Agreed that the railways was a bad idea. I'm not that sure about some of the others.
This is pretty much ancient stuff tho, guys. Govt can reign in the Electric and Gas companies if it wants, but modern Toryism takes Thatcher era "competition" mindset to mean everyone can do whatever they want. Bollocks.
And then rails against liberals. Liberal is one of those terms that is used as anyone feels like it, these days. RW's rail against Human Rights law as the work of 'Liberals'. But RW Tories who were anti-lockdown from the start called it an impingement on freedom. And we had to liberate ourselves from the EC. Liberalised, freedom... these two words overlap a lot. Social conservatives who want less control on alcohol and so on, cry freedom, and then you know all the ladies need to go back to the kitchen, and if the state could forcibly deport a load of coloured folk, or forcibly do anything to people like that, then, yeah! That's freedom! Complete bollocks.
Don't get me started on some of what we've seen from modern leftism. Frankly the debate is just a huge mess and turn off. Electorates are not easily led but it's definitely possible to mislead and confuse issues. That's the standard for modern PR. Don't win the argument. Just make it a fucking headache, total nonsense, confuse people. No effective or focused politics is ideal for friendly billionaires to do their business.
It's like Globalism. Yeah. Who ever really said that was a good thing? International trade? Sure. Can be amazingly effective. If it's organised and under the jurisdiction of institutions representing the common interest. So... we get rid of the EU membership. And now just deal with anyone who will have us. Undermine the UN regularly. And then get upset because there's no international deal tackling people who do work on the global scale moving money about to keep it out of the hands of Nations who demand fair payment for trade done on their good shores.
Complete backwards thinking. Like we're ten year olds or something. Can't protect our own interests, because of these bogus debates about bogus confusing terms such as Liberal and Globalist. The loudest and shoutiest idiots buy pretty much whatever the PR mobs send out on twitter and so forth. Because that's how empty brains work. People who don't have a stake in politics, or don't understand it, or are just lunatics by design, always make the most noise.
People who aren't right, who aren't living that well... jeez, count me in that group. But I'm not that much of a lazy or uneducated person to realise that makes us vulnerable to trying to use our voice and politics to make up for that fact.
Loads of people are, because they don't like how they feel, don't like themselves, don't accept things are the way they are, don't really accept reality. Because they've got a lot at stake personally, they make the most noise, because that's the brain's stupid way of coping with feeling insignificant and powerless, of coping with the reality that no one really knows that much about what's going on, but some of us like to think we know an awful lot more than we do, because that's ego compensation for being a small dicked intellectual midget who never took responsibility for themselves and sneered at others and likes to pretend it's their fault.
Being like that, a little, feeling like that, occassionally, is about normal. That's how life fucking is! It's mental. The economy? The last article on economics I read, I felt I should read up on a term mentioned, so went on to wikipedia.
Here's what Wikipedia said was going on.
Who understands this stuff? Maybe one in a thousand. But oh my, listen to us all chirp on like we know all about this stuff.
There's 70million in this country and none of them listen to me, believe me. Less and less the older I get. Watch out for people. If I ever hear someone say they are part of the majority again, I'll mentally slap your bottom. Absolute self-important shite. Sorry life scares you so much you brought that bullshit. Bought it from politicians who know it's about the swing seats, and they are young families, so you make them feel like the biggest group, bigger than all the others, everyone likes believing shite like that.
But in reality, there is no majority group in Britain. What would that be? White english working class males? White English working class families? No such group is going to be more than about 40% of the total population by my reckoning. Because Scots and so on are counted differently. (Sure as fuckfire most younger scots, welsh, london lads don't identify with people waving the Union Jack). Everything is divided up so there are many minorities. Has always been that way. Likely that it always will. That's how all democracies are, because it's allowed to be that way, because we're not allowed to use threats and violence and coercion against each other, and people organise automatically so that one group doesn't emerge that's too big to reign in if they start acting like that.
And in any group, it's usually split up inside, up to half of them don't turn out for elections. So they don't fucking count as democratically active. And that's all there is. The votes. Find me any example where anything like 50% of the population voted for one party, or cause. Never. Ever. Happens. Not as a percentage of everyone who can vote.
Britain and others is being tested by old lies, like that one. And the new ones, where people keep turning any debate into a farce by repeating stupid shit they heard on the net, or from politicians mouths. We've repeatedly failed to recognise the signs of idiocy and failed to organise or protect ourselves against it.
But I don't think it matters that much, because the balance is, you either stay in power by any means possible (like Boris wanted), or you are judged on what you deliver. And the people who would stay in power by any means possible, are always the ones who fuck up on delivery and leave a massive mess, because there's liars and salesmen, and they just know how to tell you what you want to hear, get the money, and for most of them, leaving the place in a mess is a bonus, because the next guy will have to sort it out, and that will hamper him so he doesn't make your effort look as bad as it really was.
