“Be strong and beware of the ancient serpent” is written above the tapestry in Eton College Chapel that depicts St George slaying the dragon.
It’s St George’s Day and I wanted to pull together a blog around St George culminating in trying to understand the muddle we are in but how can anyone work that out? It does come down to global money, not the national governments being in control…
As Lord Acton noted so well back in 1887, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority, still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it…”
Literally those at national levels of power are facilitating others getting away with murder. Looking at Palastine, where St George was sentenced to death, how could any rational mind think anything different? And we are powerless to do anything about it… unless we start voting for people, not parties and bring the power back to local communities.
The best our local councillors can do legally right now, to stop the water companies polluting our rivers, is write a letter to someone who has more authority! To my mind that’s pathetic but it is the way it is. Surely they should be able to close a business down for pouring poisons into our rivers? No, they can write a letter!
I think we need to listen to those who came before us, recognise the serpent and that the Magna Carta gave power to the people and do something about it.
The current system means the only way to change things is via Parliament and to do that we need to sweep away party politics and allegiances and look for the best people in the land to govern us. Stong people, uncorruptable souls who can then change the laws and what our national priorities should be.
What should those priorities be?
Thank you.
Jon Davey
Community Champion
Love it! All national customs & celebrations worth noting …it seems a shame that St George often seems to be left behind somewhat.
Keep up the good work!