This blog is not actually about cyclists. That particular bunch of the “don’t pay as you go” lobby still annoy the hell out of me and do, as it happens, fall into the group I want to rant at today.
The reason for my ire is simply that; post an opinion that cyclist, by slowing down traffic and refusing to pay for the infrastructure they demand to use, are selfish parasites, and up they spring to defend themselves. Point out, on the other hand, that many of our fundamental rights to law and liberty have been stealthily stolen by the Central Soviet you call a government and NOTHING, Nada, Zilch, Zero, happens!
Where are the commentators who want to discuss issues of import rather than bloody bicycles for God’s sake? Jade Goody, Amy Winehouse, Footballers who can’t keep it in their pants or dowdy spinsters who can sing a bit, all manage to arouse fervour and passion from the Great “actually we once used to be, but aren’t any more so deal with it” British Public. Is the whole country so ego centric and self absorbed that the only things we now hold dear are those things which, quite frankly, only amount to navel gazing?
And talking of human rights; how can this excuse for a government possibly justify its treatment of the Ghurkha ex-servicemen? Having lost out to a High Court judgement they have set about a shameful, mean and beggarly so called compliance, which will deny these brave warriors who served to support the freedoms (and expenses) they all so lavishly claim, the right to a dignified retirement in the country they fought for.
I have always believed that “with rights, come responsibilities”. In the case of the Ghurkhas I believe that they have faced up to and faithfully discharged their responsibilities, now they deserve the rights they have, in many cases, fought and died for.
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