Defining what and who we stand for.

 Subject: Defining what and who we stand for.

Why are we failing on so many fronts in the UK. Do we ask permission too often of interested parties including the general population when we see the need staring us in our face.  Housing, class sizes, waiting lists, old age care are but a few which 80 years ago had answers in terms of need and a start was made to build, improve the quality of our schools including curriculum. Successive labour governments tackled each problem as an ideological imperative and slowly we became a better country for it. Thatchers sale of housing stock without any attempt to replenish what had been sold, the closing of municipal Old Age homes, the running down of police, nurses and doctors was part of a wholesale plan to minimise social Amenities open to the general public. The class divide saw the diminishment of not only services but a way of life, a sort of guard rail running through our years on earth with age and a start in life seen as priorities.

Nothing more exemplifies the divide in our country than the Prime minister's exit from the D Day celebration before the day was over to attend a press gathering in London to explain his deceit about labours spending plans. Surrounded by the veterans, many on their last legs, a press corps eager to see the leaders of the free world and he scurries off to catch the last train home. What an embarrassment he is. I said in a previous blog that he looks the part but is somehow hollow, removed from the country he represents by money instinct, maybe even ethnicity.

For many this mishandling of the ‘contract’ Prime Ministers have with us is symptomatic since along with Cameron, Osborne, Johnson, now Sunak it shows how out of tune they are, representing a party which only represents its members and defiles all other members of the community.