Boaty McBoatface II - Sails the World!
A few months ago when we learned that there was a possibility that the electricity supply was being threatened to be turned off and btw it still is…We said that the only way to comfortably come through a major black out was to live on a boat as boats are and can be made to be completely self-sufficient, with you having little or no skills, which is me basically.
So I decided to put my money where my mouth is and buy a boat with my partner. Actually she is a small ship built by the army in 1984 out of steel, which means she is a very secure little ship, a mini-destroyer in fact and built to sail anywhere in the world.
If any of you know me and know what I do, then it will be no surprise that there is a scandal with the government already brewing.
It may well be small now and seemingly insignificant but that’s what people said about the “Cash for Questions” scandal, the “2012 London Olympic Security Scandal” and the Phone Hacking Scandal, the Pedophiles' in Westminster etc. all of which I outed as an investigative journalist (part-time) I was called Ben Fellows then, I have changed my name to Zed Phoenix for various reasons but mainly for esoteric ones.
So here’s another scandal which involves government corruption at the highest level and like all the other major scandals threatens to bring down the government institutions, end Cabinet positions and see the resignation of the Prime Minister. (If the wrong choices are made) You think I’m joking but “Cash for Questions” made John Major resign.
In 2014, the UK Government announced that funding for a new polar research vessel had been granted. A seemingly noble, ambitious project, authorized to replace two older vessels within the British Antarctic Survey’s fleet.
So, with construction work on the £150 million, 15,000-ton surveying behemoth set to begin in July 2016, the UK Government decided to give the taxpayers – who, had paid for the vessel – a little slice of ownership. We had paid for it…think about it, we own the boat…anyway…back to the story….
In March 2016, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), a silly name if ever I heard one, announced that members of the public were being asked for suggested names for this new expensive nautical PR disaster.
In other words a fake PR exercise to get public engagement, with a department nobody knows existed who had just spent 150million quid of our money for a boat that nobody knows what it does or what they do on it. There also could be a child trafficking element to this story as well but that’s for another article.
Now, NERC had a rough idea of what might happen, and did announce that they would have the final say over naming the boat, and the public’s choice might not make it. So, with the naming poll open and live on the interweb, things quickly ramped up from tame to very silly.
James Hand, a now former BBC employee and a public relations professional, blew up on Twitter after (jokingly) suggesting the name “Boaty McBoatface” – a homage to an owl named through the 2012 “Adopt-a-Bird” program who became an internet sensation. “What was that owl’s name?” I hear you ask. Well, it was none other than Hooty McOwlface, equally ridiculous but okay for a bird I guess.
Well, we all know how the internet genuinely goes viral from time to time. So it really should come as no surprise that Boaty McBoatface unlike the Covid-19 pandemic actually went viral and spread around the world within hours.
Within 24 hours it had rocketed to the top spot in the poll – a poll with 7,034 suggestions in total.
Whilst not surprising in retrospect, Boaty McBoatface fever swept the UK and around the world – James Hand himself even went as far as apologizing to the NERC on Twitter after his suggestion had grown legs of its own and gone sprinting away from him. Nobody knows why he apologized, other than somebody was blaming him for a suggestion and he was afraid of losing his job.
But alas, it was too late – the stage was set for a gloriously daft victory on behalf of the internet. Hoorah!
Then within a very short time the government launched one of their Cabinet Ministers flying at 35,000 thousand feet to drop a weapon of mass destruction on Great Britain. Enter Science Minister Jo Johnson stage left (yes and I mean communist party anti-democratic left, loves the Chinese state and social credit system left, hates Britain and the British people left …okay) he announces on May 6, 2016, that the decision had been made to name the ship the Sir David Attenborough. WT actual F?
The public all over the world was furious and rightly so. The reality was that another corrupt government institution, who the general public don’t know they even funded. They wanted to engage with the British public and when the voting had finished a consensus was formed and that was Boaty McBoatface had achieved more in the voting than any other name by thousands. But typically like all corrupt government institutions and NERC is certainly now corrupt to the very core, they backed down and decided to rename the boat the RSS Sir David Attenborough.
To reverse this PR nightmare that the government had created all by itself, all they needed was “Sir David Attenborough” to have said let’s call the boat Boaty McBoatface himself but he didn’t, he just accepted the rancid honor.
When a direct democracy vote happens or referendum as the government likes to call direct democracy, then it’s imperative that the government stick to the results not matter what. So they overturned calling their ship Boaty McBoatface what’s next reversing the decision to leave the E.U? The implications of what’s happened are massive and continue to this very day. Freedom Day is July 19th, we will be back to normal...
Boaty Mcboatface, represents the end of democracy. When the government can’t even have a bit of fun with the public you know it’s over. They did eventually call their underwater drone Boaty Mcboatface but frankly hiding something underwater just underlines how they really feel about the British public.
And so the promise that was made that Boaty McBoatface would sail the seas doing amazing research and making new discoveries will never happen and that’s sad for Boaty and the British public who after a year of home imprisonment, tyranny via the medical establishment and the private billionaires club deserve to have a smile put on their face’s. Just a few moments of humor, When we think that out there is Boaty McBoatface but alas it wasn’t to be until now. Que dramatic music dun, dun durrrrhhhh!
So me and my partner decided to call our boat Boaty McBoatface II, having the vessel registered officially or at least the paper work is going though now. We are about to do our renaming ceremony and then we are going to leave around 8th August to circumnavigate the world giving Boaty Mcboatface II, the opportunity she didn’t have with the mean and nasty people who think they’re better than us both in the government but also at all this so called “science” institution called NERC.
I mean what is it they actually do all day, with our tax payer money? As of writing this article the RSS David Attenborough is anchored off the east coast doing nothing just costing us, the British public, money.
So we are proud to name our new vessel Boaty McBoatface II, we are respecting the British public and the worlds decision to have a boat named something that represents freedom of choice and respects the democratic process. Boaty McBoatface II will bring joy and happiness to everyone, yes it’s a silly ridiculous name but it’s our name, it represents the British sense of humor, like Monty Python, Only Fools and Horses, Lilly Savage, Little Britain and fried Mars bars and chips.
Boaty McBoatface II, is hope that even in the darkest times there is a light, that can put a smile on our face, hope for a future without tyranny, oppression and strange events that serve the political class but disenfranchises the hard working families and people of this once great seafaring nation.
So please support Boaty McBoatface II sails the world as we embark on our mission to bring love, joy and happiness into people’s lives wherever we go. Whilst we aren’t “scientists” and our vessel isn’t an Antarctic research vessel, we will endeavor to sail the ship around the world discovering how to live off grid in a realistic way and our ambition is to go to Antarctica and have a Pot Noodle or two, giving Boaty McBoatface II, the adventure that the British Antarctic Survey where too afraid or unwilling to do.
Let’s send a message to the government, that you may not listen to us or take the British people seriously, even when we’re having fun but you will not take our freedom and as long as Boaty Mcboatface sails the world, hope remains for a better future for us all.
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Author: Zed Phoenix
