Part One

They're back! After pretty much a two-year hiatus, the visitors from abroad to the Highlands of Scotland are back. And, from what I see, they are here in their droves.....

In contrast to the absence of foreign visitors, the summers of 2020 and 2021 saw a goodly number of tourists from 'down south' in England and Wales, many of them trundling up the motorways in camper vans, which apparently irritate some of the locals, due to their slow and bulky presences on the less-than-perfect roads causing obstruction, queues and jams. 

Families accustomed to a fortnight in southern Spain or on some Greek island had to make do with a summer break among the rain showers and midges of north-west Scotland. Some, it seems, are continuing with this closer-to-home option, and the influx of visitors from Manchester and Birmingham is unlikely to dry up.

Wind, rain, waterproof leggings - the Scottish version of the Great Outdoors - is almost chic today. There are people who find the chaos and authoritarian quality of travel by plane tiring and tiresome, and the additional difficulties imposed during the plandemic have proved to be the last straw. Who wants to be herded around and bossed about by airport officials and bossy people in Easyjet uniforms, when they could be on the open road in their camper van, or wrapping up for a brisk stroll across the windswept heather and on to empty yet beautiful coastal dunes? Or what about a walk up a mountain, even???

Part Two

There are aspects to the tourist industry that I quite like. It's relatively 'democratic'; that is to say, many people reap the benefits of its existence. Owners of small hotels, B and Bs, local food producers and makers of crafts and clothes. It encourages individual initiative and ingenuity.

'Travel broadens the mind': not necessarily true. Vast numbers of tourists do little more than bounce from place to place on a programme set up by tour operators. 'Take a photo of this.... and this.... and this...... these are the places to go, end of story.....'. There remains, however, a substantial minority of people for whom visiting foreign places does constitute a life enhancing and enriching experience.  

The reasons I put forward as 'good' for tourism are precisely those why the WEF 'people', and cabal-types in general, consider it to be a 'bad' thing. For years it's been apparent that they don't approve of masses of people moving around the planet easily. The process has been made progressively more problematic, with ever-increased 'security' at airports, the instilling of guilt about flying because of your carbon footprint, overbooked flights, and now the extra hassles of the convid era: testing, experimental shot requirements, ever-changing rules and regulations for each individual country. Not the stuff of a quiet and relaxing holiday.

The dream of the WEF/WHO/UN 'people' is for everybody to be living in a state of permanent lockdown, effectively: in little identikit condominiums, going nowhere fast. You see, mobile people are extremely difficult to control, and their journeys to other places might give them all sort of inconvenient ideas. If you can keep people in a domestic cage that they will call 'home', their perceptions can be far more easily shaped, through carefully-selected information fed them through television, computer, and phone screens. This, it goes without saying, will constitute 99% of their input, as face-to-face direct communications will be greatly reduced.  

The Scottish misgovernment, managed (mismanaged) by the Scottish National Party under Nicola Sturgeon, is a kind of WEF/globalist cabal in miniature. Predictably, it holds a similarly dim view of the tourist industry.

Five years ago, and in contrast to many other industries, tourism was truly booming in Scotland, and presumably bringing large amounts of revenue into a sort-of country that is not overly blessed with financial resources. From what I could see, the industry received remarkably little encouragement from the misgovernment functionaries. Activity in the tourist sector went unnoticed, or at least un-remarked-upon. The only action I can recall was the powers-that-pretend-to-be deciding to close down a good number of public toilets in more remote rural places because of lack of funds.

It will not have escaped the attention of the readers, no doubt, that funds are never any problem when authorities actually want to do something - plenty of dosh was immediately forthcoming for furlough payments, masks for everyone in the NHS, convid shots for all and sundry. Yet 'we can't find the money to keep a few toilets in the Highlands open'. Yeeeees.......

The where-to-pee issue is relevant to the tourist industry, since a considerable part of it involves coach tours travelling around the country. Coach tours which appeal especially to the more elderly among us. And, as is well known, the elderly among us sometimes need access to a loo more frequently and urgently than younger members of society. The result was various coach tour operators actually cancelling trips that they offered, simply due to lack of suitable facilities.

Part Three

The more senior tourists have to be the most despised. They are the 'useless eaters' that Henry Kissinger famously (or infamously) referred to. Nice guy, I'd love to have him for my grandad. A great idea would be to produce badges and t-shorts with the slogan 'Proud to be useless' and distribute them to some of our more senior citizens.

The notion of 'useless eaters' feeds into a number of demonic scenarios today. It is testament to the pathetically narrow, small, and heart-free minds of the Kissingers of the world (and there are plenty of them around; just look at the front pages of the messengers of disinformation, the national media). 

We have descended far from the notions of more 'primitive' societies around the world, which have traditionally honoured and respected their elders as repositories of experience and wisdom that is necessary for the continuation of a humane world. This is a luxury that the moderns can no longer afford, it seems. Lies, lies, bullshit, and more lies....     

No, tourism isn't the kind of industry that the Scottish misgovernment likes at all. What they like is something like windfarms - far more to their taste. In contrast to the democratic angle of the tourist sector, windfarms, like all other officially-sanctioned producers of energy are strictly part and parcel of the rigidly-hierarchical power structure of control.

Typically, windfarm construction is in the hands of multinational corporations - many of them who feature in Scotland are registered in Italy, the Netherlands, pretty much anywhere besides Scotland. They are part of a system which does not empower the individual. Rather, it renders people pathetically dependent on a centralised system of, in this case, energy production.

Obey or else; the same old familiar story. Look closely, and government and major windfarm producers are members of the same old club. A club that is exclusive by dint of its absence of empathy and fellow feeling. A club that can fairly be termed a club for psychopaths. Do you really want these people trying to run the world for you??!!