As the dust finally settles on a week that has seen our Once Glorious Island humiliated & horrified, leaving our Government and its many Ministers poring over new policies & protocols that will aim to protect us from future “Self-harm” and disruption, we should not forget that the same Policy Makers & principal decision makers in this country have proved themselves time & time again to be as crooked, if not more so, than the swarm of rioters and looters that swept through our cities like a plague of locusts.
If we look at the actions of the rioters and the basic choice that they made,
The Choice to let “Greed” & “Desire” take the place of “Right” & “Wrong”
Then their actions are, in PRINCIPLE, no different too;
· The M.P’s Expenses Uproar last year (had we all forgotten?) Ministers claiming for Gardening services. £16,000 for Curtains, Rent Holiday homes, I could go on…
· Our Banking Bosses who plunged the country into financial chaos whilst pocketing HUGE bonuses for themselves, only to be bailed out by US, the taxpayer
· The phone hacking scandal currently in question with regards to the press
· The headlines & propaganda produced by the press and the tabloid coverage of the above subjects that all fuels anger at all levels of the social scale
· The deep rooted corruption & bribery within the Police Force
When you add these to the latest scandal related to expenses, to hit our headlines, involving more than 140,000 public sector workers who, using government-issue, state funded credit cards, are running up an annual bill in excess of £1 BILLION on their Expenses, the complete picture is not a happy one.
That same amount would have paid 50,000 nurses’ annual salary or would go towards preventing the proposed cuts to the Police Force at a time when the public mood is one of growing fear.
For a more detailed look at this, click the links below;
All smiles for Paul Leinster CBE, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency
as he signs the £31,000 expenses claim he filed last year.
On top of his £200,000 Salary http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10489120
As with the M.P scandal of last year, the list of payments made by the claimants would be laughable if the joke was not literally at our continued and growing expense
Paul Leinster CBE, chief executive of the Environment Agency, clocked up £31,181.59 from June 2008 to
March 2009 - including more than £17,000 on hotel bills and £734 on a dinner for 13 agency staff.
Local councils also racked up huge claims
At Canterbury City Council alone, 91 corporate card holders spent £156,000 last year, of which £18,571 was on 'hotels and resorts', £1,052 on 'cruise liners' and £1,159 at 'toy shops'
Claims were also made for “entertainment”
Expensive wines for meetings
And one amateur dramatics fan even claimed for set design and sheet music for a production!
These allegations and revelations must surely be taken into account when we reflect upon & draw conclusions on the last week’s events. How can we hope that the most cut off, remote and lost parts of our society can
reform themselves and heal, when their Moral leaders are so continually and publically exposed as at fault?
And the faults are not mishap,s they are equal to the raids on Dixons.…
Deliberate deception for reasons of greed and personal gain
David Cameron himself stated in his address to Parliament,
“We will do whatever is necessary to restore law and order on to our streets”
Maybe we could just alter that Mr Cameron?
How about…
“We will ALL do whatever is necessary to restore law and order at ALL levels of our society”
We all have some form of responsibility in this. If we fail, then we will only witness Great Britain, what was once the largest and proudest empire on Earth, deteriorate further into a sad second rate state and our slow disappearance from the World Map
TheArtfulBlogger
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