Burdened by the consequences of previous Prime Ministers

LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 9: Prime Minister Boris Johnson attends a virtual press conference at Downing Street on September 9, 2020 in London, England. As from Monday September 14, people in England will only be allowed to socialise in groups of six or less people following the announcement from the Prime Minister. This is to help curb the recent rise in Coronavirus cases. (Photo by Stefan Rousseau- WPA Pool/Getty Images) NNL-200211-091109001

With another lockdown, vast numbers of people in Britain, particularly the less well-off , are facing financial hardship and potential ruin.

The NHS , excellent though its staff may be, is weak organisationally, never free of waiting lists at the best of times , and obviously most severely tested at this time of added burden through the new virus .

The police are seemingly focussing more on trivial things, not real big crime, at least that is the impression gained from what is reported.

Affordable housing is hardly plentiful and not everyone can afford to buy: renting is a worry in itself.

Why is the country in such a dire and miserable state?

One simple reason appears to be plain financial incompetence on the part of every government since World War Two.

For example, billions of pounds have been spent on the exploration of space, and it was recently announced that water had been found on the moon So what?

That utterly useless finding will have no beneficial effect on the life of anyone currently living on earth and struggling with the chaos apparent here at this time.

Another waste of billions seems to have been foreign aid: this has been going on for decades yet even this week TV reports and charity adverts show exactly the same images of starving people, diseased children and drought or famine, plus regional wars, just as were shown in the 1960s .

Lastly, successive governments have blindly allowed the population of Britain to rise wholly uncontrolled from 47 million in 1945 to 66 million now, a vast increase. No-one ever voted for these unmanaged or hasty developments.

If such profligate financial waste – billions of pounds -–had not occurred, and with fewer people to service, the present government would have been able to respond much more confidently to the recent extraordinary problems, helped the working population and public services cope better, and along the way, done far more to limit the scourges of pollution and desecration of the natural environment on which we all ultimately rely.

I have great sympathy for Boris Johnson, because I believe every one of his predecessors as Prime Minister has let us all down in the manner described and he is now burdened with the consequences.

As voters, I suggest in future that we keep more of an eye on what all the taxation we pay is diverted to, some of it has clearly gone straight down the pan .