#it was fucking galling enough to see this shit from the Tories

[curiouslyodd]

And fucking both fucking parties know that the reason the rate of people on sickness benefits is skyrocketing is because of the ONGOING Covid pandemic. The pandemic that they decided to tell everyone was over because businesses wanted them to. Covid, which has a high chance of causing serious damage to any of the body's systems. That of course they have said is no worse than a bad cold.

Not to mention the deleterious effects of stress and the health impacts of poverty worsened by a cost-of-living crisis driven by rampant profiteering.

These fuckers -know- what the problems are, know that they are to blame, and know that the poor and the disabled are easy scapegoats to point to as to why things have been so fucking horrendous lately.

And then they turn around and condemn those who have been striking for a ceasefire in Gaza for 'inciting hatred'.

There are many many words I could use to describe the depths of my loathing for these people, but they would likely earn me a record somewhere. So instead I will simply say that I want all of them to leave politics and go and live on their own rainy, perpetually overcast little island somewhere where they can only make each other miserable instead of the people of this country.

Troubling language from Keir Starmer to turn the public against disabled people.

“Choking off growth.”

But hey, at least they’re not the Tories…who are saying the same thing…

[sortyourlifeoutmate]

The Tory National Service plan is such batshit bollocks.

For one, it isn't going to happen because they're going to lose, making the whole thing a pointless gesture. But in politics there are rarely pointless gestures, just pathetic ones - so what is the point?

Well, it's plainly a desperate attempt to sway a handful of voters (like ninety-nine percent of everything the Tories have done for the last, ooh, two years?) and more specifically, I think, sway voters who might have been drifting towards Reform.

But I can't imagine that handful of voters (fucking cracked as they are) will, uh, give a shit? About this plan? I'm sure maybe one or two people will think it's a great idea but just about everyone else the length and breadth of the country either hates your guts already, thinks the idea is buttfuck crazy, or both.

Leaving aside that the plan is, you know, just unworkable and dumb to start with. Not enough spots? What if you're a teenager who works on the weekends? Why are we paying for this?

I find the thing galling on principle. For one, the idea of the government flexing to this degree and saying "No, that's not your time anymore, you're doing something for us now" is unpleasant, and for another that they're framing the whole thing as some attempt to instill a sense of national pride is frankly disgusting.

You don't make people proud by forcing them to do something. You particularly don't make people proud by forcing them to do stuff after you've broken the fucking country. Half the valuable shit you say will stem from this plan - useful experience, getting to do things you might not otherwise, community, keeping out of trouble, blah blah fucking blah - is shit that could be done in other ways but YOU TOOK ALL THE FUCKING MONEY AWAY AND BROKE THE FUCKING COUNTRY.

Personally, anytime anyone in politics starts talking about 'pride' or 'unity' or anything that suggests everyone should be happily marching in lockstep I start to see red. No! Fuck you! The reason people are unhappy IS BECAUSE OF YOU, CUNTS! NOT BECAUSE WE'RE 'DIVIDED' AND PURPOSELESS!

YOU TOOK AWAY ANY CHANCE AT HAVING MEANINGFUL PURPOSE! YOU TOOK AWAY PEOPLE'S CHANCE AT CARVING OUT SOMETHING FOR THEMSELVES! FUCK YOU!

Ahem.

Anyway, we are united. We're united in wanting you fucking gone so the slightly-less-worse guys can come in and basically do the same thing for a bit.