The more I hear of Conservatives and Labour the more I curse the pair of them. Towns like Nuneaton are common, hollowed out and broken by a governing class who oppose just about everything normal people hold dear.
Recently I’ve looked at Reform, I’m very sympathetic to the SDP, but neither will win a seat, let alone get close to impacting an election.
Something has to give at some point, but who knows what or where.
Agree. The birds are squawking and taking to the skies – tsunami incoming. But no political party can arrest or alter our decline. None. The post 97 System of Governance instituted by EU/Blair cut to bone the hamstrings of democratically elected national executive power. The gearbox was ripped out. Power has sat for 20 + years first with Ruling EU lawmakers & the vast and utterly useless Permanent Clerisy or Blob which has been cloned & spawned here. Andrew B. Nicola S. Spider Tyrant Supremer Judge. Faceless Energy/Water Quangocrats. We must come to terms with this shower and their New Order, just like Russians had to surrender to the Leninist Order post 1917 and after the failure of the Civil War which ensued (kulaks = Brexiteer people). Middle England is scared rigid by Starmer’s blank manifesto, woke mind virus and perma fibs. But it makes no odds. The Tories have been crushed and tanked. The good folk of Nuneaton will hold their noses and only vote for Mr Patriot My-Ass, 2Ref Coup Leader, Knee Bending 2 BLM and Very Confused About Biology Above Knees because they know they he not actually govern or save us. Ruin is now baked into our twisted GDR style society. Voters need to mercy kill the hapless Lockdown Socialist/Fake Tories and give them a chance to rediscover true conservatism (wealth creation? Liberty?) before 2030…then start to rebuild the UK in a Year Zero scenario. But first – thanks to Zero Interest & QE Regime, lockdown catastrophe, Net Zero insanity, Socialism, Welfarism, Identitarianism & all the core structures they have shattered (education/energy/labour/housing) – comes the coup de grace Tsunsmi. Brace…
That is the question. I think Reform and UKIP have the right ideas about Brexit and how to triumph in it. Why they don’t work together I don’t know. Reform are in danger of scuppering everything if they don’t try and work with UKIP. We are caught between hell and highwater. The hell of Labour and the highwater of the tories which threatens our country by not making the best use of Brexit and their flirting with the WEF which wants to defeat us all by their deception.
Agree. The birds are squawking and taking to the skies – tsunami incoming. But no political party can arrest or alter our decline. None. The post 97 System of Governance instituted by EU/Blair cut to bone the hamstrings of democratically elected national executive power. The gearbox was ripped out. Power has sat for 20 + years first with Ruling EU lawmakers & the vast and utterly useless Permanent Clerisy or Blob which has been cloned & spawned here. Andrew B. Nicola S. Spider Tyrant Supremer Judge. Faceless Energy/Water Quangocrats. We must come to terms with this shower and their New Order, just like Russians had to surrender to the Leninist Order post 1917 and after the failure of the Civil War which ensued (kulaks = Brexiteer people). Middle England is scared rigid by Starmer’s blank manifesto, woke mind virus and perma fibs. But it makes no odds. The Tories have been crushed and tanked. The good folk of Nuneaton will hold their noses and only vote for Mr Patriot My-Ass, 2Ref Coup Leader, Knee Bending 2 BLM and Very Confused About Biology Above Knees because they know they he not actually govern or save us. Ruin is now baked into our twisted GDR style society. Voters need to mercy kill the hapless Lockdown Socialist/Fake Tories and give them a chance to rediscover true conservatism (wealth creation? Liberty?) before 2030…then start to rebuild the UK in a Year Zero scenario. But first – thanks to Zero Interest & QE Regime, lockdown catastrophe, Net Zero insanity, Socialism, Welfarism, Identitarianism & all the core structures they have shattered (education/energy/labour/housing) – comes the coup de grace Tsunsmi. Brace…
That is the question. I think Reform and UKIP have the right ideas about Brexit and how to triumph in it. Why they don’t work together I don’t know. Reform are in danger of scuppering everything if they don’t try and work with UKIP. We are caught between hell and highwater. The hell of Labour and the highwater of the tories which threatens our country by not making the best use of Brexit and their flirting with the WEF which wants to defeat us all by their deception.
NCFC Paul
10 months ago
The more I hear of Conservatives and Labour the more I curse the pair of them. Towns like Nuneaton are common, hollowed out and broken by a governing class who oppose just about everything normal people hold dear.
Recently I’ve looked at Reform, I’m very sympathetic to the SDP, but neither will win a seat, let alone get close to impacting an election.
Something has to give at some point, but who knows what or where.
John Galt Was Correct
10 months ago
It’s curious that people still take it upon themselves to declare that other people, people they don’t even know, voted for Brexit without knowing what it was. I think that is a lot of arrogant projection. A continuation of ‘anyone who doesn’t agree with me is stupid and didn’t know what they were doing or they would have agreed me’. Either way, if Nuneaton votes Labour or they vote Conservative nothing will change. Neither have any ideas or plans to resolve the UK’s structural economic issues, namely poor productivity and its causes.
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So you concur that post Brexit nothing changed – even got worse? It was never going to address underlying issues of productivity and regional inequality. It created years of distraction, displacing huge amount of resource and political energy into the current cul de sac – The Brexit motto being: “For things to stay the same, everything must appear to change”.
No Aidan, you have read my post and imagined your own content. I wrote that Labour and the Conservatives will not improve anything, but it was a general comment and not referring to Brexit whatsoever. Maybe you are one of those people who are obsessed with it.
No Aidan, you have read my post and imagined your own content. I wrote that Labour and the Conservatives will not improve anything, but it was a general comment and not referring to Brexit whatsoever. Maybe you are one of those people who are obsessed with it.
The common people generally have the right instincts. The trick is to hold these politicians to do what they are supposed to do rather than push their own agendas.
So you concur that post Brexit nothing changed – even got worse? It was never going to address underlying issues of productivity and regional inequality. It created years of distraction, displacing huge amount of resource and political energy into the current cul de sac – The Brexit motto being: “For things to stay the same, everything must appear to change”.
The common people generally have the right instincts. The trick is to hold these politicians to do what they are supposed to do rather than push their own agendas.
John Galt Was Correct
10 months ago
It’s curious that people still take it upon themselves to declare that other people, people they don’t even know, voted for Brexit without knowing what it was. I think that is a lot of arrogant projection. A continuation of ‘anyone who doesn’t agree with me is stupid and didn’t know what they were doing or they would have agreed me’. Either way, if Nuneaton votes Labour or they vote Conservative nothing will change. Neither have any ideas or plans to resolve the UK’s structural economic issues, namely poor productivity and its causes.
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Peter B
10 months ago
Definitely an area to watch for the next election. But not I think typical “Middle England”. More a very early “Red Wall” seat (strong mining heritage, consistently voted labour) ?
Sounds like Sunak won’t have much more appeal there than Starmer. Hard to think of a down-to-earth, common sense politician around at the moment who would. Which seems to be what they want. Shouldn’t really be too much to ask, should it ?
Peter B
10 months ago
Definitely an area to watch for the next election. But not I think typical “Middle England”. More a very early “Red Wall” seat (strong mining heritage, consistently voted labour) ?
Sounds like Sunak won’t have much more appeal there than Starmer. Hard to think of a down-to-earth, common sense politician around at the moment who would. Which seems to be what they want. Shouldn’t really be too much to ask, should it ?
F Hugh Eveleigh
10 months ago
The only way, it seems to me, for this country to rid itself of mediocre government is to vote Reform UK or whoever represents the right of centre in any particular constituency. Reform has ideas on armed forces, immigration, HS2, net zero, benefits, tax and much else all largely opposite to all other parties. Voting Conservative just continues the decline and voting Labour just accelerates it. Were concerned citizens to vote for change then change becomes possible.
The only way, it seems to me, for this country to rid itself of mediocre government is to vote Reform UK or whoever represents the right of centre in any particular constituency. Reform has ideas on armed forces, immigration, HS2, net zero, benefits, tax and much else all largely opposite to all other parties. Voting Conservative just continues the decline and voting Labour just accelerates it. Were concerned citizens to vote for change then change becomes possible.
Alan Colquhoun
10 months ago
Perhaps the local economy will be rescued by an influx of southerners in search of cheaper house prices? London is little more than an hour by train and Birmingham only 30 mins (when they are running..)
Alan Colquhoun
10 months ago
Perhaps the local economy will be rescued by an influx of southerners in search of cheaper house prices? London is little more than an hour by train and Birmingham only 30 mins (when they are running..)
I grew up in Nuneaton. As a local celebrity, Larry Grayson was as well-known as George Eliot. Unlike Ken Loach, who was never mentioned.
I haven’t been back for years, and have missed the Hellscape mural, but I remember the life-sized topiary figure of George Eliot that was a feature of the station platform in the summer. Perhaps she now appears in the Hellscape alongside Grayson and Loach?
I grew up in Nuneaton. As a local celebrity, Larry Grayson was as well-known as George Eliot. Unlike Ken Loach, who was never mentioned.
I haven’t been back for years, and have missed the Hellscape mural, but I remember the life-sized topiary figure of George Eliot that was a feature of the station platform in the summer. Perhaps she now appears in the Hellscape alongside Grayson and Loach?
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Harry Phillips
10 months ago
You forget Larry Grayson.
David Forrester
10 months ago
Good to see more flyover country articles. I really wish they would do more though right across the country.
David Forrester
10 months ago
Good to see more flyover country articles. I really wish they would do more though right across the country.
Charles Stanhope
10 months ago
“A few years earlier,* employees had been making £70,000 a year”
Can this be true? If so, no wonder we had to scrap the Mines!
Where were these child coal miners ? Poland ? Australia ? I think those were some of the countries we imported coal from.
As far as I know, the child mining is in Africa for things like cobalt. Don’t think coal mining is a good fit for child labour these days (though we have to admit we did try it in the past).
Where were these child coal miners ? Poland ? Australia ? I think those were some of the countries we imported coal from.
As far as I know, the child mining is in Africa for things like cobalt. Don’t think coal mining is a good fit for child labour these days (though we have to admit we did try it in the past).
So UK coal miners should have been happy to receive the same wages as their Polish counterparts, simply because it’s “the market”?
And people wonder why neoliberalism is slowly being consigned to history
So UK coal miners should have been happy to receive the same wages as their Polish counterparts, simply because it’s “the market”?
And people wonder why neoliberalism is slowly being consigned to history
The more I hear of Conservatives and Labour the more I curse the pair of them. Towns like Nuneaton are common, hollowed out and broken by a governing class who oppose just about everything normal people hold dear.
Recently I’ve looked at Reform, I’m very sympathetic to the SDP, but neither will win a seat, let alone get close to impacting an election.
Something has to give at some point, but who knows what or where.
Agree. The birds are squawking and taking to the skies – tsunami incoming. But no political party can arrest or alter our decline. None. The post 97 System of Governance instituted by EU/Blair cut to bone the hamstrings of democratically elected national executive power. The gearbox was ripped out. Power has sat for 20 + years first with Ruling EU lawmakers & the vast and utterly useless Permanent Clerisy or Blob which has been cloned & spawned here. Andrew B. Nicola S. Spider Tyrant Supremer Judge. Faceless Energy/Water Quangocrats. We must come to terms with this shower and their New Order, just like Russians had to surrender to the Leninist Order post 1917 and after the failure of the Civil War which ensued (kulaks = Brexiteer people). Middle England is scared rigid by Starmer’s blank manifesto, woke mind virus and perma fibs. But it makes no odds. The Tories have been crushed and tanked. The good folk of Nuneaton will hold their noses and only vote for Mr Patriot My-Ass, 2Ref Coup Leader, Knee Bending 2 BLM and Very Confused About Biology Above Knees because they know they he not actually govern or save us. Ruin is now baked into our twisted GDR style society. Voters need to mercy kill the hapless Lockdown Socialist/Fake Tories and give them a chance to rediscover true conservatism (wealth creation? Liberty?) before 2030…then start to rebuild the UK in a Year Zero scenario. But first – thanks to Zero Interest & QE Regime, lockdown catastrophe, Net Zero insanity, Socialism, Welfarism, Identitarianism & all the core structures they have shattered (education/energy/labour/housing) – comes the coup de grace Tsunsmi. Brace…
That is the question. I think Reform and UKIP have the right ideas about Brexit and how to triumph in it. Why they don’t work together I don’t know. Reform are in danger of scuppering everything if they don’t try and work with UKIP. We are caught between hell and highwater. The hell of Labour and the highwater of the tories which threatens our country by not making the best use of Brexit and their flirting with the WEF which wants to defeat us all by their deception.
Agree. The birds are squawking and taking to the skies – tsunami incoming. But no political party can arrest or alter our decline. None. The post 97 System of Governance instituted by EU/Blair cut to bone the hamstrings of democratically elected national executive power. The gearbox was ripped out. Power has sat for 20 + years first with Ruling EU lawmakers & the vast and utterly useless Permanent Clerisy or Blob which has been cloned & spawned here. Andrew B. Nicola S. Spider Tyrant Supremer Judge. Faceless Energy/Water Quangocrats. We must come to terms with this shower and their New Order, just like Russians had to surrender to the Leninist Order post 1917 and after the failure of the Civil War which ensued (kulaks = Brexiteer people). Middle England is scared rigid by Starmer’s blank manifesto, woke mind virus and perma fibs. But it makes no odds. The Tories have been crushed and tanked. The good folk of Nuneaton will hold their noses and only vote for Mr Patriot My-Ass, 2Ref Coup Leader, Knee Bending 2 BLM and Very Confused About Biology Above Knees because they know they he not actually govern or save us. Ruin is now baked into our twisted GDR style society. Voters need to mercy kill the hapless Lockdown Socialist/Fake Tories and give them a chance to rediscover true conservatism (wealth creation? Liberty?) before 2030…then start to rebuild the UK in a Year Zero scenario. But first – thanks to Zero Interest & QE Regime, lockdown catastrophe, Net Zero insanity, Socialism, Welfarism, Identitarianism & all the core structures they have shattered (education/energy/labour/housing) – comes the coup de grace Tsunsmi. Brace…
That is the question. I think Reform and UKIP have the right ideas about Brexit and how to triumph in it. Why they don’t work together I don’t know. Reform are in danger of scuppering everything if they don’t try and work with UKIP. We are caught between hell and highwater. The hell of Labour and the highwater of the tories which threatens our country by not making the best use of Brexit and their flirting with the WEF which wants to defeat us all by their deception.
The more I hear of Conservatives and Labour the more I curse the pair of them. Towns like Nuneaton are common, hollowed out and broken by a governing class who oppose just about everything normal people hold dear.
Recently I’ve looked at Reform, I’m very sympathetic to the SDP, but neither will win a seat, let alone get close to impacting an election.
Something has to give at some point, but who knows what or where.
It’s curious that people still take it upon themselves to declare that other people, people they don’t even know, voted for Brexit without knowing what it was. I think that is a lot of arrogant projection. A continuation of ‘anyone who doesn’t agree with me is stupid and didn’t know what they were doing or they would have agreed me’. Either way, if Nuneaton votes Labour or they vote Conservative nothing will change. Neither have any ideas or plans to resolve the UK’s structural economic issues, namely poor productivity and its causes.
So you concur that post Brexit nothing changed – even got worse? It was never going to address underlying issues of productivity and regional inequality. It created years of distraction, displacing huge amount of resource and political energy into the current cul de sac – The Brexit motto being: “For things to stay the same, everything must appear to change”.
No Aidan, you have read my post and imagined your own content. I wrote that Labour and the Conservatives will not improve anything, but it was a general comment and not referring to Brexit whatsoever. Maybe you are one of those people who are obsessed with it.
There are some good MP’s in the Tories but the government does not give them a chance with their globalism and neglect of the small UK businesses.
There are some good MP’s in the Tories but the government does not give them a chance with their globalism and neglect of the small UK businesses.
The tories let us down that is all. They have not managed Brexit well.
No Aidan, you have read my post and imagined your own content. I wrote that Labour and the Conservatives will not improve anything, but it was a general comment and not referring to Brexit whatsoever. Maybe you are one of those people who are obsessed with it.
The tories let us down that is all. They have not managed Brexit well.
The common people generally have the right instincts. The trick is to hold these politicians to do what they are supposed to do rather than push their own agendas.
So you concur that post Brexit nothing changed – even got worse? It was never going to address underlying issues of productivity and regional inequality. It created years of distraction, displacing huge amount of resource and political energy into the current cul de sac – The Brexit motto being: “For things to stay the same, everything must appear to change”.
The common people generally have the right instincts. The trick is to hold these politicians to do what they are supposed to do rather than push their own agendas.
It’s curious that people still take it upon themselves to declare that other people, people they don’t even know, voted for Brexit without knowing what it was. I think that is a lot of arrogant projection. A continuation of ‘anyone who doesn’t agree with me is stupid and didn’t know what they were doing or they would have agreed me’. Either way, if Nuneaton votes Labour or they vote Conservative nothing will change. Neither have any ideas or plans to resolve the UK’s structural economic issues, namely poor productivity and its causes.
Definitely an area to watch for the next election. But not I think typical “Middle England”. More a very early “Red Wall” seat (strong mining heritage, consistently voted labour) ?
Sounds like Sunak won’t have much more appeal there than Starmer. Hard to think of a down-to-earth, common sense politician around at the moment who would. Which seems to be what they want. Shouldn’t really be too much to ask, should it ?
Definitely an area to watch for the next election. But not I think typical “Middle England”. More a very early “Red Wall” seat (strong mining heritage, consistently voted labour) ?
Sounds like Sunak won’t have much more appeal there than Starmer. Hard to think of a down-to-earth, common sense politician around at the moment who would. Which seems to be what they want. Shouldn’t really be too much to ask, should it ?
The only way, it seems to me, for this country to rid itself of mediocre government is to vote Reform UK or whoever represents the right of centre in any particular constituency. Reform has ideas on armed forces, immigration, HS2, net zero, benefits, tax and much else all largely opposite to all other parties. Voting Conservative just continues the decline and voting Labour just accelerates it. Were concerned citizens to vote for change then change becomes possible.
Exactly.
Exactly.
The only way, it seems to me, for this country to rid itself of mediocre government is to vote Reform UK or whoever represents the right of centre in any particular constituency. Reform has ideas on armed forces, immigration, HS2, net zero, benefits, tax and much else all largely opposite to all other parties. Voting Conservative just continues the decline and voting Labour just accelerates it. Were concerned citizens to vote for change then change becomes possible.
Perhaps the local economy will be rescued by an influx of southerners in search of cheaper house prices? London is little more than an hour by train and Birmingham only 30 mins (when they are running..)
Perhaps the local economy will be rescued by an influx of southerners in search of cheaper house prices? London is little more than an hour by train and Birmingham only 30 mins (when they are running..)
You forget Larry Grayson.
I grew up in Nuneaton. As a local celebrity, Larry Grayson was as well-known as George Eliot. Unlike Ken Loach, who was never mentioned.
I haven’t been back for years, and have missed the Hellscape mural, but I remember the life-sized topiary figure of George Eliot that was a feature of the station platform in the summer. Perhaps she now appears in the Hellscape alongside Grayson and Loach?
I grew up in Nuneaton. As a local celebrity, Larry Grayson was as well-known as George Eliot. Unlike Ken Loach, who was never mentioned.
I haven’t been back for years, and have missed the Hellscape mural, but I remember the life-sized topiary figure of George Eliot that was a feature of the station platform in the summer. Perhaps she now appears in the Hellscape alongside Grayson and Loach?
You forget Larry Grayson.
Good to see more flyover country articles. I really wish they would do more though right across the country.
Good to see more flyover country articles. I really wish they would do more though right across the country.
“A few years earlier,* employees had been making £70,000 a year”
Can this be true? If so, no wonder we had to scrap the Mines!
(*circa say 2010?)
It’s hard, dangerous, dirty work, why shouldn’t they be well compensated for it?
‘Moderation in all things’.*
They were too greedy and thus committed industrial suicide.
(*Hesiod, circa 700BC to use christian chronology.)
They were “greedy” because they couldn’t compete against the children mining the coal we could import. Market forces innit.
Where were these child coal miners ? Poland ? Australia ? I think those were some of the countries we imported coal from.
As far as I know, the child mining is in Africa for things like cobalt. Don’t think coal mining is a good fit for child labour these days (though we have to admit we did try it in the past).
Where were these child coal miners ? Poland ? Australia ? I think those were some of the countries we imported coal from.
As far as I know, the child mining is in Africa for things like cobalt. Don’t think coal mining is a good fit for child labour these days (though we have to admit we did try it in the past).
Yeah. Remembering Scargill.
So UK coal miners should have been happy to receive the same wages as their Polish counterparts, simply because it’s “the market”?
And people wonder why neoliberalism is slowly being consigned to history
They were “greedy” because they couldn’t compete against the children mining the coal we could import. Market forces innit.
Yeah. Remembering Scargill.
So UK coal miners should have been happy to receive the same wages as their Polish counterparts, simply because it’s “the market”?
And people wonder why neoliberalism is slowly being consigned to history
‘Moderation in all things’.*
They were too greedy and thus committed industrial suicide.
(*Hesiod, circa 700BC to use christian chronology.)
It’s hard, dangerous, dirty work, why shouldn’t they be well compensated for it?
“A few years earlier,* employees had been making £70,000 a year”
Can this be true? If so, no wonder we had to scrap the Mines!
(*circa say 2010?)