A STATE OF FLUX

The UK used to be a fairly nice place to live, I admit we had the Northern Ireland thing and other “troubles” but all in all it was a green and peasant place.

We knew where we stood, the Government Governed, the Teachers taught, and the Doctors healed.

Sadly we know have a United Kingdom of doubt, the Government has managed to alienate most of us with their abysmal management of the economy, their high level of “sleaze” and greed, and this applies to all parties, not just Labour, the NHS has become a target led, top heavy, management zoo that cares more for status than patients, and the teachers are boycotting exams for pupils aged 11 because they think it is harmful and does not give school children the right breadth of education.

Millions more are on the dole, hundreds of thousands stand to lose their homes, thousands are dying needlessly in hospitals and the rest of us are struggling just to pay the bills, and let’s not forget the swine flu, which is flu and not much more. So far at least.

So why are we in this predicament, is it because people no longer care, or greed is the order of the day, or perhaps it is because we are all exhausted, exhausted by the never ending train of change that seems to vomit from this Government, they have changed the education system, the NHS, the banking system, the benefit system, the lives of all of us and unfortunately not for the better.

The Government is falling to pieces, the knives are out, and pretenders are hiding in the bushes like cats waiting for a bird to land on the lawn, they deny their ambitions and pander to the lacklustre Prime Minister who knows he should go but pride and arrogance prevent him.

The opposition parties snipe away from a great distance, putting the crosshairs on the back of the Government and squeezing the trigger, hoping for an election and their chance to take power, with promises of making it better, and hoping for their “fifteen minutes” of fame.

But it will make no difference, a new Government will still have the problems we have now, they do not have a solution, just a mish-mash of badly considered changes that will not stem the tide of destruction, but will merely nibble away at the real problem.

The real problem?

The politicians have forgotten one thing; they are there to serve the country, to make it a better place to live, to educate the young, to treat the sick, to care for the old, the disabled, those unable to work because of mental illness, to ensure that ordinary people have a good standard of living so that they can raise their children to be decent human beings.

They are there because we put them there, so that they could collaborate with each other and produce laws that protect us not the criminals, to improve the NHS so that Staffordshire and Gosport do not happen, to make sure baby P is safe, to ensure that the old do not have to sell their homes in order to finance care.

The Government has failed, the opposition parties have failed, the country is failing, we are confused and angry, and rightly so, we have been failed by politicians that have lost their way.

The answer?

I don’t have one, most of us don’t have one, the political parties certainly don’t have one, but one has to found, not by one party perhaps but by co-operation and acceptance that no one party has all the answers but maybe, just maybe together they can change direction and give us the country we deserve, and re-grow our green and pleasant land for the people.



“Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is only time we have.” Art Buchwald


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