Today the UK Government displayed once more it’s failings to grasp why the populace feel so disillusioned with them.
Whether or not Ken Clarke was trying to open up a serious debate on sentancing lengths in relation to rape offences or not, what he did was demonstrate what is wrong with the governments approach to solving the financial situation.
Whilst the politicians and bankers created this mess that we are currently, as a country, trying to survive and fight our way out of the politicians seem to think that it is acceptable that those in the greatest need are going to feel the worst of the cuts and measures.
Why should those that require health care or require the assistance of law enforcement and the legal system be those who suffer the most whilst those in the industry that has got us here continue to make clear profit and reward themselves with practically tax-free bonuses.
I just don’t get it.
I know that sometimes in life that hard decisions have to be made and that some people are going to suffer because of those decisions some people are going to have a really tough time of it. But even the most difficult of decisions can be fair, and at the end of the day the current range of measures are only fair to the upper eschelons, as it were, of society.
I might not have all the answers, or indeed any of the answers, but I am damn sure that the right way to go about things is not to make life easier for those who break the law in the name of cutting costs whilst expecting those in need to simply bear the brunt of it.
I would have thought that it is possible to save money whilst still maintaining common sense and a touch of humanity?
But maybe I’m wrong.
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