What were my motives? What did I not like about the situation last year? I felt that the power to decide where our country was headed had been taken away from us and Europe was deciding instead, and those in Europe making the decisions were not voted for by us and so did not have a mandate to decide. I wanted our borders to be secured and for us to be able to decide how many people came into the country. I am not against immigration I just want it to be sensibly controlled. We are a small island and space to live is limited. Already the countryside is disappearing under more and more housing. I am well aware that our services and in particular our NHS is highly dependent on immigrants and these people should be welcomed with open arms. On another level the immigrants who do a large amount of the agricultural work are also invaluable. I am learning to teach English as a Foreign Language and hope to help immigrants settle in this country and feel they belong. I have seen huge changes in my country over the last 70 years, something which every generations sees. They are not necessarily bad changes but they could be managed better than they have been in recent years.
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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