by Ken Savage GLPA
A well needed rest in the sun, vitamin D is somewhat scarce in the OK but in the South of France it is there to be had in large doses. Yes it is there to be had and I took it in large doses, together with a far healthier food diet that I admit I succumb to very rarely in equal large doses at home in Belsize Park.
I flew down to Marseilles on 19th April, took a 2 hour drive from Marseilles to the small village of Mallans where I spent a glorious nine days fed by the new from home in the Marseilles printed edition of the Times newspaper.
It was indeed a great surprise to see on page 6 in The Times of April 23 rd a picture of my friend and comrade Terry Hurt, clothed in his red, white and blue with his Union Jack flag taking up his position at Westminster for the Royal Wedding.
There you are Terry mate, you hit the Marseilles printed edition of The Times of Thursday April 23rd
On this question Terry and myself hold totally different attitudes and views, but when it comes to the social care and justice for the pensioner and the disabled we stand as one in support and campaigning for their betterment.
Tory government cuts to social care are most certainly beginning to bite, and bite hard and deep, it is indeed a very sorry state of affairs when I read in that same edition of The Times that child poverty in Britain is rising substantially.
Yes, we must continue to campaign in the best interests of all sections against injustice but should we not be taking up the real basic question - why are there such injustices perpetrated on the common people as they have been for generations, when there is such an abundance of wealth in this country, there is a sound reason, a lesson surely to be learnt and learnt in the shortest time possible to put an end to the imposed hardship on the millions of ordinary people who were not in the slightest sense responsible for the economic climate faced by this country today.
Today's recession was created by the incessant greed for more by the banks and finance houses based in the City of London; it is from that square mile of high finance that all recurring slumps and recessions are created.
My generation has seen and experienced so many in our lifetime and from each and every one the working man and woman has been blamed and made to pay in lower wages, unemployment, cuts to social care and benefits and to the excess of war, and in this lying deception the establishment media has played its part to the full.
The Sunday Times on the 8th May published its 23rd annual survey of Britain's wealthy, we should not be sidetracked by the argument that we are envious of these people, it is the means by which a great many of them create their wealth which can lead to a greater understanding of the recurring economic ills of the country, at the same time we can gain an understanding of the nature and causes of poverty amongst so many pensioners and other sections.
Are pensioners affected and concerned about the government's cuts to their welfare? Of course we're concerned and angry, especially when one, Sir Philip Green, the government's official 'austerity adviser' is directly involved in making those cuts.
Sir Philip Green is in the 13th spot on the Sunday Times Rich List together with his wife, living in Monaco, to avoid paying tax to the tune of £280 million! They possess a net worth of £4.2 billion with a growth rate annually of £221 million.
It is the wealth accumulation of people like Sir Philip Green and her ladyship, that creates the hardship and poverty for the country's ordinary people.
In 2002 the top 200 were worth £102.6 billion, today 2011 they are worth £278.9 billion and that sum is growing by the hour, the richest 1000 people in Britain possess a wealth pot of £395.8 billion, a rise of 18% a year, as we commoners are told to tighten our belts and work harder because we are all in this economic crisis together!
Tell that to the bloody Marines Mr. Cameron!!!
Ken Savage
