Perspective please Dave you sound as though this is the 'norm', it isn't, and then you use the Little Old Lady thing to really drive home the point that this country is really gone to the dogs, well it hasn't, that might be news to you but of course if you really only want to suck up all the negatives then I don't blame you for thinking that way.
Come on Lad cheer up....go fishing or summat
I did go fishing Neil...and caught a couple, which were very welcome...but that didn't make what I was saying any less true.
I just don't understand your assertion that the serious problems mentioned in my post were not the 'norm'....in what respect were they not the 'norm'? Unless you live in a different world to the rest of us, then you must surely have seen the almost daily news reports coming out for years now of government corruption...MP's have been going to prison for fraud for gods sake Neil, or are being forced to resign under a cloud for bribery and every other form of corruption you can imagine. How often does it have to happen before in your mind, it is now becoming the 'norm' Neil?
From your accusations I assume you also missed the number of police commissioners and other high ranking officers being forced to resign amid storms of allegations of wrongdoings, cover ups and corruption, with more than one of them going to prison as a result? Perhaps you didn't even notice the latest scandal involving the Stephen Lawrence murder investigation, which has been going on now for 30 years...with still more incredible corruption and wrongdoing coming to light in that case to this day. Virtually every big case these days ends in some form of investigation, revealing police failures, deliberate cover ups and misuse of their powers. This stuff IS a daily event on the news Neil. When does that reach the level of now being the 'norm' in your opinion then mate?
Perhaps the horror stories emerging of the scale of brutal ill treatment and the number of elderly folk dying in the saddest ways imaginable in the inappropriately named 'care homes' up and down the country passed you by as well? These were not isolated cases Neil....these establishments have now been investigated on a nationwide scale, with frightening results....it WAS widespread Neil. After years of sweeping it under the carpet, new laws are on the way to try to tackle it....they don't do that unless in their eyes it had become the 'norm' do they?
Did the extent of the horrifying number of NHS hospital trust patients being left to starve to death or die unnecessarily from other inhuman acts give you the slip as well mate? The very concept of care and hygiene now being considered 'an unaffordable luxury' in many hospitals, to the extent that the government has now changed the regulations governing the training of staff. Incredibly, they are now having to train nurses 'how to be caring'...words fail me on that one....perhaps you can explain it Neil? There have already been a good number of hospitals proven to be guilty of that type of unbelievable behaviour, and it is now considered that those already exposed are only the tip of the iceberg....as is the extent of the cover ups of these failings forced onto staff by top trust executives. Not the 'norm' Neil? The sand must be climbing ever higher up your neck mate, it really must.
Do I think this country has gone to the dogs, as you say? No, I don't....not yet. I still think it is the best place in the world to live. The reason I am upset is because I passionately want it to stay that way. IMO, there is a growing problem, a failure of our governments over many years to tackle the problem, because to do so is more difficult than doing nothing....leaving it for 'the next lot' to deal with is standard practice. The number of people that are trying their damndest to make this country a worse place to be in is growing daily. We really ought to be worried enough to start trying to reverse that trend Neil...recognising that there IS a growing problem would help...sand in the ears won't.
Cheers, Dave.
