A Plea for the Forgotten

Brexit, like a forest fire, is starting to consume everything in its path. The government, parliament, the media, everybody it seems including this blog, talk and argue about nothing else.

Yet out there we have disgusting vermin and drug invested prisons, thousands sleeping rough on the streets, unsafe maternity units, deficient mental healthcare, problems with Universal Credit unresolved, shortages of decent affordable housing; the list is long and disturbing. One after another watchdogs and investigators report on problems which shock, right across the public service sector, yet which remain unresolved. Statements are issued by one ministry after another showing either complacency, denial or dysfunction.

This is no way to run a country. Brexit is one thing. It should not be there at all or it should be better organised. But all the rest are actually people’s lives, ongoing, right now. And they must be addressed with action and improvement, not platitudes and excuses. Right now.