And what happened after Brexit is exactly why I do not and will not support opening up the US Constitution for balancing the budget or other amendments--the process will not go as conservatives who demand this believe. It will be post-Brexit on steroids.
Really? This reminds me of non-Russian Communists and fellow travellers in 1990, bemoaning the collapse of the USSR by explaining that Russia had, in fact, never properly applied Communist ideology but, in their view, the concept remained - and had been proven - sound.
If you think Brexit was a good idea and people failed it, all you are really saying is that the advocates of Brexit neglected the essential parameter of all human enterprise. But what you are not saying is that Brexit was based on a grotesquely simplified version of the challenges facing Britain, that was quite at odds with the reality of our circumstances. All those broken ambitions mean something.
Great piece on the UKβs suicide. My first thought was how the publicβs demand for Brexit parallels the U.S. publicβs demand currently for Save America. On the off chance our Senate is cajoled into enacting a law they clearly despise by overwhelming public demand, I expect our βleadersβ will similarly sabotage the outcome. βWeβll show you what happens when you peasants think you know more than your betters. Now when you wait 9 months for your NHS appointment, you get to be seen by a brand new nurse from the 3rd world whose entire skill set is giving expired βvaccinesβ donated by The Gates Foundation to all 40 people in your village.
Sorry so chatty today. Distracting my brain while two close family members are having medical emergencies and I canβt do anything but wait.
On the idiocy of British leaders filling NHS with 3rd world place holders, Iβll add this personal experience. In the early 2000s I was hired to spend 8 months trying to figure out why several Ugandan villages had failed to implement a local government law (a law designed to decentralize government by giving local governments the authority to manage certain functions). The law had been on the books for several years and local governments hadnβt taken up the charge.
Iβll spare you most details except to say it didnβt require a foreign lawyer with experience in local government law to spend 8 months in the country to figure out that no village was going to start testing their water monthly when the cost of the test was 1/3 of the village budget and no additional revenue could be collected. The main issue, however, was that not one single leader or citizen in any of the lagging villages could read the statute. (Yes, your tax dollars did pay for this local law project of very limited use instead of a much more useful literacy project).
The gap between the skills of people trained and working in a Third World environment and those coming from developed, or even the developing countries on Europeβs Eastern frontier, is not bridgeable. UK citizens should be publicly tar and feathering their leaders for this. The UK is officially released from the EU yoke, but still leading as if theyβre under it. They are free to open immigration to Hungarians, Romanians or Bulgarians to fill positions in the NHS to help their own citizens AND Eastern Europeans, but they donβt. Why? Because Eastern Europeans are the wrong color. The UK is as committed as the EU to dumb down their population (no, non-whites are not dumber-Third world citizens of all colors are, by the definition of βThird Worldβ, less prepared to provide health services UK citizens pay dearly for). UK leaders are still as committed to making their citizenry less uppity and less sovereign. The UK might as well have stayed in the EU if they canβt figure out how to throw out their trash leaders. I feel for them. Weβre not much better off except that we havenβt yet agreed to give the government 50-90% of our income.
Thank you to anyone who took the time to read my rant today.
I think thatβs what it meant to the people who voted for it. The cronies much preferred the unaccountability and vastly greater graft available under the EUs banner. Without pulling out the roots of corruption, however painful it wouldβve been, they inadvertently made a bad situation worse.
Again, I relate this to where we are in the U.S. with 80% of Americans believing we can effect change with the Save America Act. Unless we uproot the corrupt politicians, parties and systems (on both sides of the aisle) who have been controlling election outcomes for decades, passing Save America-as important as it is-will not βSave Americaβ.
βAs painful as it may beβ, to my mind, means sucking it up and allowing the seats of corrupt RINOs like John Cornyn go to a Democrat, if necessary. I see no other way to pry these blood sucking ticks out of our political scalp. The people in both parties must care more about prying the Cornyns and Clyburns out of their government than winning every possible seat every possible term. In those many races where we canβt pry them out in our own party primaries, we have to pry them out by not voting for them. Itβs not easy to unseat a one term member of Congress, but itβs not impossible. Itβs impossible to unseat a 5-6 term Senator unless the people-both sides-are willing to sacrifice a seat to the other side. If we arenβt willing to sacrifice to throw out our own trash, we donβt deserve any better than the citizens of the post-Brexit UK.
Makes me think. What if the citizens could broker election deals just like the Uniparty does. βWeβll trade you our R seat in Alaska if youβll stay home and sacrifice your D seat in New Hampshireβ. No change in the number of seats, but both sides get to take out their trash. π§
Excellent writing today! Oh my gosh is my continuing reaction to the wholesale denuding of rights in the UK.
"Oh my gosh", is just way too nice and polite in the British way. "Oh my gosh" needs to give way to "Not Happening".
I agree and have thought the same.
And what happened after Brexit is exactly why I do not and will not support opening up the US Constitution for balancing the budget or other amendments--the process will not go as conservatives who demand this believe. It will be post-Brexit on steroids.
Moral of the story is voting doesn't work??
Really? This reminds me of non-Russian Communists and fellow travellers in 1990, bemoaning the collapse of the USSR by explaining that Russia had, in fact, never properly applied Communist ideology but, in their view, the concept remained - and had been proven - sound.
If you think Brexit was a good idea and people failed it, all you are really saying is that the advocates of Brexit neglected the essential parameter of all human enterprise. But what you are not saying is that Brexit was based on a grotesquely simplified version of the challenges facing Britain, that was quite at odds with the reality of our circumstances. All those broken ambitions mean something.
Great piece on the UKβs suicide. My first thought was how the publicβs demand for Brexit parallels the U.S. publicβs demand currently for Save America. On the off chance our Senate is cajoled into enacting a law they clearly despise by overwhelming public demand, I expect our βleadersβ will similarly sabotage the outcome. βWeβll show you what happens when you peasants think you know more than your betters. Now when you wait 9 months for your NHS appointment, you get to be seen by a brand new nurse from the 3rd world whose entire skill set is giving expired βvaccinesβ donated by The Gates Foundation to all 40 people in your village.
Save America? Is there something wrong?
Sorry so chatty today. Distracting my brain while two close family members are having medical emergencies and I canβt do anything but wait.
On the idiocy of British leaders filling NHS with 3rd world place holders, Iβll add this personal experience. In the early 2000s I was hired to spend 8 months trying to figure out why several Ugandan villages had failed to implement a local government law (a law designed to decentralize government by giving local governments the authority to manage certain functions). The law had been on the books for several years and local governments hadnβt taken up the charge.
Iβll spare you most details except to say it didnβt require a foreign lawyer with experience in local government law to spend 8 months in the country to figure out that no village was going to start testing their water monthly when the cost of the test was 1/3 of the village budget and no additional revenue could be collected. The main issue, however, was that not one single leader or citizen in any of the lagging villages could read the statute. (Yes, your tax dollars did pay for this local law project of very limited use instead of a much more useful literacy project).
The gap between the skills of people trained and working in a Third World environment and those coming from developed, or even the developing countries on Europeβs Eastern frontier, is not bridgeable. UK citizens should be publicly tar and feathering their leaders for this. The UK is officially released from the EU yoke, but still leading as if theyβre under it. They are free to open immigration to Hungarians, Romanians or Bulgarians to fill positions in the NHS to help their own citizens AND Eastern Europeans, but they donβt. Why? Because Eastern Europeans are the wrong color. The UK is as committed as the EU to dumb down their population (no, non-whites are not dumber-Third world citizens of all colors are, by the definition of βThird Worldβ, less prepared to provide health services UK citizens pay dearly for). UK leaders are still as committed to making their citizenry less uppity and less sovereign. The UK might as well have stayed in the EU if they canβt figure out how to throw out their trash leaders. I feel for them. Weβre not much better off except that we havenβt yet agreed to give the government 50-90% of our income.
Thank you to anyone who took the time to read my rant today.
Excellent summary of the traitorous actions of incompetent bad leaders.
Unity with the EU in the case of the UK, meant death to the British. Brexit meant more than sovereignty it meant Britain stood for antiglobalization.
I think thatβs what it meant to the people who voted for it. The cronies much preferred the unaccountability and vastly greater graft available under the EUs banner. Without pulling out the roots of corruption, however painful it wouldβve been, they inadvertently made a bad situation worse.
Again, I relate this to where we are in the U.S. with 80% of Americans believing we can effect change with the Save America Act. Unless we uproot the corrupt politicians, parties and systems (on both sides of the aisle) who have been controlling election outcomes for decades, passing Save America-as important as it is-will not βSave Americaβ.
βAs painful as it may beβ, to my mind, means sucking it up and allowing the seats of corrupt RINOs like John Cornyn go to a Democrat, if necessary. I see no other way to pry these blood sucking ticks out of our political scalp. The people in both parties must care more about prying the Cornyns and Clyburns out of their government than winning every possible seat every possible term. In those many races where we canβt pry them out in our own party primaries, we have to pry them out by not voting for them. Itβs not easy to unseat a one term member of Congress, but itβs not impossible. Itβs impossible to unseat a 5-6 term Senator unless the people-both sides-are willing to sacrifice a seat to the other side. If we arenβt willing to sacrifice to throw out our own trash, we donβt deserve any better than the citizens of the post-Brexit UK.
Makes me think. What if the citizens could broker election deals just like the Uniparty does. βWeβll trade you our R seat in Alaska if youβll stay home and sacrifice your D seat in New Hampshireβ. No change in the number of seats, but both sides get to take out their trash. π§
Which seems will never happen.
Youβre almost certainly right. Maybe planting the seeds makes it more likely.
A race to the bottom
Sure looks like Belbury has won and Britain is doomedβ¦unless Merlin.