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That line could apply to so much right now, but I’m going to focus on the cost of living, as that really does appear to be a serious pressing issue that is being forced through. It’s coming to boiling point with the stupid, idiotic and downright childish policies that have been hurried into place. Almost as if they think if they keep chucking stuff at people, they will be so busy scrabbling around to find their feet, they won’t notice. It needs everybody to just stop for a moment. To really think and then act, not react.
It seems, whether this is true or not, that we are meant to have a social contract with the government and councils.
“Council tax is the local tax which helps councils pay for the services they provide“.
Here is one of the taxes we are conditioned that we have to pay, but to me it reads as though they are a business providing a service, and getting reimbursed for it. Why do we then have no say in what the services are, or how they are delivered? Or whether we want to pay for them or not? I’m sure there are many people who would happily pay for their local areas to be maintained, but not by way of the local council first. The amount of wastage at all levels of council and government is shocking, and has been for decades. We all know.
But this last two years has seen catastrophic level of thievery and misappropriation of public funds. To me it is gross misconduct and a breach of the social contract that we have. Making it null and void. But aside from technicalities of law and the fact they write the law to protect themselves and so they can keep their greedy fingers in the pot, there are real people who will face real hardship from their fly by night decisions and laughable ‘leadership’. They care not for the normal everyday folk; they have made that much clear. It’s heart-breaking when you see how much of a pension some people are trying to live on, while at the same time handouts being given left, right and centre to people who have not contributed or worked hard at all sometimes. And in that I mean both people at home and from abroad. We are an island with a limited land mass and resources, being distributed in the most corrupt fashion, it is simply not sustainable or realistic to think it can go on and everything keep going up. Food, taxes, heating, fuel, travel etc. All at a time when we should all have enough, for everyone and to share and help others who may be in need of assistance. Because we see where it goes, we see land and money being hoarded on a level Ebeneezer Scrooge would be proud of. But really, I ask myself why.
Why do they want to make life so hard and terrible for people? Was it not bad enough that we are born into servitude and have to face a life of being herded, directed and dictated to, and pushed to where they want you to be? Now they have to put extra strain on the constantly adapting landscape, because fear and worry have all sorts of consequences, as they, and us, well know. But the extra strain and financial worry they are knowingly heaping on people for what only appears to be profit, is downright cruel. Engineering social issues and benefitting from them for the longest time, yet still managing to blame the people for it. I can only hope that as each day passes and more corruption is exposed, some good and change will come of it.

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I haven’t got in much reading at all over the last couple of years, but I noticed this one on social media with this description from a recent reader –
“If you love a creepy haunted house where the ghosts aren’t half as terrifying or tragic as the living people inside it, this is a must read.”
That sounded just the sort of thing I would actually like to read, so rather than think about it and forget. Ordered it straight away, started reading on the day it arrived and finished by the next day! Good pace and plot, with everything else balancing perfectly in between. A most enjoyable read 🙂

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A bit of bright and colourful nature, for another grey day. Spring is coming, just needs to hurry up…







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As we are told as children usually, when asking for more.
“Money doesn’t grow on trees” they said.
And they are right, it doesn’t. Or so we thought. It can’t have escaped many people’s attention that money is literally flowing like water at the moment. More than you could ever imagine being ‘spaffed up the wall’ as they would put it (‘they’ being the elected charlatans at the helm). Amounts we can hardly fathom, I’ll list a few for you for context of some items they just wrote off / spent in just the last two years.
NHS debt wiped as at April 2020 = £13.4 billion they say.
PPE that wasn’t used/up to standard = £9bn
Coronavirus support fraud = £4.3bn
Bounce back Loans they don’t expect to be paid back = £17.5bn
Eye-watering figures, aren’t they? And only a handful that I could recall seeing from the last two years, although this type of thing goes back further and covers far more than I could ever be aware of. The NHS debt being wiped is the interesting one for me (the others were completely set up in an instant to be an instant withdrawal system, as if they turned the government into an ATM for themselves and friends). Years ago, with the introduction of PFI in 1997 (Private Finance Initiatives), we changed the way the NHS operated. People purchased buildings and then rented them back to the NHS, ensuring a constant flow of money into someone else’s pockets. Turns out some notable people purchased some, using off shore accounts so that they didn’t have to pay tax on any of that rental income, and could very slowly bleed the service dry with high rents and terms – because when the public are paying for it and don’t get to check where they money ends up, it seems anything goes.
After years of being told to tighten the purse strings, austerity, cut back, recessions, higher cost of living, low wages etc. You would think there would be a limit? A final amount they are working towards or that the people could take. Nope. Just more debt, printing more ‘money’ and adding zeros to their own salaries and contracts while adding a bigger minus to your life, monetary and otherwise. I do not know the entire financial system and how it works, only a very small part of it, but within that part I deal with income and expenditure, budgeting and forecasting and overview. So, it’s not hard for me to see how we got here, and how we now have more greedy fingers in the pot than ever before with no end in sight. It was never going to be sustainable; they just used that pretence to keep it all going. They were never looking for a solution, so I stick with one of my previous sayings “The system isn’t broken, it’s exactly as they mean it to be”. And once you realise that, it does make you rather despondent towards wanting to be able to change it. It’s a different ballgame knowing you are up against a level of corruption one can only just fathom, and it’s not about systems and procedures and the good of society at all, it’s about them being in control. Of your finances, emotions, thoughts, direction in life and goals. They want us all reading from the same script, because make no mistake, they will still try to achieve what they want, but with less fuss and hassle. Because I believe that’s all they see us as, a bit of a thorn in their side.
Let’s take sheep and cattle. To minimise the hassle with cattle when taking from them what you want, there is a process of restricting them, holding them in place and making them compliant. They don’t just do it because they want to. With sheep, they use sheep dogs to round them up, and then mostly they do as they told. So, these animals fall in line because that is what they are being ‘encouraged’ to do, by way of fear, threat of or actual violence, isolation, and any other tactic we seem to employ to get what we want as humans. Even doing all the above to other humans. But for what purpose? It seems as though they want us all in a small box, consuming until we burst, spending money in their virtual world, not having person to person contact and being medicated to the max. Maybe I have missed something or I am too cynical, but in all of their plans and visions of the future, they seemed to have failed to factor in actually being human. It’s disturbing. They seem to want to change us from human being, to human doing. Augmented soldiers, becoming part of a meta verse, making normality a taboo subject. And guess what, we are paying for it, penny by penny, pound by pound. We pay for our own enslavement and to be in debt, quite ironic really. Or not really, there is no free ride, as my grandpa used to say. So in one way or another, you pay, either with actual money, or time, or emotions. They take something from you in order to then give it back. But what do you do when there is little or no return for what you put in, or you no longer require what they offer in exchange for your time and money? Well, here we are, so now we need to really think about it and decide.
What do we actually want for the future? Do we want to see our old system crumble as they have intended and be morphed into a sterile, monitored, points-based validation system? Where nothing is personal and you are not allowed to be an individual, only group mentality will be authorised. I will cover that in a bit more depth on another article in progress called The Hive, but we need a complete overhaul of our ways and systems, that much is obvious. But not by those who are currently ‘in charge’, as they are the ones who led us here in the first place and clearly cannot be trusted with our safety, security, wellbeing or future.

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If you find yourself in need of a book for world book day…
Most of my books are detailed below and there are more in the pipeline.
The Willing Observer – Fictional autobiography of a stalker/psychopath breaking down their methodology
A Parallel Abyss – A paranormal horror thriller
The Unknown – Horror/sci-fi story of a virus that changes the world (that one might not be an escape as such, but isn’t along the same lines as what is going on).
Under the Apple Tree and other short stories – Six short creepy stories, each with a twist – two of these are available to read on here if interested. Clocking Off and Doctors Visit.
Meeting in the Middle of Nowhere – A non-fiction book discussing the differences between Aphantasia and Hyperphantasia.
Rhyme and Reason – Poetry inspired by life.
Rhyming Reason – Volume II – Observational poetry of society and of the unfolding drama around us currently.
All the links for these can be found here on my book page

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