The Lunatics have taken over the Asylum

We are to build two aircraft carriers – and no aircraft for them to carry.

We are to spend one billion pounds on capturing carbon from the atmosphere and burying it. This is to add to the megatons of carbon already buried there – which, btw, we could use to produce real, usable energy instead of spending further untold billions on useless windmills which our ancestors gave up a couple of hundred years ago as soon as something better came along.

We are to be taxed to the point of agony – but still continue sending money to line the pockets of corrupt third world thieves politicians, fat-cat Brussels thieves bureacrats and inefficient French thieves farmers while building a two-hundred and fifty million pound palce for an obscure Belgian bureacrat.

We are to cut spending on schools and other educational facilities, but still continue to import thosands of immigants whose children will add to the burden on our already overstretched edycational establishments.

We are to reduce the size of the fighting forces while continuing to featherbed the drones in the Ministry of Hot Air Defence.

We are… I give up. Time, for once, to take a leaf out of the French livre and take to the streets.

34 thoughts on “The Lunatics have taken over the Asylum”

  2. Time for a serious revolution that I have been advocating for years.
    Blood running in the streets could actually concentrate the minds of the few politicians left standing rather than hanging from lampposts!
    I do admire the frogs ability to riot but the Romanians did the real number!
    Pity the army doesn’t stage a coup.

  5. Zen is right. The government is reacting to events without any real vision of where we should be going.

  6. Revolution?

    Now when was the last revolution in the UK? Frightfully bad show, chaps! Not British is it?
    We are a democracy; for better or for worse.

  7. That the Overseas Development bandwagon has reached a size that is twice the budget of the Foreign Office, is the work of possibly well-intentioned, but misguided Labour luvvies, quite unable to take on board that Overseas Development Aid on balance, probably does more harm than good to the economies of the recipient countries. Having seen at first hand the level of corruption in many of the recipient countries’ governments, I would have taken a very large pruning knife to this area of government expenditure, and I do not understand the rationale for its having been ring-fenced to the extent to which it has.
    I am reminded of a conversation over the lunch table at our Head Office with Lord Armstrong, the former Head of the Civil Service and Cabinet Secretary, when I had just returned from a visit to our African interests, who asked me where the Capital of Zaire was – mainly in Zurich, was my response – truer than you know…

  8. I listened to an interview with the Financial Editor of a Ugandan newspaper on the World Service the other day and he said substantially the same, CWJ.

  10. In Kenya, in 1973, Jomo Kenyatta and/or his wife were the prime movers in the “Gatundu Self-Help Hospital Fund”. Had the funds collected ever been used entirely to build the hospital, it would have stretched from Mombasa to Nairobi. As it was, the only accurate part of the Fund’s title, was “self-help”…
    Britain has poured millions in aid into Kenya, and I am prepared to take an educated and informed guess where much of it has ended up – same place as Zaire’s capital!

  14. Araminta :

    Revolution?

    Now when was the last revolution in the UK? Frightfully bad show, chaps! Not British is it?
    We are a democracy; for better or for worse.

    Ara:

    Do you really think we are still a democracy? How many times has the opinion of the majority been ignored in the last 20 years?

  15. FEEG, can’t help but bring this up. Conversation between my daughter and me when she was 5 or 6; ‘How many times have I told you not to do this?’

    ‘Six?’

  16. No, really, I do think it’s time for a bit of Civil Disobedience. The Government is supposed to represent us, not rule us – and that goes double for the bleedin’ bureaucrats.

    For the SF aficionados amongst us: FIW.

  17. Four-eyed English Genius :

    Araminta :

    Revolution?

    Now when was the last revolution in the UK? Frightfully bad show, chaps! Not British is it?
    We are a democracy; for better or for worse.

    Ara:

    Do you really think we are still a democracy? How many times has the opinion of the majority been ignored in the last 20 years?

    FEEG. Yes, I do, it is far from perfect but it is still a democracy.

  18. bravo22c :

    Time for a refresher, Araminta. To paraphrase Cicero, Bonus populi suprema lex esto.

    Yes indeed, but revolutions are pretty bloody and not necessary. It’s totally OTT. We have safeguards against this, and I’m not about to throw it away just because you object to the measures in your post above. Total over-reaction, and it not going to happen.

  20. Araminta :

    Revolution?

    Now when was the last revolution in the UK? Frightfully bad show, chaps! Not British is it?
    We are a democracy; for better or for worse.

    Chartists, Newport Monmouthshire, November 1839

  26. Four-eyed English Genius :

    Ara:

    Looks like we shall have to agree to disagree on this one.

    FEEG: I’m being slightly tongue in cheek about this but yes, I don’t think we need a revolution.
    I’m happy too agree to disagree. You don’t sound in the slightest bit revolutionary to me. 😉

  28. LW. Magistrates put down riots, not revolutions. I meant a serious revolution that actually had an effect – which is what we need, though not necessarily of the blood in the streets, defenestrate the (expletive deleted,) variety.

  30. bravo22c :

    LW. Magistrates put down riots, not revolutions. I meant a serious revolution that actually had an effect – which is what we need, though not necessarily of the blood in the streets, defenestrate the (expletive deleted,) variety.

    Oh God, I may well have a problem rallying the troops in the Chilterns, Bravo!

  32. The aircraft carriers were ordered primarily to ensure employment in Key Labour constituencies, hence the lack of a feasible ‘get out clause’.

    A couple of folk have used the words clear, vision and government in the same sentence !!?? Come on guys get a grip, the government are there to get elected, get paid, get a good pension, milk the expenses system, pick up a knighthood or a peerage, (although why anyone would join a club that has Prescott as a member I can’t think)

    Having a clear vision about anything has nothing to do with it. The last government that had anything resembling vision was Mrs T’s…and look what they did to her.

  33. The USA managed to have both a revolution and a civil war, much blood was spilt and the country came out of it stronger.
    Interestingly no country that comes to mind seems to have been ruined totally by any revolution as yet.
    There appears to be a persistent need to clear out both the top and bottom of society.
    Interestingly most revolutions are started by the professional classes and/or intelligentsia but carried out by the working class when it turns nasty. Chile, Russia, France all are classic examples.
    Interesting subject revolutions.

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