A race to the bottom for sure! I am sure grateful for these informative articles. Although they can sometimes be a little disheartening, it’s changed my perspective on how much preparation we should have as a family. May the lights stay on and affordable in America 🤞🇺🇸👀
Thanks, Doomberg. I always like these articles making fun of woke politicians around the globe. I have a favor to ask. Can we also get an update on Canada, one of my favorite woke countries?
As soon as I read arch-opponent, I knew it'd be Britain's most infamous band. His infamy has earned him a slot in Madame Tussauds London. They'll be putting wicks in them and passing those out as candles to stay warm this winter if things don't change, but very hard to see how they will. Sad start to my day, but great article as always.
If I wasn't so lazy, I would make a spreadsheet of Doomberg quotes. Later I could plagiarize them to impress friends and acquaintances with my sharp wit.
Today's gem...."circus of incompetence". Three simple words that speak volumes.
Also, the opening of this piece reminds me of recent news on First Brands and Tricolor here in the United States. Apparently we don't have a monopoly a such shenanigans.
Has the UK been lucky with no recent, harsh winters? I know New England has.
If the UK doesn't change its energy course, perhaps an extended New England or UK polar vortex is the only message leftoids (who ignore physics) understand. Just pray the frozen death toll is minimal.
Every commentator in the last forty years has rightly said that the UK's draft housing stock needs renovation. This is an unsexy problem, but if it were undertaken at a national scale it would employ the trades for a generation. Unfortunately, the nature of ownership in the UK is such that it would be very difficult to implement, but embarking on it would solve a multitude of problems.
Occum's Razor points to sheer incompetence by career politicians unfamiliar with the machanica of markets and industry. The more conspiratorial may view this slow motion trainwreck as a deliberate implosion to force a reset. Which one of Newton's laws will prevail...
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”
“The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.”
― H.L. Mencken
Hoping a few "radicals" begin to change things in the UK
Adam Smith once wrote “…there is a great deal of ruin in a nation.” The government of the UK seems intent on ensuring that they have a great deal more.
I just finished diving deeply into the electricity prices in California. The three big utilities are projecting a weighted average of over 40 cents/kWh by 2028. They still have 17 years to reach their 2045 target of net zero. If they don’t change something, 40 cents/kWh will look cheap by then.
Well, burying lines and hardening infrastructure against wildfires is extremely expensive. There are no incentives against people building in urban-woodland boundaries. Then the people who build there complain they cannot afford the insurance etc. Foolishness.
Adam Smith said, "there is a great deal of ruin in a nation". He wrote this in response to a letter from John Sinclair, who feared the British nation was ruined during the American Revolution. Smith's response suggested that a nation could withstand significant problems and still have resilience.
It’s ironic that our current elite class vociferously criticizes their past leaders for aggressively seeking power and influence worldwide (Colonialism, etc) and creating great wealth for their people while presiding over the destruction of their country and people(open borders)
The fact that the British political spectrum is relatively silent that immigration from the rest of the world rose from 300k pre-Brexit to between 800k - 1M in the last twelve months (and reduced EU immigration from 220-240k to 110k in the last twelve months). I would posit it's a bit more complex than saying "open borders."
While reading this article I had two salient thoughts. One, how far Britain has gone from "the sun never sets on the British empire". And second, pertaining to leadership in the West in general...where in God's name does all this stupidity come from?!?!?!?!?
Empires are expensive things, and funny that, colonies really don't like being ruled from afar without a say in their own affairs. By the end of it, the colonies were costing the UK more than any economic benefit they brought in.
A race to the bottom for sure! I am sure grateful for these informative articles. Although they can sometimes be a little disheartening, it’s changed my perspective on how much preparation we should have as a family. May the lights stay on and affordable in America 🤞🇺🇸👀
Thanks, Doomberg. I always like these articles making fun of woke politicians around the globe. I have a favor to ask. Can we also get an update on Canada, one of my favorite woke countries?
As soon as I read arch-opponent, I knew it'd be Britain's most infamous band. His infamy has earned him a slot in Madame Tussauds London. They'll be putting wicks in them and passing those out as candles to stay warm this winter if things don't change, but very hard to see how they will. Sad start to my day, but great article as always.
Rue Britannia
If I wasn't so lazy, I would make a spreadsheet of Doomberg quotes. Later I could plagiarize them to impress friends and acquaintances with my sharp wit.
Today's gem...."circus of incompetence". Three simple words that speak volumes.
Also, the opening of this piece reminds me of recent news on First Brands and Tricolor here in the United States. Apparently we don't have a monopoly a such shenanigans.
Has the UK been lucky with no recent, harsh winters? I know New England has.
If the UK doesn't change its energy course, perhaps an extended New England or UK polar vortex is the only message leftoids (who ignore physics) understand. Just pray the frozen death toll is minimal.
Every commentator in the last forty years has rightly said that the UK's draft housing stock needs renovation. This is an unsexy problem, but if it were undertaken at a national scale it would employ the trades for a generation. Unfortunately, the nature of ownership in the UK is such that it would be very difficult to implement, but embarking on it would solve a multitude of problems.
Ugh! I love Brazil but hobnobbing with the Lilliputians would be unbearable.
Occum's Razor points to sheer incompetence by career politicians unfamiliar with the machanica of markets and industry. The more conspiratorial may view this slow motion trainwreck as a deliberate implosion to force a reset. Which one of Newton's laws will prevail...
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”
“The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.”
― H.L. Mencken
Hoping a few "radicals" begin to change things in the UK
Then presumably you give the same consideration to environmentalists that are labelled "radicals" by the conservative part of the political spectrum?
Adam Smith once wrote “…there is a great deal of ruin in a nation.” The government of the UK seems intent on ensuring that they have a great deal more.
I just finished diving deeply into the electricity prices in California. The three big utilities are projecting a weighted average of over 40 cents/kWh by 2028. They still have 17 years to reach their 2045 target of net zero. If they don’t change something, 40 cents/kWh will look cheap by then.
Well, burying lines and hardening infrastructure against wildfires is extremely expensive. There are no incentives against people building in urban-woodland boundaries. Then the people who build there complain they cannot afford the insurance etc. Foolishness.
There won’t be a “Truss moment” bond market riot, because Carney isn’t there to instigate it this time
Ha!
It sounds like Russian and Chinese money we’ll spent.
It's not the the British don't interfere in other countries too ;)
Adam Smith said, "there is a great deal of ruin in a nation". He wrote this in response to a letter from John Sinclair, who feared the British nation was ruined during the American Revolution. Smith's response suggested that a nation could withstand significant problems and still have resilience.
Seems like they're putting it to the test ;)
It’s ironic that our current elite class vociferously criticizes their past leaders for aggressively seeking power and influence worldwide (Colonialism, etc) and creating great wealth for their people while presiding over the destruction of their country and people(open borders)
The fact that the British political spectrum is relatively silent that immigration from the rest of the world rose from 300k pre-Brexit to between 800k - 1M in the last twelve months (and reduced EU immigration from 220-240k to 110k in the last twelve months). I would posit it's a bit more complex than saying "open borders."
While reading this article I had two salient thoughts. One, how far Britain has gone from "the sun never sets on the British empire". And second, pertaining to leadership in the West in general...where in God's name does all this stupidity come from?!?!?!?!?
Empires are expensive things, and funny that, colonies really don't like being ruled from afar without a say in their own affairs. By the end of it, the colonies were costing the UK more than any economic benefit they brought in.
Great question