2016 in perspective & Happy Xmas and New Year

What a year! First Trump, then Brexit, then I spent five nights in hospital with some unknown illness – not knowing whether I’d come out again. Of course it started with the massive El Nino warming, and as I predicted, we then had massive global cooling. Then we had the comical events watching those people who claimed the massive El Nino was “man-made” then attacking us when it cooled for pointing out it proved it was just natural El Nino. And to top it I’ve worked out what causes “climate change” and “global warming” (no it’s not solar cycles). However, it needs a bit more work before I can publish (End of 2017/early 2018 with luck).
And today Trump gets formally elected. There still remains a theoretical chance that someone has bought off the electors and Trump doesn’t get in. But assuming he does, 2017 is going to be the year of “Draining the swamp” and no where needs it more than climate and environment which are now just self-perpetuating myths of no use to anyone, feeding and being fed, by the massive money-munching green-blob. Which means that finally, all the journalists in the UK and particularly Scotland who have used every excuse under the sun to avoid printing any of the truth on climate, will find that in 2017 the truth is coming their way in unavoidable cartloads. They will ignore it at their peril.
And in 2017 we will formally start the process to Brexit. The EU (like climate alarmists about the 2017 global cooling) are still in denial about the UK leaving the EU. Those leaders still believe that because they think the EU is the greatest thing in the Universe, that no sane person could leave it. They are wrong. We will leave and because they have never had a member leave they are clueless about the process, whereas because the UK has nurtured around 50 countries to independence, we are very familiar with the process. This is the world’s leading experts in independence, negotiating with incompetent naive fools.
I guess sometime toward the end of 2017, it will finally sink in that Brexit is not a UK negotiating stance in one of their petty internal squabbles, but instead it is what is happening. Then the EU will start panicking!! Then they will start worrying!! Then they will realise that whereas the UK could get ready to leave in a 2 and a bit years, the EU needs more like a decade to work out how to cope without our money.
However, the time they realise they needed a lot longer than us, it will be too late. By the end of 2017, there will be practically no time for all the various people, parliaments, officials who have to be involved to get involved. The UK will have worked out its negotiating position in detail, the EU won’t even have started.
Then they will have a very simple choice: accept what the UK are offering you as a deal, or have no deal. But even that deal the UK is offering won’t amount to much. Because the UK will already know that the EU are dysfunctional and could never agree anything except the very simplest things. So, we’re not going to have high expectations of what the EU could agree to agree.
The UK government already know it will be “Hard Brexit”, because there is not the time (or will) for a substantive agreement. There will be no free movement and we will be treated like any other country outside the EU. Anything else is just “icing to the cake”
And that is what we need! Because of the three big things that have destroyed UK manufacturing two are directly down to the EU:

• High energy prices due to the insane EU energy policy
• The uncompetitive “single market” rules, which make it effectively impossible for small manufacturing in the UK

The third is the daft “innovation” strategy of the UK government (which like the US) believes in “inventing” economic growth. This is a strategy “advised” by academia onto government, based on its own PhD style of projects. It is the philosophy of “throwing out good designs and inventing new” to contrast to that of incremental improvement. And it has been overwhelmingly destructive of “long-term” industry which is typical of heavy industry.

Happy Xmas

However, whilst I’ve got all of Xmas to mull over the delights of Brexit and Trump – now students have come back from University, the washing machine is on, the Xmas tree is up, most of the Xmas cards have been sent, so I may not have much more time to update this blog until the New Year.
So, whilst I will no doubt add a few more comments before I sign off to away the delights of next year, I’ll take this opportunity of wishing you Happy Xmas and a fantastic New Year.