Around 43% of people in the UK now think of themselves as middle class, but what does this mean, when in a European wide survey about social responsibility, 60% of people in UK, when asked if they would intervene if they saw 14year olds vandalising a bus stop, said no.  However in Germany, 60% said yes they would intervene to stop the 14 year olds

My thought about the UK is, was this the same people answering both questions, if you see yourself as middle class do you see yourself as having more to lose (like your health and life in a beating from 14 year old boys)

Society it would seem wants in the majority to see itself as affluent, but once we attain that affluence we want nothing to do with community and social control, because along with doing nothing about vandals, these are the same people who object to parking and congestion charges in our polluted cities or being caught speeding by speed cameras.  In fact what they want is not to be policed, they do not want the so called ‘nanny state’ either…in other words they want there affluence protected with no policing of them or responsibility to the rest of the community.

Society without responsibility and community is a soulless place of might is right and is represented by our leaders as acceptable.  Would we be paying all these taxes if it wasn’t for the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, wouldn’t that money have been better spent at home.  Might is right is wrong and expensive, private money and corporate action isn’t always better than state owned companies.

Ask yourself, if you live in the UK or any of the countries where utilities were brought from state to private hands, is the telecoms, water, gas, electricity offering you a better and cheaper service as promised…my answer across all of these is NO.

The government has a duty to set an example of social inclusion, community, best practice and social equality; it also needs to control and contain, corporate greed and social breakdown…ooh did someone say the dirty word socialism.

I find it fascinating that Castro has held on so long his influence in Latin and South America has come round again, and the absolute outcry at actions in Venezuela and Bolivia, watch out and work together, otherwise echos of Allende’s removal by US backed General Pinochet spring to mind, and wasn’t he a lovely guy!

So how do we get from 14 year olds at the bus stop to General Pinochet, the answer is too damn easily if you don’t step in.  It was the middle classes that thought they had a lot to lose that supported Pinochet and still do.
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