thanks Rosemary .... but it isn't the world I am cynical of , my cynicism is of the people who run it !!
People may say we don't live in such a world ... is that so ?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1232041/500-spy-neighbour-State-bribe-tip-council-house-illegally-sub-let.html You can argue that it is good to report people for renting houses out when they don't own them ... that isn't my point .. my point is they are getting people to spy on neighbours and giving them a lot of money to do so ... Bribery !!! is that not corruption ?
There are god knows how many web sites and phone numbers around now where you can report people for benefit fraud , tax evasion , insurance fraud , along with all the CCTV cameras that we are told are such a fantastic help in crime reduction . Well the police 's own records state different . They say that less than 3% of all crime is detected by CCTV .
CCTV on roads doesn't in fact stop accidents or decrease speed (that again is fact from the police themselves ) , what they do is earn £90 million pounds per year , they are simply a money earner .
I am in no way standing up for criminals ... my brother is one and is where he should be .. in prison . But the overall effect that government and councils are creating is a society of fear and distrust on a basis of corruption . Once again there is a similarity to 1930's Germany . Where kids in the Hitler youth were brainwashed into reporting even their own family to the SS or Gestapo .
You may think I am talking rubbish but my auntie is German and was in the Hitler youth . I have seen photos of her standing next to Adolf Hitler and shaking his hand .She isn't a bad person or a horrid Kraut SS sympathiser , she was just a kid in the Hitler youth , like many hundreds of thousands ,( at the time it was more like the scouts , than what it became later on ) , who was receiving a prize for winning a race ( I wonder if it was an Aryan race ?) .
Anyway , the fear and distrust that is being created is real . The fear of terrorism that has allowed so many law changes and robbed us of our civil liberties , is basically unfounded . They say there are many thousands of suspected terrorists in the UK ... who let them in ? Read the book Londonistan ... If there were so many just waiting to wipe this country of the face of the earth , why is it still here ... because the police are so good at finding them ? crap ... How long did it take them to find one bloke Raoul Moat ? and he was living under the village , even walking down the high street on at least 3 occasions . No, it is all created fear and distrust of those around us when the people to fear, distrust are the MP's etc themselves. Am I cynicle of society .... once again not really ... just those corrupt people who are controlling it, and therefore us .
Any sorrow should be aimed at those who try to utilize a small bit of waste land , or similar scenarios , but are rejected by planning Dept's who have way over stepped any 'remit ' there may have been to start with .
How many councils have corrupt planning officers , nearly every one I have had anything to do with . My dad owned a firm that did maintenance work on schools etc and all the councils he dealt with were corrupt. That isn't to say ALL councilors are corrupt no more than all MP's are . But even so called good ones can be corrupt . They accept trips and holidays , go to civic functions that cost thousands , have very well paid expense accounts , and who pays for all this ... we do .
This isn't a rant ... long winded maybe !! but not a rant , I am not having a dig or a go at you Rosemary , I am quite calm and happy , as I am most of the time in my life anyway . I just detest the total utter corruption that has filled our civil service and our politicians even our police force too. They are a complete runaway train , out of control ... somewhere along the line though there are a set of buffers !!! Will they stop before they reach them at full speed ? , I doubt it !! They will smash clean straight through them , and it will be a broken society that has to clear up the carnage . A society broken by the train wreckers .
cheers
Russ
