Changes to our way of life are for the worse

11:29am Tuesday 26th August 2008

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MONEY’S important. We all like to have it. We work hard to get it and often we work just as hard keeping it.

None of these things are easy but then life’s not easy – and who said it would be fair?

If it was fair all the good and pious would be rich which, as we all know, is not the case.

Funnily enough, in spite of what some people seem to think, money has not been my main motivation.

But I have always wanted to be good at what I do.

Don’t get me wrong. Money’s important but its main value is that it gives you freedom, the ability to choose – where you live, how you live.

I could be somewhere exotic lying on a beach but that would bore me to death.

I like Blackburn. It’s not everyone’s idea of heaven but it’s mine.

We’re so lucky, within only five miles there’s fabulous countryside, the people are warm and friendly and the climate is everything you could wish for (OK, that’s pushing it, but I don’t like hot weather).

I can’t help being rather narked about the changes, the diminution and impact on our way of life that the various insidous and infiltrating acts and laws have had on every aspect of our way of living.

The extension of the drinking laws which has not only divided the generations but also the sexes as youngsters now go out in gender packs.

Closing post offices has endangered small villages and suburban shopping parades, robbing our older citizens of the facility of a one-stop shop.

The smoking ban has resulted in outside drinking and smoking, destroying the companionship, chat and crack which was the charm of the British pub.

Health and safety rules make a long list – so no more three-legged races and conker competitions.

The triviality of many of these so-called ‘safety’ rules makes me want to spit.

Ambition and enterprise are being stifled by all this bureacracy and red tape which is strange as we Brits are known for our “derring do” and if we are not careful, the powers that be will have turned our “get up and go” into “get up and went”!