Saturday 23 March 2013

Cause for great concern.


Cause for great concern.    Started 16/03/2013 Finished 19/032013

I have listed below, in no particular order, causes for concern. Many of them, and the impact of them as a whole, are, I think, a cause for great concern.

[1]   The failure of many aspects of the NHS in Staffordshire. Other areas may also have failed to fulfil their expected role. It is alleged that patients have died as a result of these failures.
[2]   Several of the top UK banks “juggling” with the LIBOR interest rate. Several international banks have been heavily fined.
[3]   Several of the top UK banks having to make provision to pay back huge amounts of money to refund PPI charges to their clients. In many cases, I understand, the clients did not know they were paying for such insurance. The overall amounts set aside being, according to one source, 9 Billion UK Pounds.
[4]   The cover up for years in relation to the Hillsborough disaster.
[5]   The revelations in regard to Jimmy Savile.
[6]   Similar revelations in regard to other people and locations.
[7]   MP’s expenses.
[8]   Irish catholic workhouses for women.
[9]   Alleged sexual abuse of children and adults by clerics, often high ranking officials.
[10]   Horse and pig meat sold as beef.
[11]   Teenagers being encouraged to publish revealing photographs of themselves on line.
[12]   Girls in their early teens being “groomed” for sex.
[13]   The need for the Leveson Inquiry    
[14]   Whistle blowers being unable to find employment after exposing wrong doing.
[15]   Drivers deliberately causing a crash with the aim of making money out of it.
[16]   The news that 400 or so employees of a UK bank earned over a million £s in one year.
[17]  Abuse in care homes.
[18]   Children sent to Australia from the UK, during and after WW Two.

One of the causes for concern is why such events as listed above have been allowed to occur?  Another of the causes for concern is the thought that religions, that have existed for considerably more than 2000 years, have failed in their attempts to embed morality in their followers.  Surely there is an over riding need for every person to be conscious of their conscience. If it transpires that because of, religious or other beliefs, there is an obvious total difference ingrained in various sectors of a population as to what bothers their conscience then steps should be taken to ensure that these sectors are separated. Such differences have to be in relation to serious matters.
F W Gilling     Saturday 23 March 2013











  

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