Aneirin
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There is a budget here soon, where several government departments will have to make major cuts. All of these departments are now making claims of doom and gloom, in a bid to avoid any cost cutting.
The threat is real enough and despite the peace process has never really gone away. I hope the people on both sides of the border are not subjected to the same sectarian violence of the past.
Yes, I agree,the doom and gloom that is coming with the government plans on a period of austerity will heighten tensions with all who are most affected. I see crime rising as a definite and given the police numbers have been cut, they will be more stretched than normal to quell what madness may come. The armed forces who are the usual back up in times of strife/strike are away overseas, I am thinking these plans the government have could not come at a worse a time, or is it they are too stupid to see the worst case scenario.
If terrorism comes out of poverty and protest, then I can understand the rise of terrorist activities with the home grown, as terrorism is but another form of protest. I heard the banks were to be a target for terrorist actions, why the banks, could it be because the activist sees the banks as having been the cause of the poverty that is coming, (already here ?) and whilst the people suffer, the banks appear to be sitting pretty, they still have their jobs and what's more, awarding themselves bonuses despite the government and public mood.
Perhaps with the recent banking disaster, and the way the government pandered to the banks by giving them tax payers money to stop them collapsing it has been seen, that it is not the government, the armed forces or indeed the English people who are the problem. Perhaps the reality has dawned that it is financial interests who are the enemy and have always been the enemy, the money behind the policy, who the government must placate at all costs and the current costs being austerity for the tax payer/voter, wherever they reside in the British Isles.
Now I understand that perhaps our financial woes could be alleviated if the banks who were bailed out were allowed to fall when they were falling, but now with the tax payers money they must be prevented from falling, they are in effect government protected and so will do as they wish, their jobs are safe. But with what the people have to contend with now as a result of the financial institutions criminality, perhaps the banks should be paying towards this deficit, they should be putting money in, not sitting on what they have and screwing everything else out of the customer by not nice means, for they are creating many enemies, people who before might have seen a bank as a friendly service on the high street, now see the monster behind, perhaps the same monster that has been responsible for all the woes in the past, maybe people are waking up.
Perhaps the time for spreading the wealth has come, or if not here yet, will be here soon, for people will only take so much before protest comes and with that the death of political careers and all that is derived from those careers.
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