01.
Apr. 2010. – 15:24:35
Although
it`s nearly a year since the scandal of MPs` fiddles broke in the Daily
Telegraph it seems like yesterday. Criminal proceedings are underway
against four MPs, The Lords is also investigating its own suspected wrong doers.
The BBC is attempting to evade answering the question of the identities of its
£100K employees. Banks which are now virtually nationalised beyond the
wildest dreams of the late Michael Foot and Aneurin Bevin and are therefore
under government control are being castigated for continuing to pay certain
staff enormous sums of money which arguably should be being lent to small
business.
Scandals within public quoted companies, politicians etc
and even the judiciary [few and far between] have been with us for hundreds of
years. It could be argued that now in the age of the world wide web tracks
covering is a trifle more difficult for upper class white collar villains. But
now just a day after the Met Police`s former top non white officer has
been thrown out and might lose his pension it has been published that the Chief
Constable and Deputy Chief Constable of North Yorkshire Police are the subject
of an investigation managed by the Independent Police Complaints Commission
(IPCC) following allegations that they gave help to relatives applying for
work.
When corruption appears to be commonplace within the widest definition of public bodies it is truly time to take note. Combine that with this authoritarian government`s ever increasing control of every day activities, continual attempts to alter public opinion by deceitful use of inaccurate statistics and I would venture to observe that we are at the equivalent of the Goths being on the banks of the Tiber 536A.D. Our homes won`t be sacked, our cattle will not be slaughtered nor our daughters raped but what we nostalgically refer to as the British way of life will be but a memory about which social dinosaurs will reminisce on feast days.
When corruption appears to be commonplace within the widest definition of public bodies it is truly time to take note. Combine that with this authoritarian government`s ever increasing control of every day activities, continual attempts to alter public opinion by deceitful use of inaccurate statistics and I would venture to observe that we are at the equivalent of the Goths being on the banks of the Tiber 536A.D. Our homes won`t be sacked, our cattle will not be slaughtered nor our daughters raped but what we nostalgically refer to as the British way of life will be but a memory about which social dinosaurs will reminisce on feast days.
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