Prime Minister.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/video/warning-over-floodwater-bacteria-173513926.html
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/weather-rain-high-tides-39-risk-life-39-174319209.html
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/uk-says-close-placing-order-f-35-jets-175615844–sector.html
The above three links illustrate more clearly than anything I have yet seen, how this government is failing to live within its means. Sure, we’ve had all the reports of Osborne’s horrendous borrowing levels, even after he managed single-handedly to have our international credit rating reduced, but this really does take the biscuit. Has the international market become so grim that capitalists are reduced to purchasing their OWN products now? I look forward to seeing how that will work in the long run!
Here we have an article referring to millions of pounds worth of military hardware being purchased by the MoD – hardware that we are in partnership with the USA and others to build – while all around us, as shown by the other two links, Britain is slowly but surely sliding beneath the waters, and the spectres of cholera, TB, typhus, typhoid and other major nasties hover patiently.
In this situation we can see a government that really, REALLY does not have its priorities in any way correct, unless they are firmly in the pockets of the arms manufacturers and that industry’s banking industry backers. Are you willing to admit that yet? Buying military hardware that we absolutely do not need, while people in Somerset and other areas are suffering horrendous conditions because of lack of funding and equipment to dredge local rivers, is gross irresponsibility and negligence on the part of the Cabinet.
If anything, the MoD – which is headed up by a former banker – should by now have been told to wind its neck in and WAIT for those aircraft, while the money was diverted into projects that would benefit the people of this country, like replacing the dredging equipment that was sold off forty years ago. Instead of laying out money on unnecessary aircraft, you should be laying out soft pipelines to the nearest sea-coasts from the affected areas, and evacuating standing water using pumps powered by wind and solar energy. Instead we see the firefighting services tied up in flood relief duties, burning gallons upon gallons of fuel, pumping water into rivers that are reported to be about to overflow again. Someone in DEFRA deserves a Brucie Bonus for that bit of planning! I can just hear him standing off in the wings saying “Good game… good game…”
Getting such a soft pipeline network together would be child’s play, but you just won’t order it, will you? Look at the amount of cash that local and county councils have tied up in reserves, doing nothing except making interest for them. Each and every council should be responsible for purchasing sufficient hose to cover the distance to the border of its jurisdiction. Yes, miles of the stuff, in multiple lines as well. At those borders, the Environment Agency should be installing and maintaining wind and solar powered pumping stations, and should have people trained and ready to connect hoses in whatever configuration was required in order to de-flood affected areas. In the longer term it would be cheaper than having to pay out for damage correction every time a flood hits, and it would be a damn sight cheaper than laying miles and miles of underground hard piping. You could, using a fold-away system like this, provide pretty near immediate protection to any area, from towns to farms. Look at the farmer in Muchelney who has 85% of his land under water, and it’s been like that for over three weeks now. His growing year, assuming that the rain will let up for the Spring, is ruined. It will take MONTHS for his land to drain properly, and who knows what diseases will be left in the grass and soil, just waiting to enter the food chain?
Why, exactly, do we need stealthed fighter aircraft anyway? The only war we are involved in is one that we shouldn’t have entered into in the first place. If your banker buddies want to annex Afghanistan’s mineral deposits, it is they who should be wearing desert fatigues and taking the risks to secure them. Our troops should be at home, defending our own borders, not busting through other people’s for no reason except to make the rich richer. But, of course, you jump when Oblimey says “Jump!” and he jumps when the banking industry, headed by Morgan, Rockefeller and Rothschild tell him to, so it’s probably no wonder that ordinary people are having to take extra precautions with their living standards while remaining surrounded by the outwash of septic tanks and sewers, is it?
You and your cronies have accused the ordinary people of this country of living in a “culture of entitlement” when it comes to welfare and healthcare, and this just goes to show how much of an ignoramus you really are. Do you honestly believe that the NHS, and the welfare safety net, were put in place for ordinary people’s benefit? If you do then you are a fool. They were put in place to reduce the incidence of disease that was so indisputably linked to the poverty that was prevalent in the early 19th century. Disease that was not contained by social barriers and which was just as swift to kill off the upper classes as it was to lay out the poor.
Even back in the days of the Empire, more was spent on warfare than on any other sector, and the only way to escape from the grinding poverty of the Industrial Revolution’s cities was to join the army and head off to exotic destinations, where there were even more exotic diseases than the ones that the servicemen left behind for their families to cope with. Who was in charge of the nation at that time? A choice: Either Tories whose money was tied into the arms industry of the Empire via their banking interests, or Whigs, who represented the interests of the landed farmers. Until the Whigs accepted that the farmers were running out of labour, and therefore enabled the Labour Party to get started, the governments were quite happy to allow the ordinary people to eke out their miserable existences in squalor and the filth of sewage and uncollected refuse, with diseases such as those mentioned above running rife through the entire population, including the wealthy.
What do we have now? Tories, and the descendants of those Whigs, spending public funds on armaments while people, some of them quite wealthy, are left to paddle, wade and float themselves through a countryside covered in raw effluent containing up to seven time the safe limits of harmful bacteria.
Nothing has changed, has it, Prime Minister? Why should any of us bother to acknowledge your plea for your job to continue?
Sincerely,
Darren Lynch
