Above, a scene from the UK’s depression of the 1930s.
Science fiction is one of the literary genres I am interested in. However, so many works are dystopian. A classic was the BBC Sci-Fi drama Blake’s 7 broadcast between 1978 and 1981. I won’t bore you with the plot but suffice to say it was overwhelmingly depressing. This did not stop me from viewing it however! I even bought the DVD!
My late father was born in 1906 and died in 2003. He remembered the 1930 depression. The causes were complex but the trigger for the UK’s depression was the Wall Street Crash of October 1929. It was the delayed effects of this that brought about the slump in the UK. Stock market trading by artificial intelligent computers was decades away!
He recalled that life was toughest for the poorest. The Rogers family were lucky. We were “well-to-do” but others were not so fortunate.
It seems that I like “Dad” am due to experience another depression – a slump. One hundred years after the earlier one!
This because I reckon the band of morons that constitute the government and the official opposition of the UK government along with their fellow morons in the governments of Scotland and Wales will managed to cobble together enough short term fixes to stave off disaster. Eventually disaster will come. I reckon eight years is the sort of time-scale that is realistic.
I reckon there is NO POINT in trying to influence the main political parties. Conservative, Liberal Democrats, Labour; they are all as bad as each other! The only national political alternative which is regarded as politically correct is the Green Party – and their recipe can be described thus: Their advice to a man about to commit suicide by standing on a stool with a rope around his neck might be to suggest a longer rope and an exit out of an first floor window in order to suffer a long drop death by severing the vertebra and not the short drop where death comes via asphyxiation!
The ONLY politically viable choice it appears is UKIP!
The problem with UKIP is not only their baggage but their name. They need to rebrand. UKIP was a brilliant name in 1993 when Doctor Allan Sked formed the party. It stood for what it said: Independence for the United Kingdom. Brilliant!
Now of course, UKIP will bang on about “the importance of achieving a genuine Brexit” – but I would suggest that there is a far more pressing crisis heading down the tracks: the Climate Change Crisis.
The BBC bangs on about how close the Planet Earth is to disaster. Well the UK is close to an economic disaster. Caused by the lunatic policies advocated by the Greens!
The Green Party is well named: It describes their beliefs to the general public. UKIP therefore should change it’s name. To the Carbon Party!
The Carbon Party should openly embrace was the Greens call “denial-ism”. The Carbon Party should advocate the burning of fossil fuels! Which means coal and oil. And by oil I mean the stuff that comes out of the ground and not from processed plants!
This of course will bring about excoriation on a level unseen by the BBC and the politically correct! The three main parties will be aghast. They will accuse “Kippers” of being mad!
I have first hand experience! During the 2015 General Election there was a public meeting in Penzance where all the parliamentary candidates attended. UKIP was fielding a candidate. Of the candidates the more competent and best advocate by a country mile was the Labour candidate Cornelius Olivier. Our candidate was a nice man and a clever man. However campaigning and oratory is a skill and it was something Mr Olivier had in spades and our man had not. I had to do something! So I did!
Happily a questioner from the audience asked a question about climate change! The main party candidates gave the appropriate Green responses. I knew I had to do something so I did. I put my hand up to ask a question and the chairman of the meeting picked me to ask it. As is so often the case, questions are not asked but the “questioner” makes a political statement of their own. As did I!
A addressed the candidates with something along the lines of: this obsession with CO2 is lunacy. CO2 is not a problem. Rather than building ridiculous wind turbines we should be building the latest super efficient designs of coal fired power stations.”
This “question” had the effect that had hoped for!
Mr Olivier could not believe his luck! He pour forth an articulate excoriation of my statement suggesting that I was a reckless deranged eccentric. This is what I hoped he would say. This because all discussion after that was about the CO2 issue and so many of the audience wanted to have their say – in denouncing me as dangerous climate change denier and raving loony – that our candidate did not get a look in! He just sat there in silence – which is EXACTLY what I hoped he would do!
This is what UKIP has to do!
Why?
When disaster strikes – and it will – the public will want an alternative!
At this point the discredited unfair “First Past the Post” electoral system will come to the Carbon Party’s aid! You see when the levels of public support “across the board” reached levels near 50% the effects of a swing (in terms of seats gain) is magnified! The Carbon Party could end up with a overwhelming majority! Let us say 500 seats out of 650?
With such a majority the government would have a mandate to put the Green Agenda into reverse! And quickly!
Herewith some sensible reading!
GOTO: https://www.turbulenttimes.co.uk/news/front-page/net-zero-sleepwalking-to-disaster/
GOTO: https://www.turbulenttimes.co.uk/news/front-page/net-zero-making-it-all-worse/
GOTO: https://www.ukip.org/
GOTO: https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Great-Depression/