An item
of news that might not catch the eye of those at the receiving end of
the financial Mafia’s drive for austerity cuts, I'm referring to
the coming sale of the Sundrop yellow diamond. This is quite a pretty
piece of shiny stuff, kinda like yellow glass. This piece of carbon
rock that was dug out off the ground, might not be your thing or mine,
but, it is expected to go in the auction for somewhere around £7
million. So as you and your friends sit around discussing the
hardships being inflicted on you, don't for one moment think we are
all in this together. The hardship is for you and I, the
fat-richcats, responsible for devising these austerity cuts, have no
intention of including themselves. They and their millionaire friends
will be at the diamond auction, throwing in a bid or two for that
Sundrop yellow diamond. After all, what is £7 million here or there
for such a lovely piece of rock.
Times are hard, I had to drop out of the Sundrop diamond auction.
Wages cut/frozen, pensions cut, education decimated, health care
privatised, libraries closed, social benefits slashed, uneployment rising, the very
fabric of what little social justice we have won, being viciously
removed, and Victorian poverty the only future our kids are being
offered. That's the deal, you sink in the shit, and those who created
this mess and pass the legislation to ensure your poverty and the
protection of their wealth, flutter around the diamond markets of the
world nodding a million bid here and a million bid there.
I
see this diamond auction as a graphic display of all that is wrong in
this corrupt and exploitive system. The few throw millions at
trinkets, while the millions struggle to live a half decent life, and
in most cases, fail miserable. Their failure is not down to their
lack of ability, but directly linked to the grasping greed of those
in control of this stinking system, the ones who throw the millions
at glossy trinkets.
