I blame the stupid politicians for not moving with the times. Was it too costly to register British ships in Britain. Or too many red tape hurdles ? Whatever the reason it just illustrates how very inadequate the system is.
Much the same for manufacturing I suppose. We don't produce many cars now for instance, just a few exotics like Morgans and assemble others' products. And why ?
Britain has sort of calcified over the centuries into a muddled old mess. An easy target for competitors to beat.
Many of our best properties are owned by foreigners. We have to make do generally with very secondary housing. We seem to have lost faith in our own leaders or the worthwhile ones are not getting to the top much. The rubbishers and detractors often lie to discredit the people with talent.
I think it is a deliberate power struggle by the global elites:
Politically and democratically we have been subverted and submitted to political correctness, human rights, common purpose, ECJ, socialism, loss of conservatism, mass migration, surveillance state, nanny state, punitive taxes, inefficient bureaucracy in public services, globalism, massive waste of taxes, rise in violent crime, political mistakes, political deceit, democratic deceit, changes to education system, reduction in physical exercise, subversion of the press/media, lack of strong leadership, undermining rule of law, favouritism, elitism, lack of transparency, cover-ups, expenses scandals, lowering of moral, subversion of judicial process, breakdown of society, child sex crimes, breakdown of traditional values, breakdown of the family unit, loss of trust in institutions, changes in culture, and so on...all of which affects every aspect of our lives, society, culture, working practices and education.
You see now the attacks on satire, comedy, comedy is almost dead. The hard left want to shutdown and no platform anything or anyone with an alternative view to theirs, we have been steadily descending into an Orwellian Utopia that seems to be accelerating.
It's not just us, it's happened/happening throughout the Western world, Europe, Oz, NZ, Canada, USA. It's an ongoing, creeping change, what it will morph into, who knows, will there be an end point or will it just continue to decline further.
What will rise to counter this, you already see a rise in a counter culture type of movement, new political parties, new political movements, demonstrations and counter-demo's, alternative media, changing governments in Europe.
A big power struggle is just starting, like any power struggle it diverts resources away from progress in education and industry and makes ordinary people suffer, lets hope it doesn't end in outbreaks of violence, although we already see this on the streets on a daily basis in one form or another.
Fascinating, yet apprehensive times to be living through!
