SO bemused are we by our comfortable lifestyle that we quite wrongly assume it will continue for ever with no efforts on our part to protect and preserve it; so obsessed by the antics of those so-called celebrities (fed to us as news, even on the more responsible channels and by the more conservative journals) that we cannot be bothered to stand up for what is right any more.
So with his lies (“a simple trading arrangement – no possibility of any loss of sovereignty”) Edward Heath was able to hand us over to the Empire of Europe, aided by further lies by his successors and refusals to ever allow us to express our opinions in any referendum.
So Tony Blair was able to take us into an illegal war on his own whim and on the basis of falsified information.
So the NHS is able to get away with killing more patients with hospital-acquired infections than die on the roads, and the Police with killing an innocent passer-by. Sleaze in government (and public life in general) becomes corruption and an accepted way of life – and still we do not stand up and protest.
Immigration is thrust upon us because politicians say it is good for us, claiming that an ageing population needs young immigrants to pay for their care (what care is that, then?), without thinking that even young immigrants themselves grow old, and what then? This leads to the recent revelation that the population of Britain will double in the next 50 years, when Britain will be the most densely-populated country on the planet.
So much for our once-green and pleasant land – but where were the howls of rage? Where the demands for a ban on immigration and enforced repatriation? Where the protests at what our pig-ignorant politicians (sorry pigs) have done to us?
It really does seem as though nothing moves us any more.
Arhur Quarmby
Holme
