Who's to blame? Anyone?

Being a big fan of the journalistic emanations of Ms Julia Hartley-Brewer I read her latest outpouring with a heavy heart. Not a truer word has been written. Her exposition of today’s state of the nation is an eye-opener of a magnitude equal to the nuclear arsenal of the United States. Her description of the way police now works, especially in our larger cities where gangs now operate with impunity and violence just to grab whatever they can from shops that are still open. As Julia said, but for how much longer? In my neck of the woods it happens on a smaller scale but it still does and as a result many shops have disappeared. It is a malaise of gigantic proportions and costs us all billions of pounds every year! I have asked myself, why I accept all of this happening. Am I perhaps part of the problem? By simply accepting the state of affairs and just blaming politicians. Sure, politicians must carry most of the blame by their general attitude. We may call it woke attitudes but that’s not the whole story. It is also our, that is the general population, attitude towards this problem. Meaning , we simply sit back and hope it will get better. And yes it will get better, for the criminals because we do not take action, even to safeguard our own property. You see girls mainly holding mobiles whilst walking along the streets. Just waiting for these to be grabbed by hoodlums cycling along. Some on e-bikes going at 50 miles per hour! The days of leaving your front door open and unlocked are long gone! It is true to say electronics, Wifi etc have made our lives a lot easier but again it has also come with new dangers. Locking your car with a mobile phone is fun, true, but it is also easier for criminals to copy that signal and as a result your car will be gone, possibly for ever! So, you can see we are also partly responsible for these crime waves. When people still use passwords like ‘123456’ or Mum’s maiden name (it’s ok if she was an alien and called Xumffgo) we shouldn’t be surprised we and banks still lose billions every year across the world. Their security is improving, 2Factor authorisation is becoming more widely used but still we are falling foul of the criminals because we are lazy.

I do believe though we need to be more active, generally speaking. I don’t particularly care for the police’ attitude nowadays. It seems they have decided to become the keepers of morality. In fact, they are now monitoring essays like this to see if I have offended anyone. Yes! I have offended the criminal fraternity. Anyone can see that police have abandoned the High Street. In fact every street. In my neighbourhood you only see PCSO’s, but only if it is not raining or not too cold. For your information PCSO’s cannot arrest anyone. They are only allowed to contain someone for 30 minutes. Mainly for purposes of taking away drugs, booze or whatever the plonkers in Westminster have decided is not allowed any more. Yes, Julia has said it, we need change. Wasn’t change promised by the head-plonker? What happened? Oh I remember, he was busy counting his freebies but now is travelling the world on extensive sightseeing tours disguised as ‘Meeting the leaders’. Well, there you go, ‘nuff said.