The Western Gate

Toing and Froing, Up 'n' Down in the Earth


What Law Would I change/create ?

Daily writing prompt
If you had the power to change one law, what would it be and why?

I would create the Bill of the People. It would ensure that as a hive mind and ‘nation’ all utility companies would be provided by the state. This isn’t nationalisation, as competitors would still be able to operate but the Water, Electricity, Gas, Telecoms, Banking and Rail networks would all have a company run by the country, providing ‘AT COST’ utility.
The Law would also insist on the right of the people to access to ALL green land, there would be no barriers or fenced off areas with the exception of normal trespass laws, but who needs 3000 acres of land as their border? As an addendum to this part of the law, all wooded areas would be protected and expanded using native trees, fallow fields and greenery would be wild flowered.
It would be forbidden to dump waste into rivers for which the CEO of any company doing so would be personally liable and personally have to pay from his accredited bank account/assets.
The NHS would be ringfenced and protected and any outside company providing extortionate supply to the NHS, i.e. in the form of overpriced drugs or equipment would be excluded from future tenders or approved supply, the NHS would then delineate the copyright on those goods and create them at cost.
The purpose of the whole law would encompass the rights of people to live each without exploitation or sufferance and to provide and protect the environment in which they live.



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The Random musings of a nobody. “Dagenham Dave”, is slang for someone one stop short of Barking (mad), though more contemporarily refers to any wayfaring and carefree person. Dagenham is a town to the eastern side of London (Luds Dominium) that was first recorded in a Barking charter in 666a.d. as the town of Daeccanham. Daecca is an ancient man’s name meaning ‘bright’ or ‘famous’ . Ham is short for Hamlet.
Dave is short for David, Hebrew for ‘Beloved’, My Surname ‘Wenborn’ derives from old English meaning of the Winding Stream.

Contents:-
1/ Book Reviews.

They’re not reviews as such- to recommend or asway, I neither seek to promote nor condemn, more my personal reflections on the books I read. In that respect it’s a subjective thing.
2/ Short Stories and Tales

Short stories borne from imagination, dreams, thoughts and wanderings. Too large to be written in my journal of shadows.
3/ Full Books
Books that were once published elsewhere, I have full copyright on these, and of course given here freely.
4/ Magazines and Articles

Small snippets and articles that may or may not have appeared elsewhere, and information not included in Journal of shadows.
5/ Poetry

A small selection of poetry. Like song, I create as a means to an artistic diary.
6/ WordPress Challenges

Wordpress (where this website is hosted) offer up a daily prompt for people to answer, sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t.



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