RIP-OFF BRITAIN.

RIP-OFF BRITAIN.

Since the Chinese government bought South West Trains,75% of Britains railways are owned by Chinese,Italian,German,French,Dutch,Belgium,Singapore and Qatari governments. This means that although our government does not want to nationalise our rail network they don't mind if other countries governments do. When polled, 60% of British people want our railways to be run by our government.

These other governments have forced grossly unfair prices on Britain's rail users so that their state owned rail services can subsidise their domestic services. Italian operator C2C charges us 2.4 times the amount it charges in Italy. A 35 mile rail trip monthly season ticket from Maidstone costs passengers £412.50. In Germany, a 36 mile trip from Luckenwalde to Berlin is £99.80. Rail bosses here say it's dearer because our services are quicker and more frequent. Surely not quicker and more frequent enough to warrant a £312.70 difference.

This foreign ownership of out  companies is not only our rail network. 4 out 6 energy firms are French, German and Spanish owned. We are all well aware of the high costs of energy bills here which are much higher than in Europe. We are subsidising foreign state owned energy firms when our own government refuse to do anything to curb this blatant profiteering.

 All our major airports are foreign owned and only 3 out of 10 water companies are owned by British firms. The French and Chinese governments are building nuclear power stations here. You can guess what will happen to prices when these are up and running.

These are not the only examples of how the Great British rip off is working. There will be a lot more examples next time, but as usual, typo's are creeping in so time stop. 

There are many belief systems  throughout the world and each one has it's own God which is considered to to be the one true God. For what its worth, here is my view.

When the first individuals formed themselves into the first tribes, the most able among them became the natural leader. This leader took it upon themselves to look after the rest of the tribe and make sure they were looked after. A recent archaeological find of a 5000 year old skeleton of a severely disabled man in his 40's showed he had been very well cared for throughout his life despite not being able to care for himself. This is perhaps something that is being forgotten in today's world.

It wasn't long before others in the tribe saw the adulation that the leader received from the tribe and wanted it for themselves. Backstabbing had been invented. Those leaders who had thought only of others were replaced by by the type of person that we call Murdock, Green, Trump and Tory.

This new breed thought only of themselves and what they could extort from others with the least amount of input and effort. Capitalism had been invented.

The new leaders saw how the tribe behaved each morning when the sun came up because they had realised that all life depended on the sun. They managed to convince the tribe that the sun was God and that they and only they could talk to God and so religion was born.

It is very obvious that the way human nature has evolved capitalism is the only way the world can actually work but it is also very obvious that the sort of uncontrolled, unprincipled capitalism we have today will result in the sort of world that is controlled by a few individuals. The sort of world that is depicted in works of fiction such as Resident Evil. Without the zombies of course.

We already have groups of individuals like the Bildeberg Group. This group of extreme right wing bankers and leaders of large corporations already controls much of the world. Many governments are in thrall to these people, each of whom wishes to be the richest person on the planet.

I don't believe that this dark world is imminent but it is coming. I don't have children but there are children in my life that I regard as my own and I am very concerned that the unquenchable thirst for power and wealth exhibited by the likes of Murdock and Trump and those like them will take the world to a very dark place.

Vast wealth is actually a curse. You see this in the likes of Richard Branson. When he was merely a multi millionaire he was quite benevolent. Since becoming a multi billionaire he has taken to suing the NHS if they don't give him the contracts he is demanding in order to privatise it.

I will stop this rant at this point as typo's are beginning to appear and I don't want to upset the grammar police.

Just had a wonderful week in France to celebrate Andrews birthday. We spent the first few days at the house in Verghaes followed by a lovely day at the château pictured below to celebrate Andrews actual birthday. The owners of the château were amazing host's and after giving the fifty of us a guided tour allowed us free run of the house and grounds. They also provided a really fantastic high tea in the true English fashion with salmon and cucumber sandwich's and the biggest range of cake's I have ever seen.

Intro.

Who I am and what I think.

Second post.

My belief of how things started is as follows.

My first post.

My name is Mike Pagett, I am 75 years old and have decided that It's about time I had my say.