The Museum Of Modern Thinking

I found the following image on a t-shirt over at BustedTees, a rather humorous t-shirt site in the US:

For those of you who are grammatically challenged, the joke is not that “we are #1″ (i.e. “we are”), but were, as in “once was, but not now”. As in, Britain is no longer the powerful and respected nation it was once.

So, where did it all go wrong? We could start with Ted Heath signing us up to the EEC in ‘73, although I’m sure he couldn’t have seen the never-ending EU interference in almost every aspect of our lives - even banning common garden pesticides that have been used for years, or writing the book on how to punish people who don’t recycle enough or close their bin lids.

Or how about the now-bloated welfare state? It’s propped up by decent, hard-working folks paying all their tax to support lazy, work-shy gits “on the sick” although they’re more than capable of working. John Bird, the founder of the Big Issue, once suggested that the Government should scrap the welfare system as it breeds laziness and encourages more welfare scrounging. I used to smile when I saw little kids with their mums, running along, but these days all I see is a girl who looks barely sixteen, smoking a fag with her baby (with pierced ears, obviously) and they’re both a drain on society.

How about education? We used to be ranked number 4 in the world and if I recall correctly, we’re now somewhere past number twenty-five. The education system is so bad I’m having to send my son to remedial lessons as the teachers don’t have the time to spend with him as they speed through the syllabus so they get to the important stuff: drilling the kids to pass tests, so the school looks good in the league tables. I certainly don’t remember getting homework when I was in primary school. Now, kids are just drilled to pass tests, instead of being taught something practical. And as for practicality, not every kid is a genius - there will be some children who are just not academically inclined (I count myself in that number) and who will not make it to university. That’s fine - we need labourers, we need plumbers, brickies, and the like. God knows I wouldn’t know where to start if I had to build a wall, although I had plenty of lessons from watching my dad, a seminal handyman.

I’ll also point my figure at the disgusting spectre of political correctness, the namby-pamby, don’t say anything in case you offend someone, self-censoring mindset that has become so prevalent under the last ten years of Labour “governance”. Folks, you will be, at some point in your life, grossly offended: get over it. My freedom of speech trumps your right to be offended, including a bunch of zealots who go mental over cartoons of their spiritual leader. I’ve been offended many times in my life, either to my face, in print, by something I’ve seen and you know what? I’ve spluttered, but then went home and had a strong cup of tea and got over it. People who make a big deal about taking offence are usually after something they feel they are owed, but as the great philosopher Rocky Balboa once said, “Nobody owes nobody nothin’. You owe yourself”.

I’ll briefly touch on another thing that’s diluted this once-great country: diversity. What a pointless, useless endeavour. If you have to be told to give everyone (man, woman, black disabled lesbian, muslim, whoever) a fair shake of the stick, you must be retarded, or you’re working for a retarded company that thinks you’re retarded. Diversity, or respect for another culture, can (and often does) lead to segregation, which is no good for anyone. Why, for example, is there a Black Police Officers Association? Do they really feel that hard done by? Where’s the White Police Officers Association? And before you reply, “The whole Police Officers Association is white”, I answer with why didn’t the black police officers join the Police Officers Association, and forget about their colour?

I won’t bother touching on religion, but we are a Christian country and I agree with various recent statements that we are losing our Christian values, e.g. no good samaritans any more. I put this solely at the feet of other, more influential religions, believed by people who are even more weak-minded than Christians. And if that offends you: get over it

Hmm, who’s next? How about the police? How have we gone from the good, hard but fair copper to police who think it is ok to arrest an ex-soldier for performing a citizen’s arrest on a little chav who was throwing sticks and eggs at his house? Why wasn’t the little chav arrested? You have police who do the bidding of private companies and go and arrest known protesters (see Taking Liberties for details), whilst recording them with “in your face” tactics (the Forward Information Team, very Big Brother). I suppose the arrests help them meet their Government-enforced targets, which explains why they arrested a man for shagging his bicycle (indecent exposure), even though he was behind closed doors. I shudder to think about being arrested and slapped on the DNA database, just awaiting a trawl through when a copper goes on a fishing expedition. As for the other part of the law, punishment: don’t make me laugh. The CPS doesn’t know its arse from its elbow, prosecuting people for mundane offences (e.g. leaving their bin lid open) whilst letting muggers, rapists etc go free. The hardened criminals who do get banged up can be released halfway through their sentence with good behaviour (thanks, Labour) or they can just wait until they get released early due to lack of prison spaces (thanks, Labour, again).

Oh yeah, I’m totally against unfettered immigration as well. It puts too great a strain on this country’s infrastructure and resources, brings in many undesirable criminal elements and their supporting networks (gangmasters, etc.), and makes Derby high street sound like Soviet Russia with sad dreary violins playing.

So, we come to the main reason why this country is no longer great: the Labour party. I have never seen such a bunch a mendacious, shifty, incompetent, wilful, arrogant, socialist, trough-snuffling, useless twats in my life. We’re rocketing back in time to the 70s, with rubbish on the streets, a summer of strikes looming, stagflation (look it up), rampant unions (the only people keeping Labour solvent, apart from Lord Sainsbury), high crime and all the other crap that a bunch of liberal “we know best” nanny-state gits manage to generate. And don’t give me “all politicians are the same” crap: how many other MPs resigned their seats in protest of the Labour Government’s disgusting 42 days detention bill? How many? Right, just one: David Davis, the man who, I think now, should be the one leading the Conservatives. Labour: they’ve ruined education, they’ve allowed massive immigration, they want to ride roughshod over the countryside with this new planning quango, they’ve ruined the economy (Gordon Brown, safe pair of hands? Prudent? My arse), they’ve turned Britain into the most surveilled country in the world: they want our DNA, they want ID cards, they want to inspect, to control, to dictate, to monitor, to guide….

WELL, THAT’S ENOUGH! BASTA! I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it any more! Emigration is not an option - I can’t deride people coming into the country and then go and do the same myself. I’m staying here to fight to get my country back - my glorious countryside, cricket on a Summer’s day with warm beer, county shows and home-baked cakes, good manners and courtesy in abundance, police clipping local thugs around the ear and their parents being ashamed of them. No speed cameras, no ID cards, no CCTV cameras, no wind farms (I’ll go back to a horse and cart if need be), no EU interference in every small thing that I do, talking with complete strangers about the weather and inviting them in a tea, dealing with our problems with a stiff upper lip instead of airing them on the Jeremy Kyle show, reading Boys Own Stories to my son on a winter’s night in front of a log fire… It all sounds idyllic, but it’s what we had previously, and it’s what we can get back. The first thing to do is get rid of this corrupt Government (and admittedly, some of the corrupt Opposition) and start repealing the madness that has made its way onto the statute books over the last ten years.

What a long, emotional post that was for me. There’s still so much that I see wrong in this country, things that are ripe for improvement, but they’ll have to wait for later. God help you all if I ever become Prime Minister