Merry Christmas to you all. To almost everyone anyway. With 2025 on the way, Tamworth is going to see another political year kick off, a full year of control of the country under Labour, a full year of control of the council under Labour too. It’s not something to dwell on today of all days, but it will soon be thrust in your face. All we can hope this year is that people look deeper than the surface of election promises and realise that they’re designed to attract the votes of those special people that don’t know who they want to be in charge until they mark that X. Anyone with half a clue knows that the old adage bandied around at election times ”they’re all the bloody same, why should I bother” is not true, it’s just an excuse to avoid actually finding out the difference and to avoid taking adult responsibility for decisions. Leave it to a minority to vote, and things can go very wrong pretty quickly.
On the subject of minority, we seem to be becoming a country catering for the few not the many, lefties being offended on behalf of people who never asked for them to be. We are going down a dangerous path where people question whether they are racist for bringing up concerns about illegal immigrants to this country for example. People keeping their concerns to themselves for fear of being bullied by the left into thinking they are bad people who should care more. It’s hard to do when although you absolutely have empathy with the plight of those fleeing war, terror and persecution, you cannot reconcile that our resources, efforts and tax money are being spent on people who shouldn’t be here in the first place. Criminals got them here in search of a life they could have had in the vast wider world and the countries they passed through to get here. You aren’t wrong for wanting and hoping that our own poor, homeless and needy are dealt with first by the very system we pay into to help them.
This country and it’s people have always had a heart, we’ve always dug deep into our pockets to help those who need it, even abroad. People across this country have taken in those from the Ukraine who came here legally to shelter whilst their country burns. We don’t lack compassion, although slowly it is being eroded by people and government simply taking the piss. You aren’t wrong or a bad person to wonder why we don’t do more to help our own. You certainly aren’t the kind of person who agrees with or would participate in the riots that occurred with earlier this year, that were purely driven by racism but, and this is important, born of an underlying sentiment that things aren’t as they should be and that enough isn’t being done to help this country first and foremost. The Conservatives are too afraid to say anything like this, because those down in the London bubble forget what their voters want from the party, which is why Reform are probably going to become the second largest party in the country when Elon Musk has bought and paid for them to be the ultra conservative republican style party everyone hates in America, led by a man who should be in jail.
When people don’t feel their voices are being heard, they choose something different, a party or a leader who is not scared to stand up and not keep this views to themselves for fear of offending a handful of people who aren’t even affected. These people ignore the uncomfortable side of parties like reform who quickly become packed with those who have extreme views, or a leader like Nigel Farage, the acceptable face of those who swing a bit further right, who would quickly turn our society on it’s head by tolerating more extreme views more than he’d care to admit. Unfortunately with the Tories stuck in the middle, not having the bollocks to stand up and shout the concerns of people who have to live with them, they’ve become irrelevant as a national party. People are going to polarise one way or another and as we are seeing in Europe, the parties previously on the edges are seeing success. The problem is, between those that can’t be bothered to vote and those who won’t vote because they’re fed up, they create the dangerous conditions that led us to world war two. You may laugh and believe we could never be there again. Oh how foolish a thought.
We need a balanced middle ground that isn’t afraid of taking the bits of socialism that work, such as the NHS for the common good, but isn’t afraid of sticking up for those who wonder why we let ourselves be bullied into being made to feel bad for having legitimate concerns. The NHS is a perfect example of a socialist idea that people are too scared to criticise because of the esteem in which it is held. Those with more sense on the Conservative side of things see opportunities to make things better and more efficient within that organisation rather than just throw more money at it. Everyone it seems is too afraid to speak up and say what a majority of people think, even at the heart of our establishment. That can’t end well and neither can the wider implications of that where everyone shuts up and pretends it’s all going to be fine. It hasn’t taken long in this age of social media to out Labour for what they are, which is a bit late now they’ve got five years to do as they please and railroad everything they need to do to put our society back in its box. They’re actively working on that second term and longer by letting the country be flooded with people who should not be here, do not need to be here, who will vote for them as a thank you in perpetuity. They intend to let 16 year olds who are actively brainwashed into socialist thinking before they gain any real world experience whatsoever into voting, they intend to scrap our local decision making by getting rid of Tamworth Borough Council. This is all going to play out in the next few years. We will probably never be the same as a country again, as happened in 1997 onwards. All because as a country we collectively say “ah go on then we’re sick of this lot, it’s your turn now” without ever connecting the dots of the past or considering the implications. We need to choose carefully in 2025, as voters we need to use our vote wisely and realise what can happen if we don’t.
Thank you to everyone who has visited the site (we humble brag that we broke the 10k unique visitors monthly mark a few months ago) and contributed to it over this year via the Mailbag, and especially to Will-Iam Not Wordsworth who appeared out of nowhere to take those rioters to task. We understand that the police were helped greatly with public participation in getting those people locked up. We hope to continue doing our little bit for the next year in helping you out dear reader, to have an alternative view and be able to make your own mind up against the background of bullshit and misinformation people once thought they could get away with. For now, have a great Christmas day and we’ll be back in the New Year.
