Mungler

The Labour government just don’t have the brain power, skill set or economic understanding to make their government work. They are fuelled on socialist ideology and nothing else. It is odd though how we ended up with this bunch of morons and I think we are witnessing the end of the uniparty metropolitan elite who have well and truly trashed this country over the last 30 years. We can all see it clearly as day now. It’s all very odd.

It’s the forerunner to what is happening with German manufacturing. More will follow. German economic decline will signal the end of the EU. It feels like we’re in a bubble just waiting for it to pop.

Calves liver, bacon, mash, Broccoli stems and the wife’s Madeira and onion gravy. In my all time top 5.

Well, the European tip has started. Looks like it’s curtains for VW .

Fair point. If the Chinese government (or indeed any committed government) says ‘we’re doing this and we’re going in this particular direction come what may and whatever the cost’ then it gets done pretty much regardless of any possible dissent or moral / economic objections to the contrary. Getting into the silicon supply chain at any cost and to the extent of destabilising the global silicon manufacturing market place? That’s a plan with some power behind it.

Agreed. China also doesn’t suffer from usual politicking - there’s no left then right swings in government, it’s the CCP all the way and they can make a 20 or 30 year plan and stick to it. If I were China I’d carry on with buying up favour and resource across the developing world and watch the West eat itself; laziness, fast food, net zero, wokeism, TikTok and of course all the synthetic drugs I’m quietly making and shipping over. I still don’t understand how the combustion based European car industry got so quickly torpedoed for EV and effectively handed over to the Chinese who had the 20 year head start on EV (and EV supply chains).

Where’s Oowee when we need an update on how fabulously Labour are doing and it’s all going under Labour? Man it is all coming apart at the seams.

The article suggests that they are big bridges only. Can’t see from the photos what the front looks like, but the article suggests that they are run aground and then hang out at sea so that other larger landing craft use it like a pontoon.

Interesting insight. Thank you. I couldn’t agree more about the critical under funding and under resourcing of our armed forces. The bigger issue however is that ‘love of country and history’ has been systematically erased from the young and getting people to join up in numbers in a conflict will be difficult. If I was under 30 and asked to fight for my country; well, I’m not too sure what my country is any more or what it stands for nor can I see a set of values or any cause promoted of any government of the last 50 years worth dying for. I suppose the next evolution will be tiers of Olympic armchair gamers running fleets of drones from their parents’ basements. .

The article suggests they run them a ground and use them as a platform / bridge to unload from other vessels. For the Chinese easy, cheap and quick to knock up in a couple of months. Indeed, I can’t see any other purpose for building these.

An attempt on a well defended island that is intent on not becoming part of China does appear to me to be ‘not worth it. But looking at Ukraine and the cost benefit to Russia, we are reminded that anything can happen. History has shown us that those in charge over us like a national common enemy in difficult times, and if things falter for the Chinese communist party, the economy or the man in charge then nothing holds it together like a war. Incidentally, Ukraine showed us that as long as no one reaches for the nukes then its traditional warfare and stocks of men and basic munitions is what you need more on than the other side, and China has way more of everything and the industrial capacity to build machines of war. .

Out of all the grim news today it was this article that made my blood run cold. So where on the planet to run and hide?

This is particularly prevalent with Eastern Europeans for house shares and accommodation - subletting rooms / floors of an existing rental property to help make ends meet and at the same time stay off any radar the local authority may have to see who is subletting or running an unauthorised HMO. We’ve just found this out in the process of selling a buy to let 😆

They will run out of money; it’s Labour, it’s what they do. Anyone rational knew with the last budget that the idea of growth through the public sector was just mental. The next budget will be interesting when they come back for more.

Exactly. The politicians will know better than us what’s going to be in the pot if the lid comes off…