Negativity_is how the Tories are rejuvenating the class system

Raven part finished
A Raven seemed appropriate here.

Negativity is the overall sense I take from this Cameron lead Tory government. A negativity that leaves me feeling that something really serious has to happen in Britain, if the current uncaring political system is to be changed and a sense of justice for all is regained. The Welfare State is being buried by the cruelty of men like Ian Duncan Smith and George Osborne and The N.H.S. is being run down, criticised for its ‘inefficiencies’, then taken apart brick by brick and rebuilt by the private sector, responsible to profit and greed and not to patient’s health.
Hardly a day goes by where a fresh attack isn’t made on welfare claimants or a part of the N.H.S. is sold for private management and thus profit over care. If that isn’t the case then nothing is happening, nothing positive, no building of new infrastructure, no credible job opportunities, no plans to announce initiatives in education and reduce its cost. The country suffers under a halo of negativity, where the privileged and the entitled are running things and the relatively poor workers, the sick, the disabled and the generally disenfranchised struggle to get by.

A situation has arisen where energy bills and rents take up all of an average workers wages, those couples living together who can, have two jobs or more in order to work and pay next months bills. Bills dominate daily life, it used to be worse in the days Harry Leslie Smith writes of in his book ‘Harry’s Last Stand’, there was no hot water for a shower or bath unless you were lucky, heating and lighting were basic and worker’s rights and benefits were in their infancy. A privileged class, then as now ruled and it is this situation that Cameron and the Tories wish to engineer. A return to the class system is upon Britain, the financiers and the political elite of all parties work together to exploit the labour of workers for their benefit, hence their reluctance to pay tax.

Sadly the negativity extends to the opposition, whilst what little there is has a leader with integrity (Corbyn), it lacks a leader with vision, a powerful character, passion, great oration and very useful ability to get things done.

Why are we in a situation where labour had become impotent and the party is full of career politicians? Well quite simply, the voter was duped, massively. Looking for something to take away the shitty blue stink of the Thatcher/Major Tory governments Britain’s voters jumped at the opportunity of ‘New Labour’. Sadly nobody scrutinised them too closely, had they done so, they would have found ‘Tory Lite’, a hardly noticeable shift into the centre of politics, keen to allow the city to exploit anything with a bank balance, keen to embrace ‘big business’ at the expense of services, keen to appear business friendly, keen to throw off its association with Trades Unions, cloth caps, overalls and workers. Happy to let the utilities remain in private hands and on a daily basis act with shocking impunity to criticism and rape Britain’s workers of any spare cash they might have left after a month’s work. in short New Labour were every bit a right wing as the Tories but they were just packaged better. The pennies fell from people eyes as the disaster of the post Iraq War years unfolded and the promise of New Labour became as much of a stink as Thatcher’s legacy.

So for what it is worth, that is where I think Britain is today, struggling under a re-rejuvenated class system with no real opposition in sight. The ideology of ‘austerity’ brings about tremendous negativity, the country stagnates and the Tories get what they want, a Conservative Nirvana with no chance of change or a future based on progressive ideas.

I think the opposition may eventually come via the internet, when enough like minded people come together to organise on line and take back government from the political/financial elite.

It will be different this time though, a bit like the French Revolution with bytes!

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