Who, exactly, is to blame for the state of our nation?

"I find it beyond unstimulating to be back in Britain. There is such a very limited spectrum of opinion here. Surrounded by sheep too docile to bleat out of turn, it feels extreme even to suggest there is some better way of living than time-share enslavement."*

 "The biggest problem with this country is that the people in it don't appreciate it,"**

When asked that question which forms the heading to this post, people will reply: the government, politicians, bureaucrats, quangos, fake charities, pressure groups such as ASH, human rights, immigration; to name but a few.
To a certain extent they are right - but they are blaming the wrong section of society as those who are truly guilty are themselves. That's right; you sir and you madam.
You, who have blindly voted for politicians who have failed your country and then re-elected them time and time again. You, who have voted for the politicians promising you your personal Utopia in which you are told you can have 50 hours wages for 35 hours work. You, who have taken no interest in that which is happening to your country; the changing of our society through immigration for the sake of multi-culturalism. You, who have stood idly by while those you elect have handed our right to self -government to a foreign entity over which you have no control whatsoever. You, who have allowed your children to be educated in what is now a sub-standard system - and done nothing about it. You, who have allowed yourselves to be conditioned to a state where you are afraid to speak your mind in case those you are addressing take offence. You, who now believe that a salary of £40,000 per annum still gives you the right to have your life subsidised by welfare - yet seem to forget that children, like anything else, should only be acquired if you are able to support them financially through your own endeavours. You, who have allowed what was a great country, a beacon in the world for fairness and liberty, to become akin to a third world cesspit of corruption. 
You, who are too disinterested in your own country that you will not join those of us who are prepared to inform our politicians and their sycophants that we are no longer willing to live by their commands, no longer willing to forfeit our independence and freedoms.
Yes, your sir and you madam, who are now trained to bleat in unison and who no longer appreciate the uniqueness and privilege of having been born British. It is at your door the blame can be laid.


* The Last Ditch


** The Australian High Commissioner during an interview on the BBC.

We are short of monetary 'cash' - unfortunately we appear to have too much parliamentary 'cash'

Bill Cash - in case it should miss your notice, even though he does mention it - is Chairman of the House of Commons European Scrutiny Committee and he has an article on Conservative Home in which he puts forward the argument that the failure of previous governments to veto EU treaties is to blame for our troubles today. Coupled with this he also maintains that successive administrations have allowed the European juggernaut to continue.

It seems to have escaped the notice of Mr. Cash that it is the failure of those elected, who could have vetoed those EU treaties, that are to blame for our troubles today. It is the failure of those elected - that have supported successive administrations - that have allowed the European juggernaut to continue. It is the failure of those elected who, by their own admission are against the policies of their party, have given tacit support when they should have resigned their party whip, who at the earliest opportunity could have - and should have - stood as independent candidates. That they did not can only be due to the fact they put their careers above their principles and honour - what one might term: cash or honour.

Bill Cash would appear not to recognise that he and his committee can hold all the inquiries they wish - and on whatever aspects of the EU they choose - it will change not one comma on that which issues forth from Brussels, nor will it affect the intentions of Brussels, nor the intentions of those who it might be said attained the leadership of their party through dubious statements.

That our politics has sunk to the nadir it has, where it is viewed with outright cynicism, that it becomes legitimate to question whether those who maintain they are eurosceptics - Cash, Carswell, Hannan - are not in fact closet europhiles - aka 'Judas Goats'. I have to revert to a point made in the preceding post in which I asked: "What is the point of a politician who states that a situation is unacceptable - which is what May said - and then not being able to do owt about it?"