£6.19 is becoming a kind of standard wage in Leicester – and you have to really work hard for it. Nice of them to look after their own people with our taxes.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2286227/Amazons-human-robots-Is-future-British-workplace.html

I’m beginning to think that GramscoFabiaNazis really do not understand yet, how viscerally-angry many people are, at their existence and what they do. Perhaps they do, and are saving up all their guns and armed-police for a reckoning: but I do not yet think so.

Thieving bastards.
I mean to say…fuck a brick! How is it they got to get away with such a scam?

£1m in bus lane fines alone. Don’t know the total cost of parking permits and parking fines etc…

They need us more than we need them.

Arrived back on the Liverpool shore, a rather Neanderthal specimen asked me the same question in the manner of his own culture. In sub-cockney accents he demanded
“Oi! Wossertime ven?”

O tempora, or mores!

PS. I think the paper is owned by the same Mail group.

If people do not built major roads (and most major roads in England and Wales were once private Turnpike Trusts anyway) then major retail outlets will be built near RAILWAY STATIONS (which is where they used to be built before cargo switiched from train to truck) and these railwa stations were be near town centers.

Now Malcolm will go on about how the railways/railroads got de facto government subisides (via rights of way and so on). As if the railways would not have existed without this (clue – when the landowners of Stamford near me blocked the East Coast Mainline back in the 19th century, the railway company simply choose a different route where the landowners were happy to sell to them).

By the way – no one claims that the present situation is a “free market”.

The present situation is one where most major Western governments take about 50% of the entire economy in government spending (mostly on Social Justice Welfare Stae spending – which was NOT created by “capitalists” or for the benefit of “capitalists”)

And the rest of the economy is saturated with regulations – and this level of regulations hits all levels of enterprise (even the largest and longest established enterprises).

The idea that Western governments are under the control of the “capitalist corporations” and that their policies generally benefit these evil “capitalists” is false.

Blaming “gangsters” is as wrong as blaming “capitalists”.

By the way – even the national politcians (admittedly often more dodgy than the officials) sometimes sincerly believe they are doing good – insane though that seems.

After all they doing what they have been taught to do – both at school and at university. The problem is not moral character (it would not be solved by getting in honest people – rather than gangsters, although there is corruption it is not the central matter) it is a matter of people havin the wrong IDEAS in their heads.

Government is at its most dangerious when the people in it sincerely believe they are doing good.

Now, of course, it is possible that some of the gangsters may sometimes go too far and strangle their “clientele,” but in general they don’t. They are the cartel agent which disciplines their clientele’s market to prevent “cut throat competition,” “hacks,” “flimflam men,” etc.- that is, to preserve the dominate position of those with whom they have a relationship. Of course it is sometimes necessary to flex one’s muscles so that those who one is “protecting” don’t develop the imaginative mistake that they are in charge, but so long as the protected touch their foreheads to the ground three times and make enthusiastic sounds about how society is served by their regulators, everything is just fine.

It is not as if members of the media were bright enough to actually worry about what is going on. They have their press releases, they can write their stories. (What a wonderful word that is – “stories.”)

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-06-13/u-dot-s-dot-agencies-said-to-swap-data-with-thousands-of-firms

Whether you consider the glass to be half full or half empty may appear to be only a semantic distinction but in the war for people’s hearts and minds it’s an important distinction.

A lot depends on the exact structure of a business. Sean G. and others have written in the past about the case against forms of limited liability. I have no problem at all with firms run in whatever way the owners want; the issue is when ownership and control are in the hands of different people. This is also particularly relevant for banks. Kevin Dowd has written about the case for increasing potential liabilities on bankers and owners of banks. He’s absolutely right. We need to make banking a job for cautious, very careful people.

It is a bit of a myth to say that, somehow, “greed” was invented in the recent decades. The old-style unions, with their closed shops, appalling industrial relations and the rest, were pretty rapacious when they put their minds to it. And let’s not get all misty-eyed about the old working class, either. Sure, some of it was admirable, some not.

There is also the greed for power, arguably far more dangerous than the lust for lucre.

The threat from the government to civil liberties has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminshed.

However, Marxism (or Kevin style disguised “stateless” Marxism) is no way to do that.

‘First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they DELETE you, then you win.’
- Mahatma Gandhi

But as Sean indicated, at least totalitarian regimes managed to protect old ladies.

I think the power of ostracism and public shaming is grossly underestimated. In our biological past, being cast away from the ‘tribe’ would have meant certain death. Now it just means loss of opportunities and access to fair maidens, but the primal fear is still there.

In my humble opinion, this is a good summing-up of the UKs current political and social situation. It’s all of major concern of course but there are other and perhaps more immediate concerns. The average citizens health- care and future income. The future of village communities. Pornography and other falling public standards that are stripping away freedom and not increasing it. The Uk’s increasingly poor education standards are back in the news again – along with the lack of jobs for young people. A media so infiltrated by left-wing theory and biased reporting that harms all of us more than it helps.

What a bloody awful time to be a parent in the UK?

Over this past week I read how in 1913, a local post card posted in the morning, at a cost of one halfpence, would be guaranteed to arrive by tea-time the same day. Some things, during the past century it seems, haven’t moved on much. I spent more than 1 hour on the internet this morning booking train tickets that I could have obtained in less than 10 minutes on the telephone forty years ago.

What I think we have missing more than anything else these days, are enough citizens who share a sense of national pride. They’ve been brainwashed into believing it’s wrong to own pride at any level. Can anyone imagine Britain losing WW2, then within 50 years being successful enough in engineering to buy-up Mercedes, then bring back to England the best of Mercedes historic and most important vehicles in order to restore them here?

The Germans’ would have more pride in themselves than to allow that to happen. The British no longer care a toss about stuff like that.

Those people who’ll allow the gagging of an 85 year old woman and fellow citizen, then see her handcuffed and put in a police van before being carted off to the local nick just because she’d been accused of apparently upsetting a crowd of people by suggesting they should return home, can’t have much pride in who they are. It’s truly shameful. The old dear should have been quietly calmed down by a kindly officer (assuming we still have a few) taken home and given a good cup of tea. However, instead, she’s been charged with inciting racial hatred by talking too loud. Just when you think it can’t get any worse.

Anyway, the above post has been duly printed off for the record.