by Michael Smith (Veshengro)
I must say that I am not sure as to whether to laugh or to cry, so far fetched the message and so far removed from reality the Prime Minister seems to be.
This is the same person who, as leader of the opposition, promised that when he would be elected that he would bring back Park Keepers to each and every park in the nation as “residents”. Nothing, we can see now, could be any further from the truth.
The adage of how to recognize that a politician is lying to which the rely is “his/her lips move” is as true as ever, and it does not matter in the least what party he or she may belong to. They lie especially well before an election and during the election campaigns.
While less government sounds good and event he idea of the Big Society is a fine one I have difficulties believing that the former one will materialize and as to the latter the question is how we can make it work during a recession, which is still with us and could get worse still regardless of what economists and politicians state.
I am certainly all for government getting the hell out of our lives, in the main, and for people being allowed to do things themselves the truth is though, even in Britain, the majority of people demand that government does all those things and have no intention of doing things for themselves.
In addition to that communities do not exist anymore in the way they once did where people looked out for each other and each others' kids, etc. and it is rather doubtful if we can recreate and rebuild them in a hurry.
Even in Transition Towns real community, as far as I can see, is still very much missing.
The real community that I am talking about is the kind that the villages were, of old, and the streets in, say, Cockney Land, once upon a time.
Today we have people lie dead for months on end in their homes and no one notices anything amiss until such a time that the stench and the flies coming from the property give the game away.
And David Cameron thinks that this can be turned around, virtually overnight, and without money.
It is time that our government came back down to Earth, into the real world where the rest of us live. They are, as per usual, in a parallel universe and are not even on this Planet of ours.
The government of New Labor and Blair and Brown was certainly nothing to write home about and our liberties were getting corroded more and more, in the eight month that the new ConLib coalition has been in power all we have had is one broken promise after the other from the time before they were being elected. Cameron's promise of going to bring back resident Park Keepers to every park in the country is just one of them.
© 2011
