ciao racists

I was woken up by a big delivery, but in my half-asleep state I really thought I was dreaming when the news was running a story about lefties going on strike in the UK because 'foreign' workers were being employed taking 'British' jobs.

Well I wasn't dreaming and when I was fully awake I lost it!

I was brought up in a tough working class area in the 60s and racism was everywhere. But that was FORTY years ago.

Take a closer look at this. These workers aren't foreign, they are EU nationals (Italian and Portugese). They are not taking 'British' jobs - they are a skilled workforce employed by the Italian company that won the contract to do this construction work. Doubtless British companies tendered for this but weren't cheap/skilled enough.

When we were out in Switzerland in December a bunch of Essex lads sat next to us in the Mexican restaurant. They'd been out a few weeks working on a contract! So British people are doing the same thing in Europe, even OUTSIDE the EU!

So our dim lefty scum racist friends need to think this through.

Firstly the workers are EU nationals so there is no way we can stop them working in any case.

Secondly if this craven government did try to bring in some arcane anti-Free Trade rules then surely reciprocal arrangements would send tens of thousands of British workers back to the UK as their contracts were terminated?

Net result? A rise in UK unemployment.

Think it through you socialist scumbags and get back to work!

getting it wrong

So 'Lord' Mandelson is planning a 2 billion quid plus bail out of the 'British' car industry is he?

What a joke!

The government should NEVER interfere in the market. These companies should have built up reserves to get them through harder times - if they haven't then they deserve to go to the wall.

Car companies are dying ayway - they have about as much future as airlines. The car (as well as bus and lorry and tractor) is an anachronism, created when oil was plentiful and cheap. It will not outlive the end of cheap oil, which is now upon us. The much touted alternatives are NOT alternatives, they are still cars, they still need huge amounts of energy and raw materials to build. The cost of electricity will rise in tandem with the cost of oil and gas. Roads themselves will begin to break up as maintenance schedules are loosened up - in the UK this already seems to be happening.

If a car company deserves to survive it will do it WITHOUT government help. It will start to retool and retrain, to allow it to exploit the explosive growth in rail travel that is coming. They will build carriages and locomotives, freight vehicles and trams.

The car is already a historic artefact. Some will survive a few more years until oil reaches stratospheric prices, $500, $1000 a barrel. But really the car today is an example of dead man walking, if that's not too confusing a metaphor!

Onwards - to infinity and beyond!

the shame of the christians

Lies openly displayed at Noah's Ark - a CHILDREN'S zoo!


The Pagans are reclaiming symbols shamelessly stolen by the christians. This represents fertility.


Anyone who buys this filth for their child should be investigated by social services.


Says it all LOL!

We had a shocking experience at the doctors yesterday.

There was a child sitting with his mother near us. By them was some crabbit old sour-faced sow. The child had been sick regularly over the last few weeks. Turns out his mum and this old bag were members of the local church!

The old bitch was grilling this child, giving him the benefit of her superior brain. She concluded - publically - that the boy was putting it all on.

Then, unbelievably, this cow suddenly said 'Jesus can see everything you do.'

This is why I despise christianity. What utter drivel, and how sinister. I should have decked this socialist bitch, but as a Pagan I don't believe in violence. The way they lie and propagandise kids should be illegal. Social Services should be aware of this sort of thing which is clearly child abuse.

I can't wait until we've driven the last christians from this fair Pagan land.

the future of food retail

This is Brockley Farm Shop in Somerset. It's everything a real food shop should be with locally grown produce, shop produced cakes and pies etc and a smattering of more exotic stuff, some English, some foreign.

And it is even right next to a bus stop!

This is the sort of shop that should survive and flourish after Peak Oil, although it will eventually need a railway/tramway to pass it to keep deliveries and trade up of course! Or possibly even manage with horse and cart deliveries.

Buy rail and tram stocks ...

second home scum

There's a right row blowing up in Helford, Cornwall.

The locals, the people that actually live there, need a jetty to help them load and unload their fishing boats. But second homers, the lefty scumbags that like quaint and nostalgia and twee, think it shouldn't be built.

As a vegetarian I wouldn't touch fish with a bargepole, but I don't think that should stop other people eating it, or indeed catching it and selling it for a profit. Come Peak Oil I suspect the most severe vegan will be munching on rabbit, squirrel and pigeon at every opportunity. We shouldn't knock those that actually make a sustainable living from nature.

I've nothing against second homes either, though how anyone can even afford a first home escapes me, even in this day and age!

But there is no way some London scumbags can determine how a Cornish fisherman lives.

Soon Cornwall will be independent of England, and this may well be one of the things that makes that happen quicker. Soon the second homers will no longer be able to afford the luxury of a rural retreat and real people will once again live in these villages. The sooner the better.

hope

Well, Obama's in. His inauguration speech wasn't bad at all. He painted a fairly bleak but realistic picture of where the USA currently stands. I suspect the economic picture is worse than any of us feared. In the UK they are projecting 3.4 million unemployed by 2010 - even arch socialist Thatcher couldn't manage that, though I'm sure she tried.

Highlight for me? Yo Yo Ma playing the cello.

I met Yo Yo back in about 1979, on a train from Littlehampton to Chichester. I'd never heard of him, and didn't at the time have much truck with anything other than Joy Division, but at his invitation I did pop along to Chichester cathedral (yes, you read that right! I used to be far less anti-christian) and listened to him play. He was excellent!

What does the new presidency mean? Well, he touched on energy in his speech, and a lot of other things. He certainly didn't proclaim, even in code, that the American Way of Life was not up for Negotiation, quite the opposite. He didn't mention 'growth' once, but he did touch on many non-economic aspects of life. I think this is what we need to hear.

I love business and money, to me the market is king and no better system than capitalism has been, or will ever be, devised. But there's far more to life than making money (which is dead easy) - family, friends, relationships, community, health, culture (not so easy).

We now hear that all 50 states in the US have Transition groups. This is fantastic news, though shouldn't be a surprise. That's part of the process of creating a new USA, a USA that wll lead the world on Climate Change, social justice and energy security, that will send socialism running to the caves of Pakistan, the conservative clubs of middle England and the ghettoes of Gaza.

More than anything Barack is a symbol that racism is finally dead, that you can emerge from any background to high office, and that the world really has changed. Now let's gid rid of Brown - what a joke he now seems!

busy and wild weekend

Bristol in the middle of Saturday night's storm


The Fleece on saturday night


Jungi at the zoo on Sunday.

We've had a really busy weekend!

We rejoined the gym on Saturday, then went off to a gig on Saturday night, at the Fleece, a new venue for me. Not a bad location at all with loads of character.

To the zoo on Sunday then, amazingly, to the gym on the way back.

All the activity practically killed me off. We're getting in practice for the summer, when we'll be totally redoing the garden and getting Transition fit!

brown's poll tax

Yesterday's barely believable decision by our idiot 'government' to authorize the building of a new runway at Heathrow is the final nail in New Labour's coffin. I can't think of a single person who wants this, and my friends come from all circles. It is nothing short of madness. With superb irony it was decided on the very day that there was an announcement that air travel had fallen for the first time in amost twenty years!

The message is simple. From the Climate Change angle there is no point in even talking about EXPANDING air travel - it just can't happen. Aeroplanes inject CO2 directly into the atmosphere. WE CANNOT AFFORD TO ADD A SINGLE GRAM OF CO2 WANKERS!

From the Peak Oil/Economics angle what on earth is the point of committing a single euro to planning for things that will NEVER be needed? Within twenty years Heathrow will be a rotting eyesore, planes and passengers just a folk memory.

From the human angle how can even commie Brown consider for a moment blighting 700 homes in Sipston for something that is not needed and will never happen? Shades of Caecescu or what?

The Poll Tax was the biggest madness of Thatcher's totally mad socialist reign. I'm proud to say I was in both Poll Tax riots and helped bring the fucker down.

This is Brown's Poll Tax. Good riddance.

outlaw these lunatics

christians have been up in arms about these adverts on Bristol buses. As far as I recall these are a reaction to the dreadful Alpha Course ads that have been polluting the UK. A fringe christian group, christian Voice, has been trying to get them banned!

Look at the ad carefully. It doesn't even go so far as to proclaim what we all know, that there is no god. Yet these left wing foreign scum still want to ban the truth. I HATE christians!! There is no room for this foreign 'religion' in a Pagan country like the UK.


This made us smile, seen in Bristol yesterday. I love the deliberate spelling error!

Noah's Ark is a blot on the landscape. It projects itself as a zoo, but once you're trapped inside you are subjected to a constant barrage of lies. They actually claim Noah's Ark was REAL, that animals were CREATED by 'god' and that evolution is a lie. And all this is aimed at CHILDREN. christians always have to lie and cheat to get their psychotic message across, and kids are easy victims. There's no room for propaganda in the UK.


This is what the christians love - images of pain, death and hopelessness. christianity is a death cult for lefties and the middle class.

The UK was, is and always will be a Pagan country. There is no room for any foreign religions here, especially those born in the vile and raving mad Middle East.

greenpeace do something right!

At last Greenpeace are doing something right! They've purchased a piece of land near Heathrow that they're packaging up into tiny plots and selling on to decent non-hippy types.

Then our idiot 'government' will need to negotiate with every owner to get it back.

Airport expansion is total MADNESS. Air travel will shrink steadily over the next twenty years, then will be gone forever. So why are the morons even considering this?? It makes no sense at all, even in their addled world view that sees the future as an extension of the past. There is NO replacement for aircraft fuel, and never will be.

Even the tories have got it. Rather than waste billions on a runway that will never be used, they are asking for investment in transport with a future - high speed rail. Even in an energy constrained world high speed rail should survive and even flourish. It's amazing that the tories look ahead whilst New Labour look behind them for ideas.

If Labour proceed with this - it will never be built but they may well authorize it - then the party will die, their internal conflicts (both between and within members) all being too much for them.

And the real irony? The piece of land is a wheatfield, which is what all of Heathrow will become by 2030!

total dickheads

This fucking 'government' has to go, and go soon.

They are SERIOUSLY wasting their time and our money discussing EXPANSION of Heathrow airport!!!!!

Now, we all know the world has changed. We've passed the peak and oil supply is now falling. But these socialist middle class arseholes are still acting as if everything is the same. This is the problem with government - they are totally isolated from reality and make tits of themselves on a daily basis.

Listen you wankers - air travel is already contracting. This is a PERMANENT thing. There is no suitable alternative to aircraft fuel. Air travel will vanish within 20 years. Rather than expanding airports you need to start planning for their contraction and eventual removal. The runways should be ploughed up and used to grow food. That is the reality. You live in a dream world. Lenin, Marx and Thatcher are DEAD. You need to move on.

a day of goodbyes

Jenny (in striped top)


Jack at the bar.


Scott pre-Canada.

Today was a strange day of goodbyes. At lunchtime we went to the Castle of Comfort near Priddy to see Jack and Jenny before they return to Australia. This evening we went to Wick St Lawrence for a surprise birthday/seeing him off to Canada party for Scott. I first met Scott's mum and dad back in Leysin Switzerland in 1987 - quite by chance they now live under half an hour away.

This long distance travelling which has become quite commonplace over the last 20 years or so will be an early victim of Peak Oil. Our kids will be amazed at how easy it used to be to get from one place to another, and how quickly. The idea of families occupying two different counties let alone two different nations will seem incredible.

So, as I said to Scott I'll say it to you - make the most of these easy and incredibly cheap times, because it will never be so easy (or cheap!) again. Scott is off to Canada for six months. It'll do him the world of good.

I do hope that an international network of railways continues to link Europe (and hopefully beyond) once the cars and planes have gone. I hope there is enough civilization to allow our descendants to still travel a little, so that groups of people do not become insular, resort to racism or socialism or mad religion. I worry that a lot of what we've gained socially and politically on the back of cheap oil will be lost, but perhaps not. Much of the world is still uncivilized, but that hasn't stopped us from being decent people. But we need to be making the big adjustment to a post-oil world now, five year's time may be too late, ten year's will definitely be.

With the demise of socialist dinosaurs like George Bush and Tony Blair perhaps we do still have that window of opportunity.

the death of banking

We have a retarded government. They don't have a clue.

The economy has changed forever. Yet still, like the nostalgists they are, they are looking backwards for answers. We got in this situation because people had become hooked on credit and had lost touch with their roots. If you earned £100 you spent £120, and your foolproof investment, your home, would always make up the shortfall, because everybody knows that house prices only ever go up.

Oh dear. This was never going to work was it?

So what are our dear 'leaders' doing now? Are they going back on the gold standard, encouraging us to grow our own food, pumping billions into developing and expanding our rail and tram networks, looking for energy indepdence, increasing interest rates to encourage savings and encourage banks to lend? Are they reducing the money supply to restrict unsecured credit? Are they fuck! They are doing the exact opposite.

I'm more convinced each day that this is the crisis preceding Peak Oil and that the economy can't be mended because the fundamentals have shifted. I might be wrong, but everything this 'government' does seems to make it more certain.

gas attack!

With Russia and Ukraine slapping each other over gas supplies, we've a little gas crisis of our own here in Hartcliffe! On a day that's led to the Bristol ferry being cancelled due to ice floes, we've just had a minor problem - a flat battery in the key meter - that has left us without any gas until the buggers come out to fix it. That's no heat, no hot water, no cooking ... and being a 'modern' house we've no real alternative. At my previous place I had electric fires, open fires and an Aga.

Oh well, it's all good practice for when gas runs out permanently. Are we bovvered? Well, yes actually ...

Serves us right for being soft.

the new consumer reality

Shopping just after Yule is always a bit of a soulless affair but this year seems worse than ever. Okay, the above is Woolworths, but even a trip to Tesco today revealed empty aisles, tat on every shelf and just a general air of despondency, almost as if the average person in the street really has finally realised that the old consumer society - pointless socialism writ large - has vanished almost overnight.

JJB's seems to have closed down overnight. Other units on the same estate remain empty after two years - you have to wonder if they'll ever be let.

Something doesn't ring quite true with this recession. Despite just a tiny percentage drop in output, everything seems to be shuddering to a halt.

I had rather hoped consumerism would continue for another ten or even twenty years, just to allow us to get prepared for the change. Luckily my business is unaffected, I trade worldwide and offer a fantastic service, so if anything I'm busier than ever.

got a fiver ... you've got a party

We had a post New Year party last night which was great. It was a nice way to use up some of the last bits of Xmas food and drink etc. It was so cold we could use the patio as a fridge which helped a lot. We had about thirty in.

Some of the girls went trampolining. It was about minus six outside. Look at the frost on the trampoline!