Acts of kindness can tip the scales
IN these times of trouble and strife, ‘heat or eat,’ caused by corrupt, deceitful and stupid politicians, Russian despotism, corporate greed and EU expansion, we must continue to strive to care for those who are lonely, anxious and sad.
Someone once said we are defined in the universe by how we care for others. The decency of ordinary people is a shining example to our ‘elites’ on how to behave.
Just a cuppa and a chat can make our isolated elderly feel less lonely.
The refugees fleeing from war torn countries, need our help and our smiles.
Our homeless out all night in awful weather, need a hot meal a hot drink a smile and hope.
Our mentally ill need our help, psychiatrists say the best help for the mentally ill is to have family members and friends to keep in regular contact with them, from phone calls, visits and days out.
Our wildlife especially birds frozen out of their food sources need our help, robins love dried mealworms and starving foxes love wholemeal bread.
Despite all the negative vibes around us, a single act of kindness in the world can help tip the scales back towards love not hate.
I recommend these DVDs to lift the spirits, to watch over the holidays: Scrooged (1988), a comedy with Bill Murray, and LA Story (1991), a rom-com with Steve Martin.
Season’s greetings and a peaceful new year to one and all.
Dylan Robertson
The decency of ordinary people is a shining example to our ‘elites’ on how to behave. Dylan Robertson
OBR is predicting huge drop in living standards
JUST over a year ago the lead campaigner for Rishi Sunak’s leadership, MP Mel Stride, demanded that the financial watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), publish their forecast of Liz Truss’s disastrous budget.
Now he is in Sunak’s Cabinet he is perhaps less enthusiastic about what the OBR say about Jeremy
Hunt’s Autumn Statement.
They actually say that the economy is to grow more slowly than expected, inflation will be higher than predicted, and for longer, and households are to suffer the ‘largest reductions in real living standards’ since records began.
Public services, already hard pressed, are going to suffer a staggering £19 billion cut by 202728. On top of this, it has been estimated that although we all will be poorer, the reduction in National Insurance will benefit the richest 20 per cent of household by £1,000 on average, five times more than the £200 gained by the poorest 20 per cent.
The cut in public services will particularly affect public health and social services meaning that adult social care and children’s services will be cut. Less money in adult social care means poorer services for the elderly with the inevitable result of greater bed-blocking and greater waiting lists for the NHS.
We already know that children’s services in Surrey were last judged to be in need of improvement; the situation will now only get worse.
Yet Jeremy Hunt has the audacity to say these are the ‘biggest tax cuts since the 1980s.’
Mel Stride has said: ‘A terrific Conservative Autumn Statement from Jeremy Hunt. We are capitalising on the opportunities afforded by careful stewardship of the economy.’ Given the facts, would you really want to vote for the Conservatives again?