Mere distraction

I started the week with the writing below, then became quiet as my daughter had some disturbing news about a test.  Well it righted itself yesterday when she had a scan at the hospital and a  cyst was removed so I am back on form with relief and thanks to our NHS.

Things have moved on, has BJ just delivered his own death blow while traipsing off to Ukraine for a photo opportunity and not supporting his Northern MPs in their hopefully lost battle to keep their seats in the Wakefield election.  We shall see.  But if anything is not more sharply defined it is his own vanity and he may have really lost it this time.  

The real heroes:  Such as Professor David Nott, a surgeon also out there in Ukraine but teaching 70 surgeons some of the skills they need as they mend the bodies of the poor young men mangled by war.  A sad indictment of course for the consequences of war, I suppose you would call it a necessary  step.

As you see below I have been listening to Gordon Brown as well, I am troubled by his intelligence, I think my response is that you cannot write or talk yourself into a solution, it is action that is needed.

The meal on Monday went well, we did Sicilian, the restaurant was small, tucked down a small side street in Manchester. The two young lovebirds turned up, both changing jobs at the moment, E to do PR in a group of theatres and T to do PR in a large US firm.  That is one thing you can be sure of there are plenty of jobs around.  Why does a history picture of medieval times flit through my mind?  The Black Death, and labour able to ask its own price come to mind I wonder, is this the fight back against complacent capitalism?  Anyway, gifts were exchanged for Lillies birthday and a small cake brought to the table much to our surprise.  When we went to the station, security men stood around, football or something I think.   They are always on alert at the railway station the horrors of the Manchester Bombing there still dictates their response.

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I cannot walk through this world without at least making a protest against what I see there.  But I have decided to find out any persons of honesty who would govern sensibly.  Already I can hear the screams at my choice. But look what he did all those years ago, paying out all that money to the banks and selling off the gold.  Any ideas yet? He also let in the conservatives and look where we are now!

Yes Gordon Brown, a manse lad, terrible serious but with his heart in the right place.  We need the dreamers to start painting the world we want, not the world we are getting.  Politics must learn not to polarise falling on either side of an argument - just for the sake of the argument, and can I add here the sheer distraction of trivia which our present leader leads us down like some idiotic piper leading the children to a faint Utopia in the distance.

Every day we listen to people who can't afford either heating or food, slogans abound everywhere.  I suspect the Conservatives would like to see the back of the BBC because it shows the real nitty-gritty of what living in this country is like.

There is a book read on radio 4 this week, it is called The Social Distance Between Us by Darren McGarvey.  At the end he points out when they are interviewing a person who has made good, ie lots of money, that he as a presenter becomes treated as second best in the interview by his producer.  The precedent of a moneyed interviewee whether an unconscious act or deliberate, we bow to that superiority of someone who is richer than us.

You know where i am going with this, perhaps we should question the differences, the absolutism of making money for the sake of making money.

Starve or shiver - Gordon Brown