Oh Mr Beeching

So today is 50 years since the publication of the Beeching report that signaled the death of many a station and railway line in this country. It is also a warning to the future.

Beeching was wrong, the Government of the time was wrong, Governments since have been wrong. The railway network was a lifeblood to many small places throughout this Kingdom. Roads do not have the same arterial flow no matter what people may think. Roads are capillaries motorways are arteries and as it stands there are only a couple of dozen major arteries in the UK. The railways gave us hundreds if not thousands. Resorts like Brighton, Blackpool,Bournemouth, Torquay, Great Yarmouth, Margate and Southend would never have grown had it not been for the railways. Small villages became connected to major cities, people became free to move the country had life.

Why a lesson to the future?

Well for Beeching read Lansley, Hunt, Duncan-Smith, Gove, May, Cameron and Osborne and all those in Government today who would cut the lifeblood from our country.

The NHS is the next to go, it will soon be a monument to all that was great about Great Britain. I think Scotland may have the right idea get out while they can. I wouldn't blame Wales if they felt the same way because to be quite frank this bunch that rule our country would sell them off if they could.

I hear food vouchers have been mooted again by Count Ian von Bismarck instead of cash benefits. Why not just make people on benefits shave their heads and walk around with high vis jackets saying scum on the back because that is how people will treat them.

Don't believe it? I had a friend at school who received free school meals because his family couldn't afford to pay and word got round. I remember mothers at the school gates cackling about his family and how poor they were and how they resented that a child was being fed by free meals when they had to pay. It still rankles me today how people could do that to a child yet the same will give ten pounds to Comic Relief to relieve them of their guilt because that's a poor child in Africa.

I am telling you clearly the same will happen all over again.

It is time the good people of Britain stood up and stopped this country sleepwalking to an early grave. The middle class need to get over themselves because once the poor are gone who do you think is next ! 

Take a lesson from Beeching making cuts in the wrong place at the wrong time does not make the tree grow stronger It kills it!