UK needs an Ibrahim Traore from Burkina Faso, an honest, aggressive Marxist who knows exactly what to do to rid itself of the shackles and work for the people, thanks for the read again Deaglan
"Britain needs trains, not tanks. It needs doctors, not destroyers. And increasingly, it needs selfless politicians who remember that serving the people is their job, and they only have it by the grace of the people.
The coming revolt against this militaristic madness is, in my assessment, inevitable." Aye and aye! And this goes for the rest of the western imperialistic world as well. Well said!
A friend of ours woke up one morning some time ago completely deaf in one ear. She’s had to scrape up the money to go private, she’s over 80, because the NHS has been totally useless. Meanwhile Starmer is raving about WW3 and having no money for the people of this country but plenty to send our young to die someplace far off. The obedient MSM is no doubt getting ready to brainwash us, or attempt to, with threats from afar to our magnificent way of life, which is actually, from where we sit, somewhat shitty and getting worse. I have a feeling that if loads of us suddenly dropped dead he’d be ecstatically rubbing his hands together and shouting about saving money for bombs. How can we get rid of these people, anyone got any ideas?
The story about your friend is dreadful. It's worse in Ireland too, there is no NHS and if you've an illness, you'll have to fork out at some time or another. It's a big mess and will be a massive talking point when the time comes for the question of a united Ireland.
The real enemies are the US based deep state - arms, fossil fuels, animal ag, pharma, tech and media- who are playing the UK political system like fingers on a piano-they will bring us poverty and climate change.
How about he pours the billions he’s found down the back of the Downing Street sofa into the NHS and social care. Didn’t Rachel Reeves say she inherited a £22bn black hole? Where has all this money suddenly appeared from that can now be spent on military and defence when the rest of the country is crumbling?
They can’t even provide for their own citizens but they can spend billions on foreign wars.
He’ll have a hard time finding anyone who will want to go fight for his rotten country when all this government and the previous one has done is shafted it’s people. Jog on Starmer. You’re on your own with your proxy wars.
Without deprivation and poverty there would be no soldiers to fight these elite wars. Just a few posh bully boys playing dress up, goose stepping around the parade ground, barking at each other, before heading off to see mistress whippy.
I dont think you understand how these psychopaths think.
They plan to fight drone wars, not even remotely managed, but on autopilot. Think that this is just one small dot in a bigger picture of where warfare is, not soon but basically NOW:
Let’s recall the recent events that led to Starmer’s “Aren’t I a Strong Lad” pantomime.
Trump comes in, demands 5% GDP in UK Defense spending. Labour (oddly) immediately takes the knee and sez “Yessir!” (Worth remembering that New Labour is essentially capital interests using McSweeney to make words come out of Starmer’s mouth hole). Starmer’s just the donkey that Capital used to vanquish Corbyn and assume power once they saw that the Tories were busy self immolating.
Basic questions for the UK populace to demand very detailed answers to ( you’ll never get them)
Who/what are we defending against?
Who/what are we defending?
Who sacrifices to accomplish this “Defense”?
The narrative of media (as directed by both parties) is that the Social Support Budget is the only source remaining from which to wring “X” Billion Sterling. Obviously, such is not the case.
The UK / EU does, genuinely, need to reevaluate its Defense stance and allocation of resources. Your current situation is an ECF (Error Carry Forward) from the late 80s / early 90s and the decisions made by capital interests. I was present and involved in some of those. My philosophical “side” got dismissed and we ended up with Russia being turned over to mafiosi to feed western industry with raw materials.
Either way, we are where we are.
Rather than drag this out any more, I’ll just refer you to Richard Murphy’s cogent analysis of funding options available rather than the Cruelty Lite theater that Reeves offers (Farage offers Cruelty Stout, as comparison).
Not much talk about who’s going to make the personal sacrifices involved in a Defense buildout. Youth aren’t as uninformed and/or desperate as we were in the 70s/80s. They get to see what a personnel grinder looks like all the time via Ukraine, etc.
There used to be a compact (it was a fantasy, but it existed) that the poorer classes sacrificed their family members if the richer classes financed the shooting gallery.
Conscription needs to be discussed. That stuff gets people’s attention MUCH more than the absurd amounts of capital being thrown around spending against an undefined enemy.
The warmongering sociopaths who you wrote about here - plus Trump - should be dragged out of their palatial residences, lined up against a wall, and executed by firing squads that are instructed to empty their magazines into the bastards, IDF style. It’s just self defense. They make it pretty clear that their endgame, otherwise, is to kill all of us off to make the world safer for their puppet masters in the elites.
UK needs an Ibrahim Traore from Burkina Faso, an honest, aggressive Marxist who knows exactly what to do to rid itself of the shackles and work for the people, thanks for the read again Deaglan
you're spoiling us with all the brutal rundown 😂
Thanks, Shaniqua! Great opportunity to plug my microscope article on that very subject:
"strength in the Sahel: western Africa's glimmer of hope on an otherwise tumultuous continent."
Read it now ---> https://thespectaclemag.substack.com/p/strength-in-the-sahel-western-africas
"Britain needs trains, not tanks. It needs doctors, not destroyers. And increasingly, it needs selfless politicians who remember that serving the people is their job, and they only have it by the grace of the people.
The coming revolt against this militaristic madness is, in my assessment, inevitable." Aye and aye! And this goes for the rest of the western imperialistic world as well. Well said!
Thanks as always, Duncan! It's my pleasure to write so long as it's read.
Starmer cosplaying a strong wartime leader is creepy.
I'd say it were cringe if it were not a serious topic
Starmer cosplaying a human-being is creepy.
A friend of ours woke up one morning some time ago completely deaf in one ear. She’s had to scrape up the money to go private, she’s over 80, because the NHS has been totally useless. Meanwhile Starmer is raving about WW3 and having no money for the people of this country but plenty to send our young to die someplace far off. The obedient MSM is no doubt getting ready to brainwash us, or attempt to, with threats from afar to our magnificent way of life, which is actually, from where we sit, somewhat shitty and getting worse. I have a feeling that if loads of us suddenly dropped dead he’d be ecstatically rubbing his hands together and shouting about saving money for bombs. How can we get rid of these people, anyone got any ideas?
The story about your friend is dreadful. It's worse in Ireland too, there is no NHS and if you've an illness, you'll have to fork out at some time or another. It's a big mess and will be a massive talking point when the time comes for the question of a united Ireland.
Excellent summary of the shite show we are being served up.
Heare hear.
Excellent Deaglan.
The real enemies are the US based deep state - arms, fossil fuels, animal ag, pharma, tech and media- who are playing the UK political system like fingers on a piano-they will bring us poverty and climate change.
How about he pours the billions he’s found down the back of the Downing Street sofa into the NHS and social care. Didn’t Rachel Reeves say she inherited a £22bn black hole? Where has all this money suddenly appeared from that can now be spent on military and defence when the rest of the country is crumbling?
They can’t even provide for their own citizens but they can spend billions on foreign wars.
I must get myself one of those sofas.
If you find one please tell us where.
Ah it’s the Americanization of Europe.
This is precisely why I left the US over two decades ago… I was sick and tired of the war machine and the military industrial complex
I was so proud to be in Europe, because European values defined our society, and how we help our communities, prioritize people’s needs
That has massively deteriorated over the past two decades
He’ll have a hard time finding anyone who will want to go fight for his rotten country when all this government and the previous one has done is shafted it’s people. Jog on Starmer. You’re on your own with your proxy wars.
Without deprivation and poverty there would be no soldiers to fight these elite wars. Just a few posh bully boys playing dress up, goose stepping around the parade ground, barking at each other, before heading off to see mistress whippy.
I dont think you understand how these psychopaths think.
They plan to fight drone wars, not even remotely managed, but on autopilot. Think that this is just one small dot in a bigger picture of where warfare is, not soon but basically NOW:
https://nextgendefense.com/ai-ukraine-drone-innovation/
All of which will be even more likely to escalate to a nuclear exchance, also AI managed. And the planet and its life extinct.
If you believe these (sic) puppets will be content with an episode of Robot Wars I am not sure you comprehend the functions of War.
Let’s recall the recent events that led to Starmer’s “Aren’t I a Strong Lad” pantomime.
Trump comes in, demands 5% GDP in UK Defense spending. Labour (oddly) immediately takes the knee and sez “Yessir!” (Worth remembering that New Labour is essentially capital interests using McSweeney to make words come out of Starmer’s mouth hole). Starmer’s just the donkey that Capital used to vanquish Corbyn and assume power once they saw that the Tories were busy self immolating.
Basic questions for the UK populace to demand very detailed answers to ( you’ll never get them)
Who/what are we defending against?
Who/what are we defending?
Who sacrifices to accomplish this “Defense”?
The narrative of media (as directed by both parties) is that the Social Support Budget is the only source remaining from which to wring “X” Billion Sterling. Obviously, such is not the case.
The UK / EU does, genuinely, need to reevaluate its Defense stance and allocation of resources. Your current situation is an ECF (Error Carry Forward) from the late 80s / early 90s and the decisions made by capital interests. I was present and involved in some of those. My philosophical “side” got dismissed and we ended up with Russia being turned over to mafiosi to feed western industry with raw materials.
Either way, we are where we are.
Rather than drag this out any more, I’ll just refer you to Richard Murphy’s cogent analysis of funding options available rather than the Cruelty Lite theater that Reeves offers (Farage offers Cruelty Stout, as comparison).
Not much talk about who’s going to make the personal sacrifices involved in a Defense buildout. Youth aren’t as uninformed and/or desperate as we were in the 70s/80s. They get to see what a personnel grinder looks like all the time via Ukraine, etc.
There used to be a compact (it was a fantasy, but it existed) that the poorer classes sacrificed their family members if the richer classes financed the shooting gallery.
Conscription needs to be discussed. That stuff gets people’s attention MUCH more than the absurd amounts of capital being thrown around spending against an undefined enemy.
Best to all.
https://youtu.be/D8vt7hXlqZM?si=aFnR34h8OXzGoV80
The warmongering sociopaths who you wrote about here - plus Trump - should be dragged out of their palatial residences, lined up against a wall, and executed by firing squads that are instructed to empty their magazines into the bastards, IDF style. It’s just self defense. They make it pretty clear that their endgame, otherwise, is to kill all of us off to make the world safer for their puppet masters in the elites.
The will of the people
https://youtu.be/MClg7zpm6VQ?si=NEdIFdSk7LtxplsJ
To distract the population from the dismal economic conditions and degradation of civil society in UK maybe?
Excellent work,Deaglan.
Many thanks.