Success.

 

 How are we going to get rid of those doubters, those scornful people who have no confidence , who are always looking over their shoulder and questioning others.

As a country, a composite of people who live on this island we have been so successful in virtually all the disciplines of sporting achievement, following on from the huge achievements of London Games. 

The achievements come from the people who live in this country. 

All too often we diminish ourselves with a diet of condemning our society with programs made to show the worst of ourselves such as Jeremy Kyle and families living on Benefits whilst in the background the real achievers in all walks of life not only sport remain unmentioned.

Our success in sport comes from the funding and the facilities which the funding produced. Men and women were the subject of what can be done with planning and holding to an objective. It came with providing proper management and not looking for a short term result. It emphasises all the things we do not see in the political leadership where goals are short term and more to do with the personal opportunities offered to the politician than to the real health of the country. With finance and planning, with taking the long term view, it is possible with the people of this country to do what we have become accustomed to being told we we can not do.

We have cried out for a change at the top. We need to move away from the casino, the short-termism of a quick profit, of relying on 'paper thin' values based on financial transactions which do not reflect the conditions in commerce but rather the technical trickery of 'the put' and 'the short' plus the insurance placed on the result which makes the trade a win win for some.  Actual 'commercial success' plays no part in the plague we call,  financialisation. 

A financial industry, not in place to support the industry which makes widgets to sell but as an entity in itself which trades its own creation, money, not to add value but to devalue value by the mechanism of derivatives and placing bets.

If we could rid ourselves of the elitist mechanism where the only people to succeed and handle the levers of power, come from only one from school. How crazy is that.

If politically we stopped making decisions based on the popularity we think we need for the coming election and considered the countries need for long term investment and training. 

Unfortunately as long as we continue to feed the Westminster fishbowl with the same old same old we will not replicate what our magnificent athletes have done over the last two weeks.