WITH the doors, windows and arms opened wide in a sycophantic welcome to the all-conquering Chinese contingent, who arrived with much-publicised fanfare and diplomatically hidden dissent, the world wide race to the bottom of the morality trough begins.

Coincidentally, the bottom has fallen out of the steel-making industry as a result of the supposed dumping of cheap steel on the markets by none other then our honoured guests and soon-to-be owners of everything that’s not tied down.

Yet again, the lack of a government with any interest in investing in the future of the society it has been elected to govern has given rise to mass redundancies and loss of community, pride and industrial infrastructure.

In a sickening display of the ruling classes’ ability to ignore all concerns around human rights, the greedy accommodate, overlook and collude with whoever pays the highest price when the lure of money is wafted before them.

The Royal Family have even been roped in to add the most sickly of icing onto an already unpalatable cake.

Those who were or still are, under the illusion that this country has any ethical or moral foundation can now perhaps accept that we, like the rest of the world’s population, are just so many pawns in a global game of chess and are no more valued then any other disposable tool in the hands of the controlling, manipulating “owners”.

The whole sordid show is proof positive that having capitalism as the building block of any society condemns those who are caught in its all-pervasive web, to a life of servitude and toil with no time off for good behaviour. Anyone who witnessed the frankly sickening and toe-curling displays from all the grovelling ruling classes and still feels compelled to wave the Union Jack in anything but a display of irony seriously needs to seek help.

Any of us who haven’t realised that we and our families have been mugged off by the generations of those that have “led” us, are probably a liability and shouldn’t be allowed to leave our beds unaccompanied, let alone cast a vote.

Where do all those hard-working families turn to now that they have toed the line and tried against the odds to commit to achieving a perception of pride in a time of unnecessary austerity, brought about by the thieving banker mates of Osborne and Cameron?

Maybe one solution is for us all to form banks, as ironically, they are the only institutions that can’t be bankrupted.

Failing that of course we could club together and form a new state that disregards human rights and is free to exploit all and any resource no matter what the cost to humanity or the environment, then we would be lauded by the money-grabbing, inhuman bunch of parasites that currently milk us just like our highly honoured guests.

What society really needs is a recalibration of its values and ethics, a society where positivity and empathy form the bedrock as opposed to the lowest common denominating paradigm where exploitation and greed rule the day.

The old greed-based construct is as defunct as organised religion nowadays.

If this latest display by the ruling classes hasn’t convinced you of the truth of their intentions I don’t know what will, but the term Chinese Takeaway has a very ominous new meaning.

 

ED DEEDIGAN