Friday 14th November 2014 is Children in Need Day.
We dress up, throw change into a bucket, and we feel good inside for having done some good.
But CiN (pronounced Sin) has been going on for, how long? Well, can you believe it : since 1980!!
Since then CiN claims to have raised over £ 600 million.
But still, here we are again, throwing a tenner into a bucket.
But in the space of just a few years we bailed out the fascist banks with over £ 1 trillion!!
And as a consequence more children are in need due to below-inflation pay rises (if they are lucky to have a job), zero hours contracts, part time employment and unemployment, and social service cuts.
And in addition how much have we spent on wars? On missiles? On bullets? On shells? On transporting those missiles and bullets and shells and the military hardware to fire them overseas? And on the maintenance of that hardware and the bases overseas where they and the military personnel are based?
Since 9/11 we have been involved in wars in Iraq and Libya, and covertly in Syria. These wars are all part of a plan for a series of wars that 9/11 was designed to kick off.
And the war in Afghanistan was about restoring opium harvests, not to hunt down bin Laden.
When will the penny drop?
We have to carry on giving, but how long will it be before we ask: how can we spend trillions on war and bailing out banks but even more children in need have to live on handouts and donations from a bucket?
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