More Snow.

Lots of snow last night, it came down thick and fast and it is all still there this morning.

Saw a very brave person go by on crutches hope they got to the shop and back safely, really hope the snow clears soon.

Looking forward to more light which should happen soon, noticed today that there was more light in he room today.

That the sun is starting to vary its angle and our Spring will slowly start to happen.

Am going to ask Marianne to look out for the first signs of the crocuses on roundabouts, it is a pretty sight.

I am taking it easy today, took me quite some time to fall asleep last night, kept dozing off only to wake up again.

Really pleased to read on Mort's blog that he will get a quick assessment of his needs, also read he will get a carers allowance to hire in help for his mum.

http://mortonlake-caring-and-sharing.blogspot.com/

Also pleased to hear that Richie's sister has had her carers allowance reinstated.

She had a visit from sympathetic social workers who then told her they were taking her allowance away as she no longer met the criteria.

They would not tell her what the criteria were, so she took action, she e-mailed all the local press and every MP.

Then she contacted the charity she does voluntary work for and heard this was happening to lots of people.

In some cases people were told over the phone that they had lost their allowances.

They were putting together a dossier ad could she send them her story, she put
a full account in writing and e-mailed it to the charity and cc it to the Chief
Executive of the Council and the Head of Social Care.

The two council guys replied rapidly as did the Head of Care. He had looked at the notes of the interview and was very concerned.

He is going to appoint a senior officer to go through her case and they are not allowed to stop my allowance.

The story should be in the local paper next week with photos.

Think Social Services won’t be able to get away with doing this to people needing care, especially now the story is out.

Great news from both Richie’s sister and Mort, taking action is good and shows once again that vulnerable people can and will fight for their rights.

Recently the British news has been dominated by the furore over MPs' expenses, with politicians reporting a "plague on all your houses" mood on the doorsteps.

Labour is expected to be hit hardest by the near-universal anger among the electorate.

Voters have told the media that they are disillusioned and frustrated with the political system.

"I feel pretty much the same as everyone. They are all a bunch of crooks," said airline pilot James Flack, 33, who voted Conservative in the council elections and UKIP in the European ones.

"At the end of the day if I was to defraud the tax man I would probably lose my job, my house and go to prison."

The Government has suffered a hammering at the polls after early council election returns suggested Labour's vote was sliding.

The Conservatives had gained 18 seats while Labour had lost 23. The Liberal Democrats had gained one.

"We are looking at the mood of a nation. All the things that have happened over the last 18 months. It is diabolical how they have milked the system."

All control systems work on punishment and rewards and when there are no more rewards revolts take place.

Right now the whole UK system has been discredited, the capitalist system is bankrupt and useless, elected representatives of all major parties have been exposed as being obsessed with self-interest by falsely claiming bizarre expenses. (Cleaning the moat on a manor house, an island for pet ducks, dirty movies, etc)

People are angry and quite rightly however their anger has been diverted from anger with a democratic system that has been revealed like the Emperor to have no clothes.

The institutions of parliamentary democracy have been revealed as having no moral substance and are vulnerable to public anger.

People’s anger has to be controlled before everything is lost; this is done through a witch-hunt against Gordon Brown: The hate figure being blamed for everything.

Reducing the argument to a personality test for one man and not an inquest into an entirely discredited economic and political system.

Better to have everyone baying for Gordon’s blood and the blood of a few elected representatives than have them questioning the Westminster system and the financial gnomes who hide behind it.

Our elected reps will do everything they can to save this mass delusion of democracy; they do not want everyone to see it is all done with mirrors.

Like the Wizard of Oz it is all cunning tricks that has kept the belief in the ‘system’.

Whilst uncontrolled economic growth sustained a debt financed boom the democrat illusion could remain intact.

But now the whole economic system has been shown to be bankrupt, it worked ok for 60 odd years but now it is over…

But how could it all still work when everything relied on things going the same as always?

It could be shored up but it is on unsustainable foundations and will fail again and worse.

Products like cars have been oversold, there are enough cars I am sure to circle the globe, plus they are polluting the planet and they are using valuable fuel.

We will have shortly achieved our goal of stripping everything that we need to live for, for the sake of material wealth.

In due course the Native Indian prophecy will be reality ‘ when the last sea is poisoned and the last bee is dead then man will realise they can not eat money’

Material wealth is an illusion that can be destroyed at the stroke of a pen or a click on a mouse.

Increasingly a system based on illusion will fail to resolve problems based on realities.

The world now needs us to deal with the reality that capitalism is destroying the planet and is becoming increasingly dangerous to the people in its attempts to sustain itself.

We cannot expect it to meet our basic needs.

Growing your own food is in my opinion the most important thing we can do, this should be encouraged as much as possible.