SIR GUESTLING THORN

Day147

I going to moan but I am moaning about my own constant moaning. I am fed up complaining about all the wrongs they are reported everyday and the stupidity I see with my own eyes. It’s exhausting! I want to write something positive each day but it isn’t easy. When I come down in the morning and sit to have breakfast I open up the BBC news site and it’s downhill news wise from there. No wonder so many avoid the it, even at the risk of being ignorant about the world! Sometimes I wonder if going “off grid” might not be a bad idea. When I go on holiday I try not read what is going on but it does not last long. If I was honest I don’t really care what is going on unless it has a direct impact on me and my family or friends. And yet and yet, I can’t stop and I do care. I am far to lazy to anything other than write about all the trouble rather that actually get off my arse and do something! We watched a programme on the development of Manchester yesterday evening and it was further evidence of how the rich get richer and the people get pushed to the outside with little or no housing available at an affordable price and a waiting list so long you can’t see how they will ever get accommodation? I can only speak for myself when I watch these programmes but it upsets me when I’m living in a country that seems incapable of providing a simple thing like a home and the disparity between the haves and have nots is so enormous. 

Now a word about the migrants. Our governments attitude towards them is disgusting and as for the news’s channels following craft holding out microphones and shouting questions is some of the most disgusting scenes I ever witnessed. Help them you ignorant fuckers not hound them hoping for a news item or a sound bite! We are a civilised country who have welcomed people from all over the world many who were from countries we once ruled over. Are we so selfish and heartless that we can’t hold out the hand of friendship to a few desperate people fleeing from war, persecution, death and a desire to find a peaceful life? As somebody wrote nobody puts your family on the water unless the land behind is unsafe! What is wrong with us, when did we become so horrible and uncaring. If you were fleeing for your life you would want someone to offer you safety and a home not vilify you for fleeing in the first place and complain about what damage you might do to that country! What a bunch of mean spirited nasty uncaring bastards we have become, don’t even understand the word compassion.

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