs of plywood and basic stuff like concrete and steel jumped as soon as HS2 construction started and it sucked in ALL the building supplies. That should have been envisioned and budgeted for as part of the costings. 

I'd hate to say we need another enquiry because that would increase costs even further. 

It's just sad that we can't seem to manage fuck all any more. Yes the country is more densely populated, yes, property prices are more expensive, but France and Germany can lay high speed tracks for a fraction of the cost we can.

We need to find out why. And fix it.