Aneirin
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From: Tamaris
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Odd thing is, I used to be a toryite, I used to vote them in just like the rest of my then middle class family, but poverty showed me a different side, and all those institutions I once believed were in place for the poor turn out not to be when you are poor; fact.
There is nothing like actual experience, because then the rhetoric fades into insignificance. As many have said in the past and still do so, politicians should spend sometime at the bottom tiers of society for them to understand what their policies actually do to those tiers.
But of those that make such policies as attempting to privatise the NHS, do they actually use the NHS, you know, wait on those waiting lists until their appointment comes up, or do they go private and get the job done pdq ?
Again it takes experience to understand.
But as you have mentioned coal, hmm, seems we are going to have to buy it in from overseas when heating oil becomes too expensive, as part of the crushing of the miners, was the crushing of the mines themselves, of which there is vast seams of coal left under this land, but the mines are now screwed, short sightedness if there was any, but I suspect what happened was nore personal rather than economic, the crushing of the worker's unions for having the audacity of holding the government to ransom over whatever conditions they were seeking to change. Not saying the unions were always right, but what they represented was the common worker united as a force against unfair government policy.
Now what do we have since the Thatcher years, piss poor common worker representation against government, probably why whatever the government does we just take on the chin, because the unity of the past has been broken up, dispersed and distracted, the sale of council houses was one such move to break up the opposition strong holds and breed tories, otherwise known as property owners.
It's all a game and currently, the tories are winning, but how far will they go bfore the workers look up from their sport, cheap foreign holidays, ipods, celebrity worship and computer games and realise they have been screwed by a mentality from the past. Rich versus poor as it has always been, a class war.
But the decline of British industry was to be expected as the British Empire faded, but the trouble is with fading empires what does one do with all that skill, expertise and resources when it no longer has a use, oh, I know, sell it, no not the workers, stuff them, they can do something else, but the resources will always have a market.
The problems we face now I believe is because of Empire, you know, that thing that made the wealthy wealthier, elevated the expectations of the poor and pissed off a lot of people around the world.
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