Friday, December 22, 2006
Will there always be an England?
Not if it doesn't reconsider its immigration policies.
8 Comments:
By 
skipsailing, at
Fri Dec 22, 01:53:00 PM:
somewhere out there Anthony Burgess is laughing at us.
why? Based on this incident it is quite clear that Burgess got it right with "Clockwork Orange"
The question Burgess asks is "are you ready for ultraviolence?" Well ready or not, here it is.
In clockwork orange the bad guys are white soccer yobs that speak in a patois consisting of low class brit and russian. Does anybody besides me remember "horrorshow groodies"?
The universe unfolded in a slightly different manner but only slightly. We have the same basic dynamics: unrepenant youth being "served" by indifferent public functionaries.
does it get anymore impotent than this?
They were meant to attend courses run by local youth offender teams but shunned any interventions.
Nothing like those youth offender teams to turn around failed lives, eh? The fighting social workers once again score a defeat. Oh my, let's double their funding!
And what consequence did these sterling fellows suffer for shunning these interventions? Any guesses? How about none? sounds about right to me.
Also in keeping with the themes of clockwork orange we have the various plummy brits, who no doubt live in gate guarded communities, using these ne'er do wells as political pawns as they jockey for power.
Whoever holds the rights to Burgesses book should consider a rush re-release of Clockwork Orange, just to remind brits that this was all oh so preventable.
I'm curious to read the reactions of some of the reliable lefties that visit here. I am certain that they will have some well polished patter designed to deflect attention away from the fact that governments consistenly fail when the enter the social engineering realm.
By Lanky_Bastard, at
Fri Dec 22, 07:17:00 PM:
The end of England?!!
Quickly, Sir Tigerhawk. Man the parapet and repel those invading hoardes. God save the Queen!
(I think England will manage.)
By Dawnfire82, at
Fri Dec 22, 08:24:00 PM:
No civilization is permanent. While it isn't likely (though it happens) for one to extinguish in a single lifetime, the idea that it is in decline is not a foolish one.
By 
, at
Fri Dec 22, 11:16:00 PM:
When Red Ken got elected as mayor of London, you knew they were entering the endgame phase.
By , at
Fri Dec 22, 11:47:00 PM:
RUE BRITANIA BRITANIA RULES THE WAVES.BRATANIANS WONT BE SLAVES,RUE BRITAINIA BRITANIA RULES THE WAVES.BRITANIAS WILL BE BRAVE
By , at
Sat Dec 23, 11:48:00 AM:
I think that Skip nailed it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.....
David
By , at
Sat Dec 23, 08:18:00 PM:
When the current socialist whelps were elected in the 90's, there was no pensions problem. Indeed one of the reasons at that time for rejecting the EU membership was that the EU had a pensions problem, and the UK did not. The worry was that the UK may get involved in funding that problem. One of the first actions of the whelps was a "pensions raid" of 5billion pa by gordon brown, the chancellor. Every private pension was immediately underfunded by 25%. Not only that, but over a period, because of taxation implications, the share price of many companies that pension funds were invested in were depressed. Couple this with legislatve restrictions on where pension funds could invest, and you have the current socialist tampering creation of a massive pensions crisis.
Then came the statisticians and the legal idiots, who said that long term pension liabilities should not be covered by investments in volatile equities. Rules were drawn up that resulted in massive fund switches from equities to guilts (gov't bonds), which in the days of low interest rates were low yielding. Result, - - more pension problems, since the switch to low yield guilts from the sale of equities also dragged down equity prices for several years.
This cluster-fuck drags on, with proposed legislation to solve the problem looking inceasingly likely to make it worse.
The relavence to this discusson?
Well, in socialist systems there is a tipping point. Because of hamfisted decisions, increasing numbers become dependant on state handouts. Previous pensioners who had been independantly funded were now dependant on the state and now naturally vote for the party that promises most. Once the tipping point is reached, it is almost impossible to get the bastards out, so they continue with idiotic policies. The wrong people get promoted, and when weak ineffectual people get power, they become bullies and wield it arbitrarily for the wrong reasons. More and more state intervention, controlling databases, social engineering, thought police, etc,etc.
That is Britain today. Sick.
Where civil servants get paid equally for doing a good, or a bad job, in the absence of any employer sanctions which have almost been legislated away, the tendency will be for a bad job, and this is common with state enterprises.
There has been a veritable procession of "Home Secretaries" over the last few years, with the latest time server declaring, on appointment, that his new department was "not fit for purpose".
Two things emerge.
1) Very little has changed since those words months ago.
2 The previous time server is still active at a high level, instead of being unemployed.
Yes I'm a cynic.
The news from TH is unfortunately far too common.
Lanky, we may not manage.
Anon, red ken is part of the endgame.
The real problem is that most people are sleeep-walking. The smart ones are exiting. There is no viable political alternative. The inmates are in charge.
By Purple Avenger, at
Sat Dec 23, 09:29:00 PM:
The Brits are toast. We're going to have to ask them to turn over their nukes at some point.
