What a mess

WHAT A MESS
At run up to election time we all listen to the slanging matches between the political parties. We hear the same old promises re-hashed, and oh yes it’s all going to be different this time, but somehow I doubt that things will change for the better no matter which party wins. There are so many sour aspects of the current political situation that fuels reluctant voters’ doubts, for example:

The MP who probably does an excellent job aiding and advising his or her local constituents obediently blends in herd-like with following the party line when the party whips demand it, even though this often means voting completely opposite to the local constituents’ wishes. This is not democracy in action it is rule dictated by the leadership. Laws are passed virtually unread and unopposed by MPs, and often passed late at night when only a handful of members are present. Is the elected-by-the-voters MPs' role in Parliament to simply be ‘yes-men’ to the party leaders and their cabinets?

Thanks to Tony Blair and Co the UK got dragged into America's corporate empire building wars of which, despite the arrival of Saint Obama, there is no sign of them ending, and yet none of the UK election spiels currently drenching every available moment of the media have mentioned ending the ongoing wars or even mentioned the wars at all.

Swindles have abounded and more swindles come to light each day. The ongoing, well publicised, MPs’ expenses scandal, and the vast toxic debt created with their seniors’ approval by Porsche-driving, obscenely bonus-enhanced precious young bank employees lending far too much to borrowers (who in turn should have known their personal borrowing limits) and then selling on to other banks the same bad debts as derivatives. With very few exceptions no one in parliament or the banking worlds have been punished or prosecuted. The government makes sure that it is the taxpaying public that rescues the banks, and the banks consolidate their positions. Meanwhile no matter whether taxpayers have lived dangerously on credit or have carefully lived within their means, we all have become brainwashed victims of carefully laid-on guilt with the idea boosted from all political parties and bankers that we the public have to repay the bank-created gigantic toxic bad debts. On top of this we all are expected to continue paying for going to war for reasons that leave most of us baffled and suspecting that the reasons are more to do with protecting oil pipelines rather than fighting terrorism.

Everything, gas, electricity, telephone, railways etc previously owned by the British public, including most council housing, have been privatized or sold off. UK Manufacturers have eagerly shunted manufacturing jobs abroad to cheaper work forces so that now we are mostly a nation of unemployed service providers competing with an unbroken flow immigrants for the few available jobs. What have we left to conserve?

David Brittain
22 Thorns Way
Walton on the Naze
Essex CO14 8SB