London: Subsidising  poverty or distributing population according to means?

An article published by The Guardian indicates that those do not own accommodation are given the option to relocate to other parts of the country where rental prices are lower or to become homeless.

The article refers to millions of Pound being paid to private companies to help relocate families away from  London, from Birmingham and from other local authorities  to regions where there is cheaper accommodation.

When the realities of the rental accommodation market bite, local authorities cannot afford to subsidise  housing and therefore recur to the nearest best thing which is to relocate families to areas where housing is affordable.

Local authorities have been spending much of their budgets to support households that are not making enough money to be able to afford the costs of housing and this is literally breaking the bank. Birmingham has been reportedly cutting down vital services and increasing taxation to maintain an unsustainable situation.

Personally, I do not own a flat in Central London and there might be a reason for that. Some areas of Central London have some of the most expensive rented accommodation in the country as a whole. I could unjustifiably claim that I am entitled to receive monies from taxes to pay for such rented accommodation. Or I could decide that since I cannot afford such rented accommodation I would try and find suitable accommodation elsewhere.

Whether you are white, black, Asian or whatever else, the fact remains that you cannot afford to stay in a certain area and you have to find an adequate residence somewhere else. Unfortunately, those who make the argument in favour of subsidies practically always use the race card as if being of a member of a certain ethnic group was some sort of green card  to have access or a certificate of entitlement. There is no such entitlement. 

Another argument is that when a certain area of the country is considered 'rundown', those people elect to represent them have a role to play to ensure that any 'rundown area' is not a 'rundown area' for long. Lack of economic activity is very much one of the root causes. Economic activity combined with proper infrastructure and services standards that change things for the better. Subsidising poverty is never the answer. Subsidising poverty makes poverty endemic because we are just dealing with the symptoms. We are not dealing with the causes.

Emergency accommodation is not meant to be permanent accommodation. Using the race card to justify the unjustifiable is step in the wrong direction. If I can create 100,000 housings units outside the big cities, then the idea would be to create functioning communities with acceptable standards in terms of services and infrastructure outside the big cities where prices will naturally be more affordable. 

Economic realism vs Geopolitcs: Alternative für Deutschland

 

Economic realism vs Geopolitcs

The options are pretty clear. Germany is a manufacturing country that has been losing jobs in manufacturing because German companies have been pushed out of Germany due to high energy costs.

It is also a country is which the vast majority of migrants live on benefits and produce very little or nothing for the German economy.

Understandably then lowering energy costs and throwing out unproductive foreigners that live at the expense of the German peoples are two major priorities. This is why Elon Musk stated that Alternative für Deutschland is the only German political party that can save Germany.

Buying things cheap somewhere else when jobs are vanishing in your own country is not a valid alternative.

High taxation is a requirement to finance people who are out of work. Therefore, the only alternative is to get rid of beggars and lower taxes to restore the strengths of the German economy. And a permanent flow of additional jobs is also a requirement for political and social stability.

The status quo is a non non. It is precisely the status quo has created the present mess.

At the end of the day, each country has different realities and overlooking differences leads to the wrong conclusions. There are also historical realities and each country is bound to react differently and have different priorities.

 

EU heats up: Olaf Scholz urgent travel to the Russian Federation

The announcement by Ukraine that it would halt vital supplies to the European Union prompted German Chancellor Olaf Scholz urgent trip to the Russian Federation.

Energy has been the key for the survival of the European Union and most importantly for the most important country of the European Union, the Federal Republic of Germany. Without energy, German manufacturing strength and support of its political system are in doubt. 

Germany faces a Federal Election in a few weeks time and the financial and industrial outcome is not brilliant. In the words of Alexander Gauland, co-founder of Alternative für Deutschland - the worse the situation becomes, the better for Alternative für Deutschland - and things are getting pretty bad. Ukraine is threatening the survival of the European Union. To make matters worse, an attack perpetrated today in Germany caused the death of several people and more than a 100 people were injured. It  does not play well in German politics when migration is one of the hottest topics.

As President Bill Clinton stated, 'it is the economy, stupid'. The German economy, its political stability, migration and geopolitical games are part of the same package.

The assertion that Alternative für Deutschland is the only political party that can save Germany did not go well with the usual culprits of the so called mainstream political parties that are used to win elections lying about those who challenge a disastrous status quo.

Angela Merkel started the debacle when she panicked and decided to get rid of nuclear power making Germany practically entirely dependent on foreign energy imports. The now former coalition headed by Olaf Scholz did the rest by associating itself with a warmongering movement that compromised vital energy supplies. No nuclear power, no oil, no gas. What could go wrong?

Olaf Scholz knows full well that energy shortages will be politically disastrous for so called mainstream political parties that do not protect fundamental German interests. Olaf Scholz knows in what could be the last days of his political career as German Chancellor that there are even greater risks that could lead to the disintegration of the European Union. There are conflicting interests within the European Union and this could well push countries to secede to follow their own paths. The promised Paradise looks increasingle like Hell on Earth.

Not again: for a month US Administration faces shutdown due to budget deficits

The USA might spend trillions of dollars in Defence, but those who really serve see little of it. 

Much of the monies end up in the pockets of shareholders of the military apparatus, but real servicemen and their families end up begging to make ends meet.

Not, it is not Jamaica. It is the United States of America when middle classes are vanishing and the gap between the super rich and the super poor rises steadily while public debt grows exponentially.

Elon Musk is more than right to state that unless the budget is brought under control the USA is literally bankrupt. An Empire running on empty and promoting and justifying ever more brutal foreign policies that justify Genocide in a world in which the ends justify the means. A far cry from the nation led by the Founding Fathers. There is no compassion, There is no right nor wrong. Everything goes. 

On January 20th, 2025, a new President will be inaugurated. Will things ever change or will things keep going in the wrong direction?

Respect must not be confused with fear and fear is no respect whatsoever. 

 

Friedrich Merz: New German Chancellor?

Labour liars promised no new taxes and no tax rises. Friedrich Merx promises tax cuts to return government expenditure under control. Will he keep his promises if he is de facto the new German Chancellor?

The United States of America and its pirate policies is Germany's main enemy. As Alternative für Deutschland has insistently said 'Ukraine ist nicht in unserem Interesse'. Germany needs energy and must not prostitute itself against German interests.

Soviet troops left, but Germany is still under American occupation and the time is long overdue for American troops to be thrown out of Germany.

A sovereign Germany must be a Germany for the German Peoples. German foreign policy must only exist to benefit German interests without being attached to the American Chariot like slaves were chained to the Roman conquerors.

All Syrian refugees must be thrown out. Since President Assad is no more, there is no justification to keep them in Germany, occupying space that belongs to the German Peoples.

Deutschland, Deutschland über Alles. Germany represents 24 per cent of the European Union economy. In fact, German sweat is subsidizing countries that act against German interests. This state of affairs is like the Versailles Pakt and war reparations. 

In fact, German speakers of CDU have been calling for Germany to leave the European Court of Justice that forces Germany to accept what is unacceptable and most importantly Germany needs a trully German Constitution, not the shameful Constitution imposed on the German Peoples by foreign powers.

We await the new Federal Elections and we do hope that German Nationalists do well in these elections to put Germany First.

Die Welt braucht ein neues und starker Deutschland. 

Keir Starmer planning to cut down British Armed Forces by 20,000

 

Plans announced as part of a Defence Review indicate that the British government led by Keir Starmer is planning to cut down the size of the British Armed Forces by 20,000 (down from present level of 73,000 including all branches). 

It must be said that barely 40,000 are actual trained combattant personnel. Such is the state of the British Armed Forces.

Manpower or lack of it is a very serious issue, but also material resources are critically absent. All of which renders Britain totally incapable in case of a real conflict involving Air Force, Navy and Army and other branches of the services.

Statements made by David Lammy beggar belief. The Foreign Secretary does not have a clue about what is he is actually saying and has no knowledge whatsoever when it comes to military matters. President Trump, during his first mandate as American President, made abondantly clear that each NATO member country should do its part. This is not just about Article 5. It is about Article 3 that commits every NATO member country to be self-reliant when it comes to self-preservation. Changes proposed by the Labour government goes in exactly the opposite direction, weakening Britain even more.

We must look beyond statements made by politicians regarding state of readiness. Britain is only ready to lose and budget constraints are not reassuring. It takes years to recruit and train military personnel. No matter how much money you have got, time is of the essence and time for Britain is running out.

Are monies going where voters want monies to go?

 

What we call Democracy are merely a collection of blank cheques to be used in many ways other than the ways voters want their monies to be used.

In every election, voters are asked to support a given candidate and/or political party and many attend polling stations or use other ways of voting to make a choice. But what choice are they really making? Apart from marking their ballots, what choices are they really making?

In actual fact, they are just giving away their decision making powers to individuals that they hardly know or that they hardly ever meet for the said individuals to do as they please. They are given away the entitlement to make decisions. They are giving away their rights.

Democracy is based on illusions. Democracy is a mirage. Democracy is fiction. And the consequences of maintaining fiction can be and usually have been  catastrophic, because all voters can do is to vote down a political party to replace it with yet another ilusion months or years later. We lie to ourselves pretending that things will be better if so or so gets elected.

Elections are about how monies are used and when it comes to how monies are going to be used we have no choice whatsoever. We have got no choice in terms of where the monies are going to be coming from or how monies are going to be spent. Decisions about where the monies are going to be coming from are arbitrary and decisions about where the monies are going to go are equally arbitrary.

What we call Peace is in actual fact an ongoing War in which those who have little bargaining power are bound to lose.

This is why voters should be able to keep in their pockets as much of their monies as possible and be able to make their own personal decisions. The numbers of those in employment are debatable as they don't tell us the truth about subemploment, the kind of employment leading to even greater poverty. If in spite of working long hours you don't get enough to have decent life then you are not employed and you are actually a slave. This is Modern Slavery. If we were to discriminate between those who earn enough and those who do not earn enough then the numbers of those in real employment would be much lower.  

EURO ERM New Chapter with both France and Germany's budget deficits exceeding the limits set up for the EURO

 

The days of the Exchange Rate Mechanism come back to haunt both France and Germany whose budget deficits have gone beyond the limits set up for the EURO. 

We remember both John Major and Norman Lamont making desperate efforst and selling British gold reserves as it there was no tomorrow to try and keep the value of the Pound that was collapsing. 

Now, the French political crisis is also an economic crisis and the fact that from now on there might be no government or a government kept hostage by a fragmented French Assembly says a lot. 

Only in July 2025 could President Emmanuel Macron dissolve the French Assembly and call new Parliamentary Elections. Although on a speech made the day after the vote that defeated the government and marked the end of Michel Barnier as Prime Minister the President promised to stay for the whole duration of his mandate that ends in 2027, doubts remain about what will happen in France until 2027 in terms of real governance. The question is 'who will actually rule France?' The country should not until 2027 be run by decree because of the President's lack of support in the French Assembly. And what does this mean for the European Union?

In January 2025 there should be a vote in the German Parliament to decide the fate of Olaf Scholz, followed by a Federal Election in February 2025. Once again, what happens to German budgets? Rule by decree? Germany represents 24 per cent of the European Union economy.

Both Germany and France need stable governance and the EU itself will be in great difficulty when two major players face such uncertainty.

On January 20th 2024, new challenges to the European Union economy could rise. Who will then be the negotiators. The Axe Berlin/Paris is in trouble.  

Michel Barnier on the way out? What next for France?

 

Michel Barnier was chosen as Prime Minister with a Parliament in which there is no Constitutional Majority to choose a Prime Minister.

Emannuel Macron appointed Michel Barnier as a pair of safe hands to guide France at a difficult time after Parliamentary Elections that generated more chaos than order.

Now, Michel Barnier could be outsted in a vote of confidence. After the Parliamentary Elections, the French government became hostage of adverse circumstances.

The next Presidential Election is due to take place in 2027 or wherever the French President resigns. If Emmanuel Macron were to resign, he could not stand again as Presidential Candidate. Such are the rules. Could the rules be broken to allow Emmanuel Macron to take part in yet another Presidential Election? While this is happening in France, in Germany Olaf Scholz faces a vote of confidence in January 2025 and possible Federal Elections in February 2025.

The two major players of the European Union are on the brink of a major upheaval in European politics and geopolitics.