It was announced on Thursday that the U.K. entered recession during the latter half of 2023, using the definition of two consecutive quarters of negative growth. According to the ONS, GDP fell 0.1% from July to September and then fell another 0.3% from October to December. Labour has predictably dubbed this “Rishi’s recession”.
More concerning than the headline GDP figures, though, are the data on real GDP per capita – which is after all what we care about. They show that British living standards, adjusted for inflation, have fallen for five out of the last six quarters. In other words, they haven’t grown since the first quarter of 2022. There hasn’t been a run of negative growth this bad since the Great Recession of 2008.
What’s more, the level of GDP per capita was higher in the fourth quarter of 2017. Which means that Britons are worse off than they were six years ago. I don’t need to remind you that the ‘Conservative’ Party has been in power throughout this period.
Back in October of 2022, I wrote a piece for the Daily Sceptic titled ‘The Tories Should Call a General Election’. My argument was simple: things are going to get worse before they get better, so the Tories ought to cut their losses. Quoting myself:
The best strategy for the Tories is to call a General Election, pass the baton to Labour, and then blame the country’s economic problems on them. Lose the battle to win the war, so to speak… An election now would be a bloodbath, but if the Tories hold off another two years they could be out of power for a generation.
It looks like I was right. The Tories are no better off in the polls than when I wrote that piece but the economy has deteriorated further. What’s more, the Reform Party is now nipping at their heels, with a solid 10% in the polls. So rather than just a terrible result in the next General Election, the Tories may be facing their worst result in history!
A seat projection published on February 14th predicts that they’ll be left with just 80 seats in the House of Commons – substantially fewer than the 156 they won in their disastrous 1906 defeat. Meanwhile, Labour will enjoy a massive majority of 256 – larger than the one Tony Blair received at the historic 1997 election.
In another piece for the Daily Sceptic, this one written in November of 2022, I identified three causes of the then-imminent recession, which I dubbed Britain’s “liberal technocratic recession”. The first was lockdown, during which supply chains broke down and the Government paid people not to work. The second was the Europe-wide decision to let oil refineries shut down without building any new ones. The third was the self-harming sanctions against Russia, which led to Europe splurging €1 trillion on gas.
When it comes to the decline in living standards, a fourth cause may be added: mass immigration. Since the middle of 2021, Britain has seen the highest levels of immigration in its history, with the net figure running at 745,000 in the year ending December 2022. This means the total population is now larger and average living standards correspondingly lower.
Lockdown, the energy crisis, mass immigration – these were all policy choices by the party in power. So it’s hardly surprising the public want a change (not that Labour will be any better). The writing was on the wall by October of 2022 and the Tories should have read it.
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And you thought DARPA and the WEF were bad. This document from the UK Ministry of Defense reads like nutjob fantasist Harari authored it. After a thorough skim through the 110 pages I think it sounds like a sales brochure for transhumanism. There really is no area of your life that being augmented cannot improve!
“We cannot wait for the ethics of human augmentation to be decided for us, we must be part of the conversation now. There may be a moral obligation to augment people, particularly in cases where it promotes well-being or protects us from novel threats. It could be argued that treatments involving novel vaccination processes and gene cell therapies are examples of human augmentation already in the pipeline.” Mmm, what can they be referring to here…?
“Happiness, well-being and longevity are moving up the human agenda. There is also a growing realisation that wealth and productivity do not necessarily equate to happiness and fulfillment. While most people still want to be wealthy and have good jobs, they also want to be fitter, healthier and more attractive. Human augmentation will be seen as a means of fulfilling these desires.” It goes on and on like a prolonged advertisement, selling the fact that becoming augmented is the best thing since sliced bread for everyone, not just for the military.
“Human augmentation may be resisted by elements of society that do not trust the effectiveness and motive of the augmentation. This will increase the need for dialogue between society, industry and the state.” So that’ll be the coercion tactics coming in for the likes of us, the sceptics, in the future then. They do talk about those who don’t wish to take vaccines at this point.
But all the familiar terms are in here; under-skin surveillance systems, brain interfaces, gene-editing etc. All the crap we’re used to hearing from Harari and his transhumanist gang. The level of enthusiasm and even desperation is also quite striking as you read this. It’s like they’re wetting themselves with excitement and want us to all be just as enthused by their vision! Anyway, a bit of bizarre bedtime reading for you, courtesy of your very own MoD. Yikes!
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/986301/Human_Augmentation_SIP_access2.pdf
Mmmm, why is my second post “Awaiting for approval” but the above one got posted instantly? In fact, why do any posts require approval? It’s not exactly dodgy material. Another glitch in the DS matrix??
I think the main or only trigger for “waiting approval” is the number of links – maybe anything over 3. Probably an anti-spam feature built into WordPress which is what I think they use (an off the shelf website/forum thing, IIRC). No idea if it can be switched off, might not even be desirable to switch it off. Ideally maybe switch it off for users of long standing.
Well researched , it’s amazing how this secret MOD bollocks is now going mainstream , as an example would this mean the end of drug testing in sport or the actual end of sport once we have all been
augmentaly lobotomised !!!….
I have the ideal augmentation for the psychopathic sickos suggesting this, it involves surgical removal of the entire brain from the skull and re-insertion into the renal cavity allowing for a brain interface that makes sense. I think it would be an enormous improvement and no, they don’t need to thank me, it’s the least I can do for them.
A most excellent ( and very long ) essay by Dr Blaylock, retired neurosurgeon. It’s been doing the rounds for several months but I only just got round to reading it.
“We are all living through one of the most drastic changes in our culture, economic system, as well as political system in our nation’s history as well as the rest of the world. We have been told that we will never return to “normal” and that a great reset has been designed to create a “new world order”. This has all been outlined by Klaus Schwab, head of the World Economic Forum, in his book on the “Great Reset”.[66] This book gives a great deal of insight as to the thinking of the utopians who are proud to claim this pandemic “crisis” as their way to usher in a new world. This new world order has been on the drawing boards of the elite manipulators for over a century.[73,74] In this paper I have concentrated on the devastating effects this has had on the medical care system in the United States, but also includes much of the Western world. In past papers I have discussed the slow erosion of traditional medical care in the United States and how this system has become increasingly bureaucratized and regimented.[7,8] This process was rapidly accelerating, but the appearance of this, in my opinion, manufactured “pandemic” has transformed our health care system over night.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9062939/
From the above article:
“One must also keep in mind that this event never satisfied the criteria for a pandemic. The World Health Organization changed the criteria to make this a pandemic. To qualify for a pandemic status the virus must have a high mortality rate for the vast majority of people, which it didn’t (with a 99.98% survival rate), and it must have no known existing treatments—which this virus had—in fact, a growing number of very successful treatments.”
Avery long but excellent and highly informative read. And we are expected to believe this is a genuine illness, a true “pandemic.” A bloody insult to any intelligence.
And also from the above article by Russell Blaylock:
“Millions have been deliberately killed and crippled, not only by this engineered virus, but by the vaccine itself and by the draconian measures used by these governments to “control the pandemic spread”.
Elsewhere he states that those pushing this Scamdemic are clearly guilty of “mass murder.” It is a charge I have made previously on DS referencing one of our lead politicians and for which I received a telling off. It would appear greater authorities than me share the same opinion.
The mass murder accusation is irrefutable fact now. It’s all out there and not up for debate as far as I’m concerned. Many experts are saying so and sounding the alarm so it’s not like we’ve no evidence to back up our assertions. These excess deaths that aren’t due to Covid are never going to go away OR get a proper investigation are they?
“Cause unknown”??? Who the chuff is going to be satisfied with that on a loved one’s death cert?
Thanks Mogs and wholly agree.
It’s Blatant in full view & still it rolls on !!
I read somewhere that the excess deaths in the UK are the equivalent of a jumbo jet crashing every day. I’m pretty sure the MSM would be all over something that dramatic and deadly, but this…?
This is becoming too ordinary and we’re all expected to become desensitised to the ever-growing stats and accept it as the New Normal, no questions asked. They honestly expect us to take more notice of Ukraine or tit heads gluing themselves to walls rather than what’s happening right under our noses.
I’ve got another funeral to attend next week.
Yes I’m with you , Mike Yeadon & Vernon Coleman had it pegged from the off , Ryan Cole soon followed !
Bang on.
Dr Vernon Coleman had this from the off. Dr Mike Yeadon wasn’t far behind but I think he was astounded by what he saw unravelling and was struggling to believe it. Once he got his head round the evil he was our saint.
“The Mail reports that Moderna and Pfizer will investigate whether their shots cause long term issues as the first trials to determine long term impacts of the vaccine on the population are announced.”
No mention of a control group. The Mail take the chance to mention the “vaccines” are safe and effective, that side effects are rare, that the study used by the Florida surgeon general to recommend against the vaxx for young men had been criticised as flawed. NOT worth reading in full.
Didn’t think to do it before foisting it on 70% of the world’s population, eh? But the real issue is whether this means that, in the face of mounting and overwhelming evidence, they are going to start pulling back on the blanket censorship of jab death and damage victims – but not before its all been ‘normalised’, of course. Amnesty, anyone?
It will be a whitewash. Bit like changing criminal trail process to simply allowing the accused that they are not guilty and allowing them to go on their way unhindered.
There are no control groups because they were injected at something like the three month stage. We can therefore state with absolute confidence that the story that Pfisser and Murderna put out about how amazingly effective their gene editing injections are will be nothing but LIES.
Pandemic logic (USA)
People should be wearing KN95 or better masks because the surgical masks only work in classrooms.
I’m going to try again to post this. Fingers crossed! lol Here is an excellent essay by a retired neurosurgeon.
“For the first time in American history a president, governors, mayors, hospital administrators and federal bureaucrats are determining medical treatments based not on accurate scientifically based or even experience based information, but rather to force the acceptance of special forms of care and “prevention”—including remdesivir, use of respirators and ultimately a series of essentially untested messenger RNA vaccines. For the first time in history medical treatment, protocols are not being formulated based on the experience of the physicians treating the largest number of patients successfully, but rather individuals and bureaucracies that have never treated a single patient—including Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates, EcoHealth Alliance, the CDC, WHO, state public health officers and hospital administrators.[23,38]”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9062939/
I doubt that it’s the “first time in history”. I can think of three other instances immediately; most vaccination campaigns, ( particularly that for polio, a neurological disease probably caused by pesticides ), the fluoridation of water, ( a waste product of the chemical industry, “how can we make some money with this?”, very bad for developing brains/children ), and hospitals making women give birth lying down ( for decades, against all physiological sense, because made the doctor seem the active/dominant factor in what may be/often is women’s most powerful act ). I think that medical practices and policies have been tied up with politics and control of people for a long time, since women herbalists were burned because a threat/obstacle to the burgeoning new “medical profession”.
The YT compilation of all the talking tripe idiots was a useful record. As thet were all so keen to follow the CCP lead perhaps we can get them to offer themselves up to a firing squad; having of course firstly paid for the bullets?
Thick as pig shit (other faeces are available) bar stewards the lot of them
I posted a link to that YouTube video a few days ago. I suppose I should be pleased that finally DS picked it up.
An interesting podcast about 5G & the effect it has on the human body in relation to the recent few years & what is planned from a former industry insider.
https://rumble.com/v1k3953-former-vodafone-boss-blows-the-whistle-on-5g.html
Just listened to this BB. Interesting indeed particularly the 5G element which makes a lot of sense.
Monkeyboy’s musical interpretation of ‘A good death’.
Very poignant.
Monkeyboy is the sidekick to DrDrMcHonkHonk
https://youtu.be/QJms7djqxwU
I’m a fan…’matty is a psycho’ most definitely…..I don’t think the vast majority even know what’s been done…I’m just as angry as monkey-boy!….
If you’re on Telegram this is his channel.
He’s a working medic in the UK who has used his satirical skills to help himself & to spread the truth with a smile
https://t.me/DrDrMcHonkHonk
Oh look:
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-11-14-illegal-aliens-climate-migrants-globalism-population-replacement.html
Climate migrants eh? How innovative.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-11-14-un-outlaw-fossil-fuels-starvation-genocide.html
Tomorrow’s budget announcements in the UK will be interesting. I am expecting swingeing tax hikes on diesel fuel as an hors d’ouevre before going for petrol next year.
Oh bloody hell! What are NATO going to do now I wonder? Answers on a postcard…