It is sometimes said that St Helena follows the UK, only 40 years behind.
40 years ago the UK had a new Conservative government that believed that wealth
was all that mattered and “society” was no longer a meaningful concept. They sold off the nations assets and put
millions into poverty while a select few got richer.
It looks to me like much the same is now happening here.
Certainly our assets –land and fishing – are being sold off to overseas
interests. Someone even said our wind
and our sunshine are being sold to PASH who will collect the energy from them
and sell it back to us! And certainly we
have a lot of people struggling to make ends meet. Salaries have risen less than official
inflation (and much less than actual price-rises) for some years
SHAPE, I hear, will get NO money from SHG this year. Neither will the Community Development
Organisation. “Society” is being allowed to fall apart.
In the early 1980s there were riots in UK cities. We have an increase in vandalism.
Tell me this isn’t St Helena’s 1980s?
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