IS THIS FEUDALITY

 MAINTAINING THE STATUS QUO IS OKAY FOR SOME

On reading The Times today, Sunday 23rd May, my eyes settling on an article referring to her book, Greater: Britain after the Storm where Penny Mordaunt says that Parliament and The House of Lords ‘is an anachronism that does not serve democracy’ and where, it is suggested, that we need ‘to forge a new culture’. 

I agree. I have written poems that are about habitat loss, over use of insecticides and intensive farming and even more poignantly on the killing of birds in general and birds of prey in particular. (Please refer to Raptor Persecution UK for an ongoing litany of death)

The connection is that our society of this very day allows those in power to stay in power. In other words ‘the status quo’ should not be challenged and if you dare to do that you will be over-ridden because they can.

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What has sparked my ire is that the Right Honourable Richard Benson, a Conservative Life Peer and a Privy Councillor is now a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for DEFRA. Lord Benson, as he is entitled to be known, replaces another Lord - Lord Gardiner. Do you really need titles to do jobs like these? Am I being naive when it comes to how people get elevated to positions where they decide what is best for us. 

Right. I will come to my point about this to say that there will always be people that will have a vested interest in something and where those self influences will only allow them to make decisions that will only be a benefit themselves. That’s not fair enough. Lord Benson is involved in an organisation that presides over our countryside and our rural affairs. 

Raptor Persecutions post of 13th this month makes the announcement of his appointment. Incredibly he is the owner of a ‘Grouse Moor’ so it can be argued he will know about country matters.  But if you follow the news on driven grouse shooting ‘muir burning’, use of toxic lead shot and the considerable number of deaths of birds of prey then you, like me, have reason to be perturbed. I would urge you to read their last post. You can see that grouse moor management the way it is done today is not compatible with the manner in which our countryside should be treated. It is obvious that large tracts of our land is organised for the few and not the many. That’s the few that have the power. I think that is living in a feudal state and an un-democratic one. 

What can we do? Well, keep up the noise of opposition and disgust and support organisations that care for our land and our lives. I support them and I wish that I could be proactive and do much more. MAINTAINING THE STATUS QUO IS OKAY FOR SOME

On reading The Times today, Sunday 23rd May, my eyes settling on an article referring to her book, Greater: Britain after the Storm where Penny Mordaunt says that Parliament and The House of Lords ‘is an anachronism that does not serve democracy’ and where, it is suggested, that we need ‘to forge a new culture’. 

I agree. I have written poems that are about habitat loss, over use of insecticides and intensive farming and even more poignantly on the killing of birds in general and birds of prey in particular. (Please refer to Raptor Persecution UK for an ongoing litany of death)

The connection is that our society of this very day allows those in power to stay in power. In other words ‘the status quo’ should not be challenged and if you dare to do that you will be over-ridden because they can.

What has sparked my ire is that the Right Honourable Richard Benson, a Conservative Life Peer and a Privy Councillor is now a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for DEFRA. Lord Benson, as he is entitled to be known, replaces another Lord - Lord Gardiner. Do you really need titles to do jobs like these? Am I being naive when it comes to how people get elevated to positions where they decide what is best for us. 

Right. I will come to my point about this to say that there will always be people that will have a vested interest in something and where those self influences will only allow them to make decisions that will only be a benefit themselves. That’s not fair enough. Lord Benson is involved in an organisation that presides over our countryside and our rural affairs. 

Raptor Persecutions post of 13th this month makes the announcement of his appointment. Incredibly he is the owner of a ‘Grouse Moor’ so it can be argued he will know about country matters.  But if you follow the news on driven grouse shooting ‘muir burning’, use of toxic lead shot and the considerable number of deaths of birds of prey then you, like me, have reason to be perturbed. I would urge you to read their last post. You can see that grouse moor management the way it is done today is not compatible with the manner in which our countryside should be treated. It is obvious that large tracts of our land is organised for the few and not the many. That’s the few that have the power. I think that is living in a feudal state and an un-democratic one. 

What can we do? Well, keep up the noise of opposition and disgust and support organisations that care for our land and our lives. I support them and I wish that I could be proactive and do much more.