The Great Escape

We must have all seen the Steve McQueen film, The Great Esape at least once. An epic tale of captured soldiers escape from a German prisoner of war camp, during the second world war. Of course the same war was also marred by another sort of camp, which was at the practical end of Hitlers great plan, the concentration camp. But Hitler cannot claim the camp as his own, oh no the English have that honor, as they were the first to coin the phrase during the Boer War in South Africa. Where they set up camps and bought the women and the children left behind on farms when their husbands and fathers left to fight the British. They bought them from the surrounding areas and concentrated them in one camp.

But that was all a long, long time ago, however I can report that there is in fact a concentration camp still in full operation and its on the south coast of England, its called Bexhill. Okay its not got any barbed wire or as far as I could tell lookout towers, but its obviously where everyone in the south of England have bought their old folks and dumped them. Concentrating them in one small area where they live, not in tents or wooden dormatories, but nice little council houses and specialist lodgings. Its also possibly the greenest place in Britain as everyone either walks with the aid of a zimmer frame or has a fancy electric wheelchair.

There are also no big dogs in Bexhill just packs of tiny, yappy things and the reason is big dogs would pull the good people of Bexhill all over the place. There are no fish and chip shops as you cannot carry hot fish and chips and handle a zimmer frame and as for drive through fast food outlets forget it. Local businesses are truely providing vital services for the community. The government should use these local business initiatives as example to other towns around Britain. Never have so many charity shops such as Help The Aged, various Hospices, Heart Foundations and Dementure Support Groups had such a strong link to the community they are in.

So you see Bexhill doesn't need barbed wire to contain its occupants, an electric wheelchair only has a maximum travel distance of 1.5 miles on one charge, where are they going to go?