On Politicians and Selective Blindness.

I was just reading about the horrific incident in Southport in which a 17-year-old boy attacked a group of children with a knife. The children were aged between six and ten. At least two of them are dead and several more are seriously injured. The politicians, as usual, take no responsibility for this appalling state of affairs. They offer their ‘sympathy, condolences and prayers’ to the families of the victims, and that’s all.

This sort of thing never used to happen, but it’s becoming ever more frequent now. Knife attacks on innocent – usually young – victims are becoming almost routine. It was part of the reason why I asked a question before the last General Election, and I ask it again now:

Why do politicians witter on about economic growth and the iniquity of budget deficits – and all those other pecuniary concerns which are deemed to be of paramount importance in a free market economy, and which are mostly aimed at benefiting the rich and the reasonably well off – while British culture at grass roots level is cracking to an uncomfortable and dangerous degree?

There are many angles and outcomes to this issue – senseless murders and burgeoning mental health issues to name just two – and the politicians are ignoring the problem because they seem to think it has nothing to do with them.

Sorry politicians; you might think you have the Nelson touch when you put your telescopes to blind eyes, but this is a different situation. It does have something to do with you because you’re the ones entrusted to guide the culture along safe, sustainable, and reasonably egalitarian lines. If you continue to ignore your culpability, this general breakdown of cultural standards and behaviour will likely get worse, and then your sympathy, condolences and prayers will be utterly worthless. In fact, they already are.