June Slater sums it up

Redoubtable Manc social media warrior June Slater (@juneslaer17) posted this wistful memoir of better times, and it is a tour de force.

We all have our reasons for our anger and distrust. Here's mine.

Below is what was our second home in The Austrian Alps. A quiet well kept village, ten minutes from skiing, and a 500 metre cycle ride to a warm still lake that you could safely swim in during the warm summers, Southern Austria, Carinthia, has a great climate .
David played golf there. 

I walked my dogs and in summer went to the lake, with a picnic on my bicycle, to sit on the grass and swim with my neighbours and friends. 

Austria is not afraid to want Austrian values first. No robberies in our village ever, no graffiti and no litter. Free parking in the centre at selected times. 

The winters were fresh with blue skies and crispy white snow, everyone had candle lanterns on their doorsteps and always a gluewein to give to the neighbours.

It was great, for a lass from a mill town like me, I'd look down through the mist as the final ski of the day, and think, wow, I'm going home to my cosy mountain house to my three lovely doggies, have a walk in the fading sun with them, their paws crunching the snow and feel thankful, that this life I'd created was mine.

We did it without a directive from a government, no flamboyant start up money from them either, just the usual bank borrowings with your home securing the loan, until you could pay them back, which we did. I didn't need the government to tell me how to treat my staff, they stayed with us for years. Not one salesman was on a target, we worked as a team.. I made brews and cleaned the loos, I helped in the warehouse at busy times. Worked a 6 day week plus half of Sunday in winter. The reward was being able to make choices, a lass like me would never normally see.

I was never a career girl, my goal was to do as much as I could, including multiple jobs before I had a business, so I could pack in working and have rescue dogs.

I did it . I got there..

There are many who think like me, who want that chance. The self employed don't have sick days, maternity leave, personal days. They just get on with it.
Workers rights couldn't even cover the sacrifices I made, but it was worth it.
I didn't follow my dreams, or queue for the X Factor. I got on with a real life in a world full of opportunities for those that want to grab them.

It saddens me to say, the future these political lunatics have mapped out doesn't offer these opportunities anymore. You'll either work for a big corporation, big government and big tech, limited travel, property ownership made near impossible and education is teaching them just enough to think they've had an education, but not enough to question what they're being taught.

Effort and skill are not necessarily assets anymore, accidents of birth like skin colour or sexual orientation steal the opportunities of the keen enthusiastic players like me. A burning desire to succeed without a limp wristed degree in some pointless subject just won't cut it anymore.

How much talent have we lost with this new dumbing down system.
There's still time to stop it. To challenge it . 98% of Britain's manufacturing is small and medium sized business. We are 61% of the total employment, we're bigger than the big guys, remember that.

So we need to fight to continue capitalism, because it works. People are happier in a capitalist society. Corporate socialism has failed everywhere it's been forced, and it's s always forced!