Britain an Island of What?

Britain once knew where it stood in the world, we have politicians who still think that we are a world power and yet we can't run our own institutions>We have parents who don't send their children to school for whatever reason schools can apply to the courts to have the parents fined£50 if they don't send them this amount can be raised to £100 if they fail to pay within 42 days if they still refuse to pay it can be raised to £2000 and they can be sent to jail These institutions that are already at bursting point. Many parents refuse to pay and the courts are reluctant to send them to jail so they get off scot free. Weak laws carried out by weak government. Now there is talk about stopping their child benefits of £20.30 per week for the first, and £13.40 for the other children. Again a sop because nothing will come from these proposals. Why because of weak government, that has lost control Now we have talk about removing children from families where the parents are obese and so are their children.These children will be put into care and may never see their real parents again another idiotic proposal from a government that doesn't know how to handle the problem of obesity that is affecting a growing number of the population. Poor diet and junk food is one of the reasons. This may be true in part but who can afford to eat at McDonald's a couple of times a week? And as food prices increase this problem will only get worse.As poorer families suffer. But the biggest insanity of this country must be the report of a Para who lost both his legs and suffered brain damage in a road side bomb attack who was told that his compensation of one million pounds has been capped at just half that amount. Yet an RAF typist who suffered a repetitive strain to her thumb is set to receive £484,000. How these people can come up with an amount of compensation of that magnitude just beggars belief. But sadly this is how this country is now being managed. Is it any wonder that we are becoming the laughing stock of the world. The bigger the law breaker you are, the people who flout the law are not made to pay, but a man who served his country will suffer because of some brain dead bureaucrat who will save a few pounds on cutting his compensation but gives away millions to the scroungers and scum of the country. A country fit for heroes, the name hero should be replaced  with the words dead beat and scum. And that's being polite.The more we read about these atrocities with our monies the people of this country should rise up and tell their members of parliament that enough is enough. But sadly they or most of them have their noses in the trough that also covers their ears making them deaf to the real problems that are affecting the average honest hard working people of this once proud country.