In Greek mythology, Cassandra was cursed by the Gods.
The curse was that she would be able to see the future with accuracy. She would know exactly what was going to happen. The other part of the curse was that no one would ever believe her.
I was just reading an article by an old friend from the 70’s, John Dixon. He points out the constant barrage of claims from the Government that what has happened the last two years could never have been predicted.
He disagrees and I go further, I call it nonsense. We have Covid deaths, lack of PPE, fuel shortages, food shortages, lorry driver shortages, fuel price explosions, food rotting in the fields, pig culls, the fall of Kabul, and the implications of the Brexit deal in the north of Ireland, and that’s just a few, and it couldn’t have been predicted?
Four months ago, the Guardian newspaper wrote an article where the World Health Organization reported that the Covid pandemic was preventable. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/12/covid-pandemic-was-preventable-says-who-commissioned-report
A lack of political will and a determination to just “Wait and see” caused the other failings. Also, the government did not properly evaluate the consequences of Brexit. I feel sure that civil servants and their research would have warned of the implications.
They were ignored for political, rather than pragmatic reasons. Not that the government is solely to blame, Industry didn’t prepare either.
It seems that they were convinced that Brexit would fail, and so did not take the necessary steps to ensure that their enterprise could continue.
An interesting result of this incompetence is that the U.K’s failing energy companies are being bought out by EDF (Electricité de France), a nationalized French energy company.
Our energy is owned by the people of France.
That needs to sink in for a moment, especially among those who thought that Brexit would give us more control over our affairs.
Faced with incompetence and lack of foresight on the part of Westminster, in particular, the view that if it’s ok in London then it’s just fine everywhere else.
The only answer is for the small nation states to take control of their own affairs and do away with the Imperialistic and self-serving big brother states.
In the end I had to bring it back to that. The break-up of the United Kingdom is becoming more and more likely. Scotland will soon have a referendum and this time it’s far more likely to be “Yes”. The re-unification of Ireland has all but happened already.
That just leaves England-and-Wales. The Labour Party recognize that they can never form a government with England holding such a majority of votes, so Wales is their only hope of having some kind of influence.
But that influence is waning. The movement for Independence is growing faster now than ever. It’s on the horizon, it’s time to join the party.
Peter Freeman is a town councilor on Pembrey and Burry Port town council. His views are his and his alone. His writings express his own opinions and are not the opinions of Plaid Cymru, Pembrey and Burry Port Town Council, or any other group. He can be contacted at:
cllrpeter.freeman@pembreyburryport-tc.gov.uk
