Often you'll see me moving my head from side to side in disbelief at the things I see or hear that happen in our country and indeed abroad. The latest in a line of ridiculous things include people being offended by something they saw and then making a formal complaint about it. I just shake my head and get on and remember not to engage with whoever it was not because I'm offended because I rarely get offended but because the idiot posting or saying is obviously mentally deranged LOL.
Really though, have you heard these clowns? I was watching delegates from COP29 being interviewed and after 29 years of this, they still come out with utter nonsense and unrealistic things. This young lady suggested that the answer was to divert all defence spending and invest in climate change mitigation. When asked what exactly that would take the form of, the usual spouting of batteries and windmills, solar panels etc were spouted as the saviours of the world. When questioned further, she really struggled to explain how these were actually going to change the climate (what's the link) and what it would achieve? Lower temperatures, less hurricanes etc. This is where it all starts to collapse and she wasn't the only one. They've had close to thirty years to come up with something that doesn't involve bankrupting the world to fix a problem that is easier to mitigate than try and control. Fifty Thousand of them at the conference (haven't they heard of Zoom?) and you could see that many were head in the clouds fantasists.
Then we have our government and their disjointed and not properly joined up budget. Farmers are going on strike next week and the PM yesterday had an opportunity to meet some of them but no, he's getting heckled everywhere he goes as his ideology and not his common sense or representation of the people are destroying things right in front of us but he cannot see it and neither can his cabinet colleagues (or maybe they can). All we see is incompetence, form over function, complete lack of brain power and disconnection from the very people they are meant to represent.
Then there's the potential that one of the senior government ministers may not have been straightforward about the jobs they had and may not be what they said they were. Interestingly a lot of people have been calling this out for a long time and there's only so much deniability you can do. They aren't facing tough questions because they really do not understand the situation they've got themselves into. Some of their decisions look to be backfiring now and it will be a joy to see them but I am slightly concerned that the country is about to suffer a massive series of financial blows. I wonder how many businesses will fail in the early New Year as all the stealth tax comes in and affects the bottom line?
There are very few people who actually appear to know what they are talking about and understand the overall picture both here at home and the wider world. The BRICS alliance is building outside of our own bubble and no one appears to see that the opposing market is larger than our own. Look to see where sales of goods are outside of the US and Europe and understand that these countries no longer need out market to sell to, it's easier for them to get millions more customers in these BRICS countries than the small market share we present to them. Why is no one looking at this? Because they are too concerned with policing hurty word tweets and navel gazing than actually getting on and running a country that needs to pull its socks up and start being productive again. Higher energy costs, punitive taxation and damaging nonsense on transport policy (sure we are all going to ride bikes like they "used to" in China, Korea and Taiwan).
Please let's get some adults in the room together with some senior industrialists, economists and strategic thinkers and maybe, we can actually see what's coming and do something about it. It appears to me the best places to do business are going to be the BRICS countries but we are destroying our ability to compete in our own country let alone globally.
I am of course most impressed that my local parochial council have given extensive thought to the impact of climate change on our little hamlet. Rather than looking after planning matters and keeping the place tidy and their other duties they now have the weight of the planet's CO2 emissions on their shoulders. It must weigh heavy on them! Sarcasm Off!
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