There is an undeniable joy in listening to a CD in the car, the harmony choice is simple to achieve and then the comfort of listening to one’s favourite music as you propel yourself along. The preferred disc at the present time is Gilbert O’Sullivan and his simple clear words happily put to music stay in the mind, and frequently I find myself humming and singing to the words, long after they have been switched off.
One of the ditties finishes with ‘as long as you are good and kind – you will always be a friend of mine’.
Love and friendship is the way of the British, a Christian way of life, and it worked for a very long time with children brought up in a comfortable home and taught the way of honesty and politeness. Also discipline. It was the norm for hundreds of years including the acceptance of immigrants who had the same mind set in their upbringing and welcome in the United Kingdom without ruffling the feathers of the community.
Change came, slowly at first and in my mind, it was caused by that very kindness and love when it was felt that children should not be punished for their misdeeds. A ban on physical chastisement, when it was first spoken of, I could understand, but when the embargo morphed into any form of discipline, then the child grew up without any knowledge between right and wrong.
This has had a lasting effect, adults without a clear sense of comradeship where personal gain is more important than day to day events and totally unaware of how they are involved with others.
The last Conservative Administration comes to mind where it appears members were more interested in their own situation than pulling together as a governing body.
In other countries their way of life and the rearing of children is totally different so much so, that in some, dishonesty is taught at a very young age, likewise religion is preached is very different to the British way. In some nations the young male is also given a grounding in that they have no respect for women.
If the separation of the various nations stayed that way and did not try to spread their type of breeding to the rest of the world then peace would have reigned, but unfortunately the Western World saw it as their place to share their lifestyle and accept other cultures to live alongside, assuming that they would respect the host country’s way of life.
The love of your neighbour attitude in the United Kingdom coupled with the lack of discipline by a generation of people, has brought about a disastrous situation where by, all types of migrants, mainly males, from different nations have been allowed to flood illegally into the British Isles, but instead of them being treated as unlawful people the soft laws of the kindly English people treat them as guests, and give them more benefit than the natural residence.
However, it is far more dangerous than that, these people are being treated royally instead of being put into some form of confinement while their application for residency is being processed. They are allowed to roam freely.
Logic says people without a task or some form of project quickly become bored and then they are free to get up to all forms of restive activity. Stealing, drug dealing, leading to unrest and killing.
These so-called asylum seekers are nearing a point where they are beyond the law, taking control of towns and cities, totally ignoring the British way of life, creating their own ghettos and in some cases forming their own courts and administering their own laws.
No matter what administration is in Westminster, of any political colour, for some unaccountable reason do not have the will, or it seems the means, to return the country to a law-abiding nation. Take care
Percy
