Saying goodbye to sanity

More and more we are experiencing a disharmony in our world.

Injustice is the flavour of the day.

It's always been in our lives but now we can react to it.

Buried emotions are surfacing in abundance.

It's time for a total change of direction in the way we deal with each other - or we shall totally destroy the society we live in.

It seems that we will have to experience pain - some of us a lot of it - before we come to our senses in the way the alcoholics do when they are dangled over the precipice of disaster.

Policians are out of touch because they manipulate a society that is slowly coming to the realisation that they don't like the way they behave.

In the extreme, countries like Greece are going down the path of dramatic change and turmoil.

Many of the same feelings bubble under the surface here in Britain - here in Ulverston.

For the most part, average people are apathetic  - they want others to solve their problems for them - the welfare state , the NHS and Education has encouraged this.

Even here in Ulverston politicians try to even control the behaviour of the local people as though they have some influence. They don't - for the most part, they are a ceremonial irrelevance . By using grand council chambers; following archaic procedures and dressing up ; they kid themselves that their views are important. In fact their behaviour and actions are for the most part pointless. We don't respect them.

They rarely follow important issues through.

Take the issue of our market:

Here are some wise words

However note the date - 2009 - so what has happened since then?

We've only got to lose one stall holder - David Gardiner at the plant stall and the whole of the Saturday Market would collapse and with it , inevitably in the long term, shopping in Ulverston.

The repair of the cobbles in Market Street  has been totally botched  - it looks good but was for the most part unnecessary - and is largely a waste of our money when this commodity is in short supply - as stated by the Amey contractor - Cumbria County Highways have always been crazy. Had the Highways Department supervised contractors in the past when they replaced the cobbles after digging holes then no work would have been needed. A point that United Utilities acknowledged when they returned to make good bad work they had done at the request of - a couple of individuals whose efforts weren't supported by our politicians at the time.

There are plenty of similar issues here in Ulverston: another very important one being car parking in the town with the extreme example of the little used Stockbrige Lane Car Park to which the official; response over a year ago - maybe two - on this blog - was "the matter was under review".

Fortunately we do have many groups of people who do get on and do things - though on occasions their activities are taken over by self important people making a name for themselves.

What we don't need are top down organisations which reflect the views of their "leaders" - organisations that promote apathy and a lack of involvement.

There are encouraging signs though. One local community is getting together to form the BUGs - they believe in action and not talk as exemplified by the transformation that has taken place in Mill Dam Park - a place of great importance to locals.

Councillors have shown little positive interest or support; in fact some have deliberately raised problems with what is being done, but the group has gone ahead despite the broken promises made by SLDC and a small amount of vandal activity.

The BUGs are having an event in Mill Dam Park this next Sunday - there's a very strong positive feeling in this group - why not come and join them.