A new feature for those like me who loathe life in the UK but are too old to do much about it... the Sunday Sermon!
Today I'd like to discuss challenges have faced two of our socialist-in-name-only governments of recent times, and how they intersect.
Friday I was wandering around Stubbylee Park in Bacup, the taste of my tea spoiled by learning how a pair of goths were stamped (mostly and actually) to death by our feral youth, one of whom released early for good behaviour: keep that in mind.
To combat such, privately-educated PM Tony Blair introduced ASBOs or anti-social behaviour orders... which rapidly became a badge of honour among youths, so as to encourage such behaviour further.
It's what happens with privately-educated politicians whose principal experience of the working class is being on the same side of the bench as the judge. Which is why their efforts to prevent 25,000 illegal immigrants from pitching up on these shores are viewed as larger laughable by their electorate.
Which brings us to ASDOS, or the preferred means of delivery used by narco-gangs wherein a larger vessel drops packages near the coast and a smaller carries it to the shore: At Sea Drop Offs. One of these was busted this week by a Border Force that boasts two dozen vessels to patrol the UK shoreline: as many as one per 800 miles using Ordnance Survey data.
There's more, for to avoid failure in last-mile deliveries, gangs are adopting drone technology in the form of narco-subs that are so successful as to be adopted by the US Marine Corps.
Because they don't risk human life, and are both cheap and low-observable. Sound familiar, like I might be developing something similar and wondering why I bother?
By way of peroration, let us consider one of the half-dozen men arrested this week following the aforesaid bust. Once a fisherman, he turned to smuggling when one UK government or another sold out the fishing industry along with all else.
Cornwall is the most-favoured stretch of coastline for smugglers, has been for ages past and thus hosts one of the few successful revivals that we can enjoy as a family. As per generations of smugglers, the guy was effectively supplying a consumer demand for anything that might make life marginally less miserable in the UK viz. drugs and alcohol.
For this he received twenty-four years porridge. Stamp on a teenage girl's head til she's dead, and expect altogether less.
Welcome to the UK!
In tonight's episode of Poldark 2.0, Ross and Demelza are arraigned before a court in Exeter for their rendezvous with a narco-sub on the beach at Nampara...
