Forget the Autumn Budget – look at this ball!
It is quite extraordinary: on Thursday we had the Autumn Budget, filled with all sorts of dreadfulness. Yesterday, we had some of the obligatory writing heads in the MSM explaining what it all means, but today, according to the compilation of the front pages in the usual place (link) this Nation has got one problem only: there will be no beer whatsoever, in the whole country, at yon footie World Cup in Qatar which kicks off tomorrow!
How utterly dreadful, how utterly unpredictable, given that Qatar is a muslim country! Worse – according to a report in a German paper yesterday, the Qataris had bought several tanks from Germany, with the permission of the Chancelloresse Merkel, tanks which the Ukraine so desperately wants. Mind you, that deal was made in 2018 and the Qataris paid for them in full, but what Mr ‘e wants he gets, or has received so far.
It gets worse. The Times’ printed front page has a scary photo of Starmer, promoting their puff piece with video. It’s of course paywalled but I think you can see the top of that piece, photo included, here, ‘for free’ if you have the stomach.
There is one opinion piece worth mentioning and quoting at length. It’s by Jonathan Sumption, writing for the DT, headlined
“We’re all now paying the terrible price for lockdown – An historic failure of government during the pandemic set a ticking time-bomb not just under the economy, but also in health and education” (paywalled link)
As expected, he doesn’t mince his words and tackles the explanation given by Hunt, or rather: the explanation his mandarins in the Treasury and their chums at the OBR and the BoE have provided him with:
“The UK’s public finances are in a worse state than at any time since the Second World War. Not the Government’s fault, says Jeremy Hunt. It’s the pandemic. It’s Ukraine. It’s world-wide interest rates. It’s just about anything other than the main culprit lurking in the background: the lockdowns of the last two years.
Let us look at a few sobering facts. First of all, government expenditure associated with the pandemic has been by far the largest contributor to the current deficit. The National Audit Office (NAO) has estimated the total cost at £376 billion, or £5,492 for every man, woman and child in the land.
Secondly, most of this expenditure was not in fact caused by the pandemic, but by the government’s decision to respond by locking the population down. Less than a quarter of the NAO’s figure represents the extra cost of health and social care. Most of the rest is the cost of supporting people prevented from working and businesses prevented from operating. At the height of the pandemic, the government was spending about twice as much per month on paying people to do nothing as the entire cost of the NHS.” (paywalled link)
It’s not really a mystery why the MSM’s eminent financial and economic editors and correspondents have overlooked this fact: their Whitehall ‘sources’ and the Whitehall paymasters do not want Lockdown mentioned with one word. This is especially the case because ‘moar lockdowns’ are on the horizon – watch Paul Joseph Watsons’ video published yesterday evening!
Next, Mr Sumption refers to Sweden and their lockdown policies and then points out that:
“We are paying the price of panic, populism and poorly thought-out knee-jerk decision-making. At least the current Prime Minister can point to his warnings as chancellor that lockdowns were unaffordable if extended over any significant period of time. Boris Johnson’s lordly indifference to mere money ensured that the cost was not even considered. All that can be said in his favour is that, if the Labour Party had had its way, the lockdowns would have been even longer and more costly.” (paywalled link)
Indeed so, and Sir Kneeler in No 10 would happily implement even ‘moar lockdowns’ and those ‘WHO health passports’ described by PJW in his video above. Mr Sumption continues:
“The case against lockdowns was always based on two main points. First, coercion did not appear to work much better in the medium and long term than balanced information and advice addressed mainly to those whose age or state of health put them at significant risk. Secondly, the collateral damage was likely to be exceptionally serious, but was never properly assessed or even considered when it mattered.” (paywalled link)
Pointing out the true, long-term costs of this ‘terrible social experiment’, the impacts on health, education and indeed the economy, Mr Sumption concludes:
“All this is fundamentally a failure of government. It is what happens when radical decisions are made affecting every one of us, without looking at the whole picture. “ (paywalled link)
I’d go further and say it’s a failure of government because those making the decisions, i.e. Whitehall mandarins, scientifically illiterate that they are, had swallowed their own fear propaganda. That propaganda, as we remember only too well, was blared and screamed about in the daily MSM fear porn. The unelected SAGEs, feeling truly powerful for once in their lives, were only too happy to provide the fallacious ‘models’ empowering those on SAGE who wanted to install a Chinese model of social control.
Well, they paved the way for this model which is slowly taking form because an ever increasing number of citizens have accepted that without smartphones and government-produced QR codes they are nobodies who have ceased to exist. Perhaps that’s why Whitehall and their Westminster propaganda outlets, the MSM, like and support our ‘new people’, those dinghy drivers, who all have smartphones rather than passports. Not that they’ll be controlled like we’ll be: after all, they are ‘victims’ and ‘poor’ and need our help, for example to build a whole new village for their family members in Albania (link).
But let’s not talk about that, or about the damage created by lockdowns. Let’s talk about “no beer in Qatar” during the footie World Cup! Isn’t it remarkable how that Autumn Budget was presented just at the time when we peasants could be trusted to take our eyes off that ball and fix it on the real one, the one 22 men fight over … Enjoy the weekend, with beer …
Sunak is barmy…….he has pledged £50 million pounds to Ukraine for weaponry. If that money was going begging, how about spending here in the UK where at the moment it is needed. It is absolutely staggering how he is able to get away with this, but he and they won’t, as it will come back to haunt them in 2024 when they will hopefully disappear from the political landscape.
Fifty million is such a small sumthat one wonders what it hides and to whom.
TG Spokes………£50 million pounds is indeed a lot of money especially for a country like ours that is trillions of pounds in debt. There is apprently no money available for essentials in this country, but all of a sudden Sunak finds sufficient monies to give away to Ukraine at the blink of an eye. That £50 million pounds could have been spent more productively here in the UK. Every cheque that he writes and gives away will bring nearer his own political demise…hopefully.
Today, I heard on the news that Sunak paid a surprise visit to Ukraine to visit their president, you know thew one who exaggerated the story about Russian missiles landing in Poland during the past week and that we had to take action against them, even though those missiles were fired by Ukrainian air defence forces. Anyway, Sunak has promised to stand by Ukraine for as long as it takes, no doubt promising them more weaponry that we need for ourselves and more financial aid, and of course that we simply do not have. He also stated that this country would stand by Ukraine after the war has ended and whilst they rebuild. I wonder if Sunak has it in his mind that this country should also foot the bill for that as well. I suppose only time will tell, however why is he spending even more time travelling the world when he should be concentrating upon the financial plight of his own citizens. And of course, travelling to these far flung countries by jet aircraft, pumping out all those unnecessary tonnes of extra carbon into the atmosphere. Has he forgotten already that there is a climate change problem ensuing. His motto like his predecessors is probably ‘don’t do as I do, but do as I say’………
Without smart phones and QR code I am ‘nobody’ and cease to exist ?? Oh good. I do hope so. That is exactly what I want. Well except for being paid my state pension of course – my only income.
PB That’s the problem. Without playing their game and having a smartphone etc you won’t get a pension. In their eyes there will be nobody to pay! You’ll have to live instead by say bartering goods and services, bagging the odd pigeon for the cooking pot. Delicious with acorns which you’ll have to gather ! Cash and coins maybe but TPTB will try to illegalise that since they want everybody in their diabolical system
The moral of this tale is that we must push back against their diabolical system coming into being in the first place. Once it’s in place, it will be well nigh impossible to reverse.
TPTB want you to think CBDC is inevitable and they want you to lie down in a ditch and do nothing to push back. Some people think it’s a long way from being ready to launch in the West because the American banks will resist.
This is encouraging and may be of interest, especially the part played by the British Empire and British Crown
https://theduran.com/gonzalo-lira-the-roundtable-33-alex-krainer-tom-luongo/
PS This video is a bit long so I’ll try to highlight and summarise just a few points :
Globocap are not entirely a homogeneous bunch who agree on everything: there are sometimes diverging interests: US banks have distanced themselves in some ways from Europe (libor) who will soon go over the abyss (bond markets).
US banks may well refuse to go along with the CBDC project
American Tom Luongo thinks Britain still wants USA under its thumb as part of its empire ( I was under the impression that it was the USA that is the imperialist global bully!).
The British Empire has not gone away: very powerful elements of it left which has partnered up with the other powerful globocap entities.
Pailine……don’t worry I haven’t got a Smartphone or any mobile phone either. I don’t want one and don’t need one, and don’t want to be at the beck and call of all and sundry just to talk crap. I have a landline/crapline for that. However, what we do need in this day and age is a computer, otherwise we wouldn’t be on here, unless one does in fact have Smartphone to this of course. Loads of people still don’t have a mobile phone either, so I don’t feel left out, and nor should you, so cheer up.
Colin re Smartphones: Well said. Laptop computers are our window on the world and I wouldn’t be without mine. We can be snooped on on a laptop, but there are some precautions we can take.
But a smartphone is a completely different animal from a laptop, very dangerous and sinister. By having one, people are collaborating in building up a surveillance and control system where all their data is there in one place for TPTB to see, and from where they can control us; the lynchpin of the Central Bank Digital Currency and Digital ID. That’s not true of a laptop.
TPTB will try to bully us : using businesses they make it difficult or impossible to
do various transactions without a smartphone; I really do think that is what 2 way authentication is about. Although they dress it up as being “for our own security from fraud,”
Eventually they want us unable to do or buy ANYTHING without one.
So I think its important for us to form netwiorks whereby we can function outside the corporate grid. TPTB won’t like that of course and will try to stop it but resist we must.
With WEF running dogs in nos 10 and 11 it looks like we will have to be out protesting again next year. Yet, Neema Parvini’s ‘The Populist Delusion” strikes a worrying chord:
“This is a book about the realities of power and how it functions, stripped of all ideological baggage. It has at its core a thesis, which absolutely contradicts the democratic or populist delusion, that the people are or ever could be sovereign. An organised minority always rules over the majority. Perhaps as a testament to that fact, a recent empirical study showed that public opinion has a near-zero impact on law-making in the USA across 1,779 policy issues. In fact, my thesis goes further than that to suggest that all social change at all times and in all places has been top-down and driven by elites rather than ‘the people’. Those movements which have the appearance of being organic and bottom-up protests—for example, the 1960s Civil Rights movement in the USA or the Russian Revolutions of 1917—were, in fact, tightly organised and funded by elites. Those attempts to drive change from the ‘bottom-up’, which is to say, in the absence of elite organisation—we might think of the events of 6th January 2020 in Washington DC or the recent Yellow Vest movement in France—will amount to little more than an inchoate rabble. This principle holds true regardless of the size of the political unit, be that a small company of twenty people, a large organization of thousands of people, a nation of millions, or even the entire world. It holds true not only in terms of hard political power—the ability to capture and hold office—but also in two other crucial respects. First, there is the question of logistical power—simply the ability to execute orders—for it is possible to capture office without achieving the ability to execute, as Donald Trump showed. Second, there is the question of the ‘soft power’ of discourse, of information flow, and of opinion formation.”
In short, someone needs to lead the fight back. Whether Farage, for all his faults and flaws, will step up looks unlikely. So who? Without leadership our various rallies and marches will be a letting off steam for some, but change will not come thereby. Even 2 million marching against Blair’s war failed to stop him. It was organised logistically by a coalition of groups but there was no political, elite leadership.
We wait and wait and wait….
Stout at 2.02pm. Interesting, what you say. For example, Lenin drove the Russian revolution for his own ends, to take power for himself. And look at our own ‘Magna Carta. It was arranged by ‘the Barons’, only they could force King John to sign it.
Absolutely, clearely, obviously. This is why ukip is so valuable to the Tory , it provides the only Party seemingly organised for the full monty, but in 95% ironclad constitutional change resistance, impossible to implement.
So, its the hard work of finding and growing a minnow into pike. And a small fish in a big pool just grows into lunch.
Stout Yeoman……..well, reading between the lines of what he says and writes, I am of the belief that Farage will set up a new party next year. Interestingly, the Daily Telegraph ran a poll last week as to how many former Conservative voters would support a new party set up by Farage, and 25% said they would definitely support that new party if it were to occur, and another 16% stated that they may support it. And of course, Farage does occasionally write for that paper, and I cannot believe that they would go down that line unless he (Farage) was thinking of setting up a new party. There is a lot of disenfranchised Conservative voters out there ready to be taken advantage of who will have nor political home after the of the Conservative Party’s move to the left. If he does set up a new right of centre party, it must exclude Richard Tice who in my opinion hasn’t got a clue how to run a political party and furthermore hasn’t got what it takes to be a leader. Farage has been talking of a ‘second insurgency’ of late, but I think quite rightly he is keeping what plans he may have close to his chest. On the other hand, he may not have any plans at all, and it is just all talk. Nevertheless, he represents our best chance if he were to do so. At least that is what I think……
I find it difficult to believe that had Labour been in power they could have raised debt to such obscene levels as the Tories have done. Foreigners who buy most of our debt would be far less likely to buy debt issued by a Labour government than a Tory one. Would the Tory rags have meekly tolerated lockdown had Labour been in power? Would the Tory Party have stood idly by as industry was locked down? We will never know of course but my guess is that Labour would have had far more opposition to lockdowns than the Tories did.
Jake………….of course it, they would have been all over it trying to score political points as they all do. Politics is a game, you must know that, all be it a pretty unedifying game. And to be in it, unfortunately you have to play it.
Whilst I appreciate the publication of Lord Sumptions article in the DT let us never, ever forget that the DT took Bill Gates money and was as instrumental in lockdowns as Gates himself. They were as instrumental in bad mounthing those who refused vacinness as the BBC. I will never ever buy that rag again – they have demonstrated they are bereft of all decent ournalistic principle.
A huge problem Lisa; no use telling them “we told you so” when the SHTF. Here is another summary that might open some eyes and minds:
https://www.keepbritainfree.com/post/g20-worrying-trend-to-mandate-vaccines-passes?utm_campaign
We have to keep trying!
Thank you Jack I have saved this for future reference. I am member of the Vaccine Control Group.
I have given up trying to tell friends and family what’s really going on, they just laugh and think I’m mad. I think we are going to hear a lot of “we tried to tell you but you wouldn’t listen”.
Some German has written a book saying that before the war, Germans were only interested in “everydayness,” (theres a German word for that apparently). Mundane day to day stuff. So they didn’t notice what was brewing. Well that’s also true of people everywhere now. They even seem to resent it you want to start a conversation “outside the box.”
It’s easy to laugh at the nominative determinism: yes the bank man got fried.
But the collapse of Bankman-Fried’s FTX has opened a vast can of worms, the stone has been lifted and all sorts of nasty creatures and activities have been exposed to light and will hopefully shrivel like a vampire in dawn rays. Come to think of it, vampires feeding on others is quite appropriate.
This piece from Majid Nawaz pulling all the threads together, well actually pulling them apart, is gold.
https://maajidnawaz.substack.com/p/how-the-collapse-of-sam-bankman-frieds
His Point 6, for example:
“As if that wasn’t enough, FTX was not only involved in the digital currency side of the Great Reset, but also with Covid mandates. The suppression of Ivermectin as an early treatment protocol for Covid was largely reliant on research funded by none other than FTX.”
By the way, in referring to CBDCs he substitutes the word Coupons for Currencies. People, especially hard pressed shoppers, know all about coupons and their limitations of use and expiry dates, so that seems to me a brilliant way to expose and get across to people exactly what they are: Central Bank Digital Coupons.
I can’t believe how taxes are going through the roof in Britain. We’re being told that we’re all in this together but while taxes go up for we the people to pay for government treachery and money printing, the bankers ant top businessmen get massive tax cuts; we are certainly not all in this together.
In this video, Neill McCoy ward offers a brilliant analysis that explains our situation and will enrage you.
“The WORST Recession In 100 Years… ”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dArs6YeIN7U
Oh dear. Never mind ‘ignoring lockdowns’ as the cause of our financial woes, it is time to stop the even greater misdirection that it was “poorly thought-out knee-jerk decision-making.” On the contrary, it was exceptionally well thought out, planned over a decade or more. I don’t know how to attach a picture here, but one example: the manifest showing ‘COVID-19 Kits’ being shipped around the world in 2017! And never mind Dr David Martin’s Patent paper trails for both the disease and the ‘remedy’.
The broad background picture generally is described very well in an article posted re Flyer the other day re 2 trains on course for an almighty collision : the debt bubble and net zero.
TPTB created this situation: the lockdowns etc are their rotten solution to it. Their only concern is to save their own skins and their own prosperity, while bringing down ,defiling and degrading Western civilisation, and getting rid of as many of us as possible and enslaving the rest. Of course it was all planned.
I think the only thing that was not entirely within their control might be “Peak Oil”. Vernon Coleman has always had a lot to say about this. Oil must surely be a finite resource although do we know if and when it will run out? Maybe we did need be more aware of this and not used it as liberally as we have?
But I’m sure any of us could have come up with a more humane honest and sensible solution to the Peak Pil problem than the “Great Reset.”
mary 9.30am. Vernon Coleman has talked a great deal of sense on many subjects, including that oil will obviously run out. It is obvious really that all carboniferous fuels will run out because they took millions oyears to form and we are using them up in a few centuries. Just one reason why plastic wrapping drives me up the wall! I agree with what you are saying. Also I would add that nuclear power is the obvious candidate to replace carboniferous fuels.
Something that no one seems to have realised about oil – a major reason for the fall of the U.S.S.R. was the rock bottom price of oil.- wasn’t it held down by OPEC? Now Russia is strong and mighty because it has more high priced oil than even the U.S.A. But of course there is no globalist conspiracy or plan is there.
Indeed Phil and we must not overlook the plans of the globalists influencing (controlling?) “our” government.
There will be no beer or booze here either under Social Credit System, for citizens (or rather serfs) who don’t obey their masters’ every whim. Do people realise that? Do they realise they’re collaborating to create that situation, for the sake of convenience?
https://www.bobmoran.co.uk/downloads-1/so-convenient-download
The prison in the final panel of this cartoon denotes a digital prison.
I also read somewhere that if the Great Reset got pulled off (God forbid), there would be no football either : I suppose with constant lockdowns and blackouts possibly, reduced transport options and nobody able to afford it, etc?
Sadly far too many don’t notice what is going on or, even if they did, would be far too ready to shout “conspiracy theory”. Of course football, other sports or reliance on the MSM distract them too. Our biggest issue is convincing those unknowing / unbelieving to open their eyes and minds to reality.