My husband tells a lovely story about his bleak nights clubbing in 1980s Peterborough. A group of lads in suits with a bottle of 20/20 in their top pocket would go out looking for a laugh, and women if they were lucky. They generally were not. My husband tells of a famous scene when one of their number saw a group of still unclaimed women in the corner. The club lights were coming on and everyone was forlornly trooping home. One optimistic mate locked eyes with one of the women, pushed his hands through his hair and made to stride across the dancefloor for a 2.30am attempt at seduction. He’d made no more than two steps when the woman swiftly raised her hand and shouted: “NO!” The optimist turned on his heel, rejoined his useless mates. The savage rejection scene became the stuff of lad legend.
I propose we adopt this wise woman’s approach to clearly unhinged public policy ideas. No consultations, no trials, no soft launches, no debates. When a drunk new policy makes a swaggering step onto the public stage we all just shout a loud and clear: “NO!”
No doubt you are as fed up as I am at the uselessly late newspaper columns suggesting the transing children / lockdown / furlough / extension of usual vicissitudes of life into mental health conditions / open borders / concrete tower blocks etc. may not have been such wise ideas after all. I’m thinking here of Matthew Syed (on the false compassion of an over-generous benefits system), Kirsty Allsop on trans, Rishi Sunak endlessly lying about trying to control immigration. It is all far too late. The damage has been done.
I have no doubt Matthew Syed, Kirsty Allsop and Rishi all knew instinctively and immediately that the various policies they helped to champion and tacitly supported by not speaking out against them were grade one stinking bullshit, but they were not brave enough to raise their hands and shout “NO!” until years after the event.
Imagine for a moment if that over-optimistic nightclub chancer was a public policy. The clear-sighted young woman would have been encouraged to override her instincts and listen to his sales pitch. Perhaps she would be encouraged to take him in for a ‘trial’ period. And if she didn’t like him, experts would have swung by to say, that actually, she needed to keep him because the evidence suggested he would eventually make an economic contribution to society. When it turned out he was indeed a desperate no-hoper, as the young woman had instinctively known, those advising her to take him on will first insult her, then disappear. Perhaps years later they might bravely emerge to suggest accepting a staggering drunk loser at 2.30am was not a good idea. They will write that lessons will be learned and leave her alone to pick up the pieces of her spoiled life.
As a society we all need to adopt the original and correct attitude of this astute young woman in the 1980s Peterborough nightclub. She could just see with one glance that the man in question was not to be entertained. We must follow her example and loudly shout “NO!” at whatever lunacy is next offered to us as an innovative public policy.
Think of these policies as a 1980s lad in a Peterborough nightclub, making an audacious stride across the dancefloor to some unsuspecting public. First taking to the dancefloor with a flick of the pink hair is: “Just stop oil.” No eminent meteorologists or examination of the charts of ice-core records are required for us to know immediately that just stopping oil is civilisational suicide. We raise our hands and shout all together: “NO!”
It’s an easy game to play, another public policy has a go. This time a gangly ugly fellow approaches the dance floor looking for pastures new. Onshore wind farms? They look horrible and don’t blow when it’s not windy: “NO!”
A cadaverous chap holding a sickle: euthanasia? “NO!”
A big fat sweaty bastard: even higher taxes for highest earners: “NO!”
Decriminalisation of abortion up to birth: “NO!”
Solar panels on farmland: “NO!”
Gender self ID: “NO!”
Lib Dem plan to make pensions ‘green’: “NO!”
Tony Blair’s return to Government under Starmer: “NO!”
Oh jeepers, he’s got across the dance floor…Tony Blair’s plans for Labour to forge closer ties with the EU: “NO!”
Penny Mordant as Tory leader: “NO!”
Legalisation of cannabis: “NO!”
Cloud seeding: “NO!”
Another Scottish referendum: “NO!”
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So Joel Smalley, one of my go-to most trusted people throughout the Scamdemic years, examines which is the biggest scam, ‘Covid’ or ‘climate crisis’. I’m glad he’s calling out people who still think there’s any sort of climate emergency for the abject muppets that they are. I’ve zero tolerance for deadheads that are taken in by any of these agendas nowadays. They just need to figure it out for themselves because I’m done with these infuriating soul-sappers;
”Scams can be simply defined as a means for a “grifter” (the beneficiary of the scam) to expropriate a benefit from the “victim”.
By now, and by this definition, the non-general population is aware that both COVID and climate pandemics are scams perpetrated by the globalists (the grifters) via their puppet national governments on the citizens (the victims).
In terms of just how dumb you have to be to continue believing a single word of the official narratives of the two scams, I think CLIMATE wins. The science of virology and immunology (and epidemiology etc…) is understandably beyond the comprehension of most and the propaganda was very strong for COVID.
However, anyone who breathes oxygen produced by plants in exchange for CO2 and only exists due to the warmth provided by the dirty great big ball of fire in the sky (aka the sun) and thinks that driving an EV is “saving the planet”, has lost all their rational capacity.”
https://metatron.substack.com/p/covid-scam-vs-climate-scam
Sadly I know plenty of people who believe and continue to accept both..
More defence cuts: ‘NO!’
More devolution: ‘NO!’
More politicians: ‘NO!’
More civil servants: ‘NO!’
More peers: ‘NO!’
More nut zero: ‘NO!’
Accept more rulings from the ECHR: ‘NO!’
Accept migrants back from the Irish Republic: ‘NO!’
I say a ‘yes’ to the ‘no’!
It would save so much time and trouble.
A kind, but firm No is good for relationships but too easy a get out for the modern world.
Far better, to waste their time with complaints that they have addressed you with the wrong gender and pronouns. That they have not provided any safe place for your particular needs etc.
It does require considerable acting skills and a straight face !
Here’s a very good example of a definite NO!
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/04/30/britain-must-spend-30bn-to-strip-co2-from-atmosphere-and-hit-net-zero-experts-warn/
What will be the excuse as plants start to wither and die for want of CO2? Obviously as we humans start to die the reason will be staring us in the face.
Long covid.
What a lucky chap is Ms Grays husband ! I have the same problem , my wife is always right !!
I consider it a luxury, as long as it’s done in an appropriate manner, which it is.
Happy wife, Happy life
I am happy to say “No” to all the points raised at the end of the article and indeed have done so here on DS numerous times but for many of the actions referred to there is F. all that just saying “No” will achieve:
Wind farms
Euthanasia
Higher taxes
Solar panels
Gender self ID
Lib Dim green pensions
The return of Satan Bliar
Penny Mordaunt as Tory leader
Legalisation of cannabis
Cloud seeding
Another Scottish referendum
“No” is not enough.
Many years ago, in my late teens, a mate and I were heading into Birmingham centre. Mark says to me “We need to be a bit more exciting, a different job sort of thing”. We agreed we’d be trainee Police. We duly got talking to two girls, one asks what we do and I said “We work together, we’re Police cadets”. The two girls then pulled out their warrant cards. They were, obviously, lesbians
It is happening now anyway. Two American states have banned chemtrails for example. Of course n England you are dealing with a much much more demoralised population but there is still fertile ground here. If you really want to understand trends then it is best to look at financial news. The FT would cease to exist if its predictions were entirely false for a long period. There is major disinvestment going on from the green agenda. This is the bottom line it cannot be argued with. There is no way for them to re-inflate this anti-human crap. They learned a sharp lesson – farmers are more important than they are. These corporate types are the lowest of the low.. The demolition of this anti-human agenda is the key to the demolition of all the others.
It has been said for centuries that the British people are far better than their rulers. At this point I think in the near future it will simple be impossible for a member of the erstwhile ruling class to have any authority. Even in our darkened time there is a sense of a new dawn in that if we manage to survive the future direction of the country will be dictated by a much more broadminded perspective.
This cartoon sums it up!
The problem with this approach is that the Eco-warriors did just this with their “Say No to Oil”. And look where we are now with that!
What is missing is Informed Discussion, and that follows on from Education, that is, Relevant Education.
The implementation of many of our questionable policies involve Engineering, Science, and Planning, well before any Economic or Cultural considerations are discussed.
How can you discuss those, when there’s no agreement on what is feasible, and at what cost?
I could add Mathematics to the list of useful subjects to know but, most of all, please just rid me of all those History & PPE graduates from the Department of Energy.
At least the current minister, (Maths & Philosophy) is making the right noises about the economic consequences of NET Zero policies.
MRNA Injections – no
Net Zero – no
Lockdowns – no
Lib/Lab.Con. – NOOOO
EU – no
NHS more money for no reform – no
My local club in the early 80s used to have a slow dance stage of the evening a little while before closure and it was know as the erection section! Plenty of no and yes type interactions. Happy days