Britain is Collapsing.

Submitted by NYCVG on Fri, 10/01/2021 - 8:33am

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/opinion/britain-fuel-crisis-johnson.html

It is a very rare ocurrence when the NY Times concurs with my view on what is happening Right Now. Today's article is one of those times. So I'll copy bits of it for those who cannot access the entire article.

In my own words---this is the end result of white Racism--(refugess go home) and Conservative policies in Britain. No need to read science fiction or watch intelligent mini-series to grasp what is happening now.

"The panic of the past week, which recalled old memories (and myths) about the tumultuous late 1970s, was a long time coming. For many months, industry leaders across the economy have warned about chronic labor shortages — of truck drivers, yes, but also fruit pickers, meat processors, waiters and health care workers — disrupting supply chains and impeding businesses.

The signs of breakdown are everywhere: empty shelves in supermarkets, food going to waste in fields, more and more vacancy posters tacked to the windows of shops and restaurants. Meat producers have even called on the government to let them hire prisoners to plug the gap.

One of the main causes of this predicament is Brexit, or at least the government’s handling of Brexit. Britain’s protracted departure from the bloc, undertaken without any real effort by Mr. Johnson to ensure a smooth transition, led to an exodus of European workers — a process then compounded by the pandemic. As many as 1.3 million overseas nationals left Britain between July 2019 and September 2020.

Yet as it became clear that Britain faced substantial shortages in labor, the Conservatives refused to respond. They bloviated, calling it a “manufactured situation.” They prevaricated, assuring the public there was nothing to worry about. And, seeing the chance to recast their negligence as benevolence, they claimed their failure to act was because they wanted companies to pay British workers more, instead of relying on cheap foreign labor.

This alibi for inaction is unconvincing. In the Netherlands, for example, new legislation has improved the pay and working conditions for truck drivers. In Britain, conditions remain among the worst in Europe. The government’s belated response — offering 5,000 temporary visas for drivers from E.U. nations — is too little, too late."

more---"On Sept. 30, it ended a program that compensated people for up to 80 percent of lost income during the pandemic. And on Oct. 6, the Conservatives will cut Universal Credit, Britain’s all-encompassing welfare program, by 20 pounds, or $27, a week — just when more people than ever rely on it. The largest single reduction to the welfare state in British history, it’s forecast to push half a million more people below the poverty line, including 200,000 children. (A newly announced winter hardship fund worth £500 million, or $673 million, will do little to soften a cut 12 times its size.)

This grim confluence, from fuel shortages to spiraling poverty, has been described by many as a “perfect storm.” Yet the metaphor erases the active role the Conservatives — and in particular, the prime minister — have played in orchestrating these foreboding conditions. The bleak winter ahead is of their making."

The reset from the modern era to the feudal age is well under way in the UK.

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TEOTWAWKI-----how the story ends

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Submitted by The Voice In th... on Fri, 10/01/2021 - 10:08am

Sounds like the USA

The signs of breakdown are everywhere: empty shelves in supermarkets, food going to waste in fields, more and more vacancy posters tacked to the windows of shops and restaurants.

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I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.

Submitted by NYCVG on Fri, 10/01/2021 - 11:10am

Exactly.

@The Voice In the Wilderness coming to a town near us soon.

If not already here.

The USA has chosen a debilitated UK and a Police State, Australia, as our BFF. Oh, and Israel.
Another racist Police State.

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Submitted by Fishtroller 02 on Fri, 10/01/2021 - 10:22am

The US relies on cheap labor too in the form of

migrant workers. I remember living in PA and seeing the workers come up from FL to pick the apples after picking the oranges in FL. They lived in run down housing and their kids spent their school years in two states. I worked with many of them helping with reproductive services... birth control etc.
This only continues because Big Agriculture has lots of lobbyists in Congress.

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Submitted by NYCVG on Fri, 10/01/2021 - 11:16am

Trump's Wall

@Fishtroller 02 is the same agenda spoken out loud.

Whites Preferred.

Just see how well that will work out as Britain goes full "foreigners go home."

New York State is resisting this approach and has enacted several farm workers protection laws recently. Too few and insufficient, but a welcome start.

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Submitted by Fishtroller 02 on Sat, 10/02/2021 - 11:16am

Yeah... Trump.

@NYCVG

I'm sure he has none of those migrant workers cleaning up the trees at his golf course in FL.

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"Without the right to offend, freedom of speech does not exist." Taslima Nasrin

Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 10/01/2021 - 10:27am

Yep it sounds like Britain is following

this country’s sadistic moves to put more people into poverty. Cutting unemployment benefits, never actually doing anything to keep people in their homes and apartments and hiring prisoners to do company’s jobs instead of making them pay a living wage.

And their cutting welfare benefits during increasing inequality is just 30 years or so from when Clinton gutted it. It sure seems that many countries are following a scripted plan.

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Was Humpty Dumpty pushed?

Submitted by NYCVG on Fri, 10/01/2021 - 11:12am

Yes, it does,

@snoopydawg and we know what that plan is, do we not?

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Submitted by Raggedy Ann on Fri, 10/01/2021 - 10:39am

The great reset

is upon us - worldwide. Klaus Schwab has a plan for all of us poors - read all about him!
https://www.weforum.org/about/klaus-schwab
https://www.pioneerspost.com/news-views/20210201/wef-founder-klaus-schwa...

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"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11

Submitted by NYCVG on Fri, 10/01/2021 - 11:12am

I agree

@Raggedy Ann

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Submitted by entrepreneur on Fri, 10/01/2021 - 8:14pm

Agreed. It's all part of the script.

@Raggedy Ann The billionaires are bored just having all the money. Now they want the power to control every aspect of our lives. Only sociopaths would want such a thing. So if they get their way life is going to suck.

Submitted by pswaterspirit on Fri, 10/01/2021 - 12:55pm

Here on the west coast Trumps

Here on the west coast Trumps deportations caused construction companies to offer apprenticeships in large numbers and raise pay. People wonder a lot why folks supported Trump this was why. There were so many folks from countries south of the border in these jobs it nearly crippled the entire industry. Now they have developed a program help kids who may not want or can't go to college get an apprenticeship and get a job.

Submitted by NYCVG on Fri, 10/01/2021 - 3:28pm

That is very interesting

@pswaterspirit @pswaterspirit Thanks for that bit.

Is it true?

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Submitted by doh1304 on Fri, 10/01/2021 - 3:56pm

I saw it coming 50 years ago

but it actually started in the 50s.(?) American children were taught to want - expect, assume - white collar jobs. Everyone saw himself as a bank manager, never a carpenter or a plumber or - heaven forbid! - a doctor or fireman.
I had a bitter man in my cab one day - he'd just gone to a party where "when the women heard I was the owner of a construction company they were gone so fast it's like they disappeared. I OWN the damn company! I make $100,000, but all they wanted was computer programmers" (at the time a "senior programmer/analyst made $35,000)
For a while it's going to have to be this way. Employers are used to - expecting, demanding - exploitable immigrant labor. It is massively cheaper to pay politicians to force wages low and provide a steady stream of immigrant workers rather than provide decent jobs. In most cases they have indoctrinated their potential workforce to have contempt for those jobs. The chickens have come home.

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Submitted by The Voice In th... on Fri, 10/01/2021 - 4:10pm

SAme thing happened to engineers and computer programmers

@doh1304 \
H1-B program = engineering indentured service
If they are fired they can't get another job. They have to go home first.
So they work free hours for minimal base pay and kiss the ground the boss walks on. Citizen? You're not wanted.

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I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.

Submitted by Snode on Fri, 10/01/2021 - 5:07pm

Another point

@doh1304 A lot of the plumbers and electricians and trades people didn't want their kids to do what they did. They looked down on their own work as not honerable, and for their kids to go to college for a better life. 10 years ago truck driving was looked upon as a dead end low wage job, now it's hot. Tomorrow? maybe self driving trucks with drone door-to door? and once again, dead end?

Submitted by NYCVG on Fri, 10/01/2021 - 5:10pm

Wonderful comment

@doh1304 and real insight.

and, sadly, so true.

c99 understands the value of working with our hands. We discuss the need for self-sufficiency regularly.

Yesterday, my almost new Hoover vacuum fell apart when I took it out to use. By fell apart, I mean the bottom plate, a sizeable piece of plastic, which holds it all together, separated from the vacuum.

I lifted it up on a table to see what's what and saw that the itsy bitsy single flimsy plastic screw holding the entire thing together had broken.

No problem. Got out my tools and first, took the opportunity to clean the machine thoroughly as its insides were exposed, then tied it together securely and finaly duct taped it firmly in place.

Now this is no big deal. Obviously.

My point is that we all need to have sufficient tools and be eager to use them.

Nothing is built to last.

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 10/01/2021 - 6:01pm

Duct tape

@NYCVG

A woman’s best friend. lol good job fixing it. But yeah things aren’t made to last anymore. I have to buy a new coffee machine every year no matter how expensive they are. I’m sticking with the cheap ones now. Seems things aren’t made to last anymore. More profits in making cheap crap that has to be replaced every year. Maytag ain’t your mom’s washing machine anymore.

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Was Humpty Dumpty pushed?

Submitted by doh1304 on Sat, 10/02/2021 - 3:23am

Everything is going as expected.

The capitalist rulers are going to force us to put up with dehumanized wages and conditions, and if we don't give up and take it they'll get the government to import immigrants to do their work, and if that doesn't happen they'll automate and we'll all get UBIs to live on. (sort of) - but the UBI will be just barely enough to support capitalism without human dignity.
That's why I fight for a GMI. A GMI will set a minimum below which we will not go. (the minimum wage workers will keep up the wage pressure) Therefore when the jobs all go away and everyone goes on the dole the dole will be higher. A UBI will become "A 50% pay cut and a $500 a month UBI - take it or leave it." In the end it will be $500 a month and a gig job. Or $2000 a month GMI or a $17.50 an hour job or a GMI - and if things don't work out you still get the $2000. Everyone will wind up with $2000 a month or a job - if they want it.

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Submitted by Blue Republic on Mon, 10/04/2021 - 6:59am

The UK elite had best start worrying

when the Gadsden flags start coming out...

(not the first one I've seen in London protests - not letting themselves be outdone by Brits, I've seen at least one Gaelic version in an Irish protest) Guess Ron Paul was right when he said "liberty is popular".

Gadsden Flag London.png

Sept. 2021 anti-vax mandate and lockdown protest - London

Submitted by Blue Republic on Mon, 10/04/2021 - 7:37am

There can be big disconnect

between having public health care - officially - and being able to actually receive it, it seems...

Not that the US healthcare (with its minimal prioritization of either health or care) system is worthy of defense - despite the existence and efforts of many brave and dedicated members of it, but since we are talking UK consider this:

It is exactly the same in Scotland and England.

My vaccinated friends are not getting appointments with their family doctors who are avoiding them post vaccination even although there are no patients in the GP surgery waiting rooms when they have tried to get appointments. It is utterly cruel given they talked them into getting the vaccinations and accepted 10 UK pounds from the Scottish and English governments per person vaccinated on their patient list and did not disclose the risk of these vaccinations to the patients.

A friend nearly passed out close to the GP surgery, a kind stranger wheeled her up to the GP surgery and she was not allowed to be seen by her GP because she did not have an appointment. The nurse refused to take bloods because they are not allowed to do so until management confirms they can do this so they cannot even do exploratory bloods to investigate what has gone wrong with these patients post vaccination.

Another friend’s hospital consultant phoned a friend’s GP insisting her family doctor see her given she had had heart procedures and no appointments for 2 years. She told me after first Pfizer shot “it was like acid going into my veins” and the queen did not get the same vaccine asshe did which will be completely true. Her GP treated her with disdain and was not pleased to see her and my friend also tells me that every time she walks now post vaccination her heart races and her son has been unwell post vaccination too.

All my friends who got the vaccination have had severe worsening of their pre-existing medical conditions and some have got heart conditions they did not previously have or chronic obstructive airways disease.

I have noticed most have became irritable and short-tempered as they are becoming unwell not realising the vaccine is harming them and they are lashing out at others for no good reason.

In UK, NHS contributions are deducted from people’s salaries and the retired paid these all their working life and now are getting refused service but they will still take these NHS contributions regardless. It is wicked and cruel. Though it is the governments who are instructing the GP and hospital management to treat the patients in this abysmal manner.

I am quite sure this will be happening in most if not all countries.

God be with us all.

This from July 2021 - what are the chances things have improved there?

Above comment (you can find it *way* at the bottom of the page) to this article:

Tens of Thousands of COVID-19 “Vaccine” Injured in the U.S. Begging for Help as the Medical Community Turns Their Back on Them

Suppose that's 'hundreds of thousands' by now.