One of the biggest blunders David Cameron, the then Prime
Minister of Britain, made in relation to the referendum, about staying in
orleaving Europe, was to bring Barack Obama over to tell us what to do. For the
ordinary man in the street, the ones Cameron does not understand, this was like
a red flag to a bull. Obama, with veiled
threats told us it was vital for us to stay in Europe. The ordinary man reacted in a knee jerk way
saying, ”Who does he think he is telling us what to
do? I hadn’t made up my mind how to
vote, but now I will vote “leave.” Suddenly the little man found he really had
a chance to make a difference. He was
not voting for a party just like all the other parties with nothing much to
choose between them, no he was voting in a big decision between two very
different policies, to stay in or to leave Europe. This wasn’t voting for a politician
he did not trust whichever side they came from.
Most likely for some it was a vote against Cameron who brought in the
bedroom tax which grabbed back money from the poorest. After all Cameron didn’t provide more single
bedroom flats for people to move to.
While the rich lived in comfort the poor got poorer. The economy may be important but the well
being of the people is more important. When
you lose touch with the little man you have to go.
I have written in previous posts about disasters. In the case of Concorde, decisions by people, plus other factors were directly to blame for the event. In the case of the Penlee disaster it may have been avoided if someone had made a better choice in the time beforehand and as a consequence brave men and the ship's crew and the captain and his family died. 9/11 was certainly the result of wicked men committing a terrorist act, but even in this there was heroism notably by another Cornish man, Rick Rescorla who helped many to safety and left it too late to help himself. In situations like this we see what the human spirit is capable of both good and evil. What of disasters that come on people because of the earth restless movement of tectonic plates. Often people live near volcanoes because the land is rich and fertile and they have the chance of a better life there when the volcano is resting. We cannot blame them for that but sometimes people become complacent...
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