Phil884
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I think it was the Tory conference that was tipping point and so a long, tedious rant has arrived. Disclaimer – the following gibberish probably contains gross generalisations and no doubt I oversimplify but I’m too depressed at the current state of the country to care about anything other than a cathartic vent...
It's ridiculous. We have no industry other than the service sector, which requires us to buy crap we don’t need. Coalition policies pull ever more money out of circulation by terrifying people from spending or by preventing them from so doing. As such, the flawed ill-conceived system collapses further. The faintest glimmer of hope that we may have emerged from double-dip recession is seized upon as evidence they are steering us towards recovery notwithstanding the fact that although it was Labour’s failure to regulate and overspending that fucked us in 2008, it was the coalition who flipped us over and did us in the ass too by way of their dreadful recovery plan.
But, they preach, help the wealth creating entrepreneurs for they shall heal the economy “further”. Really? Because it doesn’t look like wealth actually trickles down from these bastards as so many of them avoid paying tax or hide their moolah off shore. Despite this, the same baseless crap that tax should be lowered in order to assist these “wealth creators” create more jobs is continually blasted at ears long since rendered deaf to singularly anything that might really matter due to years of X-Factor dross and other tripe of the lowest common denominator.
Fringe groups at Tory conference go further and complain that they do not see what the problem is with tax avoidance in the first place. Meanwhile the middle class lag as a result of cuts, which are allegedly required because overpaid gamblers (or investment bankers) were overindulged in the sweet shop, yet are required to do nothing to compensate.
Further, due to those cuts and a drive to smear the public sector as needless bloated leeches so the state can be rolled back, those persons with genuine disabilities, illness and needs are left to rot as the government tars them all with the same brush: that they are lazy chavs content to mooch of you and me rather than work. Course they are! Every single last one of them! All of them are lying about their condition! No, they all want to subsist beneath the poverty line on benefits, which a lot do. Except the Daily Mail says that none of them are poor; they are all on £60K a year and everyone nods along and dismisses the facts that, sure, some people abuse the system and some cutbacks maybe required but, hey, do we really want to be a country that casts those to the gutter who are genuinely in need of our help by going so dramatically overboard? Is there not a better way than smearing people all as dregs and then kicking them when they are down? Really not if we didn't pander to a simple mentality ?
The liberals do virtually nothing, content to occasionally modify a draft bill in some inconsequential manner before once again retiring to crack one off over the fact they finally have poweerrrrrr! Meanwhile, the disingenuous, hypocritical band of bastards that manage them stand up and fling more simplistic, regressive, populist crap at us, as they seek to strip back employment rights, housing benefit for most, hint at, if not advocate, rolling back abortion, strip further civil liberties from us and lurching violently to the right and setting back the state towards the 19th century.
I would wish for 2015, but Labour were no different when they were in power. Social democracy is seemingly dead here. Leaves you impotent with irritation.
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