We are in a country in which when it snows everything stops, the NHS goes into a crisis if people fall ill, we vote for Brexit without knowing what it involves, we tell public servants they can only have a 1% pay rise but we put up season tickets on the trains by over 3%, we have never had so many people employed, but they earn less than they did ten years ago, our new warships either leak at sea or suffer catastrophic power failures in combat mode, the list goes on and on.
But there is change coming. Because never before have so many people under forty come together in common purpose to bring about a new and different society, in which people work together for the common good, things function in all weather, illness is treated in timely fashion, housing is plentiful and affordable, the rich no longer prosper by milking the poor, this list goes on and on, too, and then on even longer.
That is why this Blog is optimistic for the future of our United Kingdom in 2018. The night of austerity, greed and me first is over. The dawn of better times is breaking. We must watch for signs of light upon the horizon. Among the first may be the flash of the divided Tory government, split from top to bottom on Brexit and austerity, breaking up.