Many of us do not have a desire to be rich and are not rich. But I for one, admire nice houses when I drive through wealthy neighbourhoods and it all looks pleasant and great! I do not envy the rich. They can enjoy their riches & do whatever it is rich people do. Would I rather drive through slums and view dilapidated buildings? Nope.
You don’t improve life by dragging everyone down into poverty! The poor do not get out of poverty if the solution is to drag everyone else into poverty!
You don’t improve State Schools by slapping VAT on independent schools; it won’t generate enough funds to make a real difference. If you wish to end private education, then make State education so impressive that it makes no sense for anyone to send their kids to fee-paying schools! How do you raise funds to invest in State Schools? Be bold, be creative, we had the national lottery funds that dramatically improved our sports via the funding. Find something similar for State Schools, raise the money and up the quality. Trying to drag private schools down ain’t gonna improve State education!
None of the above is rocket science! Yet, shockingly, we appear to be heading down those alleyways…
The elite in our society have decided to fold their arms and watch us suffer the obvious and impending calamity of populism! For decades, huge sections of our society have been left behind, in poverty, and they have been led to believe – rather conveniently – that their condition is as a result of a handful of non consequential £billions spent on asylum seekers and economic migrants. Much as I am vehemently opposed to the madness of people just rowing into the country via the English Channel (almost like they see it as their right! With absolutely no care for the impact to the healthcare, education and other facilities that are already at full stretch), it is a very minor issue that does need to be addressed and fully (people coming into the UK must respect the country and come in via legal routes and can then seek asylum if they wish to.) but it is not the reason we have so many people in the UK living below the poverty line. Neither is it the reason standard of living has gone down for many. In the large scheme of things, it has very little to do with the increased levels of crime, poverty etc. As a country, we are simply not creating enough jobs, new sectors and we are not building enough housing etc. That, is the real problem. But nobody wants to talk about those actual causative factors. It is much, much easier, to talk about migrants and vilify them. That gets a quick reaction, gets the protests going and gets the votes on election day!
Quick! replace the snobby career politicians and civil servants with inexperienced 18 year olds who shout “power to the people”! Round up and drive out these wealth-sucking migrants! And while at it, don’t stop at just the illegal migrants – seems to be the desire of these popular parties – why not just clear everyone out who is ‘woke’. According to them, ‘woke’ is anyone who tells us not to use abusive language, not to swear near children and anyone who tells us to be kind to others or to remember that everyone comes from somewhere. You see people on the TV saying: “it’s nothing to do with race, we just want to see fairness” then 30 seconds later, they see an Asian person walking by and yell out: “go back to your country”! Not stopping to ask if he/she is British, works & pays in enormous tax etc. If the face don’t fit, round them up right? But hey, nothing to do with race!
Who are we kidding?!
The problem is very complex. Yes, we must stop the boats coming across the Channel. It simply cannot be allowed to continue, regardless of the reasons. In addition, we can & should build temporary accommodation for the folk that have come in e.g. in disused warehouses, as the government is now attempting to do. BUT more importantly and more urgently, we need to revive the economy: create new industries, new jobs, get people back off their feet and drag them out of poverty! But unfortunately, we can’t do any of that, if the people with the know-how, have given up and folded their arms to sit by and watch the loud-mouths, the folk who gather in large numbers to make a bunch of noise, but have no real answers! If you provide £billions more in benefits and social housing etc., but fail to get people to go to work to earn a living, the benefits will run out sooner or later. You can drive out and deport every single migrant in the country and go back a few generations if you wish, it ain’t gonna solve the problem!
What we should be doing, is coming together, supporting the present government and finding real solutions that will end poverty for Brits who are currently struggling, end illegal migration and integrate new migrants etc. Will that ever happen though? NO. Why? Because it is not nasty enough to gain any backing! We are too far into mob rule! It’s now just about shouting the loudest, protesting and shamelessly hurling bricks at the police (men & women who are just doing their job)…
Sad!
Knowledge can improve the world we live in 