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It's moving towards a kind of Daily Mail fantasy land, in which there are peedos and brown-skinned terrorists everywhere, simultaneously wanting to live their l
by EliRivers 11y ago
It's moving towards a kind of Daily Mail fantasy land, in which there are peedos and brown-skinned terrorists everywhere, simultaneously wanting to live their lives taking advantage of the country, and also destroy it.
I see my tax bill going down, knowing that the few hundred quid extra I have per year (which is basically lost in the financial noise for me - meaningless) means that somewhere someone who really needed that money or the service it paid for is now being fucked over. I don't even know who; Cameron and chums (I go sailing sometimes with a chap who used to share a house with Dave Cameron; apparently he was a self-entitled tosser then as well) are fucking poor people over on my behalf, presumably thinking that this is what I want. Or maybe they don't even think it's what I want; maybe they're on some bizarre Randian kick, living in the Westminster bubble in which poor people simply don't deserve any help, and this is some kind of moral crusade from their messed-up Westminster bubble. The benefit to me; zero. The cost to the people at the bottom; devastating.
I see our "leaders" acting as absolute cowards; these are the people who should be inspiring us, but instead they rush to surrender our freedoms as fast as they can. Again, presumably because the Daily Mail tells them that this is what we want. The other lot aren't any better. Remember when Harman wanted to introduce compulsory ID cards? She had a long record of voting in favour of more government power and fewer civil liberties. Intellectual and moral cowards, the lot of them.
- alextgordon 11y agoThis is what I struggle with. Are they evil, blind, or both? The Conservatives are firmly in power now. Labour, the Lib Dems and even UKIP have been neutered. Corbyn is not going to lead Labour to victory in 2020. You would think that they could relax. They no longer need to pander to the tabloids. If they liked, they could dismantle the media and rebuild it in their image. They could build a gigantic statue of Theresa May. They could go to war. The potential for evil doings is endless. Instead they spend their time fucking over disabled people. I mean... why? What's in it for them?