Accountability – that is what is lacking!
Back at the time of the economic crash were enough people made accountable for their actions?
Did a raft of British and American politicians get hauled before the courts and imprisoned for their irresponsible actions?
They introduced policies that took the brakes off the bankers. They reduced supervision and controls. Their actions led directly to the crash.
How many of them have been held accountable? How many have been locked up?
Once the controls were taken off them the bankers began behaving in an irresponsible manner. There were deals on housing, selling on of worthless shares, and the gleaning of huge bonuses without a thought for tomorrow. When it became clear that their loans were not going to be repaid the whole system crashed.
How many of them were held accountable? How many were fined or locked up?
When Cameron and Osbourne decided to make the poor pay for the crash, created by themselves and the bankers, by bringing in austerity, slashing public services, social services and pensions (while allowing the bankers their excessive bonuses and pay) where they ever held accountable for the deaths that resulted?
When they thought up the slogan – ‘we’re all in it together’ – before sloping off to their obscenely well-paid futures, did anybody hold them personally responsible?
When Cameron and Osbourne decided to run a referendum that has cost the country countless billions and caused mayhem and division, have they been held accountable?
It seems to me that accountability is only imposed on the small people – the nurses, doctors and teachers, the social workers and police. When something goes wrong they are (rightly) hauled over the coals while the people responsible for the big stuff go free. They are never accountable.