To be woke is to see how illicit financial flows deprive countries of revenue,
Apparently to be woke is to miss that the government of a country and a country are not the same thing.
To be woke is to see how illicit financial flows deprive countries of revenue,
Apparently to be woke is to miss that the government of a country and a country are not the same thing.
Is he talking about remittances sent home to third world villages by illegals milking the benefits system over here for all it’s worth?
Of course he is.I thought he argued that taxes don’t fund spending. On some days at least.
This is an interesting paragraph directly following on from this.
Second, the attack on “woke” is political.
Because of course the woke agenda itself is entirely outside politics? This is little more than a platitude
When those who challenge injustice are ridiculed, an attempt is being made to silence debate.
Which of course the person who has blocked 25,000 on X and who calls all his opponents ‘fascists’ would never do.
Calling concern for social security, climate policy, fair taxation, social justice, gender equality or anti-racism “woke nonsense” is a way of avoiding responsibility. It is rhetoric designed to defend privilege.
Let’s unpackage that
‘Concern for social security’ – is that as in the DSS or more broadly? How ‘secure’ is a country where thousands of men who arrive from countries where there is very little ‘social
Security’ arrive unvetted every month?
‘Climate policy’ – almost every country barring the UK is rowing back on this because they see the impoverishment of their peoples as less than a good idea for their own survival. One can only marvel at this regime, the worst in global history and its apparent desire to self- immolate.
‘Fair taxation’ – who determines fair? You? A What about the pensions apartheid for the public sector? Any comment?
‘Gender equality’ – I’d love gender equality in the family courts for example or that a masculinity viewpoint was heard at all I. The prevailing zeitgeist – sadly unless it’s Islamic that seems a forlorn hope.
‘Anti- racism’ – so the prioritisation of all races except Whites, not practised really anywhere outside the Anglo sphere is unchallengeable? To say you are deeply ignorant would be an understatement. Arguably the majority of racism in the UK is practised by non- whites. If you can’t acknowledge that you’re too far removed from the real world to have an opinion.
The whole thing is just nonsense- the wittering of a man whose financial position is highly vulnerable.
its apparent desire to self- immolate
and the rest of the country’s citizens (pendantically, though, we are not citizens but subjects of HMC3)
We may indeed be, or at least some of us are, subjects of HMK. A portion of those will also be British citizens (and some more Australian and we may have some Canadians and Kiwis hanging around. As well as some of the other 11 countries and 14 territories.) Your point used to be pendantically correct but the British Nationality Act 1981 brought us in to compliance with the wider terminological norm.
I thought we already knew that being “woke” involved suspending one’s belief in reality
In some ways his devotion to the cause of evil is remarkable. He never stops trying to pursue power over people. Just bereft of any redeeming features. As Steve said on the Epstein thread. Why are we focusing on someone who is long dead when we have someone whose evil exudes from every blog entry?
You keep banging on about him being “evil,”, V_P. I think he’s not so much evil as simply deluded, bitter and twisted. A pathetic character worthy of pity were he not also just a teensy bit pernicious. Only a teensy bit, mind, because a major source of his bitterness is evidently the fact that everyone who is anyone ignores him.
Precisely, Norman.
I’ve said before. I suspect he’s a gig. He’s found a market for his product & supplies it. It’s not much of a market & not particularly remunerative. But it’s the only thing he’s got to offer.
I can’t help but wonder if the seeds were sown back in the days when he was trying to flog his “tax planning” advice. It was in the Graun, wasn’t it? I can’t help wondering what feedback he got from the readers? Graun readers equate “tax planning” with the rich avoiding paying it. “In the Guardian of all places!” So maybe he got a lot of hostility rather than thanks..
Norman – I wouldn’t demur from your characterization of him as deluded, bitter and twisted but that’s been the cue (any of those emotional states) for people to embrace all manner of horrors. For me DEI, Net Zero and Big Trans can’t be characterized as anything other than evil. I’d agree he’s personally unlikely to be embraced (I think even Polanski has had misgivings) but nevertheless his ideology of total untrammeled state power and complete confiscation of all private assets is to me the very definition of evil.
What is illicit in sending money home? (Unless it’s money earned in the cash sector, but how would Spud know?)
This bitter and moronic fool-with-a-keyboard has very little advice to offer his regretfully many easily-led followers that he will help them avoid stupid decisions. Yet there are too many who are tricked into believing Spud is a financial expert, rather than a conman.
A person’s value is solely in the amount of tax they pay while simultaneously government’s don’t need tax to fund services while simultaneously money not taxed is robbing the government.