Dreaming

After a good few beers last night, I retired to bed and woke up this morning fairly fresh.

The usual routine of getting the papers and then having breakfast ensued. Thumbing through these papers convinced me that I must still be asleep as I was seemingly reading the fiction of my worst nightmares:-

1. The fuller story of how a politician spent six hours in police custody for doing no more than his job (like him or loathe him).

2. Another scandal where it appears Social Workers had ample opportunity to do something, but didn't - whether or not they followed the obviously flawed procedures is not the point, common sense and decency should have prevailed.

3. Big back garden = Pikey Park. No comment required, I'll sell up and buy a flat.

4. "I'm a waste of space, pay me money to sit in a fuckin' campsite in Australia and call it entertainment" covering far too many column inches.

5. "Crime predictive CCTV cameras". They will decide I am about to commit a crime because I am walking slowly...hmm...that's concrete evidence obviously. Forget the fact that I have may have buggered my leg up trying to kick start a belligerent old Triumph T110...

So where, exactly, is this country going?

Well, from my perspecitive, it seems to be going down the shitter quicker than big houses with big gardens in Essex. How much longer will the majority of decent, hard-working people put up with this constant attrition of all the values, civil liberties and the quality of life we have worked so hard for? Why should the feckless wastrels be cut a piece of the pie I paid for? Why should we allow the Mother of All Parliaments to be implicit in tactics that are reminiscent of Soviet Russia?
Why should we read about an English Josef Fritzl when so much money is spent (wasted) in Social Services?

And why can I not hobble up the road to my local pub with being branded a potential criminal?

I shall have more beers tonight and hope that when I wake up tomorrow, the nightmare will have gone and that it was all a bad dream.

But I very much doubt it.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7r8QPTavweI