Head Space Daily Words...

As with my last post, listening to a track on my way to work inspired me - this time, yesterday morning. I am no political writer or great knowledge on the subject. I have my views and hold them strongly but it would not be something I would want to necessarily talk about down the pub. Football and music are my subjects of choice. Listening to Holy Moly by Matthew E White on my commute, compelled me to express my thoughts. His song was written well before the refugee crisis but the lyric “Fuck them all, love is home; love is home, fuck them all,” really struck a chord with me. In my mind, fuck them all relates to standing up for what you believe in and opposing the government’s position on the human disaster unfolding in front of our eyes. Love is home means we can’t turn the other way. Britain is better than this; we have to extend a helping hand. The hardship and grief that these people, mainly coming from Syria, are having to endure is unbearable and intolerable. How would you cope in that situation? There has been a total breakdown of society, there is permanent fear of death and people live with no hope. It’s enough to make you resort to desperate measures to escape a terrible situation. If you feel like I do, you have to speak out against the government’s inadequate plans, whose ethos is Me myself and I and in a modern, global society, that won’t do. The government’s interpretation of fuck them all refers to the refugees and a view of ‘it’s not our problem.’

It’s funny sometimes how things can go full circle. By the end of Second World War in 1945, Germany, under an evil regime full of intolerance and hatred, had exterminated millions of Jews in the concentration camps. In 2015, seventy years on, Germany is opening its doors and leading the way, offering a welcome to allow people facing extreme cruelty, persecution and hopelessness in their own countries, to seek refuge on it’s own land. Had Germany won the Second World War, life would no doubt be extremely different. We would be living in a fearful, intolerant, introspective world. Thankfully, Britain and its allies won the war, to allow the world to become closer and boundaries to be crossed. The closed off, narrow minded, introspective leader in the current situation is David Cameron and unless we start speaking out, things will only get worse. To talk of taking in 20,000 refugees over five years, whilst Germany accepts 40,000 a week, is not only insulting to the refugees who need our help but to the majority of British people with a traditionally generous spirit, who hold a broader view of the world. It is also an insult to those who lost their lives in World War 2 fighting to save the right to freedom of speech, freedom of movement and culture as well as protecting global democracy. In fact the British Government’s stance in this crisis is downright embarrassing. As Matthew E White so beautifully puts it, “Fuck them all, love is home...”