I have refrained from political discussion on this forum for a long time, but I am very worried about the state of the UK and where we are going given the recent announcements of more cuts whilst foreign aid is increased by 8% and a blackout of any EU referendum.
Let me say straight away I'm not racist,
Translation:I'm a big fat cowardly racist, just too embarrassed to admit it. (Actually, that's almost a good sign, if you actually recognise that you can't be so open about it in these times.)
Today, rabbis in hundreds of mosques across the country led a call for their 'people' to stop raping our children.
Really? What were
Rabbis doing in
Mosques? Has the Ecumenical movement and the concept of "guest preachers" really spread that far?
In Leicester, Birmingham and Crawley, whites will become the minority shortly. In London, I can walk down the street and not see anyone and therefore I don't see any white faces. Our country is no longer British, what makes us us is disappearing and what does that mean for the future?
It's not about the British, it's about Britain. People are people, and pretty much the same wherever you go. These islands are in the unique position of (1) making the perfect staging post for invading parties from Northern Europe to Southern Europe, and vice versa; (2) having a climate where almost anything will grow; and (3) having just the right mineral resources -- metal ores, particularly iron ore, and coal -- for kickstarting the Industrial Revolution. (I've thought about this a lot, in the context of how to reboot society after a meltdown. Certain inventions just have to happen in the right order. You really can't start doing electronics until you can roll steel into really thin sheets -- alternating current generators, motors and transformers depend on laminated construction, and direct current is an evolutionary dead end that only gets resurrected later -- and draw a good hard vacuum -- valves are way easier to deal with than semiconductors, at first.)
Light-coloured skin is really nothing more than a simple evolutionary adaptation to temperate latitudes. Had the tameable animals, easy-to-grow crops and abundant mineral resources been in sub-Saharan Africa, you can bet your arse that it would have been black people who dominated the world and enslaved whites, and now it would be Europeans fighting for their rights.
If you really want to worry about something, try worrying about
this. The Government and the Energy industry are in talks. They have said that there could be twice as much shale gas down there as they thought -- well, this is just standard bullishness. (Never mind that fracking, if tried in earnest, is going to make the water supply undrinkable and cause bits to drop off the edge of the country. And it's still adding more carbon to the cycle, so sea levels are still going to rise, so we lose even more land.) And when a minister appears on television and says there is absolutely no need to bribe businesses to cut their power consumption and that the lights are going to stay on for domestic consumers, you
know we're being groomed for rolling blackouts. (Though with electricity prices continuing to rise, just letting the meter run out every so often -- something I managed to avoid having to do by the very skin of my teeth, even during the lean years -- is likely to become a way of life for many people.)
Oh yeah, and solar panels connected to grid-synchronous inverters (the usual mode of installation, which allows you to supply juice into the grid and claim a rebate -- supposedly, at any rate; mine
still hasn't come through) don't work in a power cut, or even just when the meter runs out, because there's no external supply to synchronise against.
On top of which, house prices are absolutely batshit crazy. Montoya Mansions -- "Enter as a squatter, leave as a freeholder" -- took 15 years and a hefty inheritance (which I'd have swapped in a heartbeat for my Grandad to be alive again) to pay for; during which time, the little Victorian two-up two-down terraced house in a dead-end side street had quadrupled in value and my wages had doubled. And transport is getting so expensive, many ordinary working people are going to be forced into the position where they are unable to afford to travel to work each day to earn a wage -- and I don't see many bosses being particularly sympathetic to the idea of people kipping in the office.
If you want a quick and dirty analogy: we have not only spent most of the lottery jackpot but, in the meantime, fucked off everyone who might have given us a job.
) ... and now I'm a bit lost on how the whole race thing works. 
