Richard Havers:It's about fairness and unfairness. It's about providing support to those who played by the rules but are struggling with rising prices. It's about making sure that a fair chance is provided to all.
Andrew Allison:
Like many of you I am sick and tired of being described as a racist the moment I bring up the subject of immigration. Articulate some views about gay adoptions that do not go along with the liberal consensus, and you are described as a homophobe and are squeezed out of the debate. If you don't go along with the jolly view that everything is wonderful in EU land, and you are a bigoted, little Englander. Politics has gone from the grassroots and is ruled centrally.
Sackerson:
All I'm looking for is a FISCAL conservative... And by the way, whatever happened to "moral suasion"? Why does everything have to be banned or compulsory? ... And maybe US demographics, like here in Britain, would be very different if the slaughter of the innocents hadn't happened - but we are all bending under the weight of a thousand daily coercions.
Cassandra:
With Palin we say, "pray (...) that there is a plan, and that plan is God's plan." That would be far much more attractive than the "world historical events" cabal who pretend their machinations are Acts of God, while they are actually thought up and steered by their own One World Totalitarian Collective agenda.
Daily Referendum:
Before I go any further I want to point out that neither Harry (to my knowledge) or I are raving anti Muslim loons. I am however worried that we could be running two very different systems of law. We have a system of law in this country and it should apply to every citizen regardless of race, colour, sex or religion. This story is running in the Sunday Mercury.
Debacle:
Having given up trying to have any decent, normal, honest, straightforward dialogue with public bodies, the obvious thing to do - apart from exiting the planet - was to write. The vital importance of keeping good records became obvious: these public bodies are exceptionally skilled at obfuscating and distorting and sending you off on wild goose chases and round and round the roundabout that, without a clear record, they can also send you round the bend. I reckoned that I may as well share it all publicly.
Your round-up of bloggers who are articulating important issues that we all need to at least be aware of is a great idea James.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a real person, one of the things I would do as part of my work was to organise/chair meetings (small 'p' politically-orientated) - some involving only VIPs and many involving very large numbers of individuals.
The rule of thumb used to be that for every person who turned up there were at least 100 at home who would have come along but for....[fill in your own reason for not getting out there and being vocal!]
I wonder if for every one of us here in the blogosphere there are maybe several thousand who are not so virtually vocal? I'm pretty sure that those of us who are articulate out here are not doing so because we are moaners by nature! All the bloggers I've read are actually giving some very positive and workable answers to the problems as well.
However many, it's becoming clearer and clearer how disgruntled the UK is with the way this particular adminstration has almost systematically eroded the fabric of life in the UK - and, even more shockingly, our collective moral and ethical values too. The fabric, the tangible infrastructure and systems can be rebuilt, but the loss of such guiding principles is parlous and possibly even irrecoverable.
We were talking and thought it might be a 50 year recovery time. Such damage done.
ReplyDeleteBefore the recovery, there will be the collapse. Then at least we will have the Ostriches on board too!
ReplyDeleteReally? 50 years...? Jiminy. That's awful to contemplate. Do you think they realise or have any idea how badly they've damaged the country/our nation?
ReplyDeleteThis isn't just the usual flagging fag-end of a gvt, this is farmore profound than that...sigh.
I fear you're right, Cherry. I fear that it will only be a collapse that will bring people out of their walking dream. How likely do you think such a collapse is? How do you envisage such a thing happening...?
50 years sounds about right but the lessons have still to be learnt and its quite likely the causes will be buried in the abstruse to confound the short collective memory. How quickly the memory of the 30's was erased?
ReplyDeleteI veer between Cherry's idea that there must be a collapse of sorts and yours Wolfie: that all the causes - and the evidence - will be buried away...we will not learn, perversely and defiantly, we refuse to learn.
ReplyDeleteEven now, when most of our public services are engaged in a massive project of withholding services covertly and justifying it by 'lack of resources' we are seeing the demise of a culture where we helped each other to help ourselves (values and ethics shot then!). Now, it's the rare public services worker who actually cares.
Even now, lawlessness abounds on our streets (ask the Neighbours from Hell website how many scores of thousands of members it has and how many hundreds of thousands of visitors it gets)...ASBOs aren't given, that's spin! They cost £30-50thousand EACH to apply with maintenance on top. No police force is going to ASBO more that a handful at that cost.
Yet all of us collude in pulling the duvet back over our collective eyes. Which enables, as Wolfie indicates, the gvt to tuck the reality away and spin like crazy when it can't do that.
Sorry, on my rostrum now! But you get the gist!
I think we're all clear what is going down now. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteI'm really interested James, do you think this has anything to do with the EU project of dismantling national statutory bodies in order to put EU-wide agencies in place?
ReplyDeleteHaven't really thought much about this, and don't know half enough, but there HAS ot be some rationale behind whatever's going down...
Deb
I don't think the EU is a major actor in the grant scheme; somewhere between a bit part player and a willing stooge. Naive ideals can be easily subverted to any cause.
ReplyDelete