It seems that the future welfare of the country has become a secondary consideration in this internecine struggle for power. We appear to be halfway over the precipice with no sign of anyone having a plan for our rescue.
It’s all very well for the Brexiteers to say “We won!”, but what did they win, we ask ourselves? There appears to be no evident benefit at all - unless you can’t live without a blue passport!
I admit to being one of the ‘dont knows’ at the time of the referendum, but surely everyone can see that to leave at the moment, with no deal and no proper plans, is the height of folly.
On other matters, like most of us Gransnetters, I’m well stricken in years, and have lived through many Governments of various shades and persuasions. On the whole they weren’t too bad, any extremism from either side being rapidly shouted down.
Unfortunately with the present mob we have graft and corruption on an industrial scale, the London property market has become the money-laundering centre of the world, and the nation’s wealth is being stashed offshore to evade rightful taxation. Rather than being governed by elected politicians, we appear to have a de facto ruler in the grubby shape of Rupert Murdoch and his gutter press.
As well as this corporate greed and crime, we have poverty and deprivation at a level unseen since the 1930s, education is deprived of funding, our welfare system is broken and we are losing our beloved NHS.
I am very afraid for the future, and particularly concerned for my children and grandchildren.
Those who are reasonably well off are threatened, the less prosperous are surely doomed, and only the über wealthy seem to be thriving.
Who is to blame for all this, and what is the cure?
I’ll leave you to think on this and shall keep my rather radical opinions to myself!
