Day 536, Spontaneous combustion

Some notes from the top of a dam wall.

Spontaneity has taken a walk.

All things are now predictable.

The government vetoes EU tariffs on Chinese steel.

Masses of state subsidised Chinese steel floods the market.

The government detests nationalised industries.

So there is little chance of nationalisation, more chance they'll be bought up by the French or German government.

So in national ownership, just someone else's.

And the benefit of running a nationalised industry is lost.

The worst affected places are those with governments that have little interest in infrastructure industries.

This still isn't a surprise.

Welcome to selling the country to the lowest bidder at the expense of home grown business.

The only things left in a few years, particularly in the north, will be heritage freak shows.

Look, this is what a library used to be like.

Look, this is what industry used to be like.

Look, this is what a health service used to look like, how quaint.

Look, this is the 17th century hovel that is the only thing you can afford.

You may be fortunate enough to have inherited piles of cash that have been sloshing about avoiding tax offshore.

Bully for you.

Then you will be able to afford health, books, and somewhere to live.

Whilst the breadth of industry that has been deliberately undermined by our leaders has spontaneously combusted.*

* This is a string of random sentences the like of which, converted into years, ought to be handed out to the bankers and politicians that have been robbing the country blind.


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