The gathering crisis in the UK
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The gathering crisis in the UK
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Re: The gathering crisis in the UK
#2I love Charlie Stross:
"And feel free to use the comment thread to discuss what's coming next for the UK as the vector sum of Brexit, COVID19, the energy crisis from the Ukraine war, and the worst inflationary bubble since 1980 punches us in the face."
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#3It's a bit like blaming the Democrats for the political crisis in the US but I have to ask "what the hell is wrong with Labor?" The Tories have dominated politics in the UK since the later 1970s except for the Blair administration, and Blair was an honorary Tory.
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#4It’s eerie how similar the issues facing western nations are and how intractable the disagreements over solutions have become.
Desperate balkanization coming for many, I think.
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#5"Brexit has delivered some deregulation, though: notably, the Conservative government ditched EU standards on effluent discharges, resulting in the (private) water companies discharging raw sewage into almost every river, and the seas around the UK coastline.
So it is no longer safe to swim in UK waters."
Holy crap!
"the Bank of England are forecasting 13% inflation towards the end of the year."
And we thought things were bad in the US.
This article sounds absolutely dire, can someone in the UK comment - are things really that bad there?
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#6wen transatlantic natural gas pipeline
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#7Green energy (except nuclear) is inefficient, expensive, irregular, and the money for it goes straight to China and developing nations who mine the rare earth elements. Even Germany finally backed off from de-commissioning their last nuclear plants as the Greens realized it was illogical.
Need to remove red tape, stop controlling prices, de-regulate business, establish free trade agreements, and do all manner of things to increase real productivity and not the government-pretend kind of productivity.
Reality is a tough pill to swallow and it will likely take several years of misery before the obvious solution becomes the only solution.
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#8I'd ignore Stross. He's been predicting inflation and famine since Brexit passed.[1] Something about the past decade has broken his brain. Obviously the issues he mentions are worth worrying about, but they're not going to cause the UK or the rest of europe to fall into anarchy.
1. https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/10/facts-o...
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#9The more time moves forward, the closer we are inching to a one-world government.
Or is democracy too dangerous to be left in the hands of the people.
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#10Some of England's problems are unique to them, but I think the reason those who voted for Brexit did so is that they felt the current deal wasn't working for them. Already, way back then, they weren't on a path to a bright future where there was a house of their own to live in, a job that was a good fit for them and society, a future to believe in.
I believe the same things that fueled Brexit persist as malaise today in England. In the US. Probably everywhere else where regulations allow unregulated profit to be squeezed from the less well off. Rent seeking cultures morally bankrupt and rot from the core.