“The Financial Jigsaw” has been serialised here and now is replaced by this weekly “Letter from Great Britain.”
NOTE – If anyone would like an electronic copy of the complete book, I should be pleased to email a free PDF on request to: [email protected]. Also a hardcopy of the book, “The Financial Jigsaw” is available priced at £25 GBP plus P&P in A4, workbook format, bound with clear plastic covers, printed locally on demand.
Britain continues down the slippery path of a police state as witnessed by the next move of the government published last Sunday. With his massive majority in parliament, Boris has all the power to further corrupt our institutions to his and his mates’ advantage as the rest of the country burns and collapses. This is despicable behaviour and no good can come from it:
“The Department of Health and Social Care has agreed a memorandum of understanding with the National Police Chiefs’ Council to enable police forces to have access on a case-by-case basis to information that enables them to know if a specific individual has been notified to self-isolate.
A National Police Chiefs’ Council spokesperson said: “Policing continues to play its part in helping limit the spread of coronavirus. “We will continue to encourage voluntary compliance but will enforce regulations and issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices of £10,000] where appropriate and necessary. Where people fail to self-isolate and refuse to comply, officers can issue FPNs and direct people to return to self-isolation.”
This week sees the Battle of Manchester continuing as Boris threatens to invoke the law to force Manchester and Newcastle to lockdown under his new rules published last week. And our younger generations are experiencing the full force of these ridiculous lockdowns as their job prospects disappear down the black hole of this invisible, and likely, non-existent threat. This is an unfolding tragedy the like of which we have never experienced before. Our economy is in tatters and yet our unconnected elites see nothing wrong viewing the scene, as they do, from their ivory towers in Westminster. Read more:
“The new study, to be published on Monday, finds that [at] the end of furlough, the scarcity of new positions and the arrival of school and college leavers in the job market will present young people with bleak prospects unless more support is offered. It warns that the prime minister’s “opportunity guarantee” to young people of an apprenticeship or an in-work placement falls “significantly short of what is needed”.
On Sunday, the mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, who is resisting calls for his region to be placed in the new tier 3 restrictions, will call for parliament to intervene to break the deadlock with regions by creating a fair system of support for people whose employers have to close their businesses as a result of anti-infection measures.”
UPDATE: Looks like Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, has lost his fight with Boris. It is notable that the difference between the parties is a mere £5 million when they should be battling to avoid a lockdown altogether. Even the opposition has lost its way as it goes along with the general policy of the elites in their objective of destroying the UK economy and imposing destitution of our people. “Labour is stepping up the pressure to impose an England-wide “circuit-breaker”, claiming the economy will be billions of pounds worse off if the government fails to act.
Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, last week endorsed calls by the government’s scientific advisers for a two- to three-week shutdown. Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, has opposed the plan, calling it a “blunt instrument” and warning about the damaging economic impact of shuttering many sectors.” They have won in Wales as a full lockdown has been implemented here from today for (they say) 17 days – but who knows when this crazy diktat will last (see article below)
LATEST UPDATE: Friday saw the launch of yet another new government scheme to replace the recent one which was challenged by local authorities across the country. “Rishi Sunak has responded to growing pressure over the level of government support for parts of the country facing tough new coronavirus restrictions with a last-minute expansion of the new furlough scheme.” Here are the winners and losers:
We should all resist these evil rulers in every way we can; Manchester must hold the line: “After a chaotic day of negotiations, the 10-day standoff between Downing Street and Greater Manchester’s leaders came to an acrimonious end despite the two sides being just £5million apart, or the equivalent of £1.78 for each resident.
In a televised statement, Burnham warned that local people faced “a winter of real hardship”. He accused ministers of bullying the region into accepting less than their £65m final request for support for businesses and said that walking away from the talks amounted to a “deliberate act of levelling down”.
The prime minister confirmed that tier 3 measures would be imposed on 2.8 million people in the region from midnight on Thursday, closing pubs and a swathe of the hospitality sector. It means one in 10 people in England – nearly 6 million – will be under the strictest measures. These are the first curbs to be imposed unilaterally, however.”
“A record number of shops disappeared from high streets across the country in the first half of 2020 as the Covid-19 lockdowns hammered the retail sector. A total of 11,120 chain store outlets closed between January and June, while 5,119 opened. The 6,001 net store closures were a record high and compared with 3,509 in the first half of last year.
Analysts predict there will be many more closures to come as the data does not include outlets that were temporarily closed under lockdown rules when analysts visited and which might end up permanently shuttered. The figures, published by the Local Data Company and advisory firm PwC, show that on average more than 60 stores closed per day while 28 opened. The research covers high streets, shopping centres and retail parks in England, Scotland and Wales.”
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/oct/18/huge-rise-in-uk-shop-closures-with-worse-yet-to-come-covid-19 From a look at the graph in this article, there have been shops closing for many years as people shift their buying habits; the dreaded virus has merely accelerated this trend.
The pandemic has slashed up to 34% from private rents in London, while other cities led by Edinburgh have also reported a decline, as the move to home working prompts people to move out of cities into the suburbs, smaller towns and rural areas where they can have a bigger home for less money surrounded by more green space.
Official figures show one in three households have experienced income cuts, with young adults and BAME people worst hit. The Financial Conduct Authority said 12 million adults were struggling to pay their bills, up by two million since coronavirus struck in February. France has surpassed a million cases since the pandemic began while Germany has for the first time recorded 10,000 cases in a day.
AND – the unprecedented reaction to Covid-19 is killing retail business en masse as tenants fail to pay their rents on the September quarter day; Wolf Richter has the details:
“At the end of September, when rents for the final quarter of 2020 came due, retail tenants paid only 13% of rent due for the fourth quarter, worse than at the shortfall on rent-due date at the end of June, according to the UK’s National Law Review. This added £2 billion to the pile of unpaid rents.
Foot traffic remains down almost a third compared to a year ago, with large cities hit hardest. And it keeps on falling, as the government’s hospitality curfew, work-from-home policies and online shopping batter the high street. Many shops have already hit the wall. In the first nine months of this year, 13,900 high street stores were forced to shutter indefinitely, up one quarter from the same period in 2019, which itself was a record year, reports the Centre For Retail Research.”
Our ruler’s overreaction to the virus has struck again, this time in Wales, who have put in place a short, full lockdown as opposed to Tier 3; here are the details: “Tourism businesses in Wales are spending Monday cancelling customers’ holidays after the first minister Mark Drakeford announced a two-week national lockdown designed to be a “short, sharp shock to the virus to slow down its spread”. Under the new restrictions no one will be allowed to travel into [and out of] Wales and all hospitality businesses will have to close.
The measures come into effect on Friday 23 October and run until Monday 9 November, putting paid to thousands of half-term holiday plans and leaving many tourism businesses under severe financial strain. Those forced to close will receive up to £5,000 in compensation from the Welsh government, but tourism bosses say it is nowhere near enough to cover losses incurred during the pandemic.”
his report from a South African newspaper, known for its trustiness, highlights what a ‘New Normal’ might look like:
“Buckingham [a researcher] says leaders should not downplay the reality of challenges in the workplace and should instead be direct about the real-world changes that their workers will have to make in life.
“Show us in practice what our ‘new normal’ is and why, and then trust us to figure out how to live happily and healthily inside this new normal.” Looking forward, the survey found that the changes respondents predicted could become permanent features post-Covid-19 included:
- Wearing masks and gloves in the workplace
- Physical distancing measures
- Temperature readings
- Different work hours
- Remaining as a virtual employee
- Physical office spaces closed
- Limited business travel
- Mandatory quarantine periods after business or personal travel
- No shared desks
- Physical barriers between desks and cubicles
- Work shift arrangements
These changes highlight how different the “new normal” is likely to be than the old normal.
The more we understand what it might look like, and what workers will require — other than employment at the very least — the more likely the new normal will be an improvement on the past.” https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-10-06-south-africa-is-one-of-the-few-economies-where-workers-are-highly-resilient
Now that UK has left EUROPE I will comment on relevant EU – UK events as they arise:
Britain is always going to have a problem with security across the EU because the European Court of Justice is expected to rule in all cases of dispute with UK – Britain can’t and won’t accept this. Theresa May questioned Gove on this:
“Will [Gove] confirm that if the UK walks away with no deal then our police and law enforcement agencies will no longer have the necessary access to databases, such as PNR (passenger name records), in order to continue to identify and catch criminals and potential terrorists in order to keep us safe?”
Gove said “significant progress” has been made over security cooperation, but added that in the case of a second tool at the disposal of police – the Schengen Information System 2 (SIS2) – the EU was demanding a role for the European court of justice in the event of disputes, which the UK “cannot accept”.
The Brexiteer faithful claim a no-deal is best for the country, but that’s largely bravado. A deal is always a better option – but not at any cost. The rumours say there is still time for the last minute stroke-of-midnight agreement. A deal would be pragmatic – but no one can afford to look weak. Not Boris, not Macron and not the faceless nomenclature of Brussels. Someone is going to have to give ground if an agreement is to be achieved. We will have to wait a few more weeks for a resolution of this very important issue.
Boris has a new plan to tackle homeless if a No-deal Brexit occurs. Rough sleepers better pray for a deal or else. Foreign rough sleepers face being deported from Britain under an immigration crackdown when the Brexit transition period ends. Rough sleeping will become grounds for refusal of, or cancellation of, permission to be in the UK.
Charities described the move as a “huge step backwards” that would prevent vulnerable people from asking for help. The Home Office said the rule would be used sparingly, for example where rough sleepers declined offers of support – but clearing homeless people from the streets is said to be a priority of Boris Johnson and his ministers. The policy is expected to be highly divisive: in 2017 a Home Office policy to deport rough sleepers from countries in the European Economic Area was ruled unlawful by the high court.
To be continued next week.
Conservative is an oxymoron in the UK and most western countries. In the 60s and early 70s, these parties would be considered very left of centre. They are slow motion socialists.
This is so true Jack and I remember the true conservatives of yesteryear. The whole world has moved steadily left under neoliberalism. Perhaps the pendulum will return once again if only we can spike the guns of the WEF et al in their pursuit of a Great Reset. I stand ready with my pen.
“….. yet our unconnected elites see nothing wrong viewing the scene, ..”
The unconnected elites know exactly what they have done, and if anything, they would view the scene as progressing slower than ideal. The survey results further down the article would include the anticipation of vaccines, digital verification of them, and a need to go cashless.
These two links go along with what you’ve posted:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13006099/wales-lockdown-shops-covering-up-non-essential-items/?utm_medium=browser_notifications&utm_source=pushly
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <<——-====
"……from the depths of rural England where we are protected from the evils of technocracy by our very isolation and independence."
I sense it's more of a delay for the small rural community here, short lived at that. I found the information in this video fascinating. It comes from the same guy that precisely predicted the resignation of Benedict:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXNulnO11GM&feature=emb_logo
Excellent links ordo ab chao, and thank you very much for the video. Clearly the communists have taken over Wales for these scenes are extraordinary to say the least. I really can’t believe this is happening in good old Blighty. And yet there has been little push-back so far. Indeed we are living the very meaning of your moniker – order out of chaos – never let a good crisis go to waste.
The WEF et al are following their plan of many decades prior and, as you say, they know very well what they are doing. I only hope and pray that we can survive in our local community by opting out of the technocratic chaos we witness in Wales.
The interpretation of Revelations has fascinated me for many years and I am continuing my studies because my forecast in Chapter 13 of my book I hope will be consistent with the coming end times, however they may play out.
AP…
I have not read your contributions here but sporadically. In an attempt to read the chapter 13 you referenced, I found issue #’s instead, so I randomly clicked on issue #73;
“Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.” – Albert Einstein
After reading the column (and comments Bob the Retard..), it seems your assessment, at least this part of the chapter, reflects the thoughts behind another Einstein quote:
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
My dad was a hardware wholesale traveling salesman in rural oklahoma and kansas…..
“…….manual tools which our forefathers knew will become the norm.”
Thinking along the same lines, I managed to retain a couple crates of old saws/planers/drills..etc when my brother dumped the house and contents a few years back.
Which issues #’s cover chapter 13?
The entire Bible fascinates me, and my root reference is always the KJV for the beauty of the language. I spend many hours listening to biblical scholars, philologists and etymologists (what would Bob the Retard think about the time on my hands?).
Daniel’s interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream snagged me with:
“And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.” Dan. 2:43
WHO/WHAT is “they” ???? “mingle themselves with the seed of man”????
Enter the Nephilim….genetics, robotics, artificial intelligence, and nanotechnology..
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <<——-===
"I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty." Rev. 1:8
"I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last" Rev. 22:13
It might be worth emailing me, ordo ab chao, and you can easily find Chapter 13 in the PDF. ([email protected]) We seem to be on the same page as I too have studied the Bible for many years, and especially the prophecies, which I am continuing at present under the guidance of an elder in the Jehovah Witnesses organisation. I have no intention of joining as I believe it is a ‘cult’ – it passes all the tests as applied by M Scott Peck in his book, ‘Further Along the Road Less Travelled’ – a good read.
However, I do believe in intelligent design as the universe is too perfect for me to believe it all came about by chance. This book, by a mathematician, is very convincing in this regard:
However, adaptive evolution is certainly valid IMHO. The miracle of DNA is extraordinary with a 4 digit computer programme as opposed to our binary system. But like a our complex programmes, just one change can make a massive difference to the output; this is complexity theory, yet another subject I study because our global economy is just such a complex model. this book is excellent for an overview of complex economies:
However the JW, of all religious organisations, certainly know their Bible and have already pointed out that the name ‘Jehovah’ occurs over 7,000 time in the original text but has been removed from the KJV. Otherwise their Bible is mostly the same as KJV. Their website is remarkable and a great source for research. It will answer your question about Daniel’s dream and its interpretation. It is all to do with empires and their collapse.
I take a jaundiced view of the Bible prophecies because the book was compiled by wise bishops at the Council of Nicaea in 325AD. The meeting at Nicaea, in present-day Turkey, was where the council established the equality of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit in the Holy Trinity and asserted that only the Son became incarnate as Jesus Christ. The Arian leaders were subsequently banished from their churches for heresy. The trinity is rejected by JW because it goes against what is written in the Bible. For this they are persecuted by the established churches.
In his best-selling novel, “The Da Vinci Code,” Dan Brown wrote that the Bible was assembled during the famous Council of Nicea in 325 C.E., when Emperor Constantine and church authorities purportedly banned problematic books that didn’t conform to their secret agenda
JW claim that the Bible is the received word of God Jehovah but I contend that it was constructed by man as a selection from many old books and excluded the Gnostic gospels because they didn’t fit the pattern – much like a jigsaw. IMHO this doesn’t invalidate the other gospels which need to be acknowledged at the same time.
The Bible is much like a Jigsaw, same as the global financial system, which is where I got the title of my book. Further research indicates that Noah’s flood was not worldwide – far from it. There is no evidence whatsoever of a mass extinction event in 2370BC (the date in the Bible) and surely points to a local flood. It is reasonable to conclude that many local floods have taken place in early times, as now, but to those living then, who had no idea of the dimensions of the earth, the flood was a mass extinction event.
There are stacks more researches for me to follow using JW as a guide. BTW, homo sapiens was around long before 4004BC (the definitive Bible date for Adam & Eve); another reason to dispute JW’s claims. Nevertheless it doesn’t invalidate all their good work and interpretations so long as I remember that they are ‘interpretations’ and not gospel truth.
https://www.jw.org/en/
Now that UK has left EUROPE? Forgive me for being pedantic but UK has (allegedly) left EU, not Europe. There is a difference.
Thank you so much Michael D – there is indeed a difference. You are of course quite correct and the first to notice my faux pas. I have corrected it for so far as we have ‘sort of left the EU’ at present. I would not predict the outcome as we approach the deadline fraught as it is with impossible compromises.
AP- The usual suspects are in the process as I write to install the New Bretton Woods economic system moving into a new benchmark . We are seriously screwed and the public has lass than a clue. Waiting to see what effect this has on consumer credit contracts.
Do you have a crypto currency ready to roll out first quarter of 2021 there in the UK?
Yes BL we are indeed seriously screwed and the next year or so will see some dramatic action within the global banking system IMHO as they move towards a cashless, technocratic society as laid out openly in Davos by the WEF et al.
The BoE discussed a digital currency back in August and are working with the BIS, Fed and others as we all move into the sunny uplands of imaginary crypto prosperity for all:
It should all make for an interesting winter.
Interesting and cold Yahsure. The berries are out early this year and the horses have grown long winter coats, so the runes are clear – we are expecting a long cold one this time and Christmas will be a miserable affair amid all the lockdowns and unemployment. I expect the stoic Brits to take it in their inimitable stride.
AP- My charming Brit client once told me to, “keep your pecker up”. That word of encouragement means something quite different on this side of the great pond. 🙂
t’was I BL…
Oh lovely, Anon 🙂 I am always amazed at how often this sort of thing happens. I was confronted in Texas when I asked for a rubber which you call an eraser.
In Britain, ‘the pecker’ is generally thought of as the mouth, although the earliest known use of the word in this phrase clearly alludes to the nose. The imagery is of a bird that pecks for food. That citation is from The Times, September 1845:
“Mr. King… misstated the fact in saying that he had put a piece of lighted paper to the master’s nose while asleep in that house; it was his hot pipe that he applied to the sleeper’s nostrils, at the same time crying: Come, old chap, keep your pecker up.”
AP- Did you catch that it was I who posted?
That lady was lovely and I loved to hear her speak. I spend most of my TV time on BritBox.
No I missed that BL, always good to know you follow our TV though – they do have some good programming. I don’t have BritBox, we view BBC and ITV etc free on terrestrial TV here, although we don’t take too much notice of it because it’s all government propaganda. I check out Aljazeera and RT to get a more balanced view.
When I was in Texas in the 1990s people kept asking me to talk because they ‘loved my English accent’!
Lets hope Nigel Farage can expand his political activism to anti lockdown campaigning. If he can beat the elites to push forward Brexit surely he can help fight these scamdemic restrictions
A very good idea DA but he is in the shadows for now although he is active on Twitter. Here is a current news clip of Nigel threatening to come back and fight Boris in the unlikely event that Brexit fails altogether.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1351326/brexit-news-nigel-farage-brexit-party-trade-deal-eu-michel-barnier-fishing
However, you are right that he is about the only leader able and willing to take on the oligarchs but, as always, there has to be money in it. I suspect that he would alienate his funding sources being up against global corporates and banksters et al who are the ones managing these ridiculous lockdowns etc.
There definitely is a force behind these ridiculous measures that even eclipses the climate change agenda. You can be a climate change denier but no dissent or opposing viewpoints (or even common sense) on covid are allowed. I can remember in January/February I was taking the threat more seriously than western governments then overnight the mood switched and covid went from being a manageable health issue to the plague. Just like masks went from being pointless for those not symptomatic to law for all. Can even remember the anti mask government posters. I may have only lived 30 or so years but I have never seen an agenda pushed so hard upon the public
You are so right DA and you don’t have to be elderly to know that something is very wrong with this world. Europe is locking down now for no good reason. They keep on about ‘cases’ but this is totally wrongheaded. There will always be more cases when they do more testing and anyway the PCR test is fallible with over 90% false positives and most being asymptomatic anyway, especially the young.
This virus is airborne which I discerned when the first cruise ship got infected in the early stages of this ridiculous scamdemic. Pure logic dictated this conclusion – you don’t have to be an expert to apply common sense.
I can only assume that another agenda is in force – all the evidence points this way. Here is a chart showing that there are no excess deaths throughout Europe – 500 million people!
https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps
Thank you so much Stucky for your excellent advice but I am very careful about the JW indoctrination methods. I can see it in the way they delve deeply into their Bible and justify their teachings with ‘interpretations and opinions’ rather than facts. I feel very safe exploring their version of the ‘truth’ as an exercise in my search. I am focusing on the interpretation of the prophesies at present.
I challenge JW on all counts which merely reinforces my own skepticism. I chose JW because they seemed to have in depth information that others don’t. I have attended Alpha groups in the past but found them to be doctrinal and superficial – not providing the information I am seeking. I could never subscribe to the JW organisation if only because, as an accountant, I must have transparent financial reports to even consider them to be valid – JW provide no such financial reports, the organisation is shrouded in mystery.
I have always had a belief in a Maker ever since my father (a philosopher) suggested, at my tender age of 10, to look at all the wonders of nature during the day, and at night to examine the magnificence of the night sky and then to come and tell him whether I believed that I was the greatest thing in the universe. Of course, I said no, and then he said: “well, therefore there must be something greater than you, and that is what some people call god.
I have been seeking an understanding of my maker for all my life (an impossible task), and have examined many and various religions and philosophies over the years. I have come to no definitive conclusion but the journey has been worthwhile.