The Attitude should be Gratitude

We have much to be thankful for, much to rejoice despite the cold weather and chilly winds, despite wars and rumours of wars, despite the climate crisis, despite the injustices in society and throughout the world.

The western democracies are where people want to live and move and have their being.  There are too many malcontents, moaners and misanthropes. Some people do not seem to be happy unless they are making others unhappy. Miserable melancholic murmurers wish to spread their poisonous and toxic ideas without providing any viable alternative and constructive ideas, certainly no answer or solutions.    

In this country, in the USA, in Canada and northern European lands, in Australia and New Zealand, democracy and freedom reign.  When you visit other lands then you begin to appreciate how bad it can get. When you look at human rights records and the corruption index then you can understand how dire and dreadful some countries are in providing or rather not providing basic law, order, security, stability, economic prosperity and freedom of speech and the press, protest and personal property protection.  

Everyday we should take time to rejoice in what we have and not take these precious freedoms for granted.  Personally I am very grateful for our Christian heritage, our NHS, carers and educational institutions. I owe preachers, doctors, carers and teacher so much, and I am so grateful for their sacrificial service.

There are those who wish to enslave us with the yoke of tyranny and the woke ideologies.  There are those who want us to submit to false religions, vanities, evil gods and failed philosophies. They do not share our values or established ethical ways of living in peace and prosperity. We should be grateful to those who defend our democratic way of life, liberty and the land we enjoy. 

Our attitude should be gratitude.  May God grant us the grace to make this land a even better place where we are not disgrace. 

Justice is starting to flow like rivers for the Sub-postmasters

 Public opinion and pressure by many people in positions of influence are working against a harsh bureaucracy and systemic injustice that has ruined so many lives.  The Post Office scandal has angered folk throughout the country, especially in the wake of the TV drama Mr Bates vs the Post Office. 

Campaigns and petitions are now wanting answers and activity from the Government and those who are able to deliver justice for the innocent victims of this scandalous situation. It is a situation that should never have taken so long to resolve. It has been called the biggest miscarriage of justice in British history.

Despite warnings and clear evidence, the Post Office board of management and IT executives ignored the facts and appear to have acted iniquitously. Some senior managers took huge salaries and payments that they did not deserve for poor performance and mendacity, cloaking and dissembling. 

The CBE awarded to Paula Vennells for services to the Post Office has been a very painful slap in the face for honest and innocent sub-postmasters so callously convicted on her watch.  Thousands, moving towards a million, are now demanding for this award to be revoked, and even returned.  It was a disgraceful and despicable decision to award this CBE in the light of her unethical behaviour at the Post Office. It is hoped that Mrs Vennells will now follow the example of Zacchaeus the tax collector by showing true repentance, and taking the matter much further by engaging in restitution, restorative justice by helping those she has harmed.

There are others who have harmed and harassed the innocent victims.  Let justice be done and seen to be done.  The public's fury is certainly intensifying.

Justice for the Sub-postmasters

 I am glad that I signed the petition calling for the removal of Paula Vennell's CBE. I have followed the Post Office scandal over the years, particularly in Private Eye. It is a disgrace that these sub-postmasters were prosecuted. Some of them served custodial sentences, and suicides occurred, yet no one in PO management has been convicted and properly punished yet for their serious crimes and considerable iniquities. Some politicians involved in this omnishambles clearly looked the other way in the face of the evidence against the Post Office. The Post Office management board should be held accountable to the nation for the full extent of their cover ups and culpability.

What a brilliant service to the UK taxpayer the ITV drama Mr Bates v the Post Office has achieved. Toby Jones' performance was magnificent. So many folk are now incensed by this scandal. Public opinion is demanding justice for the innocent victims of this wickedness.