Introduction
UK Plc or Brand UK seems to have lost its marbles in the last weeks since December 2013. In the face of predictable natural insurgence, the governing power elite rose to occasions of indignity, carelessness and displacement. As the heavens kept yawning for its eternal drop of water to drip down, populations in specific parts of the country got multiple whammies of flood, saturation and abandonment. The question now is, where is the government if one actually exists?
Curious Interest
I must admit that the subject is not business as usual despite its allure and attraction. Nevertheless as what amounts to yesterday’s great power is riddled with problem of stupidity incorporated, one is prone to take a detour in reaction. It is poignant to bear in mind that the disequilibrium coalition government have made her mark in sustaining a ‘permanent revolution in one country’ through austerity even as classical economics said her final prayers. What else can current government do?
Since December 2013, rain has continued to pound the country; hotspots in specific places without respite. It is not a surprise as (good) experts predicted increased rainfall and increased potential for inundation in low lying areas of the country. This knowledge or information has been in the public domain for at least a decade. Sadly the elites who run the Plc hailed fish-and-chips while the plebes were having saturation and thunderbolt.
With a chancellor/finance minister more in touch with oncological surgery than effective resource management, in the name of debt reduction the country has been once again exposed. With reckless cutting of resources, peoples who are the biggest resources of a country have been relegated. Why? They are dispensable, they lack power, they can be cheaply seduced and they have short-term memory. This is the reason South West England is now a huge swimming pool with no help in sight from the government.
Various governments in the last few years reduced citizens to the level of importance deserving of emergency action only when terror strikes. In essence terrorist (whatever it means) has higher priority. As a result internal security and military budgets ballooned to astronomically proportions. Trident strategic weapon system rented from US cost billions of pounds per annum and will not be used either as a deterrent or in active service. I am told by a talking head that it is not a waste.
Rain Strikes
With television showing internally displaced peoples of UK, displaced by war caused by nature with a government so weak to even prepare, support or act decisively in response; more so in the ruling party’s heartland one wonders what is happening? It is simple. The power elite have only allegiance to their core accumulation interest regardless of political party. They are careless, reckless and flawed. Despite the supporting spin by licenced media, they all hate and detest citizens. If massive emergency cannot force a government to reconcile towards special support measure for flood victims, then one should be clear what is in store for the country till 2015.
Sadly flood victims, internally displaced citizens, induced homeless British and Conservative party underlings in flooded areas have become silhouettes for media haemorrhaging politicians. With one foot in water and few shallow sundry blame words for the camera, victims dissolved in the ether of oblivion. One day the army is in but unaware of their role, the next day a blabby minister mouths ‘unreserved apology’. When the future king talks plain, his words are attacked instead of action.
Open Eyes
While the role of government is clear and power elites have no room for shame what is the fate of citizen? For the most part it will be business as usual. Abused, seduced and blind-sided again and again! They believe in democracy that works against them; they believe in party politics that is more of specialised branch of privileged old boy network. Citizens believe everything except power in themselves. They are scattered around the plain in the name of individualistic preponderance to decide one’s future hence virulent dismantling of the commons or collective. They refuse to organise, they refuse to mobilise, they refuse to strategise. They also expect positive change. From who? They forget that no one shares or gives up power without serious challenge. They don’t even speak the language of the power elite, their oppressors.
The most important lesson of South West England flood is thus; the treatment of flood victims and internally displaced citizens of the area is a pilot for national implementation because to all intents and purposes it is a grand success.
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