#tory britain

[bottlesandbarricades]

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

[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]

[love-hank-wandle]

With Local Elections coming up

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

[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]

[strangelandofbritain]

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

[bottlesandbarricades]

NHS: *buckling and crumbling before our eyes due to underfunding, neglect and privatisation*

Rishi Sunak: I love maths. maths is great. I think you should all be forced to do maths till you’re 18

[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!

[cipher-of-the-round-table]

Touch grass

What happens between me, and my ideal future of owning the collectors library edition, illustrated edition, Dunmanifestin edition and graphic novel of Terry Pratchett’s Guards! Guards! is between me and my bad decision making when it comes to financial purchases.

Also the fact that this petty infighting over ownership of FICTION is a distraction from the real issues like with (Brit here, I’ll apologise in advance due to my country) Scotland being blocked from pro-trans legislation due to Westminster being a bunch of Thatcher-worshiping TERFS.

what’s your opinion on those people who buy/collect multiple editions of the same book just bc they “love” it? personally i think its kind of weird and annoying to be that obsessed with one book, and also kind of classist to show off that you can afford wasting money like that. but idk, what’s your stance?

go outside

[notallfay]

I can 1000% understand why Scotland wants independence. Especially I understand all to well that the further up North you go the more the government screw you over. I fully understand why Scotland should not have it's laws steam rolled over by Westminster.

But can we agree that Scotland is Manchester, upwards? Manchester is nice and socialist, please do not leave us with the Tories. Without your seats, we're f**ked.

Take us with you!!! Please?????

[kropotkindersurprise]

May 16, 2024 - Another example of pro-Palestinian student protesters practicing great media discipline, as Cambridge students give fascist MP Suella Braverman the silent treatment when she tries to fish for soundbites for the far-right GBNews. [link]