On the cuts, I have only this to say...
... because if I let myself say any more, I'd never stop screaming.
This my country, you bastard. These people are my friends, my countrymen, humans. How fucking dare you do this, you ignorant and unpleasant little man. Get out. Get out and take your Tory mates with you. Don't come back. This is not your land. This is ours.
This is not some sort of declaration of rebellion, and I am not attempting to claim some sort of lefty dominance of the country. But this country belongs to the people who live here, real people who live and breathe and work and love and die here, and that's all of us. Even the poor, or the disabled, or the children, or the unemployed, or the single parents, or the asylum seekers, or any other minority that's currently getting shafted. Every time the government hurts a group that can't fight back effectively, they hurt all of us.
I have a job, a steady income in a place that appears to quite genuinely have forgotten how to function without me. I have no disabilities, no ongoing health issues, no dependents, no plans for any kids. I'm not one of the people likely to be directly affected except maybe when transport costs and VAT rise. But that doesn't matter, because this isn't about me and what's good for me- this is about everyone and anyone, and I'd be a pretty shitty person if all I cared about was whether I came through okay.
(you do have to laugh at some cuts, though- keep the aircraft carriers, but no aircraft? That seems, if you'll forgive the crude analogy, more than a bit like a nutsack with no balls in it.)
This my country, you bastard. These people are my friends, my countrymen, humans. How fucking dare you do this, you ignorant and unpleasant little man. Get out. Get out and take your Tory mates with you. Don't come back. This is not your land. This is ours.
This is not some sort of declaration of rebellion, and I am not attempting to claim some sort of lefty dominance of the country. But this country belongs to the people who live here, real people who live and breathe and work and love and die here, and that's all of us. Even the poor, or the disabled, or the children, or the unemployed, or the single parents, or the asylum seekers, or any other minority that's currently getting shafted. Every time the government hurts a group that can't fight back effectively, they hurt all of us.
I have a job, a steady income in a place that appears to quite genuinely have forgotten how to function without me. I have no disabilities, no ongoing health issues, no dependents, no plans for any kids. I'm not one of the people likely to be directly affected except maybe when transport costs and VAT rise. But that doesn't matter, because this isn't about me and what's good for me- this is about everyone and anyone, and I'd be a pretty shitty person if all I cared about was whether I came through okay.
(you do have to laugh at some cuts, though- keep the aircraft carriers, but no aircraft? That seems, if you'll forgive the crude analogy, more than a bit like a nutsack with no balls in it.)