FlyTheNest

Morning all.

I'm sure that doing a massive racism will turn around Labour's slump in the polls.

Ooh, could we be seeing the end of Streeting? Oh god I hope so.



The private healthcare companies that pumped all that money into him are NOT going to be happy - he was doing such a good job for them.

refitman wrote: Sat Nov 15, 2025 11:55 am Ooh, could we be seeing the end of Streeting? Oh god I hope so.

The private healthcare companies that pumped all that money into him are NOT going to be happy - he was doing such a good job for them.

Below 10° all next week with Northerly winds, Brrrrr ! , so enjoyed the warming glee at the Discomfiture of Wez

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Which takes me back to gilsey's Seth Freedman reference to Conquest's Third Law !

Even if Wez's intentions were honest, what should he have done instead ? Perhaps cutting out some of the middle-ranking pen-pushers is a good idea, but does local autonomy for him just mean freedom to privatise even more ? Many suspect it does.

Institutional inertia is so dreadfully hard to break, that a bit of careful privatisation might liven things up ?

A current example is the Ukrainian Army which STILL today has pockets of deep officer incompetence and corruption inherited literally from the Soviet Union, and way back before that too . Many of the most successful units have been formed completely outside the hierarchy . Some of the large numbers of 'deserters' were so disgusted with their officers that they left to somehow rejoin the alternative units . One I know of was imprisoned for desertion, and then volunteered from prison for the nicely-named (and élite) ALCATRAZ BATTALION . Perhaps not alone in that .

The Army , being so hidebound, forbids soldiers to ask for a transfer, which probably saved the life of the torture prison survivor and author Stanislav Aseyev . Twice hospitalised with wounds, he asked for a transfer to a better fighting unit, was refused so he exercised his right to resign as a Donetsk régime prisoner . Ouf. Now he spends his time on the lecture circuit, and some political commentary.


So to the Battle of Britain, when the Spitfire was developed by a private individual's initiative, and the Hurricane by the Hawker company tho the Air Ministry at the time was only interested in ... biplanes .

This looks GOOD, but off outside again for now, to get more firewood !



https://chrisdillow.substack.com/p/on-incompetence

Labour really killing it with their target demographic

It's really cool that Labour turned out to be the most fascist party in recent memory.

Winning over just all the worst people.

refitman wrote: Sun Nov 16, 2025 11:45 am Winning over just all the worst people.

I am, after all, getting old , so can't remember if was it Jenrick or Farage who first called for Mass Deportations ?
Whichever, the govt spoxx replied with something very like "It's not practical" .

One commenter pointed out that Biden set up the ICE detention centres, and (from memory) Obama deported a hell of a lot of people too.

Excellent and entertaining panel --

Good of them to just come straight out and say they're inspired by other fascists.