Dry Month

Middle of August and already the leaves are falling from the trees.  Across the road the trees have been showing yellow leaves for a week.  Occasionally one falls to the earth, surely this is a month to early?

The problem is of course climate change!  

Too little rain, in this, the driest county in England, and too much sunshine combining to dry up the roots and lead to poor harvests in farmers fields and among the berries in what are left of the hedgerows.  

This means rising prices.

Naturally, the varied English water boards are giving their board members high bonus's because of their incompetence.  Reservoirs are low, streams abound in slurry from farms and much more from water companies saving money and poisoning English waterways and seas.  In a normal world the government would step in to stop this, for 14 years now nothing has been done.  Privatising water companies, along with electric and gas, railways, royal mail and anything worth money, has lost the service element included.  Services are not for service, they are to make money for shareholders, and let the peasants suffer.  

This is the UK today.

A right wing coup has occurred and while there is little we can do, we can note that the vast majority have not noticed it.    

Environmental damage, alongside the damage done to the welfare state, the NHS, food prices, and the elderly, mount up.  The answer, point the finger at 'the boats,' blame migrants, and allow those with the money to keep their money.     

This, I feel, is somewhat unfair.

Will anything change?  Not soon.