#tory britain

[bottlesandbarricades]

Ngl I did not have pigfucker comeback 2023 on my bingo card

[generalelectionmusings]

[lochness-tess]

Hating Tories isn’t just an ideological disagreement when you have skin in the game. I spent my teens and became an adult during the 2010s and was a young carer. Tory slashes to NHS funding meant no one bothered when my mum’s agoraphobia prevented her from attending the local mental health hospital for treatment. She really was left at home to rot. I have many friends and family whose circumstances weren’t their fault and Tory austerity made their lives demonstrably worse. So yeah, fuck Tories. It’s personal.

[feckcops]

UK food banks bring in counsellors and private GPs to help exhausted workers

“Britain’s food bank charities are buying in counselling, GP and mental health support services to help staff and volunteers cope with stress and exhaustion triggered by the explosion in demand for emergency food.

“The wellbeing services are a response to a rise in burnout and stress among frontline food bank workers as they deal with expanding workloads and the emotional burden of supporting increasing numbers of destitute and emotionally traumatised clients ...

“Emma Revie, the chief executive of the Trussell Trust, said the £30,000 investment was a response to the ‘unrelenting’ mental and physical effects on its staff ... ‘Most of our volunteers signed up to give out food parcels and be a friendly face spreading some love,’ said Su Parrish, operations director at the Easter Team food bank in Crawley. ‘They didn’t anticipate the level of stress that our clients now exhibit because of the situations they find themselves in.’”

“A voluntary movement that started in earnest in the UK just over a decade ago, and which is still relies predominantly community groups and churches, is having to adjust to an increasingly central and semiformalised social emergency role as austerity cuts to welfare benefits and public services push the human consequences of poverty straight to their door.”

[notallfay]

To all my UK friends, I'd really appreciate if you could take a couple of minutes to do this. The site frames the letter for you, and sends it to your MP. You can add to it if you want, but you do not have to you mainly just add your name to it.

It's about free school meals for all primary school children, which is really important with the cost of living crisis being what it is.

Honestly this site makes it very easy to do. Spread this around too, the more pressure we can put on the better.

[love-hank-wandle]

With Local Elections coming up

Might be worth having a reminder of what the conservatives have done for the UK

[crabscrabscrabs]

I feel quite lucky in this crazy AF world.

I was on the Metro today and a kid with his mates carrying on was agressively vaping in front of me and aside from the disgusing sweet smell, the smoke wasn't helping my breathing, unlike me I came so close to asking nicely if he could stop, but he was a proper dodge pot and he worried me. I am so glad I didn't because him and his mates (who kept hitting each other and kicking the train door) as they were getting off, the one vaping pulled out a knife to jokingly threaten his friend. Like wtf man, it's the NE of england and kids are walking around tooled up.

[eaglesnick]

101 Things You Should Know About the UK Tory Government

Thing 63

“One in 100 children are homeless and living in temporary accommodation where many share beds with family members, a charity has said.” (YahooNews: 21/12/22)

The Christmas and New Year reality of Rishi Sinak’s Tory Britain.

[pluralzalpha]

[bottlesandbarricades]

Happy Maggie Thatcher dead day to all who celebrate. Stay losing and stay dead, you miserable old bat

[lochness-tess]

Who else thinks zero hours contracts f*cking suck ⁉️ Bit of a long one, but this is just my thoughts and personal experience with this hellish aspect of working life in the UK. I think we deserve better!

[thelandofbritain]

Putting the basic necessity of life - WATER - in the hands of profiteering private investors was a disastrous Tory Party act...

and now we have polluted rivers, lakes and beaches on a massive scale.

Capitalism and greed will kill us all very soon.

Ok

[notallfay]