The Kings message

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Her majesty’s government will :- (and so begins the transfer of power and commitment to change).

“Maintain the balance between ownership and tenancy, the rights of the citizen and the immigrant”. “The right to continue to have underfunded children against the human right to have as many children as you care to even  if the state has to fund the child through to working age. Even the concept of human rights, especially in reference to people coming into the country, as of their right is still challenged.

There is no right in a totalitarian country only the right of the dictatorship to decide, it certainly makes things simpler if a slide rule or algorithm provides the answers and sidesteps the moral/ethical aspect of the question. Is affordability the bench mark or are there deeper values at play.

From the time of the lumpen clog shod factory worker eking out a pittance in the traditional satanic mill, to the soul draining queue at the dock gate for a days work which incidentally made the mill and shipbuilding profitable, to the empty factories and ship building now undertaken on the European mainland. Was it down to the rights of the welder in the dockyard or the machine minder in manufacturing, perhaps the bloody mindedness of management also played a part as it wholly only saw value in the bottom line or was it because of the distance between the ermine and the cloth cap which made paid employment less attractive than income from dividends.

We are caught between two stools. American mythology profit and  power before all else and the European experiment of a wider set of participative values. The Afrikaner in South Africa had a derogatory word for it,  “soutpiel” when describing the English who couldn’t make up their minds whether to be in philosophically in SA or England. Hardly dry on the manuscript, the Kings speech describing Labours proposal for government was being taken apart by the commentators (the enablers) raising all kinds of negative comment. These highly paid armchair experts who infiltrate our minds and set the political atmosphere in and on the media platforms are paid for being controversial and creating the smoke and the daggers which we mistake for healthy political dialogue. The public are left confused thinking that what they had thought a good idea was rubbish and via versa. Is it an any wonder that the mental health of the country is on a downward trajectory, the stress of having your common-sense assailed is one of the root causes of abuse. We are in for a rough ride as the forces of extremism line up to contest for middle of the road opinion and it’s important not to be drawn by either left or right if their direction of travel excludes the right of reply.