Joining the Dots

[NorthernRaider]

Joining the Dots
NR


I have been contemplating various trends and events that are so prominent in much of the media lately, and I am looking at the OVERALL information it provides.

Issues such as White Flight phenomena has almost become a white exodus in some parts (It would be more aptly named Middle Class Flight), The increased building of gated residential communities continues unabated for the rich and powerful, The huge amount of subterranean building going on with the “Tip of the Iceberg” housing phenomena is so big now the authorise are expressing concern. The huge sudden growth in the professional classes no longer putting Chelsea post codes as the most important criteria in their lifestyle choice now being replaced with having self-sufficient smallholdings with them “Embracing” renewable energy and self-sufficiency as far away from the conurbations as possible.

I note in the glossy Sunday supplement magazines there is huge interest in building SECURE, Self Sufficient, Self-Sustaining ECO homes. Today a wind turbine and a deep well has credibility than a BMW badge on your car.

I see designer homes incorporating both 240vc AC and 12 v DC power systems in their plans. I notice a huge increase in demand for 12 volt electrical appliances, far more than is needed just to satisfy the caravan market.

I’m aware that sales of wood, coal and multi fuel stoves in the UK have more than doubled in three years and in some areas there is up to a 6 week wait for installation of stoves. In other regions demand for firewood is outstripping supply.

I note that whilst the odious semiretired middle classes and professionals complain bitterly about the building of wind farms in their neighbourhoods that it is that very same section of society that is investing in both wind / solar and other renewables for themselves.

I see that sales of 4x4 vehicles has moved away from the Chelsea tractor pseudo off roaders and is now focusing more on 4x4s than can function well off road, I also note a huge massive exponential increase in the numbers of people investing, buying or building their own expedition camper vehicles.

I found out only this morning that people keeping Chickens, Rabbits, Goats and miniature pigs are growing hugely in numbers in the UK. Indeed many new magazine titles are appearing in shops almost daily such as Practical Pig and Chicken Keeping.

I read that more families are making sacrifices to fund sending their children away to summer school holiday camps to avoid them ending up as victims of urban gangs in our cities. These same youngsters are being encouraged to attend camps that specialise in wilderness survival skills, animal husbandry skills, Horse riding skills, camping skills, shooting, fishery and archery skills. (Yup I’m one of those parents myself)

I notice friends living in rural areas similar to myself especially in Wales and the South West report that the surge in people buying holiday cottages they once only used in the school holidays are now finding that many families are now moving in permanently.

Reasons people commonly give in public such as downsizing and better environment for the children usually become more frank in PRIVATE. “Getting away from crime ridden cities, no faith in the quality of supermarket foods, loss of community identity in cities, fear of terrorism, concerns about ever more extremist government and more aggressive policing, feeling isolated and vulnerable in city areas they once felt at home in”. Then of course the main one that has come to dominate many forums in recent years the negative aspects of mass immigration to the UK that has divided many communities!

I also see a huge increase in the number of vocational and leisure courses for people interested in growing their own food, making charcoal, animal husbandry, making bio diesel, building your own eco home etcetera.

After digesting that lot I looked at other influences such as the appalling state of the economy, the huge tax burden the ever declining numbers of tax payer’s face. The huge tax bill legacy the last Labour government has left for our children is a good example. The dreadful effect of the recent immigration wave has had on the integrity of the British national psyche. The present government’s obsession with giving away billions in Aid money and EU membership money we don’t have (£24 billion a year). The waves of gang violence and ethnic unrest in many UK cities and the almost certain collapse of the welfare state and the civil unrest that will surely follow. The spectacular collapse of the Euro and the divisions in the EU are also of great note.


Lots and lots on individual issues that when looked at together make me think that
(A)The rich and influential can see what coming and are taking steps to mitigate the effects on themselves.
(B)The educated and enlighten are losing faith in both the food supply chain and the utility supply system
©The professional classes are turning the back in the city centres and fleeing to the suburbs or the countryside
(D)The ruling classes have lost control over how we control and manage our own nation
(E)The next generation are realising that the traditional skills and professions such as ship building, coal mining, car building and electronics are gone from these shores for at least the next 50 years and the skills involved in self -sufficiency are the way ahead.

Big society is dying, small traditional rural communities are flourishing, and those big, rich, powerful, well informed and influential people can read the writing on the wall. THEY those who actually created most of our nation’s problems are moving to or building themselves redoubts and pulling to the drawbridges part way at least.

So Ladies and Gentleman if you agree even in part with my appraisal which side of the drawbridge are you going to be standing on if the whole lot falls apart ?