As time goes by it becomes more obvious
how our coalition of millionaires works. At the Libdem's conference
their hapless mealy-mouthed Clegg announced in bold fashion that there
will be no £10 billion in cuts. A week or so on, their partners in
crime the Tories have their conference and their hatchet man,
millionaire Osborne, announces a further £10 billion in cuts to the
welfare system on top of the £18 billion cuts scheduled for the
coming year. That's co-operation Conservative style. While the
Libdems prance around making pleasing sounds, but doing no more than
rubber stamping Tory ideology, we the public get hit with more and
more cuts to all our vital social services. I shudder to think what
will be the harsh reality of £10 billion in cuts to the welfare
system on top of £18 billion. We are already seeing disabled people
thrown off benefit with drastic effects, nurseries, libraries, and
other vital parts of a civilised society being discarded, an
education system in tatters and our National Health Service being
privatised. Of course with these cuts comes more people being paid
off from public sector jobs at an ever increasing rate, adding to
that ever growing army of unemployed. All this comes with the promise
that Britain will have balanced its books in the distant future.
Of
course balanced books doesn't mean that you will get back all those
conditions and benefits that you lost. They will have gone forever,
all those wage cuts and wage freezes will not come hurtling back
because Britain has balanced its books. All those libraries and
nurseries will not suddenly re-appear, the Health Company PLC. will
not suddenly become the NHS. This massive transfer of wealth upwards
is for ever, those who bear the brunt of this “deficit reduction”
by being pushed deeper into poverty will just have to grind their way
through life in the comfort of knowing that Britain has balanced its
books. You will of course, from time to time, be asked to vote for
this decimation of your standard of living, you will be give the
choice of having them administered by your favourite colour of party,
or choose by the most pleasing smile. You could of course, screw the lot of them and don't bother voting, there are other ways of structuring society.
