The UK cannot endure another five years of Tories – A Letter A Day to Number 10
Here’s the latest from Keith Lindsay-Cameron to our comedy prime minister: You blame the ageing population for the crisis in the NHS and for the pressure on A&E departments.
I wrote recently that blaming the aged (were it true) would, in reality, be down to a monstrous 70 year failing in planning for a post war baby boom generation on a one way ageing trip through life. Governments have had more time to prepare than the NHS has existed for. It would be laughable if it wasn’t so deceitful.
You discard youth for not paying into the system, cutting benefits and support for the young in an outrageous attack on kids just stumbling into the adult world of work caring nothing for their hopes, dreams or aspirations.
You blame the ailing NHS on those who have worked all their lives, literally the people who have contributed taxes the longest in the population and you punish youth who have had no chance to get going or even decide what they really want to do. Our aged are those who best remember the aftermath of war and what it was about and those still alive who served and lost close comrades so that you could be born in a country free from the jack boots of fascism. The irony of that may be wasted on you but it will not be lost on my very dear readers many of them suffering under the atrocities being meted out by you and your government.
It is staggering that Iain Duncan Smith can have visited Auschwitz and written about his experience, describing the camp as a “cold bureaucratic place of death” and yet be responsible for the most punitive welfare reforms ever seen in this country and even refuse to update the figures for benefits related deaths. MP Debbie Abrahams confronted him the House of Commons after he stated, “I actually believe the sanctions regime as applied is fair, we always get the odd case of…”, at which Abrahams cried out “People are dying because of these sanctions”. Smith, along with David Freud and Esther McVey, has demonstrated a cold bureaucratic heartlessness throughout the implementation of his brutal regime, stripping people of even the barest means of survival.
During the Commons debate on food banks Fiona MacTaggart described how people battled over ‘end of day’ bargains in her local Tesco, and was almost drowned out by laughter and jeering from the government benches. Writer Jack Monroe reported, “Half empty benches lined with braying, jeering, sneering MPs, shouting down Maria Eagle in her opening speech as she attempted to set the terms of the debate for food bank users, volunteers, and struggling households up and down Britain. The brutality of your government against the people of this country is a war based on a tissue of lies and this country cannot endure another five years of you.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2011/may/16/nhs-funding-crisis-reforms-cameron
http://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2014/jan/10/housing-benefit-under-25-young-people-cuts
http://socialistreview.org.uk/350/work-makes-you-free
http://liberalconspiracy.org/2013/07/11/dwp-quietly-ditches-stats-on-deaths-of-benefits-recipients/
http://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/2535-tory-mps-jeer-at-foodbank-users-as-ids-slinks-off
http://agirlcalledjack.com/2013/12/19/thoughts-on-the-foodbank-debate-from-the-public-gallery/
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Many thanks for sharing this Mike. I meant to include the following on IDS, which still staggers me: It was also IDS who said, post Auschwitz, “Disabled people would be made free by working”.
http://socialistreview.org.uk/350/work-makes-you-free
Yes indeed; that has received a lot of coverage here on Vox Political over the past few days.
tell him to free up my bloody joints then.and i am sure there are hundreds more who are of working age who feel the same. (I am not working age but wish i were in a lot of respects) IDS is not human.
There’s something about that braying laughter (heard over and over again as Osborne, IDS and McVey take turns to send ever more people into penury and desperation) that drives home what cruel people these really are. It’s beyond ‘policy’. It’s a crusade against those least able to defend themselves. They will not rest content until the safety net of the state is withdrawn and is replaced with Victorian charity. How can it be that so many people are still unaware?
They don’t want to know. It’s our responsibility to inform them.