Ordinary people's extraordinary stories & Everyday Conversations Regarding Mental Health

The Tim Heale Podcasts S4 E8 Tim's Rant's

September 30, 2021 Tim Heale Season 4 Episode 8
Ordinary people's extraordinary stories & Everyday Conversations Regarding Mental Health
The Tim Heale Podcasts S4 E8 Tim's Rant's
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In this episode I give a solution to a problem that need addressing post haste because we cannot keep relying on the Military when ever there is a crisis we need another way and I have the solution, also I talk about the infrastructure problem we have in this country.

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Speaker 0 (0s): The Tim Heale Podcasts, ordinary people's extraordinary stories. 

Speaker 2 (17s): Welcome to series 4 of the Tim Heale podcast in this series. It's Tim having a rent and that's me. So if you enjoy having a bit of a rant and going on about what's going on in today's society, stay tuned. If we go, when I listened to me rent, well, it can always turn. Welcome to another Tim's rent. 

And this time I'm going to have a bit of a go about solving a solution. We all know that recently the army is being called in to solve the, the fuel crisis. We haven't run out of fuel. We haven't run out of fuel drivers. What we've run out of is common sense. People running around panic, Boeing, just beyond belief. 

So what I'm going to do is find a solution every single time that there's a national crisis or some soul, oh, get the army look a few years ago when we had all that rain that came down and it was flooding down the <inaudible> 20 to get the army, to bolster up, fill sandbags and stuff like that. The army has got better things to do with its time. Then go around solving national problems. 

So is a solution. Now going back some 50, 60, 70 years after the second world war we had conscription and we had national service will ease a new take on national service. And this could solve lots and lots of problems. What we do is Kate's from 18 to 25 that leaving school or leaving full-time education, what they do is they're conscripted. 

And then they go off to what we call community national service. And what this'll entail is LP run on the loins of what national service used to be. So they get conscripted in, they have a medical note of estimate, and then they spend the first six weeks don't order square bashing, running around don't PT, learning new stuff, new skills that that's all discipline. That's taught respect for others. 

That's all general stuff that makes people a better person. If you ask anybody that was in national service, they'll all tell you it was a best time in their lives. So what I do is they spend the first six weeks running around, getting fit, learning, respect for others, doing drill. So they're then a cohesive unit. 

So what you do, you're not going down and you build them up and it's proved time and time. Again, there was a program a few years ago, it was called Ladd's army to start with, and then it went to Badladz army. So they got a load of bad legs together and they put them through 1950 style conscription. So they were the back then they were national service soldiers. Yeah, he's going to be difficult. It's going to be tough. 

We'll adapt it to the snowflake generation. What you do, you adapt it slightly. But in the same principles, you make it difficult. You make it challenging. So the first six weeks they're running around that learning all of this stuff, they're learning to be, you break them down and then you start building them up. Exactly the same as what I do in the army or Navy or the air force, they all work on the same principle of taking these guys and knock them down and then start building them up. 

And then what you do is the first six weeks is, is, is the toughest. You take away their mobile phones. You take away older, normal comforts of today's society. You get rid of all the gaming, all apps, all rubbish. You start them at six o'clock in the morning, you get them up. You teach them how to washing shaven and personal hygiene. You teach them how to make their beds, how to look after their kit. 

So you issue them a uniform of some sort. Then you take them out. You're doing some PT in the morning. Then you own a drill square. Then you go in for lectures on all sorts of stuff. And after they finished their first six weeks, they will be much, much better people. So you give them a week's leave. So they go back home. They tell to their parents, or you get parents to turn up and see him pass off to square. 

So they they've achieved something. They've they've got photos first, six weeks. They're a cohesive unit. And I will work really well together. They go off over a week's leave and then they come back for the next section. And the next session, what you do is you train them and you train them to do stuff that they draft the army in fall. So you train them for disaster relief. So there's you, you teach him how to fill up sandbags. 

You teach him all these new skills. So you get them to learn, teach them how to drive so they can drive trucks. They can drive coaches. So if there's a crisis, or when I finish this process, they can go out and sort of ride a world and they can get a job as a driver. And this is, this is something that needs to come full circle. What you need to do is, and this, this will come naturally, but you need to train or, or you need to get people to treat drivers with respect. 

And this will come in time as with any other discipline. So you're teaching them all of this stuff, the same, why they draft the army in to sort out these big problems. They got the army in when, when they needed ambulance drivers or they got the army in for the vaccine rollout. This is what these people can do. You can have on standby to go. 

A mini snow is to go and out, help out with disaster relief. So you're teaching them what the army do or the military does for this disaster planning stuff. So you're giving these people the skillsets to be able to, to do that sort of work. And it will knock on when they go back into society and get into the, to reform the NHS. 

For instance, let's teach people how to, to run an effective service. And that's what this community national service saying, oh, by all about. And it will have a knock-on effect to the rest of their lives. You ask, say, anybody that's been in the military that has gone through this process. They know respect for others. 

They know how to work. When I left the army, I found it really, really difficult transitioning into civilian life. I found it really frustrating. The attitude of people towards work and you see it all over the place. Oh, how many sick days to I get how many sick days am I entitled to a year? 

That shouldn't be a question. If I had on sick days, as part of your package, you get your leave, you get your, your holidays. And most firms give, at least I know it was 28 days plus the eight days bank holidays. And then people are all, I need some sick days added on to that. 

No, you don't. You don't add on sick days if you're not sick. So there's somebody else that you need to drum into people about having sick days. And again, the need to, to furlough furlough is stopping and there's always a million people are going to be affected by it. And there's a million vacancies. Apparently at the moment, we've got a shortage of heavy goods drivers, and they're going to draft the army oil power. 

Well, the army at the moment is somewhere around about 60, 60, 6,000, maybe 70,000 out of that, there's probably somewhere around about 25,000 deployed around the world, doing staff to protect us the rest. You've probably got about a quarter of that on the bef broken to have health issues that have got some sort of breakage and there. 

And the army goes through a whole process of trying to get these people back to fight and fit. And it takes ages. And when I was working in welfare part, my job was looking after those wounded soldiers and the whole process that trying to the, the, the idea is to get them back into work as, as, as quick as possible and as fit as possible. And if they're not capable of being fully fit and deployable, then I look at transitioning them out. 

And as fair, if, if you're not up to, you're not fit enough to do the job, then you should move on to something you are. And when you do transition out of the army, they go for a whole process of resettlement. They put you on courses. Most people that have done four years are entitled to a couple of weeks of resettlement courses. 

And I give you all that training that they transition you into society. So you can then become a citizen. No can do a job. And these guys, along with myself, find it really frustrating going into the civilian workplace and the attitude of people to work life is it is demoralizing at times. And it's why a lot of people try to get back into the military, but the military can only do so much. 

So the community national service program would work. They would do six weeks square bashing and building them up and have a week off. They'd come back. And then as those specific sort of disaster relief type of training, you teach him how to drive lorries. You teach them how to plan for disasters and disaster relief. So they can be called upon in the future. 

Should something happen and you give them, I know suffering like maybe eight weeks of that sort of training to give them lots and lots of practical skills. Then I could go off and have another week's leave. And then I come back for the final stage, which will be them completing some sort of project going out into the, to the wider world, into society, into local communities and doing some community projects. 

For instance, if you've got an area that has got a problem with rubbish, you can send them in. And I can clear that area. If we got an area that needs some serious, serious rebuilding, some regeneration, you can bring them in to use our sort of skills. So you're giving them something to work to. You're giving them some building skills. You're giving them some life skills. 

So they may be do I. Now another eight weeks of community projects can have a final weeks leave and then I'll come back. And the last bit is you, you take them off and you give them some adventurous training. You take them off to do some adventurous training, whether it be a ski trip somewhere, whether it be a climbing trip somewhere, whether it be a sailing trip somewhere, you give them some sort of adventurous training, and it's going to take them out of their comfort zone to be able to build up their resilience. 

And at the end of this, this time, now there'll be so much better people going into society. And if we can give a young people that this will go on over decades and we will become a much, much better society. So people are saying, draft your army. And so out of this problem, why don't they draft the Navy in to sort out the migrants crossing the channel problem. 

They've got the vessels to do it. They could bring in the Royal Marines to help out. And Raul Navy worked together all the time and they can patrol and turn these boats back. And the ones that do get road, pick them up, stick them on a ferry, take them straight back. It's a simple answer. And if the French don't like it, they can lump it. The French to kick it off at the moment don't, we're taking away their rights to fishing our waters. 

Hang on a minute. Our waters, we spot don't quite get that it's UK waters that are coming into taking UK fish. How would they feel if you K fishermen going today? Waters was not a lot of point actually, because they've, they've actually, overfished their waters. They don't have any fish in France side at a channel. Cause Frisch is so scared that they'll just get swallowed up, but that's going to happen here. 

If we continue to let the French into our waters, we'll have no fish left. I think stop them coming into our waters altogether. Now solve the problem. So the next thing, the next big thing where we're going furnace with the illegal migrants that are already here, put them onto the scheme, let them earn their Cape, let them, they want to work, get them in into camps and in, get them out into the community, do a community projects until their cases are sorted out and give them free schoolmates, three square meals a day, give them a roof over their head, set a nice a wall, give them some clothes and give them the tools to go out and do some of this work in the local communities until they've got a right to stay or they return them back to where they came from. 

That would also maybe stop some of them wanting to come here in the first place. If they think that they're going to be put to work and feel good about putting people to work. There's summary like a million people in Dole, maybe look at getting him into work. Maybe they are work shy. There was, you don't hear so much about it nowadays, but a generations of families that have never, ever worked a day in their life. 

And I've only ever sponged off an estate. When you think about it, they start sponging off the state. It sponging off of taxpayers, all these, all these funds that the government announced and everything like that. It's all government money. No, it's taxpayers' money is the same as again, a big EU grant. It's not an EU grant. 

It's EU taxpayers grant. It's a tax payers that fund all this. This is a bit that they people kind of forget. It's UK, European taxpayers, that fund the whole project. It's tax payers that pay for everything without, without a tax payers, you don't have a civil service. 

You don't have the military. You don't have the NHS. You don't have a police force. You don't have a Firefall firing force. You don't have an ambulance force. You don't have civil servants. It's all taxpayer-funded. And if the private sector isn't generating funds, you don't get a public sector because there's no money for a public sector. 

If the private sector isn't paying into it. Yeah, but you say, well, the public sector pay taxes. Yeah. But where's that money come from in. The first place is come from the private sector. If the private sector doesn't make any money, nobody gets anything. And we're all, all in the same boat. We all have the same issue. If the private sector isn't making any money, the public sector doesn't function. 

You don't get your hospitals. You don't get public servants. You don't get pensions. You don't get welfare because there's nothing coming in because the private sector is not painting. So indeed, to look at this sensibly and get the private sector up and running as quick as possible and giving them the opportunity to make as much as possible. 

Because if the private sector is doing extremely well, then they're pay more tax into the system. It's simple as that. So for society to be able to function, we need to build in respect for it. And to do that, we need to get this community national service up and running as quick as possible. It's going to take a little bit of time to get it sorted out properly. 

And we need to take back some of these army camps that we're looking at selling off, refurb them, turn them into proper camps where you you've got national service community, national service kids to turn up. And he brings her in and new batch every week or every other week. So you get a sausage factory guy in, and these guys coming through, they're getting trained up and square by soon to they gain trained out with physical building up their physicality. 

So you're giving them something to work to. And in time we will have a much, much better country, but to let things go on as they are just after, oh, anytime there's a crisis. Oh, get the army and get the army. No, that's not the answer. The answer is to produce our own community national service that can be called upon in a crisis so we can deal with all these issues. 

Without calling in the military, the military has got enough on his plate, protecting us around the world. At the moment, we've got a carrier strike group down in the south China sea looking after our interests down there, China is one of our biggest problems. The world's going to face look at what's happened. China has got its finger interpret just about everything in this country. It's been in boy and up infrastructure. 

Just look up what they've taken over. Just look at what they got involved in. Just look at where the threat is going to come from. We can't rely on the Americans, not why Biden's in pro in charge. Look what he did to us over Afghanistan dropped us right in a shit right in a shit bomb. Oh, we're putting out tomorrow well and gave us no chance whatsoever to stand up and keep the lid on the thing. 

The UK went around to other NATO allies and asked them for help to bolster up the 3000 odd Americans that were pulling out. We could have put in Miami, the German air force, the French air force and us as well, maybe the Italians get in other NATO countries to put in maybe a, just a squadron of a fighter jets to be able to support the Afghan national army to support the Afghan government. 

No warmth are. We can't do that. And now look at the mess that we've got. Just look at the messages that that's come of it, but China is on the doorstep. Russia is also a bit of a problem, but nowhere near as much of a problem as what China's going to be in the future, China is taking over the world. China wants to be an empire and they can do it. 

Oh God. That was awesome. Do it. So some people say that they're running out of money running out of energy, or I don't think so. Somebody else that we need to look at doing in this country is taking back control of our utilities. I think the only way, yes. Solar. Yes, wind. But we also need these micro nuclear reactors. And if we get a dozen or so of these smaller nuclear actors, we can be self-sustaining for our needs. 

It's all well and good going green. Yes. Let's protect the planet and all the rest of it. But if everybody buys an electric car, what's that going to do to electric consumption? Where is that electric going to come from? Because at the moment, we are struggling a little bit with generating enough power for ourselves at the moment wind and solar is part of what's coming in. 

But at the moment we rely heavily on gas and that gas is coming from Russia. And the Russians are talking about turning it off. Then we'll, we'll be then where we're we're B. So I think the answer to our solution is to build these small nuclear power stations. They can be built fairly quickly and upper mining, fairly swiftly producing enough electricity to power up all these electric cars that we've got to buy in the future. 

Well, that's great. But if we don't and we try and rely on the Russians for gas, they, the French for electric, we import an awful lot of electric from the French, just down the road from here, they're bringing in a big cable from France into a dateless to supply the south of England. We've electric from France. Why is my question? 

Why can't we have a small nuclear powered power station instead of importing stuff from France off of our energy companies are owned by foreigners. Most of our utilities are owned by foreign companies. A lot of Chinese, some of them Russian, a lot of them, French ADF is a French company. Why have we sold off all our utilities to foreign countries is still a clever thing to do if you asked me. 

And I think it's time that we started taking somebody's stuff back, Boris needs to get his finger out. If he was going down his green cream, then he needs to look at how he's going to do it because wind and solar isn't going to do it. We need small nuclear reactors, not big ones, not like a size where one night we need small ones, rolls Royce, produce them for the submarines. 

So you need a few, a few dozen of those around the country with suppliers, with all the power needs for decades to come, yes, it's going to produce a bit of nuclear waste, but we can find ways of safely disposing of it. So anyway, there's food for fault. We need to start taking back all our utilities. 

We need to start training our young people and giving them some discipline, giving them some pride in our country. And the only way to do that is by this community national service scheme, once they've all gone through that, then they can look at what they want to do. I can overstay in that sort of sector and go and join the military. They want to go then onto university, they'll have a new set of skills to be able to do that. 

They want to go into different industries. We've got the tools to do that for them, but we need to get this underground. We need to get this up and running as soon as we can, the longer we leave it, the bigger the problem. So for the time being, hopefully that's given some thought, let's start pushing this agenda of having a community national service that's going to work for the whole country. 

Let's have some skills for these young people. Let's build up the pride in this country. Once again, let's have a country we can be proud of. Thank you for listening. Thanks for listening. I look forward to the next one. Thank you for listening to my podcasts. If you have enjoyed them and your podcast app allows, please leave a comment and share it with your friends. 

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