Systemic Collapse Watch - First Signs

[One percent]

33 minutes ago, azzuri82 said:

We are becoming Cuba.

Failing infrastructure like this destroys productivity and living standards - and we're now accelerating it having been sleepwalking into it for the last 20 or so years.

 

Forty years at least.  

[Austin Allegro]

On 21/08/2023 at 13:36, azzuri82 said:

We are becoming Cuba.

Failing infrastructure like this destroys productivity and living standards - and we're now accelerating it having been sleepwalking into it for the last 20 or so years.

 

There's a tipping point when all the essential services and the adminstration etc become minority effnik/diversity hires and the capable people do an 'Atlas Shrugged' and leave for some other country. Seems to have been reached in South Africa now after about 30 years but they had a clear starting point (majority rule) whereas it's hard to put the finger on when the rot set in in Britain - I'd say the start of the Blair regime perhaps.

[Kiwibobby]

2 hours ago, Austin Allegro said:

There's a tipping point when all the essential services and the adminstration etc become minority effnik/diversity hires and the capable people do an 'Atlas Shrugged' and leave for some other country. Seems to have been reached in South Africa now after about 30 years but they had a clear starting point (majority rule) whereas it's hard to put the finger on when the rot set in in Britain - I'd say the start of the Blair regime perhaps.

There was a time where I thought I might retire back into the UK.  No fucking chance now.  Whilst I think that Australia will have some real challenges ahead, the UK and especially the south will be an absolute shiteshow.  So that’s probably a couple of million pounds the UK economy won’t ever get out of my family.  

Repeat that a couple of thousand times….

[Chewing Grass]

Right, I think we shall call the Bankruptcy of Birmingham No 1 big sign of the start of the collapse proper.

[Wight Flight]

8 minutes ago, Chewing Grass said:

Right, I think we shall call the Bankruptcy of Birmingham No 1 big sign of the start of the collapse proper.

It's only a so called bankruptcy so nothing to worry about.

[M S E Refugee]

4 minutes ago, Wight Flight said:

It's only a so called bankruptcy so nothing to worry about.

The dishonesty is off the scale, they find it impossible to call anything by its correct name.

[Loki]

6 minutes ago, Wight Flight said:

It's only a so called bankruptcy so nothing to worry about.

So is it is or is it ain't 

[Wight Flight]

Just now, Loki said:

So is it is or is it ain't 

Everyone seems to be calling it a kind of bankruptcy so i guess it isn't.

[Chewing Grass]

Stoke tomorrow and the absolutely gorgeous Andy Burnham's Manchester (he is useless) next Monday.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-66708263.amp

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/risk-manchester-council-declaring-bankruptcy-18684373

[Loki]

2 minutes ago, Chewing Grass said:

Stoke tomorrow and the absolutely gorgeous Andy Burnham's Manchester (he is useless) next Monday.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-66708263.amp

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/risk-manchester-council-declaring-bankruptcy-18684373

This is amazing 

[One percent]

Just now, Chewing Grass said:

Stoke tomorrow and the absolutely gorgeous Andy Burnham's Manchester (he is useless) next Monday.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-66708263.amp

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/risk-manchester-council-declaring-bankruptcy-18684373

North Yorkshire has just moved to a unitary authority. One of the key selling points was that by joining all the councils together and streamlining services, they would save 50 million quid. Suddenly , that’s turned into a 50 million deficit.   

[M S E Refugee]

I wonder if those Councils have just received the Mini-Bar bills from those migrant hotels.

[Chewing Grass]

4 minutes ago, M S E Refugee said:

I wonder if those Councils have just received the Mini-Bar bills from those migrant hotels.

That's a point, they won't even process them now, they will just be let free like unwanted Mink on a Mink Farm.

[Heart's Ease]

Posted on credit deflation but here for the record too.

[Bear Hug]

Oh well, no one likes traffic wardens.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12486019/Shocking-moment-two-traffic-wardens-brutally-attacked-Birmingham-one-kneed-face-pushed-car.html#article-12486019

Shocking moment two traffic wardens are brutally battered in the street in Birmingham on the day Labour-led council declared bankruptcy

[MrLibertyRedux]

25 minutes ago, Bear Hug said:

Oh well, no one likes traffic wardens.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12486019/Shocking-moment-two-traffic-wardens-brutally-attacked-Birmingham-one-kneed-face-pushed-car.html#article-12486019

Shocking moment two traffic wardens are brutally battered in the street in Birmingham on the day Labour-led council declared bankruptcy

[Kendo]

2 hours ago, Bear Hug said:

Oh well, no one likes traffic wardens.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12486019/Shocking-moment-two-traffic-wardens-brutally-attacked-Birmingham-one-kneed-face-pushed-car.html#article-12486019

Shocking moment two traffic wardens are brutally battered in the street in Birmingham on the day Labour-led council declared bankruptcy

Lovely Rita - McCartney apparently wrote this song about a female traffic warden as an anti-authority satire. It was going to be a ‘hate song’ but he thought it would be more amusing to be affectionate about her - what a scallywag!

[Loki]

4 hours ago, Bear Hug said:

Oh well, no one likes traffic wardens.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12486019/Shocking-moment-two-traffic-wardens-brutally-attacked-Birmingham-one-kneed-face-pushed-car.html#article-12486019

Shocking moment two traffic wardens are brutally battered in the street in Birmingham on the day Labour-led council declared bankruptcy

THE STREET NAMES PIC, LMFAO

The memes have escaped again

[JoeDavola]

4 hours ago, Bear Hug said:

Oh well, no one likes traffic wardens.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12486019/Shocking-moment-two-traffic-wardens-brutally-attacked-Birmingham-one-kneed-face-pushed-car.html#article-12486019

Shocking moment two traffic wardens are brutally battered in the street in Birmingham on the day Labour-led council declared bankruptcy

".....Dublin, Dundee, Humberside
I wonder to myself"

[reformed nice guy]

28 minutes ago, Loki said:

THE STREET NAMES PIC, LMFAO

The memes have escaped again

"Looking to get to equal pay street? Keep going and take a right onto inclusion square, have to follow the one way onto unstereotype avenue,first right onto violence free alley then go straight onto the cross. Don't take the left, whatever you do...."

'Why not?"

" that is behead the infidels lane, people like you and I dont go there anymore...."

[PatronizingGit]

Thurrock, Northamptonshire, Birmingham, Slough.

Odd how all these areas are the fastest growing, with favourable young immigrant demographics. 

Far be it for me to assume most immigrants are above paying council tax & it just gets forgotten. 

[JoeDavola]

Mate was visiting the other day and then wanted a taxi home.

There used to be many taxi companies but now there's only a two or three really in Belfast.

Phoned the first one - a robot voice answers and tells us to say the address. He says it, clearly. The robot (after some time thinking), gives him two possible options based on where he's said, both of which are completely wrong. Tried twice. computer says no.

So eventually they put us through to an operator, someone for whom English was not their first language (remember this is an NI taxi firm), who told us that there was no taxis in the area and hung up (this was Belfast city centre on a Tuesday evening).

So we decide to talke a walk down to the taxi rank abut 10 mins away. We had forgotten that this was before the area was 'enriched' and the taxi rank is now a wee shop that sells bubble tea to rich Asian students, among a bunch of 'turkish' owned businesses and the "Istanbul Market" shop (which used to be a big post office).

So we continue walking down to the university. We then phone the other big taxi firm, and get another fucking robot voice. A robot which again completely fails to identify where we are based on what we're saying. We are eventually put on to someone on the phone who seems to have no knowledge of Belfast and seems confused as to where we are despite there being a huge university quad, a park entrance, and a huge library building all beside us.

We do eventually get a taxi. It was a pain in the arse.

[honkydonkey]

9 hours ago, JoeDavola said:

Mate was visiting the other day and then wanted a taxi home.

There used to be many taxi companies but now there's only a two or three really in Belfast.

Phoned the first one - a robot voice answers and tells us to say the address. He says it, clearly. The robot (after some time thinking), gives him two possible options based on where he's said, both of which are completely wrong. Tried twice. computer says no.

So eventually they put us through to an operator, someone for whom English was not their first language (remember this is an NI taxi firm), who told us that there was no taxis in the area and hung up (this was Belfast city centre on a Tuesday evening).

So we decide to talke a walk down to the taxi rank abut 10 mins away. We had forgotten that this was before the area was 'enriched' and the taxi rank is now a wee shop that sells bubble tea to rich Asian students, among a bunch of 'turkish' owned businesses and the "Istanbul Market" shop (which used to be a big post office).

So we continue walking down to the university. We then phone the other big taxi firm, and get another fucking robot voice. A robot which again completely fails to identify where we are based on what we're saying. We are eventually put on to someone on the phone who seems to have no knowledge of Belfast and seems confused as to where we are despite there being a huge university quad, a park entrance, and a huge library building all beside us.

We do eventually get a taxi. It was a pain in the arse.

Why wouldn't you use uber? Don't talk to anyone. 

[belfastchild]

11 minutes ago, honkydonkey said:

Why wouldn't you use uber? Don't talk to anyone. 

Uber isn't really a thing over here. I just checked and there are 4 uber cabs in Belfast. Thats a bit up from the 2 there used to be. Their legal position here is debatable.

[Wight Flight]

42 minutes ago, honkydonkey said:

Why wouldn't you use uber? Don't talk to anyone. 

Get the bus. Easier and cheaper.