The Great British Public

Voted recently!

We are told that we should take their result seriously.

"You CAN NOT be serious?

"Really serious?"

Have you watched the junk they are glued to on Tele most nights?

Have you watched the ads on tele.

Don't they tell you a lot about "The Great British Public?"

People pay good money for these ads in the belief that they help sell their products.

Persil washes "whiter" - they used to say after they had added blue specs of dye to their "white".

One has to assume that successful businessmen know what they are doing when they spend their valuable money "wisely".

They seem to have a firm belief that they can brainwash the public into buying their 'superior' products.

Looking at many of the ads for cars leads to strange conclusions about how minds of the public work and what persuades them.

Haven't we all been brainwashed into thinking that rain is bad and sun is good.

With global warming, how long will this continue? Drought and unworkable high temperatures may change minds. But will they?

The cost of food may one day persuade us that "Rain is good". But will the weather forecast presenters ever say this?

Yesterday I spent a lovely time persuading a youngster that rain was fun. And he became a rain enthusiast.

A chance to watch and listen to water running down pipes and into drains. Water drumming on empty dustbins. A chance to find puddles deep enough to stamp in and cause a splash and,  joy of joys, one deep enough to say "I haven't got  any Wellies" and then to proceed to wade angle deep in shoes that were open at the top. He was overjoyed, maybe naughtily, that he'd got his socks wet.

In the future he may question the myth that rain is bad and sun is good and start thinking for himself:

Someone that will question ads and the exaggerated statements made by many of the those around him.

Hopefully he will grow up to be part of a more humble and realistic "British Public",  part of the Thinking and Questioning British Public who are not easily swayed by cliches, half truths and outright lies.