The Common Good January 2014 | Page 7

The priest is the self-insulated middle-class pre-occupied with self-preservation and its own advancement. The Levite is the self-annihilating Labour party too terrified to speak against injustice lest is be perceived to be remotely left-wing. The real question is this: will someone else step up and be the Good (and Political) Samaritan?? Will anyone cross the road? Perhaps you heard about Michael Gove’s comments earlier this week, saying the poor and vulnerable who relied on foodbanks had no-one to blame but themselves? Even today, it’s finally confirmed off Royal Mail to private interrich to get richer on the backs pensions; redundancies, recreased insecurity for the name of free-market that the Government plans to sell ests. Another chance for the of low wages and pitiful duced services and inemployees. And all in so-called efficiencies. Who will really pay the The workers; the escalating delivery price of postage ceive reduced erly who deemail for conPerhaps you know the young, the vulneragovernment; told they regardless of there being a regardless of spiraling housing price of privatisation? small businesses facing costs; you and me as the increases; all of us a we reservice – for example, the