I love seeing my family struggle to make ends meet.
I wish I could go to California and forget how a contactless card functions.
Time to put more clothes on and turn off all your electronics. Time to go play outside.
It’s a recession, and once again, we (the non-rich) will be the ones who must absorb the cost of it.
The solution to a recession is tax cuts and government investment, but this government don’t seem likely to do either, so strap in poors, it’s reaming time.
We already know who we are. We would prefer immigrants drown in the channel. We support deportation. We don’t like our taxes going to the disabled and unemployed. We like to feel good about clapping for the NHS, but give the staff dogs abuse. We trample over each other for a packet of toilet rolls. We embody the saying that people who claim they are just being brutally honest are more interested in brutality than honesty. We vote for three word phrases over understanding complex issues. We prefer lies to the truth as long as it stimulates the hate button. We base our entire world view not on direct experience but right wing propaganda.
At least some of us do. And unfortunately enough to degrade the country for greedy, selfish, spiteful ends.
We’re all fucking angry about it, but we do nothing to remedy the situation. We blindly elect people who are more concerned about lining their own pockets, doing what they want and trying to secure another election. We’re constantly fed a web of lies and deceit yet we’ll all march into the polling booths and stick our mark in the box reserved for lying cheating Tories.
We are to blame for being shafted all the time, if we realised that Tory rule means misery for the public then maybe they wouldn’t be reelected. The thing is we don’t and then moan and groan until the next election when we inevitably do it all again.
Disclaimer – when I say we I mean us as a country. I never have and never will vote Tory. I have too much respect for myself, my family and my fellow workers.
How do you vote out the custodians of this state when they are overwhelmingly supported at the ballot box by Boomers living out their *“we had it tough during the War so everyone else can have it tough too”* fantasies?
(despite them not actually living during the War)
We need to shift the Victorian attitude towards poverty and this might be the wake up call some people need to realise that poverty is a fault of the system, not the person. Until we achieve that, we will learn nothing.
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I love being cold.
I love seeing my family struggle to make ends meet.
I wish I could go to California and forget how a contactless card functions.
Time to put more clothes on and turn off all your electronics. Time to go play outside.
It’s a recession, and once again, we (the non-rich) will be the ones who must absorb the cost of it.
The solution to a recession is tax cuts and government investment, but this government don’t seem likely to do either, so strap in poors, it’s reaming time.
We already know who we are. We would prefer immigrants drown in the channel. We support deportation. We don’t like our taxes going to the disabled and unemployed. We like to feel good about clapping for the NHS, but give the staff dogs abuse. We trample over each other for a packet of toilet rolls. We embody the saying that people who claim they are just being brutally honest are more interested in brutality than honesty. We vote for three word phrases over understanding complex issues. We prefer lies to the truth as long as it stimulates the hate button. We base our entire world view not on direct experience but right wing propaganda.
At least some of us do. And unfortunately enough to degrade the country for greedy, selfish, spiteful ends.
We’re all fucking angry about it, but we do nothing to remedy the situation. We blindly elect people who are more concerned about lining their own pockets, doing what they want and trying to secure another election. We’re constantly fed a web of lies and deceit yet we’ll all march into the polling booths and stick our mark in the box reserved for lying cheating Tories.
We are to blame for being shafted all the time, if we realised that Tory rule means misery for the public then maybe they wouldn’t be reelected. The thing is we don’t and then moan and groan until the next election when we inevitably do it all again.
Disclaimer – when I say we I mean us as a country. I never have and never will vote Tory. I have too much respect for myself, my family and my fellow workers.
How do you vote out the custodians of this state when they are overwhelmingly supported at the ballot box by Boomers living out their *“we had it tough during the War so everyone else can have it tough too”* fantasies?
(despite them not actually living during the War)
We need to shift the Victorian attitude towards poverty and this might be the wake up call some people need to realise that poverty is a fault of the system, not the person. Until we achieve that, we will learn nothing.