2025-12-20
This time from our favoured financial commentator Nick Hubble (this is not financial advice!).
And after 50 years of the same old same old it really should be obvious to all but the young, who haven't lived through enough of it yet to understand where this is all going.
Politicians understand well enough - hence the continuing efforts to lower the voting age seemingly until toddlers in nappies will qualify. After that they may have to ban abortions in order to get enough voters who will believe their blandishments, so perhaps some good may come of it eventually ...
Which brings me to my next point. If we want to continue to live in a democracy, then we oldies have the moral responsibility to live every bit as long as possible so that the voting public can benefit from our wisdom at the ballot box.
But it won't be enough if we just stop there.
We will also have to stand for and win public office, so that some body of politicians will actually exist to offer the voters practical policies that promote prosperity wisdom and humility for all, rather than BS "hate speech" the NHS and taxes for the many, and self-aggrandisement for the few.
Alternatively we could simply pursue all means necessary to collapse our top-down "democratic" system in favour of a bottom-up political structure where responsibility really is devolved and held to the lowest feasible level, and transparency is the real order of the day so that everyone really is properly informed.
And that could mean the end to privacy, or at least to the misuse of privacy and confidentiality to hide those habits that defend the few against the many.
"For now, we see through a glass darkly, but then we shall know even as we are known"
OK all you Christian British that are gearing up to celebrate Christmas ... did you not realise the sheer scale of what we as a Christian country profess to believe in?
In a family, everybody inevitably knows all about everyone else (even if we sometimes pretend that we don't to keep the peace) and the black sheep are known.
So (according to the Bible) will it be in the reborn family of Christ.
Choose well ...
