Plus ça change... farewell
I experienced extremes of emotion but worst of all was the realisation that everything seemed to repeat itself every five or six years. Dishonest politicians being found out, the US coming up with some flimsy story that would justify them attacking the Middle East again, financial cutbacks, new tribunals to deflect blame from somebody’s corruption, a slight fall in the unemployment rate that had increased the month before, etc, etc. Changing governments and, thus, opposition parties made no difference to anything whatever, in spite of all their pre- and post-election promises. The difference between corruption, negligence, sheer lack of interest and stupidity in the absurdly bloated layers of our thousands upon thousands of bureaucrats became harder to tell. I also noticed members of the public always knew what was about to happen at least two years before any government department admitted that there might be a problem. It also became increasingly clear that crooked banks and dodgy governments cannot survive without each other, which is why the world is in this worsening crisis — especially the USA, the EU and, worst of all, poor little us. Thus, although writing a letter was often good for my blood pressure, it is doing the country no good. This is therefore my last letter. I shall now concentrate on finishing my book about what we, the people, need to do about our appalling governmental system. Voting and then forgetting about them is most definitely not it.
Farewell.
