We are wasting millions of pounds each year on unnecessary irrelevances such as the notorious Millennium Dome, which having failed to live up to expectations is now costing us a quarter of a million a month to keep the useless "spectacle" empty. .
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The greatest of all the gifts we have is Freedom. The saying "you make life what it is," is more or less an accurate definition of the freedom we are unquestionably granted. With our freedom righteously at our sides, we can make a great contribution to defining our own destinies. However, this notion of freedom is not internationally shared. For some, freedom is only achievable in their minds. Poverty is the main cause of this. .
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It's hard to imagine poverty when we live in such a sheltered world. Try to imagine living without electricity. That means no TV, HI-FI, computer, kitchen appliances, phone, washing machines, light and motorised transport, all these and more help to make living a whole lot easier and hugely enhance the quality of our lives. Should this misfortune ever stumble upon our island, God help us; life as we know it would be radically altered and very few would cope. Those who live in poverty have none of these materialistic enhancers, they are forced to do their daily routines with their naked hands or if they"re lucky they may have a small collection of tools. Their houses, if indeed they have one, are usually very small; the very fortunate people have houses built out of brick, but brick is far too expensive, so most families have to make do living in a home built out of scrap metal or wood, which are ridiculously insufficient for fighting weather conditions and their durability is very short-lived. Their houses normally consist of one room, no bigger perhaps than the size of our bedrooms. The bathroom is non-existent, they have to dig a hole in the ground; the effluent has nowhere to go, so germs and disease are very easily spread.
