Small Mercies

There is so much to be thankful for. As human beings we moan and we groan about often trivial things. When you consider what is happening with the migrant crisis it is easy to dismiss it as something ' out there' which doesn’t affect your day to day life and threatens to cost you money as a taxpayer.  
This is my rather pessimistic view of the world. Human rights have taken a backward step. We care more about money than about fairness and justice.  We belong to a world where our values have been denigrated by our quest for our own comfort over the rights of the struggling masses.
So to the current laws the new rules aimed at landlords come to effect in February 2016 for new tenants. Thereafter landlords are drawn in to become policemen for the government. The net result of this will without any doubt be that anyone looking foreign will be turned away. We will be back to the days when blacks were turned away because of the colour of their skin. The worse part of this is that the law allows it. It is all very well for the government to say they have introduced regulations which ban discrimination. The point is that landlords want the least restrictive approach. And this is what will take precedence.
We are at a shocking state of affairs. Rights of independent appeals removed and powers given to the decision makers who are unlikely to change their own decision. This smacks of an Orwellian world which smacks of smoke and mirrors.
The Asian community, in a desperate attempt to be accepted, buy into a false dream that they will be accepted if they accept the changes.  Today it is them tomorrow it may be you.