Why there is no hope for Britain
During my life I have taken quite a few decisions I regretted, but deciding in about 1976 to leave Britain and go and live elsewhere is not one of them. Britain is one of a number of gangster states (i.e. countries ruled by people who flout domestic or international laws) where the unacceptable has become acceptable. To put it bluntly: it is lousily governed, and there is not much indication that things are about to get a whole lot better. Quite the contrary, there are disquieting signs that too many people in the UK accept the status quo and are happy to let our ruling criminals off scot-free.
A small but telling sign of this is the recent report that when Blair was caught riding without a ticket on the train to Heathrow the ticket inspector let him off and said he could ride for free (1). Riding without a ticket in a train used to be a criminal offence in the UK, and so far as I know it is still is. What ever happened to the general principle that the rule of law should be applied to all irrespective of their wealth or position in society? How can we teach people, especially the young, to respect the law, when prominent law-makers like Blair are allowed to get away with flouting it? Why should the millionaire Blair be exempted from paying his fare when there are countless poor people in the UK who can scarcely afford the bus fare to their local supermarket or hospital? Who is the ticket inspector who showed such a cravenly fawning attitude to power on this occasion? What will it take for the British public to wake up?
(1) http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080423/ten-britain-politics-offbeat-a56114e.html
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