Up Up And Away
For those who are making plans to rush off and enjoy the spanish costas this summer although we use the word enjoy with hesitation,spare a thought for those who never see how the other half live and spend their lives in dreary rundown council estates. Surrounded by grey drad buildings their future is mapped out. the kids go to school well some of them and receive an education that is in the whim of a government. Their job prospects are dictated by their postal code as is any chance of a university education,which for the majority is seen as a prize for the better off.
How many of our nations leaders have come from council estates or ever had the chance to better themselves,very few if any. Most of our leaders have been educated privately which seems somehow to give them the right to dictate to the rest of us what we can and cannot do. The handful who sometimes manage to make the break through are prevented from getting any further by the old boys network. The faceless manderins who have themselves come through the private door reserved for those and such as those.Â
So the masses are there just to pay up and shut up fighting fruitlessly for recognition of their plight only to be ignored until election time when they are needed to vote for the elite. Labour has sucked up to these punters and left their principles behind,but these fat assed elite would still rather have their Tory buddies to watch over their wealth and privilidge. This minority dictate to the majority,only because of their over inflated position in society.
They are delighted to see the plebs fly off in cramped airplanes to Spain or wherever as it takes their mind and eye off the ball. So for two weeks in the summer the plebs can be millionaires as well and lord it on overcrowed beaches eating cheap shit served up to them in open air fly infested eateries. The elite watch with glee as the poor in society try to match six balls with money they can’t afford,only to watch it be creamed off to pay for improvements to the royal opera house or giving money to the well off to purchase papers that were the property of the crowns anyway[Churchills papers]
Let the plebs have their little flutter the bookies and lottery sellers are delighted to see you,they know only to well that for every winner there is umteen loosers. But we never learn and will go on doing the expected hoping we can get that lucky win that will transform our lives. That’s just pure crap,the odds tell you it is and they are never wrong.
We are told life is what you make it, that’s alright if you happen to be born into riches or a blue blooded family who got their wealth by killing others. The slave trade played a big part in putting the e into elite, but that’s kept well hiden as they receive the plaudits and gongs from an outdated monarchy. Now and again what’s called an ordinary person gets a gong just to keep the masses quite and prove anybody can do it,yeh oh course they can.
Mortgages,high rents ,expensive fuel bills ,hire purchase feeding the kids and worrying about where the next pound is coming from,that’s the lot of the masses,and not a bloody politician has done anything to change that,except tinker round the fringes annd make it look good.
So flying off on some cheap and nasty package holiday with it’s inevitable delays unless you have booked a place in the VIP suite of the airport which will cost you an arm and a leg might just seem in the cold drab world of day to day existance the thing to do and for a moment or two weeks of moments you are free to live as you think you might always want to live. The drawbacks are you have to pay for a sea view fight for the sunbeds cause the Gerries get there first arrive at some god forsaken hour and when you leave wait in the hotel lobby for hours on end because your flight takes off in the middle of the night and you could not afford to keep the room on that you had to vacate at midday.Â
So Hi Di HIÂ and bon voyage don’t forget your factor 99, mosquito repelent, diarrhoea pills and the kids water wings,oh and something soft for your backside as it might get sore waiting for your delayed flight to board. Oh fuck that I’ll camp in the back garden and watch daytime telly.Â