I can never understand why throughout modern history we have had to fight terrible wars against those who would enslave us and take away our freedom, then only to give it away peacemeal. By imposing a sudo Liberal Democratic sublime dictatorship and thought control called Political Correctness that kills freedom of speech and makes us all obey rules of enforced politeness, that only covers up our true feelings and tribal instincts, that would be much better expressed and modified possibly by informed discussion and the passage of time. But no we are not allowed that natural outlet of debate and informed argument and so we fester.
In it most extreme form, imigration is a prime example of enforced PC. I have no problem with integration within tolerable limits i.e. at levels acceptable and within our infrastructures abillity to provide for imigrants. However, I cannot see the benifits of unlimited imigration because of its obvious impact on our health and eduction services and housing stock. Also, one has to wonder at the effects to our security now that UK born second generation ISIS fighters are returning to UK without let or hinderance.
However, the biggest problem to our security and ever growing numbers comes not only from our history of open borders and a welcome to all, but conservative austerity that has stripped of Police, Border Control, Health, Housing, Education facilities, our Forces and led to a culture of quality under pressure to cost at every level. Hence the fire in North Kensington and its dreadful response by the local council. Basically it had no capacity for civil defence due to cut backs.
A sad story it is too that began with Harold Wilson saving a quid or two by scrapping the Civil Defence Corps in 1968 and the Tories putting the Boot in by litterally scrapping our entire local government, regional protected seats of government, Royal Observer Corps and hundreds of bunkers, food stores, auxillary fire fighting equipement, back bone communications systems independent of civil telephone and hardened shelters and so on. Leaving us now with litterally no capacity at all of disaster response other than call out our pitifully undermanned Forces. Even prolonged civil unrest would be a challenge and of course our Police in th capitol are under pressure thanks to the loss of 2000 police constables. Our Prison Service is so badly run and undermanned that they are basically places for young and old to become hooked on drugs and to convince all that the idiot has taken over the place of PM we are told they will be stripping county constabulary forces of constables and recruiting more for the capitol with the money. All super no doubt until one realises that terror attacks have happened in Glasgow and Manchester and civil unrest in Wakefield and Bradford on more than one occassion. Not to mention we not domicile in the capitol need a Police Force that can police and not just an answer phone at Police HQ.
So, all for the sake of austerity we are looking at not only our freedom being curtailed in many more cost effective ways like increased CCTV (we are the most photographed naton on earth now) and internet policing, but our health in threatened by reduced health services and fewer fire services and God help us if any form of prolonged campagne of terror happens. A war is unthinkable as our Forces wouldnt last five minutes. Indeed the Air Chief three years ago told the PM he couldnt guarentee the air protection of Uk with 40 yes 40 fighter planes.
And that is how one gives away ones freedom.
Ill leave you with this thought. The recent fire in London killed and estimated 80 people and made homeless what 300 people. They are still having to sort the mess out. In 1944 alone 16000 people died in london of the V1 and V2 attacks. It also left an estimated 1 million homes damaged or flat. At no time did anyone have to demonstrate at the town hall to get attention. We had the Civil Defence, Fire Services Womens Voluntary Services, Regional and Town Government and no one was left unattended or in need. We had a common cause and fought to protect our common identity and to keep or freedom. I wonder what we have now some 80 years later and what the people of that time would make of us and our nation now.
