Democracy - Benefit or Hindrance
On 27th September a High Court judge in London made a ruling that a very determined lady, Elizabeth Pascoe aged 60 living in the Edge Hill area of Liverpool was having her human rights breached by attempts to demolish her home under a CPO. This edict affects 500 other homes and householders many of whom were on her side.
Then the wheels of what we call democracy went into motion.
The authorities are not prepared to accept that decision and intend to fight through the appeal courts and say they are confident of overturning the verdict.
It is on a par with a piece I wrote recently about a local council asking tenants to vote on the issue of handing all housing stock to a Housing Association.
They lost the vote by a huge margin, decided they didn鈥檛 like the way it was run and had another vote which 鈥淗ey Presto鈥 they won. Talk about a slap in the face for democracy.
In another instance happening as I write an elderly lady is 鈥榖egging鈥 yes actually begging the council in Liverpool and Social Services not to put her husband in a care home because it will kill them both.
The lady is 78 and fit as a fiddle; her husband is 87, suffers with Alzheimer鈥檚 diseases and is perfectly mobile. They were given a care package with a carer who she neither requested nor needed as she is capable of managing.
She was told her husband could be sectioned under the Mental Health Act against his will and forced in to care.
Meanwhile all over the country authorities have stood by while were children murdered under their noses. The point is why can't they leave this couple alone under supervision and let the lady say when she can鈥檛 manage.
Democracy 鈥 sounds more like Big Brother to me.
Well if that's what big brother's are like I don't want one of that kind.
Governments and councils are never about the individual or even the small collective views of individuals in cohort. They are about doing things for masses of people and their mentality becomes ' masses' and their technique become 'masses'
That's why we need high court judges who will consider the individual and listen to their individual needs.
Once you have voted in the govt and council of the day say goodbye to individualism - it doesn't feature in their vocabularies.
Ours is a democracy for the people (not individuals) by some of the people and with some of the people.
Now individualism is a totally different beast again!
The Pascoe decision is known to me because I belong to the "Hutties", set up by the redoubtable Sylvia of E. Lancs., to fight Prescott demolition of terraced homes across the North.
John is right to say how these wins for the little people are disregarded by big brother. It seems that Society has become a free for all.
I fall into the same age group as John, and share his views about the value of computer skills for "the elderly", using mine as entry to the world out there because that beyond the doorstep is dreary and depressing most of the time.
Thank goodness for 大象传媒 music and for family who have supported my need to be an independent old woman by encouraging these explorations.
So keep it up John and Margo - you might be talking and writing to the converted, but I agree that folks who do not get to grips with modern technology are the very same who get pushed out of their homes because they do not know what is going on beyond their local boundaries.
people
who says democracy exists
it just doesn't
i might not have correct or exact word for the kind of existent polity, but it defnitely is not democracy and that goes for entire world polity