Ch, ch, ch, ch, changes

I've just been reading some of Martin Bell's book about why he turned to politics, and he's quite right.

We all know things change over time. If not, we'd stagnate and get nowhere. But before I was born, everyone respected the UK. Our press told the truth; our politicians were wise and would support and protect weaker nations; we stood for law and order, and we had a place in the prosperity stakes.

What happened?

As Martin Bell says, in the 1990s the press went down the plughole. Rather than chasing the stories that were important, that mattered, that might make a difference, the press were taken over by multimillionaires wanting to make money and possibly put their own point of view as fact. Sales plummeted, but they continued pushing to make papers like the Sun concentrate on naked women and misbehaving single parents, instead of what our politicians were doing abroad. It didn't seem too important at the time - we were all busy trying to make more money ourselves in the 1990s (probably because they'd told us it was a clever thing to do), and we didn't have time to read the papers.

But while we were ignoring the boobs in the tabloids (in many ways!), those same multimillionaires, with their friends, pushed the politicians into supporting their crazy schemes, reducing their taxes and selling their goods to make them even richer. So we got even less news from the rest of the world, wars broke out behind our backs, fuelled by the arms manufactured by these men and their friends, and millions of people were starved, bombed and driven out of their homes through no fault of their own.

And only now do the great British public complain - they don't want these same refugees to come here. They might steal our jobs! Well, we don't have any skilled people here to do many of those jobs; neither do we have any unskilled people to do the unskilled jobs, because they're apparently too busy procreating and stuffing their benefits money up their noses or into their arms - I do, of course, get my information from the tabloid press here!

We now have social media to help us, so perhaps now is the time to set up a new press, like the Victorians did, to pass on the real news of what's happening in the world. In the meantime, use your own social networking skills to find out about it. Don't just believe the tosh they print or publish on TV - even the Russians beam their version of news to us, but we all know from James Bond how reliable that's likely to be. (Having said that, some of it makes more sense than what our lot are telling us!). Take it all with a very large pinch of salt, and work out for yourself what's really happening.

Then Vote Green at the next election!