The Country is Ready to Sink

[Duke Malcolm]

Unlike most folks here, posting articles from newspapers, or broadcasters, I came across an astounding Letter to the Editor in my local paper, the Courier (one of the last, if not the last newspaper to have offices on Fleet Street, the offices with "The Dandy" "the Beano" and "the Courier" in big writing on the side). This article was deeply interesting, and indeed sums up what I think of a lot of British society today. www.thecourier.co.uk

Country is ready to sink


Sir,—British society is in denial. Our world is falling about our ears, yet we are constantly told that everything in the garden is rosy.

Drunks cavort unchecked in our streets with nary a policeman in sight. Prisoners take drugs and otherwise misbehave in prison, yet they serve only half their sentences.

Released prisoners and accused persons released on bail commit more and more crime.

Our many governments pass many more laws, but the courts throw out the prosecutions based on them.

Police don’t catch many criminals, but many of those they bring to court are acquitted, given ludicrously light sentences or do not pay the fines imposed on them - and that with impunity.

Criminal lunatics are freed into society with inadequate supervision on a promise to take their medication and their doctors express surprise when they murder, maim or commit suicide.

Our governments are so riddled with corruption and fraud that many can no longer be bothered to vote.

Even if they are law-abiding, our leaders vote themselves fat salaries, expenses and pensions and spend most of their time making law-abiding tax-payers’ lives a misery with more and more bureaucracy.

Our industries have collapsed and our banks and insurance companies are going the same way. Their call-centres have already gone abroad.

Our education system is a joke and our health service not much better. Social workers don’t bear talking about.

The list of daft derivatives from our national obsession with political correctness is endless.

What amazes me is how this country keeps afloat. The day is surely not far distant when it finally sinks beneath the weight of its own stupidity!

What are your thought on this? Is he right or wrong (and it is a man, I just omitted the name and address)?