As my local MP, Justin Tomlinson has now started to get people to reply to my letters about cannabis prohibition on his behalf, I must assume that he got bored with me not taking his hints that this would be better discussed at a later date. So I thought it might be an idea to send him a letter about other things as well.
Dear Justin,
After the excitement of the US elections there were lots of questions being asked about what this means for the UK. I wish I had an answer for that, but I do know what it will mean for Washington and Colorado. I don't know if you heard, but they legalised and regulated cannabis. They've effectively stopped criminalising tens of thousands of people, saved huge amounts of money on law enforcement and legal costs, and if that wasn't enough, they've also cut a large source of revenue for criminal and terrorist groups. I wouldn't blame you if you had not heard this news, although it has been in the media, it's not received the sort of headlines I would expect. It's hardly surprising really, Spain and Portugal have decriminalised / regulated the personal use of cannabis, and we don't hear to much about how well that's working out for them either.
While I am on the subject of media blackouts or lack of coverage, do you not think that it is also very odd that Iceland doesn't appear more on the news? After all don't they owe us about £3billion? Shouldn't we be chasing that? We are in a desperate financial crisis and could use the money to replace a bit of the £25billion we are losing each year in tax being avoided by people like the Prime Minister's late father. A man who made his £30+ million fortune through offshore investment trusts and accounts in tax havens like Monaco, or Sir Philip Green, or rather his Wife who owns a lot of their companies and conveniently doesn't pay tax in the UK as she is registered as living in Monaco. Isn't Sir Philip also part of the Prime Minister's Business Advisory Group? Anyway I digress, back to Iceland. Is there not another anti terrorism law we can unjustly hit them with to try and get them to cough up? Of course Iceland will be a tender area for most Politicians I would have thought. Possibly because they nationalised the banks, and decided not to pay the debt that PRIVATE banks created, but mostly because they forced their Government to resign, and put together a public assembly to rewrite their constitution, of course that couldn't be allowed to happen in this country. All those politicians out of work and having to claim JSA, having had experience of that I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy, even more so if some of them had to go through the Atos assessment programme if they had some condition that prevented them from being fully fit for work. After reading some of the stories about people who are waiting for heart surgery being classed as fully fit for work, and people with missing limbs being recalled every 6 - 12 months to be re-assessed (I think it's possible that they have X-men and real life mixed up, I'm sure it's not possible to re grow missing limbs at the moment, although if they can stick an ear on a mouse who knows?), I'm sure you would be as shocked as me. So I can understand that highlighting Iceland might not be in our politicians best interests.
As a point of interest at the moment Iceland seem to be doing pretty well for themselves, in fact they are doing so well that they are ahead in their repayments to the IMF.
But I will tell you what really got my back up this week, and as a reasonable fellow I know you will be outraged as well. There is this old chap (in his 90's), and he was in service during the second world war. In fact he was on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day (3rd wave in I am told), and his job on that day was, in his own words,
"To take grenades and ammunition from those people who didn't need it anymore and pass it forward to the front line"
Now I've given that some thought, and the only thing I can come up with is that he had to take those items from dead, dying and injured friends and colleagues. I can't begin to imagine what it was like having to do that, in those surroundings, people being cut down and blown up around you, walking past the bodies of your dead and dying friends, those memories must haunt him. I think it's fair to call this chap a national hero, he went through hell so that we didn't have to. Imagine my surprise when I hear that despite all this man has done for this country, he still has to pay towards his own care in his old age, and more than that, if it is decided that it is not cost effective to provide care for him in his own home, then he could be forced into care home and his house taken and sold to fund it. I could understand it if we where talking about a multi-millionaire banker like Conservative party donor Sir David Scholey, after all if he can afford to pay tens of thousands of pounds to hunt lions and other big game, then funding his own health care shouldn't be a problem, but then again he hasn't had to rob corpses for his country, although he is part of an industry that robbed the living instead. You would have thought that considering what we asked this old hero to do for this country, we would at least have the common decency to foot the bill when it's his turn to ask his country to do something for him.
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