As the years have slippped quickly by I have developed an infinite patience, where I was once volatile and impatient always rushing to get things done I have evolved into a calmer less hurrysome being. Where there was once fizzing optimism and an unquestioning belief that good would always prevail and everything would happen quickly and beneficially, experience has dictated that it aint like that.
Along lifes often rocky road you tend to encounter individuals who insidiously chip away at your optimism, that is where patience will carry the day. I would like to think that I have managed to avoid the trap of cynical pessimism but do freely admit to a developing wry cynicism. In the course of work and business you forge many sound friendships but tend also to remember the sneaks and cheats, who latterly, seem to be in the ascendency. There is something about the world today that seems to favour the less desireable face of human nature, the lazy, the greedy, the selfish or plain downright dishonest. There is one other human failing, incompetence that is possibly even more atrocious as it invariably seems to combine greater or lesser elements of the foregoing.
This dangerous deficiency seems to find a fertile breeding ground in todays closely monitored, regulated and politically correct society where initiative or enterprise is anathema and failure is seemingly accepted and rewarded. This is non more so than in government, particularly the higher echelons where denial is an art form and truth often a stranger. The creepy paralel universe that the ruling classes inhabit is a safe cosseted place where perks and priveliges are taken for granted and true accountability is not even a speck on the rose tinted horizon.
Cut to the real world that provides the wherewithal to enable the excesses of the rulers and it is an altogether different more dangerous place. Free enterprise in the small business context has always been a bracing place with short summers and long dark winters. Regulation and taxation has sapped its vitality as the incompetents presume to know best. In the recent past they have exhibited that incorrigible streak of wilfullness that clearly demonstrates they do not know best as everthing their dead hand touches crumbles and fails around them.
In spite of this they have persisted along their chosen path laying waste to swathes of agriculture, fishing and manufacturing eagerly embracing in the process the negative damaging concept of outsourcing. The public services are groaning under the excessive beaurocracy which, while a major growth sector, is incompetence and inefficiency personified. The twin idols of financial services and the knowledge based economy operating in cyberspace have been promoted as our economic saviours. Currently the are exhibiting their glaringly obvious inherent flaws as recession and soaring inflation attack an already imbalanced economy skewed by the onward march of the client state.
A society that produces nothing but passengers hitching a free lift on the gravy train will ultimately starve. In the very near future a strong resilient agricultural sector is going to be vital as the stark reality of peak food eclipses the much peddled peak oil and global warming terror campaigns dreamed up to frighten and subdue us. The tabloid press and the BBC are currently the biggest terrorists as they whip up wave after wave of hysteria on the back of global warming which is in reality an heaven sent opportunity to further tax and control that this incompetent, opportunistic administration is embracing with relish.
The docile compliant client state that feeds off the lies and twaddle peddled by a media sector pursuing its own agenda will never call this awful souless administration to account because they are their paymasters.
The increasingly angry victims of this unfolding disaster are unable to make their voices heard above the clamour of the gathering storm that threatens to engulf us all. The despised population in the midst of this stinking qugmire who work productively and generate the taxes that feed the profligacy and ineptitude will eventually prevail, I am one of them and my infinite patience and optimism is not unique. There is a legion of others, often silent, who share my contempt for the incompetent inadequate fools who have led our Nation to the awful place it now occupies. Never have we faced such an uncertain future so divided, we are engaged in wars which are not really our concern. The finest Army in the World manned by honourable volunteers is used as a pawn in a clash of cultures that was instigated by the arrogance and vanity of a Prime Minister who history may yet judge to be a liar.
While the Soldiers he commited to arguably unlawful conflicts, daily die or return horribly wounded to an ungrateful Country he struts the World stage as a “Peace Envoy” or delivers “Talks” on the US lecture circuit. Gulliable mugs part with obscene amounts of money to hear this unaraigned traitor spout about his role in “World Peace”and the “War on Terror” whilst he smugly trousers the cashcade of profit.
This is the man who on election pledged to unite our Country and uttered the hollow promise that “things would only get better.” The same man who inherited the strongest economy in recent history and proceeded to squander it along with the legacy of our parents who fought and died in a terrible war to secure our freedom. The same man who as a smokescreen to pander to MP’s pursuing a vindictive class war allowed 700 hours of precious Parlimentry time to banish foxhunting whist the country was threatening to collapse around his uniquely distinctive ears.
The real irony is that having eventually handed his poisoned chalice to his brooding Chancellor and legged it to cash in on his escalating notoriety, he is history, but foxhunting has never been in better fettle, they could not even get that right, what chance do they have with the real issues? Am I a cynic, yes I am, and an infinitely patient one at that, the incompetents will get their come-uppance but the interim is gonna hurt, be brave!
