- Big Society ? Bull Shit. If they're planning to make us run our own 'communities', provide our own services etc, but STILL have to pay taxes (which up till now were a public coffer to pay for the services etc) when oh when is someone going to suggest the first thing we should do is get rid of 'the government' altogether??
It is a sad indictment that the two things that post war governments did for the good of their 'citizens' - the vote for women and the NHS - have back-fired so badly. Women are as disenfranchised now as they have ever been, possibly more so, with the internet. The NHS may well be the straw that will break our back, as a Nation. It was devised at a time when the population was healthier (a diet of home grown and basic foods, tho' boring and tasteless, has been shown to be more than adequate, and much healthier than our 'fast-foods' and supermarket, plastic packaged, E numbered, added sugared etc...) and far more optimistic than today. Willing to 'go that extra mile' and 'pull together'. Vaccines and immunisations were being developed that promised greater health to our children. Post war growth of housing and manufacturing promised health, wealth and happiness for all. The 60's blossomed in that euphoria, and are still a beacon, fifty years on, of a time when patriotism, pride in our Country and what it had achieved, could achieve and did achieve, in music, literature and scientific discovery was at an all-time high.
What NO ONE could have predicted then, in their worst nightmares, was that a series of complacent, selfish, over paid, out-of-touch, lying, cheating, whoring, over-privileged, bimbling idiots would grab hold of all that promise, and bit by bit, over the last four decades, sell our proud Nation down the river.
One man, in his worst nightmare DID see the consequence of one of the more profligate, unnecessary and self-destructive parliamentary decisions. A decision that in one blow, displayed a gross lack of confidence in the people who had elected it to protect and serve them, and set in motion entirely predictable events that have rendered the British people helpless and hog-tied in the face of a very real and devastating Invasion. His name was ENOCH POWELL.
There has been plenty of blood in the streets since then. Murder. Infanticide. Honour killings. Female castration. Knife 'culture'. Gun 'culture'. Killing children and albinos in the name of witchcraft/voo-doo. Rioting and looting.
All have happened and continue to happen in our green and pleasant land.
More than enough for a river.....So why isn’t something done?
Because it all generates money in one form or another. Hospitals benefit, so their shareholders are happy; Prisons benefit; Builders; Manufacturers; Newspapers…anything that is corporately owned and is run coldly and cynically as a profit making business.
Add to that 9-11, the Underground bombs in London. Suicide bombers... More than rivers of blood. There are Oceans of blood to come. And all our ELECTED leaders do is tell us to put up, shut up and pay up.
Taxing the things we can't live without.
Brainwashing us with glamour and celebrity, bright colours and flashing lights, which for hours every day hold us in thrall to the frivolous. The unnecessary. The pointless. The mindless. We know it. YOU KNOW IT. Think about it...what would you be doing if you could just get away from it?
Ask yourself how would it benefit a small group of 'leaders' to have a brainwashed slave population who believed their only purpose in life is to pay taxes and consume...?
Sure we should care about our communities. Of course we could manage them.
(We did long before there was 'democracy', 'government', taxes, money or consumer 'culture'. Which is NOT culture now, but a cynical, heartless, corporatized system of enslavement.)
Sure people will work voluntarily for a good cause, for something worthwhile. Benefiting their fellow man. But only if everyone is pulling in the same direction and the goal is clear.
NOT if they are second class citizens in a collapsing, dead-ended society from which all rights and involvement have been stripped for decades, in the name of a 'free society' that is nothing like free, and a 'democracy' that ensures a small autocratic elite continues to drain us dry of all sense of National Identity, hope and self-respect.
NOT if the deal is -"You do our work, for nothing, (care of elderly, care of disabled, Libraries etc) and we'll just keep collecting the taxes." In effect, our taxes would go to pay them - for collecting the taxes. And nothing else.
So I say - Big Society = BULLSHIT !
We’ll do it, yes, because our biological imperative is to survive.
But we’ll do it on OUR terms…
It’s time to do away with medieval class structure, unequal distribution of land, pointless hours in schools that offer nothing but addiction to the corporate drug (greed) and mass child-minding. Time to opt out of a world that has made promises to you all your life and never kept them*. In return, keeping you one step behind the carrot, using up your strength, intelligence and life in the name of ‘profit’. Time to take more than responsibility for our actions – take control of them.
*Who remembers the first box of Soap powder? We’d never need another one…only fork out for a washing machine…and insurance because it wasn’t built to last…and a new kitchen to put it in… and now there’s another kind of soap powder – at least it has a different name – and it must be better because they say it is…
To my personal knowledge the quality of washing powder, a simple detergent based on alkylbezenesulfonates (washing soda ) and bleach, has been ‘better’, ‘new’, ‘improved’, ‘washed whiter’, ‘whiter than white’, ‘blue white’, ‘washed colours brighter’ every year for the last forty. And no, It doesn’t clean clothes any better than the first one.
Nuclear Power ? Which would supply more than enough of free power for everyone?...we only had to pay the high prices for the building and setting up and safety costs…that never seemed to end…and did the price of energy ever come down??? And NO it isn’t safe, never was and never will be.
We ‘bought’ the nonsense that ‘we had to pay more for petrol and gas because they came from far away’…did our own gas lower the price for us? No, we sold it abroad. Strangely, it cost much less to transport it abroad than it ever had to buy it in…Is ‘abroad’ further away???
We were promised schools of a quality and superiority such as we’d never seen…and we never did see them, because before we could hang up our useless red brick poly degrees our schools were filled with the children of foreign immigrants who succeeded in the dumbing down process where constantly changing the exam system, falsifying results – those of girls – and other heinous examples of discrimination designed to produce an homogenised ‘worker base’, plus the inevitable ‘brain drain’ of all those in the ‘providing’ professions – teachers, nurses and doctors – who could get away from a system of oppression no better than the ones in different cultures that we abhor, had failed.
Council Tax??? Which was going to ensure our services were improved and run efficiently??? So how did we reach this point? The big Society…
Because those services that had been provided to facilitate the lives of the working populance - who took a pride in them, were immediately corporatized and immediately the standards dropped, the ‘service’ non-existent, responsibilities deferred to the ‘voluntary’ sector. While at the same time political nepotism and corruption were given an open door and chequebook.
Who could ignore the public bickering and in-fighting in our own WOCC, as wasteful, pointless, highly paid and pensioned jobs were handed out and the construction of ‘fortress WOCC offices’ went ahead at vast (public) expense?
That we continue to pay for such profligate indulgence, and meekly accept another rise, and another and another, in the price of what we already pay for in our taxes, puzzles me greatly.
What exactly will it take to open peoples’ eyes to what is being done to them?
YOU!
When are you going to wake up and realise you’re playing into their hands by desperately trying to preserve a status quo that long ago ceased to be. (It’s just not profitable.)
The only people with a vested interest in maintaining things as they are, are the ones sitting at the top of their corporations watching the zero’s accumulate in their bank accounts… while people and the planet dies…..
It’s time to be human beings again. Not wage slaves. Slaves. Who seem to have sold their souls for the chance to watch the enemy’s propaganda and be told what to do.
At what point did you lose your humanity? Your sense of connection to the earth. Your delight in simple things. The time to enjoy them. Your life…?
Is the loss so great that you believe it cannot be retrieved? It can. It is there, a blink away. A realisation away. A decision away. Shrug off your self imposed shackles. Say NO to being a slave. Say yes to Human Being.
Being yourself – not someone’s expectation. Being in control. Being a part of life and living.
There is not much time left to make the change, before the corporate powers slam home the bolts of their Brave New World…..
