Gun Culture

Tuesday, July 20, 2004

Britain is Perfect!

Stop Press!
Waiting lists are no more,
Crime is non-existant,
Pensioners have a decent state pension,
The roads are un-congested and smooth as billiard tables,
Inner cities are clean and pleasant,
National debt has been repaid,
Our armed forces are fully equiped and ready for anything,
Britain is truly a Utopia!

What’s that you say?
None of the above is true?

Shurely shome mishtake?
It must be, or else why are Tone and Gordo busy pissing money away overseas to sort out health problems that exist in areas where governments are busy lining their own pockets and building up armed forces to keep themselves in power?
From
The Guardian

The prime minister, Tony Blair, today promised that £150m of the money Britain has earmarked for tackling the global Aids crisis will be spent on children orphaned by the disease and those at most risk from the HIV virus.
Mr Blair’s announcement came after the chancellor, Gordon Brown, last week pledged £1.5bn of UK money for combating the disease around the world in his spending review.

But surely a worthy cause, think of the children etc?
No arguments it is A Bad Job, but these grandiose gestures are simply not the business of domestic government.  Government My fucking money is freely given stolen to provide essential services, and worthy though it may be combating AIDS in far off climes is not essential to your average Brit.
If an individual wishes to give money to charities working in these fields then more power to them.  If the same individual sees fit that my money should be stolen from me to fund their pet causes then they are quite welcome to go fuck themselves!

International terrorist freedom-fighter statesman communist Nelson Mandela has this to say on the matter:

“I welcome wholeheartedly the strong focus on human rights in this new UK strategy.

What?  Did I miss something?  What human right is being infringed by screwing around , getting a disease from same, possibly passing same on to your family and then looking to people from the West to bail you out?
Answers to the usual place!