Society in Britain
Society in the UK, it’s like a vicious circle which goes round and round following the same old routines or like a clock that ticks away every day, day in, day out, week in, week out. Making the same old mistakes over looking the real causes of problems from government, justice system, tabloids (media) and society it’s self.
We are a nation of worriers; some people say where you live influences what you worry about. Rail fares set to rise several times above inflation rate. Some people forget that the cost of living has gone up and for some families on low incomes and these families have not had a wage increase and so life is not as easy or rosy for them as it is for people who earn more than £20,000 a year. This is why you have people worrying about how they are going to pay the next rent or mortgage payment, not to mention other bills. No wonder we have a high rate of separation and divorce in the UK.
A growing number of people are not happy with the way society is. Neighbours don’t talk any more; we seem to be more selfish and un-united. Last year at Alton Towers you could see how grim some of the grown-ups looked as they fret about queues and the price of cold drinks. Or people loosing their tempers on the last couple of parking spaces with children recording their parent’s behaviour.
Parents and families on low incomes work very hard to make ends meet, with long hours. Some have second jobs just to make ends meet. I can tell you that there’s a growing trend developing in broken homes from money problems and infidelity in couples and marriage. It’s like a big time bomb waiting to explode.
We make mistakes and instead of learning from these mistakes, we continue to make bigger ones, it’s a joke sometimes. The past and present government have created fissions in our society. We take some good ideas from America but over see the fissions created years ago in residential areas in the United States of America. For example, you have black areas, white areas, Mexican areas, Cuban areas, Porto Rican areas and Chinese areas. You do have some mixed race residential areas, in the minority. This is why racism still thrives in the United States and all this segregation created crime zones, poverty and serious problems.
Now in Great Britain we have multiculturalism of people from different cultures, some from seeking asylum. It’s a good thing and Britain is fast modernising, but with problems ahead. Chinese Brits, Caribbean Brits, African Brits, and Arabs etc. The government and local councils have allowed segregation in residential areas to be well rooted. It is getting too late to change this well rooted problem which causes all sorts of problems and frustrations, with Polish people arriving in growing numbers also creating their own residential areas will only cause problems in future. We already have Hungarians and Rumanians as well. I don’t think living in divided groups is a good thing and with these divisions comes poverty, drugs, crime and prostitution.
I believe that in society of today we need to be united and at the moment we are divided. We are a nation in disarray with growing serious problems from Abortion, teenage pregnancy, teenage crime, teenage binging and drug taking. So many of our children have no father figure or firm hand to teach them manners. The government has created undisciplined children in our society. I really believe the problems we have in society here in Britain and the world can be sorted out by reducing long working hours and removing or limiting the tools that damage couples and families like unsocial hours at work, Banks, the media, tabloids, allowing families to have quality time with their children. The cost of entertainment for families rises every year, it’s unacceptable. The more tax we pay from our wages equals higher prices for entertainment, Utility bills, car petrol, it’s routine.
I have always said to my friends that, “happy people are healthier people”.
The justice system
Celebrities have been known to break the code of conduct for example; Drink driving after being disqualified from driving, drug taking ‘sniffing cocaine’ and then in Court, coming up with a pathetic excuses Paris Hilton. The Justice system is a big joke as criminals and the rich get away with light sentences.
These are a few examples of wrong decisions made by judges that create problems in the future. And a pending or on going Court Hearing. For you to digest below.
Giving bike thief an Asbo makes a joke of the justice system.
Driver jailed over fatal crash
A MILLIONIA land owner was jailed yesterday for killing a motorist then driving off to catch a ferry.
John Richards, 63, was driving at up to 95 mph when his Range Rover hit a vehicle driven by Carol Gajda, 48.
The grandmother died when her car flipped over and crashed into a verge.
Cardiff Crown Court was told Richards stopped, gave his details to another motorist, and said: “I’ve got to catch a ferry.” He was arrested after boarding the Swansea to Cork boat.
Richards, of Malmesbury, Wilshire, was found guilty of dangerous driving and jailed for two and a half years.
He was later banned from driving for four years. Money talks, it’s a known myth. I don’t
understand the Justice in this case.
A man was ordered to help his divorced ex-wife of 30 years, who spent her cash on bad investments.
Dennis North, 70, married his first wife Jean, 61, in 1964 and they divorced in 1978, a year after he found out that she was having an affair.
In 1981 he made a financial settlement with her, buying her a house and investments.
Over the years he increased her assets so she will be able to live comfortably for the rest of her life, the judges were told.
But in1999, she sold up and moved to Australia, and her capital dwindled because of bad investments and because of what the court heard was a life style beyond her means.
‘Lifestyle choices damaged her financial positions’.
Mr North, who lives in Derbyshire, was left to bring up their three children and went on to remarry and have two more children.
Since divorcing his first wife Jean, he had prospered and is now estimated to be worth between £5 million and £11 million, the court was told.
A district judge agreed in April that her money troubles had nothing to do with her former husband and that he had no further responsibility to wards her, but awarded her £202,000.
Mr North wants the court of Appeal to quash the award.
Philip Moor, QC, representing him told the panel of judges headed by Lord Justice Thorpe that Mrs Jean North had made no attempt to find a job since 1977, when she was 32.
When she sold all her assets and emigrated, she chose to live in an expensive part of Sydney, he said. She is believed to be living near Leeds.
“The whole purpose of divorce is to disentangle people so they can lead independent lives.” He said.
“The effect of the order is to give Mrs Jean North a second bite of the cherry.”
Mr Moor said that the district judge had found that had Mrs Jean North stayed in England she would have been comfortably off for the rest of her life.
He added: “He then made a number of findings of fact as to the lifestyle choice that had damaged Mrs Jean North’s financial position.”
Mr Moor said that these included deciding not to work, to sell up and put her money in bad investments, to live in Australia, where she had no entitlement to state benefits, and to live in one of the most desirable parts of Sydney.
He said that what the district judge had ordered was in reality for Mr North “to make up the deficit” in Mrs Jean North’s reduced capital which had been caused by her actions.
“The changes in financial positions of the parties since 1981 and the differential between them that has arisen over the years cannot be relevant given the findings of the district judge that Mr North should not bear responsibility for Mrs Jean North’s position.”
Deborah Bangay, QC, representing Mrs Jean North, said that her former husband had a continued responsibility for her client and that the district judge had taken into account their differing situations. She said that it was not Mrs Jean North’s fault that her investments had gone wrong. “She needed some support and the district judge gave her a sum at the bottom end of the spectrum,” she said.
“This was not a second bite at the cherry but what are her reasonable needs. The court was entitled to take into account the obvious wealth of the former husband. It was an extraordinary modest award set against his wealth.”
Lord Justice Thorpe, Lord Justice May and Mr Justice Bennett reserved their ruling to a later date.
The Prime Minister Gordon Brown makes his promise and the best speech ever.
These are the words of the man himself out side 10 Downing Street in his first speech as Prime Minister:
“I have just accepted the invitation of Her Majesty the Queen to form a Government.” This will be a new Government with new priorities and I have been privileged to have been granted the great opportunity to serve my country, and at all times I will be strong in purpose, steadfast in will, resolute in action in the service of what matters to the British people, meeting the concerns and aspirations of our whole country.
“I grew up in the town that I now represent in Parliament; I went to the local school.
I wouldn’t be standing here without the opportunities that I received there and I want the best of chances for everyone.
“That is my mission; that if we can fulfil the potential and realise the talents of all our people then I am absolutely sure that Britain can be the great global success story of this century.
“As I have travelled around the country and as I have listened and I learned from the British people and as Prime Minister I will continue to listen and learn from the British people- I have heard the need for change; change in our NHS; change in our schools; change with affordable housing; change to build trust in government; change to protect and extend the British way of life.
“And this need for change cannot be met by the old politics so I will reach out beyond narrow party interest; I will build a government that uses all the talents; I will invite men and women of goodwill to contribute their energies in a new spirit of public service to make our nation what it can be.
“And I am convinced that there is no weakness in Britain today that cannot be overcome by the strength of the British people.
“On this day I remember words that have stayed with me since my childhood and which matter a great deal today; my school motto, ‘I will trust my utmost’.
“This is my promise to all of the people of Britain and now let the work of change begin.
Thank you.”
It was a very good speech and promised to tackle teenage problems and other issues. I hope we start to see changes soon very soon because the time is now, enough talking, it’s time for action. There is a saying, “better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know.”
Please vote for who you want to come polling day and don’t let the media influence or decide your vote.
