Quaint Opinions

We are blessed with living in a country where you can vote for the person that you want to represent you and fight for the things that you hold dear. Elections don’t always turn out the way you hoped. Referendums do not always turn out the way you hoped. Still the facts are that we vote those people into power, whether it is at local level or in a general election. 

Once they have taken their place we are stuck with them. Stuck with the decisions they make whilst they have the power that we have given them, which is the job that we have stuck them with. They are then there to take all the insults, protests and complaints. Built up to be knocked down it seems. Voted in, to do that difficult job.

We are a great nation for pointing the finger at people who have made mistakes and I am as guilty as the next person at doing that. I was very angry just recently when the ‘Leave’ vote got more votes than my own choice of the ‘Remain’ half of the voters of land. What one has to remember it that it was a peoples vote and my half lost. 

I did not vote for Tony Blair to be Prime Minister either, but he was voted in to get that job and to select a group of people to form a government. Another thing I did not agree with was his plan to go to war but that decision was not his alone surely. There were meetings upon meetings and advice, from what they thought were reliable sources to listen to, and information given to the elected members of parliament taking part in those meetings. One man cannot decide to go to invade another country on his own, I do not believe that. I do not buy that. In fact, I did go on the big march in London in protest at that move. My voice there too was ignored, as were the many other peaceful people’s voices. 

It seems to me at that point, that all that is left to do is to support our troops. Our boys, our sons and daughters, when they are sent in to battle to do our work. Many of them just wanted a job when they signed up to serve in the forces or to learn a trade to use when they came out of the services. Yet then they were in uniform and under orders. 

I may be a bit quaint in my way of thinking but I do not think the Ex Prime Minister of our country should be treated in the way he is currently being totally vilified. I heard somebody with a megaphone in the background of the news report calling for him to be executed for war crimes.  

He was the one who lead the country into that trauma in name, but he did that as our Prime Minister, duly elected by the people of this country; the man who we elected to make dreadful decisions like that, and rightly or wrongly, he is man enough to say that he believed it was the right thing at the time and would do it again. Now they want to have him put on trial. We need to question ourselves first in my opinion. Put our big mouths on trial, our hand dropping the voting slip into the ballot box.