- Searching for local democracy which is lacking in Surrey Archived Message
- Searching for local democracy which is lacking in Surrey - Mary October 5, 2019, 1:35 pm
- The nazi regime, like every other, wasn't that well organised, except when it mattered - Keith-264 October 5, 2019, 2:04 pm
Posted by Mary
on October 5, 2019, 1:35 pm
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At a stroke, the CCG has decided to shut down a group GP practice of longstanding. They say there has been a consultation. I was not consulted although I have a nearly forty year old association with the practice by myself, my late husband and my late mother who lived with us for eight years. The senior GP (long gone) who founded the practice used to come to the house to see her. He sat alongside her bed and talked to her and even had a cuppa with her. His successors have seen me through those times and through thyroid cancer and I have a great admiration for all of the doctors there, some 10 in three branches including one at Surrey University. I have never had any problems with the practice, the doctors, or in obtaining an appointment The premises are excellent and accessible for all. They run clinics for mothers and babies, for vaccinations and to see the practice nurses, etc. Elsewhere and locally, the borough council have sold off a row of garages they own which they used to rent out to local residents. Without any consultation with the public or the tenants of the garages, they have just announced that they have sold the garage block to a property developer to whom they have given permission for 20 houses. Where is the law? Fascism is creeping, nay striding in. I quote Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free -The Germans 1933-1945 But Then It Was Too Late "What no one seemed to notice," said a colleague of mine, a philologist, "was the ever widening gap, after 1933, between the government and the people. Just think how very wide this gap was to begin with, here in Germany. And it became always wider. You know, it doesn’t make people close to their government to be told that this is a people’s government, a true democracy, or to be enrolled in civilian defense, or even to vote. All this has little, really nothing, to do with knowing one is governing. "What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it. "This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter./.. https://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html |
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