Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th November 2025

[refitman]

Morning all.

[refitman]

I'm sure that doing a massive racism will turn around Labour's slump in the polls.

[refitman]

Ooh, could we be seeing the end of Streeting? Oh god I hope so.



The private healthcare companies that pumped all that money into him are NOT going to be happy - he was doing such a good job for them.

[Frog222]

Ooh, could we be seeing the end of Streeting? Oh god I hope so.

The private healthcare companies that pumped all that money into him are NOT going to be happy - he was doing such a good job for them.

Below 10° all next week with Northerly winds, Brrrrr ! , so enjoyed the warming glee at the Discomfiture of Wez

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Which takes me back to gilsey's Seth Freedman reference to Conquest's Third Law !

Even if Wez's intentions were honest, what should he have done instead ? Perhaps cutting out some of the middle-ranking pen-pushers is a good idea, but does local autonomy for him just mean freedom to privatise even more ? Many suspect it does.

Institutional inertia is so dreadfully hard to break, that a bit of careful privatisation might liven things up ?

A current example is the Ukrainian Army which STILL today has pockets of deep officer incompetence and corruption inherited literally from the Soviet Union, and way back before that too . Many of the most successful units have been formed completely outside the hierarchy . Some of the large numbers of 'deserters' were so disgusted with their officers that they left to somehow rejoin the alternative units . One I know of was imprisoned for desertion, and then volunteered from prison for the nicely-named (and élite) ALCATRAZ BATTALION . Perhaps not alone in that .

The Army , being so hidebound, forbids soldiers to ask for a transfer, which probably saved the life of the torture prison survivor and author Stanislav Aseyev . Twice hospitalised with wounds, he asked for a transfer to a better fighting unit, was refused so he exercised his right to resign as a Donetsk régime prisoner . Ouf. Now he spends his time on the lecture circuit, and some political commentary.


So to the Battle of Britain, when the Spitfire was developed by a private individual's initiative, and the Hurricane by the Hawker company tho the Air Ministry at the time was only interested in ... biplanes .

[Frog222]

This looks GOOD, but off outside again for now, to get more firewood !



https://chrisdillow.substack.com/p/on-incompetence