In Britain, this wonderful
country, are millions of good, kind, hard working, generous, empathetic and
considerate people who love and are loved by their families and friends. Many of those
same people are cheats, tax dodgers, liars, criminals, lazy, indolent,
selfish and self serving. Company
directors who accept huge salaries and bonuses but pay their workers a
pittance, the benefit scroungers, tax evaders and avoiders both rich and poor,
bankers who charge enormous interest rates on loans but pay miniscule amounts
to investors, and particularly politicians who benefit from private medical
care and private education themselves but accept a failing NHS and inadequate
state schools for the less fortunate. I am not knocking the wealthy, the
entrepreneurs, the innovators. We need them provided they are honest , fair, and treat people justly. I have little sympathy with anyone who is
profligate or lazy and expects society to support them .
Why am I so concerned about the
people who, often through no fault of
their own, are homeless, lonely, living in poverty, drowning in debt,
struggling to make ends meet, cannot afford a proper home, have to live with
parents, and worse, are dying unnecessarily in hospitals, or committing suicide
because they cannot cope?
Looking at the bigger picture,
the whole system in this country is flawed and it is only the Government
who can change it. I want the chance to change
people's lives for the better. If enough people voted for me, I could be
elected for Ilford North. Honest,
dedicated and determined. I think
outside the box and have original ideas.
Who else has
suggested that prisoners should either pay for their keep or work for it … or that every school should have
workshops nearby so that non-academic 15 and 16 year olds can learn technical
skills … or that Backbenchers in
Parliament, without specific jobs, should each be given the responsibility to
cover a specified area investigating, say, tax evasion, tax avoidance, zero
hour contracts, benefit fraud,
undeserved bonuses etc?
So how will you vote? Stick
to your principles and don't vote for parties you don't really want,
candidates you don't really like, leaders you don't really trust?
GIVE ME A CHANCE. TRUST ME.
WITH YOUR VOTE I CAN WIN
DORIS OSEN
INDEPENDENT