Success, when she calls, never unpacks her bags for a long stay. She is a flighty visitor — promiscuous, even. Britain enjoyed her favors from about 1980 to, say, 2020. Now she seems to have moved on.
Exactly the same people, that Mr. Bill is constantly cheerleading for. The same is happening in USA. Rich people and businesses are using cheap, unskilled labor paying them peanuts and offloading housing, health care, education cost to public.
Theres 2 sides to this story. One is as you mention, the other is overly generous benefits.
The latter disincentivises any work below the AVERAGE wage and in some cases significantly above. People respond to incentives and millions of people respond to this one with "I'd have to find a job paying £45,000 to make it worthwhile".
So legal residents at the bottom end have no incentive to work, which in turn incentivises the poor of Africa, SE Asia and the 'Stans to come for the plentiful low paid work thats still paid better than at home.
You are correct, communist governments are giving handouts to illegals or legal migrants to get the vote at expense of local citizenry. The rest of migrants who will accept low wages, could be higher than in their previous home countries, but the low pay does not cover cost of living in UK or USA.
I dont think its Communism, its classic late stage capitalism where "good times make weak men" .
There are huge numbers of people whose only job is to vote every 5 years to keep the party going where they get paid to make all their problems someone else's to pay for. Now we're at 50% of people in the UK being net recipients of transfer payments, I don't see how this ends happily.
As for immigrants, the hard working portion will probably continue to congregate on the right od centre while a certain bloc will continue to Trojan Horse the left for their own non-Christian / anti-Western agenda.
The counter to the "its not worth working for less than £45k" statement t is "if I get permanent residency I vam bring my elderly parents here for NHD medical care;".
During my work years I've traveled many times to the U.K. over the 1980 - 2009 time frame. I have experienced the same observation you described. Although we , America, are much better off than the U.K. I see the same "chock chain" around our necks with regulations and legal games as has taken the U.K. down. I hope this socialist trend sneaking up on us is defeated.
Your last paragraph should be a wakeup call to our country.
Sadly, the woke, progressive, socialist drift infecting this country has its roots in England. Kubrick sounded to alarm in Clockwork Orange decades ago.
The BB issuance today mirror what is shown on the Netflix hit show Clarkstons Farm where with half fun and half serious truths Jeremy Clarkson deals with real life English government crazy rules and regulations that prove utterly ridiculous for the British farmers. The weather isn't the first worry of the British farmer it's his local government committee's stipid rules and regulations and the Downing street bunch. The show depicts how out of touch the British government is, at least in British Farming.
A particularly sad example was the episode where a cow in calf with twins was diagnosed on the dubious measurement of lymph glands in her neck to have tuberculosis. She was taken away by the authorities and slaughtered. Post mortem examination revealed no sign of tuberculosis.
So, what is the answer for us lowly peons? From this ol' man's perspective it is not how to make government care about us Americans. That is way too far gone. It is figuring out how do we survive the coming reckoning? And, it approaches at a speed none of us imagine. Even a few who aren't living paycheck to paycheck, how to we prepare? The Western World is coming apart - Europe/UK as Bill so aptly describe today is a mess and getting chaotic. Here in the western hemisphere it is here but most have not yet seen it. Canada is a socialist mess - and in the U.S. the government gives no thought to us peons. Our budget deficit is approaching $3T and there is no thought in Washington to curtailing the gaslighting. Corruption running while and everyone is "on the take"! Voting isn't ever going to solve the problem.......and there isn't a Ms. Thatcher waiting in the wings. Going to get ugly as those in Power try to remain in Power. Just the way us humans work........
I remain baffled why our government doesn't reduce its spending and, to create more taxable revenue, its regulations inhibiting wealth creation.
Surely our elected representatives are aware that our Ship of State is heading for rocky shoals, and has been for years.
Interesting too that the last time the Federal government had a budget surplus, instead of redeeming debt, George Bush The Younger gave it away, literally via $200 checks to taxpayers.
Many of our elected representatives have know idea how money works. Moreover, they have no idea of the unintended consequences of regulations. They have never signed the front of payroll check and never will. Their main focus is themselves; not sure why they call themselves representatives. They are fledgling narcissists on their way to greatness, AOC comes to mind as well as Zohran.
Speaking of narcissists, Trump, who has run businesses, has had no problem with signing bills that run up the national debt. In fact during his 5 1/2 years in the White House the national debt has increased by over $10 trillion.
What makes Trump any different than the last 5 or 6 presidents and their fiscal policies? Look to the fed and the central banks for a clue and their modern monetary policies. You can blame Trump but let's be generous and
spread the wealth amongst all of the perpetrators.
I'm not just blaming Trump. Both teams have run up more than $33 trillion in debt just this century. Both teams refuse to deal with a Fed that promotes money printing and inflation. That's why I voted for Nobody! Nobody actually gives s rat's ass about the debt or the future generations who will suffer from declining living standards.
There were pockets of sanity when we resided in England in the ‘70s: villages where tradition and respect were “off the grid,” places that weren’t ruined by the false pride of feigned sophistication. We celebrated the Silver Jubilee with friends, amazed how young and old alike got along joyfully with a sense of heritage. They were long suffering folks. Now they seem to have been consumed by the destroyers of whatever was decent, sanitary, and sane.
Some pictures from the year I first moved to London. I am a similar vintage to you Bill. It wasn't all shabby gentility! Even by the eighties it still took 3 months to get a new telephone line!
So well written yet again, Bill. Even London maintained its “status” by being the place of refuge for tax-dodgers and scallywags from all over while it preached “KYC & AML” to the world through its overpriced and underdelivering class of pompous, pretentious lawyers, bankers and various financial “service” providers, the duplicitous nature of the English shining to its brightest. Couldn’t retain even that status.
Bat Tunnel Vision. Regretably the train line to Manchester has been cancelled and the remaining section to Birmingham still has many years of construction to go before it opens. The cost to the UK Department of Transport for its A303 road Stonehenge underpass has been more than the cost of the longest road tunnel on earth constructed in Norway though NOTHING was actually built at Stonehenge.
Much agreed. I sit here high in the mountains of West Virginia waiting for it. I long to see a currency that was sound money. My grandkids deserve it. The nation deserves it.
Yazoo City has produced a surprising number of notable figures in politics, sports, entertainment, music, religion, and literature. Some of the best-known include:
Politics and Public Service
* Haley Barbour — Governor of Mississippi from 2004–2012 and former chairman of the Republican National Committee.
* Mike Espy — Served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Clinton and represented Mississippi in Congress.
* James Paul Clarke — Governor of Arkansas and later a U.S. Senator.
Sports
* Fletcher Cox — Six-time Pro Bowl defensive tackle and Super Bowl champion with the Philadelphia Eagles.
* Willie Brown — Hall of Fame defensive back best known for his career with the Oakland Raiders.
* Kenneth Gainwell — Running back for the Philadelphia Eagles.
Entertainment and Media
* Stella Stevens — Actress known for roles in films such as The Nutty Professor and The Poseidon Adventure.
* Lynn Hamilton — Actress known for Sanford and Son and The Waltons.
* Lawrence Gordon — Hollywood producer behind films including Die Hard, Predator, and Field of Dreams.
Writers and Speakers
* Willie Morris — Acclaimed author of North Toward Home and My Dog Skip, who grew up in Yazoo City.
* Zig Ziglar — One of America’s best-known motivational speakers and self-help authors.
Music
* Michael Henderson — Bassist for Miles Davis and later a successful R&B artist.
* Tommy McClennan — Influential Delta blues singer and guitarist.
* Robert Petway — Delta blues guitarist remembered for the song “Catfish Blues.”
Religion
* Sister Thea Bowman — Influential African-American Catholic educator and evangelist whose cause for sainthood is under consideration by the Catholic Church.
yes the 'legacy' of those self appointed financial manipulators will ensure that the IDF diaspora will continue to control the 'western' powers for some time to come but the Asian hordes/tigers will change all that again ..
Seems things really started to go downhill as the non-EU migrants came piling in...
Let me rephrase that:
Seems a non-assimilating 3rd world contagion infected their culture.
Diversity is definitely not their strength...
Exactly the same people, that Mr. Bill is constantly cheerleading for. The same is happening in USA. Rich people and businesses are using cheap, unskilled labor paying them peanuts and offloading housing, health care, education cost to public.
Theres 2 sides to this story. One is as you mention, the other is overly generous benefits.
The latter disincentivises any work below the AVERAGE wage and in some cases significantly above. People respond to incentives and millions of people respond to this one with "I'd have to find a job paying £45,000 to make it worthwhile".
So legal residents at the bottom end have no incentive to work, which in turn incentivises the poor of Africa, SE Asia and the 'Stans to come for the plentiful low paid work thats still paid better than at home.
Truly desperate governance.
You are correct, communist governments are giving handouts to illegals or legal migrants to get the vote at expense of local citizenry. The rest of migrants who will accept low wages, could be higher than in their previous home countries, but the low pay does not cover cost of living in UK or USA.
I dont think its Communism, its classic late stage capitalism where "good times make weak men" .
There are huge numbers of people whose only job is to vote every 5 years to keep the party going where they get paid to make all their problems someone else's to pay for. Now we're at 50% of people in the UK being net recipients of transfer payments, I don't see how this ends happily.
As for immigrants, the hard working portion will probably continue to congregate on the right od centre while a certain bloc will continue to Trojan Horse the left for their own non-Christian / anti-Western agenda.
The counter to the "its not worth working for less than £45k" statement t is "if I get permanent residency I vam bring my elderly parents here for NHD medical care;".
He'll in a hand basket.
We had not seen capitalism since August 15, 1971.
Not sure if I blame the capitalists.
When offered lower wages (higher profits) most prudent companies oblige.
IMO the problem stems from un-bridled immigration (incompetent governance).
Allowing tens of millions to invade creates all sorts of disruptions, known and unknown.
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There are very sound reasons for borders, unfortunately nowadays liberal can't fathom.
The entire fiasco is a destabilization project for the west. It is going very well in their eyes.
...what's sick about it are the progressive's insistence upon mass immigration.
Their "diversity is our strength" BS.
Such an obvious plan to infiltrate and delude America's traditions and lifestyles.
Media propagates as if a diverse culture were a good thing...
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Assimilation is never spoken amongst foreign activists...
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Quite the opposite...
America it seems is where foreigners now go to grow their culture brand...
Please come to Mississippi and see how much better the standard of living is than, say, Baltimore or Manchester.
The tsunami of third world gimmigrants flooding the UK will no doubt rapidly restore it to its halcyon days of yore.
😂😂😂😂😂👏👏
During my work years I've traveled many times to the U.K. over the 1980 - 2009 time frame. I have experienced the same observation you described. Although we , America, are much better off than the U.K. I see the same "chock chain" around our necks with regulations and legal games as has taken the U.K. down. I hope this socialist trend sneaking up on us is defeated.
Your last paragraph should be a wakeup call to our country.
Jim Marshall
Sadly, the woke, progressive, socialist drift infecting this country has its roots in England. Kubrick sounded to alarm in Clockwork Orange decades ago.
The BB issuance today mirror what is shown on the Netflix hit show Clarkstons Farm where with half fun and half serious truths Jeremy Clarkson deals with real life English government crazy rules and regulations that prove utterly ridiculous for the British farmers. The weather isn't the first worry of the British farmer it's his local government committee's stipid rules and regulations and the Downing street bunch. The show depicts how out of touch the British government is, at least in British Farming.
It's on Prime not Netflix.. my mistake
great show
A particularly sad example was the episode where a cow in calf with twins was diagnosed on the dubious measurement of lymph glands in her neck to have tuberculosis. She was taken away by the authorities and slaughtered. Post mortem examination revealed no sign of tuberculosis.
So, what is the answer for us lowly peons? From this ol' man's perspective it is not how to make government care about us Americans. That is way too far gone. It is figuring out how do we survive the coming reckoning? And, it approaches at a speed none of us imagine. Even a few who aren't living paycheck to paycheck, how to we prepare? The Western World is coming apart - Europe/UK as Bill so aptly describe today is a mess and getting chaotic. Here in the western hemisphere it is here but most have not yet seen it. Canada is a socialist mess - and in the U.S. the government gives no thought to us peons. Our budget deficit is approaching $3T and there is no thought in Washington to curtailing the gaslighting. Corruption running while and everyone is "on the take"! Voting isn't ever going to solve the problem.......and there isn't a Ms. Thatcher waiting in the wings. Going to get ugly as those in Power try to remain in Power. Just the way us humans work........
I am with you, sir. This is going to get rough, and soon, in my opinion.
I remain baffled why our government doesn't reduce its spending and, to create more taxable revenue, its regulations inhibiting wealth creation.
Surely our elected representatives are aware that our Ship of State is heading for rocky shoals, and has been for years.
Interesting too that the last time the Federal government had a budget surplus, instead of redeeming debt, George Bush The Younger gave it away, literally via $200 checks to taxpayers.
Many of our elected representatives have know idea how money works. Moreover, they have no idea of the unintended consequences of regulations. They have never signed the front of payroll check and never will. Their main focus is themselves; not sure why they call themselves representatives. They are fledgling narcissists on their way to greatness, AOC comes to mind as well as Zohran.
Speaking of narcissists, Trump, who has run businesses, has had no problem with signing bills that run up the national debt. In fact during his 5 1/2 years in the White House the national debt has increased by over $10 trillion.
What makes Trump any different than the last 5 or 6 presidents and their fiscal policies? Look to the fed and the central banks for a clue and their modern monetary policies. You can blame Trump but let's be generous and
spread the wealth amongst all of the perpetrators.
I'm not just blaming Trump. Both teams have run up more than $33 trillion in debt just this century. Both teams refuse to deal with a Fed that promotes money printing and inflation. That's why I voted for Nobody! Nobody actually gives s rat's ass about the debt or the future generations who will suffer from declining living standards.
Not only did Bush give it away but he also ran of trillions in debt on his phony wars of inexistent WMDs and regime change.
There were pockets of sanity when we resided in England in the ‘70s: villages where tradition and respect were “off the grid,” places that weren’t ruined by the false pride of feigned sophistication. We celebrated the Silver Jubilee with friends, amazed how young and old alike got along joyfully with a sense of heritage. They were long suffering folks. Now they seem to have been consumed by the destroyers of whatever was decent, sanitary, and sane.
Some pictures from the year I first moved to London. I am a similar vintage to you Bill. It wasn't all shabby gentility! Even by the eighties it still took 3 months to get a new telephone line!
https://spitalfieldslife.com/2026/06/22/ron-mccormicks-whitechapel-iii/
The poor have always been happier than the rich
Oh poo...
It always depends upon the individual.
If being rich doesn't make you happy, being poor won't either...
Loved the “drag at the birdcage” and the accompanying pictures
So well written yet again, Bill. Even London maintained its “status” by being the place of refuge for tax-dodgers and scallywags from all over while it preached “KYC & AML” to the world through its overpriced and underdelivering class of pompous, pretentious lawyers, bankers and various financial “service” providers, the duplicitous nature of the English shining to its brightest. Couldn’t retain even that status.
Bat Tunnel Vision. Regretably the train line to Manchester has been cancelled and the remaining section to Birmingham still has many years of construction to go before it opens. The cost to the UK Department of Transport for its A303 road Stonehenge underpass has been more than the cost of the longest road tunnel on earth constructed in Norway though NOTHING was actually built at Stonehenge.
We're getting closer to Armageddon.
Much agreed. I sit here high in the mountains of West Virginia waiting for it. I long to see a currency that was sound money. My grandkids deserve it. The nation deserves it.
AI
Yazoo City has produced a surprising number of notable figures in politics, sports, entertainment, music, religion, and literature. Some of the best-known include:
Politics and Public Service
* Haley Barbour — Governor of Mississippi from 2004–2012 and former chairman of the Republican National Committee.
* Mike Espy — Served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Clinton and represented Mississippi in Congress.
* James Paul Clarke — Governor of Arkansas and later a U.S. Senator.
Sports
* Fletcher Cox — Six-time Pro Bowl defensive tackle and Super Bowl champion with the Philadelphia Eagles.
* Willie Brown — Hall of Fame defensive back best known for his career with the Oakland Raiders.
* Kenneth Gainwell — Running back for the Philadelphia Eagles.
Entertainment and Media
* Stella Stevens — Actress known for roles in films such as The Nutty Professor and The Poseidon Adventure.
* Lynn Hamilton — Actress known for Sanford and Son and The Waltons.
* Lawrence Gordon — Hollywood producer behind films including Die Hard, Predator, and Field of Dreams.
Writers and Speakers
* Willie Morris — Acclaimed author of North Toward Home and My Dog Skip, who grew up in Yazoo City.
* Zig Ziglar — One of America’s best-known motivational speakers and self-help authors.
Music
* Michael Henderson — Bassist for Miles Davis and later a successful R&B artist.
* Tommy McClennan — Influential Delta blues singer and guitarist.
* Robert Petway — Delta blues guitarist remembered for the song “Catfish Blues.”
Religion
* Sister Thea Bowman — Influential African-American Catholic educator and evangelist whose cause for sainthood is under consideration by the Catholic Church.
yes the 'legacy' of those self appointed financial manipulators will ensure that the IDF diaspora will continue to control the 'western' powers for some time to come but the Asian hordes/tigers will change all that again ..