SIR GUESTLING THORN

Today we fly out to Crete so I may not write for three weeks.

I promise to leave on a happy note? However I can find little to be happy about as the news continues to be depressing. My natural optimism has been tested to the full and whilst my tiny opinion matters little to anyone but myself, it is our collective protest that can eventually make the change that is so desperately needed! I cannot emphasis enough how this current government is eroding our rights and bringing in legislation that is prejudicial and restrictive. Simple human kindness and compassion has become an offence, punishable by time in jail! I don’t know about you but that is not a country I wish to live in.

We have an ineffective opposition leader, who cannot break free from his lawyer persona and become the passionate hard hitting leader he needs to be right now! I am not a Labour voter but there is no doubt they have lost their way after a disastrous flirtation with Corbyn. 

Given that there were many promises that have never been fulfilled that the Brexit campaign promoted, why is there not more pressure being put our government and the leave campaign for their complete failure to live up to them? I repeat, that it is very noticeable, all those Brexit campaigners have been silent. Where is all the boasting of all the promises made that have come to pass? The public are not as easily fooled and well aware of what a monumental mistake leaving the EU has, as predicted, become! Not to worry look at all the massive trade deals we have done with the rest of the world! 

I fear for the younger generation and the mess we have left for them. There are less opportunities for them than ever before and no matter what the government does to try and plug the holes, the prospect for so many of them is grim. My generation is largely responsible. We were the first to benefit from the “freedom” we were given and have squandered it for material gain! I am generalising and it is never that simple especially if your not white. 

I don’t blame the young for not listening to us older people anymore, we have done little to gain their respect with the state we have left their world in. 

Having written all that, I am still optimistic, that we can rescue both our country and the world. It takes the will of us all to do it but I still have the belief that humanity can come together and as the Nick Lowe says “What’s so funny about peace love and understanding?”

Stay well