David Craig, on January 10th, 2025weekend blog
Being a Cassandra is getting tiring
I’m wondering if it’s worth continuing this little blog. In normal times, it would be fun. But after 14 years of catastrophically-useless Tory rule and facing another 4 years at least of even worse Labour vindictiveness, incompetence and dishonesty, there’s only so long one can go on bringing bad news without getting depressed about the situation. After all, like most people, I’d quite like to be the bringer of good news.
Starmer’s blunders
The list of mistakes by the Starmer government is too long to detail here. So I’ll just mention a few of the more major ones:
- Promotion of obvious incompetents – putting fools and knaves like Reeves, Lammy and Miliband in government
- A budget to bankrupt Britain – while lying about delivering economic growth, the Starmer/Reeves budget has sent the UK economy into a recessionary doom loop – more taxes, a massive increase in public spending, growth becomes decline, tax revenues fall while spending rises, more taxes, further decline in growth, further collapse in tax revenues while spending keeps going up and so on
- Alienating growing America – Starmer seems to be doing everything in his power to distance us from an America which is about to see record growth under Trump. He has deliberately alienated Trump and people like Elon Musk. He rushed to hand over the Chagos Islands containing a critical US military base to one of China’s close allies hoping to get away with this betrayal of Western interests before Trump re-entered the White House. And the latest stupidity was to send a (IMHO) perfumed, foppish popinjay to the US as the British ambassador. Mandelson will go down at a testosterone-fuelled White House like a dose of diarrhoea
- Cosying up to a collapsing Europe – apparently Starmer has about 100 civil servants working on ways to get Britain back into the EU and has now appointed Theresa May’s surrender-monkey-in-chief as head of the Foreign Office
- Attacks on free speech – yet another worrying sign of thin-skinned Starmer’s uselessness and danger to our country is his decision to release real criminals from prison early in order to make room for Starmer’s political critics. But worse is to come with Starmer’s new definition of Islamophobia. As French writer Voltaire is believed to have written: “If�you�want�to know who rules�over�you, just�look�for who�you�are not allowed to�criticize.”
- Net Zero economic suicide – perhaps the worst aspect of the Starmer regime is his decision to put (IMHO) congenital idiot and recidivist failure Ed Miliband in charge of destroying our energy infrastructure in order to de-industrialise Britain and impoverish us all while the whole world laughs at our stupidity. Though, in Starmer’s defence, one had to admit he is only continuing and accelerating a policy also enthusiastically followed by the lying UK-hating Tory garbage and voted for by all but around 5 or 6 MPs.
With all this going on, who would want to continue reporting on the self-inflicted collapse of Britain and much of Western civilisation?
Though there is one bright light glimmering in the enveloping darkness – Donald Trump and his government may be able to save us from our own rulers by implementing policies which are the direct opposite of what our incompetent rulers are doing. When America thrives while the UK and Europe decline, America will show up our rulers for the worthless, lying, incompetent scum that they are.
Category: 
I can understand your view about continuing and you have said it before. It takes a lot of research to prepare your blogs.
There is another approach you could take and that is to consider how we bring about change. It is more fundamental than the people we have in government.
It does seem pointless at the moment and I had a brief discussion with somebody on TCW a few days ago and he said we must continue to put forward the changes that are needed. I have seen other say the same. It is only by continued repeating of the same message that will eventually reach enough people, but it does seem a hopeless task.
The issue is what changes are required. We have to end the belief in democracy. I have slowly come to this conclusion after the EU Referendum. Democracy is based on the rule of the majority, but with the referendum we saw that it was a minority of the registered electorate who voted to leave. It is even more obvious that a minority of the registered electorate resulted in the present Labour government gaining a huge majority of seats. This made me question the right of the majority to impose their views on the minority, and now it is even the reverse. It is impossible for any group of people to have the same view on a vast range of ideas, so the view of any group, no matter what size, is meaningless.
Democracy has been used to convince people that they have a choice of the government and the government then works for all our benefit. Nothing can be further from the truth. All we see is a change of government but nothing improves and it is becoming more obvious. This is because democracy results in political parties moving closer together and this is more apparent when socialism is the main policy in the UK. More and more handouts have to be given. Democracy is a complete sham. The politicians play a game of charades in Westminster to make us believe they are working for us and the concept of right and left is part of that. There is no difference between the parties. They all want control over us. We have two choices – freedom from the government or control by the government. Every time, we vote for control. We vote for our own suicide.
I have little confidence in Trump. He was useless in the debate with Harris of all people. It is easy to make promises when not in power, as we saw with Starmer, and then ignore them.
The most important issue is to keep the government away from running the economy and let the markets work. But the market is really controlled by the bankers, the international organisations and big business and they control the governments. They make money from the interest we have to pay on the worthless money they print and one of the biggest ways they generate their wealth is from continual wars. This has been going on for over 100 years with America setting the pace. Trump will change nothing because the president is also controlled by the deep state.
Democracy is indeed a total con
Once every 5 years we get to put a cross on piece of paper from this action we vote in a bunch of idealist nobodies, a small cabal of whom get to be in the cabinet and run the country, the rest sit around on a fairly decent salary and enormous expenses doing sweet F.A. apart from voting on the odd bill, brains need not be engaged as the whip will tell them how to vote.
Meanwhile the cabinet are not appointed because they are sterling brains with the interests of the country at heart and a specific knowledge of their ministry – oh no! they�re just friends of the PM. And at the drop of a hat, the PM can have a cabinet reshuffle and overnight the health secretary becomes chancellor.
Doesn�t matter though because the blob are pulling all the strings. They worked out long ago that MPs are here today, gone tomorrow and the Secretary of State for whatever-department-it-is hasn�t got a clue so we�ll just tell him what to do and what to say. Yes, Minister was a fly on the wall documentary.
Meanwhile back at democracy, having put our X on that bit of paper we are lumbered with the results for the next 5 years and there�s nothing we can do about. Certainly writing to your MP doesn�t get any results, they really don�t care and why should they? There�s no accountability these days.
I�d like to see the Swiss system where they hold referendums on important issues. Chances are they�d end 51%:49% but at least we�d have a say and at least it�s democratic.