What is Government For?

This is not a stupid question: What is Government for?

It's not stupid, because government actions affect your life in a major way, from the amount of tax they take from you to (hopefully) invest and spend wisely, to the policies they enact to provide security, stability and a safe environment.

At it's base level, government exists to provide safety, security, opportunity, health and to plot a path to the future.

Sadly, it seems that Government itself has lost it's ability to understand it's mission.

Security.

Government is currently failing on the security front, by allowing undocumented migrants to arrive on the shores of the UK. It them allows them inside the borders and houses then for months or even years in insecure accommodation. We don't know who they are, or their intentions once they arrive in the country. Ostensibly they may want a job, they may want money, but what else? What are their allegiances? Are they allied to this country? Would they life and if necessary die to support the country that gave them shelter? Or are they allied to an ideology that seeks to destroy this country or overthrow the ideology that has provided centuries of stability and prosperity? 

On the mission to provide security outside these shores, the government has completely failed. The Navy is a shadow of it's former self, unable to defend the shores of the UK from a bunch of dinghies, let alone project force and capability across oceans. One aircraft carrier, a frigate and a destroyer do not a strike force make. Such a small force can be quickly overwhelmed and dispatched by numerically superior forces. Yes, the advanced weapons may be force multipliers, but it's all lumped on a single asset and once that asset is eventually dispatched, it is gone. 

The RAF has a handful of aircraft and a minimal early warning capability. It gave up the responsibility of defending the UK, so we have no protective missile batteries to defend us against rogue actors that may want to turn a city or two to glass. Instead we rely on deterrence: do it to us and we'll do it to you. Hardly comforting to the occupants of major cities or those living close to military installations. 

I can't even say we only concentrate on the small stuff, because our borders are being infiltrated daily.

In WW2 the Sherman and T34 tanks weren't good tanks, but they were good enough and crucially, available in numbers. So the Axis forces faced wave upon wave of them until the Allies overwhelmed them. A lesson we have sadly forgotten.

Score 0/10 for security then.

Safety.

Government is failing on the safety front, by not ensuring the rule of law is enforced. Right now we have an epidemic of stabbings, of young people being murdered. Not only that, but occasionally the stabbings spread to the wider population and an innocent bystander gets murdered. People are now not safe on major cities. The streets at night are the realm of the gangs. At least the countryside appears safe. 

The current Covid enquiry shows that when a big event hits, the government is woefully inadequate to keep us safe. Instead of relying on decades-old plans agreed amongst medical experts, the government panicked and ran around like headless chickens. The Prime Minister refused to attend important meetings. His adviser plotted behind people's backs and the health secretary..... yeah, he wanted to be the arbiter of who was worthy enough to save and who was trash to be left to die. In a way they already made the decision by the widespread use of do not resuscitate notices that were handed out like confetti to the old, infirm and impaired.  

So sadly 0/10 for safety.

Opportunity.

Hmm, lets have a look at opportunity then. Ah, can we have a minus score at all? Education now costs. A lot. University tuition fees are at a ridiculously high level to gain a qualification that has all the weight of a teabag. "Get your degree, then go work on the tills at Aldi" is really a good motto for Universities, but it should be there. What is the point of spending 20 or 30 grand attaining a qualification if hundreds of thousands of other people have the same or better qualification?

Degrees were elitist because they were supposed to be. They were supposed to be difficult to attain, they were supposed to only be given out to the cream of the crop, they were there to indicate the level at which the person possessing it had worked.

I speak as someone who never got a degree. I didn't want one. I worked straight from school and worked at the level I did out of sheer hard work and by recommendation from other people. I didn't really need a degree. 

Now for those less fortunate souls at the bottom of the pile. Where is their opportunity to improve their life? What has government done for them? Absolutely nothing. It has trapped them in welfare, provided to such a level that if they start work they lose money. Employers rely on government to subsidise wages (only for families though) so they can continue to provide cheap wages and maximise profit. The taxpayer fills in the rest.

So score 0/10 for Opportunity. I haven't seen a policy to help the individual for decades.

Health.

Really? Do I really have to make any comment about the actions of Government during the pandemic and other health scares? The current huge waiting lists? The excess deaths we are having that go underreported or uninvestigated? 

Oh, the silver lining may be the eventual banning of smoking, but that then puts government into the authoritarian camp. It also forces smoking underground and into unsafe, unregulated practices. 

Then add excess undetected cancers thanks to the pandemic and the health service effectively closing down for two years.

Oh and the Health Secretary during the pandemic basically wanted to be allowed to leave us to die. Be under no illusions, the old, the infirm and the poor would have been cast aside and left to rot, while government allowed their cronies and the middle classes into hospital. Just look at the masses of DNRs that were created for just those people. It's a fucking scandal that hasn't been investigated. Those in power at the time and those writing illegal DNRs should be up on criminal charges.

Yeah, 0/10 for health. 

Planning and the future.

Well, I think everyone will agree that the government have failed on this one to. No major infrastructure works for years and then along comes HS2. What a shitshow! Badly managed so costs spiral out of control. Initially underbid in order to make the thing look viable. But those of us knew the current planning laws and the costs of land and houses in the south would cripple the project. Fairly recent Infrastructure projects like the Newbury bypass led the way in how poorly we do them. The only recent success I could name would be Hindhead tunnel, but the costs for that doubled from 150 Million to 370 Million pounds. So the cost of HS2 doubling and even trebling isn't unprecedented. But the question to ask is why the additional costs weren't factored in.

But that's moot, as now the Northern section of HS2 has been cancelled. Basically it's been made unnecessary because the greatest gains in travelling times were further North.

So I think we can safely rate government a solid 0/10 for planning.

I think it's safe to say that government is failing badly to deliver the things that governments should deliver. The question is why? Why is government failing to provide basic, essentials for it's citizens? 

The reason is it's been hijacked by corporate interests. It doesn't care about it's citizens other than to spout platitudes that may afford it another election victory so it can support it's corporate masters for another 5 years.

Let's Start Some Conspiracy Theories.

Today I am reading the tealeaves and donning the tinfoil hat. I'm reading the runes and staring intently into crystal balls whilst digging up skeletons and conspiracies

Number 1. 

If the reason that Muslims in the UK seem to be Policed far more preferentially than ordinary white British people, is it because the Gulf States have a large proportion of the UK economy invested in the country? After all, if something like 20% of the economy is money invested by Gulf States, that money suddenly disappearing could devastate our economy for decades. If that's extended to all Western Economies, that's a pretty big bargaining chip.

Is the threat of removing that money and the ability of the Gulf States to Crash the UK economy giving UK Muslims a certain protection from "harassment" by UK authorities?

Is that why we can't deport the migrants that arrive here from France? Is that why we roll over and house them in 4-star hotels and give them pocket money? Is that why we take in "refugees" while Gulf states don't?

Number 2:

Is the Climate Change movement a response by Western Governments to the increasing threat from Gulf States? I mean, the best way to neuter the Oil producing states would be to stop our reliance on oil and stopping funding them wouldn't it?

I assume if the government came out with it and said that this is a response to the Gulf States holding a gun against our heads, then the Gulf States would instantly respond. And not in a good way.

By Climate Action, Just Stop Oil and the rest being activist organisations, I assume the government can feign innocence as they blindly follow an agenda supported only by an extreme minority. I mean why else would the government pander to one or two percent of the population?

Is the headlong and illogical rush to end the use of fossil-fuelled cars a plan to stick it to the Gulf States, or is it really a tool to control us all? 

Number 3.

Is the plan to control us all something the UK and other Western Governments have been told to do? Are they doing it voluntarily and if so, why are there no dissenting governments?

If it's not national governments pushing the control of the population, who is doing it? Is it the WEF, the UN, the WHO or global corporations? Is it China? Is it the Gulf States?

Is it aliens? Is it a plan by world governments to turn us into one homogeneous global-governed people  a response to the alien threat? Can we only defeat the aliens if we are all in it together? Are we being pushed together for our own good to defeat Aliens, or is it the Nazis?

Number 4.

If it is the Nazis, didn't they die out after WW2, or is a new for of fascism on the rise? The Fascism controlled and instigated by global players. Global corporations in lockstep with governments, controlled from a single source like the WEF and the UN?

Anyway. More to come I'm sure later.

But do look at things and ask yourself the question: Why? Why is the UK government and governments across the West acting so illogically?

The simplest answer is usually the one that is the correct one. Occam's Razor at work.

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.