Blackrock is waiting to pick up the housing stock at cents on the dollar whether that price crash comes from Red Andy, war with Russia or re-migration. The beauty of the hegelian dialectic is you always know the end result.
We need a land value tax to cause a massive housing crash, push homeowners into negative equity, create a sharp rise in mortgage defaults, destroy the value of the banking sector’s mortgage portfolios, threaten the solvency of banks, raise interest rates, freeze first time buyers out of the market, collapse the construction industry, and cause a massive recession by making everyone poorer and killing any discretionary spending. And we need it now.
We need a land value tax to cause a massive housing crash, push homeowners into negative equity, create a sharp rise in mortgage defaults, destroy the value of the banking sector’s mortgage portfolios, threaten the solvency of banks, raise interest rates, freeze first time buyers out of the market, collapse the construction industry, and cause a massive recession by making everyone poorer and killing any discretionary spending. And we need it now.
In my latest @Spectator column, I ridicule the Government's Media Green Paper and its proposal that social media platforms should be forced to boost 'trusted' media sources, like the BBC.
"Isn't it a bit of a misnomer to describe the media content the government wants people to consume as ‘trustworthy’? After all, if people trusted it, they wouldn’t have to be made to watch it. The reason the BBC now attracts fewer viewers than YouTube is precisely because people don’t trust it – and with good reason, given the misinformation it pumps out about the Israel-Gaza conflict, its fake-news Panorama documentary about Trump and its one-sided coverage of the ‘climate crisis’. Forcing social media platforms to label it ‘trustworthy’ is unlikely to restore its authority. More like the final nail." https://t.co/23UtuuhL33
WE STAND AT THE GATES OF HELL BELIEVING IT IS PARADISE: THE COUP THE MASSES REFUSE TO STOP
German philosopher Hans-Eckardt Wenzel, who lived half his life in the GDR and half in unified Germany, delivers a devastating diagnosis that leaves no room for comfort. We are already deep inside a sophisticated coup that dismantles rights and silences opposition without a single pistol being drawn. The same public that once questioned power now accepts division, fear, and speech bans as normal background noise while the West’s long dominance collapses under its own arrogance. Why does no one fight back?
THE COUP D'ÉTAT 2.0 IN ACTION
➡️ Wenzel describes a coup d`etat with charming modern features: no tanks in the streets, no violent takeover, just clever blocking of opposition recounts and special decrees that sideline dissent.
➡️ On the EU level, sanctions are weaponized against anyone holding a different opinion, effectively suspending the Grundgesetz for those who refuse to fall in line.
➡️ These are updated versions of 1930s special provisions, executed more skillfully so they look almost legal while stripping away constitutional protections.
➡️ The playbook was rehearsed during Corona politics and then escalated with the Ukraine war, where Germany and the EU have launched zero serious initiatives for peace.
➡️ The result is a permanent coup that operates in plain sight yet remains invisible to a population trained not to see it.
THE MYSTERY OF MASS PASSIVITY: WHY THE PEOPLE DO NOT RESIST
➡️ Protest has been systematically discredited and fragmented through divide-and-rule tactics that were perfected during the pandemic.
➡️ Society was split between the compliant and the non-compliant, breaking families, trust, and the very possibility of unified resistance.
➡️ Fear is mobilized by reviving the ghosts of the past, while new thought bans label any critical question about the war as sympathy for the enemy.
➡️ Even those who knew the conflict could have been prevented early on remain silent, because speaking out now feels dangerous or taboo.
➡️ People have been trained to see resistance itself as the greater threat, leaving the coup unchallenged and the public strangely calm.
THE DECLINE OF THE WEST: HYBRIS AT THE CULTURAL ENDPOINT
➡️ Western civilization has reached its cultural endpoint, born in the Renaissance from the arrogant belief that it was superior to every other culture and entitled to dominate them.
➡️ This hybris has blinded the West to its own decay, while real momentum and possible solutions now shift toward BRICS nations, Africa, India, and China.
➡️ Wenzel, who experienced the end of the GDR, recognizes the same erosion of serious dialogue and reality here, but with one crucial difference: this time there will be no soft landing.
➡️ The true catastrophe, as Walter Benjamin observed, is not that disaster suddenly arrives but that everything continues as before while the slaughter goes unnoticed.
THE BOTTOM LINE
Wenzel shows a society that stands at the gates of hell yet still tells itself it is paradise, divided by design, stripped of language, and convinced that nothing can be done.
This is how civilizations end: not with a bang, but with the quiet surrender of those who were taught to mistake their own silence for peace.
HT: YouTube Patrik Baab
I want to place on record a huge thanks to Owen Jones for a fantastic puff piece - I couldn't have penned it better myself.
Here's how he describes Restore Britain...
We 'openly demand the mass deporting of “millions and millions”. They even demand the imprisonment of officials and politicians “who knowingly placed dangerous third-world savages in our communities”, as they put it.'
Yes.
Too right, Owen.
🇬🇧 UK Government to legally take over the YouTube algorithm.
They will force the platform to promote “approved” content and hide critics of the regime.
Pure dictatorship in disguise.
This is an attack on free speech.
Stop it before it’s too late.
Source: @BasilTheGreat / Writer: Samuel
🚨NEW: KC Anu Mohindru has been allowed to continue being a barrister despite falsely claiming that he studied medicine at Oxford University and for claiming that he was a qualified doctor.
He also claimed that he had played cricket for the Bar, for Lashings Cricket Club and for MCC, and that he was a cricketing blue having represented Oxford in a varsity match against Cambridge.
A tribunal disbarred him for telling his 23 Essex Street interviewers a “reckless, foolish and completely unnecessary lie” about studying at Oxford, and because he “doubled down" on his CV.
On appeal at the High Court, Mr Justice Johnson overturned Mohindru's expulsion, stating that it "would be wrong to impose the ultimate sanction merely because dishonesty is present".
You don't get to become the Prime Minister, without a general election, and then make the most significant change to the electoral system in centuries.
Completely illegitimate and a sign of complete turmoil in the British political system.
No mandate whatsoever.
This mess of a police thug needs to detransition and go back to being that annoying girl you dump after two weeks because her favourite subject is the patriarchy.
🚨 If you are a white person in Britain and you get assaulted by ethnic minority men:
The police watch on and wait until you are on the floor before moving in to arrest YOU.
The police make no attempt to arrest your assailants, letting them run off without consequence.
The police call you a “dick”.
The police hit your head against the police car.
The police then put a statement out claiming they are satisfied with the conduct of the officers.
The police demand the footage proving their statement to be false not be shared.
All because the Police ‘Race Action Plan’ demands officers do not “over police” black people.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
The Tories introduced these disgusting programs to force police to be institutionally racist against white people.
Labour continues them.
Reform will ABOLISH all Race Action Plans and ensure EVERYONE IS TREATED EQUALLY.
This is why politicians and authorities stop posting on X by the way
This is why they leave the platform
Because community notes holds them to account for their lies