Jeff Randall on ZanuLieBorg on Education

Here you go.

Not hard to see that the Enemy Class is setting itself up in a hereditary manner from now on.

“I’m all right, Jack, I’ll just pull up the ladder and never mind you!”

David Davis

Please be patient, this will take a few minutes…

David Davis

Many thanks to WhOops who has very kindly explained to me how to sort and categorise our blogroll. It will take some time at this rate, so please bear with me while I combine the gradual sortout of it with my other formal duties.

ZanuLieBorg is not only wickedly culpable over soldiers’ kit: it is also being taken for a mug…

…by people like the suppliers of the stuff below….

The following parts were bought a little while ago by me in a cheapo 50-Kg  job lot of RAF-surplus electronics bits and pieces. On idly peeling off the pricesticker covers to see what the MOD customarily pays for stuff, I was astonished.

David Davis

The following part is a VHF/UHF coax to socket connector, probably about £3 from Farnell in Leeds:-

Strewth! £84 effing quid....?

And this…this is a 0.001 μF polystyrene capacitor, of the sort you can get from China at about 2p a part. Even Maplin, expensive for this sort of thing, charges about 10p:-

I mean, what planet is the MOD buying-office on...?

Not only is this government viscerally and institutionally anti-forces, but “big business” in the form of Defence Contractors is “avvin-a-luff” at the taxpayer’s expense. You could almost believe that there is a cosy conspiracy between suppliers and the MOD buyers, and that said buyers are getting a private kickback in some form…after all, it’s happened many times before.

And the only sufferers are the poor soldiers who don’t get enough of the right kit as it “costs too much”….

Libertarians would have to be concerned at this, because as and when we come to power, we shall have to be alert for this sort of scam. You all know that I have often trumpeted the need for a Libertarian or fully-minimal-statist government here or anywhere to ensire it has very very powerful Armed Forces, at least for the dangerous years while other more statist nations try to undermine, or even directly assault it: it will highlight their dangerous isolation in pre-capitalist barbarism, and their lack of popular support.

Tax on driving to work? A solution….

…is to tell your employer that he can give you a free wireless-broadband to your house, with streaming video, downsize his office and move out of Nottingham, sack all staff who’d be needed if you were physically present, like cleaners, cooks, filing clerks etc, and cut his costs while avoiding the driving tax meantime.

Good stuff from mummy, about coffee and the Enemy Class

David Davis

Go and see her, she needs cheering up. And f*** the anti-fat-F***tards while you are at it.

Out for a couple of days…

…so you’d better keep watching.

David Davis

Someone else might post, a better writer than me, and you’d kick yourself for missing them and being able to hotlink and pinch their stuff while it’s newsworthy – that’s what we want you to do, and fast, for it matters for the survival of liberty.

We do have a lot of expanding young writers…and I don’t know when they are in or out of bed etc….in the meantime, go and have some fun at Old Holborn….let’s get the Tories educated in advance, if possible, to our ire against them if they so much as deviate a MICRON from the path of liberty…

We must stop for a second, just now, and consider why we do weep…

…for these poor old chaps who are now gone.

David Davis

I just want you to see this:- (link)

about these chaps.

I am not pretending that Henry Allingham, or any of his friends who fought and died alongside him, were libertarians. He’d probably be appalled now to be bracketed with us. But the lesson of history from him and his, is that you have to be

(a) aware of what the Enemy Class (such as the Kaiser and other European Monarchies and proto-totalitarians such as Lenin) is, and shall be even now up to, and

(b)  you have to be prepared to shaft them, er, before they shaft you.

But I like courgettes, silly girl

In a world of endarkening, here’s some fun. Why is it that European pop-singers are so much more musical and also better-looking that ours?

The guitar-instrumental part, half way through, is totally wasted. Peter Davis, one of my expanding young writers, would be able to construst two more interesting Cello parts, for each of the two useless dudes is the middleground. they would need to be electrically-amplified, but that is not a problem. An pair of electrically-amplified Cello parts would synchronise better with her movements.

Get on it, boy.

Those who want can go here for an alternative youtube version.

AND

When the Enemy Class has taken everything else, which is can and will, all that’s left really is sex. that’s the only pleasure they will leave us, but at their behest.

So perhaps we’d better kill them all now?

The Enemy Class likes to pit hoodlums and ne’er-do-wells against the very people who pay for it

David Davis

But, like Moslems ought to be (another group that is used and abused by the Enemy for now) the hoodlums and ne’er-do-wells ought to be bloody careful, and look to their own protection, when their usefulness to the Enemy-Class is expired….

It would be sad and funny at the same time, if the Enemy-Class was not being very “serious” about the rest of us.

I do not care any more if we are called “racist”: for the people I shall now describe are not of a different race from us on this blog or any blog or any continent. The people known to us through the media-outlets of our slavemasters as “Travellers” are yet another fascistically-defined-grouping, and are specially created and set up to undermine and destroy liberal classical individual civilisation, as it is commonly understood. The Enemy-Class act of differentiating “Travellers” as being worthy of special status and stolen money is itself divisive and factionalist and _/sectarian/_.

(Remember that word, anybody?)

If these “travellers” have guns,, and the “Police” have done nothing, then there truly is one set of laws for the Enemy Class and its catspaws, and another for everyone else.

The “Conservatives” had better watch out, in the (likely but not fully probable) event that they win the next election. People are angry and will not put up with GramscoFabiaNazi spun-half-measures and “initiatives”, designed to deflect their attention from real problems. Bloggers, commonly referred to these days as “right wing”, will be found to be assaulting the “Conservatives” more ferociously and implacably than they did the ZanuLieBorg GramscoFabiaNazis – for the “Conservatives”, having positioned themselves as virtuous and liberal, will have no excuse for not demolishing the entire wicked and iniquitous edifice of GramscoStatism.

It can be done!

Just _/press the buttons/_ on day one! Simply abolish all those departments which destroy and do not aid or augment, such as “Education and Skills”, Culture media and Sport”, the “Home Office”, “Children”, “Women and Equality” or whatever it’s last called, and the like, and put the erstwhile-staff on the street. (I’m a bit doubtful even about the Foreigners’-Office, the Treasury, and Defence too.) Oh and  _all_  the hard disks will have to be malleted, and the remote-servers bulldozed too: all of them, all. In the street, and a receipt for every one, the buildings to be forcibly checked for backups…first thing. No records. They can take nothing out from there.  It will be as if those departments will have gone into “Night and Fog”…like the Jews and other proscribed groups in another Gramscian paradise not so far removed in time and space from us.

Another one

David Davis

Why do I only spot stuff years after everyone else? Don’t I spend  _/enough/_  time already in front of the confuser, or something? Does everything worthwhile on a confuser have to be done in the dead of night for hour after hour after hour, over endless coffee and Dr-Pepper? (That can’t be how Bill Gates succeeded….or was it?)

Incidentally, if anyone knows how to, and would like to volunteer to help me to, pretty-up the sidebar of this blog (as I can’t find the controls in WordPress for how to do it) I would be grateful. I want for example to categorise the blogroll in the fancy nifty way everybody else seems to be able to do, and I can’t find how to “edit the template” or “use CSS” or stuff like that.

I haven’t the time to learn it from first principles as I have a wife and young family (wife demands to be socialised with, by me, with calculated randomness specifically at times when I am wanting to compute deeply, and this causes violent  ructions.) And I also have to perform duties and imposts with some regularity.

So any help from readers about doing interesting stuff with the appearance of this blog would be welcome. (I can’t even find how to import and place things called “widgets”. I can “get widget” – that’s easy, but what’s next baffles me utterly…)

I don’t like it… it’s too quiet… they’re going to try to hit us with something else…

….because “Organic” food has failed as a way to hobble and attenuate the population, and as a way to bring about food-rationing in the UK.

David Davis

Actually, it’s lovely. One lot of GramscoFabiaNazis, the “Food Standards” “Agency”, is badmouthing another lot of the same buggers, which is to say the growers, the metroNazi opinion-formers-about, and then also the wannabe-eaters of,  “organic” food. It’s true that the nastiest catfights occur between one socialist and another one who does not quite agree with him 100%.

The word “organic” means a couple of things, in the main. If something is “organic” within a system, it means that the something is “of or within” that system. Furthermore, “organic” chemistry simply means the chemistry of carbon compounds, which mainly occur ( at  _standard temperature and pressure_ ) within living objects. It is immensely complex and intricate, and is hardly affected, if at all, by the addition of things like small amounts of Potassium Nitrate, or pesticides.

“Organic” is one of those lynched and stolen words, which have a meaning that implies good or at least philosophical neutrality. Other stolen words, hijacked and used for evil and corrupt purposes by the Enemy Class, are “capitalism”, “democracy”, “liberalism”, “inflation”, “safety”, “health”, “going forward”, “moving on”, “working with”, and the like.

I invite submissions for others that we have to get back.

Social Mobility and State Education: a teacher blows the whistle

John B

A decline in social mobility- the culpability of the state school system

A report on social mobility recently stated that social mobility is not only decreasing, but also that the gap between rich and poor is becoming greater.  A panel of independent experts, led by former minister Alan Milburn, suggested that doctors and lawyers who are in their late 30s today are of more affluent provenance than their colleagues in the 1950s. Strikingly, the report suggests that social mobility opportunities are not diminished only for the working class, but the middle classes are now beginning to suffer from the concentration of privilege.

For many of us who work in state education this unintended consequence is hardly surprising. Ignoring the prescient assertions by Edmund Burke that the pursuit of financial and social equality by some sort of centralised agenda was ‘a monstrous absurdity’, successive governments have sought to impose an order of sorts with disastrous consequences. Anthony Crosland’s ideological assault on the grammar schools in the early 1970s was a significant strike at the heart of effectiveness, with those from more humble beginnings denied access to higher standards of education. Of course, there were concerns about the manner in which entry to grammar schools operated but to declare war on exemplars of good practice and standards, thereby forcing talented poorer children into mediocrity, did nothing to aid social mobility for the academically able.

That said, even in the comprehensive schools (too many of which were famously labelled as ‘bog standard by Alistair Campbell), talented youngsters from poorer backgrounds could still find themselves in a top set or stream, studying for the same examinations as children at even the most prestigious schools, such as Eton.  In leafy Surrey and industrial Sheffield, the Ordinary level and the gold standard Advanced level examinations provided a certain equity and comparative experience. For the privileged, education would allow a certain continuity of success and social status. For the poor, it would serve as a means of escape from poverty and a vehicle to something better.

Recent years have seen some worrying shifts in education provision in the state sector which has seen it become increasingly distinguishable from private education. In particular, the drive for quantity instead of quality in terms of examination passes and the replacement of concrete knowledge with a vacuous skills agenda are aggravating differences in the quality of educational experience between pupils taught in the private and the state sectors respectively. In terms of the latter, the shift in emphasis will place the pupils at a disadvantage, be they working class or middle class.  Increasingly, their experiences will be substantially different to those of more knowledgeable privately educated youngsters.

Coerced by the government through its OfSTED shock troops, schools centre their policies, practices and procedures on the sole aim of increasing examination result pass rates. Schools cannot be blamed for this, given that access to the coveted ‘good’ and ‘outstanding’ judgments cannot be secured without acceptable improvements in examinations results. Attainment has become the be all and end all of contemplations for improvements.  However, this has encouraged the most nefarious strategies of window dressing.

Firstly, OfSTED, local authorities and central government are looking for raw indicators of statistical improvements which are based solely on numbers, not quality. Therefore, senior management teams in state schools are investing in ‘softer’ subjects and the expense of those which are more difficult (and arguably more necessary in terms of providing a more rounded and robust education). A BTEC in say, Sports Studies, will deliver the equivalent of 4 GCSEs in a period of study often less than 2 years. Conversely, a GCSE in German will deliver just 1 GCSE after a period of study which is usually 5 years. Equally, a combined science qualification gives an award of 2 or more GCSEs. This does not compare favourably with a GCSE in Physics which gives a statistically poor 1 qualification for the bureaucrats to consider.  Little wonder then that the number of pupils studying a language to GCSE level in state schools is now at 33% compared to 82% in the independent sector (CILT Languages Trends Survey).

Secondly, many schools are now committing themselves to a de facto ideological rejection of academic knowledge. Following an agenda called ‘learnacy’, of which Guy Claxton is a guru, schools are acting as collective sheep in rushing towards a skills based agenda called ‘Learning to Learn’.   Aspects of the philosophy are difficult to disagree with, such as the transferability of skills into real life and self-evaluative consideration of how individuals learn. However, be it a misapprehension or not, schools are now starting to teach this skills agenda expressly by merging academic subjects such as Geography, History and sometimes Languages(remember, they only give 1 GCSE).  Content has been replaced by skills, facts by competencies. In reality, humanities now involve youngsters sitting around a table contemplating skills such as those needed for teamwork as opposed to learning facts.  Of course, in ignoring knowledge we are excluding children from the development of certain types of skills. How can a child evaluate, assimilate and apply facts to situations if they do not have the knowledge to play with in the first place? Of course, knowledge is not really needed for processors is it? That is the domain of the executives. In that context the rush to ‘learnacy’ by so many state schools may create a sociological catastrophe in terms of social mobility. While the private schools invest in the creation of the executives of tomorrow, the state invests in the processors.

In sum, the decline of social mobility and divergence of experiences for those educated privately and by the state have been aggravated by an increase in state intervention and interference in education. Only when we remove the state from education and allow individuals and communities to invest locally in themselves will we see improvements. Unfortunately, the report is likely to be addressed by those in power through calls for yet more interference. Plus ca change…….

Moslems are not the problem…the Enemy Class is

David Davis

I doubt very much if any Mosques have actually _/asked/_ for this….but “Avon and Somerset”*** Police have volunteered it.

It just makes the job of eradicating GramscoFabiaNazism even harder, since these buggers clearly really do believe the West is NOT Best.

If we believe that one civilisation is objectively better than others, then it would behove us to force our State-NGOs and other public-sector outfits, however Gramscian their leanings, to behave as if we believed it. Insofar as we have to tolerate the bastards for the time being.

Moslems themselves, whether “Fundamentalist” of not, are not actually the problem or even part of it. The Koran is manifestly and quite frankly not a book about a peaceful religion, but that can be fixed by a dialogue in which we will deploy the Asse-Hatt, to add the right notes of non-committment and ennui to its entire decontamination-proceedings:-

They are being used as a catspaw by the GramscoFabians, and will find themselves being eradicated later as inconvenient objectors, along with all other whole categories of persons who displease the Gramscoids’ idea of Future-World Order.

***Part of the wicked and evil 1970s-”Heatho-Walkerian-boundary-erasure-retrogressions”.

At least there’s one MP human after all

David Davis

How does the bugger do it? Wish I’d had the secret years ago…

Knives are not the danger…

….but the Enemy Class that creates unsocialised knife-wielders is.

David Davis

Now, Marks and Spencer – and earlier, Tesco – join the ranks of the wannabe-State-Nannies.

Setting up an education system which de-civilises from an early age, coupled with continuing to treat adults like children, produces these conditions and events.

The nursery where my sainted wife works has a “policy” of not only not having “war toys” (a pejorative for guns) but not even allowing the word to be mentioned. Welocme to the Endarkenment.

I don’t think I’d buy this

David Davis

But if some cretin wants to part with the thick end of £20,000 or more, then they can.

Perhaps the Fabian Society would like it?

For their reading Room maybe?

Or to reprint a special folio?

Any one of the bastards could just write a cheque. That’s socialism for you.

Road tolls, and no tax cuts: time to slag off the Tories, in advance of their (still debatable) win

David Davis

Some of us have always known that, in the event of a ZanuLieBorg defeat, they not having rigged the results sufficiently or stuffed enough !”postal votes”! in their Rotten Boroughs , a Tory win would not mean the start of a Long March Towards Liberalism.

For those who are confused, I, in here, use the word “liberalism” with a _/small L/_ to mean free-market non-socialist/minimal statism: this word belongs to us and not to the Enemy Class or people like US “democrats”, who have twisted and corrupted it, and who deliberately and purposefully and with conviction lean towards big-statist Nazism. Watch Obama morph as he finds his feet, more’s the pity – and we did warn you nearly two years ago about what he would get like.

So now we are being softened up with “no tax cuts,” and “possible increases”, and a delay in the “pledge to abolish IHT”, and even “road tolls”. The upside is there won’t be any money to build many “new roads” for some time.

Tories in the UK think that once the election is “won” – (will it be? Better be quite serious about the guys you face, for they hate you and us and they won’t stop now) – they will get an easy ride from “right wing bl0ggers”, whatever those are. Well, we shall have to see, but the signs are not enouraging.

Cameron thinks that we’ll all have to dig into our pockets to right the wrongs of this administration: but he did have other alternatives as follows:-

(1) Formally repudiate ALL UK sovereign debt taken out by _this_ administration after a date he could have set. That would stop the borrowing in short order…

(2) Announce that instead of tax rises, or non-removal of most existing imposts, very very large areas of the State would simply be closed down… He could simply publicly nominate huge departments and fiefdoms for absolute closure and which are not populated by Tory voters, which is most of it, without any electoral penalty….The fact that Sterling would rise on that revelation would not benefit Brown as cameron would already have said that he’s not going to pay any more new debts incurred by the said Gorgon…

(3) He could then announce the prospect of actual tax cuts, seeing as he’d save at least £300 billion in wages bills straight away. Conservatively [bad pun, sorry] we could have £150 billion of tax cuts per year, plus an extra £150 billion earmarked for debt servicing, and we might get out of debt in as little as ten years. Moreover, the hundreds and hundreds of thousands of desperate ex-public-employees, starving on the streets and many even without housing – it having been repossessed and the Banks unable to sell or let it, would drive wages and real rents down to a right market-clearing level, which will benefit the private sector which could then recover a modicum of tax-paying-ability in time.

But the Tories won’t do it, will they.

They are _/not really serious at all/_.

Time to attack them, now, before it’s too late.

Libertarian Alliance Joke of the Day

Go and read it here!

Hitler-Cactus having a rest for a bit

David Davis

A while ago, we explained about this plant. Just as an update for those who were interested the last time around, it’s resting right now, but hopes to be back with more flowers nest April and May.

Global warming obviously suits it

Jeremy Clarkson calls Gordon Brown a ****

David Davis

He can’t be sued for libel on the grounds of truth.