HEY DUDE,WHERE'S MY PENSION? Episode 2

 Docs.Retrieval Update.

Wednesday 25 August - posted via 1st.class signed-for the D440 form enclosing £65 CQ to Central Registry.

Their stated 10 working days time ought to mean that I should receive the copy Decree Absolute a week from today,on 9 September.

Thursday 26 August - received the copy Marriage Cert.from Wakefield register Office as per their 5 working days  as stated.

And now?

I wait..

HEY DUDE,WHERE'S MY PENSION? :Episode 1

 And so it begins,,

I received a letter from the DWP - dated 5 August - on August 12.All their official postal correspondence is sent second class post.

Having seemingly completed all necessary formalities weeks earlier regarding my State Pension claim, this was I assumed a final confirmation of the information I had given them.

Besides my hand written details that I'd previously provided them with such Credit Union acc.no.etc,It turns out that they require a copy of my marriage cert. and a copy of the Decree Absolute,without which they cannot complete my Pension claim.

Within an hour of reading their letter,I phoned and immediately emailed both the Wakefield Register Office and The Civil Justice Centre to ascertain what needed doing.

The Register office responded by email the next day with what I needed to do - £11 for a 5 working days turnaround  search + £2.50 postage. IL paid for it via Card on the online form.

On Monday  August 16 I phoned the CJC to see what progress my email was making.They checked their 7 day backlog of emails received to confirm receipt. I phoned them again on the 17th.where they took  quite a lot longer to retrieve my email.Their backlog had not shortened.During both calls I was given to understand that once they got round to dealing with my email they would after their search contact me via phone for payment.

On Friday 20th.after a third call to CJC,yet another different " Colleague" informed me authoritatively that I ought to have been told straightaway that the £10/£45?£65 search fee is payable upfront.That person apologised and I managed to persuade them to include their apology for their earlier misinformation in an email.Which they did at close of business on the 20th.

£10 if I knew the Decree absolute's original Case Ref No. ,£45 if I didn't but I was certain that either Wakefield or Pontefract County Court issued it or £65 if I am unsure and would have to apply via Central Index in London.Oh yes and the apologetic email of the 20th had a pdf attached with Form 440 which is how you apply to Central Index.

Today,being Monday 23, IL kindly downloaded the 4 pages of Form440 and have agreed to pay the £65 CQ which I hope to be mailing out first class in a couple of days time.The Central Index turnaround time is 10 working days.

By the way, that DWP letter dated the 5th which I got on the 12th.They enclosed a 2nd class reply envelope;asking for all the necessary docs to be enclosed and sent to them forthwith -their explicit demand by no later than August 19.Otherwise there'd be delays processing my Pension claim.

and so it goes...

DUMB INSOLENCE #31

            DUMB INSOLENCE #31

The governmental / deep state / metropolitan ruling elites / global corporate capitalist engineered State of Emergency around the Covid-19 virus continues unabated.

As indeed intended.

Pity the weary masses,especially in Great Britain.Four years of tortuous EU-funded Remaoner seditionist shennanigans and now this load of okd cobblers.

The progressive,enlightened,democratic and libertarian resistance remains steadfast in promoting the indelible virtues of scepticism and nuanced critique of the Tyrants' misrepresentation & obfuscation that has descended like an impenetrable smog over the populace.

Until such time as when all this artificially induced madness ceases or something actually interesting and of importance occurs - War,Famine,actual pestilence; this here Blog goes into furlough.

DUMB INSOLENCE is / wad a continuation under a different titles of the long running fahrenheit451 series.

Besides this blogspot archive there is also AND SO IT GOES at www.louiskasatkin.WordPress.com

that goes all the way back to 2011 & was archived at the same time as fahrenheit451back in March.

As a long time microblogger on twitter that continues.A Guerilla hit & run strategy is sustainable.

VIVE LA RESISTANCE!

DUMB INSOLENCE #30

 "Creatives" - West End luvvies,Guardian supporting scribblers,opinionated Poetry Society hacks,Radio 3 musicians are all for waving placards & shouting vacuous slogans when it came to protesting Apartheid in South Africa or egregious human rights violations in Myanmar.

But for most of them,this corrupt tyrannical govt.and its Culture Recovery Fund has bought their collective silence.And what few voices there are merely underscores the morally repugnant hypocrisy of those who have chosen to say nothing about the ongoing massive violation of our human & democratic rights under the guise of Covid-19.

Herewith my most recent tweet.

Eric Clapton , Van Morrison , Lionel Shriver & maybe some others less well publicised apart ,where are the rest of the creatives?authors,poets,musicians,actors etc who defend our inalienable human & democratic rights? Nowhere of course- spineless cowardly bastards. https://t.co/7CFgM5bIqx

DUMB INSOLENCE #29

      DUMB INSOLENCE #29

I'm sure Michael Heseltine & the rest of the EU funded seditionist rabble of Remainers can find a convenient stone they can all crawl back under.

I start with the concluding epithet because there is nothing left to argue or debate.

After practically 4 years of ceaseless conspiratorial endeavour to sabotage/delay/derail Brexit - the EU funded seditionist Remain campaign hobbles on its crutches even as 2020 draws to its inexorable conclusion.

The historically moribund, economically sclerotic crumbling EU 4th Reich now has only 9 net contributing member satrapies.

They're already missing our Danegeld payments.

And of course the 18 mendicants'clamour for more of some other poor dumb sucker's money to help them featherbed their own dysfunctional corrupt inefficient shithole economies just grows ever louder the more they can cozen from the 9 in the first instance.

I think that's what economists mean by a virtuous circle.Then again probably not.

Tschüß!

DUMB INSOLENCE #28

 In a quite brilliant interview with Laura Perrins in "Conservative Woman" ,Peter Hitchens delivered a master class non-pareil in reason and common sense.

Google it,check it for yourself.

Here's a taster:

"It is not really a tyranny, unless you can construct a tyranny out of marshmallow. It is more of an obdurate, glutinous stupidocracy, which intelligent people find intolerable while the rest mutter ‘mustn’t grumble’ as they absorb the latest insult or humiliation. But we must try to oppose it. What we do here and now will matter somewhere else at some other time. If our formerly free society shrivels into a banana republic, ruled by puerile slogans and Johnsonian populism, without one serious cry of protest or one notable effort to save it, we ought to be ashamed of ourselves."


As for my own weltanschauung on the Covid19 health scare, things are progressing most satisfactorily indeed.

The degenerate,apostate western liberal democracies sink ever deeper into their own egregious quagmire and take great swathes of the globalist capitalist economy and its practitioners with them.

There are none righteous among them,no not one.

When the merest administrative requirement in such a health scare- a vaccine- is disingenuously elevated to the realm of quasi-miraculous deliverance then you know how lamentably dumbed down public political discourse has become.

And I get to fully enjoy Schadenfreude.

And Brexit has still yet to go thermonuclear across the economy.

DUMB INSOLENCE #27

 DUMB INSOLENCE #27

The pan(ic)demic grinds on stoked by governments' own generated hyperbole.

England's second national lockdown (martial law by another name) is due to end in a couple of days and morph into a..lockdown! But one's that presented as a regionalised,nuanced three tier system of de-facto martial law.

More or less the same generic response is being repeated ad infinitum,ad nauseam across the length and breadth of the European continent.

Meanwhile in the U.S.the incumbent President continues to deny that he lost the election three weeks ago.Biden's inauguration is on January 20th.Go figure.

Conflicts in Yemen,Libya,Syria,Afghanistan,Azerbaijan and Ethiopia continue to get short shrift in the western MSM.

Whether any of the combatants are observing rules on social distancing remains I think a moot point in most cases.

I am growing increasingly firm in the view that you might as well write 2021 off now.

The daily persiflage surrounding the Covid19 health scare continues,for the most part,to be quite amusing on occasion especially when Old Lardarse bumbles & mutters his verbiage- as if he's in the middle of having a stroke.

And so it goes..

DUMB INSOLENCE #26

    DUMB INSOLENCE #26

William Pitt the Younger,Britain's Prime Minister at the time of Napoleon, is quoted -

" Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom It is the argument of tyrants,it is the creed of slaves."

Mark Harper MP posted this on twitter.

✍️ Read the full letter signed by me and my Conservative colleagues, 70 of us, calling on the Government to demonstrate the necessity and proportionality of any new restrictions from 2 December 👇 https://t.co/kRcMCFW7B1

Britons never,never,never shall be slaves.

Well, we'll find out one way or the other pretty soon,won't we?

Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android

DUMB INSOLENCE #25

 DUMB INSOLENCE #25

For really incisive and well argued pieces on the whole gamut of Covid19 related issues that are the hallmark of serious journalism and dispassionate writing of the highest calibre and integrity, I will always commend, amongst others of a similar stripe; Peter Hitchens,Allison Pearson as well as blogs under InProportion on twitter.

I've never sought to even go over ground others cover with far greater acumen than myself.

I found the whole Brexit / Leave farrago just one massive drain on blogging.The EU funded seditionist Remain campaign just sucked all the joy and indeed life out of that political discourse with their remorseless cynicism & hypocrisy.

I mention the aforegoing simply as a caveat re:the Covid-19 " pandemic" discourse.

The panic-mongers,globalist liberal elites and their State sponsored thaumaturgists of the SAGE coven really have royally fucked things up beyond even their usual abysmal level of mendacity,incompetence,propensity to failure and swivel-eyed metropolitan elitist cretinism.

Their fatuous repetitive cant is utterly spurious,of course there is no light at the end of the tunnel,what kind of naive ingenue believes otherwise?

And so it goes...

DUMB INSOLENCE #24

 DUMB INSOLENCE #24

Karl Marx is often cited as the originator of the maxim , "Historical events repeat themselves,first as tragedy,then as farce".Sure,whatever.

It's a full week since the US presidential elections and the stench of invective and calumny emanating from its proceedings and outcome still linger in the very air itself.

It was only the broadcast of BBC Radio 4's "The Long View" the other day that shed some historical perspective on what we mistakenly view as an immediate and present political imbroglio,as if it is only contemporary forces and political actors that have contrived such an impossibly dire situation unique to our time.

"The Long View", exhumes events from the sub strata of history that exhibit more than just superficial resemblances to our own tribulations.And their canter thro' the events of the US Presidential contest of 1800 AD,Adams v.Jefferson was revelatory.

Slander and defamation have been the default ,go to,tools of popular political discourse and elections have been challenged as stolen or allegedly so since time immemorial.

History is neither moral nor immoral and whether the various political actors are deemed to have behaved one way or t'other,frankly History doesn't give a damn my dear.

DUMB INSOLENCE #23

      DUMB INSOLENCE #23

It's November 4th here in England,I wonder what day it is in the rest of the world?

Another national lockdown comes into force at midnight tonight.Mainly because the first one they attempted and began back in March failed.

Rather than attempt to recapitulate that which Peter Hitchens,Allison Pearson and others have articulated so well,I'll share my latest poem published at www.destinypoets.co.uk

The Future That Disappeared

In the darkest hour

they came for it,

bound and gagged it

put a hood over it;

it got in the car with them

they drove miles

along deserted country roads

and then they,

stopped..

bound,gagged and hooded

they manhandled it

out of the car,

marched it across

a field;

Somewhere in the distance

a church bell tolled;

they didn’t ask if it had

anything it wanted to say

before sentence was carried out..

A few minutes later the car departed,

and the field lay undisturbed once more,

now home to an unmarked grave..

*********************************

You get the drift? Of course.

DUMB INSOLENCE #22

 DUMB INSOLENCE #22

The sheer amount of time and effort that has gone into shroud-waving to the accompaniment of bow-scraping humbug during this WHO declared "pandemic" has been on an eye wateringly monumental scale.

Dead everywhere apparently and if there aren't enough piles of corpses to hand,then the "scientific" prognoses are suitably redacted to show that no such wild and inaccurate predictions of mortality were ever made in the first place.

Oceania,Airstrip One's MINITRUE is publishing the very news it then claims to be untrue and proceeds to substitute even that with some inscrutably otiose drivel pockmarked with high falutin data which in its turn are nothing more than the maunderings of highly paid imbeciles.

Politics however and the tangibly important matters of society proceed more or less implacably in the face of so much performance installation art fictionalised accounts of pandemic chimera.

Abortion, that signature service of the UK's NHS, which has been routinely dispatching pre-birth humans entirely lawfully since 1968,has thus far run up 7 million or so eviscerated wholly innocent souls.No-one actually bothers too much about this institutionalised carnage anymore,at least no-one who can actually do something to at least put the legal brakes on this sanitised Moloch worship.

But in Poland,a significant Court ruling has set the cat among the liberal/feminist pigeons by denying that foetal abnormalities are grounds for procuring a termination.

Placard waving and the chanting of vacuous platitudinal slogans is now revving up toward a crescendo.

Interesting;far more so than those currently inciting the alternate reality panic of Covid19 among a startled and apprehensive populace long since lost in a Corporate capitalist miasma and so very,very far away from God.

DUMB INSOLENCE #21

 DUMB INSOLENCE #21

If there was anything new,fresh and or revelatory to say on the hegemonic issue dominating the Media and political discourse of the Covid19 pandemic then someone would by now have said it.

Only there isn't,so no-one has.

The only thing that I've personally found noteworthy is that just about all governments just about everywhere have followed a broadly similar approach to dealing with this WHO "pandemic".

And so they struggle on.And the mind numbing,intellect destroying tedium of government by diktat upon diktat is only only occasionally relieved by the flash news items of pandemic-unrelated political issues such as Black Lives Matter,Extinction Rebellion et al.

These have now been superceded by the ultimate in faux-virtue signalling,a campaign for what is misleadingly called free  schoolmeals during school holidays here in England,a campaign that parleys neatly into wider and more substantive Class issues arising from the contrived alarmism and general state of idiocy which has been cultivated and promoted by the metropolitan elitist arseholes masquerading as a democratically elected government down in Westminster.

The world at this juncture can not only be said to be going to hades in a handcart but that our arrival there is expected shortly.

DUMB INSOLENCE #20

 DUMB INSOLENCE #20

There are only so many cogent arguments one can employ against the advocates and proponents of the contrived Covid19 "pandemic" and journalist non-pareil Peter Hitchens excels,as always.

https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2020/10/britons-are-being-sentenced-to-a-slow-agonising-death-by-no-10s-panic-squad-writes-peter-hitchens.html

Other than that,our collective transportation to hades in a handcart continues apace.

In France,President Macron has owned up to the failure of his nation's Covid19 tracing app.and in Germany Reichskanzlerin Merkel is foundering further shit-creek than might otherwise have been expected for Germany which,of course holds the all time world record for Really Fucking Things Up.

And Lord Sumption is absolutely on the money for stating the obvious in his recent Daily Mail article.Though in this time of paucity of intellectual & philosophical discourse,what he had to say comes across as a Church door at Wittenberg moment.

P.S.

On a personal note,I'm doing just fine and dandy,thank you.

DUMB INSOLENCE #19

 DUMB INSOLENCE #19

And so it goes..

Are some of us meant to keep the proverbial "straight face" whilst all this still carries on?

I'm not so sure about that and haven't been for a while now.

There's only so much incompetence,stupidity and faux- middle class mannerisms I can put up with.

Language and meaning have long since been debauched and debased and rendered virtually counterfeit by the pretentious, genteel half-wits who ape the superficiality and cynical "sincerity" of the metropolitan ruling elites.

Example,a lot of people got terribly annoyed and upset by a government poster advocating that persons whose sectoral employment facing redundancy might retrain for jobs in what was nebulously referred to as "cyber security".

The most prominent poster featured a real or mock ballerina.

And that did it;triggered the virtually annihilated-by-faux pandemic Creatives/Culturatii.

It was quite fun in a Schadenfreude kind of way to see the chinless/spineless Woke liberally inclined artistes and poseurs get terribly upset and let it be known to the equally inept and vacuous political class.

And then there's the career dweebs and autism -spectrum anoraks who made into well paid jobs involving learning words that nobody else understands let alone has any use for;collectively and misleadingly called "scientists".

 

And being naturally egotistical obsessives it's all just one huge interdisciplinary turf-war to them and their institutional and Corporate backers.

There just happens to be a bit of a virus about,which makes their preoccupations relevant.

DUMB INSOLENCE #18

 DUMB INSOLENCE #18

Madrid shut down,Paris shut down,Brussels yes you've guessed it.

So at least we here in the UK are not on our own when it comes to national governments conducting the equivalent of witch-hunts during this overblown pandemic" when targetting bars,cafés and pubs as primary hotspots for the exponential transmission of Covid-19;supposedly.

We have SAGE's word for it based on their most rigourous professional guesswork and estimations based on inadequate,out-of-date and not terribly historically reliable "data".

And then as a lemming amongst a plethora of lemmings all scurrying ineluctably toward the cliff's edge,we have the reassuring feeling that at least we'll not leap into fresh air on our ownsome.

China and elsewhere are meanwhile getting on with life in the 21st Century world of hadron colliders and quantum physics whilst we are trapped in the labyrinth of the metropolitan ruling elites archaic,medieval-superstition mindset.

Still,we are not Armenia and Azerbaojan facing-off over some 500 year old dispute about who robbed whom of sheep or knifed whose great,great etc forebears.

But we're getting there..

DUMB INSOLENCE #17

 DUMB INSOLENCE #17

Finally sussed what Dickensian character Johnson most resembles - Bumblechook in "Great Expectations ".

Sunday's " The Marr Show " had old lardarse drivel'chops bumbling ten to the dozen ,faux public schoolboy bonhomie

wrapped in the verbal chloroform of his habitual idiosyncratic "but,but,erm,umm.." whenever the interviewer's speech gets ahead of his brain's impaired capacity to process intelligible english.

 

Sunday was bad enough already with the deeply saddening news of Cineworld's closure.Another canary in the coalmine telling the rest of us of the impending absolute shit storm to come.

Or as,remarkably,not just our own metropolitan elitist cabal in Westminster,but hundreds of foreign govts too,keep insisting to an increasingly disbelieving audience that "we" are going to get through this.

Erm,umm,erm,umm...

DUMB INSOLENCE #16

 DUMB INSOLENCE #16

The Johnson government is so deep down in the merde of its own making that it needs to use a periscope just to find out what the hell is going on up above them in normal everyday society.

But that requires order,logic and purpose,which if they had any would,of course,mean they wouldn't be so deep down in the merde in the first place.

There is a quotation attributed to Sun-Tzu's,the legendary 5th.Century B.C.Chinese General, that "Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory and tactics without strategy is the noise of defeat".

Well,he got that one right.

They aren't brought before Parliament,they aren't debated or scrutinised in Parliament,they aren't voted on in Parliament.What are, "they" ?Laws promulgated by Ministerial fiat via Statutory Instrument.

The Public Health Act 1984 is their fig leaf in all of this wanton,capricious,totalitarian tyranny.

Oh and apparently there's been the first of the US Presidential debates just finished.Both candidates in dire need of a periscope of some sort.

DUMB INSOLENCE #15

 DUMB INSOLENCE #15

A popular English football commentator once declared, " It's deja-vu all over again !" And one might as well quote the persiflage of Soccer with as much reverance as you would the tortuous,soul-searching pronouncements of philosophers.Profundity is in the ear of the listener.

Syria,Libya,Yemen,Afghanistan,etc aside for one moment ;well quite a few moments actually,depends really how long you consider a "moment" to be nowadays.

And with the unfortunate advent of Covid-19 those moments have stretched themselves way beyond anything previously experienced by contemporary society.

June 30 marked 100 Days of national Lockdown.It has never,in effect,been lifted.

Our human,civil & democratic Rights and liberties lie as beaten up and unconscious in the darkened alleyway today as they did when the govt first instigated its nefarious strategy to impose its totalitarian plans.

Huge swathes of our country have had the tyrannical yoke of partial localised lockdown style restrictions imposed on them- remarkably indistinguishable from the preceding full national Lockdown.

Whoever first uttered that there is safety in numbers,clearly knew nothing about anything except their personal need to sound authoritative in the absence of reason and common sense which obviously weren't their strong suit.

And yet it seems that all nation states have succumbed to the same set of vapid,irrelevant and entirely redundant what they call measures to deal with Covid-19.

This is the rape of reason,the overthrow of democracy.

DUMB INSOLENCE #14

 DUMB INSOLENCE #14

The EU funded antidemocratic seditionist "Remain" campaign wreaked absolute havoc on the UK's constitutional parliamentary system and as a consequence of their nefarious actions manged to effectively delay the implementation of Brexit by 3 years.Their primary aim of a second reversible referendum was never attained,but the sum of all their foreign power influenced wrecking tactics in the end achieved almost quite as much.

With the largely over-rated and hyperbolised Covid-19,the same mood music is being played,only this time there are no malevolent alien powers at work behind the scenes; virtually every sovereign national state is managing to swing its own wrecking ball aimed squarely at its own economic and social well being.

And if the gears of this auto-nemesis are under the nominal command of the government and the metropolitan elites' political class, then it is only the ineluctable fact that "scientists" and "experts" are manufacturing and supplying the necessary intellectual grease that keeps those gears operable.And to compound matters, opinions and endemic turf - wars among the scientific/academic elites are the major propellant of the entire WHO designated "crisis".

Whilst purely on an aesthetic and philosophical level I am more than sanguine in wishing the global corporate capitalist order all the ill in the world; do they have to make such a racket as they slip toward their historically inevitable demise? It's keeping the neighbours up when they should be asleep dreaming the dreams of a bright new dawn -one that's capitalist free.