Mankind its own worst enemy.

 Subject: Mankind its own worst enemy.

 The blight in our public services is being laid bare more and more each day as the progressive cutbacks and the slashing of budgets has left all public services bereft of their purpose and unable to carry out all but a minimum. The councils are bankrupt, the hospitals, the schools, infrastructure (replacement and repair) are all perilously underfunded. 

If we were in Africa the hotchpotch of tarmac in the Main Street would flow no further than the chiefs kraal and be accepted as the bounty the chief demanded for his position but in democratically elected Britain each man or women is “chief” and in some way demands their slice of the cake.

The deliberate cutting back of public services and supplanting them with privately owned ones, a plan instituted by Thatcher and accelerated by Osbourne, leaving the patient without hospital care, hollowed and frail like a person emerging from surgery with half his inner‘s removed they are expected to resume work the following day.

The latest wheeze is that all patients are better off at home with a prescription for the chemist, it’s better after all, to die in your own bed so the argument goes surrounded by friends and family. But what if dying takes a year, two years what then as the ambulance makes repeated calls to A&E to boost the system with a saline drip. 

It’s macabre stringing out living with dying so the patient doesn’t know what stage they are at. 

The indignation at “assisted dying” for patients with acute and painful conditions, by parliamentarians who can afford the Dignitas Clinic, is I submit hypocrisy at the highest level.

The Rail Unions are once again clamouring for pay increase’s, that is the ones who were not included in the current settlement and are promising to go out on strike if they don’t get parity.

Is there a line in the sand which says the past is past and the future dependent on how we earn and spend our money. Do we not have to dial down on expectations and rein in the fat cats and reintroduce social aspirations by binning financial liberalism.

Of course in any contractual arrangement there is a price to pay for the service. If the price is too high the service either doesn’t get done or is rationed. If we were to continue rationing services so that only the wealthy could pay and the case made out for that fact to become the status quo, then the Thatcher/ Osbourne/ Cameron plan to reverse the Clement Attlee plan would have succeeded. 

As usual, mankind is his/her own worst enemy.