Wednesday 17th February
I’m not here in this blog to comment on the advertising campaigns that will bombard the media over the next few months nor am I here to reveal my political convictions and prejudice against the Conservative Party albeit to say that I witnessed the destruction of communities in the North East of England in the 1980s as a result of Thatcherite economic policies that prospered many but left others, many from socially deprived areas, with the experience of long term and massive unemployment (over 60% on the estate where we were leading and serving a church) which robbed whole communities of any sense of dignity, worth, value or significance.
Spare a thought and offer a prayer for the people of Teesside where today a steel mill will close and thousands of people will lose their jobs and the area will once again be devastated economically and socially.
I feel great sympathy and share some anger with those who will be made redundant and others, whose businesses will fail because of the poor state of the local economy, who must look askance at the bonuses paid to bankers who gambled on the money markets, abjectly failed yet whose greed and avarice was rewarded with a bailing out by the Government and who have lived not with sack cloth and ashes but with bonuses.
Where has morality gone in the markets and when will we see a greater measure of justice and compassion in economic affairs that works for the common good?
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