Peter Carroll is the author of Queen of Misfortune – A Lady Jane Grey Novel and Doodlebugs & Spitfires. For more information, see his website.
Like many lands Britain is being asked to pull back. Our Prime Minister David Cameron, in his recent Conservative party conference, announced the crises Britain finds itself in, telling us that we are all in it together.
These uncertain times create concern for the whole world. For my part I earnestly believe the bubble had to burst because of the incessant lust for greed which is still going strong despite the warnings
Political parties blame each other but the blame surely must apply to all those greedy bankers and suchlike who have messed up and, for the sake of the economy, needed to be bailed out.
Of course profit/growth is always a must to establish a healthy economy, but when the balance topples and absolute greed festers like a incurable disease we are in trouble.
In my book a good example of utter greed which still continues despite the financial crisis; points to those companies like the basic utilities on which we all depend for our very livelihood.
Here in Britain for example these are made up of mainly four groups; Fuel to keep the wheels turning, gas, electricity and water/sewerage.
I have sent out an urgent message to all Britain’s utilities…
Aren’t you ashamed of yourselves that despite high profit margins you continue to raise your prices well above inflation?
Did not our Prime Minister say at his party conference that we are in a sink or swim situation, that we are all in it together and must all expect to make cuts of some sort?
But you are not doing that are you?
Don’t you care a damn about the poor and, given other rising prices the sufferance to them this coming winter?
Are your shareholders prepared to take less or as least accepting a freeze until the country is back on its feet?
We are all in it together, well aren’t we?
And what about the fat cat’s huge salaries, the executives and the like, could they not take a reduction of a £1 or two for the sake of the country?
In a recent communication with South West Water, who operate in my part of the world in the South West I could not get further than customer services when asking what executives are paid. I wanted to compare the percentage of the amount they pay for water compared with the poor.
I was told a private company is not obliged to declare executives’ salaries and they were not prepared to reply further to my query regarding this matter.
They did tell me they are about helping their customers who are having financial difficulties. Well I thought; that’s something, I wonder how much they will deduct -say for a pensioner on fixed income?
The reply; nothing at all. The ‘help’ they offer is to send one of their representatives around to help you manage their income.
Now that to me; stinks of the big nasty water company putting the onus on the poor in making it seem they are unable to manage their money.
Well they would never admit it was them would they – by way of charging exorbitant charges to pay the shareholders and fat cats
But I thought Mr Cameron said we are all in it together, didn’t he?
Well?
Something eventually has to give, but by the looks of it the hard up will have to suffer first.
Aren’t you really ashamed of your selves, those of you who continue to put up your prices regardless?
Just a word in shareholders ears, yes – and those senior executives, remind them of what Mr Cameron said huh?
Greed is on the up but it will do no good at all – you can’t take it with you.
Give us all a break, let us all be in this together with no exceptions and no excuses.
Otherwise it just aint going to work!
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QUEEN OF MISFORTUNE
A Lady Jane Grey Novel by Peter Carroll
A Love Story of Shakespearean Dimension!
Queen Of Misfortune is the fictional story of Lady Jane Grey as told by her beloved tutor, John Aylmer. At the time of her execution a stranger is recorded to have assisted her when, blind folded, she lost her way upon the scaffold. Was it the same strange who was also recorded to have visited her when she was imprisoned in the Tower? Little is known of this unfortunate girl who was beheaded for treason in the 16th Century. She was only 16. She is omitted from the list of monarchs but was actually queen for nine days. Author Peter Carroll, in his novel, follows John Aylmer’s close relationship with Jane as her tutor and later, as she grows up, her lover. [More...]
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