Red Tape and Politicians for Hire

Red Tape and Politicians for Hire

Less than two weeks ago I was sat with a pot of tea and some scones discussing politics. It was just before the election. I said that one of my main problems was that  politicians and government officials from the Local Authorities to councils often based their actions not for the good of the people they were serving but for themselves, either directly or indirectly.
This clear nepotism and conflict of interest was irksome to me because it effectively removed the will of the people from the equation.
I cited our own councils past and present who use companies that are related to them to do work and seem to waste millions of pounds that is never found. They build buildings they don't need, and then can't use, and strangely it is never reported. They reclaim hundreds of vintage and expensive housing parts (from boilers, slate roofs and copper piping) replacing them with cheap and shoddy new models and get paid by the council for it.
The Local Authority used to be run by one man who had his wife acting as headteacher for 3 separate schools at the same time. No-one seemed to do anything about though they all knew it was a big problem.
We know that healthy care insurance companies lobby and pay money to Conservative companies that push and pull policy and rip off and sell our NHS. We know that Tory MP's voted to remove the rights and safe guards for residents with an overwhelming majority of them being landlords themselves.
"Red Tape" has been painted as boring, mindless, pointless bureaucracy but in reality it was hard won and woven from the innocent dead as a means to curtail the power of the rich to treat people with utter disregard. By demonising "red tape" and "health and safety" and ridiculous and pointless and making it seem as though they were "helping" they robbed people of health, safety and even their lives. By marketing it at "machismo" and those whom defend it as "whiners and whimps" at great many people believed this rhetoric; especially amongst those whom probably weren't allow scissors at school.
From removing guards on trains (their whole job is train safety officer was created to make sure something weighing about 180 tons going any where from 65 mph to 120 mph and full of people with hundreds of moving parts and so on was safe) to over crowding our juvenile detention centres; it all comes back to the utter disregard for basic human welfare. The right to life and health is not something given, so it is not one that can be taken away. It is inherent, innate, and important.
Red tape is the legal binding of those without care for human or animal well being.
One of the reasons I was so concerned about Brexit was because many of our laws do not have enough red tape. From food safety to enforcing our human rights, the EU laws were our safeguarding.
We need to bring back the joy of red tape. The glee of the poor man binding the rich. Let the rich admit our worth, be it financially or otherwise. Let them be forced to admit our humanity while tied  and gagged with shiny red tape.