They hang the man and flog the woman Who steals the goose from off the common Yet let the greater villain loose That steals the common from the goose It’s impossible to see ourselves as other people see us. Our lives are unimportant to the Tories and those who have power over us. Why do […]
Month: May 2019
Are they joking? UN poverty expert thought Tory response to his report was a ‘spoof’
Personal comment From Fear and Loathing in Great Britain: ” The lesson to learn from the government response to Philip Alston’s report on extreme poverty in the UK is that the Conservatives are driven by a deadly narcissistic ignorance that puts every one of our lives at risk, the exact same brutal ignorance that gave […]
Dealing with intolerable Tory wickedness
I do not believe that wickedness of the kind that has assaulted Britain over the last 9 years has never happened before, but it’s certainly the most extreme since WWII, although Thatcher was a close 2nd and, perhaps, a harbinger of what was to come nationwide. Thatcher took on the miners and heavy industry but […]
White working class man to Brexit Party/UKIP: “I’m closer to a Polish hotel maid than Nigel Farage”
Originally posted on Pride's Purge:
Posted by Guy Matthews on Facebook: Just been told by a UKIP type that I don’t understand the white working class concerns. I live in a council house in the East Midlands. I’m a Labour member. I’m a union member. I work long hard hours and make sweet fuck…
Theresa May’s Britain: homeless man jailed for “sitting on the ground”
Originally posted on Pride's Purge:
There have been certain milestones on our decade-long descent into government cruelty, austerity madness and widespread intolerance under the Tories (and the Liberal Democrats). Terminal cancer patients being forced to work, sick children starving or disabled people being made destitute or even dying while billionaires get handouts and tax…
Amber Rudd announces max period of government enforced starvation of only 6 months
On the 10th May 2019 Amber Rudd announced to the nation that she was changing the DWP sanctions regime to ensure future sanctions are proportionate. To that end she is abandoning the ‘rarely used’ (she says) 3 year sanction and, in the future, the longest length of a sanction will be 6 months. A sanction […]
Fear and Loathing in Great Britain 