Our ancestors were able to make money in trading, because of one secret – everyone is different. Different peoples and regions, had their own food, drink, clothes, art and raw materials. Some were liked and became world famous, some fell out of favour and exist in history books. The whole system worked because of those differences.

In today's corporate homogenised world, the very things that made areas famous has been diluted and prostituted for profit. We now get Cheddar cheese made in Italy, Scotch whisky made in Japan and China. Goods designed here, but made in China because our highly inventive engineers cost too much. For the corporation, cost and profit are all that matters, humanity and difference means nothing without a bottom line. Difference today decides on whether to go skiing or scuba diving, it's geographical not human.

Yet looking at this kind of world, don't you feel like something is missing? People cheapened because they're different, be it colour, religion, sex or disability. Nobody is above anyone else, nobody should have special laws to protect them, why can't we rely on a basic humanity instead?

People are ground down and used up in the name of profit, highly experienced and skilled people worth less than cheap foreign labour. People disabled fighting for their country are worth less than someone who inherits money and has no personal merits, where clique is worth more than custom, and where basic decency is of no value.

That is the England we have today, it's being made worse by a corrupt party politics. Most parties can't be told apart in the House of Commons, politicians are being given money by foreign powers or corporations to buy favour, yet the democratic votes of the English people are cheapened by such corruption. We are told we're all the same, but we'll give other partly autonomous parts of the UK more than you get, based on some spurious claims made over 30 years ago.

Why can't people buy Cheddar cheese from Cheddar? Why can't we buy local produce that hasn't travelled thousands of miles? Why can't skilled people be paid what they're worth? The answer right now is because our politicians have sold out to the corporation lifestyle, they have formed a class of their own based on how you were born, what school tie you wear and how much you inherited. If I didn't know better I'd think I was in 1020 AD not 2010 AD.
 


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