Why Britain is no longer truly Great

Today, whilst sitting around thinking, something I often do as I have too much time on my hands, I had an epiphany: The reason we are no longer great is because we spend too much time worrying about the future, and not enough time doing anything about it. This is most accurately symbolised by the plethora of heath and safety laws coming from the different levels of govenment that rule over us, and being enforced by an army of soul-less husks of people in hi vis jackets, who have endless reems of paperwork for you to fill in for every little thing you wish to do, they are trying to protect us from thw world, but in doing so are removing all the fun and life from it. And this is why we dont have enough scientists, because the men with addenoids tell us that doing experiments may be dangerous, so therefore we are stuck testing the few safe and boring things we can. Over. And over. And over again, so fewer people are taking the sciences at university, and over 80 university science departments have closed due top the lack of people taking the subject since 1990. And all of this because the politicians are trying to save us from ourselves, but what they forget is that it wont be a politician, or an eco-mentalists with their fair-trade organic peace biscuits that will save us from global warming, but a scientist. That is why I belive the government should stop trying o save us from oursleves, and let us get on with living how we want, let us mess around with sodium in Chemistry, let us accelerate things to mind bggling speeds in physics, givce grants to science projects, allow us to rediscover that lost art that once put us at the head of world civilisation, the art of invention.

The End of Democracy as we know it

On the first of December this year, democrcy as we know it dies in Europe. On this day the Lisbn Treaty (Aka the European Constitution) enters force. To put the effects of this into plain English, what this means is that one of the most undemocratic political systems in the world has FULL CONTROLL of every aspect of our lives, they can make laws, enforce taxes and even raise an army (The Eurocorps), and westminter has no say whatsoever on this. They can not veto, opt out or say no to this. Effectively Westmister is now a devolved parliament, with few more powers than Holyrood. What we have effectively done is handed near on complete controll of our nation over to a buerocratic morass on a scale not seen since the fall of the Soviet Union, our once great nation has now handed itslef over to a system that is a near on carbon copy of and with similar democratic standards to the Soviet Union. and like in the USSR, the leaders of the union are elected not by the electorate (me and you), not even by the people the electorate elect to represent them (The MEP's), but the buerocrats, the pencil pushing desk jockeys who have never been elected by anyone to anything, people who are not accounatbe to us, and they put people in charge of what is the most powerfull group of nations on the planet who have no accounatbility to the people, no experience of "real life" and the people over whom the legislate have no idea who they are, yet the president of the EU gets a salary greater than Barrack Obama. This is yet another example of the political classes of Europe imposing their will on a mostly unaware electorate, but they are building resentment, with their reems upon reems of needless buerocracy, and the worst bit about all of this we, the electorate, can do NOTHING to stop this Eurocratic monolith from crashing though our lives. We have no say at all in the EU,as the MEP's, with all respect to the men and women who do those jobs, and the few who try to act as opposition in the parliament, can do little to stop this, as all the true power lies with the buerocrats who come up with endless ammounts of mostly uneccesary, and ever more restrictive red tape. They come up with 3000 new laws every year, not 3000 amendments, 3000 completely new laws every year that apply to the whole EU. That is the same ammount that Westmister has introduced since 2000. That is a rediculous ammount of legislation, which Britain has no ability to avoid now. Welcome to Europe, you'll never leave.

Blog 4

In this instalment I will be talking (Or more like ranting) about the idiotic “Green Taxes” and the silly theories behind them. Today I was reading a friend’s facebook status, and they were complaining about the expense of getting your wheels, which As most of us know is a costly process, firstly getting your licence, £50 just to get the provisional, £30 for a theory test, all the taxes on the lessons, which soon you will have to take a set amount of (100 hours I read). That in itself is sheer idiocy, my dad passed in 4 lessons, and is one of the best drivers ever, whereas my grandmother would still be a rubbish driver if you made her do a 1000 lessons, some people just aren’t cut out to drive, and they are the ones who cause the accidents, doing 40mph on the motorway, and breaking for no reason, causing the person driving normally behind them to smash into them. Also they are moving the test to 18, stupidity central, and as usual form some berk with a 2:2 in social sciences from Bolton University, who thinks because they have studied life they understand it. I usually avoid using such language in my blogs but please FUCK OFF, stop telling us how to live, treating adults like children.
Once you have navigated that hellhole of bureaucracy and idiocy you then have the astronomical costs of running a car. Did you know that before tax petrol costs (If we presume a price of £1 per litre) about 37p, and about 50p with VAT. And all of this in the name of saving a few cuddly polar bears. Again please bugger off Mr/Mrs treehugger, according to a recent study CO2 levels will have to reach a least 750ppm for the ice caps to melt irreversibly (A natural inevitability anyway, as we are still in the “interglacial” of an ice age) when they are currently at 225ppm. Furthermore when you consider that the motorist emits less CO2 than breathing, cows and many other everyday things, then surely these so called “Green taxes” are a waste of time. But no, government ministers defend them, which leads me to believe, as a reasonable person, that the government has ulterior motives, or are just plain stupid.

Blog 3

As of next month the UK should be switching its highest court of law from the House of Lords to the UK Supreme Court, a move deemed by some to be unnecessary, as it is the same people practically, with the same powers, just in a different building. Others, say it’s about time that it moved to a separate area from the government itself.

However this debate will soon be rendered obsolete, as the EU, the so called democratic institution that runs most of Europe, is forcing the Irish to re-hold their referendum because, to put it simply, they didn’t like the result. For many reasons this is wrong, and makes a laughing stock of the EU’s very shaky claims to democracy, but that’s not the point I’m making (In this blog at least). The point is that until they force the Lisbon treaty (The EU with a bit of dressing up and a new name) through they will keep making Ireland vote, and when it gets though our supreme court that we’ve spent millions on will be so much wasted money as almost all laws will come from Europe and almost all jurisdiction therefore on point of law (the area of law our supreme court deals with) will be handed over to Europe, so the Judges and Lords sat in the Supreme court will be left there twiddling their thumbs

Blog 2

This week’s installation is on the Conservative’s proposed cuts in public spending. I heard one person in my Government and politics class saying that education and healthcare will suffer, but they’ve already promised they wont cut either of them, and defence wont be cut either (Nor will it be increased substantially like they said they would like to however), but it wont be cut, so the (arguably) 3 most important areas are safe, so the question is where will the cuts fall. Welfare is a definite, but not to those who actually NEED it ( I.E. those who cant support themselves) but those who wont will suffer (and about time as well), also they could (Like Thatcher) cut our outgoings to Europe, which will save us millions.
But the main cuts will fall on quango’s, those non-government agencies that most of us have heard of, but few actually know what they do, some do an important job such as those who monitor food markets, qualities and trends, but are highly overstaffed, others just meddle, such as the racial equality commission, who mean well but are oversized and overpowered commissions. But the most important problem is they are not accountable to anyone (meaning that we cannot complain when they do something wrong), and many do jobs that MP’s are supposed to do, like telling the government how people feel, and what their opinions are. Aside from wasting taxpayers money however the biggest problem with them is that all the people who work there need to appear to be doing something, so have to come up with ideas that nobody else has, and this leads to stupid ideas that nobody else has implemented due to the sheer unworkability or idiocy of the idea, such as fining people who haven’t been vetted to work with children for doing so, sounds great, until you realise this law allows councils to fine helpful parents for taking their friends child to scouts, or football (When they say kids don’t exercise enough already) and also will stop parents from volunteering at local schools to help out on taking children on trips, such as to farms, castles and other off site educational places because there aren’t enough vetted staff to take them, blinkering children further to the real world, and hampering their education. So in cutting these they will be doing us all a favour, but will be creating “Mass unemployment”, but we cant afford to employ these “Jobsworths” any longer, and the jobs shouldn’t exist in the first place.
So Gordon Dulce est decpere in loco

Blog 1 (21/08/09)

Hello and welcome to this first instalment of my blog. This blog serves only one purpose, to act as an outlet for my displeasure at the way things are preceding in politics.

My first subject of choice is the new proposals for council tax changes (or to you and me increases). This proposal would mean a re-evaluation of homes and an increase in tax if you have improved the value of your home by making it nicer, or extending it (I.E a conservatory) or if you have a nice view. There are many flaws in this idea, firstly the language used, what constitutes a “Nice view”, most views could be argued to be nice, obviously there’s countryside views, but what about in the city? Is a view of a nice new tower block nice? Some people could argue that point, and furthermore, we are already taxed for these things through the added value to the property that comes from the area. So this raises the question, why change a system that already works fine? Simple, there are so many “Non-jobs” in councils around the country now with titles like “Undersecretary to Child road safety advisor” now that the cash to pay all these people’s wages has to come from somewhere, and of course we, the taxpayer have to foot the bill, its things like this that really bring politics into perspective, we are no longer run by MP’s our prime minister and our local councillor, instead the power lies with Non-jobs who to make it appear they have a job to do have to come up with new ideas and initiatives to point to if their job position ever comes into question.

Stop Press: I have an addition to make to this first issue, I have just read about the Lockerbie bombers release and arrival in Tripoli, Mr Milliband (Foreign secretary) has described his hero’s welcoming as “Deeply distressing”, no its not “Deeply distressing”, its downright disgraceful that he was released, and even more so that on his arrival at Tripoli he was greeted like a returning hero, he should have been left to die in prison for his crimes, Life means life, not a sympathy release, because what happens if he recovers, the Libyans wont return him here to serve out his sentence, he’ll live out the rest of his life as a hero, for killing hundreds of innocent people, Hillary Clinton was right, he should never have been released, men like that deserve no sympathy, he should serve his sentence regardless of health condition.