Subject: Short memories.




One has to wonder what Mr Putin, president Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un think as the government having lined up business leaders from all over the world to consider investing in GB our media pour scorn on the government in this act of doing business. Be it taxation or comments criticising the blatant misuse of  power by P&O Ferry’s where a couple of years ago they sacked all the British seamen and replaced them with much much cheaper labour from the Sub Continent. This was rightly denounced at the time and we were reminded by the minister of Transport that the management of P&O were remembered for their scurrilous labour practice. All media hell broke loose and the new government are pillaged for mentioning it. It’s as if the media belong to a different environment to the one they occupy and only 100 days into their term all the old mistakes made by the previous government over 14 years are forgotten in the their drive to criticise a doctrinaire position and not cheer on moves for the betterment of the country at large.
“The enemy within is greater than the enemy without” and we had better recognise our greatest worry which should be the selling of mistruth for profit. Money is a new god and the ‘Conviction of a policy’ for the overall good it brings the population as a whole is damned by that section of society which have made the making of money the only viable positions held against a plethora of the poverty seen on the television.
Self respect for having a belief which might not benefit you personally is old fashioned, even revolutionary (Corbynism) and we are pommelled by opinion which will ensure the continuation of gross inequality.

We seem to have lost that element in our political decision making where imposing or reducing legislation has to pass the financial test “ will the change, make or save money” and the issue of  “is it the correct thing to do” seems to baffle people these days.
Insisting that Private Education meet VAT requirements and is not a charity function and that ‘non doms’ should pay the same tax as those domiciled here seems obvious to me but to many it is clouded by what the effect the new imposition will bring.
Doing the right thing was always a bore and usually required handing over hard earned cash and was therefore emotionally difficult. The essence behind it was obscured when linked in with ethics and morality which meant different things to different people but there were common elements which generally required one to see the action was for the general good. Today in the post-Thatcher era where everyone is for themselves this composite sense of the ‘general good’ is a fast vanishing consideration as people become more isolated and insulated in their own issues. The general public had in those days a sense of the wrongness of people “sponging  off the State” and would let the work shy know their feelings on the matter, the police were respected and one policeman could control a crowd, while neighbours were a watchful deterrent since neighbourhoods were made up of ‘the same kind of people’ who were seen as a sympathetic collective, each looking out for the other.