So This is Great Britain is it?

The previous week saw a great deal happen in this great nation of ours. The main story of the week, was undoubtedly the strike action taken by millions of public sector workers.

Now, lets get one thing totally clear. The workers who went on strike were wholly justified in doing so. This government has ruthlessly attacked the public sector to balance the books after a recession that was caused by wild spending in the private sector. Their decision to stand up for their rights is to be applauded, not condemned.

But condemned it was. Social networking sites were filled with posts by people telling the workers to get back to work and to "stop moaning".

Stop moaning? Having your pension cut is definately something worth moaning about. Especially when you provide vital services to the public and you are being punished for a recession your sector did not cause.

There seems to be a culture of ignorance and apathy in this country at the moment. It seemed as if some of the same people who condemned the government's spending cuts, were now condemning the people who were protesting about it. There is also a culture of wild hysteria.

This wild hysteria manifested itself in Top Gear presenter's Jeremy Clarkson's ill advised comment about how strikers should be shot. The reaction by some people on the left was frankly, sad and pathetic.

As a Labour Party member I was saddened that my leader, Ed Milliband felt that he should join the scores of humourless drones in condemning Mr Clarkson's comments. I'm left wing when it comes to politics but it depresses me how some of my fellow lefties lack a sense of humour.

Putting my common sense hat on, I am able to deduce that Clarkson was joking. I do not for one second believe that he was condoning a widespread murderous rampage/culling against public sector workers. I actually found his comments to be quite satirical.

That didn't stop over 20000 people getting on their high horse and complaining to the BBC. No doubt a lot of them hadn't even seen the original broadcast. Images of the Andrew Sachs fiasco were conjured and the similarities are there. Why people in Britain have started to jump on every bandwagon and join in a culture of blame I will never know.

If this is Great Britain, it needs to change. It's far too petty a place at the moment. It also lacks common sense.