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It’s been a while since I have put a pen or keyboard to another rant about Britain. For the most part, I have been coasting along, observing. It has also been a while since I wrote articles like Why Dubai will never become New York and Why Dubai may become London, primarily because the truth usually goes unheard. I’m a bit of a fan of the Atlas Shrugged philosophy, whereby you don’t really expect anything of character from the people you live around and all of a sudden life is fantastic.
Now I’m not a great fan of this terrorist talk rubbish, especially all the crap about the Lockerbie bomber and why Gordon Brown and the Scottish Pariliament let him go. Some minor statements and a bit of uproar from some Americans about boycotting Scottish goods and someone went on to say perhaps Amercians should disown the achievements of Andrew Carnegie. Now, if you don’t know who Andrew Carnegie is, he was probably the second richest man who ever lived. His wealth on the brink of the 20th century when he sold out to JP Morgan thanks to Charles Schwab would have been worth an estimated US $298 billion. He sure showed Warren Buffet and Bill Gates. For the English and Scottish lads who think america should disown Carnegie because he originated from Scotland, that’s a stupid argument. I hate to say this, but mainstream Brits are probably just as ignorant, if not more, than the mainstream Americans they call dumb and stupid. Carnegie went to Amrica to make his riches: if he loved Scotland and thought it was so uber fabulous, he would have made his billions there. Alas, men love the nations that pay them back for their hard work; so America was responsible for Andrew Carnegie’s success, not Scotland. That’s right, I said it!
Gordon Brown. I have actually tried to support the man for a while. Initially, I think he was just a victim of coming to power under bad circumstances, but he was so blinded by the job title and power that came with it that he was totally blind to how Tony Blair had caught him from behind with his pants down. But then who would forego the opportunity to become the Prime Minister. He’s had some major screwups and they’re all pretty British in nature, which means they stem from the cowardly attitude of not taking decisions and just hinting on this and hinting on that. It is what leaders of corrupt third world countries do and I’m sorry to say that Brown is, well, let us be politically incorrect, behaving like his brown counterparts from former British colonies.
I don’t get it, why in the world would you ‘hint’ that you don’t want a bomber to die of cancer in Scotland? Why would you hint at a $15 billion oil deal with Libya? Why don’t you just say it! After all, do these johnnies think anyone doubts the fact that the greed of politicians know no bounds? This was his perfect chance to come clean and say that in this era when we are in economic troubles and after Tony Blair George Bush screwed us over on the oil deal, it is our only chance to go out and get our own oil deal without the Americans bullying us. Hey, I would have supported that stance, because at least the country gets something out of it.
But here is the bigger issue: this is not a Gordon Brown problem. It is the problem of every Brit that I have known and seen at work, in larger enterprise or in government: evade decision making. It is the reason why the British Empire went from being the largest in the world to a puny little Island ruled by a bunch of communist hearted politicians who have the guts and balls the size of mini marbles. Take a decision, for God’s sake. Instead of bettering themselves, the British government and its hoarde of organisation has made its own rules to conduct activity and make decisions in politics and in business.
Have you ever worked with British businessmen? They play it safe. Have you worked with government entities in Britain? They don’t play at all, just waste. Here is a prime example of the application of British rules, promoted under the claim to democracy by the disgrace that are government departments like the Office of Government Commerce. The Ministry of Defence thought that they and the OGC had with PRINCE2 and their super pathetic qualifications some methods to develop software that they would buy the planes from Boeing and develop the software to run them in-house. Low and behold, $200 million later, OGC and PRINCE2 failed them whereas initially they could have spent $35 million to get it. But no one was axed, why? Because we followed PRINCE2 and it’s not our fault that it failed. Maybe the OGC should be wiped out, then?
You see the similarity with the Gordon Brown attitude? It’s not my fault, it was in the interest of the country. Then say it up front, you moron.
Private enterprise in Birtain suffers from the same attitude. Waste money to play it safe and then don’t have to take blame for anything wasted because we played it safe. When will the British public get up and say something to this incompetent, money wasting, bureaucratic waste of an existence. This is a country with great opportunity, bogged down by 60 year old bureaucrats who have put the lives of its 60 million inhabitants at risk just to save their own heads. Why? Because they know in an accountable, risk taking world outside Britain and its third world colonies, risk and accountability are the factors that build personalities, leaders, businesses and nations. Cowardice, the British way of hiding behind red tape, will be the death of Britain. It is what killed the British Empire.
For those of you who feel violated by the things said here, well, who gives a shit? You clearly don’t. Fix it and come leave comments, or just bugger off!
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