Detritus off human souls.

Detritus off human souls.

What follows, one can honestly say is not wholly unknown, unremarkable, or entirely hidden in the diabolical disorder from the unrecognised self deception by those stridently attempting to cling to a view of disparate optimistic circumstances that simple do not correlate with reality; well as it is not their reality and it has no direct impact on their own lives, it is probably for them bizarre to think there may be an alternative essential reality that no disingenuous uplifting language can hide. It has, by many others also been cited in various outputs but for quite temporal reasons it is superseded by the forces of the immediacy of the news for the day. Apart from those too few bodies that are involved in the residue of inaction, no one of any real substance or aggravating persistency with thunderous verbal skill are in play to awake and sharpen the consciousness of a nation, all today seem unable to affect a change for directive transformation.  Sadly one could contend that the consciousness of the nation has been expunged by the very acceptance of the familiarity of what is to be ignored, that the evidence which has proliferated and of the cause is no longer is seen as an embarrassment, it just is, move on, nothing to see here!  

It has become beyond belief that the actual madness of a nation remains unexposed, it is simply not cognisable but it is so, that for some deleterious reason the sheep of innate humanity that is assumed to reside in a civilised society, has been surreptitiously anesthetised to the actuality of its own impending total demise. It may be due to a fear of considering the consequences of who is next, or how far from the similar circumstances is one’s own situation, or it may be shame in facing up to the evidence that cannot be denied yet argued against or to seek some security in the tradition of the three monkeys; whatever the reason, each makes a choice and the individual choices are compounded into the view that external observers see as the real nature of a society and its future direction.

On 16^th November 2018 there was the release of a ‘statement on Visit to the United Kingdom, by Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights’. This report was produced, like others which they do regularly, after a concerted investigation to assemble a compressed representation, an overview, from possibly an ‘outsiders’ point of view, on issues which impact the human social structures. This overview is a perceived one that a country displays perhaps inadvertently to an impartial viewer looking at the treatment of the disfranchised.

The 24 page report stated:-

“The results? 14 million people, a fifth of the population, live in poverty. Four million of these are more than 50% below the poverty line, 1 and 1.5 million are destitute, unable to afford basic essentials.

2. The widely respected Institute for Fiscal Studies predicts a 7% rise in child poverty between 2015 and 2022, and various sources predict child poverty rates of as high as 40%.

3. For almost one in every two children to be poor in twenty-first century Britain is not just a disgrace, but a social calamity and an economic disaster, all rolled into one”.

“Over Brexit. I take no position on its merits or on the optimal terms for undertaking it, but anyone concerned with poverty in the UK has reason to be very deeply concerned”.

“In my meetings with the government, it was clear to me that the impact of Brexit on people in poverty is an afterthought, to be dealt with through manipulations of fiscal policy after the event, if at all”.

“The fall in the value of the pound has already increased the cost of living for people in poverty by £400 pounds per year, 5.and researchers have estimated that the UK economy is already 2-2.5% smaller than it would otherwise have been. 6. Almost all studies have shown that the UK economy will be worse off because of Brexit, with consequences for inflation, real wages, and consumer prices”.

“According to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, if the government does not adequately uprate benefits to account for inflation after Brexit, up to 900,000 more people could fall into poverty”.

“Conclusion

The experience of the United Kingdom, especially since 2010, underscores the conclusion that poverty is a political choice. Austerity could easily have spared the poor, if the political will had existed to do so. Resources were available to the Treasury at the last budget that could have transformed the situation of millions of people living in poverty, but the political choice was made to fund tax cuts for the wealthy instead”. (1)

  

From reading the whole document, one might suggest that any reasonably interested person would be very alarmed if not outraged at the depiction of a country that is, for the moment the 5^th riches in the world; to allow such impression to be so easily, be in observed existence and not think something has gone wrong, it is shameful.   

In essence the conclusion of the report and the situations as described indicated that the resulting degradation in the areas of poverty and human rights, are as a result of political choices. The consequences of which must fall onto the government of the day to address, if they have mind to.

Although it was a very strong condemnation on the state of the UK, it was done on the basis of drawing on inputs from a range of recognised organisation and affected individuals which are and have been directly immersed in the delivery of social support or mitigation. In doing so the report is at pains to avoid the plethora of internecine conflicting views over Brexit, other than to point out the obvious danger to the ability to be able to afford or not any resolution of the problems identified in the report. As some MP's are apt to state time and again, the Brexit will be, long term, disastrous for the UK economy or it will be a tremendous success or it will inevitably involve degrees of “short term pain”.

It is not made clear just who will pay or be forced to suffer the most for the “short term pain” or how rewarding it may be or for whom. So far the deserving rich have nothing to worry about, for the undeserving poor though, who gives a fuck?

It may be, due to the drama of Brexit, the struggle of leadership / direction and the fracturing impasse of the Conservative Democratic Unionist Party, a passing observation but apart from one headlined paper, the importance of the statement created very little fury and although there have been other brief comments, it has not, as it rightly should have been, an exposé that took a large measure of parliamentary time to closely examine; as it was, it has been passed by, more as a result of other diversionary entertainments taking centre stage. All the government could do was to roll out the new Secretary for Work and Pensions Amber Rudd (replacing the incompetent air head E. McVey) and try to valiantly defend the government against the report with the accusation that it was “highly political”, a distorted fabrication that the government ‘does not recognise’ and of course the government takes poverty and human rights very seriously etc etc. The intent meaning, as usual, that it can be ignored, for now.

Well of course any critic of government policy and actions, on such a sensitive issue will be inevitably judged as an attack, insufficiently researched, unrepresentative of the governments understanding, not representative of social policy processes in action and do not highlight the overwhelming superior position the country is in under the direct influence of Conservative Democratic Unionist Party.

One might think that one is losing a grasp of one own reality when what one hears, reads and unavoidable sees, is in by some measure, different to the ‘reality‘ that those with some authority seem to observe in theirs. There is an appalling dissonance between the overall thrust of this item (the report) and the attitude of the government; it is as though at no time do a majority of the politicians, in the government / parliamentary bubble see any evidence of the actual state of the hinterland nation.

Should one be surprised? The causes of the damming report goes back decades but the issues have become driven into sharper focus in the recent past (10 years?) by deliberate choices, choices that one government has made as a reactive response for its own dogmatic reasons to cause expanded social problems by its own deliberate actions. Despite growing evidence and even with this report, they would rather not have to seek the tenacity to challenge its own damaging actions nor the foundations of the problems so clearly laid down in the report. One needs to remember that this government has attempted to secretly enforced a gagging order on all charities that are in receipt of public funds, they have been threatened with re-appraisal of funding allocations should they publicly petition or lobby or in any way raise volubly issues that the charities are having to deal with as a result of government negligence, In addition all local authorities are forbidden from using public funds to clearly identify the causes of their financial decapitation; this attempt to secrete truth also applies to any public funded sector industry / utility that is found to be in accused complicit corruptive actions but are (commercial confidentiality) protected to resist exposure to corporate / political incompetence.    

Public opinion has already demonstrated that all is not well, the outcome of the referendum and the  ongoing curse of Brexit has seen to that but even this is not enough to shake the foundations of the establishment as it struggles to realign its efforts to fortify its devious substratum for its own survival against ‘the will of the people’. In doing so parliament has insidiously taken to the appeasement of all those that believe the interpretation of ‘the will of the people’ is for an immediate termination of all connection to the EU, a hard exit. Empirical evidence so far cast this stance as lunacy and is being resisted by alternative views, yet it does seem that there are those of the hierarchical class structure who flirt with a shrouded demand for a return to the days of deference to the superiority of the class structure bound by the illusion of sovereignty; (rule by the sovereign) that has not truly existed for 800 years, substituted with a parliamentary system that has comprehensively demonstrated over decades a betrayal of the undesirable will of the people.

What the report so clearly demonstrates is that there is in politics a complicit disregard for those not of political use; too few Politian’s are affronted by the increase in poverty and the plight of social structures. With the degradation of the state of the nation they do not aggressive represent the disfranchised; they simple do not care about the human fallout of their policy actions.

It would seem there is an acceptance of the issues the report list, as the inconvenient detritus that is unattached to themselves, so their souls remain unsoiled cosseted in the affluent bubble of indifference as if it is their right but by the time the brexit fiasco is destructively (?) in force there may be enough of public opinion to make sure these austerity /brexit / poverty deniers are to be dragged by deliberate reluctant mincing steps to acknowledge the horror of the state of the nation they have had a hand in creating.

(1) https://ohchr.org/EN

© Renot

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