The main feature of the political scene over the last year or so has been the cutting of government expenditure. One of the measures proposed by the British government has been to make public servants pay more for their pensions and have to wait longer to claim them. This hasn’t gone down well with those affected, and yesterday there was a national strike by public sector workers which included teachers.
Today the news carried an agonisingly sad story of a 13-year-old girl who was killed yesterday when she was struck by a falling tree branch. She was in a recreation ground at the time, and the only reason she was there was because her school was closed. The school was closed because the teachers were on strike, and the teachers were on strike because... etc, etc.
Which brings me back to what I’ve said so often. There’s never any point in wishing that things had happened differently, however inevitable such a wish will be in a tragic circumstance like this. The fact is, we can never know how far the hand of consequence might stretch, or what it might do when it gets there.
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