KIDS IN THE WILD AND MISSING LEADERSHIP

No one can seriously say that stealing from and torching businesses is really excusable but it must also be said that the majority of recent rioting was down to a lot of young people who come from privation and dont come from a Janet and John background in a nice middle class area, even despite the occasional anomaly from a good backgroundd which the media like to feature.

For a few moments lets look at the lack of leadership for these kids and some of the recent role models. First we have corrupt well paid reporters and journos who were quite prepared to hand dosh to equally corrupt police officers.for tips and rumours, to add to the factoids which they had already hacked from private cell phone messaage  boxes. Once again we are confronted by the poacher-gamekeeper dual roles beloved by people in leading positions. Its truly criminal to hack phones and even more criminal to bribe coppers for private gossip and info. Worst of all as an example of criminal hipocrisy is that there were high flying rozzers willing to enter into into these mutally satisfying arrangements. And if this was not enough right at the top were the fine examples of law and order in the Houses of Parliament. These fine and upstanding crooks were fiddling expenses claims out of the public purse.

And... lets not forget the crooked and greedy activity of leading bankers etc who have literally brought many people to levels of privation . Off course this is white collar crime and therfore not nearly as serious as blue collar crime irrespective of the collossal sums involved and all the more galling to ordinary honest folk that these same crooks aka bankers are actually getting bonuses and rewards for their outrageous activities. It is people like these scumbags who have acted as fine icons  of our modern society for rather too many poorly educated kids from sordid backgrounds about as far from a Janet and John book as they can get and with little if any future.

Fukushima a disaster waiting to happen, just like Sellerfield.

Well just as we thought the money wasted on Thorpe chicken has come home to roost. A scheme that required and depended on ships and trains full of nuclear waste travelling between Japan and Cumbria was never going to be sane let alone profitable. The only person who wanted this kind of thing was the insane old bag known as Margaret Thatcher and her equally insane cohorts at British Nuclear Fools. The scheme and site in Cumbria has never been anything but intrinsically dangerous and certainly not viable but it was just the kind of thing one might expect from a pair of nutters like Reagan and Thatcher.

This dreadful duo are the people who brought us the Starwars plan which couldnt be made to work or be afforded and of course the the Big Bang in the Stock Exchange, part funded by a consortium apparently headed by the Dirty Digger (Murdoch) and other luminaries such as Robert Maxwell aka the Bouncing Czech. The original idea seemed to require the closing down of what remained of British manufacturingindustry and the ramping up of the banking and money markets sector of which Britain was so proud. It never seemed to the practitioners in reagonomics that there was anything wrong in abandoning all pretense of making things we might sell abroad.  Instead, the banks and markets were deregulated and allowed to operate an automatic business based on the 80s loadsamoney principle.  Litte wonder is it that both the nukes business and the doshateria melted down and at about the same time.

Now, both the UK and the USA which it emulates so brazenly are presiding over economies which are up to their ears in debt and surrounded by the smouldering rubble of their earlier exploits.