Halloween is a time when ghost and horror stories abound, and people walk the streets dressed as ghouls and ghosts and skeletons…
Listening to the news yesterday I was reminded that the “Halloween Party” is back… with a ghoulish spine tingling hellish plan..
Privatisation of rail, gas, electricity, water etc has made billions for fat cats and left the rest of us paying subsidies to companies who overcharge us to use resources that used to belong to us as a nation. Being overcharged for things that don’t work properly anymore is not actually a great deal of fun.
Privatised prisons have a dismal record, privatised healthcare has a litany of bad practice and cover-ups, selling off council housing has had the strange effect of leaving us with nowhere for the less wealthy to be housed…
And now they want our forests.
The government announced this week that it plans to sell off our forests.
Why call it a HELLISH plan? Because they take what is yours and sell it… you don’t get the money – you just get charged a HELL of a lot to use it in the future.
The nightmare continues…
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One of my favourite song lyrics is Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi” which unfortunately proves relevant over and over again…
BIG YELLOW TAXI
by Joni Mitchell
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
And a swinging hot spot
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Till it’s gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
They took all the trees
Put ’em in a tree museum
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see ’em
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Till it’s gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
Hey farmer farmer
Put away the D.D.T. now
Give me spots on my apples
But leave me the birds and the bees
Please!
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Till it’s gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
Late last night
I heard my screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi
Took away my old man
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Till it’s gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
I said don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Till it’s gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot