So here we go again, another election, more promises of paradise, more shaking hands, more smiling at babies, the crooks and liars are in town. roll up, roll up to the greatest show on earth. I shudder at the amount of manifestos I have been hit with, and stand aghast at the number of messiahs I've seen take to the podium, but paradise never arrives. Despite the increasing wealth of this country over the years and the number of election promises to see a fairer distribution of wealth, nothing has changed that much. Yes we have mobile phones an TVs, but approximately 25% of our kids live in poverty, people are still homeless, parents are still distraught trying to feed their families, jobs are still precarious and wages are still crap. I still maintain that a parliamentary election is nothing more that a crooks and liars competition, each contender trying to out do the other and be crowned king of crooks and liars and take their place on the throne to perpetuate the same old exploitation of the people. So ends my only contribution to this latest crooks and liars competition.
This from something I wrote a while ago:
We all know that those who sit on the
seat of government are in the pay of the corporate world, they call the
shots, who gets invaded and when, where the tax payers money goes etc.
So what’s next, new bums on seats, nicer smiles at the podium, while
leaving the same corporate power in control? The system stinks from top
to bottom, it is the system that should be criticised not the
individuals that manage it, an Obama here a Blair there, so what, what
changes. When the mass euphoria broke out at the election of Obama I
reminded people of the same euphoria when Blair was elected which
quickly turned to an effort to get him indicted. Over the years I have
seen a multitude of smiling faces form governments and seen a library of
election manifestos held aloft, but little changes, our standard of
living goes up a little and goes down again, but we always struggle. We
go to war on an alphabet of causes, we are always the just and the
defenders of freedom, the other the evil enemy, the workers do the
killing and get killed, the corporate world takes the bounty. It’s the
system that needs to be destroyed, until that happens, we will struggle
and we will go to war, we will kill ordinary people in the defence of
those ordinary people and it will be the ordinary people that do the
killing.
Let's stop the
babble and the pandering to the parasites that control and destroy our
lives, Let's realise that we can make a better job of the world if we
take control ourselves. Direct action, direct involvement, not
delegation of our power to the millionaire parasite class that is going
to screw you to the deck at every turn.
ENDLESS BABBLE.
The questions arise. Why war and hunger?
Why does poverty continue to linger?
Why such need in a world of wealth?
Why put a price on a child’s health?
Confused and angry the public stand
gazing in disbelief at this pathetic band.
Those shiny politicians designed by spin
their street credibility paper thin,
the great persuaders looking the mood
struggling so hard just for our good!
Masters of the art of wheeling and dealing
exceptional experts at legal stealing.
Enter the Media, drowning us all in trivial text,
everything you need know
of scandal and sport, crime and sex.
Together they create a world of confusion
all fashion and style, a vicious illusion.
So no matter how often we point at need,
we always drown in a sea of greed,
no debate entered into, no answers found,
the waffle the babble goes round and round.
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