The bottom line of this perhaps rather long narrative, is not, as I initially started out as a perhaps green, green badge cab driver, who did not move to the valley of Diesel “Ilford” with the obligatory new cab, wife, mortgage and two kids.
No one more surprised than I at the realisation of what has materialised, a first hand description humiliation and deprivation of the British working class from the 1930's.
This erosion brought about entirely by deliberate policy of successive governments.. and the ten draconian years of Tony Blair who deliberately, for whatever reason, encouraged the influx of irrepresible waves of the World's disenchanted onto these shores, by doing so, creating a powerful, intimidating, devisive weapon against the indigenous labouring masses and a hard core of … crime, poverty and unemployment… the triple iron fist of all governments,plus Enron, 9/11, Afghan conflict over oil, Kosovo all emphatically used by Blair; any outcry was by "politically incorrect racists" as Dr David Kelly was to find to the cost of his life.
The differential between rich and poor, is greater now, than during the Middle Ages.
Bucharest, 2002. The ”Transition”
(written on a Bucharest beggar's piece of cardboard)
There is no connection between G.W. Bush, his Zionist backers, their lust for oil, such people who live in temples of gold …….and the woman waiting in the street, waiting to be given … for the children… for the children.
… or is there a faint reflexion?
Thursday, March 06, 2003 ……2:47:42 AM
… Salvation day for Greed.
The top 2% will do and have done everything to hold and control the 98% of the World’s wealth which they possess... shifting the emphasis... moving the goal posts, moving the masses eyes away from their actions, a incessant, relentless, propaganda bombardment through the media…blaming anything, a bearded somebody… somewhere... far off, with waning conviction now, by anyone able to consider the situation.
(Every aspect of media dissemination, is decided for the masses by a handful of people, what should be seen, what should be thought, what should be aspired to. To accept “multiculturalism’ without question, as a accepted way of existence. So many subversive ideas, both insidiously and blatantly thrust into our homes and into the minds of our children by so few people. The general consensus being, this unprecedented power is in the hands of about twenty individuals, it is merely a step to ask , “Who controls America and its subsidiary, Great Britain?”)
The rich have not been so shaken by the eleventh, very quickly concluding it could be so turned to their advantage. They have not woken with the slightest intention of helping humanity, forever playing chess with the masses without seeing the humanity, without care, with a intensity, a coldness, a remoteness, a calculated ruthlessness, a all consuming greed, most people have no conception, no understanding of .
Tuesday, September the 11th 2001
… Salvation day for Greed.
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The collapse of Enron, the biggest corporate scandal in American history ... this fact having to be admitted by the controlled media … their hard words being….
“A collapse caused almost entirely by fraud, sex, the lust for power and greed”
(New York Times. January 2002. Owned by Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., who also owns/controls 33 other newspapers)
Many powerful people have their fingers in the share out of this particular pie, including the English Heir Presumptive, Prince Charles ( $1.7m ) ……..Mr Blair and the British Government….(unspecified)
Nothing changes
Thatcher put the working class out on a limb as they were prior to the War. During the war, with full employment, only a fool worked more than three days a week. Why work the other time and pay the government taxes..!!
The powerful stood this until they realized there were millions of blacks in the “British Colonies” who were willing to work in Britain for almost nothing…It took a long time for the process of bringing the British worker to heel, but it has been done, they have few rights remaining.
Now, with the “Fight Against Terrorism...” even their redundancy payments … pensions, contracts are torn up in their faces … people simply thrown into the street…
(called in the business ”restructuring!!” )
Nothing changes.
Rather a amazing get out for the privileged class, our “Betters”. Think of the popping bottles of Dom Perrignon….
Today, I saw in Romana, an old lady attempting to sell her personal medicine to buy food... think about that also..
Her monthly state pension is 400.000lei
($13 a month) at today’s exchange rate 31000 Lei to the $.
A Cup of Coffee in McDonalds is now 20.000 lei
During the War… I, 13 years old… working… passing the Ritz Hotel, Piccadilly, in my overalls, covered in asbestos dust. At that moment a magnificent/splendid/elegant lady stepped out from the foyer escorted by two gentlemen in top hats and perfumed suits, heading towards one of the largest saloon cars ever made by Rolls Royce...
From the corner of her eye, this female apparition chanced to see disheveled Peter ... now almost cowering, almost overawed by the splendour of his “Betters” (As he was brought up and taught to believe these creatures were)
The lady immediately started to scream hysterically for the two men to get me out of her sight….
I know my place... I doff my cap to them…
Today, on the box, saw people flying to the States on Concord being served with Caviar and white / yellow roses on the table……… Please yourself….
"Cheap labour"
The post office in Brook Rd; Hackney, has eight cubicles, all serviced by Asian ladies. Each day they constantly pay out to long lines of the Demanding World’s Disenchanted who have crowded onto these shores in hope and anticipation.
I had once the audacity, the temerity, to attempt to calculate the amount paid out by H.M Government each week to these people, the noughts fell off the end.
It would be reasonable to say there are at least thirty such other offices in this, the poorest borough, through sheer weight of numbers, in Europe.
The hard economic philosophy of a " pool of unemployment" and "cheap labour" has not come cheap.. in any respect.. however, subtracted from this incredible cost, must be the quite obvious control and advantage by Business and Government over those who have to endure to survive. Or, as Daniella quickly observed, " Simply, perhaps, another punishment for the 'proletariat', for whatever reason, whatever whim "…
The chattering class, capricious, avaricious, uncaring, unthinking, immune to those whose backs they ride, so remorselessly, so heavily upon.
The three wealthiest people in the World hold the equivalent of the gross national income of the 48 poorest, deprived countries of the World
'EuroNews" 9.9.98.
A Romanian peasant lady draws 700 lei a Month pension
(A cup of coffee in Mcdonalds is 7000 lei)
PRO. TV. 1999-03-04
"Blessed are the Poor"... Money and Sex... either wat round
Money had never been of any real consequence, never a serious consideration, poverty firmly engrained, established, something brought up to accept unquestioningly, to be poor.. to let the Rich and Mighty flaunt and postulate freely and quite blatantly before us.
My grandfather found sixpence on the pavement (price of a jug of beer) he carefully placed it on a window sill, saying the person who lost it will surely come back looking for it.. worked hard and diligently all his life. Always remember the photo of him.. a Hussar, his horse, his incredible uniform, lance in his hand.. proud….died with bollocks, a broken man.
There is no apparent, immediate answer to the well know equation. "Two percent of the population control ninety eight percent of the wealth". Only a revolution of such proportions could conceivably overcome this strange disparity, but the Powerful, who are only able to speak in Billions, are ready and waiting, the arms race, still on, but with a different emphasis, each passing day making greater preparation for any internal eventuality, the slightest threat to their stranglehold on Society, surreptitiously, slowly, carving up this Country amongst themselves, selling what belongs to the people. ..."Privatisation" ..the polite word. Maybe it is not too late for my friends in Bucharest to read the writing on their walls.
In the meantime, it is back to "Blessed are the Poor.." Cynthia went crazy when I jibed this at her.. shouting back "Blessed are the poor in spirit!!!".. a real mug is Cynthia and I told her so without any compunction .. Watched the penny drop, watched the expression dawn on her face, that maybe she too had swallowed that particular piece of insidious subterfuge. Nevertheless, still Crosses herself when she walks past the Church..(providing it is open) never said anything more to me about my venturing in with her... so much as she may have liked, now feel she is changing. Maybe, just maybe, Peter is not quite wrong ..that he does have a point, he has been through the complete spectrum and back, has the 'T' shirt to prove it.
My philosophy established, spread out through these pages. Only two aspects to this existence.. the double driving force... Money and Sex.. either way round..