Jabberwocky

Having travelled to Wales this week its as close as I have been to the "circus" that travels with the mighty who rule us.
On each bridge crossing the highway are armed police, on the roads vehicles are pulled over and searched we are in shut down mode all because the so called democratically elected leaders of the Western World need to come together to have talks about the future of that other part of the world that they don't represent. The cost and the need to go to such ends to protect these people is yet evidence of the crazy situation where our representatives have to be segregated from the people they represent.
There was a time, when I was young when one Bobby (policeman) would stand on Downing Street whilst people like my Dad and I would walk up to the front door of the Prime Ministers residence and pose for photos. Today its gates, no go zones and flack jackets on our policemen.
The security and accommodation, the disruption of peoples lives, the loss of income as the goons take over and all in the name of yet another conference to talk of many things - of shoes - and ships - and sealing wax of cabbages and kings ! Jabberwocky seems a fitting phrase.

And all this as we see the ridiculous scenario of the UK police issuing an arrest warrant to a couple who had "legally" removed their child who was suffering from a brain tumour from a British Hospital who could not offer the treatment he needed and  there was no hospital in the UK who could afford the Proton Beam equipment. Apparently Prague in the Czech Republic can afford to have the equipment and so the family travelled to Europe to make the treatment available to their son.
We had the unedifying scene of the parents being separated from the very sick boy and thrown in a Spanish jail on a warrant issued by the Hampshire Constabulary.
How crass how stupefyingly banal of the authorities in this country, both medical and the police to try to justify their actions with "there is no evidence that he would benefit from the treatment" to "we were acting in accordance with medical advice".   Not a scintilla of rational common sense amongst any of the authorities in which we are supposed to have respect.  
But and here is the crux of the matter, how many Proton Beam Machines, (which we say we can't afford) could we install for the cost of one Jabberwocky. Lewis Carroll wrote the poem as a nonsense verse but we seem to have inherited it lock stock and barrel into the every day world of politics.