H Is For Elf & Safety

HEALTH AND SAFETY or ‘elf and safety, is a much used phrase to mean “stopping people having fun“

We can all laugh about this, but it is a sinister lie.

The Health and Safety At Work Act 1974 (sorry if this is boring you) was set up to stop workers from dying or being injured at work.

One of its knock-on effects was to make it harder for business owners to make profits, so the likes of the Mail will conflate it with the Nanny State Spoiling Our Fun.

Less attention to safety at work means maximised profit.

Despite the efforts of the HSE, workplace deaths and injuries still occur.

The graph shows that they have fallen significantly. The peak in 1988 was due to the Piper Alpha explosion, which killed 165 workers.

More recently Sharon Bramhall of Bromborough lost a leg, two workers at a Nottingham pork pie factory had fingers cut off, James Rourke was crushed to death while putting up warning signs on a building site, Michael Jones died in an accident at Bramley Moore Dock and Alan Catterall was killed in an industrial oven.

We live in a society of INDIVIDUALS. Of course we are all individual, we have our own quirks, likes and dislikes. But the idea of individualism is a myth.

No one can act as an individual without a collective to support them. A snowflake is a delicate individual, unique, but easily damaged.

A collective of snowflakes are a snowball, a collective of snowballs are an avalanche.

Jacob Rees-Mogg, Anne Widdecombe, Tim Farron (remember him?) all love JESUS. Jesus was, or at the least the people who wrote about him were, socialist.

Acts 2:44-47 And all those that believed were together, and had all things common; 

and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need

Matthew 6:24 You cannot serve both God and Money.

Matthew 19:24 And again I say to you: It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Read the rest of the New Testament, there’s loads of quotes like this.

This is part 3 of a six part series exploring the use and misuse of language in our country. Come back next week for the letter K.