UKIP and the Poverty time bomb

To the dismay of many who support social justice, the UK Independence Party made inroads in local government this week on a ticket of immigration. They'd tapped into the discontent about jobs and healthcare,using the tried and tested approach of blaming the alleged "social parasite", to stir up fears of invasion.

There's been much said to counter these perceptions, Well grounded thinking about the value migrants bring to our economy.

I'm more concerned about the inertia which finds us in this position, which some see as the precursor to fascism. Something which is already happening in Hungary.

At Monterey in 2002, leading economists had axknowledged that poverty provides a seed bed for terrorism and the same message came from us, describing the need for economic 'smart bombs'.in a proposal for economic development in Crimea.

It was a warning also made to UK government in 2004,in a proposal which said:  

"The opportunity for poverty relief was identified not only as a moral imperative, but also as an increasingly pressing strategic imperative. People left to suffer and languish in poverty get one message very clearly: they are not important and do not matter. They are in effect told that they are disposable, expendable. Being left to suffer and die is, for the victim, little different than being done away with by more direct means. Poverty, especially where its harsher forms exist, puts people in self-defence mode, at which point the boundaries of civilization are crossed and we are back to the law of the jungle: kill or be killed. While the vast majority of people in poverty suffer quietly and with little protest, it is not safe to assume that everyone will react the same way. When in defence of family and friends, it is completely predictable that it should be only a matter of time until uprisings become sufficient to imperil an entire nation or region of the world. People with nothing have nothing to lose. Poverty was therefore deemed not only a moral catastrophe but also a time bomb waiting to explode. "

As we all know in hindsight, 2011 saw the arrival of the Arab Spring, UK Riots and the Occupy movement.

There were responses from David Cameron who said we needed a kinder capitalism, and from Caroline Lucas saying that capitalism was eating away at the fabric of our society   We've since heard Ed Miliband praise a crony for his vision of better paradigm.

They were tallking our walk

"Traditional capitalism is an insufficient economic model allowing monetary outcomes as the bottom line with little regard to social needs. Bottom line must be taken one step further by at least some companies, past profit, to people. How profits are used is equally as important as creation of profits. Where profits can be brought to bear by willing individuals and companies to social benefit, so much the better. Moreover, this activity must be recognized and supported at government policy level as a badly needed, essential, and entirely legitimate enterprise activity.”

There's the heart of the problem. All kinds of political rhetoric about the need for something better, yet not only are they imcapable of offering a solution, they do their utmost to ensure those taking action are neither heard not supported . It's a threat to their authority, their reputations and their egos.

So we did nothing, poverty increased and UKIP tapped into the public discontent which came as a consequence.      

Colin Brewer, one of those elected is on record for saying disabled kids should be put down, In Eastern Europe our primary focus was to prevent that happening, An ethical issue of all life having the same value. Though UKIP might not have been  on our side, neither were any of the mainstream parties.  I recall my petition to David Cameron