HAVING HAD A DISCUSSION WITH A FRIEND ON FACEBOOK I THOUGHT IT WAS TIME TO PUT THIS BACK ON HERE,YES ITS A BIT LONG WINDED BUT PLEASE TRY TO PROVE I WAS WRONG. TO WHOM THIS MAY CONCERN 22 August 2011 at 07:22 TO ALL AND WHOM THIS MAY CONCERN. HAVING LIVED IN A COUNTRY CLOSE TO 65 YEARS,A COUNTRY THAT TAUGHT ME FROM A VERY EARLY AGE,TO RESPECT MY ELDERS,CARE ABOUT MY NEIGHBOUR,AND FOR PEOPLE LESS FORTUNATE THAN MYSELF. NOT TO MENTION MANNERS AND HONESTY. WHAT SHOULD I TELL MY CHILDREN TO GIVE THEM HOPE. HAVING BEEN BORN INTO RATIONING,FOR THE FIRST FIVE YEARS OF MY LIFE,NEVER ONCE DID I EVER FEEL HUNGER. AND ALSO BORN TO A SINGLE MOTHER,NEVER DID I FEEL ALIENATION BY THE COMMUNITY ARROUND ME. THEN GREW UP IN THE COLD WAR ERA,WITH THE NUCLEAR THREAT HANGING OVER EVERYONES HEAD,AND YET NEVER FELT FEAR. NEVER HAD A UNIVERSITY EDUCATION OR SENT TO A PRIVATE SCHOOL BUT ALWAYS FELT I LEARNED MORE BY THE EDUCATION MY FAMILY AND COMMUNITY AND TEACHERS ALIKE GAVE ME,WHO ENJOYED PASSING DOWN THEIR KNOWLEDGE TO THE NEXT GENERATIONS. WE LIVED IN A COUNTRY THAT FOLLOWING THE SECOND WORLD WAR THAT HAD A DEBT FAR OUT REACHING TODAYS DEBT,BUT NEVER FELT POOR,EVEN THOUGH WE DID NOT HAVE MUCH.WE HAD SO MUCH MORE WE HAD FREEDOMS,SOMETHING OUR FOREFATHERS LAID THEIR LIVES DOWN FOR. I ALSO WENT THROUGH MY EARLY WORKING AGE YES DAYS WHEN WE HAD FULL EMPLOYMENT,AND WE COULD ALL PLAY OUR PART IN REBUILDING THIS NATION.TAUGHT BY PEOPLE OF THE OLDER GENERATION WHO PASSED DOWN THEIR SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE WITHOUT GIVING IT A SECOND THOUGHT,A TORCH I CARRIED THROUGH MY LATER YEARS.FULL EMPLOYMENT AND PASSING DOWN SKILLS IS SADLY MISSING TODAY THE BIGGEST CRIME ANY COUNTRY COULD COMMIT,NEXT TO GOING TO WAR FOR THE WRONG REASONS. I LIVED THROUGH GOVERMENTS OF BOTH COLOURS,IN TIMES WHEN YOU KNEW WHAT THEY STOOD FOR,IT WAS CALLED DEMOCRACY,SOMETHING ELSE OUR FOREFATHERS DIED FOR. WE LIVED THROUGH OIL CRISIS AFTER OIL CRISIS,STRIKES,AND TIMES JUST LIKE TODAY WHEN THE WEALTHY AND BIG BUSINESS THREATENED THE VERY COUNTRY THAT GAVE IT TO THEM ON THE BACKS OF THE MANY TO TAKE THEIR BUSINESS AND MONEY ABROAD TO FOREIGN LANDS,WE ARE EXPECTED TO SHOW OUR LOYALTY BUT THESE PEOPLE DONT KNOW THE MEANING OF THE WORD.BUT NOT ONCE DID I FEEL USELESS OR DEFEATED AND CARRIED ON REGARDLESS DOING MY BIT ALONG WITH MILLIONS OF OTHERS.AND YET STILL TODAY WE HAVE THE THREATS FROM THE LIKES OF RICHARD BRANSON AND CO.I DONT DIMINISH FOR ONE MOMENT WHAT HE HAS ACHIEVED BUT WITHOUT MY GENERATION HE WOULD OF NEVER HAD THE OPPORTUNITY. THEN I WAS WOKEN UP TO A FUTURE THAT REALLY SCARED ME FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE. MARGARET THATCHER WON THE 1979 GENERAL ELECTION ALONG WITH HER TORY PARTY FULL OF COWARDLY CABINET MINISTERS WHO WERE SCARED TO SAY HOLD UP LADY. I KNEW FROM THAT DAY FORWARD GREAT BRITAIN WILL NEVER BE THE SAME.YOU COULD SAY THAT I BECAME CLAIRVOYANT,I FEARED FOR THE COUNTRY I GREW UP TO LOVE SO MUCH. I FOUGHT AS HARD AS ONE COULD AGAINST THE WAY SHE SLOWLY DESTROYED THE VERY FABRIC OF OUR SOCIETY,AND HOW SHE MANAGED TO TURN MAN AGAINST MAN,WORKER AGAINST WORKER,COMMUNITIES AGAINST COMMUNITIES,THE LIST BECAME ENDLESS.YES HISTORY IS REPEATING ITSELF TODAY. I WATCHED HER TAKE THIS COUNTRY INTO A WAR IN THE FALKLANDS,WHICH I SAID AT THE TIME WAS NOT TO SAVE A COUNTRY OR ISLAND,BUT FOR POLITICAL REASONS,TO BOOST HER FLAGGING GOVERMENT AND HER SELF ESTEEM.SHE AND HER GOVERMENT SAT BACK AND LET IT HAPPEN ,IGNORING ALL THE WARNINGS THAT WERE WIDESPREAD AT THE TIME.YES WARNINGS DAVID OWEN ALSO HAD WHEN IN THE PREVIOUS LABOUR GOVERMENT ,THE ONLY DIFFERENCE WAS HE ACTED RIGHT AWAY,AND AVOIDED AN ALL OUT WAR.THE ARGIES TOOK HIS WARNING AND PULLED BACK.THIS WOMEN KNEW EXACTLY WHAT SHE WAS DOING AND THE BLOOD OF THE DEAD LAYS FIRMLY IN HER HANDS. IT TOOK A POLICY LIKE THE POLL TAX TO BRING HER TO BOOK,EVEN THOUGH AT THE TIME I THOUGHT HER SELLING OF THE BRITISH SILVER AND PRIVATISING OUR UTILITIES WAS A LOT WORSE,AND A GREATER THREAT TO THE PEOPLES OF THIS COUNTRY IN THE FUTURE ,SADLY I HAVE BEEN PROVED RIGHT AGAIN.I LOST COUNT HOW MANY TIMES I TRY TO WARN PEOPLE. SO MUCH SO I SOUNDED LIKE A STUCK RECORD. MARGERET THATCHER WON THE WAR BUT THE COUNTRY LOST. SHE CREATED A CANCER THAT WAS INCURABLE,GREED BECAME GOD,SHE SEDUCED A HUGE PART OF THE ELECTORATE TO BECOME A SELFISH SELF SERVING PEOPLE,SOMETHING I NEVER THOUGHT I WWOULD EVER SEE IN THIS COUNTRY. THEN IN NOVEMEBER 1990 SHE WAS DEFEATED IN A LEADERSHIP CONTEST BY JOHN MAJOR,AND THAT GAVE ME SLIGHT HOPE,BUT SADLY ONCE AGAIN THE CANCER WAS TO DEEP.EVEN THOUGH I HAD A LOT OF RESPECT FOR JOHN MAJOR,TO ME HE WAS MORE HUMAN THAN MOST TORIES ARROUND AT THE TIME,HIS ONLY FLAW WAS THAT HE NEVER HAD THE STRENGH TO FIGHT THE SNIPERS FROM HIS OWN POLITICAL MACHINE,AND I KNEW HIS DAYS WOULD BE NUMBERED. NOW I LOOK BACK OVER THE LAST 14 OR 15 YEARS,AND TRY TO FIND SOME HOPE FOR MY CHILDREN AND GRAND CHILDRENS FUTURES,BUT SADLY ONCE MORE I CANT SEE ANY IN FACT THE COMPLETE OPPOSITE. STARTING WITH THE FREEDOMS I ONCE ENJOYED AND TOOK FOR GRANTED,WHILE GROWING UP.RIGHT UP TO THE TIMES WHEN COUNCILS HOUSING WAS SOLD TO TENANTS,AND IT SEEMED LIKE OVERNIGHT THAT WORKING CLASS PEOPLE WHO BOUGHT THEIR HOMES ,SUDDENLY BECOME WHAT THEY THOUGHT WAS NOW MIDDLE CLASS,AS I WATCHED HUGE FENCES BEING BUILT ARROUND THEIR NEWLY OWNED HOMES,AND AT THE SAME TIME SAW WHAT I THINK IS THE BIGGEST SLAP INTO ANY CHILDS FACE SIGNS GOING UP EVERYWHERE NO BALL GAMES .CHILDREN WERE BANNED FROM PLAYING ANY BALL GAME IN THEIR STREETS.COUNCILS BECAME MONSTERS.AND PEOPLE I ONCE THOUGHT HAD COMUNITY AT THE TOP OF THEIR PRIORITY LIST,BECAME INSULAR AND HERMIT LIKE,CARING MORE ABOUT THE LAST FLOWER THEY HAD JUST PLANTED,THAN THE ENJOYMENT OF YOUNGSTERS OUTSIDE THEIR CASTLE WALLS. THIS IS NOT AN ANTI RIGHT THING THE LEFT ARE AS GUILTY,IF YOU CAN CALL NEW LABOUR LEFT,ITS A CULTURAL CHANGE. TO PROVE THIS WITH FACTS AS I DO,NEW LABOUR FOR 13 YEARS BROUGHT LAW AFTER LAW IN, CHIPPING AWAY AT OUR FREEDOMS OF CHOICE.ONCE CHERISHED BY ALL. WE HAD MINISTERS TELLING US HOW TO RAISE OUR CHILDREN,AS IF ANY OF THAT CROWD KNEW BETTER THAN THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY.HYPOCRITS IS JUST TOO NICER A WORD FOR THEM. THEN WE HAVE DEMOCRACY ,NOW THAT HAS BECOME JOKE OF THE CENTURY UNDER THIS COALITION GOVERMENT,WHO RIGHT AT THIS MOMENT ARE CHANGING THE POLITICAL SETUP IN THE COMMONS WITHOUT ASKING ANY ONE OF US,JUST TO FIND A WAY TO KEEP THEM IN POWER,IF THAT IS NOT CORRUPTION AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL I DONT KNOW WHAT IS. WE HAVE TWO PARTIES WHO AT THE LAST ELECTION FOUGHT ON POLICIES THAT COULD NOT BE FURTHER APART,YES FURTHER APART THAN THE LABOUR PARTY AND THE TORY PARTY,ONE REASON I SWITCHED MY ALLEGENCE.WHO THEN CAME TOGETHER AS ONE,SPOUTING OUT THE EVILS OF THE TORY PARTY WITH ABOUT TWO EXCEPTIONS,I COULD NEVER UNDERSTAND THE BRAINWASHING THEY TRIED ON US ABOUT COALITIONS BEING A WAY OF FOLLOWING CERTAIN DOCTRINES BLINDLY,TO ME COALITION HAS ALWAYS STOOD FOR A WAY TO RESTRAIN A PARTY BY ANOTHER.CUSHIONING ITS EFFECTS ON THE POPULATION UNTIL A TIME WHEN ITS CONVENIANT TO HOLD ANOTHER ELECTION. ITS ONLY NOW IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS,HAVE THE LIBDEMS STARTED TO DRIFT BACK INTO THEIR OLD THINKING,MAINLY INSTIGATED BY ITS OWN GRASS ROOTS,BUT NOT FOR HONEST REASONS,BUT FOR FUTURE ELECTORIAL REASONS,BECAUSE THEY KNOW THEIR PARTY IS DOOMED AT THE NEXT ELECTION,FOR THE LIES IT TOLD AND BETRAYING THE BRITISH PUBLIC,WHO GENUINELY THOUGHT THEY MEANT WHAT THEY SAID.TO CLEGG AND THE MINISTERS WHO GOT A SEAT ON THE BOARD IT WAS JUST A POWER GAME, A CARREAR MOVER OR SO THEY THOUGHT.IN FACT I WOULD HAVE A BET ON A FEW OF THEM CHANGING OVER TO THE TORY PARTY JUST TO KEEP THEIR JOB AND THE PAYDAY THAT GOES WITH IT.I ONCE LOVED OUR DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM NOW I LOOK AT IT IN DISGUST.THIS IS NOT DEMOCRACY ITS BECOME A FARCE. SADLY WE NOW HAVE THREE PARTIES YOU CANT PUT A CIGARETTE PAPER BETWEEN,THAT IS AGAIN NOT DEMOCRACY,THE BEST DEMOCRACY ANY COUNTRY CAN HAVE IS ONE THAT HAS PARTIES FROM THE RIGHT AND THE LEFT,AND IF WE STILL HAVE A THIRD SHOULD REPRESENT THE MIDDLE,IF YOU COULD EVER TRUST A LIBDEM AGAIN,I KNOW I CANT.BUT ABOVE ALL WE NEED TRUE CONVICTION POLITICIANS,WHO ARE HONEST ABOVE ALL ELSE AND STICK TO THEIR PRINCIPLES EVEN AGAINST THEIR OWN PARTY LINE AND WHIPS.TRUST HAS TO BE PARAMOUNT. WE HAVE NOT ONLY ALLOWED POLITICIANS TO CORRUPT AND REGULATE LAWS AND PAYMENTS MADE TO THEMSELVES,THAT DO NOT APPLY TO THE REST OF US.WE GIVE THEM AIRTIME TO CONDONE THEIR ACTIONS,AND WE LET THEM CARRY ON REGARDLESS,AND WALK AWAY SCOTT FREE,HOUSE FLIPPING IN ANY OTHER WALK OF LIFE WOULD BE AN IMPRISONABLE OFFENCE,BUT NOT FOR THEM.HAZEL BLEARS AND ALISTER DARLING COME TO MIND STRAIGHT AWAY NOT TO MENTION MOST OF THE TORIES.BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE LUXURY TO MAKE THEIR OWN RULES AND REGULATIONS. THEN WE HAVE THE MEDIA,AND ITS CLOSENESS TO POLITICIANS,WHO IN THEIR OWN WAY BRAINWASHED SOCIETY,BY WHICH PARTY THEY FOLLOW.WHEN MURDOCH BACKED NEW LABOUR I SHUDDERED,AND WHEN I WATCHED BLAIR AND THEN BROWN CUDDLE UP TO THEM I FEARED THE WORSE,YOU CANT BLAME MURDOCH FOR DOING WHAT HE THOUGHT WAS BEST FOR HIS EMPIRE AND HOW TO GET IT,BUT I DO BLAME THE POLITICIANS FOR ALLOWING IT TO HAPPEN,THEY WERE PUT THEIR BY US TO PROTECT US NOT BIG CORPORATIONS.BUT CAMERON AND OSBORNE TOOK IT TO ITS FURTHEST EXTREME,THE CLOSENESS BETWEEN THEM AND THE MURDOCH MEDIA BECAME OBSCENE,TO THE POINT WHERE POLICY WAS BEING CHANGED TO SUIT THE MEDIA MOGAL,BSKYB COMES TO MIND TO MENTION JUST ONE.EVERYONE KNEW IT STUNK TO HIGH HEAVEN AS SOON AS VINCE CABLE WAS REMOVED.IT WASENT EVEN DONE IN A WAY A CHILD WOULD COVER ITS TRACKS WHEN DOING SOMETHING NAUGHTY.IT WAS BLATENT.THE PARTIES AND PRIVATE MEETINGS WITH EDITORS,WHEN NONE OF IT CAN BE PROVED WHAT IS GOING ON AND WHAT IS BEING SAID,IS AN AFRONT TO TRUE DEMOCRACY .ESPECIALLY BY A PRIME MINISTER AND A CHANCELLOR.AND WHAT CAN ONE SAY ABOUT THE EMPLOYMENT OF COULSON,IT WAS ANO BRAINER AND STILL CAMERON CARRIED ON .YOU DONT HAVE TO BE EINSTEIN TO THINK WHY. THEN WE HAVE THE MEDIA ITSELF,WHO HAVE PUSHED THE BOUDARIES WAY TO FAR,WITH ITS INSIDE CORRUPTION,PHONE HACKING, PAYMENT OF POLICE JUST TO NAME BUT TWO.JOBS FOR EX POLICE OFFICERS OF HIGH RANK,WHICH PROVED THE MEDIA CORRUPTED EVEN OUR POLICE.WHICH ALLREADY WAS ALOWED TO BE CORRUPTED BY THE SAME RULES THE GOVERMENT HAD, SELF INVESTIGATION.CORRUPTION BECOMES ANOTHER CANCER THAT HAS A HABIT OF SPREADING FROM THE TOP TO THE BOTTOM.WE ALSO ALLOWED OUR POLICE FORCE TO BE POLITICISED,I FIRST SAW THIS IN THE MINERS STRIKE.WE ALSO ALLOWED A LARGE MINORITY OF POLICE TO FOLLOW GOVERMENT LINES WITH THE SUSS LAWS,WHO TARGETED THE BLACK COMMUNITIES WITHOUT RESTRAINT,AND WE ALSO KNEW A LOT WHERE JUST PLAIN RACIST.WE SAT BACK AND ALLOWED OVER 300 DEATHS IN POLICE CUSTODY TO GO UNCHALLENGED,WHILE THEY INVESTIGATED THEMSELVES AND NOT ONE OFFICER WAS BROUGHT TO TASK.THE FIRST ONE STUNK AND THEY STILL ALL STINK,YOU COULD GIVE SOME ALLOWANCE FOR A FEW WHO DIED BY ACCIDENTAL MEANS BUT NO WAY, ANYWHERE NEAR 300.WE HAVE AN EXCUSE NOT KNOWING ABOUT THE WINEING AND DINING BY OFFICERS OF HIGH RANKS WITH THE MEDIA, BECAUSE WE RELY ON THEM TO TELL US.ITS ONLY WHEN ONE NEWSPAPER FINDS OUT SOMETHING THAT EVENTUALLY WE FIND OUT.CAN YOU IMAGINE A SCENARIO WHEN THE MEDIA IS DOMINATED BY ONE PERSON ITS SURE SCARY IS IT NOT. AND TO ANSWER THE QUESTION I PUT TO MYSELF,DO I HAVE HOPE FOR THE FUTURE OF MY MY CHILDREN AND GRAND CHILDREN, THE SIMPLE ANSWER IS NO,NOT A CHANCE. UNLESS ONE FINE DAY THE PEOPLE OF THIS ONCE GREAT COUNTRY GET OFF THEIR BUTTS AND TAKE THE COUNTRY BACK TO WHERE IT BELONGS,TO ALL OF US,AND NOT JUST AN ELITE OF CORRUPTED MONEY GRABBING POWER CRAZY PEOPLE. GET RID OF CORRUPT SELF SERVING POLITICIANS AT THE NEXT ELECTION,STARTING AT THE TOP BECAUSE LOWER DOWN I DO KNOW THERE IS SOME GREAT AND GOOD ONES WHO NEVER SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY BECAUSE OF IT. GET BACK THE FREEDOMS WE ONCE ENJOYED AS A COUNTRY. PROTECT OUR SOCIAL MEDIA FROM THE POLITICIANS,WHO KNOW IF THEY CONTROL THAT, THEY CONTROL EVERYONE. KEEP A FREE PRESS WHO LIVE WITHIN THE LAW,AND PUNISHED HARSHLY IF THEY STEP OUTSIDE IT.USE OUR LIBEL LAWS BETTER BY MAKING LEGAL AID AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE TO FIGHT THEIR CORNER,ITS AN EXTRA TAX I DONT MIND PAYING FOR.AND TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO USE THEIR FEET TO WALK AWAY FROM THE BAD MEDIA. AND TO HAVE THE POLICE INVESTIGATED BY A TRULY INDEPENDANT AUTHORITY,VOTED IN BY THE GENERAL PUBLIC EVERY COUPLE OF YEARS SAY,AND NOT BY THE SO CALLED ELITE WHO WANT THEIR OWN TRACKS COVERED UP. IF ALL THIS HAPPENS AT LEAST I CAN GO TO MY GRAVE HAPPY MY KIDS HAVE A FUTURE. AND TO THINK I WROTE ALL THIS AND NOT ONE MENTION OF BANKERS AND THE CITY,WHO PLAY POKER WITH ALL OF OUR LIVES,WHILE THEY CREAM OFF THE RICHES FROM THE TOP. PLEASE EXCUSE MY TYPOS I WROTE THIS BY HAND FIRST AND MY RIGHT HAND IS KILLING ME NOW. COLIN BAKER FACEBOOK STILL LIVING IN HOPE,2011.GOD SAVE OUR QUEEN.STANDS AND SALUTES . GOING TO EMAIL THIS TO ALL THE MEDIA AND GOVERMENT AND OPPOSTION,AND SEE IF THEY HAVE THE GUTS TO PRINT THE TRUTHS OR POLITICIANS TO TAKE HEAD. Like
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