Sheep No More

Productivity is my theme for today, and how best to measure it. A doctor or nurse's value can be measured according to how many sick people they help to make well again over the course of a working lifetime. An Educationalist's, according to how many young people are turned out that can read and write to a decent standard, and who can exercise their grey matter to optimum effect. A Soldier's, according to how safe he and his comrades reassure us that our democracy and civilisation is properly defended, that we can sleep safely in our beds at night, and that potential aggressors are deterred from attacking us. And on and on we could go, assessing the many areas of life in which Brits work bloody hard at keeping the heart and soul of our nation intact. 

What of politicians? How should we measure their 'productivity'? I'd say, according to the peace of mind and reassurance that the nation is in safe political hands, each of us ought to be able to enjoy. That being the case, my own assessment of our political breed, across the entire spectrum, from left to right, is that these are the least productive people in society, to the point of handicapping us in the most unacceptable way. They are in control of every aspect of our daily lives and volunteered themselves to be 'guardians' over the state of wellbeing of our nation, its history and heritage included; and yet, all they are capable of doing, is dismantling what took centuries to build, sowing as they go, many seeds of fear about the future.

During WW1 the army came to be known as 'lions lead by donkeys' so what does today's situation amount to? The national flock 'guarded' over by hyenas maybe?

And the picture? The Green Howards, a three hundred year old regiment, due to be disbanded, so that the money necessary to run it, can instead be trousered by the financiers/bankers that have our nation over a barrel, and whose 'agents' are our political masters.