The Shocking Decline Of England.

Do we live in the worse country in the developed
world?

The shooting of an eleven year old boy for no apparent
reason highlights the appalling way this country has
gone in recent years.

Health. We have one of the worse, run systems in
Europe. Travellers tales tell of the first class
treatment they receive everywhere from France and
Germany to Malta and Portugal, whereas we constantly
hear of overcrowding, dirty wards, hours waiting in
emergency, low morale among employees, assaults by
drunks on nurses, stern notices on every available
ward warning against arguing with staff. Visitors
turning up to see patients when ever they like
sometimes in crowds that are noisy and ill behaved,
decent little hospitals and departments being closed
down, jargon about Primary care and Health Trusts that
no one understands, elderly people spending their
savings on treatment that should be theirs by right,
infection rife, the lowest rates of cancer cured, the
list is endless.

Crime. Shootings in the street fairly commonplace.
Pitched battles between gangs barely wrote about in
local press let alone the Nationals, theft and
muggings reported and the police shrug their
shoulders, rapes, drunkenness, drug taking and dealing
quite blatant in full gaze of anyone interested, town
centres at night where the behaviour by mobs
screaming, swearing, fighting is barely censured
absolute no go areas for the timid or middle aged, but
peaceful demonstrators and protesters are given no
quarter, cameras everywhere recording everything and
yet when a serious crime is committed the film is too
blurry. Hell on earth for older people without the
resources to move from ‘sink’ estates or ‘sink’
streets. Politicians, who, instead of going
anonymously without police escorts to see what’s
happening, seem completely out of touch and can only
suggest punishment and more prisons. What about
cause?

Transport. They want to build more runways for the
airports and more facilities, not to ease the misery
of those that have to use these dirty, scruffy,
crowded termini where rudeness and impatience is the
norm, but to squeeze more and more people into them.
Our streets are densely packed and parking has to be
paid for even in country villages, that’s if a parking
space can be found on the crowded purgatory of our
roads. Our trains are the dearest in the world, and
though some are new, the standards are very low, the
toilets, even in the new trains, are very rarely
working and when they are they seem to be never
cleaned. The stations are poorly lit and badly signed
so that in the dark one is never sure what stop one is
at. Public transport is smelly from the greasy food
that people at peak time seem to be eating in every
seat, replacing the smell of cigarettes with that of
greasy and unappetising food is no improvement. If
there is a buffet, and that is never certain, it is
poor. The buses and tube trains are crowded and
uncomfortable. The buses now have television with
adverts constantly playing to compound the misery of
passengers who sit there anxious not to miss their
stop too nervous, in many cases to ask, because the
driver cum fare taker is very often unfriendly to the
point of hostility.

Defence. Our services are ill equipped and poorly
supported. Over stretched in Afghanistan and Iraq our
much lauded soldiers, praised to the skies by
politicians who’ve never seen a shot fired in anger or
been near a bomb, are according to the Americans, not
very good, one US General even implied they are
‘cowardly’ which was also said about the sailors
captured in Iranian waters travesty.

Is there any correlation between the above and the
fact that this country, England, once fair, brave
and beautiful, is now just a money making machine for
the greedy of the planet who come here and live in
unspeakable and disgusting luxury because they pay no
tax because the country sucks up to them for reasons
that are unfathomable and all the while Gordon Brown
trumpets about how strong the economy is, and seems to
reject the European values for the values of America.
Its a wonder Europe, like Scotland who wants to,
doesn’t chuck us out, we hardly seem worthy of the
European Union that is getting stronger and better.


Eddie Johnson, 23 August 2007.