Is This All Rather Futile?
Peter Morris
November 18, 2024
Those who follow me on X, formerly twitter, know me pretty well, and I write quite prolifically, ranting about sometimes quite oddball and off-the-wall things.
Sometimes, my musings get a lot of reaction and at other times, barely any interest at all. That’s okay, whatever strikes people in the moment. It’s all part of the rough and tumble of social media I guess.
I like to think I have a reasonably big following on X. This for someone like me is pretty astounding. But in the grand scheme of things it’s a small number. Again, I don’t mind, I’m quite happy with my position in that scheme. I get plenty of feedback, some of which isn’t always welcome, but it is what it is.
Last week, I spent quite a lot of time writing about steel making, and gave a short chronical of my life experience spent making and processing steel. There are a lot of years to recount.
(Read it here - https://www.kjmtoday.com/single-post/something-i-know-a-bit-about)
Specifically, how the green agenda is rapidly killing our steel making capability, and how Ed Miliband seems to have a free hand to do just that. It gained a few readers but not as many as I felt it ought to. Maybe it was too long; maybe it was boring; maybe folks are not interested or don’t care - I have no idea. But people need to care. Steel-making now, what comes next? What other aspects of our lives are being systematically dismantled?
Anyway - I had intended to compose something this week regarding Kemi Badenoch, and her winning the Conservative leadership election. But unfortunately, it’s pretty much old news now. As they say (or used to), today’s news is tomorrow’s chip paper.
Who remembers that, back in the day, when a visit to your local chippie resulted in leaving with the food wrapped in used newspaper?
Undoubtedly the very idea will horrify younger readers and health and safety fanatics, who never experienced it, but that’s how it was; freshly fried chips and a portion of fish wrapped in old newsprint – how unhygienic! But we survived. We lived and weren’t the worse for eating food from a plate comprised of used newspapers.
Back to Badenoch, and as a side note, personally I think she’s just a continuation of the Conservatives we’ve had for 14 years. For example, she doesn’t want to leave the ECHR, in case it upsets the wet backbenchers (that says it all to me). How is that any different? She lets the Prime Minister get away with not answering ANY question she poses. But I digress.
The subject matter I choose to write about can change so fast these days. Mostly because of the ‘instant’ nature of news and social media. Things can change on a sixpence. One minute it’s something everyone is talking about, and the very next moment it’s forgotten about. Things move on.
It's a little bit frustrating sometimes. You talk about one thing and the next moment nobody cares. Needless to say, I’ll keep plugging away and hopefully write things that strike a chord with some people.
VERY up to date this moment! I hear that someone has been arrested in Europe for supplying rubber boats and outboard motors to migrants for them to float across the Channel and falsely, in my opinion claim asylum (is that a hate comment? I don’t know. That’s a discussion for another time).
I’m hearing Starmer is going to make a speech about it, and the significance of it ‘smashing the gangs’. It’s utter delusion. ONE person? How many others are queuing up behind that person to take over the multi-billion pound trade. Do they really think ‘one’ arrest is going to stop it? I really can’t understand the naivety of it (its sixth form debating logic).
The one and only way to stop the trade is to physically stop the boats. It’s very simple. Yes, there will be condemnation and screams of human rights. I really don’t care. Stop the boats; stop the benefits if they manage to get here. Immediately deport them back to France where they came from. If the incentive isn’t there they won’t come.
Enough of that I suppose. By the time you read this it will be old news anyway - hence the title. By the time you read this the world will have moved on. Is it futile to keep writing, when as fast as you may pen or type it, it instantly is out of date and all a bit pointless?
Maybe I should change tack and just write about history or something. The pace of life today and the apparent inability of so many to think about something properly - it’s all a bit demoralising.
© Peter Morris, 2024.
Image - via Bangor University
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