So the
Board of BP wants to pay its chief executive, Bob Dudley, £14million pounds for
a year it made great losses. In the same year the Trussell Trust, which runs
424 food banks in the UK, gave out enough emergency food to feed more than 1.1
million people. Let us not forget there are at least, I mean at least, double
that amount of food banks in the UK at present.
Perhaps people who need the help
of food banks matter less to this Government than those that generate great
wealth through foreign investments and decorating companies. I recall Sir Alan
Duncan (Tory MP) words this week in the house of commons; "Shouldn’t the
prime minister’s critics really just snap out of the synthetic indignation and
admit that their real point is that they hate anyone who has got a hint of
wealth in them?” He was of course talking about the Labour party, those that do
not have as much wealth as the conservatives (maybe).
Obviously if we do not crave
great wealth only to live we matter less! No, no, no! Money, wealth, power, is
the evil that drives today’s society. It drags us down, holds us back. Makes us
turn on others and say we do not want them here; they may take money off us! Yes,
we are all aware how wealth can create racism.
Those that really take the money
are the ‘wealthy-selfish’, not the poor refugee, or the disabled retired
benefit claimant. Yet a person can generate great wealth, and do great good
with it. But one can also just turn away from others and say; ‘no this is all
mine’.
Our weakened Government supports
just that point of view. Evidence, the Equality Act. The first part was to
protect those suffering economic inequality. The Conservatives never enabled
this section, and will not. Indeed, they seek to change for the worse our human
rights by getting rid of the Human Rights Act and bringing a lesser substitute.
All allowing employers to bend rules further, pay less, and work people harder.
If we now loose the protection of
the European Court of Justice by leaving Europe, so many of us in the margins
will suffer first. Then the split between the socio-economic groups will become
much greater and far more obvious. Those of us who recall the great strikes of
the 1970’s and 1980’s will see where this will lead us.
O Lord, I pray that humanity will
learn to love each other more than selfish greed. Amen.
