Ten years ago DZ put up these two blog posts. (1) (2)
Since then things have not improved. In fact they are far worse. Every school in England now has children attending who are quite literally starving. In one of the richest countries in the world. DZ has always tried to stay clear of politics, but he has to point out that in those ten years we have had only one party in power. A party that has allowed the gap in wealth distribution to increase to breaking point. Giving us a country where so much wealth is now sequestered by the ultra wealthy that the economy can no longer function. And only recently their approach was to offer the wealthy even more tax cuts at the expense of everyone else. We are getting to a "let them eat cake" situation.
Scotland, and soon Wales show that free school meals for all primary school children is not unaffordable, unless you are preoccupied with using vast amounts of taxpayers money to, directly and indirectly, line the pockets of your cronies and financial supporters.
This government's priorities are so far removed from attending to the well being of it's people that you can only conclude that they don't care as long they're OK. Even the last Labour PM of the UK came to power as a down at heel politician, and is now worth £45MILLION!!! What the absolute fuck?!
And they're now bickering about who should be in power, and even talking about bringing back that overprivileged upper class twat Boris. Fuck me!
They are courting disaster. Civil dissatisfaction is coming, inevitably to the boil as everything we had is being taken away. Decent pay, reasonable house prices, free education all the way to university, affordable utilities, and a decent health service. The list goes on & on.
In 1886 the people of France gifted to the USA the Statue of Liberty. Perhaps we should be asking them to gift us something too.
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I read both the posts you referenced and "Arithmetic" reminded me of something, and then I remembered.
ReplyDeleteThe figure of 352 million pounds a year reminded me of something on the big red Brexit Bus. Something about £350 Million A WEEK.
Nicola Sturgeon (despite wht else people think of her) captured the mood when she stated she detested the tories.