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I discovered, on waking up this morning, why it is that I am not taking a detailed interest in the affairs of Egypt, or in the turmoil of other countries in the Middle East or elsewhere: It’s because I am too concerned about the disastrous situation that has been obtaining in this country over the last few decades, and is coming to crisis point now: social inequality, poverty, a high prison population, unemployment, Iraq, Afghanistan, Cuts. I am too concerned at the appalling leadership of shall we call it UK Ltd. I am too concerned that the population of UK Ltd is more interested in football and cricket, and in the sexual peccadilloes of the famous and the infamous, than in their own personal futures, and that only a few students are voicing and showing their protest at the disastrous policies now being pursued by the leadership of UK Ltd, which will close or curtail large, necessary and beneficial sections of activity in this country, education, health, social services, and all the arts. And the brave young protesters are being threatened with the future use of water cannons! I always understood that democracy consisted not only of voting for our illustrious leaders every few years, but of expressing opinions continuously, and in every possible legal way…
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And the people of UK Ltd should be concerning themselves powerfully with curtailing their leaders’ sick tendency to enter into entirely undesirable and unnecessary wars, wars that will have repercussions for generations to come, with the hatred and revenge that they generate, and with the resulting threats of terrorism. And the costs of war, and of the preparation for war, have been, and are, simply immense… No wonder at our debt!
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Concerning the “Cuts”, what is so silly about the government’s policy is the haste with which they are wanting to cut down the debt, and thus the payment of interest for this debt. The cure is worse than the disease. After the war the country was in huge debt. That was paid off in DECADES, not in a few years. Which is exactly what should be happening now, in the present situation. Power has to be exercised with the greatest delicacy, and the greater the power that one has, the more delicacy its handling requires. And at national and at international level it requires the greatest finesse…
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And as the ship of state is steered straight to disaster, the people of UK Ltd see nothing, say nothing, do nothing. And H M the Queen, Queen Elisabeth II, may, perhaps, be smiling sadly at what she sees but, unlike Queen Elisabeth I, Queen Bess, she says nothing, she does nothing, while her Ministers fuck up the country.
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Peter Zander
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