Below is an excerpt from my memoir about me, my dad, my cancer and the COVID times we live in. I wrote much of it during the first two years of lockdown. I It's a good book. I am not sure if it will ever find a publisher. Both- my dad's agents requested a copy of the manuscript but never- bothered to respond after reading it.
Harry had a way with words. No frills, and hit the points he wanted to make, with sometimes heartbreaking honesty. His generation were tough as teak, as were the ones presiding him. Grinding poverty at home, with little help from those in power. The same ones that needed the working class to fight two world wars. Yea, life improved for a few decades after the dust of Berlin had settled.,Then came Thatcher, and her mate Reagan, insisting on letting the markets rule, and deregulation became a reality rather than an aspiration for the nutters at the helm.
They tanked the economic system in 87, and that has been kicked down the road by short term outlook parties on both sides of the Atlantic. We had 08 and the bailouts and the printing of money to plug the holes in a rotten to the core system.
There is now much more derivatives debt floating around than before 08’s fiasco. I don’t have the strength to press the zero button but it’s 4 times bigger than the GDP of every country on the planet combined. Completely unsustainable. And worse, completely ignored. Thanks for sharing. Reading all the work published on this site is a source of comfort and strength to me. My grandparents would have been of a similar age to your Dad. They didn’t talk too much about their childhood living in squalid tenements. But their strength of character was what defined them. The likes of which we will not see again, now they are almost all gone. Thanks again💚💪👏
Harry had a way with words. No frills, and hit the points he wanted to make, with sometimes heartbreaking honesty. His generation were tough as teak, as were the ones presiding him. Grinding poverty at home, with little help from those in power. The same ones that needed the working class to fight two world wars. Yea, life improved for a few decades after the dust of Berlin had settled.,Then came Thatcher, and her mate Reagan, insisting on letting the markets rule, and deregulation became a reality rather than an aspiration for the nutters at the helm.
They tanked the economic system in 87, and that has been kicked down the road by short term outlook parties on both sides of the Atlantic. We had 08 and the bailouts and the printing of money to plug the holes in a rotten to the core system.
There is now much more derivatives debt floating around than before 08’s fiasco. I don’t have the strength to press the zero button but it’s 4 times bigger than the GDP of every country on the planet combined. Completely unsustainable. And worse, completely ignored. Thanks for sharing. Reading all the work published on this site is a source of comfort and strength to me. My grandparents would have been of a similar age to your Dad. They didn’t talk too much about their childhood living in squalid tenements. But their strength of character was what defined them. The likes of which we will not see again, now they are almost all gone. Thanks again💚💪👏
Thank you for reading these posts.
My pleasure always . Stories that need to be passed on, and kept alive as a warning.
Well said and oh so true!
Good luck with your writing! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻