A Hand Up Is Not A Handout: The Only Thing That Should Be Rising Is The People
The oblivious political class has a callous indifference to the very real suffering of the people - our people - during the biggest squeeze in living standards for a generation.
The government of the day cannot act quickly enough to hand over your money to ensure major shareholders of huge corporations - like the energy fatcats, or banks and other financial institutions - aren’t in the depressing position of having to lay-off one of their au pairs.
So why doesn’t this bailout bonanza apply to the poor and working classes? And why are so many of us willing to live under the thumb of the British elite while the country is crumbling and burning to the ground?
As you know, I can go on for hours on end offering my opinion as to how we ended up in such a perilous position in the first place, and there’s every chance your opinion may well be very different to mine.
So I’m not going to go over that today, because I’m genuinely concerned for where we find ourselves here and now, and with neither political party offering any crumbs from the table, my concern extends well into the future.
Bringing a government down always sounds enticing, I mean, a vast majority of the country want to see an end of Tory rule, me included, but how will it ever happen?
And like many of you are wondering, what are the key differences between the red Tories and the blue Tories that would mean some sort of meaningful change for you, your family and your friends? They’re hardly jumping out at me.
But again, let's process the humanitarian catastrophe that is unfolding here, right now, having a devastating impact on our communities, with no sight of hope or help on the horizon.
Of all of the people suffering that I know of, none are seeking a “handout”, they are needing a hand up. Comprende, Liz Truss?
I’ll tell you a few of the things that are bothering me. It’s more than that really, because I hate injustice, inequality and inequity with every fibre of my being,
I read today about tiny children being told to wear extra layers of warm clothing because the nursery they attend is unable to afford the soaring cost of energy - and it’s only going to get worse in the near future.
At the same time, let me tell you about Conservative MP, ‘Sir’ Edward Leigh - who is personally worth around £5.9 million and earns another £74,000 a year as a non-executive director of Europe Arab Bank - on top of his MPs salary.
His father, Sir Neville Leigh, hailed from the Cheshire family of West Hall, High Legh, a descendant of the Egertons, earls of Bridgewater. His maternal grandfather was Colonel Cyril Denzil Branch, a French citizen, and he is a nephew of Prince Nikolai Golitsyn.
Over the past 2 years Mr Leigh has raided the public purse for a tidy £4,800 - to pay his utility bills.
So that’s Tory millionaires freeloading their way through life at your expense while kids in nurseries have to wrap up because they cannot afford to put the heating on.
Surely I am not alone in finding this morally repugnant? Surely I’m not the only one thinking it’s not just the government that needs bringing down but the entire political system that allows elitist bastards such as Leigh to get away with this pisstake, this absolutely disgraceful mockery of the people in the first place?
How about the school children that are sacrificing their own proper meals to buy junk food to share with other school children that literally haven’t got anything to eat?
Read that again. School children that haven’t got anything to eat.
Of course, Mr Angry Tory will now jump up and down saying his taxes fund free school meals already, but I’m afraid to say that this is what is technically known as “fucking bollocks”.
Back In May, the Child Poverty Action Group revealed that 800,000 children in England who live in poverty *do not qualify* for income-related free school meals.
Do you think that number will go up or down over the coming months? The threshold to qualify for free school meals has not kept pace with inflation, and Citi Group are predicting that will rise above 18% CPI in 2023.
At the same time, we have just discovered that some 2.6 million SUBSIDISED meals have been thrown away by the Houses of Parliament over the past 6 years, when the cost of living crisis first reared it’s ugly corporate head.
Believe it or not, that’s more than 1,200 tonnes of food that subsidised by you and thrown away by them, without a care in the world, because their salary, funded by you, has increased by 11% in that time, and they haven’t had to worry about the utility bills in their second homes, because you pay for that too.
In short, children are skipping decent meals to help feed their hungry child friends while the elitist parasites are binning millions of pounds worth of food with not one single fuck given.
The party that you elect at the next general election isn’t going to change this utterly despicable dystopian nightmare because they stand by the same ideology. The rosette colour is simply a distraction from reality.
Yes, there will be some fluff to keep the liberals smug, but meaningful change, which involves breaking the system apart and rebuilding it into one that serves every single member of society, isn’t arriving in the shape of a knight of the realm.
The next Prime Minister must have a realistic plan that *absolutely guarantees* and enshrines in law that not one person, will go without food, shelter, energy and water, and if they are unable to meticulously spell out how they will stand by the poor, disabled people, and the working classes the country needs bringing to a standstill.
Of course, I’m just Rachael from Swindon, and I have no power and no influence, but when there’s a million of us singing from the same hymn sheet we have the power of unity and the ability to influence people who are sick of having to choose between heating and eating, people who have had it up to their eyeballs with being told by those in power to buy budget brands and put on another jumper.
So who do we begin to look to in our quest for meaningful change? The TUC? Mick Lynch? Jeremy Corbyn? Enough is Enough? The People’s Assembly? The person that runs the brilliant RMT Twitter account?
Nope.
We begin with ourselves. Of course, these organisations and people will do their thing with our support, where it is warranted, because we are on the same side.
But we as individuals have to demonstrate that we have an unshakable faith in our principles, because they are truly going to be tested in the coming months.
The question that is no longer being said in quiet can be said here too: just how long will it be before something snaps, and civil disobedience becomes a reality?
I think it was the ancient Gandhi dude that said “civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt”?
“Lawless and corrupt” you say? Christ mate, Number 10 Downing Street is the most fined postcode in Britain, the outgoing Prime Minister is a philandering criminal thug - the first in our history to be fined whilst holding the office of Prime Minister - London is the global capital of money laundering, and lets not even get started on the outside earnings, the blatantly corrupt Covid contracts, and that Gollum-like poison Cummings driving around the country to test his fucking eyesight.
The Tories, said to be the proud holders of the title, “the party of law and order”, have descended into the party of lawlessness and disorder, from the top downwards.
But this lawlessness in government will spread to the people, because desperate times inevitably call for desperate measures. The elite know this, perhaps this is what they want?
Millions and millions of us are trying to survive from one payday to the next, robbing Peter to pay Paul, and trying to do as much as we can to help other people who are struggling to get by.
But this simply cannot go on.
What kind of society doesn’t question sending billions of Pounds worth of military hardware out to Ukraine to fight a proxy-war with Russia when we are demonstrably incapable of feeding ‘our own’?
The same kind of society that sits on its hands while the world is burning around them.
I remember saying 5 months ago how the war in Ukraine would be used as the reason for the cost of greed crisis, and of course, refugees in rubber boats, and that has turned out to be the case.
And I predict a £3,500 energy price cap, an ever-worsening humanitarian disaster unfolding before our eyes, and a hard-right Conservative government that has never been so far detached from reality as the triggers for potential civil disobedience.
Or in the words of the Kaiser Chiefs, “I predict a riot”. The only thing that should be rising is the people.
Out of the fires of desperation burn hope and solidarity.
Until next time…
Rachael
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