[SOC] UK - the new Siberia by 2020?

[Ian C. Purdie]

Paul Bartlett wrote:

> Hi Ian,
>
> >
> > Is it any concern of ours? After all, do we really owe them anything?
> >
> > If so why?
> >
>
> Well, we owe them the right to screw up in any fashion that they choose (as
> we have) whilst ignoring the advice that we give them based upon our own
> screw-ups.
>
> Nuffink changes...

Possibly, BUT I was "lucky" I had the kind of father who fought for many issues
he believed in, he literally fought - sometimes fist and knuckles - he gave me
a great background of public service or "duty" to believe in, on the basis I
was "privileged".

I was intelligent, I was well educated and in my father's words above all, "I
was responsible".

>From a very hard man, brought up a very hard way by Aboriginals', in the very
beginning of the last century and went through three wars.

Given that background and considering the non-existent standards and values of
today beyond the seeming total idolatry of trash TV?

I was lucky.

Ian